Star.
London, England, 1817-09-05 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEC TS.

An Inquisition was taken yesterday afternoon b".
fore Joins HENRY GUI., Esq. Coroner, at !it
Slaughter's Cuffee.house, St. Martin's-lane, on the
body of Captain James Cockburn, of the 59th Regii
ment of Foot, aged s'2 years.
Captain Francis Fuller, of the 59th Regiment t.f
Foot, said he belonged to the same Regiment as the
deceased. They had been intimate friends fur virile
years. The deceased was wounded at Jaw!. --hr-
the it,land was taken. He eiijoyeJ goeJ heali:t
within the last three years, since that period he Int.!
been troehled with an inward complaint. He wa
attended oy Doctor Bailey, who had told the deceased
that it was likely he would die in a very sudden
manner. The deceased came with him last Sati.Ler
from Chatham : he corn;4ained that he had sr, e
hlcod several times. On Wednesday he complaieci
of the heat of the weather; he walktti with the de.
ceased to Cox and Greene nod's, Army Aee,ts, ii
Craig's-court, Charing-cross. On Wedeesci4e,e'smq
two o'cloc!:, he talked to the chief clerk aheet three
minutes, and was seized with fit of conee.rie, alal
emitted Wed from his meoth, which cozietted ti r
about ten :pitmen, dozing which time a medical man
was scat for. fle came a'snut fie.• athletes bele.•
the deceased died. The deceased was able to inlzrri
the surgeon the nature of his complaint, and ilwired.
Mr. John Nix, AssistantiSiageoli Jacksot:,
Craig's—court, ing-c s oss, said, lie .Weis rt..;: hi;
to the deceased on Welnesday, about. two o'clocl-;
be way vet y pale in 'he face, nt•ich depressed in se;
rits, and bi 0.1,1 was illwing r.t:n his ni:;uth. 11.
was able to info, m him that ;Is complaint was, ,t 1:,
termed, .theut ism, or as cal irgi.men, of Ole
contiguous to the heat. ile believed that the de.&:
of the dece.w:cl was caused by the tui..ure( f ;4;1
tern attached to the heart. He seas s4tiiii rl tna:
died :en:4mnd death. Verdict—Nati.t..l 1...):.tit
the Viiica!;on of G ,d.

Yest.:rd.4 an Inquest was held 1-efore J. W. IT!!-
WIN, F.,q. at the Vitgki2 Plantes s, Shad-
well, on the body of a rr.an name unknown. Gtnle
Cletigh, the pariah beadie, deposed, that he receivad
inforta.ation a body was lying dead at King Ja oes's.
stairs, which was brought on shore by a waierrnan,
who found it floating on the river Thames. Ther:.•
were no MAI ks of violence on his person ; he appeared
to be about sixty years of age, five feet nine inchts
high, and looked Irk': a fellowship porter. No eri.
deuce being before the Jury to state by what l'W.'4••:l
he came to be is the water, they returned a Verdict
—Found Drowned
A few evenings since, at a public-house, near
Stoke-lane, in Somersevitire, two men quarrelled,
but were prevented by the landlord from proceedinf,
to blows; they sites wards drank together, seemed
reconciled, and, about ten, went to their resteetivo
homes ; bin another quarrel ensued, and a sliet
skirmish took place. 'They then parted, and ore
(named Cornish) was found at the cross-road on Sa-
turday morning, murdered ; suspocion tell immed;•
atefy upon his companion. An Inquisition was taken
on Saturday, when thl circumstantial evidence ap-
peared so conclusive, that the Jnry returned a ver-
dict of Wilful Murder avainst him, and he was com-
mitted to Shepton gaol.

Between two and four o'clock, yesterday tnornioy,
the house of Mr. Steerman, the sign of the Cocpers)
Arms. Great Saffron•till, WAS broken cpen, and rob•
bed of bank notes to the amount of £lOO.

Pm= taught by Beatts.—The natives of KA111!•
chatka acknowledge infinite obligations to the bear:,
for such progress as has Itithero been made there is
the sciences. They confess themselves indebted to
these animals particularly for all their skill in physic.
by attentively observing what herbs they instinctive:y
applied to the wounds they have received, and what
methods they have pursued when feverish, or ot!,er-
wise unwell. l'he bear, however rough and app.
rently stupid, is known to be capable of
Prince RADZLVIL, of P.,land, who sometimes united
the elegance of southern taste with the barbarous
-pomp of &nestle, once entered Warsaw in his car-
riage, drawn by rix white bean, taken in his o-in Li-
thuanian forests, and completely broken and tic:.sy
harnessed for the purpose.

BIRTH.
August 18, at Kilkenny, the Lady of Major Moreton, 7
Dragoon Guards, of a 'on.