The National Register. — London, England, 1815-05-07 00:00:00

rt:~~~ eats • to atop the horses,sthe wheel went ever her head. Nothing is - e sa wn soneereing het, except that she wao going to Lowestoft. Oat two o'clock puSaturdaTittorning a file broke out among some •lionaes situated between St. Jamet's-street, Pertsea, and Mill- Than,iehich raged with considerable fury, and deetroyed eighteetie meats. An immense pile of amber contiguette, belonging to Messrs. Illottley and Ellie, euught fire in three places, but by great exertions as s prevented -spreading, atherwiee a greet part of Pottle:. would aa. been endangered. As the ire was fi rst discovered in an !min labited tenement, there are serene reireene to believe it has been wile e,ee done, in order liedeetroy an engine house latelyereeted for the pote of faeiliratirie the sawing of timber. No lives were lost.— eh e Gasette of Saturday night colitaiea a proper.. of pardon to any b at uk principal, who shall discover the persons who set fire to the remises. A iewerd of 3001. is also offered (exeeset as before ex cepted), on the apprehension and conviction of the offenders, or any of them. DREADFUL STORM.—One of the nhset alarming storms that ever visited this countfy took place on Tuesday last at Addington, near Croydon. About four u clock a threatening cloud appeared over tee place, and soon descended in a water-spout, allich of erwhelined , a house and barn, tore away the garden wall of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who resiJes on the spot, carried away several cows and rigs, some of which were drowned, removed tin tomb-stones front the ( .111111.10 . 1nd, and threatened the lives of several 'seism's. This ,kloge, act empanied by alinteler and lightning, continued for np uaids of two hours, and then _happily subsithd, but has left a la 'rentable swamp in the neighbourhood. A woman, who had chine wit:i a t Itild to the top of a Hooting waggon, was nearly drowned at the moment when the waters been to subside. Thirteen horses in a stable, which were immersed to their heads, were e..ved at the same moment. Uu ..:aturvlay sennight, as some workmen were pulling down a house in Levier Broarestreet, Plymouth, •sliev discovered the re mains of the corpse of an infant, in a completely decayed state, te ereted between the tlaor and ceiling of the first and secomiStories. Them is every reason to suppose that it must have been destroyed by its inhuman paten!, and placed in this situation for .the purpose of eonee,lintait. It must have been deposited a considerable time since, as all•that remained tit it were the Anil and-principal hones; but flom the size of thrse, and from the circnmitance of its having had a shirt on, it is believed to have been a living birth. A woman who iodged hi the apartment about four years and a half since is suspected; she underwent an examination before Mr. Justice Wool combe; when strong circumstantial "evidence was adduced to impli cate her, and she wasvonimitted for re.examiesation. The number of lives lost by the recent calamity at the Royal Ex change, upon occasion of the whipping of the brutal master sweep. in Dublin, teas ten ; the number already re certained to be disabled . ' iefourteen; and their wi v es and children, to the number of 69, are thus deprived of their usual support. Oh Wednesday night John Evans, a sailor, attempted in Cannon's narsiffield, Itrisiol, to inerder - woman, to whom lie bad paid his addresses; bat her cries planned the watchman before the villain could , perpetrate his pupa*. Ile unfortunately made his escape, and she Ism taken• . to tile infirmary, haying received some severe cuts it. !tor haeds . arid throat, but is 1 ...k,e1y to recoveg.—(Bath He rald, .!;(ty 5. ) Theie have been some alarming attempts at riot at Glasgow. On Wetnesday last, after the rising of the Circuit Court, as the procession passed Bridgegate, a cry of'' No Corn Rill," was raised mot), arid stone stones were thrown, one of whieli strut k Lord 4. Same of the ringleaders have siace been taken into natalv, Oa Monday se'night, in the evening, a %hocking murder wan corn toiled en the body of Mrs. Hampsoe, in the absence of her Iree 1 ) 4101 , keeper of Saiterbruok toll bar, about V 5 miles bout Suteiheid, On the Amehester-roadae-The bode was discovered by a gentlemau luliviee at the bar, Who immediately rode off to give Vie alarm Tile wirier, it appears, had been perpetrated with a tuck Ebert. and the poop woman, ne doubt, had made great resistance, as the walls, as (backit parts of the house were coloured with blood. The house v''•" Plundered. wed n man has been apprehended on suspicion, but eotlengaproved egeinst him. „OH Thursday evenine, about nine &lock , a woman, named kl."'eleeite to no artillery driver, whilst in the act of dipping a pail el water from the Cabal, near the island, in Exeter, fell in and was dr ""ed ; the (duly was nut ho o d moil 12, by which time it haul floated to Criekleilt mills, a distance of a qua' ter of a mite, where it was stopped by the tenders, t A melancholy accident lately happened at Bens lime*orka, in tae ueighbourbood of Clantruck. When the Men had commenced ,geir hibmirin the monolog, a limp of earth tell, which killed one *tan on tfe spot, broke both the legs of another, and slightly hurt a third. What is remaikable in this ease is, that one of them is brother to the man who was oolortnnately killed at the same work, about ten weeksTefore, by an accident of the same kind. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.— On Monday , shout three o'clock, 11 matt sf the name of Freemen, carter to - Mr. blanihall, of Bromley. im Kent, met with almost instantaneous death in the following nuns. Der:—He was driving tour horses in a wAggon heavily laden, and seeing something in the load misplaced, lie made an attempt,Jo clime up tho corner of the waggon to adjust it. The attempt, however, was unfortnnatury attended with bath! circumstances, tot the second step he made his foot slipt, and he fell wider t h e legs of the hinder bor-e, the fore wheel %relit ober his head, nod the hinder one over his body. •He was taken alt And put into a cart, but every symptom of life had escaped. A coroner's jury ant on the body ois ! I Tuesday, and brought in a verdict 'of Ace/dralal DNA The Poor man bits left a wife and Inge family to lament his entituel) eta. 1 ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. An inquest was held at Newington yesterday on the body of Thomas Hamner, a boy about 14 years of age, who received a blow which caused his death in a fight with Charles Webb, another boy, against whom the Jury returned a verdict of feloniously killing sad slaving. A re-peetaMe young man, from Manchester, who had for several days exhibited symptoms of • derangement at the Castle and Falcon, Ablersgate-street, and threatene).l to blow out the brains of soave of the Ministers, was brought bet Ore the Sitting Magistrate, at Guilds hail, Saturday ; he related a long history, how he had ditteavered Mars self to he the son of the Prince Regent and heir to the throne--.that he was the Priner of Scotland, Mite of the South, Marquis of the East, and Earl of the West, with other incoherent mattor. He was put in care of his'friends to he re-eouveyed to - Manchester. CHILD STEALING.---A flue boy, 3 years of age, was on Friday evening, stolen from the door of his parents' house, in Oxford-street. (Mr. Ttiverton) the only witness Hue unhappy patents have been able - to procure is, that the child was seen lined intuit eatriaate at the eor. tier of Portland road, by a lady of apparent tesiwetability, Thaw far the consolation exists, that the eltild bias not fallen into the hands of mendicants, for the purpose of exciting compassion of the feelings of the parents, are however, no less agonized. A Lessard has hoot offered for the restoration or discovery of the child, One of the Wit -fingered gentry, was yesterday ducked for an art of ingenuity connected with his profession, at the foot of the Sirauti Bridge, BIRTHS. On 11.nrsday n'terning, at Uxbridge House, the Conntess brit;ge was safely delivered of a son. At his Lordship) lionse,lll Sariile tort, the Right Hon. Lady Cons. bernicre, of a still born child. DIED. At her house, in CoveitOish.square, the Dowager Countess of Pens. broke, alter a short iilutss. Her Ladyship was in the tit)tli year of her age. In Charles-street, - Berkeley-square, General Stewart. By his death the Coloneicy of the rid Regiment becomes vacant. a the 71st year of his age, tiontpliry Waldo Sibthorp, Esq. many years Colonel of the Royal South Lincoln Militia, aud twice Repre sentative in l'arlianient - for the city of Lincoln. St:I)OEN DEATtis.—Fiitlay 'minting Mist Charlotte Whitehead, of Berkeley street, waA found dead in her bed; she retired at night hi high heidtli awl spirits and had no ailment; she was in the yltli year of her age. A blacksmith fell sown dead on Friday forenoon, when working at Wu; anvil in a forge, iu Green Dragon-yard, Next Saturday the Lottery will begin and finish. 'Only 5,000 Tickets, which are nearly disposed of. HoRNSBY and Co. acquaint their Friends that they pay in Gold—Our Prise of 2,000 Guineas, and TWO of 500 each Also a Grand Prize of 90,0001. and other C4pnal Pr izes. Ticker and Shares are selling by Ho rzNsny and Co. who sold, in the last 15 months, Truce of 20,0001. Thrct of 10,00 M. I.esVes Prizes of .5,0001. E,Quol , 1,0001. LOol. &c. &c. all at No, #O4 ' I