404 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



riod of redemption had arrived, it 

 was to have been paid otton Friday 

 and Mr. Goldsmid, it is reported, 

 felt considerable difficulty in rais- 

 ing the money. However, it is 

 said there will be amply sufficient, 

 when his affairs are arranged, to 

 pay all debts, and leave a large 

 surplus. His account with go- 

 vernment is perfectly clear, and 

 the only loss he appears to have 

 sustained is by the fall of omnium. 

 It is rumoured that Mr, Goldsmid 

 had at one time determined, if 

 possible, to put an end to all his 

 dealings in the Stock-exchange, 

 and to retire to private life. But 

 this determination could not be 

 executed immediately, and, in 

 the mean time, heavy demands 

 would come against him. H's 

 temper, hitherto so equal, became 

 in consequence irritable. He 

 lost all his fortitude. Despond- 

 ency took possession of him, and 

 drove him to the commission of 

 that fatal act which terminated 

 his life. Yet he so far mastered 

 liis feelings in companj', that his 

 friends and family had not the 

 least apprehension of Iiis commit- 

 ting suicide. He came to town 

 on Thursday, September 27, in 

 his carriage, from Morden, ac- 

 companied by his brothers, Ed- 

 ward &nd I^aac, and his son 

 Moses ; and several friends who 

 met him did not observe any 

 thing particular in his manner or 

 appearance. He returned to 

 Morden to dinner, and had com- 

 pany. In the evening he joined 

 in a parly at cards, after walking 

 a good deal in his grounds, and 

 giving notice to several of the 

 workmen employed in his large 

 premises that he should soon dis- 

 charge them. On Friday morn- 

 ing he rose at his usual earlv 



hour, and, about half-past seven 

 o'clock, was observed to pass 

 over the bridge to the wilderness 

 or rookery, in his grounds ; and 

 there he perpetrated the fatal deed. 

 Hisconchmanhaving, as was usual, 

 inquired what horses were to go to 

 town, he was referred to Mr. G., 

 being told at the time which way 

 his master had walked. The 

 coachman went in search of him, 

 and was the first that found him, 

 weltering in his blood, with the 

 pistol grasped in his right hand. 

 Life was not quite extinct, but be- 

 fore the medical assistance which 

 was sent for arrived, he had ex- 

 pired in the arms of his afflicted 

 family, but wholly unconscious of 

 being with them. He has left a 

 widow and several children. He 

 was in his fifty-third year. An in- 

 quisition was held on Saturday on 

 the body, at his house at Morden. 

 Among the jury were some of the 

 most respectable and intelligent 

 persons in the vicinage. The pro- 

 ceedings lasted but a few minutes, 

 when the following verdict was 

 returned : — " Died by his own 

 hand, but not in his senses at the 

 time," His remains were inter- 

 red in the Jews' burial-ground at 

 Mile End, The heaise which 

 conveyed the body, passed over 

 London Bridge, followed by the 

 carriage of the deceased, and 

 thirteen mourning coaches, in 

 which were the high priest, the 

 elders of the synagogue, and a 

 great part of thefamily, excepthis 

 brotheri:, who were too much af- 

 fected to attend. On their arrival 

 at the ground, a number of poor 

 persons had collected to witness the 

 interment of a man, who had prov- 

 ed not only their particular bene- 

 factor, but had studied to render 

 himself useful through life to all 



