From The Morning Post (London, England ), Monday, October 07, 1822.

On Thursday week William Jones, a private in the 1st Royal Dragoons, quartered at the "Eight Bells" public-house, in DOVER, shot himself whilst in bed, with a horse pistol charged with two bullets, which entered his body, passed through his lungs out of the other side, and lodged in the wall of the room. He lingered until Sunday evening in great agony, when death put an end to his sufferings. On Tuesday an inquest was held before J. Jekin, Esq., Mayor and Coroner, when it came out in evidence that the deceased had behaved very strangely lately, and having been drinking much the two preceding days, he was in a temporary fit of derangement.

Verdict - "Lunacy."

(I am assuming this is the pub in Townwall Street, and not the one in New Street.)