Star.
London, England, 1826-09-20 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUEST&
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Yesterday an Inquest was held at the King's Arms.
Parker• street, Drury-lane, before Thomas Stirling, Esq.
en the body of William Pitt, a very eccentric and well
known character in the parish of St. Giles. James
Spencer stated, that he lodged in the house of the de-
ceased, who only occupied the upper attic; that on
Sunday morning, finding he did not come down stairs
as usual, the lodgers supposed something was amiss.—
After knocking at his door, and receiving no answer;
they broke it open, when they found the deceased in his
bed, without any spat k of life, and quite cold. Witness
slept underneath, and heard him about two o'clock in
the morning get up, and open his window, as was his
usual custom. Deceased enjoyed an excellent state of
health, and had been Beadle of St. Giles's parish for 25
years. Several of• the Jury said, they bad spoken to
the deceased the previous evening, and he was then in
giscid health and spirits.—Caroline Smith, another
lodger, deposed, that deceased went to bed about 11
o'clock on Saturday evening; he came to her room and
requested a light; he was then as well as she ever re. '1
membered him. He appeared to have died without a
struggle. Verdict—Died by the visitation of Gum
Yesterday se'nnight, an Inquisi:ioa was taken before
G. Gwynne, Esq. at Turner's Hill, in the parish of
Worth, Sussex, on view of the body of Eliz. Clifton, the
wife of Henry Clifton, bailiff to General Cartwright, of
the Grove House, who, on Monday week, was unhap-
pily killed by the accidental discharge of her husband's
gun. It appeared in evidence that Clifton and a friend
of his, who had called upon him, having agreed on going
out to shoot rabbits, the -former went up stairs, and
brought his gun from the bed•roorn into the kitchen,
where he proceeded to brush the dust from the pan of
the lock, and finding the lock did not move so freely as
it should de, stooped down to remedy the defect, by
loosening its screw, when by some means his gun ex-
ploded, and Mt s. Clifton, who was stand ng in an op-
posite direction, with her back towards the gun, received
the whole of its contents in the calves of her legs, which
were dreadfully lacerated, and particularly the left leg,
the bones of which, a little a'-ove the ankle joint, were
shattered to pieces,. Able surgical assistance was quickly
procured, when an amputation of the shattered limb, a
little below the knee, was determined upon; but before
the operation could be commenced, an extreme hemor-
rhage put a period to her sufferings, as she expired
about four hours after the accident. Verdict—Acci-
dental Death, with a deodand of ss. on the gun. The
husband of the deceased stated, that he did not know
the gun was loaded, although he usualiy kept it so in
his bedroom, for the prote:tion of his master's property.
Mrs. Clifton was a woman much respected in her situ-
ation, and of a very delicate constitution.

Commodore HAMILTON is said to have arrived at
Tine with a Commissioner from the English merchants,
to make a rigorous search after the English property
seized by the Greek pirates.
The Pilote of Friday contains an article dated Odessa,
August 26, giving us information from Constantinople
'to the 16th of August, by which it appears that the
Sultan was still pursuing his plan of reform most suc-
ce*sfully, although under a system of terrorism.
The Hamburgh Papers inform us that the popula-
.tion of-Prussia has increased 1,700,000 in the last ten years, and
that of Berlin 36,000 ; the total of the former, amounting to
12,255,000, and that of the capital to 220,000.
Monday week a mushroom was gathered near Cal-
verley, which measured twenty-seven inches in circum-
ference, upon a stalk of two inches and a half in dia-
meter, and which together weighed twenty ounces.
A trout was on Friday last caught by Mr. Goodwyn,
jun. of Taunt 11, in the river Tone, two feet long, and
weighing 61bs. 4oz. It was taken with a fly after some
trouble, and no inconsiderable skill.
An oracle having been asked what was his opinion on
the subject of ringing bells in steeples that rocked while
the bells were ringing? gravely answered that it mat-
tered not if the said steeples were rockdty, provided
they were not ricketty.
Hieronymus Cardanus, who insisted upon the ad-
vantage of perfect rest, observes that trees live longer
than animals, because they never stir from their places.
It has been suggested that the gymnastic weapon to
be employed by the Horse Guards, according to a late
order, should be called the United Service club.

During the siege of Syracuse the Athenian sailors
swam under water, and sawed away the piles with which
the harbour had been blocked up.
There are so many partridges this year, that the cock-
neys say they have had great sport, as they never before
frightened so many birds.
ARRIVALS.—The Spider family in good health and
spirits, and the Full Moon. Dmairroam.—The Dog-days, and a
great many gallons of kierefordshke cider.
The subject relating to Bow Bells has made a great
sobs In the Metropolis, and has set to work the eisppas of all the
City gossips.
A boy named Pettifer was yesterday se'nnight crashed
beneath a stone of a ton weight, which his father was
endeavouring to lower at a quarry on Clem Hill, near
Cheltenham.