Star.
London, England, 1826-12-18 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUEST.

Saturday afternoon an Inquest was held at the sin
of the Herculean Pillars, Great Queen•street, Lincoln s;
inn-fields, before THOMAS STIRLING, E q. Coroner, on
the body of Catherine Graddon, a maiden Lady, re-
siding in Queen's-place, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
Sophia Garl, being sworn, stated that she had been
for some time past is ►he service of the deceased, who
had been rather unwell during the last fortnight. She
was a Roman Catholic, and was very religiously dis-
posed ; so much so, that she was continually praying
by her bedside. On Thursday last witness was v►ith
the deceased during the whole of the day, and conversed
with her, when she appeased to be in a better state of
health than usual, and sent witness for some gin, of
which she drank. She quitted the place in the evening,
and left the deceased at prayers, and on the following
morning she heard that she had • been found in her
apartment upon her knees, in a praying posture,
quite dead.
Mr. A:tame—How much gin did you purchase foe the de-
ceased daring t►e day ? Witness—Only six quarterns.
Did you drink any of it yourself 7—Three glasses.
And did the deceased drink four quarterns and a half to bend'''.
--She did, and was quite sober when I left her.
The deceased was upwards of sixty years of age.
Mr. William Wellbank, the deceased's nephew, stated, that she
lived upon some private property. He called upon her on Friday
morning Ise, when he found her kneeling by the bedside, quite
deed. A Bhbt was lying close by her side.
Mr. WMians Richardson, surgeon, of Wild•street, was called
upon to attend the deceased. He found her quite dead. Ile was
et *Mon that the deceased died of apoplexy. Verdict—" Died
by the visitation of Goa."

Some time ago, the Rev. Sir J. Filmer, Ban. lent to
the Parish of Sutton Vallence the sum of 1,0001. to as-
sist in the erection of a new church, and we understand
the worthy Baronet has lately cancelled the debt,
which, with some other sums and interest thereon due,
makes a splendid donation of nearly 1,2001.
At a meeting of the Royal Caledonian Hunt, held
on 'Tuesday last, they fwed that their Autumn. Meeting
shall be held at Dumfries ; and they elected for the
casuistic year—

Sr Jo—his H. Haswell, Hart. Preses; John Hope Johnston, Si+
Trersierer; the Hon. Captain Gordon, the Hon. John Gray, and
Wit Baird, Esq. Councillors.
BRAZILIAN &MIRO* AND ma PATRON SAINT.
—The Mario Fluarinense contains an edict of the
Bishop of Rio, announcing that his Majesty, animated
by the religion and piety for which he and all the
persons of his Royal House are distinguished, had been
sensible that he could not properly manage the affairs of
his people, unle s he procured a celestial patron, who,
by his intercession with GOD, might obtain for him the
strength necessary for good Government. He did not
want to consider long ; for being particularly devoted
to his namesake, St. Pedro de Aleantara, of the Order
of the Minorite: of St. Francis, he resolved to choose
bins for the principal patron of the whole empire; and
• that the election might be made according to the cus-
tom of the Holy Catholic Church, be applied to his
Holiness Pope Leo XII. to confirm this election, with
which request his Holiness has been pleased to comuly.
Parr would not suffer any one to run another hard in
conversation, if the figbt was unequal. One evening, at
his lodgings in Catey-street, a Mr. Crump, a man of a
few words, having ventured to give an opinion, which
was controverted by Mackintosh, whose resources in
conversation are boundless. Parr interposed, and res-
cued the weaker party from thetrasp of his richly gifted
antagonist. When Part bad done, Mackintosh observed,
that Mr. Crump was rescued, like /Eneas in Virgil, by
a cloud; but it was a cloud of words." On another oc.
casion, when Mackintosh was :eluting, with great inge-
, nutty, a vety plain spoken and humble disputant, and
rather sparingly endurd with diction, Parr stepped in,
observing,—" Fiend Jackson cannot talk you down.
Jemmy ; but he can think you down, Jemmy."--Nett'
Moot% Magazine.
Tuesday, as Mr. Cook, tailor, of Maidstone, was re,
turning from Ightham, lie was stopped by two men,
betweell five and six in the evening, and robbed of -181.
• and a silver v atch. The villains succeeded in making
their escape.