Star.
London, England, 1817-01-15 00:00:00

coitoraies trvQtarr.

An inquisition *as taken yesterday evening at the
Yorkshire Grey, White Lion•street, St. Giles's, be-
tore T. STOILIYO, Esq. Coroners upon the body of
Henry MsEwan.
John Butcher said he lived at Little Earl-
street

1, the deceased was his lodger ; he was by trade
a harnas-trtaker. On Sunday night last, about nine
o'clock. a man named Ward, who lodges in his houses
came down stairs, and informed him that Mr Mac
Ewan was dead ; he went to inform the beadle niche
sudden event ; when he returned from the beadle, his
wife informed him that the brother of the deceased
had come in in his absence, and was with Mr. Ward
in the room where the deceased was. He went up
stairs and saw the deceased in bed; his body was
very watm when he saw him, but he was quite dead.
He came home on Saturday night a little past twelve
o'clock in a hackney.coach. He ti;cl not know that
the deceased was unwell, till he was informed by Mr.
Ward on Sunday -rooming.
A Juryman--', I have been informed by a respec-
table person, that you have suffered the body of the
deceased to be removed before the inquisition WAS
taken ; you must know that you ought net to have
allowed the removal before you had the Coronet's
.s.arrant."

Butcher—" I did tint know that I was doing wrung
to let the friends of the deceased have the body ; it
was taken arum my house this morning to a relation's
in WI itechapel."
• Coroner—" You did sating to let the body be re=
mired before the inquest was taken: Do yon sup-
pose the Gentlemen of the Jury ire to walk to Whites
dupe! ?"

Butcher—" I was ignorant that I was doing
wrong."
John Ward said he Was a harness-maker, and
lodged at No. 17, Earl-street, on the same floor as
the deceased, whom he had often assisted, he being
out of work a considerable time, and had not some.
times a meal a.day s • he sometimes had a little coffee
once a-day, but he had not any thing else lately ex.
ceps tea or coffee, he having no money to purchase
meat. He was in a state of starvation; the witness
helped him as much as he could, but being out of
employ himself, he could help him ,but very little.
He was with him on Sunday and gave him a little
wine, finding him in a dying state, which he drank ;
he lived some hours after, and died about nine o'clock
on Sunday night. He directly sent for a surgeon.
Mr. Stott, AssistanttSurgeon, Little St. Andrew.
street, St. Giles's, said, that he was sent for on Sun.
day evening, about nine o'clock to the deceased:, he
bound his arm to bleed him, feeling a weak pulse,
but the moment he entered die lance in the arm all
pulsation ceased. He was of opinion that the death
of the deceased was caused by poor living; he was
much emaciated, and he believed that the poorness
of living had turned his blond to water, and causel
a pressure on his brain producing apoplexy.
Beadle—" Mr. Butcher could nut remove the body
through ignorance, because he came to me for the
purpose of having an inquest upon it."
Coroner-18 The body ought not to have been
moved: the culpability lies with Mr. Butcher and
though there are no suspicious eiscatmetassces regard.
'Mg thii death of the deceased, yet if Butcher lied the
body removed, knowinil that an inquest was to be
held, I will adjourn itfquest, and have the body
brought back again."
Foreman of the Jury " It is part of our jarisdie.
lion to take a view of dy, as appears by the
oath administered to us ; d who knows the reason
for the removal of it ? But suppose there is no rea-
son, it is necessary the Jury should examine the body
before they return their verdict. I, for my part, shall
not he satisfied till I see the body "
The Jury were unanimously of the same opinion.
Coroner—" I adjourn this Court till two o'clock
to-morrow (this day), and the witnesses must attend
to identify the body."—Adjourned accordingly.

Monday se'nnight an Inquest was held at Waker.
ley, on the body of William Andrews, of Barrow-
den, Rutland, nine years old, who was killed by the
overturning of a waggon s and on Tuesday, thi day
he was buried, his mother, a poor woman, was
brought to bed of twins.
Wednesday the body of William Pinkerton, smug-
gler, was found in the Forth and Clyde Canal. He
has been missing since the beginning of last month,
and when found had a flask of whiskey tied to his back.

A few Jays ago. Mr. JAMES SCOTT, of Upper-row,
parish of Castleton, Roxbureishire, perished on the
kills near Hawick, owing to the inclemency of the
weather. The deceased, at the time of the fatal ca-
tastrophe, was upon a visit to his daughter.
Friday the body of a lamplighter was taken onto*
a pond formed by an old quarry, near Leith Walk :
it is supposed he bad fallen in the night before while
lighting a lamp placed on a wall close to the brink of
the quarry.
Monday evening a little girl, who resides at a
chandler's. shop in Fulwood's Rents, Holborn, on
the second floor, being left in the room by herself foe
a few Milialtel• began playing by die fire, when a
spuk flew out on her clothes, and set them on fire.
She saeamtd very loud, and several persons coming
to her assistance, found her enveloped in dimes.
She died about six o'clock yesterday morning in ex-
cruciating agony.
Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, as a dray, be-
longing to a small.beer brewery, was waiting at a
door in Brown's-lase, Spitalfields, a waggon passing
at the time, the wheels came in contact, which fright-
ened the horse in the dray, and made him start off;
-and, notwithstanding the active exertions of th) c4r-
man to stop him he drove in the shop.window of Mr.
blioax, a soap-maker. and unfortunately kn, eked
down a Mrs. BLACKET, and killed her on the spf)t :
the poor woman was upwards of 70 years of age,
and well known as a silk-winder in Spitalfields.
Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, a poor man of
the name of Lovautss. a coal heaver, in the employ
of Messrs. Yintaawav and Co. of Blackfriars, was
run over and had his leg broke, in the nt ighbour-
hood of Cambridge-heath, Hackney-road. The poor
fellow, in consequence of the road being very bad,
was leading the horse, and slipped upon his b
when the horse going on, the wheel went over his
knear the house where he was going to. unioad ;
be was Obliged to, remain in 4se sort until his fel-
-1.2w workman had
I conveyed in the cart

unloaded *ovule, when he Was
et to Sti Bartholomew's Hospital.