Star. — 1814-12-05 (London, England)

NARY CHARACTER.—JOHN HINCKLEY, Esq. F.A.S a gentleman: fifty years of age, of a most eccentric gh-arixter, ket ping a set of chambers in Gray's Inn, where he raided, and who had been missing since August last, was found dead on Friday evening, undo. circumstances similar to the.late Mr. awes. Mr. HINCKLEY was well known in the neighbourhood for his penurious habits. if he heard that bread was to rise the next day, he went the preceding evening for a loaf, in order to save a farthing. He rose every mort.ing m summer, about three o'clock, and put on his plaid cloak, and walked round the square, in order to rick up any thing lying there. He had three sets of climbers in the Temple, and seas supposed to be in very 4.pulent circumstances, having a brother re. siding at No. S 2, Guildford-street ; but being of so reseived and penurious a disposition, no person was a( qu tinted with his manner of living. He provided every necessary he wanted, and never permitted any one to enter his chambers. Not having been seen for ve irly four months, it was supposed he had gone on a visit to some friends in Scotland; hut time passing a:al no account having been heard of him, the porters of the Inn proposed on Friday evening to enter his chamber. Four of them, by means of a ladder, acCordiagly entered at the window. The curtains of his bed were close drawn, but on throwing them back, the deceased was found without life in the bed ; the body putrid and dried up. On the windows were large card. n flies. Such was the state of the body that it c.mli not be identified, and there is no doubt he died in August last, at the time he was first missed. A Coroner's Inquest was held on Saturday. There was no suspicion of the deceased having been murdered, the fore doors being all locked, and the keys in hi, bed-ri•om. lr was suppostai, from the recluse life he led, that he was taken ill, and having no person to attend ni him he lost his life. After a considerable time the Jury returned a veedict of—Lied by t -visitation of Gov.—The body was interred this day.—The deceased was of a most repectable family. Thursday an inquest was held in -the board-room of St... Bartholomew's Hospital, before Tno-asAS.SHELToN, Esq. Coroner fir London, on the body of Mrs. W the, who died in that Hospital, and whose death was t tcasioned by her clothes catching tire, at her I aigings in HOliday.yard, Creed-lane, Ludgate-hill, 01 Moi day list ; Ole deciised was about 70 years of a • Vet clicta--Actidaral.Death. • Thursday the Reisrmtcoach was robbed of a box, containing a qaantity sat Bank-notes, sent by Messrs Patca• and Co. of Mansion House-street, to Messrs. Maistrsand Co. of Reading, in the following singular amines: A erson called at the coach office,' Black paid the fare for the whole Lion, Water---lane,. and coach. He took his seat, and desired the coachman to stop at Artmdel-street, Strand, to take up his family. In the mean rime he contrived to pick the lock of the box, 'which was fized;inside the coach, and when the coach stopped, as directed, he deliberately walked down Arundel-street, and escaped with his booty. Friday the Newbury coach, on its way to London, robbe,i of three parcels, directed to different bankers in London, containing notes and bills to a considerable amount. There was no violence used to the lock under which they were secured in the coach, and three parcels, exactly resembling those stolen, and directed in the same way, were found in their place by the porter Of the Inn where the coach puts up at in London, and which he took to the bankers as directed, when the robhery was discovered, the parcels - containing only rupbish. The robbery is supposed t have been committed by four men, who came passengers by the..