Star.
London, England, 1829-04-23 00:00:00

CORONSits) UtiQuEsTS.

Yesaitsche egotism an'inquisitioe was taken ar
Barthelosetra's Hospital, bete* T. Seatiroa, Esq. C..
rosier. touching the death of Slaaseel•Sesith, appaseatiy.
about 40 years . f age. which table piece under the fol-
lowing truly Aiming elsceasstaners. The Jury brill
morn, viewed the body if the srefixtenave asan, whi,h
liy in the dead-hoses. k resented at truly pitiable
sight, being reduced wetly to a skeleton. The evitiencE
taken was as follows;
Thomas Anderson, a watchman of St. Sepulchre's,
deposed that he was going his rounds on Monday night
las.. about 11 o'clock. when he discovered the deceased
stretched along the pavement at the corner of Skinner-
street ; be was in a side of insensibility, and appeared
to shake withthe cold. Witness procured assistance,
and hai him conveyed in St. Sepulchre's tratchh..uses

James Berry, watelshouse keeper, deposed. that wheal
the deceased was brought to the aa•chhouse by to e
witness and ethers, he was placed before t►'e file. and
A coat ltid.over him. Witness did not think it necese
tatty to send fa a Medical Gentleman, being of opining
that the deceased had been drinking, and' would move
and go away in the morning.
COIRONZRCuuId you not diecriminate between id•
toxication and illness?
Witness-4 c old not judge. We have so many
brought to the watchhouse curly night in nearly a simi.
far state, and go away in the mooing. that I thr.nglts
the deceased would do so also.

Mr. Ewan Jones, one of the Inspectors of the Watch,
deposed, that when vie deceased was brought in, every
attentionwas paid him ; five o'clock in the morning
hawing arrived without his recneefing, witness caused
his immediate ienyboat to this hospital.
Mr. George H.liingtnn, Another of the inspectors,
deposed, hat the de.eased recovered his tenses, for a
tear minutes, About f• ur o'clock, and in antsrer toques.
Lions put to him by witness,. said, that he was reduced
from comfortable ciscumstanees to the utmost de limo
tine and dirress, and that he bad sot -tasted fond for
two days; witness, un healing this, endeseouted to our
a little brandy down his throat, and offered him a pieta
of breast, but the unhappy man WAS i capahle of soul.,
lowing either, and relapsed into a state of ins-asibility;
he 0 as then brought to the Hospital in a chair.
The J:ry expreoed their horror at a huntan creators
being reduced to so (beadle& a conditiQn in a civilised
and Christian country.
The COBOURa inquired of the beadles if they bad dis.
covered any of the relatives of the untortunateman—.
«he he was—and from whence he tame?

The beadles said, that notwithstanding they had old
their utmost eideavours to do so, they had been sm.
successful. •
Mr. Henry Wheeler, apothecary to the Hospiul, 4..
posed that the unfortunate man died abrtut three ban
after his admission: 6u examining his person, blakat
were partly mortiSed; on opening the body, Ws sto-
mach was found to be quite empty; a small ulcer bad
formed near the lungs, but not sufficient to account lur
death. Witness is decidedly of opinioa that theveretched
being's dissolution was occasioned by starvation.
The Jury, after commenting upon the Hui), afflicting
case, returned a verdict—That the-deceased died from
neglect and want of common food to support life.
An Inquest was brld at Guy's Hospital on the body
of T. J. Hilton, who being about to open a potato.
warehouse in Ray-street, went on board the Success
brig, lying at Cotton's Wharf, to purchase a stock, and
till head foremost into the hold, by which his skull was
so dreadfully fractured as to occasion hareem* in rim,
above Hospital, leaving a widow and several young
children to bemoan his loss.—Verdict Accidental Death.

An Inquest was held at the Three 'Johns. Carter-
stieet, Westminster, on the body of Mary Howell, aged
61. The deceased was very infirm. and widow of nue
of the late pages of the Princes of Hesse Homburg.
On Saturday evening she went up stairs. to her room;
in a short time there was a strong smell of
land on the landlord going into her room, she vtas•found
burnt to death, with the candle close by hts. Verdict,
'Accidental Death.
Another Inquest was held at the For, at Knights-
' bridge, oo the body of John Williams, .the driver of a
cabriolet, who was found dead ea hie-seat, on the back.
ney coach stand. at Knightsbridge. A torgenn btved
that the deceased died from apoplexy, and a verdict
was returned accordingly.
An Inquisition was held at the Sugar Loaf, Great
Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, touching the death
M W. H. Cooper, aged SO years, a coach-trimming
weaver. J. W. Callaghan stated drums Monday fort-
night he was in company with the deceased sad other
Ipersona at the Red Lion, in Charles street, when
Harris having introduced the Catholic Question. a di:.
puts arose between him and one Lewis. and Harris'
threatened to turn him out of the room. The deceased
remarked that every ossirad a right to enjoy his own
opinion. Harris then struck Lewis oo his head, when
witness interfered ie consequence-of .the disparity in the
s.ze of the patties. Harris pulled Lewis brio the meet.
and they all followed, when a general fight took place,
during which the deceased was knocked down and
kicked in his side by Harris.—Henry Lewis corrobo-
rated the above statement. and .tataki that alter the
fight deceased told bins he bed received a kick from
Harris which he should net get overo—R.Midgley also
corroborated the statement of Callaghan.—Mr. Lane. a
surgeon, deposed, that on opening the body. be gonad
a watery effusion in the cavity of the stomach. and con-
ceived his death was occasioned by the state of his
lungs., Verdict, Died by the %Tithed°. of Goa.
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Reammrar TlMPLL—Tuesday *night -the
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chambers of Mr. Dear, of Harcourt-buildings, in the
Temple,•were broken open by some thieves, during his
atstente hs the country, and robbed of a considerable
quantity of property of every description. The villains
vined an entrance by boring a hole through the door
kith a centre bit, and then forcing the bolt of the lock
Sick. •