THE discovery of Murther is that general Providence , that the Grave cannot hide , nor the Deep it self conceal it ; some attending Vengeance still haunts the Bloody Hand , and so traces the steps of the Murtherer , that sooner or later , the Guilt is detected , the Criminal taken in the Snare , and Justice and Judgment both glorified in the due and just Reward of so crying an Impiety . A more Barbarous Instance of this kind has not been known then in the Butchery of a poor Gentleman found last Thursday in the Thames , near Black-Fryars-Stairs . The manner and circumstance whereof , are as follows . He was discovered lying Dead under a Timber-Wharfe near Black-Fryars-Stairs in his Canonical Habit. After which , he was taken up and laid in the Timber-Yard , exposed to the View of all Persons desirous of seeing so miserable a Spectacle . Being visited by several of his own Profession , his Person was soon discovered to be one Mr. Wright , an Usher to a School at Camberwell , at present out of Benefice , about 40 Years of Age , a Lusty Fresh-Coloured Man . The Water had no partin his Death , for he was no ways swell'd , which was a plain Indication that he received his Death from some other violent Cause , which was too plainly evident by his Skull being crack'd , his Breast Infinitely bruised , and his Left Arm very much swell'd by a Blow , which may naturally be supposed to have been received in warding and defending of his Head from the Assault of his Murtherer . His Neck was likewise broke , as is imagined for his last and free Dispatch . In his Pocket was found only one half-penny in Money , with a Table Book , and a Letter concerning some Church Preferment that he was speedily like to obtain , in all which , his Person and Name were more fully discovered . The Coroners inquest thereon has been very Diligent and Industrious in a due Examination of the Cause of his Death , for which reason his Body has been kept three days unburied , as having not yet fully insisted into the matter , however , they have already so far traced the Inquiry , that they have disocovered where , and in what Company he dined that Thursday he was first found , and that he was then seen to have five Shilling in his Pocket . He was a Person of a very honest and civil Deportment and Conversation , which makes his death so much the more the Subject of common Wonder . The small matter of Money about him being thought too poor a Provocation for so horrid a Murther . But as the Murtherers are not yet detected , though the Jury have too plain demonstrations of Murther , and have given their Verdict accordingly ; yet some shew'd Suspitions begin to appear , and God of his Justice , we hope , will soon more perfectly bring Truth to Light , and Guilt to its due Punishment .