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The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-01-28 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.  An Inquisition was last evening taken before TUOMAC Thaws, Esq. at the George pnblic.house, George-court. Adelphi. on the body of Mr. Leonard Parkinson, a gentleman of fortune, who terminated his existence by suicide. Mr. Thomas Hunt. surgeon, of 894), Strand, stated that. at about three o'clock yesterday afternoon, he was celled in to attend the deceased. whom he found lying on the floor before the fire, at his takings in George-street, Adelphi. Ile was then dead, and appeared to hare been so about an hour. There was a great quantity of blood on the floor, end on examining his person witness observed no less than three wounds in hia throat; two of them were supertibut the other was a very serious one of about two inches in length, and of very considerable depth. The cisro'id artery was divided, and the wounds were the cause of death. A small knife was found !yin ty his side. Bridget Ogle, *errant to Mr. Clerk, at whose house the deceased raided, stated that she had seen the deceased repeatedly; the last time was on Thursday morning, hut she observed nothing particular in his manner. In the afternoon she bad occesimi to go up stairs, when she heard the deceased walking about die room, and afterwards heard bin) moaning. She informed her master of the Mreminence, and they both knocked at his room door, but could obtain no answer. A carpenter was tent for, and the door broken open, when the deceased was found lying on the floor covered with blood. He was then quite dead. Witnesa was to much alarmed that she was obliged to leave the room immediately. Mr. Theophilus Clarke, the person in whose house the deceased lodged, stated that he had lived with him about four years: he was a tut of very retired habits' and appeared at times to be insane. For the last three months lie had kept very irregular hours, hut on Sunday evening last he came home very early, and on Monday morning witness had a long conversation with him when he said " I intend to keep better hours than I used to do; I find it will not do; when I have been drinking freely it affects my head, anti I do not know what lam about." On Thursday afternoon, in comm. quenue of inihntiation received front the last witness, deponent caused the door to be broken in, when the deceased was found lying on the floor covered with blond. The door was bolted on the inside. A few hours before he inquired for his keys, and appeared confused on the subject. He must afterwards have found them, as they were hanging from a trunk, on the door being broken open. Teesdale, a gentleman whose sleeping.room was contiguous to that of the deceased. stated that during the last two years he had repeatedly heard hint pacing about the room during the night, and exclaiming, " what have I dune," and at other tones talking about a
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-09-27 (London, England)

LATE CATASTROPHE AT OSTEND.  [PROM A PRIVATE LETTER. DATED SLPT• DREADFUL SUICIDE. In addition to the horrid details of the 19th inu. can. tabled in my letter of yesterday's date, I have now to acquaint you that the amiable wife of the Chevalier de Bossuy, accompanied by her two daughters (accomplished ladies, of about Is and 19 years of age), were dri';ing iu their cabriolet, within half a mile of the arsenal, at the moment of the explosion) when Madame Bosnia was violently struck on the right temple with a large piece of timber, supposed to be part of the ruins of the Powder Magazine, and killed instantaneously. The noise of the explosion set off' the horse, a tine spirited animal, at full speed down the hill of Fermois. Dragging the vehicle against a heap of rubbish on the side of the road, the two ladies were dashed out with consider.. able violence, anti the footman, who was behind the vehicle, was thrown under the wheels of a diligence patairg at the time, by which he bad both his legs broken, and was otherwise considerably injured. On the Mademoiselles Bossuy being taken up, in the youngest life was entirely extinct, and the other's arm Was broken in two places, be. sides being dreadfully braised, particularly about the head, so as to render her recovery extremely doubtful. On the news of this dreadful occurrence reaching the ears of a young student, who had arrived at Ostendthe evening before from Frankfort, and who was just on the eve of leading to the altar the youngest daughter of this ill-fated family, he immediately rushed into his apartment, at the hotel where he was staying, and blew out his brains with one of his travelling pistols. On his toilet was found the following, written on the back of a letter received from his betrothed wife :—" I cannot survive this dreadful event. I go to meet nay Rosabelle in the realms of bliss. Adieu, adieu, my friends. I cannot live without my adored." This unfortunate circumstance has created the most intense sympathy throughout the whole of this unfortunate town.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-09-27 (London, England)

AND SEICIDE.—STETGARD, SEPT. 14.—0 n the 9th a young man and woman arrived here by a coach from Carlsrulte, and alighted at one of our inns. They passed the whole of the next (lay here and at Canstadt, and ordered the coachman to be ready on the afternoon of the 11th. The coachman, having waited more than an hour, went up stairs to ask instructions. To the questions that lie put the young man answered that he might come in. The door, however, was bolted on the inside, and barricadoed also with a chest of drawers. After he had got in through another room, the young woman was found lying insensible on the bed, and bathed in her blood—and the young man was leering, against the wall of the apartment, with blood streaming from his mouth. They had attempted (it would appear) to commit suicide, and had put a number of hail shot into two small pocket pistols for that purpose, but the charge was so weak that moat of the shot remained in the barrel. The unfortunate pair were :arricd to the Hospital. The young woman is severely wounded; she can with . difficulty utter some unintelligible words, and is considered in a very dangerous state. The condition of the young man is more favourable, and he speaks distinctly. 'the following are the particulars which have come to our knowledge: —The young man's name is M—. Ile is twenty-four years of age. Was horn at L ,in the Grand Duchy of Baden, anti acted as Surgeon at the Hospital at Carlarube. The young woman's name is Caroline ll—. She was born at in Alsace. The motives which induced them to attempt suicide arc but imperfectly known. They left Carlsruhe on the Sth, and when here they did not live in a very economical manner, although they had no money, not even sufficient to pay their bill.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-09-22 (London, England)

CAW. Fire Policir'. the renewNla of which beroure•Jue at Michaelmas., 1:1; exPir', trim renewed within fifteen daye'from that period, *i*!,t Company enrit'untea to undertake In.urancea on Lives, on 1;:e1:. Tent No Charge. is made on Life Inattraneea, in the • 4 Ati-tti,f4ea Fine. or Entrance Money . • and a large COMtniv4on I. ellolrcil to ?itt:',citors, sue others, by whom such In.• niers are effected.  To be had, by order, of all Booksellers and Newsmen in the I United Kingdom, either in single Numbers, or in Sew Pries Ono Shilling each. Each Number complete in itself. *** The following are but a few of the Contents of each Num- ! ber, since the first publication of the Work, and can only give a slight idea of its uti.ity :1.! The Oracle of Health. for July, containing—The Treatment of 1 Cholera hlorhus or Bile Flux—Emollient Oriel, for ditto—On the Illetlical Properties of Wines—The Adulteration of Wines— Easy and effectual 3lethotis for the Treatment of Accidents—On Fashionable Diseases, by Dr. Adair—Rules fur Travelling in England—For Travelling on the Continent—The Advantage of basements anti Clystem in Costive Habits—Recipes for rations Clymer% —To Cure Stammering or Hesitation of Speech—Captain Jettylris Vapour Bath—To Improve the Sight by Bisected rilso.es—The klonopoly of Tea--Dangerous Effects of Swallowing Fruit Stones I —Receipt for Making the Elixir of Longevity—To Cure a Squint i —Case of Poisoning from rating Pheasant, &c. &c. Contents of No. 1. (Fifth Edition).—About 1,000 copies of this Number were sold ir. Len ion alone, in the first two weeks.—Oyster Eating, by Dr. Kitchener—Medical Effects of Oysters in Coneumptions and Fevers--Effects cf Smoking Tobacco on the Health —Esting ricentifically—Circassian Mode of Procuring fine Eye!Ashes, at no eupense. No. 11. (Fifth Edition) contains—Ertyy Shaving on Chymical Principles--31edical Effects on Health by Beer, Porter, and Ale, by Sir A. Carlisle and Mr. Brande—Means of Escaping Gout and Rheumatism. Nearly Forty Articles in all. No. 111. (Fifth Edition) contains—Weekly Plans of Family Economy—Estimates for Incomes of a Guinea a Week and 3001. a Fesr—Diseases Cured without Me Heine, by Diet and Regimen only—Nervous Females. Is all above Forty Articles. No. IV. (Fifth Edition) Suicidal 31elanchnly—Prescriptions for Asthma and Rheumatism—Errors in Education causing Suicide—Utility of Silk Waistcoats—Experiments on Beef, Veal, Pork, &c. by Sir A. Coopu— Desk Diseases, contracted in counting houses—Disorder of the Urinary Organs. In all above forty Articles.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-08-03 (London, England)

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.  On Monday a Jury was ensembles] upon a Commission of I-• quiry into the lunacy or Sarsh Ellison, of Ilatton-garden.. M. EA AN el, with J! r.Yar r.Lralott e andanother gentleman. presided. The first witness called was Dt. Vanhoven, who stated that it March 132,1 he attended upon Mrs. Elitwun, the lady in qucstim, who was now about 60 years of age. She had rude, as hr vide stood, an attempt to commit suicide. Ile found on her persa., some wounds made, as he was informed, with a pair of btu. t sore, and they certainly appeared to have been liAlicted re1..1. weak hand. Ile bad attended her subsequently, toad had not tt:e slightest doubt that she was at the time, and had continues] e%er since, in a state of mental derangement. She was ail totally incapable of managing her affairs. Dr. Alonro stated that he hail been called upsn to attsmi Mrs. Eliason, and had found her in a state of mental derangement. lie mentioned several instance.. Ile asked her what King's reign it was, She said it was the reign of George the Sixth. He acted her imw long it was since he !fret nisi ed her. She repiled that it was a year and a hall ago, although it was but a few days since. In fact, she had no distinct perception of time, and he could net entertain a doubt that sit wan utterly incompetent to mangle arty affairs. d young female, who was engaged from the serviTeoF 1)r Arar. burton as a nurse for Mrs. Eliason, was then examined. Srt'.. stated that her miNtress, when kft alone, tut all day lung in a chair, doubling up a handkerchief. Site sortietitnets refused to tate her meals, and witness was under the liecessity of using force to ec;. • pel her. She gave no orders to the servants, and did not ir way interfere in domestic matters; she was incapable. Site no; occasionally taken out in her carriage, when she would never allow the blinds to be up, and was very troublesome. The lady was waiting in a carriage on the outside o the Secondaries' Office, in Coleman-street, where the inquiry was held. The Jury having expressed a desire to see her, they were i:'fomied that she positively refused to quit her carriage, in which she was attended by two ladies. attracted a crowd, who began. to manitest some symptoms of a gt, 0111:110. Csopinninkintoiolhere Plaiiitilytinihet(r)Rearn'Laingae:c7hreit7i;ettts.ittaint}ces witiaeoPrk. ';ll.l:xlatl3ny'l,n3ath9onap;ts.3slertxtl. termination to know " the rights" of the trotter. On his min:. trMerr;tePlyhiliinincoTteretattlaenetd. greatly agitated, and hi/eats. The answers she gave to him a'. petard very rational. When re9oested to step out, she stated that tintie such had spoken maxikmondteo she st,s greatly depressed in sprite. and begged to to esedsrd, it would be extremely 'painful to her. . M.. EVAXC said that he had btu r Comm 'a-loner ifi st:Ch.:tt•ei  70,;itt4;  1
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-10-10 (London, England)

CRELL, M.D. F.R.S. &r., and W. M. WALLACE, Esq. Assisted by a Committee of Scientific Getelemcn. To be had, by order, of all Booksellers and Newsmen in the United Kingdom. either in single Nonibera. or in Sets. Price Ore Shilling each. Each Number complete in itself. 'l.* The following are but a few of the Contents of each Number, since the first publication of the Work, and can only give a slight idea of its mitity : The Oracle of Health for July, cantaining—The Treatment of Cholera liforhus or Bile Flux—Emollient Oyster for ditto—On the Medical Properties of Wines—The Adulteration of Winn— Easy and effectual Methods for the Treatment of Accidents—On Fashionable Diseases, by Dr. Adair—Rules for Travelling in England—For Trevelling on the Continent—The Advantage of Lavemenu' and Oysters in Costive Habits—Recipes for various Clysters —To Cure Stammering or Hesitation of Speech—Captain Jekyll's Vapour Bath—To Improve the Sight by Bisected Glasses--the Monopoly of't'en—Dangerous Efrzcts of Swallowing Fruit Stones --Receipt for Making the Elixir of Longevity—To Cure a Squint —Case of Poisoning from eating Pheasant. &e. &c. Contents of No. I. ( Fifth Edition).—About 1,000 copies of this Number were sold in Lan lon alone, in the first two weeks.-0) stet Eating, by Dr. Kitchener—Medical Effects of Oysters in Consumptions and Fevers—Effects of Smoking Tobacco on the Health —Eating Scientifically—Circassian Mode of Procuring fine EyeLashes, at no expense. No. 11. (Fifth Edition) contains—Easy Shaving on Chymical Principles--Medical Effects on Health by Beer, Porter, and Ale, by Sir A. Carlisle and Mr. Brande—M cans of Escaping Gout and Rheumatism. Nearly Forty Articles in all. No. 111. (Fifth Edition) contains—Weekly Plans of Family Economy—Estimates for Incomes of a Guinea a Week and 3001. a Year—Diseases Cured without Medicine, by Diet and Regimen only—Nervous Females. In all above Forty Artielaa. No. IV. (Fifth Edition) Suicidal Melancholy—Prescriptions for Asthma and Rheumatism—Errors in Education causing Suicide—Utility of Silk Waistrosts—Espetiments on Beef, Veal, Pork, &c. by Sir A. Cooper—Desk Diseases, contracted in counting houses—Disorders of the Urinary Organs. In all above forty Articles. No. V. (Fifth Edition)—Holiday Diseases of Young People— Laxative Draught for disordered Stomach—Art of Thriving—The Beauty of the Eyes—Nervous Diseases, caused by Novel Reading —Means of improving the Tone of the Voice. I.n all about fifty Articles. No. VI. (Fifth Edition)-01aagoir Punch, a Preventive of Gout. Gravd, and Stone; by W. Graham, Esq. Apothecaries and their A bominables—Scienee of Strengthening Exercise—Rules for Sleep. In all above fifty Article. No.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-06-02 (London, England)

DIRECTORS. J. T. Barber Beaumont, Esq. Edward Nugent, Esq. George D. B. Beaumont, Esq. Sir John Osborn, Bart. Francis Coast, Esq. The lion. T. Parker The lion. F. Hotham Praed, Esq. Sir J. E. Harington, Bart. General Shrapnel! I►'il Warn Judd, Esq. E. L. Wilson, Esq. Sir Richard King, Bart. Thomas Wyatt, Esq. John Marshall, Esq. Persons insured fur Life in this Office share the profits septennially with the original Members. according to their respective contributions. Thus, by the specific sums insured, and contingen profits, they have the fullest value for their payments, in a manner nearly similar to that forms rly adopted in the Equitable Office, but with this presumed improvement, viz. that as the original Members have raised a permanent fund. deemed amply sufficient fur the our. pose of indemnity, it is provided that no personal responsibility shall att ith to the policy-holders ; hence those who seek protection are secured from uncertainty and risk of loss, as in a Proprietary Office having a large inheritable capital, and are entitled to a participation in the profits, as in a Union Society. Military Men insured at this Office are not charged with any ad. ditional prerniuNenless called into actual service. Persona insured by this Office, not being mariners in the exercise of their profession, are at liberty to pass and repass by sea in whole. decked vessels, or steam boats, front one part of the United Kingdom to another; and also, in time of peace, in like manner, from British to Foreign Ports between the Texel and Brest inclusive, without license and extra premium. Persona removing to unhealthy climates, or subject to bodily infirmities, may be insured, upon a full disclosure of the facts, anti the payment of proportionate additional premiums. if any person who has insured his bite in this Office die by suicide, duelling, or the hands of justice, his representatives may receive the full value which his policy bore on the day previous to the time of his death.  No admission fees are required, nor is any charge made for policies, except the stamp duty. Bonuses of 151. 12s. and 26!. 124. per cent. have been divided duringthe last fourteen years ; another septennial dividend will be made .text year, in which persons now insuring will participate.
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1804-08-02 (London, England)

JIM' 14.)  FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.  PARIS, JULY en.  Monnier, the admini!trater of one of the Theatre& at Paris, and who, in an inconceivable da Of frenzy, attempted to destroy himself in the horse-market, died the day before yesterday, in consequence of his wounds, after an agony of fifty-four bouts: His death has caused great regret to an persons with whom he was acquainted. A letter, insetted in a Journal;aftributes his suicide to the pleadings of his opponents in a law-suit, in which lie was engaged. The following note was found upon h:s writingdesk, hi the middle of the papers ri hit Itw suit : ,4 Adieu, my dear, tender, arid respeftable wife ! Adieu, my children; adieu, try father; adieu, my friends, my proteaors, and my comrades ! lam much to blame towards you; but I am net to blame in this unfortunate affair."  The Hamburgh police, in the hands of its soldiers, is the most brutal in Europe ; and it it a see. rice done not only to Frenchmen, but to travellers of all nations, to oblige its senators and syndics to aa with more liberality, or at least justice and circumspeftion, towards foreigners. At Hamburg/a, where the populace are more Insolent than even in England, a Frenchman, an Italian, a Russian, an Englishman, or persons of any nation, whose accents discover them not to be Germans, are always ill-treated, and beaten with Ic-Res poles by the Hamburgh soldiers, if they happen to have any disagreement with the inhabi ants ; and, if they afterwards complain to the Syndics, they are otien fined into the bargain. Their prejudices again s foreiguers are excessive and ungenerous. According to the last news from St. Do. mingo, Denalines has no more - than t), or to the utmost 45,000 men able to carry arms. He has very few means to keep them up, and to procure them subsistence; they are therefore wretchedly fed, and worse cloathed. An herring and half a pound of bread, are the,r only nourish. ment ; they obtain no pay. The plantations do not furnish great succours. Most of them have berm laid waste, and are deserted. Dessalines is in expeaation that the French will attempt to reconquer St. Domingo, and it is on this supposition that he destroys all the fortifications, and on the approach of the French, he intends with his negrues to retreat to the most inaccessible pans, carrying with them there, after burning all the towns and places they have evacuated, the most part cf their prepetty and valnables.-••( joasmal dc Ccrowyrcr.)  Af'-.NNI  lINGLAND AND RUSSIA  mum enact or Aft •LLIAMCC serwm
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1804-05-17 (London, England)

SUICIDES.  A melancholy instance of self-destrutflion occurred yesterday. W illiam Ellis, a young man, twents-two years of age, the son of a respe&able grecer in Holborn, terminated his existence by shoot" himself through the head ; the circumstances whit h led to this fatal and dreadful ail, it is said, originated in an attachment the deceased had formed to a young woman, whom his family did not esnsider a suitable match for him. Between eight and nine o'clock in the morning he breakfasted with his father, during which a quarrel took place or. the sub3eft alluded to, and the young man rushed out of the room, ai a patently in gt eat anger; bit no suspicion was entertained of the horrid design he meditated. Within a short space of time after his departure, the report of a gua was heard, and the alar.ned father rushed to his son's chamber, which presented a sight too distressing to describe. The unfortunate youth lay lifeless on the floor. It op ears, he had taken his rifle piece, the muzzle fwh ch he placed to his left ear, and touching the trieg.v the puree wet t off and the ball went through his head. Surg.ectos were instantly sent for, and came with all possible expedition, but assistance was useless. The Cor ner's inquest :s summoned to sit upon the body this day at the Red Lion Public Haase. The deceased belonve.i to a corps. Yesterday morning, about five o':;tsck, a voting woman alssait seventeen years of age, Ift her servitude (the Smyrna Coffite-hmse, t. James's-suer. ), and proceeded thrmagh the Palace into .he Park, when the sentinel addressed her, saying she was paying an early visit.— She proceeded on without taking any notice, to the Green Park, where she was observed by two persons in Piccadilly, to walk gradually into the Bairn' and was seen no more till near seven o'clock. She was taken out lifeless, and conveyed to St. Martin's Workhouse. There was nothing found in her pockets, but in her bosom were deposited some !tat:pence wrapped in a piece of white paper, on which was written Fanny White, Lambeth." It is reputed she committed this rash a& in consequence of haying beer. married (a few days only) to a man who af-erwards proved to have a Wife and family. It iveuld be well it' the bacon of water in . the Green Park were inclosed with an iron railing t similar to that round the ('anal in St. James's Park, : as it would prevent misforturps, accidental, and : - I sometimes wilful. he  1/owAao Mooaa, Esq. of Muoresfort, in the: county of Tipperary, was on Monday sennignt killed by a fall from his horse, immediately after muuntiug, for the purpose of going out to dine.— I lie bat left an amiable wife, now is England, and numerous family.