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With emotions that we have not a hand to inscribe, have we to announce the death of.

He was suddenly cut off in the forty-eighth year of his age, in the full vigor of his faculties and in the midst of all his usefulness.

The Coronor's Inquest, after a very patient and laborious examination of the facts and circumstances relating to the late afflicting event, have pronounced upon their oaths that ", Vice-President of the United States, was guilty of the of : and that William P. Van Ness, Esq., Attorney-at-Law, and Nathaniel Pendleton, Esq., Counsellor-at-Law, were accessories."