The Sun. — 1848-08-25 (London, England)

SUICIDE AT GREENWICH. Yesterday evening Mr. C. J. Carttar held an inque6l at the Greyhound Inn, Greenwich, to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. James Core, late or the firm of Messrs. Corss and Roberts, clothiers and outfitters, 63, Shisreditch, who was found weltering in his blood, with a pistol by his side, at that inn. bff' James Corss, sen., identified the body of the deceased as that of his son, aged 22 years. The deceased, Who was engaged in the business of the firm, left home about ten o'clock on Tuesday morning to purchase goods "a warehouse in Wood-street. Witness found that deceased had purchased several hundred pounds worth d goods, which were sent home that day. Never saw the deceased afterwards.  Thomas Roworts, the waiter, said deceased came in soon after ten o'clock cn Tuesday night, and engaged • bed, and then sat for about twenty minutes in the coffee• room, when he went to bed. He seemed low and de• sponding. In the morning witness was called up stairs by the maid servant, and he found the deceased lying undressed, prostrate, and bleeding from a wound in the head.  Mr. John Sewell, surgeon, proved that death had been occasioned by the deceased's shooting himself with a pistol. The ball had lodged in the head near the left temple. The following is a copy of a letter which was foiled upon the person of the deceased:— Greenwich, Monday Evening. "My dear Father,—My madness has at length cal; quereci me. Now, when in possession of everythine wished, all around me seems nothing but gloom. Thal great defect of my character, want of determination-4 defect that I have laboured day by day and hour by hour for the last three or four years to cancel—grows upon me and spoils me in everything I undertake. I dare not look to the future, for I see it there making a beggar, of me. For myself I care not, but time must reconcile those whom I wonld rather undergo any torture than bring into trouble. It is the certainty that this day would come, sooner or later, which determines me 00W, while unfettered, to end all. Did I, my dear father, see one ray of hope for improvement in my nature, I would live. The only future that I can paint to myself is a wife and children beggars, and myself hearing theirs and the world's curses for bringing them to that state. Be it cowardice, or be it laziness, it is not to be erg& cated. How many times have I tried, and how mail times have I flattered myself improving, and yet it remsias an indelible black spot, as even at school. It it the same in America to a great extent, be since I have been home the thing becomes worse and worse. I cannot write—it unnerves me for that which I now feel to be my duty. I had intended not to have written, but felt that I owed to 6" who might otherwise have thought themselves in souls way connected with my determination. I state spill that my only reasons are the feeling of thorough inconv petency to grapple with the world in business—a feeling of disgust for m) self every day, for doing so little, so that my brain wanders, I can scarce see what I write. Give, my love to all. I could not bid them good bye. Lei Lizzy have the disposition of my things, and ask her to see to the letters and journals. I die, as I have lived' the wretch of the family.—Good bye! Good bye!" Mr. Corss, after hearing the letter read, said it was mere delusion of the brain, as not one young man in 6 hundred had better prospects or more domestic comforts. The family were united, and lived on excellent terms' The deceased, who laboured at times under great depver sion of spirits, left home one morning, and the next tiuie he heard of him was by letter dated New York. Dr. Coulson, of the Old Jewry, in a letter, said that be attributed the act to physical causes, constitutional d. fects which had been coming on for a length of time. The CORONER remarked at some length upon the case' and said that after reading the letter in the deceased's own hand there could be no doubt as to his state °l' mind. Verdict—" Insanity."