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with him under two other admirals , who were wounded in engagements while he was on board their ships . We doubt not his widow and orphans will receive that recompence from a grateful nation to which their father's merits so justly entitle them . In Newgate , Dublin , where he was
confined for high treason , Oliver Bond , Esq . whose sudden death having excited public attention , we give the particulars of what appeared to the jury who held "the inquest upon the body . The -surgeon-general , Mr . Stewart , surgeon Lake , snrgeon Geoghcgan , and doctor Drennanwere present . The coroner
, , Mr . Alderman Thorpe , having sworn the jury , Catharine Poynton , a prisoner , who first saw ISond dead , deposed , that between five and six o'clock on . Thursda * y morning , September 6 th , she saw him come out of his apartment , which opens into the courtryard , and from which there is a descent of two stepsand
, coming down one , he apparently slipped at one side into a corner , fell on his back , and not seeming afterwards to stir , she alarmed the gaol . Samuel Neilson was next sworn , who was bedfellow with Bond for some time . He
deposed , that the deceased and he dined together the preceding day upon a sheep ' s heart and other food , and afterwards drank , with two other persons , one bottle of wine and no more ; that they afterwardb played several matches of ball in the court-yard , till dusk , and then sat down , with two others , to
drink three half pints of spirits made into punch , which had been lost in the matches ; that Bond , growing hungry , had a siieep ' s heart dressed for his supper , and , not being satisfied with that , ate afterwards of cold mutton ; and that some persons coming into his apartmenthe drank more with them .
, Noilson went to bed about eleven o ' clock , leaving the deceased sitting up ; and , going to sleep , did not see Bond again until between five and six o ' clock in the morning , when he found him lifeless in the place beforermentioned , immediately after he had been by Catharine jpoynton ; butNeilson
peen did not know whether the deceased had or had not been in the bed with him at night ; a vein was breathed in his arm as soon as he was found , by a man named Houndon , in the prison . The surgeons minutely examined the body ,
which was free of marks of injury of any kind ; a cut appearing in the back of the head at the left side ( which it is supposed he got on falling in the yard ) they took the flesh off the part to examine the skull , to see if there were any fracture , and none whatever appeared . Mr . Crawford , an attorney ,
intimated to the coroner that it was the wish of Mrs . Bond that the body should not be opened until next " day : and , other persons applying from her lo the same effect , the surgeons complied , finding there was no necessity fordoing so . In the apartment was a copper teakettle , the handle of which had been
much bent on one side in the night , upon which it was supposed the deceased had fallen , but it left ' no mark whatever upon any part of him . From this it is conjectured , that Bond did not go to bed that night , but sat up sleeping in his cloaths . The report of the surgeons was as
follows;' ' New Prison , Sept . 6 , 179 ? . * On examining the body of Oliver Bond , who died this morning , between five and six o ' clock , we certify that no circumstance appears , which would lead us to believe that his death was
not a natural one . G . Stewart , W . Lake , B . Geoghcgan . " This certificate was also signed by W . Drennan , as physician to Bond . The verdict of the coroner ' s inquest was , * that they believed the deceased had died of an appoplectic fit . ' At St . Alban ' s , aged 8 o , John Kent ,
plumber and glazier , but better known to the lovers of antiquity as the vener rable and intelligent clerk of the abbey , which place he filled near fifty-livq years , being appointed October 26 , 1746 , by the Rev . Jphn Cole , arch ? deacon and rector of St . Alban's , wltp died Sept . 1 , 1754 . ' Tllat m , | y P ious should
divine , that this favourite of his not be displaced by his successors , procured him , in' July , 1754 , a licence under the episcopal seal of Dr . Sherlock , then bishpp of London , through which he maintained his plape in the church . This year his father died . In July 1767 his wife diedaged 45 and
, , , ; his mother , aged 84 . The latter end pf this year , he hecame , and continued , a very active meniberofan independent party , termed Blue ; and , from his sp iff and fortitude during the contest , was called honest John . ' This charaater he
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with him under two other admirals , who were wounded in engagements while he was on board their ships . We doubt not his widow and orphans will receive that recompence from a grateful nation to which their father's merits so justly entitle them . In Newgate , Dublin , where he was
confined for high treason , Oliver Bond , Esq . whose sudden death having excited public attention , we give the particulars of what appeared to the jury who held "the inquest upon the body . The -surgeon-general , Mr . Stewart , surgeon Lake , snrgeon Geoghcgan , and doctor Drennanwere present . The coroner
, , Mr . Alderman Thorpe , having sworn the jury , Catharine Poynton , a prisoner , who first saw ISond dead , deposed , that between five and six o'clock on . Thursda * y morning , September 6 th , she saw him come out of his apartment , which opens into the courtryard , and from which there is a descent of two stepsand
, coming down one , he apparently slipped at one side into a corner , fell on his back , and not seeming afterwards to stir , she alarmed the gaol . Samuel Neilson was next sworn , who was bedfellow with Bond for some time . He
deposed , that the deceased and he dined together the preceding day upon a sheep ' s heart and other food , and afterwards drank , with two other persons , one bottle of wine and no more ; that they afterwardb played several matches of ball in the court-yard , till dusk , and then sat down , with two others , to
drink three half pints of spirits made into punch , which had been lost in the matches ; that Bond , growing hungry , had a siieep ' s heart dressed for his supper , and , not being satisfied with that , ate afterwards of cold mutton ; and that some persons coming into his apartmenthe drank more with them .
, Noilson went to bed about eleven o ' clock , leaving the deceased sitting up ; and , going to sleep , did not see Bond again until between five and six o ' clock in the morning , when he found him lifeless in the place beforermentioned , immediately after he had been by Catharine jpoynton ; butNeilson
peen did not know whether the deceased had or had not been in the bed with him at night ; a vein was breathed in his arm as soon as he was found , by a man named Houndon , in the prison . The surgeons minutely examined the body ,
which was free of marks of injury of any kind ; a cut appearing in the back of the head at the left side ( which it is supposed he got on falling in the yard ) they took the flesh off the part to examine the skull , to see if there were any fracture , and none whatever appeared . Mr . Crawford , an attorney ,
intimated to the coroner that it was the wish of Mrs . Bond that the body should not be opened until next " day : and , other persons applying from her lo the same effect , the surgeons complied , finding there was no necessity fordoing so . In the apartment was a copper teakettle , the handle of which had been
much bent on one side in the night , upon which it was supposed the deceased had fallen , but it left ' no mark whatever upon any part of him . From this it is conjectured , that Bond did not go to bed that night , but sat up sleeping in his cloaths . The report of the surgeons was as
follows;' ' New Prison , Sept . 6 , 179 ? . * On examining the body of Oliver Bond , who died this morning , between five and six o ' clock , we certify that no circumstance appears , which would lead us to believe that his death was
not a natural one . G . Stewart , W . Lake , B . Geoghcgan . " This certificate was also signed by W . Drennan , as physician to Bond . The verdict of the coroner ' s inquest was , * that they believed the deceased had died of an appoplectic fit . ' At St . Alban ' s , aged 8 o , John Kent ,
plumber and glazier , but better known to the lovers of antiquity as the vener rable and intelligent clerk of the abbey , which place he filled near fifty-livq years , being appointed October 26 , 1746 , by the Rev . Jphn Cole , arch ? deacon and rector of St . Alban's , wltp died Sept . 1 , 1754 . ' Tllat m , | y P ious should
divine , that this favourite of his not be displaced by his successors , procured him , in' July , 1754 , a licence under the episcopal seal of Dr . Sherlock , then bishpp of London , through which he maintained his plape in the church . This year his father died . In July 1767 his wife diedaged 45 and
, , , ; his mother , aged 84 . The latter end pf this year , he hecame , and continued , a very active meniberofan independent party , termed Blue ; and , from his sp iff and fortitude during the contest , was called honest John . ' This charaater he