The National Register. — 1822-09-15 (London, England)

THE NATIONAL REGISTER'  CORONXKS INQUEST.  MILANCNOLT BUICIDIC AND SINGULAR OCCORRINCI. —On Saturday last ass Inquest was held at the Globe, the corner of Baker-street, in the New-road, before T. Stirling, Esq. Coroner, on view of the body of Mr. William Thornton,. aged 7.1, • respectable gentlausa.s, possessing great property in the neighbourhood of Maryleuone, who had committed suicide.  It appeared from the evidence of the wife of a person named Strong, that deceased had fur some time been la• bouring under mental derangement, but had of late been much better. On Friday morning last she came down from deceased's room, at his reques►, to get him some barley water, which she br3nglit hint in half an hour, and deceased at that time expressed himself much better; she returned into the room abont 9 o'clock, and on going in she observed the blood flowing front a wound in the throat; deceased had at the time a knife in his right band, and the wound was inflicted on the tight side of the throat.  Isaac Strong being sworn, deposed he is a builder, and lives in deceased's house. Witness usually goes out in the morning at six o'clock ; but previous to his .o going he generally called on deceased to see the state of his health ; he so called on Friday morning, when der eased appeared perfectly calm, and much better than he had been for some time before. He then left him, and about I t o'clock was sent for by hie (witness's) wife. When he arrived he found deceased weltering in his blood, and a knife clinched fast inkis right band. A surgeon was sent for, who used such means as he thought ;nutter. Witness remained with deceased from that time until he died. To the hest of witness's knowledge, deceased has uo family whatever. Itlr. Norton, of Glocester-place, New-road, sturgeon, deposed he has attended deceased for many years, and for three years past he has been suffering under mental derangement, very frequently making use of many incoherent expressions. Witness was sent for to attend deceased oil Friday morning last, when he found him in the state as described by the former witness. Deceased had a wound in the right side of his throat, apparently inflicted wills a sharp instrument, and which occasioned his death. The jury having viewed the body, the Coroner sumtned up the cave, and tinder his direction brought in their verdict of" Died in a state of temporary derangement." Soon alter the verdict was given the Cormier departed, when the witness Strong requested to have the knife given him, with which the deceased had committed the rash act, and which he stated belonged to I : his request was accordingly complied with; it was one of those knives that contain eight or ten different instruments , the blade was so very blunt, that it surprised every one how the deceased could commit the deed with it. . . .  The witness had no sooner, however, received the knife' than he said," Gentlemen, it is now all settled, I thank you for the verdict you have given, but 1 am his Natural son." This created a great sensation through the jury loom, and every one was eager to know why he slid not say so before : but as the case had been fully inquired into, a verdict given, and the Coroner gone, She matter was obliged to rest tor the present : however, seven of the jurymen, then in the room, drew up a resolution and presented it to their foreman, giving it as their that a fresh isupiest ought to be taken. A letter to that effect was transmitted on Monday morning: to the Corosier, who in the eveimig returned Ins an,wer, that as there was nothing in the statement of Strong to warrant a fresh inquest, he could not comply with their request. The matter therefore rests opou the verdict first pronounces!.  Mrs. Thornton k a very old and Whim lady, nearly as old UP her sintorkinate husband : she appeared to be so very infirm as not to be able to rake any part in her household ur family concerns. The deceased has been for many years resident in Marylebooe, and ai his death was owner of between SO and fir houses in the same parish. Thortun-place derives it► name from him as the  An inquisition was taken on Wednesday last, at the house of Mr. Moody, the sign of the Three-Tuns, corner of Belton-street, on view of the body of Donny Linty, a child, seven year of age, who came to his death by the following accident:—About one o'clock on Tuesday afternoon a boy went into the yard for a pitcher of water, and there found the deceased lying on the ground, with a large coping stone upwards of five feet lung on his head. The boy gave an alarm, and some persons came and took the stone off his head ; he appeared quite iiisenaud was carried ' distely to St. Giles•s workhouse to the parish surgeon, but he expired in five minutes after. On investigation, it appeared that the stone had bean previously standing on an end in the yard against the wall, and it is supposed that the deceased was in the act of climbing on it, or otherwise playin.; so as to cause it to fall on him. The Jury returned a verdict of " Ac• cideutal Death, from a stone falling on him."  There has been a very Wenn ul crop of cranberries this season in many parts 01 Cumberland; several thousand quarts have been sold from a half penny to a farthing per quart, which were carried to the south and disposed of to great advantage Moor-game shooting began on Monday last; and we are told, notwithstanding the reports to the contrary, that the htrils are very plentiful, although by some sportsmen difficult to be killed, even with a great expenditure of powder and shot. A few days ago, a young lady in the neighbourMiod of Carlow, trying an experiment on her neck, with a silk handkerchief, to ascertain the lialtire of hatigiii., stopped the circulation of hind, so that she fell senseless; and had it not been for the timely assistance of a gentleman who was present, might have paid dearly fur her extraordinary curiosity.