The Sun. — 1823-11-26 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.  Yesterday a Coroners' Inquest was held before CHARLES JEMMET, Esq., at the Bear and Ragged Staff, Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars, on the body of Thomas Wadi, Esq., aged 20 years, who shot himself at his lodge ings, in Hatfield street Stamford-street, on Saturday,rnerning last: The deceased was a native of Ireland, and had been educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Having served his terms at King's Inns, in Dublin, he came to London about a morth ago, and entered as a law student in the Middle Temple. 11; was a person of most amiable disposition, and an accoraPll4" scholar. Mrs. Caroline Linstead, wife of Mr. Linstead, of No. 66, Hatfield-street, deposed, that the deceased had lodged in her house; that on Saturday last, at about 12 o'clock, as she "16143 in the front kitchen immediately underneath the parlour whi the deceased occupied, she heard the report of a pistol, which was followed by the noise of something heavy falling 0! the floor; that she instantly ran up stairs to the parlour, and Saw the deceased lying on e floor apparently dead, and that then; was a great quantity of blood in the room that she went up to the deceased. and lifted up his arm, which dropped lifeless; that she then sent for a surgeon, who his arrival said the deceased was dead. She added, that pistolp lay on, the cariet near the deceased ; that the blood flowed copiously from nig mouth, and-that she believed he had fired the pistol into hit mouth. The Coroner asked whether the witness bad seen any thing in the conduct of the deceased previously, which led her to suppose that he was insane? The witness said hehad appeared very low spirited, but Ttt. ticularly on Friday last, after she had given him some letters, great agitation. He sat up which came by the post from Ireland. -Upon that evening, on going into his room, she saw him crying, and apparentill not go to bed until 2 otclock in rise morning. The letters had been given to his friend, also a student in the Templewriting letters, and she believed at Mr. Joseph Lowdell, a surgeon, deposed that he examilu" the body of the deceased, and found that a bullet bad entered the bark part of the palate, and, he believed, reached the brain' The left eye was bloodshot, and the figures were distigureil.--' The bullet had not One through the head, but there was little doubt it hadcaused the_ deceased's death. Mr. Richard Walihe,_ of Waterford, deposed that the d" ceased was his fellow-student in the Middle Temple. Ifittlest,, se saw a letter in the' deceased's possession ; left him stai,, -hour at night, and believed that the cirnmustances detalte,„;-, that letter led him to the act of self-destruction. The mentioned some severe family embarrassinente, and after the receipt of it, the deceased betrayed occasionally considerabie. agitation. On the day of the melancholy event, witness breal‘, fasted in the country, _and trh his return found the decease'l dead, and a letter lying on the table directed to him (witness); which he had since destroyed. Witness was much affect-et! daring the investigation, stated that the deceased was a.lll,01.1 excellent young man, and that the embarrassments of al family preyed upon' his mind so violently as to render his hie miserable. said There were other witnesses in attendance, but the Jury r it was unnecessary to call them, and a verdict was returned 01 " Temporary derangement" The deceased had deliberately purchased a pistol, powder' and shot on the morning he destroyed himself, and moulded 1, bullet at the parlour-fire. He had removed the glasseS other things that were in his way, and had written several let' ters and composed hymns. He had been seen frequently on his knees, praying most fervently. The letter he had receivet!, although it described an altered state of the circumstances able son with despair. family, was by nomeans calculated to touch an ordinary Pr'  • A letter is in circulation, purporting to be the production of the Canon RI coo, the brother of thi murdered patriot. Though the sentiments are such as he may probably otpresß, yet the troll careless reader must see that no foreigner coolut embody them in such genuine English. Wh' useful purpose can be answered by such tnanifot fabrication ?  day last a great number of persons were stun:vaned too,