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The National Register. — 1808-04-11 (London, England)

SUICIDE.  F~~S °,yj:,.,:.~r-..- JM►~.~.~. :rte  "".  On Tuesday evening a Coroner's Inquest was held on the body of Mr. L—, of Cornhill, who shot himself the preceding day. The servants were examined as to the fact. It was given in evidence, that on arriving early in town he complained of being indisposed, and said he would retire to bed till half-past eleven o'clock, when he requested he might be called. About that hour Mr. C , his partner, enquired for him, and being made acquainted with the orders he had ziven, desired the female servant to knock at his chamber-door.. The servant did as she was ordered; but receiving no answer. opened the door and perceived the deceased lying on the bed. Although she was not certain that he was dead, her alarm induced her to run down stairs, and communicate her fears. Mr. C , the porter, and the servant, returned to the chamber together, and found Mr. L-- lifeless. He had two pistols lying by him, the contents of one of which he had discharged into his mouth, and which is supposed to have caused his instant death ; the other remained loaded. Mr. L--'s depressed state of mind, for some time past, was deposed to, which concluded the evidence.—Verdict, Insanity. Mr. L. left a letter for Mrs. L. another for Mr. C. and one for his nephew, who was on thr eve of becoming a partner in the house. It appears that Mr. L—'s affairs are minas to the •imount of 60,0001. One person, it is supposed, will sustain a hss of 30,0001.  DILE). Admiral Rainier, on Thursday, at his house in Great Georgestreet. By his death there is a vacancy for the borouka of .-latielwich. . . 7,ce to the Catholic Tuesday se'nuight, after the funeral sere chapel at Bristol, the reinains.of the Domazer Countess of Fin!,,al were deposited in a vault adjoinim the chapel, to be removed at a more advanced part of the .......‘r to the family vault at Silken, in Ireland. ~wards of forty years held a eonfiden. Mr. Ledger, 'rho for tial situation at Cove“-Gurden Theatre, with cretiitjo himself, end advantage to ..s employers, died bu(ld e n I y on Saturday sea&gilt of au iii, elexy, to the sincere regret of all who Wm), him. or
The National Register. — 1808-08-14 (London, England)

ENT/I.—The Lord President of the Court of Session iu Scotland is to be succeeded by Robert Blair, Esq. Lean of the Faculty of Advocates.—lt is supposed Matthew Ross, Esq. will succeed Mr. Blair as Dean of Faculty.—lt is further stated, that Lord Dunsinnan resigns both his gowns, and is to be succeeded as a Lord of Justiciary by 'Lord Hermand, and as a Lord of Session by Archibald Campbell, -Esq. younger, of Succoth. We have not heard who is to replace Mr. Canipbell as one of the Commissaries of Edinburgh. . Tuesday the. Lord Mayor ordered the price of bread to to continued at 121 d. the quarters loaf of wheaten, and VW. household. Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Burned, who has the command of the expedition to Spain and Portugal, at his first entering the army in 1776, held a commission. in the. 60th, or Royal Americans; iu which regiment he served seven years: he was thence promoted to be Major in the 14th Foot. In these regiments he saw actual service in America and the West Indies. . In 1189 he exchanged into the First Regiment of Foot Guards, of which he is now the Lieutenant-Colonel, and served under the Duke of York. in Flanders; at Ostend (where he was taken prisoner) lie was the second in command under Major-General Coote. He had a brigade in Holland; and in the Expedition to Copenhagen, was appointed second in command to Lord Cathcart. Sir J. Piers who has been so long au exile from Ireland in consequence of the verdict against him for seducing lady Cloncurrv, has committed suicide in the Isle of Man, which has beeis some time the place of his retreat. The cause of this unfortunate man's catastrophe is of a most melancholy nature. lie had debauched the daughter of a re4pectable clergyman, who, on discovering his disgrace, instantly shot himself; and it was upon hearing of this that Sir J. put an end to his existence by shooting himself through the head. The unhappy female is in a state of distraction that threatens her life. ris=l2:a=
The National Register. — 1808-10-16 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—A beautiful young woman, who was recently the -adored of a tilt tin Maquis, and a ho has since been under the .the protection or a military officer, put a period to her existence at her apartments, a draper's, in Oxford-street, on Sunday night, by taking a considerable portion of laudanum. Her last protector had dined and spent the day with her on Sunday, and after his departure, at eleven o'clock at night, the Lady was found in tears, and much dejected. She was found dead is her bed at nine o'clock on Monday morning, and it was ascertained, that she had taken a tea-cup full of the poisonous liquid. Monday a boy died of the hydrophobia iu Little Windmillstreet, Hay-market. lie had been bitten by the dog which hit the person who died lately at the London Hospital ; a third person died in Westminster, also bitten by the same dog. Nine or ten other persons who were bitten, are under the greatest anxiety respecting their fate. Ft R E--Tuesday morning at two o'clock, a fire blazed forth in a private house in Bermondsey street, which illuminated the Thames and the neighbourhood ; but by the sudden arrival of the engines the tire was quenched where it began, with the destruz-* of the furniture.  Some bricklayers repairing a house in Titchborne-street. Piccadilly, through eareleeness, let fall a spade from the top, which unfortunately fell on the head of a poor boy who was pasat the time and fractured his scull. He was taken to St. Georges _Hospital, with little hopes of his recovery. lesterday, at the Public Office, Hatton Garden, a young man in easy circumstances was committed for re-examiaatiox, charged on suspicion of steal* two batik-notes, value 100/. with other notes, amounting altogether to 1201. fi his felkswlodger, in a lodging house in the City-road ;—he issimes diately went to the Bank, and got the larger ones reduced Vs smaller ones ; he besides took a silver watch, with gold chains and seals, which he wore as if he had been unconscious of the theft.--James Hancock, the Officer, stated, that when seat for to apprehend the prisoner, he was greatly agitated, and hoped that be would not hang him. Several clerks of the hank attended to prove the exchange of the notes which seemed to his correct, by enumerating their members and date.--lie stands fully committed, but subject to he brought up again on a future day. An Inquisition was taken on Wednes.lay at the George Tavern, Ihike-street, on the hotly of a y outh of the name of Yeovil, who met his death suddenly on Tuesday. It appeared in evidence that the deceased, who was the sow of a liquormerchant, had complained on Sunday night of a'siolent pain itt the chew, he having eaten immoderately of filberts whilst drinking wine. His case became dangerous on Monday, and on the following day he died suddenly. having apparently previously• recovered.—Died by the visitation 0- God.
The National Register. — 1819-03-14 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF J. PAUL, ESQ.  A Coroner's Inquest was he:d on Thursday after. noon, before Thomas Shelton, Esq. Coroner f..r London, at the Committee-room of St. Glare) Workhouse, on the body of John Paul, Esq. a incr. chant in the City, who put an end to his existco by drowning himself: The deceased was brother :) James Paul, Esq. (who fought a duel with Si: Francis Burdett) formerly a Candidate for Westminster, who, it will be recollected, shot lidos: i at his house in Charks-street, St. James's-sip:sr,. and also brother to T. Paul, Esq. a merchant, Lite of Birmingham. John Stevenson, mate of the Humility sloq, moored near Gun-shot Wharf, stated, that he saw the body of the deceased floating on Tuesday rimming last; he gut it out of the water, and it 1%,;, conveyed in a shell to the dead-house of S;:i.:t Olave's.  Isabella Brown stated, that she was housekeeper to the deceased, who had resided at No. 3, Circus, Minories. He had been absent five weeks last Tuesday, and for some days previously he was is such a state of mind, and so exceedingly distressed, .that she felt convinced he was not in his prop' faculties; she believed his affairs were embarrassed. For nights together he would leave his Led end walk about the room like a person distracted, and when she spoke to him he would burst into tears, strike his hand in great agitation against his fors. head, scream very loud, and appeared in great terror. She did not hear of the accessed until be was found drowned. Ile has left finir children, the youngest eighteen months old; his wife died twelve months ago. John Ratnsbottom, M. D. Old Jewry, stated, that he was called in by the deceased's surgeon to attend upon him, aid found him labouring under disorder, both mental and bodily; be talked of las disorder, but in such a manner as led him to suspect his mind was impaired; he prescribed for him, and called again on the Wednesday following, and was intinmed that the deceased bad left home (us above described) on the preceding evening. A letter, written by the deceased, was found upon the table, laddressed to his brother-in-law, Ur. Hpoewettsoa, ths
The National Register. — 1819-10-24 (London, England)

JOHN GEOIIGE L.I3IWI'ON. C. A. I.ailibert, E q.  The fiillowing is nn Extract of a letter front Mr. Robert Ilorsfall, who emigrated front NlunEhes. ter, about two years ago, taking with him property to a consitlcr.ible amount, with the intention of commencing busim:s in some pal of the Cuited Statcs:—  Phi/Lide/pisia, Srpl. Co. " ME DEAR Fit lEWID.--1 cannot express ..1 toil how happy I feel that you did tint horn to the flattering representations of this now wititelusi country. I should Meet' have ioegntn myself. if you. or any other blend. listening to the glowing avoili.n. that were sent you, shortly after my anival, hall been indesed to quit Eligland to settle here. Believe me. my dear friend. that hang. land, with its heavy load of debt and usxes, and toe misrule of its Government, is far, very far superior. tu tills wretched altilitry. Never was there in great a metamorphosis (from affliience to beggary) in the history of any country, as the last ten months have wrought in America, whose boast used to be—. Beggars se have none• and bankrupts very few !' Now, alas! trout one extremity of the Union to the other, the country swarms with each thaic.ipaosi. Aiming the former, I regret to ray, are many of my deltehil countrymen, who came out under brighter tiros. perm. As to myself, I have quite exhausted any finances, and shall embnice the first opportunity of returning to England, never more to quit it. :%1‘.....115. Cheethalli and luster also mean to accompany nue, as there is nothing but ruin staring us in the face in every direction. •• Many Englw:imen, who only a few months ago conceived themselves in tat high mad to fortune, unable to bear the cruel reverses they haye esistriencial„ have sunk under their load of suflltring. I only know the name of one of these unhappy inch. vi duals, and toast I shall omens!. in tenderness to his respectable, relatives at —. crime of suicide has increased to an alarming extent in this country. where it was formerly of ruse 110C1117t111CC ; and to sum up tile measure of misery expetienee.l an this once-depicted • land of milk and hones,' that worst of all seourges of the human race. the yeilow-over, has again beets committing its dreadful ravages. •• Many hundred (rattives of the United Kingdom). some by the aid of the British Consul, others by the humane traistance of the British merchants, anti a few by 111,11.1 v of Me small wreck of their property, have quitted this land of promise, and retorr..d to “rrat Britain—and I almost envy them fur basing got vie burn of isle. I am likewise grieved for the fate of the thousands or utiscrable creatures whom poverty lotto rivet to this cutu.uy. w here there are no charitable institutions for their relief. Ay.y permanent change for the better is Tithe u.ao, Iced for here. unless a war should break out in Europe, of which, 1 sonftose, there is no prospect ! H. 11.
The National Register. — 1819-10-25 (London, England)

LIJIBTON•  G. A. Lambert, Esq.  The following is as extract of a letter frog Mr. Robert Hors&11, who emigrated from Nlanches. ter, about two years ago, taking with him property to a considerable amount, with the intention of commencing busines in some part of the United States :- Philadelphia, Sepl..eo.  6. My Dc. an Fittewn.—l cannot expressto you how happy I feel that you did not listen to the flattering representations of . this now wretched country. I should never have turgiven myself. it' you, or any other friend. listening to the glowing accoonts that were sent ) ou. shortly after my Arrival, had be, n induced to quit England to settle here. Believe me, my dear friend, that Eng. land, with its heavy load of debt and tames, and the misrule of its Government, is far, very far superior, to this wretched country. Never was there so greet a metamorphosis (front affluence to beggary) in the history of any country. as the last ten months have wrought in America, whose boast used to be—. Beggars we have none, and bank: opts very few !' Now, alas! Irvin one extremity of the Union to the other. the country swarms with each description. Among the former. I regret to say. are many of my deluded countrymen. who came out under brighter prospeas. As to myself, I have quite exhausted my finances, and shall embrace the first opi ortuni yof returning to Old England. never more hermit it. Messrs. Clieethant and Foster also mean to 'company me. as there is nothing but ruin staring us in the face in every direction. 66 Many Engli.:ntien• who only a few months ago conceived themselves in the high road to fortune, unable to bear the cruel reverses they huye experienced, have sunk under their load of suffering. I only know the name of one of these unhappy individuals. and that I shall conceal, in tenderness to Iris respectable telmives at —. The crime of suicide ha. increased to ten alarming extent in this country, where it was formerly of rare occurrence; and to sum up thee measure of misery experienced in this once-depicted • land of milk and honey,' that worst of all seinesrges of the huntau race, the yellow-fever, has again been committing its dreadful ravages. •6 Many hundred (natives of the l'nited Kingdom), some by the aid of the British Consu l. others by tke humane assistance of the British merchants. and a few by means of the small wreck of their property, have quitted this Lind of promise, and-returned to Great Britain—and I almost envy Omit for having got the start of me. I am likewise grieved for the fate of the thousands of miserable creatures shoot poverty must rivet to this country, where there are no charitable institutions for their relief. Any permanent change for the better is quite ualooked fur here, unless a war should break out in Europe, of which, I suppose, there is no ',myna ! 11. 11.
The National Register. — 1819-03-15 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF J. PAUL, ESQ.  .A Coroner's Inquest was held on Thursday after. noon, before Thomas Shelton, Esq. Coroner lin. London, at the Committee. room of St. Olave's Workhouse, on the body of John Paul, Esq. a incr. chant in the City, who put an end to his existm c by drowning himself. The deceased was brother to James Paul, Esq. (who fought a duel with Sir Francis Burdett) finmerly a Candidate tbr WeAminster, who, it will be recollected, shot himself at his house in Charles-street, St. James's-square, and also brother to T. Paul, Esq. a merchant, late of Birmingham. John Stevenson, mate of the Humility sloop, moored near Gan-shot Wharf, stated, that he saw the body of the deceased floating on Tuesday morn. lug last; he got it out of the water, and it es is wnveyed in a shell to the dead-house of Saint °lave's. Isabella-Brown stated, that she was housekeeper to the deceased, who had resided at No. 3, Circus, Jklinories. He had been absent five weeks last Tuesday, and for some days previously he was in such a state of mind, and so exceedingly distressed, that she felt convinced he was not in his proper faculties ; she believed his affairs were embarrassed. For nights together he would leave his bed anil walk about the room like a person distracted, and when she spoke to him he would burst into tears, strike his hand in great agitation against his timty head, scream very loud, and appeared in great ter. ror. She did not hear ef the deceased until he was found drowned. He has left tour children, the youngest eighteen months old ; his wife died twelve months ago. John Ramsbottom, M. D. Old Jewry, stated, that he was called in by the deceased's surgeuti to attend upon him, and found hint labouring antics disorder, both mental and bodily ; he talked ot ' lilt disorder, but in such a manner us led him to suspect his mind was impaired ; he prescribed fin• him, and called again on the Wednesday following, and was informed that the deceased had left home (as .1 to described) on the preceding evenit4,-. letto, written by the deceased, was linind upon the titbit', addressed to his brother-in-law, Mr. I lewettson, the
The National Register. — 1819-09-05 (London, England)

SUICIDE. A gn IiTTIPIPT TO ris6takit.—oli TtlCSday. an IoiIIUiODUU wpm takes, behave Thomas Steilow, Loa. t;orioner, at Vie Carpenter's Arun, Berry-street, Si. James's, Iles kenwell, on the body of Mrs. Jane', h mites, near 6ry year of nee, who, a ficr rutting the threat of her WIN a child het wren eight and Moe yearsi4d, with intent to Lill him, cat her own t•. rant, of which wound she died. The.ste‘eased st a, the widow of Mr. Henry Vtiseattes, a 'evert:side upholsterer had housekeeper, who cesieleidat s1•o. listor'r-st.ect: r. yaws, her SOls.is-I.ll4..tiliii, an being tailed Alp in cionequeuce of an alarm given, he funnel herher,w,ta, her throat lyls. on 11w 11T41. She was then ails e. She as at sober Isubits,but taw spirited ist antes. Too other w itnesses were esilk.eloihu describeit.the state is which sir .•a,f.a,rnt, and the child, whine throat svis tat ahe, and i. in a very dangerous slate. The last nilorsii described the drceased as Iseing inenh'•rent at thins, :apt ,iaer mind d:yt•tthrd. The Coroner here summed up the reidenre, and slat• d to the Jury, that Cie pr&eut was a mint aggravated ca-e, that of attempting to kill an :mineral child and then commit suicide, from the dryad ot not livinx i, cuadat t4hie a:. she •a. WIIPI to dia. Prensi the ev ideuce. he saw 04 part.”ul ir proof of insan:ty, but it rested w Ith the Jury G.. say. Ss b, thee she alas beau he hot The Jars, consi4tred, raid behar of a contrary opinion to the Cmoner. iChgrAletla verdict, •• Tae deceased died from elation her throat, latiug gke time is. a state of Ipenlal dFniagement."  A Dr. Garlick rf Derb;, has had a verdict of (NW awarded against him, for writing with cbalk . .111% !Ina 1,-vn, to the (lett imcnt of Acme  a..
The National Register. — 1809-01-01 (London, England)

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.  ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.  Monday whilst a young man of the name of Stevens, Servant to Mr. Tibbalt, of' Charlotte-street, Portland place, was sliding on a pond at Paddington, with a youth eight years old, his master's vephew, the ice broke. and the former fell in and was drowned. The youth was with difficulty saved. A ouiig man of the name of Younger was also drowned un Sunday.. in the Park ; and two boys met the same fate in the Hampstead road on Saturday-. On Tuesday last, a person belonging to Drury-lane Theatre/ who had mounted by a ladder to the top of that building, mmith intention to sweep off the snow, fell, and ex traordittary as it may appear. pitched on a great quantity of snow in the waste ground near Brydges-street, without sustaining any serious injury. Suict D E.—On Wednesday night a Lady and Gentleman got into a hackney-coach at the stand in Oxford-street, opposite Rat hbone-place, and the Lady was set down in Warren-street, Fitzroy-square. The Gentleman ordered the coachman to drive him to a public-house at Brompton, but, on his arrival there, he was found lifeless, having cut his throat in a shockinP. manner with a pen-knife. The deceased was a Lieutenant of Marines, • and is supposed to have committed suicide in-cobsequence of some losses at play. • Friday a great crowd of people gathered round the house of a Mr. Hunt, a tinman, in Chandos-street, eovent-garden, pa the supposition that a girl, who had been his servant, had last her life through beating and starvation, as was very universally circulated through the crowd. in the evening, the popular indignation rose to such a height, that several panes of glass were broken in the house by the mob. Police Officers tvere called in, and the crowd was dispersed. Au inquest. was then held at the Crown and Thistle, in the same street, before Anthony Gel,. Esq. Coroner for Westmieiter. The substance of the evidence was, that Ann Fane, the dreeased, was a girl about 15 years of age, and had been a pauper in the Workhouse at Lynn, in Norfolk, in consequence of her having been the orphan chilli uf poor parents. She wa.; taken a short time hack inli) this srv.ets. of Mr. H. as an apprentice. She was thought b' her 111.4 res.. to be an untoward girl, and at different times reerived (.111 ter Lion. From what cause it did not appear, but she fetl into a dangerous state of ill-health. Dr. Merriman, of the Western dispensary, prescribed for her at different times, but she always in the company of Mrs. H. A relation frequently visited her, but always in the presence of Mrs. H. but nothing particular came out. A neighbour had frequently heard the girl cry out, and there were the marks of blows upon different parts of her person. But Dr. Merriman was of opinion that there was not any appearaace whatever of injury, such as was sufficient to have occasioned the death of the patient, either internally or externally ; and this deceased having been for some time ill, the verdict was-Died -a Natural Death.
The Press. — 1853-10-29 (London, England)

THE PRESS.  HIGH PRICES. TO THE EDITOR Or "nit; ritEss."  Dear Sir,—The United States Treasury is reported to be in a very dangerously-plethoric condition. 11,11(NX101. more than they know what to do with weighs down the spirits of their public men 1 have read somewhere that a free-trade tariff is recommended to that enlightened tuition as the most likely plan for emptying their exchequer, and relieving them of that uncomfortable surplus which protective duties have burdened them with. is this advice given sincerely, or is it the voice of au enemy urging our simple cousins to a suicidal course ? In %itium ducit culpa• toga si caret arte. There has just been published an authentic account of the trade of France, showing a general increase for the year ending :tuth June, 10543, as compared with the year ending :10th June, 1552, of about 12 per cent. Iler t ludic with the highly-protected Mates of North America has increased by 3,540,000/.; whilst with free Britain the advance has only been 2,7200100/.! In the Times the other day a gentleman was stated to have expresked some satisfaction with the present high price of corn, and he was fiercely found fault with. In the same paper a report was given of the great satisfaction which sonic Free-traders in Devonshire had expressed with the present high prices, which they seemed to attribute to the new system. Were these last correct in their opinions and amiable in their sentiments, or were both wrong in supposing that free trade has led to very free consumption of stocks, resulting in alarm at the prospects of any stoppage in the supplies from Russia and the Principalities, which last year sent us 2,015,000 quarters of grain ; or are they all equally philanthropic in their rejoicings, now that the wolf has come ?  I sin, dear sir, A