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CORONER’s INQUEST.
Yesterday morning, at eleven o’clock, an Inquest was held before Mr. JEMMETT, Coroner for Surrey, on the body of Thomas Montolieu, Esq. deceased. The first witness examined was Robert Burnside, of the Box-Office, at Astley’s Theatre, who deposed, that the deceased and another person came to the Theatre about a quarter past six o’clock on Tuesday evening; the deceased gave the witness half a guinea to pay for their joint admission, when, as he was giving him the change, he perceived the deceased put his hand across his eyes, as if seized with a giddiness, and almost instantly fell against the door, and from thence on the ground; the witness immediately ran to assist in raising him from the ground, and he appeared to recover a little, but relapsed into several fainting fits while seated on a chair. Medical assistance was called in, but in the course of ten minutes he expired. He was then conveyed to the New-Inn Coffee-house, opposite the Theatre.—Mr. Pentington, the Apothecary’s assistant, who lives near the spot, deposed, that on being sent for, he found Mr. Montolieu seated in a chair at the Theatre, insensible and inwardly convulsed; he administered some medicine, but without effect, and in about ten minutes he expired. He had no hesitation in declaring, that the deceased met with his death from an attack of gout in his stomach. He had understood that the unfortunate Gentleman was much afflicted with it for some time previous to his death.—A relation of the deceased attended, and stated, that the family were satisfied that his death was in consequence of the gout, for which malady his physician had recommended the Bath waters as a remedy. The Jury, under the direction of the Coroner, gave in their verdict—Died by the visitation of God.
