The Sun. — 1825-07-21 (London, England)

INQUEST ON THE DUKE OF WELL/NGTON'S SISTANT BUTLER.—This morning a Coro►►er's I quest was held at the George Tavern, Vauxhall,. on the body of John White (not St. John as stated in THE SUN of last evening), aman of  colour, assistant butler to Ills Grace the Duke of  Wellington, who, it appears, had been to the Co ronation Fete given at Vauxhall Gardens on,. Tuesday evening, with his Grace's third roach; man and some other friends, and at four,o'qork yesterday morning they took a boat fromVauxball  stairs to go to Westmiuster, when the deceased„ in attempting to shove the wherry off from the, piles, fell overboard, but regained the boat, and subsequently took off his clothes and jumped in to bathe hen he sunk to rise no more. Ttre  body was picked up about two hours after near the second arch of the I3ridge. The deceased  was allowed to be the best swimmer in England, and his extraordinary -evolutions in the water, had caused astonishment ; but the deceased_ walk in liquor, which caused the catastrophe, Verdic —" Accidentally Drowned," FATAL EFFECTS OF THE HEAT OF THE SEASON, —On Tuesday, about the hour of one o'clock;  as a man in the employment of Mr. Abef~ croinbie, a respectable sail-maker of WappisgA, witi returning from Poplar, where he hail been executing some business for his master, was seized with a sudden faintness, and fail  abruptly on the pavement. The spectators ‘ naturally alarmed by the circumstance, Ata4 • him placed on a truck, and immediately. sent for Mr. Jackson, a surgeon, residing at Wap.., ping-wall, who at once obeyed the call, ,and, rendered his unfortunate patient every assistance that skill and humanity could suggest. We re.. •. 4 ; gret to add, however, that all his efforts were • unavailing, and that the object of his .attentl4,m is now no more. Mr. Jackson is of opinion thro a coup de solid, owing to the intense heat. of,tpe weather, an unusual circumstance in this counpf, led to the fatal catastrophe. LlNcous.—On Tuesday last, FerEns(o,. a young woman, not twenty years of age, was found &Oiled in the Fossdyke, near the Race-ground. The deceased !Pied servant with 31r. Coddingnm, of the Green Man publid-totte; and a red shawl being missing, she was accused of having creted it -with a felonious intent, and was charged with 'the suspicion of having done this before the. Mayor, ,The girl exculpated herself from the charge, and the partiee .werA dismissed ; but subsequent reproaches occasioned the' .deceasedto complain to her mother, and to express a wish to lea*hek place; the mother opposed ;his, and after a few days the drtatifv.l resolution of suicide was formed. So determined was this resolve, the young woman milked the cows as usual, and in returting on 'the river side, set down her pail, and tied her 'legs withtbe hopping band ! This was seen by a man at a distance, who was mowing weeds, and who missed her soon afterwarcif, anti seeing the milk pail on the bank, began to &iif liorneinjUry had been meditated ; and in a few hours after thee-alarm ways given the body was found. The. Coroner's Inquest was held, and a verdict of felo de se was recorded. The body was privately interred in the churchyard of St. Mary's that evening without any ceremony. Yesterday Morning, about nine o'clock, na a  poor woman, carrying breakfast to her husband, was crossing the High-street, Borough, a little above the Town-hall, a post-chaise- at full speed drove against her, by .whiC4 she was throloa,,,, down, and fell under the wheel ora Wakg.On'juit passing at the time, by which she was so dreadfully injured in . the head that she died imme-. diately on being conveyed to the hospital.. • The Tyne Mercury of the 19th inst. says.,— " We regret to state that Mr. Wm. Gamsos, Attorney, of Sunderland, after being- missipg since Friday morning, was discovered a corpse on Sunday last, in a byre, at a short distance from that town. It is distressing to add, that heappears to have put a period to his existence by hanging himself." - ~•.