The Sun. — 1822-10-23 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.  LAMENTABLE• SUICIDE.  Yesterday an Inquisition was held at the Queen's Arms Tavern, Upper Kennington-lane, upon the body of Henry Philip Savage, Esq., before CHARLES J3IMETT, Esq., Coroner tor Surrey. Abraham Coward, Esq., brother-in-law to the deceased, sworn-1 resided in the same house with him for some time past. He has been indisposed about fourmonths, but has been only one month confined to his bed. About 11 o'clock on last Sunday morning I heard the nurse who attended him screaming violently in his chamber. I went to her assistance, and when I entered his apartment, I saw him in bed, his head reclining a little to the left, the sheets and blankets were bloody, and a bloody razor was lying outside the bed-clothes. I was very much agitated, but collected myself, and perceived a wound in his throat. I believed him dead, but thought proper to send for Mr. Drysdale, his surgeon : that Gentleman was not then at home, but he arrived shortly afterwards, when he pronounced the deceased dead. The deceased had been very low spirited since his indisposition, supposed to have been occasioned by a negotiation going on between him and his father, with whom he had been at variance ; he was evidently affected by it. I conversed with him on Friday night upon the subject, and inquired if there were any means of accelerating a reconciliation, but lie seemed rather to decline it. I saw him again on Saturday night, but was rather delicate in touching upon the subject. Mr. George Drysdale, surgeon, deposed—l have attended the deceased for some months past; he laboured under a consumptive disease ; I saw him on Saturday ; he was then evidently deranged in his intellect, and 1 thought he could not survive 24 hours. He had been very much depressed in spirits since his illness, in consequence of some disappointment in adjusting a difference between him and his father, who ranks high in the naval service. On Sunday morning 1 called at his house ; Mrs. Stone opened the gate, and showed me into his apartment. I found him with a deep incision in the throat, and much blood about him lying in bed. A razor, with which he committed the act, lay by his side. The jugular vein was divided, and he was quite dead. The wound and loss of blood no doubt were the cause of his death. The unfortunate catastrophe may be attributed to the neglect of his father : he wished to see him before his death, but he declined an interview with any. of those friends who wished to bring about a reconciliation. I interceded myself, but to no purpose. Mr. Coward here pulled out a letter, which he said was an answer to a letter written to the deceased's fatlrer respecting the funeral expences of the deceased, and he proposed reading it to the Jury ; when the Coroner observed, that family affairs had nothing to do with this investigation; the chief object was to ascertain the state of mind of the deceased when he committed the deed. Mr. Coward, however, read the letter ; it was to the following purport :7 " Sin—l beg leave to inform you, that I made your commu' nication known to Miss Crump in the evening I received your letter ; and in my hearing she informed the Admiral of the same, and also asked him leave to send for his upholsterer concerning the funeral; when the Admiral flew into a most violent passion, and protested that nothing of the kind should be done. I then interfered with a hope of prevailing upon him, but he would not hear what I had to say, but immediately went up stairs to his bed-room, and there the matter rested.  " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "