The Sun. — 1826-09-20 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.—SUSPECTED MUS DER.— Yesterday evening an Inquisition was taken lathe Red Lion,Church street, Lambeth, on view of the, body of a male child, who was found concealed in an out-building in the neighbourhood, and who it was reported had been murdered.--After a patient investigation, during which no direct circumstances of a suspicious nature, except that of the deceased's neck being swollen, transpired, the jury returned a verdict of " Found dead ;" but how the deceased came by his death there was no evidence to show. On Tuesday last an inquisition was taken before G. Got NNE, Esq., at Turner's hill, in the parish of Worth, Sussex, on view of the body of Elizabeth Clifton, the wife of Henry Clifton, bailiff to General Cartwright, of the Grovehouse, who, on Monday last, was unhappily 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-room into the kitchen, where hel proceeded to brush the dust from tile pun of the lock, and finding the lock did not move so freely as it should do, stooped down .to remedy the defect, by loosening its screw, when by some means his gun 'exploded, and Mrs. Clifton, who was standing in un op`posite direction, with her buck towards the gun, received the whole of its contents in the calves of her legs, which were dreadfully lacerated, anti particularly the left leg, the hones of which, a little above the ancle joint, were shattered to pieces. Able surgi, cal assistance was quickly procured, when an amputation of the shattered limb, a little below the knee, was, determined upon, but before the (wet ation could be commenced, an extreme hemorrhage put a period to her sufferings, us she expired about four hours after the accident.—Verdict---" Accidental Death," with a deodand of :no on the gun.—The husband of the deceased stated that he, did not know the gun wae loaded, although he usually kept it so in his beds-room; for the protection of his ouster's prupprty. Clifton wait a woman much respected in !ter situation...7-4qm,  Paper. A melancholy accident happened at. Sheerness Ott Monday morning. A little boy, about five or six years of .age, fell overboard from the Terrible, of '74 guns, lying close to the Dock-yard wall. His father, on seeing the accident, jumped overboard after him ; and, placing the child on his hack, was swimming towards► a boat, within'. few yards of them, the toy's arms being round his • father's neck; but by some unfortunate cireun►stance, the boy slid from oil' the father's back, sad his body came round to the parent's front, the child still clinging round the father's neck, by which position it is supposed the man could not use his arms to support himself and child in the wav►•s, When they went to the bottom together, the child with► his arms still etubrac. ing the father's neck, anti never rose again. . It w•as foil an hour, or an hour and a half, before they were grappled up, when every exertion was ►►sand and persevered in for some time, to restore anilately, an mation, by the surgeon. anti assistant, surgeon of the dock-yard, but unhappily to no purpose. The poor man's name was a anion, and esteemed by every one in the ship and in the dock-yard, for his cif mind, endowed l civil and obliging disposition. We are sorry to add, that he has appeared always to be enlivened sltii4 leis was a:p third.public streets time e (lb -ery child. the following charge : " Vilat our misfortunes, tl►e to see infam •sac::,e,ftniip‘,aiowsoiftvleepriuixiild),airf(dc:outrosttiaht jtvietAlrteivlniceadvii.....„A,. t mind, endowed come along with me, iy tea_ iwtitiaigliiiiretileiliii:st.‘aiyvioloisitiiiillatt smile, 11i:11:4‘etifthf:iwa.);aci—ts‘lyvi,ea: ieritritc.llei:lsoi ltne, laugh . been reckoned a nay:Sirra I'll , youlaughionisistl'hoerteasnioatrd:plapust7ralywoanys eessful in Portugal ; relieve you of all inclination to laugh:-! (r,./.9 characteristic, but to snide was Thety,/ never till now deemed I an Offence against the state...