ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



[Jan. 



the murderer during the night, 

 but unfortunately did not come up 

 with him. Friday an infjuest was 

 heUl by Dr. Blackwell, one of tlie 

 coroners of the ctmnty, and a ver- 

 dict of wilful murder found against 

 persons unknown. 



15. Coroner's Inquest on the late 

 John Harriott, Esq. of the Thames 

 PoUce Office. — An inquest was held 

 before J. W. Unwin, Esq. one of 

 the coroners for Middlesex, on 

 the body of this lamented and re- 

 spected magistrate, of which the 

 following are the leading facts and 

 circumstances : — 



Mr. Harriot for nine months 

 past had been afflicted with a dis- 

 ease in the bladder, which sub- 

 jected him to continual paroxysms 

 of excruciating pain, often attend- 

 ed with jn'ofuse hemorrhage. On 

 Friday morning last, about four 

 o'clock, his medical attendant (Mr. 

 IloUoway) was sent for, who 

 found him in such exquisite pain, 

 that the deceased requested this 

 gentleman to relieve him at all 

 events, even if the means should 

 terminate in death. Mr. Harriott 

 was then placed in a warm bath. 

 At eight o'clock the same morning 

 tins gentleman was again sent 

 for ; he found Mr. Harriott bleed- 

 ing from several self-inHictcd 

 wounds in different parts of his 

 body. On the left temple was a 

 slight W(.und, which had divided 

 a branch of the temporal artery. 

 In the left arm, below tlie elbow, 

 was another wound, about two 

 inches long, and about the fourth 

 of an inch deep. The veins only 

 of the arm were injured, and the 

 artery imtouched. The last, and 

 most serious wound, was in 

 the abdomen, over the stomach, 

 through which a portion of the 



intestines had protruded. This 

 wound would have been mortal in 

 most cases, from the subsequent 

 inflammation, but was not consi- 

 dered so in the present instance, 

 owing to the profuse discharge of 

 blood. On dissection after death, 

 by order of the coroner, the blad- 

 der was found highly ulcerated, 

 and filled with coagulated blood, 

 which, l)y the able practitioners 

 who attended, was considered as 

 the immediate cause of death. 



It was proved, that during the 

 last fortnight, the faculties of the 

 deceased were greatly impaiied, 

 and his mind overcome by dejec- 

 ticm, from a continued seiies of 

 pain and suffering. 



The coroner called the attention 

 of the jury, in the first place, to 

 the statement which had been 

 given as to the situation of the de- 

 ceased's mind and understanding, 

 and left it to them to decide, whe- 

 ther he had contributed to his 

 own death, or had come to his 

 end by natural means from the 

 effect of his complaint. — Verdict, 

 Natural Death. 



•20. The number of vessels 

 which entered the port of Ham- 

 burgh in tiie course of last year 

 amounted to 1,615; of these 702 

 were from England, 84 from 

 France, 3 from the East Indies, 

 37 fiom the West Indies, 40 from 

 North America, 9 from South 

 America, &.c. The. number of 

 s\\\\)s which passed the Sound 

 during the same period was S,S71 ; 

 of these 1 ,848 were British : tlie 

 Swedish were next in point of 

 numbers, the French only IG, the 

 Americans 1G8. 



'21. The elder Watson was put 

 upon his tiial at the Old Bailey, 

 upon the charge of lia\ ing stabbetl 



Joseph 



