The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1819-09-14 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.  CORONER'S IN MY EST.  Yesterday Ammo° an inspirit was held at the Aga of Ike Unicorn, Covent-garden, before Anthony Gull, Esq. Corimer, on the body of P. Mary Ann Bartell, sgerl3s, wife to an officer in the army, who came by bcr death wader lb. following melancholy circumstance:I'lw inquest excited considerable interest an over the neighbourhood, and the Jnry room W3ll crowded to races. by respectable prison., ellNl.qls to ascertain She native and result of the case. (hie tit the Jortmen appealed In Mr. Gen, the Coroner, to he informed, whether any preset!' whatever bad soy right there, alter the Jury and Coroner wets orcomurodat col.  The Cloutier r certainly the Jiffy ought first to be accommodated, mi.: other iwtsties ought to give way to them. But tie y were there &Long justice—it was an open Court—and every tierstoe, as lung u thew was sufficient room, had as mods right there as themselves.  Juryman—Oh, vary well! Mr. Edward Sprat:g, printer, of 27, Ilow•street, Wag sworn, stated, that he never before SAW the deceased to his knowledge, until yesterday morning. about six eciock, when be was called out of his bed by some persons tea g in Martlett's.cottrt, Bow•street. They informed him that • female was at the to of his prioting-olEce, apparently deranged; he went out and saw that she was then in • illy perilous situation, she only had on her Bight-gown and a petticoat, and was kneeling on the pan.ti!es. She hail endeavoured to get through a window of the Garrick's Hew' Tavern, Bow.street, prior to arriving there. He scut for the Gat rick's Head servant, who time, and getting into the loft, endeavonreil to persuade her to corn down. She immediately answered " No, no, 1 will not ; 1 am here under the protection of God, and 1 am happy 1 base made my escape." She was in such a dangerous situ• ation, that no person could possibly render her any assistance. At about seven o'clock Mr. Ilinhon, a performer newly engaged at Drury-lane Theatre, who was intimately acquainted with the deceased, came not being sent for, awl persuaded her to come down ; on which she said, nothing should ever make her; and ulthou;lt he was a friend, ale threw the tiles at him. Soon after she consented to come down, with much persuasion, on an usi.l-rink in: that she should not he confined. She came dos', rely carefully, and was taken into the printing-office, where a Loge chop knife was laying on a piece aims plate; she seized it, and thri rtrued to murder any hods who jct.-Kered with her, and brandished it over her bend. She got to the door, and Mr.Nprrzc laid hold of her hand, to 'invent her going out, but she made a rush and went into the court. She ran along Mart. leit's.court, down Drury-lame, through Marquis-court ulnae she ran into Mr. Roaches, the theatrical bookseller, and from thence she proceeded to Arydgm-strcet, followed by about 30 persons. On arriving soar Exeter street she stab. bed herself two or three times in the side. She was take& into Mr. Greaves's, a surgeon. IVitness followed; she was Weeding profusely. A Yount man, who had lake', the kosife from the deceased's side, gave it to witness. She dm! tly after. While the surgeon was examining tt,r wound, site told him it was of no use to attempt to restore Is. r, and made use of other words.  Jobu Turner, of Duke's-court. Ilow•strert, deposed to having seen the deceased on the top of the house of 31r. Spragg, and he assisted in retting her down. Ile followed her into Bryily,es-swet. In Drury-lane she waved the knife, and said to the people—" If you attempt to tone!' toe, I will stab you through the body." At this time she was nearly in a state of nudity, and in Bork's-street she slabbed herself under bar breast. She W3O about a yard from witness at tin ties*, and on °bat twine the act be ran towards her sod pita the instrument from her aide. She t xclaiineil—" I Pahl I would do it, anti nose I have dune it." Witness assisted her to a Surretnee. _ _  Me. Charles Auresins Hudson, of Drury-lone Theatre, deposed, that he knew the deceased about six years—she was a worried lad), her burbatiri is an officer in the army ; they lived together ; there was now and then n trifling dlr. Terence between theist, but not of au) *relines kind: he believed it chiefly arose in consequence of difference of per. sita,h,m, the deceased being a strict Roman Catholic, and her husband a Protestant. The deceased had latterly Leen an actress, and she performed at the Brighton Theatre ander the nisem,enient of Mr. Brunton, and went by the asstinr d name of Beifiebt. He always eilm, reed a flight:liras and inconsistency of lurt about her, especially within the last three weeks. She spent the day with him on Tuesday, when she came to town. She slept at the Garrick's Head, bat duelag her stay in town, she principally boarded with his fa; she was not in want of money ; her family was of the highest relseetability. On 'Thursday night she went in a coach to Mr. Mania's, of the Haymarket 'I heatre, to request an order for Mtn, les it• it, but ne was engaged, and could not be seen; she then oi direst the coachman to drier ier Greenwich, without lbsenic any business whatever theic— she afterwards said she had walked aloha all night. The Jury returnee' a Verdict—" not Site deregaed nni ar end to her oleo exulence, being at the time in a stole of imartity.” The deceased was a fine-looking woman.  Last week • ultoe swallow wa. %hot from the Wert Chtf, at Whitby, by EDN *BD CLEAVEIt, liwp of Nuoniugtoo.