The National Register. — London, England, 1818-10-05 00:00:00

OCT. 5 DREADFUL EXPLOSION. Nrrtristottam, SEPT. $lO.—A dreadful accident occurred icr.erday at the Canal Company's wharf, by the explosion of gunpowder in a boat. The vessel was lying in the bash' under the arch Of the Company's warehouse, and some men were employed in lundine, the cargo,. when in an instant an explosion took place which threw the whole town into con eteinition, and s e read the utmost devastation throughout the neighbourhood, The report way so tretnendoes as to be heard at a distance of many miles, and• every limise in the town was shaken as if by an earthquake. The Company's warehouse, with all its CUlittalbt i was completely blown int* the air, and not a vestige of the building reinains. The fragments were scattered over the meadows to a considera ble Ilistasier., and the boat was in part shivered to pieces, and the rest stink. Several roofs were carried off from the ad joining buildings, lead and tiles torn off, window frames blown nut, and liniolreas of windows demolished. Hut the most dreadful part of (he calamity is the exteusive'destruc tion of human life, no less than eleveu persons, already ascertained, having been precipitated into eternity, besides two Liken to the hospital, who are not expected to stievve. The mangled remains of eight !nee ".1.14 a boy hail been col. lected last Meta._ .w..; in's more were known to be buried ana.. - ..,gst the rains. Thu bodies presented a shocking spec tacle; two men were foetid lying on the edge oldie boat, with their heads coouptrlrti tatz.l :41 two &Alter,. ;ay near the :c way of the yard, with their skulls dashed to pieces and otherwise disfigured; two other bodies were found in the mea dows, havieg been blown across the emit, one to a distance of about one liundr,d yards, and the other more than three hundied yards, and the limbs and flesh scattered 'shout in different directions: another Was taken out of the twins a complete trunk, with both leg: , and arms blown off; and the remaining two mangled in a manner equally shocking. Most of them were married men and had families. 'flue accident (as related by a boatman belonging to another vessel lying near, and who happily escaped with a few slight bruises) originated by a youth of the Ilatnt . of Cross, the son of a boat owner, impenitently fetching a but cinder from another boat, and applying it to sonic louse powder which lay scattered about, with a view of having a" flask," as lie tenet d it. The consequence 5545, that the fire communicated instantly by a sort or train to the cask from whence it had dropped out, which ignited, and setting tire to five, other barrels, the whole exploded with a most tremendous noise. The ilamag,. Is estimated at many thousand pounds—some calculatious go as high as 3a.0001., but certainly it is very great. Mr. Wilkes, the agent of the company. was fortunately from home on a jouriley, and die bookkeeper had only left the premises about some biriiiess not mute than ten minutes before the aceltlent happened. The expission took place about S o'clock in the afternoon. Amongst the property destroyed was a large quan:ity of corn in the warehouse in sacks and loose. The papers and books were forunately detonated in a counting vase at some distance front the warehouse, %%bleb toom p e a rtsstritetioa. A. waggon belonging to Mr. Houton Wits Valid ing tot the yard,. and the waggoner, who was near the shaft Weise at the time, lost his life; the waggon was utterly de stroyed, and two of the horses in thug team killed on-the spot. The bay that was killed was a son of Mr. Howell ; he was go• leg; on board with the in:ent of gathering some of the loose powder is hell the explosion took place ; his two companious (beys),who were waiting for him at a shalt distanee, banally escaped without other Minty than Leingslizhily struck our the face. The other sulfereis were principelly boatmen and la. bearers about the wharf. Mi. Wilkes's hit:rue, which stands near the gateway, sustained compaeatively little injury ; the windows and fel/ I . OIITP iu Ili house were for the most part deniclished ; MIS. Wilkes was thrown with great violetive irons a table to Ilse other side of the house, but eseaped without other injury theu what arose from die surlienness of the /hock and the fright. Olin person crawled oat of the rains outworn, owing to several be.sins falling crossways user whieli fortunately ptesersett his life. The bodies of the suterers uuw lie at the Navigation Inn for the Coroner's ii: quest. LIBER %LID/ OF AN ENt;LISH CIuAKER. —Dining the war for the indriiendevre of the Uidteil Stairs of Anieriea, some vessels belonging to the 'mettle lonise ol• Elie Lelciiure, Lao' thein of Itinieu, were captured b% soon! hoglislt erniscis. A pail of them: poses fell by sineve%•lutr to Mr. Fox, the falser. v. ho oroloowil (IMaltek isn,. liav nig ascertained the goitre(' of this sorrrsrinu, and not thinking iiiiiiselfin,titied in ae eiv ii ng it by the religion• psineiples lie p1 , te.4,.1, Mi. Fax remitted to tic liet,se of Jilic Lete hoe e the *line nt . SJ,OOO francs, the Neal rx• vaination he could wale of his part iii the property deriv. limn the captures. Mu. Edward 1..504 Fox, resiiting at Brislingtan, near Bn•- tol, sud s,n, of the gen. roils Quaker we have mentioned, has evinced that Ill' iolterits nut only ilie mine of 1i.,, father, but that he al.O possesrws the of his character. Mr. Fox, the .011, has lately deposited in the hands of the Trea surer Genesits of the the rum Of 3f,440 lianca, egad' to WWI. alerting, In 'unchaise an iosrsip• tion in the Gteat 80014 to the anionsit of this MUM, 1.11.1 In Iwve the an tttt i!y deri,r.i 1 it distributed lo the poor Freneli marine,. and their 111 . 1'01414 Mr Long Fos has iteclartil to his act 4.f dos:atom, that this sum Was the produce of the tu . Serest thaws try Alt. Fox. his tether, nithoist hi, knot% ledur t from the prize , made of ['tench cut... ve•sels by ill ei 11644, daring the war of indepeorte.lct.. 51r. long Fos has also charged the Tiritsiiier (;rnerol of the Invaliil• to ptare the tenth purl of this iusetiption at the slislite4l of NI. Elie Leteb is, lo• elder, iiis) or of Konen, who iarcometiutore of Mindy 31100g1.11.11113, 13 Chili god Willi the liquidation of the ancient tiros 01 Eiie Lefelosie. brothels. for the purgiete lit' !Irving this truth distritioti it 11t :1111h; poor Fietiefi 1114(11U:1s rod their families 111 140 district lit Hoary. We und.rAtand that Mr. t. Long Fox, n t3o ha. formed ettalliml Alt to tN here he e di t- e s Is T,T ! , large num ber of itscane pro&onn 10 be taken care h, i s W i thin the.e three lart grate tertaken a voyage lo France fur the i&ser pose o f sibits mg ockpultisals the 'taw rib-rill& nuratto of obtaining yeioni.l tenet' tor pettionii lelionsing tinder that 51. e t•:41 , of tiullady. M. Elie it tebiii e, tlit a utliisient to the mayor . Ur lii.licll..cositkeied the gene' Imp Qn4.er tiertissi;ll our nnwitasv!—jourvol de flows. J. VISITATION.—}tobett ZefFenes.• labourer. in the ser vice of Mr. liormorgcr. of Ciuiley, sitsysctivi of hi.ting loinetl sou:c fut.: belonging to h.e magt:r. n w el.i.igtti by i v hilt wo,iiril; in a tick ; Jefferies, hoitctee. denied it in the pally, went/cr. iceoinic.nying 1313 ticelionticnii of ite.ocerce by wiii!tng that he ui ht drop tarwo iitiad, that Lis eyes fmni Ilia him'. into hi. but, berritl end Nasphc,::oi,rs intpreteitionr, . . . vox* he stia.enly tut 19 taugrotiml witEctit s;.ef v: or ry.e.z.on. lie has I= been ma% eyed to the re s:dcoee of lii4fzicr.ds at iVheatott Aston, titter: he row lies in a dri.lorz.ble gat* awl without hopes of tem siy.—Catester C'c;ircrii. TIM NATIONAL RECTSTTIR. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Sept. 29. BANKRUPTS. JOHNSON J. E. Hyde-street, Bloomsbury. master-mariner, Oct f. 24, Nov. 10, at Guildhall. Atus. Albaton and Cc Freeman's ourt, Cornhill. DAr VE it M. Whitmlister, Gllcestershire, liwmitaper, Oct. 14. 1 5, Nor. 10, at Glocest:r. Att. Mr. Beckea. Bruadostreet, Golden square. 110 Purrs J. Worcester. hop•merchsit, Ozt. 15, 17, Nov. 10, at Worcester. Att. Mr. Becke, Derails:lire-street. Queen-square. DilaßeriT J. East Dereham, Norfolk, irin!creper, Oct. 23, 24, Nov. 10, at Norwich, Atts. Adlinitton and Co Bedford-row. FOWLER W. and J. Tanmirth. Staffordshire, paper-makers, Org. 13, 14, Nov. 10, at Tamwortli. Mt. Mr. Williston, Tanswortli. DIVIDENDS. W. Elliott, Newcastle upon-Tyne, nurseryman, Oct. 27. J. Eccles. Penkridge, Staffordshire, grocer, Oct. 28. S. M. Solomon. Birmingham, peurit-maker, Oct. 30. R. Brought' Shrewsbury, giocer, Oct. 21. .1. Davies, Shrewsbury. flax-spinner. Oct. 11. W. I.ovo, Hudderstield, Yorkshire. shopk•ttp.sr, Oct. f 2. R. Pellowe, Falmouth, mer.:er. Oct. 31. J. Trevor, and .1. Richards, Wnitchurch, S'aropshire, tranhers, Oct. 2cl. S. Morand, Dean street, Finshury-square, merchant, Oct. 20. R. A inam, East Ilsley. Berkshire, brewer, Oct. 20. J. Hush, Thatcham. Berkshire, intikeeper, Oct.. 2Q. R. Adnain, jam. Leckhemstead, Berkshire, farmer. Oct. 20. W. Adnam, MiJgharn, Berkshire, farmer, Oct. 20. J. Hobson, Manchester, brazier, Oct. 24. L. Pius, Thorpe-Abbotts. Norfolk, merchant, Oct. A. L. Pfeil and E. A. Van Vourst, Bishops,pte-strect, Within, merchants, Oct. 17. J. NAton, East India Chambers, Leadenhall-street, merchant, Oct. 31. N. Scholefield and T. W. Kershaw, Greenwich, haberdashers, Oct. 24. E. Kelley, Paddington, builder. Oct. :M. W. Bolling, and J. SAlwood, High ll , tlborn, linendrapers, Oct. 30. W. Itoltin, Birmingham, curio:, Oct. 24. J. and 8.. Bradshaw, Lancaster. tallistv-chandlers, Oct. 27. CERTIFICATES--Ocr. C. .Tcnden, Worthing, harness-maker—P. G , ieve, Essex -street, Strat.d, dealer.—T. Spencer, Manchester, commission broker—J. Quint, North Wool4orcmgh, Devonshire, eider mere:iant.—}l Howard, Switport, Cheshire, manufacturer—J. Ranford, Bermond sey-street, Borough, trireman. The Lord Mayor lick, a Court of Common Council on Monday last, in consequence of a reptisition which he had received, to proceed in the Election of a Jnaior Common Pleader. Alter the last pi neeeding•i had been read, a long discnssion ensued, in respect of the wording the nu:- mites relating to the Election; and a motion was made omitting some parts thereof, and sanstitoting other words instead; upon which an atat inlincot teas moved. " That the Calm do proceed to the Election," and the ~ a nie was 4;.;reed to on a she wof hands. Another motion was then made f..r an adjournment, which the Loud 31.1y0r declared to he nega tived. and a was 41(.1114m1...4 and gi ;niter!, when there appeared-I , or the A djournment, 4:4ainst it, 71—NIiito. rite against an Adjournment, 4.—The Court then proceeded to the Election, IA ballot, and the same being taken.auil cast up, Use numbers n:yeareil as rtil lOW 11 :•••••• For George Norton - , Esq Tipping Rigby, Esq 9 Wliercriron the Lord Mayor declared the Election to bare fallen upon Mr. Norton.—Mr. Alderman Goodbeliere was added to the Committee relative to the utti'•c o♦' Sword Bearer.—The Lord Mayor att.-muds, attended by several Aldermen, proceeded into the 0. Vat OAR, :1101 beillZ seated, die Shea ill's elect, Jelin Roberts, Esq. citizen talloo - andler. and l.a wrcucr C acv line. E•iq. citizen and Apeetaele maker,attell dby the :Shmers, Wardens,an.lCoart4 anti of their respeu tire Companier, were dilly admitted, :Ind sworn into °Rice for the yr:a emoLing.— Frederik: Turner a nd Julio Pollen, Emirs. are the Under Sliced,. A com espondent ni n country paper says —" I perceive by your lust paper it is intended to employ a corps of English dostonitra to thereat stungehite an the coasts of Kent and Sussex. A more weak, inefficient invention, L will undertake to pi edict, w.i never hit upon. The only probable reined) for the y rev ent it,. of %lam..Kling, is a reduction of the present ditties. This, be awned, la the opinion of all the principal offict rs of the reVeinUe ni the out ports, who bays recently main had the question, pr,poseil to them to propound ; and Cloves omen!, there can be sin sort of slonlit, would ben gainer by what 'nay appear to he is conce.sion to the pantie. It hie present ditties were lowered One half, AO Iniat WWII& could be retailed at nitwit and bra n dy for 184. per sal - the temptation to purchase snnt.gl.d spirits would he alone away, and ull the halt of e‘Penses of riding officers, 'eyeshot! euttere, and of the new anoinu'aus wontii be saved, and the ilisaed cable her vice oi patrolling troops on the coast become umircessary." ST Hr.t.its,t.—A Philadelphia paper gives the following regrlations obsert e.l with regrrd to the Ante! iewn vessels aa heel' touch at Sr. Helene :—'• ho air in a. ant of wily thing that ileleies affords, I , or the north aide 0: the Wend. near Inch they w:ll be boarded linos one of the ae5.1.14 of war Silas :are et there. The boarding officer tak. A iniaiellia to of whet is tt anted, and reports to his Con.• (barely countiumestes by telegtaphie sig nals. Volt alien steer for Sugar-loaf Point, o hurl., if yea are permit,. al to enter the Hay, a board will Ire held up to your view wills the w " Pon " ota it. Vii. will behaiii dis )01/ 110 Si, aua go,oe qmstions asked; you then r for the fla,- liip (roe of her boats will inept >5355, in/which Ihete w ill he IWO OttleerA ; one return. to Ilse Ailmivat, pith an tercoula of your ulnas, And the other remains on board to keep yell honest. No communication is allowed with Ore shore. 11 at er is brought alongside in Lulls; all you have to dais to hoist i! in and start it. Thr Company cliorge uhly S 4 per ton—y tot also pay the bunt's crew - they merit rreons;•eitee." An attiele from IVoodstock, (Virginia) dated Auporit 14, says:— " W:.arten, of this place. has coittibed in a sire cage two live rattle snakes, male and Caustic ; the male has nine rattles, anti rite female as.en ; the male Liu's. the tcto..le al a yel!owish cast. The male a r ut in the cage on the sth in t. ;it wr.s quite e.res the lir.; day. On we bah the fu malt was put M. and nppearod quite I &sire. but it: a few minutes t‘licwed her anger. in bitidg.A mouse that was put in 1101111 after her; the little crearthe's late its antleirat ed. it cdeat in less that a minute, en th.• 7th a large rat wau pot in wi Is than: ; it did not appear in the !east druntes . bat made a 11.011( spirited attack on the rattle of the male, and bit all'huif of ic; Lien tint., al a bite bom the female • w:res enratiLed it mom, and it made a ;atom, attack on the male, and bit off the h,ll,l:ce rale 01- tire--a tile in this wet, it leer ived hi: ea Enna the female; end Irils iinrnethately testa+ out and put in a wire trap to observe shut effect the bats v.‘41,1 Lavern. it, and to the at:omit...went of all who *Muss. od tie scene, it *astound nn injury. The snakes now appear quite h arm k. m . Th „ I (we t.elielie) ill(:(1.141 ' ,mewing tiICNI to the proprietor of the Alt issalrian :kJ us.ra." 3rs. Bityartwav ca.—The equinoctial gales have commenced, and , n etc test and te3d inst. they proved extraordinary violent from tee southward and westward, which occasioned a heavy pressuse of the sea against the Breakwater, at Plymouth. During the former da► his Majesty's schooner Sea leak, the Thalia East Indiainan, Pro vidence coal brig, and Pilgrim merchant sloop, of about 60 tons, were in the Sound, the two first vessels being moored in good births, the Providence nearly where the unfortunate Jasper lay, and the Pilgrim close to tire Melattipus Shoal, in the most exposed part of the Sound, and not far from the spot whence his '•laiesty-'s late schooner Tele graph began to drive ashore. They all nide out the storm in snide , and when it had abated, the brig and sloop went intothe Catwater. On the 9.3 d the vessels in the Sound were his Majesty's ship Spartan, the Sea I .ark, ;And the Thalia, which sustained the gale with thesame ease as before, and report highly of the sheltering protection afforded by the breakwater. Notsithatanding the fury of the waves, not a single stone of the finished part of this structure has been injured err displaced. The raising of the western arm already begins to have the most beneficial influence on the anchorage, particularly from half ebb to half- fluod. Aguas . ic Exenostow.—One of the most ludicrous exhibition; wok piece on the Hirer Thames on Monday afternoon that a c ever remember. It had been announced and placarded round the metro • polls for some days past, that Mr. Usher, the Clown at the Coburg Teratte, intended, previous to the theatrical performances of the evening, to make two excursions, one on water, the other on /and ; the aquatic excursion consisted of a tub with four geese attached to it, to go from Westminster bridge to Waterloo bridge. The lan•i one, a chaise drawn by four white tom cats, from Waterloo bridge to the theatre. About four ti clock, the stab being launched emus t'.' yard of Mr. Nelson, the Water Bailiff, Mt. Usher immediately sear ed himself in it. 'Pe geese were splendidly decorated with sarions coloured ribands; but, not being used to such confinement, repeat edll• entangled themselves with each other, till the adventurer was obliged to he towel down tome distance boa boar. On reaching les destination, a general and loud huz.za took place. The poor grei7 appeared at this time nearly exhausted with fatigue. Of the latter eaeurslon we can say but little ; it was more defective than tile forme-. However. Mr. Usher's friends did rot disappoint him of his ride; fur, on finding his cats proving unruly, they instantly mounted hen•, chaise and all, on their shoulders, and carried him in triumph to tlrr stage door of the theatre, where he wa.3 lauded without the least inju ry. The novelty of the scene caused a vast concourse of perverse collect together ; the river was completely covered with boats; est minster and Waterloo brAget presented a grand appearance, front the immense number of spectators who had stationed themselves upon them. The road leading to the theatre and the New-cut was to the onged, that it was hardly possible for a horse or chaise to pass for some hours. We do not remember to have observed so numerous an assemblage collected on any preceding occasion, esceptieg the time the Prince Regent, accotnoettied by the Dukes of York and Welling toneopetied Waterloo bride. PIIOOttES3 OF A POUNO OF COTTON..-The follGNing ae count of,one peeled w•eig it of antiftetured cnttoa w h show the im e °nonce of Cie trade to the country in a very conspicuous manner.— There was sent of for London. I-etely, from Paisley. a small piece of muslin, about one pound weight, the history of which is ra follows t. The woel came front the East Indies to London ; from London it went into Lancashire. where it was manuf.etured into yarn; from Nlancliceter it was sent to Paisley, where it wan woven ; it was sent to Ayrshire next, where it was tambottred ; afterwards it was con veyed to Dumbarton. where it was hand-sewed, and again retuned to Paisley. when it was sent to a distant part of the country of Ren frew, to be bleached, and was returned to Paisley; whence it was sent ro Glaegow, and was finished ; told from Glasgow was sent per coach to London. It is difficult precisely to ascertain the time taken to bring this article to market ; but it may be pretty near the truth to reckon it 3 years from the time it was packed in India, till in clotn it arrived at the merchant's werenouse in London ; whither it urns% have been conveyed 5.000 miles by sta. oral 090 by lend, and cal tributed to reward no leas titan ISO people, whose services were ne yes: try in the carriage mill mantititentro of this small yuitatil of cotton, and by which the value has been taleanced ?Otto pee eent.— W hat is said of this one piece descriptive of no inconaiderable part of the trade. _ . . - . . . . We have received a letter from a friend now in Paris, in which he gives us some curious information respecting several individuals, natives of Cogland and I-eland, who although posse.sed of otsider able property, Face carried it all with them to the Continent, where they intend tc.• reside, with a view of evading the payment of just debts contracted in their own country. This tiro t fraudulent cords t has for some time past excited a great degree of alarm among num bers of people who considered their property as lost. We are happy, however. in being enabled to state, un the amino ity of our Cone pontlent, that a decision has lately been made. width may lead to conslueores highly favourable to the claims of the irtjuted et editor A case lately MOO: befJle a French Court, and nine Judges decided against threz, that it a British subject had obtain, a a judgment in his own country against another British subject. he can seize the . goods of the defendant in France. We ay infonurd, that, in con a. pierce of this decision many English and Irish, who were figuring away in Paris, upon the property of ethers, have gone of to Switzer land. Our Correspondent gives an account of one individual, whom name, however, we must riot mention until we teceive further con firmation r-specting the fact, who sonic years ago lived here in a splendid style. who has taken the whole of his great fortune along with him to France, trig.:ther with the sum of 130.0001. which was the property of a near relative. lint the chief claimant has lately bud a petition pres.nted to Louis XV 1 11. by the English Ambrustdpr, setting torth the extreme hardship of the care, and requesting liberty to attach the person and property of the individual who had possession of his all. We expect that this Affair will lead to some very curio-u and interesting result.—Provincial Pipe re A trial fora libel, Itippinghant v. Liman, took place in the Assize Clint a Kingston, Jamaica. on OM of Atvwst lest. The tiff is well known here. having delivered lectures on clo-ration end public speaking at the Stirmy Institution. The defendant is t.le printer and publisher of the Chrotrick, the jouroal iu which the libel appeared. Air. Ilippingliain pleaded his own Can.', though oprwell by two eminent counsel, who were rut:titled fot •.;:e def.mtlant. The daniages were laid at. i and • verdict fr 2301 wasobtained. Mr. Lunen was tax the author of the libel, .ioit became the object of the- pmseention on account of hi: refusing to deliver up. the real writer. The object of the libel was chielly to im peach the talent: of the plaintiff, but did nut canto:a any attack on his character nr general conduct. A cask, Inbliging to the ship London, ins found by Captain. Pocketf. of the !loyal George of• flall, omthe.inth ntr-b. who has brought the cask thither on I.is return from Davies'titraits. The London was left in April, 1317, in lat. fit/. long. S'. and the cask was picked up in lloysottnil, a narrow pass at the Orkney lands, in a perfect state. but entirely coveted with grass. It set all alicull to ascertain whether the wt of the tides, or the lose preva lence of wrmeily winds (sometimes for aducnonitlis tot,,Ttlier), had dnuf eel ti s era, the pest diwance ef 1,40(1 Thief in eleven /noel or alsmt four miles a-day, sod in this age of itarkscovety it may deemed v. realty of hirther inquiry. Notice dens been given to Oar (liners of the houses recently destroyed be ti.e at Sheerness. fiat the ' e arc mg to Jr t..11.1i1r. as the ground in will be wanted for cokleting the new works ertriyibg on there in, the dock-yard. Ax issci,VrreT Pawns . !—A of this de:eription ie now ,nays f a r the hem& of the Insoleret Act. tits sell...AA 3 lit of debts ay tailors. breeches•roakers, stay-makers.tnillsocan hoot makers. mece-jotkies, texcin-keep-rs, &C. to the too: of inwards of 7-601. • % (r ile the it tnt•gibk rro i Ally" of the tietvg,trwinting '4l-k,kr, and all, it. valued at only am: .0 • e a.d 1 tree, but w i t h t h e h e aefit (for /)meti!, nio: Of Fietts Intents) of per IN chapel, in right of Aftorour; but •• !FON hf MOM t, ha+ never been in. can't say viliat It's wart' We sorr y to !e l m that th.,. late r litinortialwios re.r , ricers:nut some damage among the shi?pin —One was lest 4r ::,e t„;eotis sole Sa :: ds, andanother ou toe Ncedics Ss:arc:ay ..ighta