The Sun. — 1823-01-28 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.  • SUDDEN DEATH. • Last night an Inquisition was taken at the sign of the Coach and Horses in (Niettluit-street, Bond-street, before Mr. Iftoos, the Deputy Coroner for NVestminster, on vieveof the body of Mr. ,Peter Bailey, late Editor of the periodital publication The Afriseuni. John Searle deposed that his father was proprietor of the hackney-coach, No. 120, apd resided in Jane-place, Old Kent_ road. Witness was 16 years of age, and was driller, of the said coach. On Saturday evening between seven and eight o'clock, witness was called from the stand at the end of Qtebee-street, by the doceased's female servant, to take up, at hr. late residence, No. ii. Cumberland•place, New-road, near the Vorkshite Stingo. The deceased and his wife entered the coach, and the deceased,who appeared in good health and spirits, desired him to drive to the Italian Opera. Witness drove gently to the Opera, and, reaching it, some of the watermen in attendance opened the door, and before the deceased and his vtifagot out he was compelled to move on a few paces, to prevent obstrtlction.to the other carriages that were approaching. Witness got. off his box to let his fare out, when the lady told him the gentleman was very ill, and that he must drive back again, to Cumberland place. .Witnes, accordingly. proceeded towards home, when the lady.pulled the check,stnng in Warwick-street, and desired him to pull pp at the first chemist's shop became to. Th© first he came to was llttSsrs. Butler's, in Regentestreet, where he sew a lad, and the lady told him the gentleman was dying,. and requested a medical man might attend him. The lad replied, no person was present that could render any assistance. Witness then drove about in search of intdical aid for nearly three marters of an hour, and at length arrived at the house of Mr. King, the surgeon, in Conduit-street; when, on opening the coach-door, the deceased was lying on the seat a lifeless corpse. He was carried into the house, and every exertion was made to restore him, but life was extinct. The Rev. John Corfield, residing at Kensington, deposed to having assisted to take the deceased out of the coach, who was quite dead, and pulsation had ceased. Mr. Hunter Nicholson, assistant to Mr. King, the surgeon in Conduit-street, deposed, that he used every., endeavour to restore the deceased when brought into his presence, but could not. His dissolution was occasioned by the bursting of an aneurism of the aorta in his inside, from which an effusion of nearly two pints of blood had taken place, and had lodg. ed in the chest. He understood he had laboured under the disease for some time, and the least exertion would produce the effects that caused his death. 'Was infonned that he had sung an Italian air in the coach just before he expired, and that he ejaculated " Oh, Mary. 4", and then fell dead in the arms of his wife. A friend of the deceased said, that the' deceased possessed considerable literary acquirements, and that he was about pursuing his avocation, in attending the Opera, for the purpose of making his observations on the same and theperfognere, for the weekly publication, The Museum, of which he was editor, when he died. He has left a family of three children to bewail his loss. The Jury expressed their regret that so much time was Lost before medical assistance could be obtained, as, in all probability, if it had been immediately at hand, Iffe would have been preserved. Mr. Nidasoa, the surgeon, said, that he was convinced that had he seen him at the moment he was first taken ill in the conch, he could not have preserved him. The Jury expressed themselves satisfied, and returned a ver diet of—" Died by the Visitation of Gov,  SUICIDE: On Saturday last, an Inquisition was held before J. W. UNIVIN, Esq., Coroner for the Eastern Division of the County of Middlesex, at the Pitts Head Tavern, Tyson-street, Bethnal-green, on view of the remains of Mr, Joseph--Moses, well known as a stock-broker in the City of London. The deceased was of the Jewish persuasion, and had done considerable business in the Spanish Funds, the fall in the prices of which had greatly embarrassed him, and in a state of mental distraction he put a period to his existence. The Jury having viewed the body. Mrs. Moses, the wife of the deceased, was examined, and she stated that her husband had been, for more than three weeks, in a state of Mind the most distressing that could possibly be conceived, which she attributed to his losses in funded property.— During each day for that period he had been in a melinc.holy state, and at night he could not sleep, but frequently got out of his bed and traversed the room for half an hour together, and, by his sighs and groans convinced her that his Mental suffering were very great. , On Friday morning hist, after a very restlesss night, the deceased rose from his bed, shout seven o'clock, and went down stairs ; and during the absence of the servants, he suspended himself by a cord, from a staple, which was fastened in the wall of the kitchen. And after he had hung about Ave minutes, he was discovered, and cot down ; his face wattdiscoloured, and he appeared quite lifeless ; there was no breathing or motion of the body or perceptible pulsation. Medical aid was immediately called in, but every exertion to restore animation .proved unsticcessful. She was convinced the deceased was Insane at the time he put an end to his existence.— Verdict—/asaaiN.  It has been for sons tithe. past in cortternplation by the leading Intigs of this county (Durham) to have a meeting on the subject of Agricultural Distress and Podiamentary Reform; within these, few days, however, the managers of this scheme have suddenly abandoned, it, baying been deterred, it is said, from the further prosecution of their project in consequence of its being generaity known. that the great Dr. Cohbett intended to make his appearance. indettl we learn from tolerable good authatiiy, that an old liouse on Eivet. bridge has been conveyed to the Doctor for the porpose of enabling him to attend anti exhibit his invincible front, should any such meeting take place. wo hope the opportunity wbe afForde4 him, for we cannot contemplate may thing whichill ,would be productive of greater amusement to the public than to see tbe ThAlical Whigs of Durham and the exhibitor of Paine'a bones fairly pitted at 4 County 51eft.ink—(1)4thilin ColaitY, Advertiser.)