The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1822-11-28 (London, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE. degree. If persons of rank and reputattou would cease to Yesterday evening an inquest was held before Thomas perchese game, there would no longer be a temptatiou to bias, EN. Coroner for the City of Westmiaster, in Tatter- steal it; and, if the Legislature would recognize game as iiidrs Mews, Grosvenor-place, Pimlico, at the Tut f tap, on property, few persons of consideration would be disposed tt.e body of Mr. Joho Wright, who put a period to bis exist. to commit the crime, or to run the risk of receiving stolen ~ re by leaping through a third story window, and was near• goods; MON especially if they ec.old openly purchase them t, dashed to pieces. asf the rightful minters. Not :hat the moral evil would be Mrs. Hawks, • lady residing at No. R, Grosvenor-row, Increased by an Act of Parliament; foe who that reflects can r intim stated, that the deceased was a resident in her hos- doubt the criminality of encouraging a practice which is the I,od's how, and had hero cowlised to his bed about a fort. f very nursery of rice, which- fills our gaols throughout the 1 4 r.gbt with the yellow jaundice, of which disease most of winter, inflame. our villagers with animosity and the desire the deceased's relatives had been carried off. The deceased of reveuge, and makes every gentleman's domain a place of had bees is a very intlaseboty state ever since he was takeq warlike caution and defence end too afters, as on Saturday, ill, and stated that he knew that he should not recover, but I the scene of violeoce ad of talood.bed ? But men derive their 1, off like the rest of bis family. Os Monday morning I ways of thinking °tient r from habit than from principle, and list, between nine and tees o'clock, she (witness) was silting whet Adam Smith oleterves of smuggling will go little beyond .t her bad: pat our window and saw something fall from the truth if applied to this subject. "To preload to have ski" to the ground will e• great noise. She opened her , see scruple about buying smuggled goods, though a manifest ...dose and saw that the deceased, with his shirt owl encouragement to ills violation of the Revenue Laws would ,• ly, had fallen from his bedroom window to the earth, ; in most cousin.. be regarded as one of those Pedantic had wee inmost dashed to pieces; the blood poured from his pieces of hypocrisy, which, instead of gaining credit with nay '..g. and bead. • body, serve only to expose the person who affects to practise Mrs. Bowing, a nurse, stated, that ebe bad attended the them to the suspicion of beings greater kuave than Most of 1. erased, night and day, for more than a week, with the but aniptours."—(Bre Paper.) !vilest jaundice. She thought that the medicine he took nAircuot his mind; he was very desponding and melancholy. sr(' lost Idonday morning she left him is bed, more compaed then be had been fur some time, to fetch some water. I It is currently reported in the City, that an emiand as ate was returning up aisles she heard Mrs. Hawks. Dent house of agency have received, by the way reclaim, 1, oh Gs-id, Mr. Wright has thrown himself out of of Bombay, letters from the interior of Bengal, she window." She I:lsidore. the water and ran to him, and dated on the 4th July, stating that the Ganges had found that he had pilot into a lob of water. His skull was overflowed its batiks, and that an immense number trietured, and his legs were dreadfully injured. Tilt fall of lives had been consequently lost. They sone night at nine o'clock. were sv%s broken by his dropping into the water. He expired the . . estimated at 100,000 souls. All the crops had been Mr. J. Maurice Banner, surgeon, stated, that he attended swept away, and indigo, in particular, had risen thi deceased, and found a fracture to the fkollt from jest .enormously, in value. Such was the rumour yesterOrs the eyes to the lop of the hes.% and down to the base - day circulated amongst the East India merchants. tittle skull. • quantity of extravasated blood was upon _. the ho lso sioo•soffil Mies were stiondoolg injured. The bums, The perplexity of the Sovereigns at Verona brings e: the cranium caused his death. Powerful actiplae, ass% h our recollection the predicament in which the as opiates, would sometimes produce delirium. Emperor DOMITIAN found himself, 88 Meted in The Coroner said that perhaps the act was dons in a no- the argument to one of Juvenal:B Satires. A ttsipt meet of temporary delirium. had been presented to him, which was of such an I The Jury retursted a verdict—" Died from throwing him*elf toot a wisdom in a state of temporary insanity." i enormous size, that there was not in all hie scullery