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London, England, 1817-11-13 00:00:00

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Yesterday a Cor—oners' Inquest was held at ;fre
sign of the London Hospital, :Whitechaiel rose, n -
thebody of P. Itiniata, of
.the.G3.l Regruo nt,
while in a state of intoxication, was :mining afk, ,1
some boys who had offended him, when he fell eowli,
and a waggon wheel passed over him He 11451.411CCP
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to the Hospital, where he died ...Accidental Deatoi.st 4
Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Brizanni
Tavern, Heaton, on view of the body of John Bell, 4
an elderly man, who was found dead in the most
singular way :--John Cowley sworn—On Tuesday
morning, I was emplt.yed to empty the privy at the •4
City Farmhouse, for the Poor, at Host n. and C ;.t
found a may in the hole with his clothes en, but the
body seas quite putrid, from the length of tine a ,p.
penned to have been there. 1 immediattly informed
Mr. Tipple, the master of the house.—Mr. Tipple ,•
sworn—l am master of the poor-house ; Jahn iaa
had been there, and was missing ow the 15th at hat •
January. It was apprehended teat he had Wien
into the privy, and I caused the place so be searchea,
hut he was not found. My lipiniun is, taat rc ;ad
wandered from the house, and, it retaraig, tlaa
had fallen into the privy from the w,il ; he w,,,
the practice of wandering item borne, and was 4,0
subject to epileptic fits. He ought have comn.itted
suicide, bolt I •believe he had not been thrown in by
any person.—The Coroner observed, that however •
clear Mr. Tipple had given its evidence, still !la '
case was consiuerably invelved i:. my stery ; hethaught, eu.
linwevrr, the best verdict they could give would be,
found dead. The Jury caincided, and returned thee.:'
verdict accordingly.—" Fnand Dead in a Privy."
An Inquest was also held at the same time
place, on the body 'of Mary Wilson, who it was sap.
posed had died in tile street tor want of food.--M.ry
Lacket, wife of J. Locket, hair-dresser, in Woiship.
street, said, on Tuesday she sent her little girl an an
errand, who, on her retnra, stated that a woman had
been lying on the stt p of the do Jr of Mr. Ro.rtr:s,
her next door neighbour. She went out atal tdund
the deceased in is dying stme. She had an cr er nom 0
the Oversee: s to admit Ise r ilia, the I.Vnikhause. One;
of the Overseers was sent t. r, who attended
died'', and finding her in so dangerous a state, le
seat ter a medical mast, but before. the latter .artise J
she expired. The deceased had been a pauper in Le .
Workhouse before; but conceiving she could main-
tain herself she came out, and having failed, sae per-
mitted herself to be reduced to the last extremity ue• r.
lore she applied for relief again. The Coroner tied ti
Jury were satisfied that no blame coulj be imputed
to the Parish Officers, and they returned Weir ve:dict
—Died by the Visitation of Gtid.

•
Dr. DoNALD M'Atitti.L, of the Island of Eigg, I
was unloi innately drowned off that island, on the
24th tilts He was roc eding from Arbiti; to Eigg,
in a boat along with the key. Mr. FRASER, Nlinmer '
of the Small Is es, when, by the starting of a plank,
the boat instantly sunk, and he and Mr. FliataEß, with
two men, perished. ;I
Tuesday evening, as Mrs. ABRAMS,' of Chamber-
street, Goodman's•tields, was bout to accompany a 1
friend down stairs, she stuml,lr.l emir the deit•mat, I
and was precipitated from is e top to thebOVOM with i
such violence that her skull as iractured. S!.e was
conveyed to the Hospital without hopes of rec, eery. '
Mtsnday evening a male cluld, apparently betwas
six and tight months old, dressed in an.nld blue rot.
u, frock, was left by its unnatural patents in tLe
passage ni the hease of Mr. STAllt, surgecn, Smith.
field Bars. It was sent to S. S •dulchre's workhouse.
—A few evenings betore, Another male iiii.int, about;
five or six months old, was left, abaiit ten o'clock at
night, in a white nicker b.,tket, and an 01.1 )eliew
blanket, in Mcz:lix-court, C.. ic k. lithe, Sotitlttiel.'. It
W is taken to the smile work;lhute.

Monday a boy was sent with a rich pelisse f,r a
young lady in Queen-street, Cwiden.square, irons
Lambeth. When the boy arrived at (he fo,t of
Westminster, bridge, he was accosted by 'a eel:*
dressed man, who said he w. uid give him 'taping
to go into a pnblic.house, and call cut a geatletssa
there, name.; Bruce, 411.4 that he would.keep the pv..
lisse till h.: returned, and retr.ai.s at the door. The ,
boy received the sixpence, and lett the pelisse with
the impostor, who, it is unincessary to say, imtre•
diately decamped.
As some workmen were forming a small quay, a
few days ago, at Carnarvon, they discover( d 11:r
re-
mains of an immense wooden bridge, formed of o.k,
Gutied several feet in the sand, and extending over
the river Seient. One beans, which was )')t UP.
Measured upwards of fifty fee:. its leilgth. Thisbridge
appears to have formed orip*s...ty a communiotion
between tiegontium and C. ed.l-I:lets summer.l'onsc
in-all probability a Roman ..itch-ower, (me etad of
the baitlge'beiug contiguous to the old walls o Hea-
-1 gner Cysteint. The entire of this bridge is surimzed
Ito have extended upwards of 400 yards.

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Novi !ober 11, at. his house fu Carolina•Pisee,Giiihturi: szrelp
the wife of Chat ka Ogld?y, Esq. of a ilmight.r.

MARRIED.
Oil the Tw.r.mt,, Captain R. 0. Tudor, of the }top? Mol*
t., Lima, yuunetv. ttlitsjstri of Jan 00
Juuts, E.g. of Marsmawr. . _