The Sun. — 1831-01-28 (London, England)

RIGHT HON. PITT, LORD RIVERS.  Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, Mr. Coroner, and a highly respectable Jury, asselob Fox and Bull public-house, adjoining the CantinlEos, Kn'ghtsbridge, to investigate the circumstance dl', with the death of the Right Hon. Horace Pitt, Vito aged 54, who was found drowned in the SW° Hyde Par on Tuesday afternoon. The Juryk, having been empannelled and oi , cee led in the melancholy discharge of their dull the body of his Lordship, which lay in as tbe chamber. The Jury were much struck Ott handsome appearance of the corpse. No marks 4).„01 were visible, and his Lordship, who was a peared in a profound slumber. fel°l  . . Mr. John Ambrose, his Lordship's steward-jo,,+ Mistney, Middlesex, was the first witness exa100:, stated, that on Friday last he received a 'edct, iprLordship requesting Lim to come to his Lor"v0l0 residence, No. 10, Grosvenor-place, on the„iitt. i Tuesday, for the purpose of paying over the rl ol e, 1 arrived there about three o'clock in the arterial)! fl purpose, and was much surprised at finding P,eiis and family in the highest state of alarm and, Riled On inquiring the cause, he learned that Lord -rilotii been absent since Sunday evening, and o°' tinitejo;if standing every search and inquiry had been ins; 'Il,. tidings could be learnt of his Lordship. On he1111:;giV that persons were then actively engaged in u,,,r;'V,', Serpentine River, in expectation of finding '-'",,lll'i,' repaired thither. He found the men dragging:, 00Ole d'end, near the waterfall, and in about five minu,t,l,9 of his Lordship was raised to the stuface an",;fPilt The body was about two or three yards from t',ici) It was immediately conveyed to the house in tt'd flit , were assembled. There were no signs of life, eu„ t! appeared to have been immersed two or three dal; of Juror—Did the deceased live upon good ter Lady and family. Witness—He did, and aiW' i , C, most happy in their society. ~,Dic" 14 Juror—Do you know of any occurrence ~-, to possibly have deranged his Lordship's minl,:pot'i caused him to commit suicide. Witness--I oloot`v( the contrary, his Lordship's affairs were in the 40 perous state, and he lived upon the most affectioP _a i:111. with Lady Rivers. Juror—When did the deceased nobleman gitc‘P-eoll" title and estate? Witness—To the best of MY fe- ~..1, in 182 S ;he was never married but once. his '''' , Juror—Had his Lordship any defect in io be; Witness—He was very near-sighted, so as ni's helr ii to discern an object at any distance without t''...e bee° glass, which he always carried with him, and " ,cll°. ing he always wore spectacles. . de,, ~.0. Juror—Might not his Lordship, from this :„ r')(;, vision, have fallen off the footpath into the r`'el 11''' dent, and thus have been drowned ? Witness oe, extremely probable; for a more unlikely per"_° I' best self-destruction I never saw than his LordeP'r 1 so remarkably happy and contented. AO bbl Colonel M'Leod, one of the Jurors, here ''soi°,,f) had lately called the attention of the Cotniti'ile fc°,;/11 Woods and Forests to the dangerous state Of t.001:0t) or causeway at this end of the river, which %°,,cciJ;ol! that any person might fall into the water by cog night without a chance of being saved, there b .1. 6rirjr or fence. ,rlloe tr, ? James Batten, Superintendent of the 110--„ jet ',it Receiving-house, deposed to finding the bowia OVA sence of the last witness; and produced era, ied,ho'lwatch, with the appendages, and 1/. Sc. ' V 1?, which he took out of his Lordship's pockse9.o4, ness added, that this part of the river Nee-4181.011.04 dangerous, that no less than ten persons fe cii sre r causeway one foggy night, a short time ago, °l' $t t ,ie irf, difficulty saved. gil I, '. John Baker, a footman to Lady Rivers, ‘c" At rP , a 0 atnined. He said that his Lordship dine hteroJ'' Rivers and his family, consisting of two daub fi1j01: son, on Sunday afternoon last. He aPris3iftti tatol' usual, and witness observed nothing about ' 0 foetogr' of aberration of mind. He left his resilience e. cet nine o'clock on the same evening, which OP , with him, anti witness saw him no more all 1 'I his being the whole of the evidence, he The CORONER addressed the Jury, ehe o'sll from the evidence it appeared to him that .1.0 the i occurrence was purely accidental, arising fr° thi e out state of the path. torli J .t 01 J The Jury, after a short consultation, ee be pelf lowing verdict :—" Found drowned nenr.tdered 'it? at the head of the Serpentine River, cone' 001 gerous for want of a rail or fence, where have lately fallen in."  'l,llle • 1 The sum collected for the natioo3