Star.
London, England, 1817-01-16 00:00:00

TO A SLEEPING INFANT.

Art thou a thing of mortal birth,
Wito.e harpy home Is on the Earth ?
D-ves limas, blood with life einbue
Thew wandering veins f heav'nly blue,
'flat stray along thy fortlicail fair,
1 oi; 'mid a gleam of golden hair
0 ! c..n that light and airy breath
Steal from a being donated to death ;
'buss features to the grave be sent,
In sleep thus mutely eloquent ?
Or, art thou, what thy form would seem,
111 e phantom of a,blrwed dream!
Oh ! that my spirit's eye could see
Whence burst those gleams of ecstasy
That light of dreaming soul appears
To play from thoughts above thy years.
smirst, self thy soul were soaring
To Heain, and Hear'n's Gun adoring! ,
♦tat! who can ten wbat visions high
ltlay bless an infant's sleeping eye ?
What brighter throne can brightness lei
To reign 00, than an Infant's mind,
Ere sin descroyl, or error dim,
! The glory at the &rapids% I

CORONSR'S INQ Ss77.

•
Aninquisition was about to be taken yesterday
evening, by THOMAS STIRLING, jun- Esq. at the Blue
Posts, Pulwood's-rents, Holborn, upon the body of
Johanna Sutton. The Beadle of the parish read to
the Jury a document which bad been sent to him by
a Committee appointed by a meeting of the parishes
of St. Andrew, Holborn. and St. George the Martyr.
He said he was ordered to read it before he opened
any Court, and he was also ordered not to open a
Court unless the Coroner for the county was present.
The following is a copy :
" Resolved unanimously, 1 bat a letter be forwarded to the
Cifollors of this county, signed by the Chairman of this met ung,
requiring the personal attendance of one of tient upon all In-
vents taken in the united parishes of St. Andrew's, Holborn,
sod St. George the Martyr. 'rim Board of Governors and Di-
rectors basing gives strict orders to their officers sotto attend,
or otherwise sanction the taking of any Inquest mules. sailer the
immediate direction of a Coroner for the county,
Oigoed) " Trios Gau. CLASS, Chairman.'.
The Jury unaainsoush refused to let any person
act on the part of the Coroner. They said it was ad
office that they could not suffer to be done by deputy.
Mr. STIRLING, jun. said, he would endeavour to
sand' his father in the course of an bow-, if he was
in town.
In about half an hour after the time appointed, Mr.
STIRLING, the Coroner, came. The Jury informed
him that they were determined, in future, to have the
Coroner present, and they would not suffer the busi.
ness to be d3oe by Deputy or by Clerks.
It appeared from the evidence of Mary Perinent,
widow, -No. 2, Fulwood's-rents, High Holborn, that
the deceased was the daughter of Mr. Sutton, a
ledger in her house ; that on Monday afternoon,
about four o'clock, she heard the deceased screaming
the apartment occupied by her father ; she ran to
see what was the came, and saw the deceased on fire,

and a woman, named Manning, endeavortriog to put
out the fire. She got some water, and put it out.—
There was not a place from head to foot but what
was badly scorched. She died at three o'clock the
following morning.
Mrs. Manning corroborated the above statement.
A surgeon said, that on Monday last, about five
o'clock, he was sent for to attend the deceased ; he
found her burnt all over her body in a most dreadful
manner. He attended-her till she died. Verdict—
' Accidentally burnt to death.

• Yesterday afternoon an Inquisition was taken et
the Bunch of Grapes, Little Paternoster-row, Spital-
fields, on the body of Mary Macke., sixty-tour years
of age, who was killed in Brown's-lane on Tosiday.
P. Chandler, of 38, Browit's-lane, deposed, that he
was standing at his own door when she accident hap.
pened ; be saw a day, belonging to Mr. Lavasque,
table beer brewer at Bethnal Greets, with one horse,
standing before tie door of Mr. Jaoes, grocer, in the
same street. A waggon belonging to Messrs. Han-
bury, the brewers, drawn by three horses, was going
towards Bishopsgate-street. I'be bind wheel of the
waggon became locked with the wheel of the dray ;
the latter was forced on the pavement, when the near
shaft struck against the off door post, and the iron
pin which supports the barrels struck the deceased
(who was accidentally passing) about the middle of
the bcdy, and she fell. Having got up) she stag-
gered into the shop, when she was put ihto a Chair ;
but before medical assistance could be obtained, she
expired. The driver of the waggon, quite a youth,
was at the horse's bead, and endeavoured to prevent
'the accident, but without avail.
William Adams lodged in the same boom with
the deceased, No. 34, Montague-street, he was in
company with her and her two daughters, when the
accident occurred ; be was knocked down himself,
but 'escaped Gahm, which was all the asteeet hal
could give of the transaction.
Them were ether witnesses examined, but their
evidence went to the same effect as the foregoing.
The Coabasa said no blame could be imputed to
the driver, therefore a verdict of Wilful Murder or
Manslaughter could not be returned. It rested with
the Jury to give a deodand, which they bad the
power to reduce to one shilling. He was perfectly
satisfied the occurrence was entirely the effect of se-
eideot. lii Ibis opinion the Jury coincided, and re-
turned a verdict of—Accidental Death, with a deo.
dead of Is. on the waggon.
An Inquest was held, at the sign of the Laudon
Whitechapel Road, on the body lif John
Cline.—The deceased, in company with another
man, was looding a waggon from a warehouse, in
Welchise.square, by a paUy : the puny caws down,
and the deceased fell down with it; a cask of auger
rolled over him, which injured him so much that it
was found necessary to send him to the Hospital,
where be died. Verdict—. Accidental Beath.
Another, Inquest was held on the body of Harriet
Elliot, &id only four rows old, who, it appeared.
wee left alone by bar parents at their residence,
Whitechepel, when she set her clothes on fire I some
elf the wishbones hewing beard her screams, maw
to her assistance she was dreadfully hurt about her
breast sod neck ; she lingered ia extreme tursure
from the 9th iust. when the acsalegt.happeped, tiU

the lltb, when the expired. Verdict—Accidental
Deenia. _ .

ADJOURNED holism—Yesterday, at two o'clock,
Mr. SMILING. the Coroner, and the Jury met accor-
ding to adjournment, to resume the inquisition for
investigating the cause of the death of HenryM'Ewan,
of 17, Little Earl-street, St. Giles's, at the Yorkshire
,Grey, White Lion street, St. Giles's.
The Cowgirls said, As there was a degree of sus-
picion upon the minds of the Jury, in consequence of
the body being removed by the relatives, he thought
they bad better go to Mr. Butcher's house and take
a vies, of the body.
The Jury.accordingly viewed die body ; there was
a black mark near the lower part of the abdomen.—
The Surgeon said he bad no doubt it was caused by
the part having mortified; he thought that no vio-
lence had been used towards the deceased.
The Jury having returned to the public-house, the
Coroner said it was his opinion that the deceased
died by the visitation of Goo, and the Jury returned
a verdict to that effect.

The Surgeon, Mr. Scott, asked the C wooer if
there was not some remuneration to be made to him
for his loss of time, for attending the deceased at his
death, and also upon two different days upon which-
the Jury bad sat
Coroner.—" I can't remunerate yon for your
trouble, because I have no fonds for that purpose.—
You may apply to the Parish. I know no other way
to recommend you to proceed."
Surgeon.—" I am determined to apply to the ,
Parish, and if they refuse to pay me I shall not give
my opinion upon a Jury in future. You must be
aware, Mr. Coroner, that medical men can't leave
their business without great loss to them : by refusing
to attend it will bring the question to an issue."
The Jurymen said they had attended two days,
and had nbt the least remuneration for their trouble.
The Coroner said, the only way was to apply to
the Parish, and Woke up the Court.