The National Register. — London, England, 1815-07-23 00:00:00

V . -. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ti•+nt, and mtfortimately happened undesignedly, in which latter cast thvy a • oul.d find hint of manslaughter. •The• Jury fttlitill him Guilty of 11an•laughter, and he was sen tetteed to nine months intinisonment. Notiine4 forther oevored worth reporting, and the 4%ssizes ended ti:ii tnorinn7. Lrtcreer , luta , 15.—! ast right occurred one of those dreadful cetastronles, tic result of drivieg opoivetion coaches, the extent of which has so st tinned the count ry with horror, that sober people for a tinic will not hazard their lives in those vehicles of fury rind mad neoe—Twa coaches that run daily from Hincklep to Leicester,. set out in the evening. The first having de s cend the hill ed ...that leads to leicester, was obliged to elop to repair the harness. The ()the! enaceenan from the top of the hill saw the accid,-nt, and seized the mienent to give his antagonist the co ay, and invia.diately flogged his horses into a gallop down the hill. The horses contrived to keep on their leg, hitt in the midst of their speretlook fright,at something lying on the road, and became so unmanageable in the hands of a drunken coachman, that. in their sweep to avoid the object of alarm, the driver could not recover them so as to clear the post of the turnpike gate at the bottom of the hili, and the velocity was so great that in an instant the coach was split in two, and by the tremendeus shock three persons were dashed to pieces aid instantly expited, and two others survived hut a few hours afterwards in the greatest agony ; tour were conveyea away in (Arises for surgical aid with fractured imbs, and two that were in the dicky•behind, were thrown with that part of the coach to a great distance, and not mech hurt, by falling in the hedge. The coachman fell a ViCti.6 to his fury and madness, but society has to la ment the death of Miss Page, an amiable young Quaker Lady and her • coMpanion, who were returning from a visit in Vt'arwicksi•ire ; the - other two unfortunates are an officer's servant and a person of Hinck- • lei. It is high time that the Magistrates should put a stop to these outrageous proceedings that have existed too long in this part of the • country, to the great alarm of the inhabitants in the streets through which these coaches pass. On the right of Sunday, the 9th, between eleven and twelve, as the Portsmouth mail was proceeding from Guildford to Ripley, the leaders' reins broke, in consequence of which the coachman lost his command of them ; and owing to a strange horse being put to at the last change, the coach was run against a bank and upset, whereby the c. ach was nearly broken to pieCes, and the coachman was thrown from bis - hox and most dreadfully mangled ; his cheek-hone being shattertd, his shoulder dislocated, and otherwise seriously hurt. The guard and other passengers escaped with very little injury. • A serious accident occurred on Monday morning at Norwood, by theoyerturuing of a coach from that place, whereby a gentleman had his leg broke, and several passengers were severely hurt. DARING ROBIIERY —Sunday night, the 9th instant, between 12 and one o'clock, the shop door of Mr. G. Webster, watch maker, on the Derby-road, Nottingham, was forced open by means of ma iron ' crow. A lady, who resides hard-by, overhearing the villains, alarmed the neighbourhood. 111 the mean time, Webster, hearing the noise, went down stairs, and, on opening the house door to call out for help, lie received a blow on the head, supposed to have been given wi•h the crow, which stunned him fora short time; but recovering his senses, and assuming an unsurpassable degree of courage, though defenceless, lie seized one of the three ruffians that he saw, just as he was at tempting to leave the shr.,p, in which there was not any property of much va'ue. Webster had hold of one of the smock-frocks in which the ruffians were all clothed, as well as having their faces disfigured— bd refused to quit his hold—they bear him severely, and dragged him into the road ; hut he resolutely held his man until assistance carne up, and the villain was secured, though, unfortunately, his compa- Mons in iniquity map d. The fellow secured, is named Scattergood, and is a native of Nottingham.—He is committed for trial. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. The neighbourhool of Spitalfields was thrown into universal ter rot alonit nine o'clock ern Friday week, by an explosion in the house of one Liehilien, in John street, Brown street. This was almost instantly succeeded by another, and one universal blaze was spread over the whole neighbourhood. 'the unhappy proprietor carried on the business of a hairdresser, but was more generally known as a v6inifactnrer of fire-works. In his house unfortunately were de posited several barrels of gun-poWder, which had exploded. How tlie fire had communicated k not yet ascertained, awl Mr. Liebilien had Ina a few moments returned from a walk with his wife, with and hi• family he was just sitting down to supper when the dreadful event took place. The efleets in his house were truly heart ) Otidi.!e ; it was literally blown up flour Its fonvdation, and all its iffinates buried in the ruins. Those consisted of six or eight per ,ifis, namely, M. Lich lien, his wile and sister, two other females, Pei - v.11115,a Mr. Oldham, and it is feared some ()there; In the Houses . also on either side, three or four more persons pc coled, and a ownber of perzuns in tin surtuundinG inigltbour• JULY 5.3. hood wet e dreadfelly hurt by pieces of glass, brick, timber, and other articles, falling upon them, or being forced into witalows by the effects of the explosion. Huge beams of timber were tossed into the air, others carried an incredible distance over the tops of houses while not less than from two to three hundred habitations have been shattered to a most frightful degree. The house of Mr. lichilien was situate within two doors of the brewery of Truman and Henbury, and within four doors of Brown-street, where there is a meeting of three others, and such was the effect of these dreadful explosions that it not only consumed the two adjoining houses, lint nearly de stroyed four others, and iejitred, as already described, some hundreds, forcing itself round the corners, and spreading wide destruction down the streets. The st hole exhibiting a terrible picture of havoc end desti netion. Windows broken, window Ironies smashed, its doors knocked from the hinges, and even furniture displaced, and shattered to pieces. In addition to the less of lives in the houses mentioned, a child, sitting opposite to tie house where the file com menced, was killed by the explosion. At t! o'clock on Saturday the engines continued to play upon the ruins, while at each house some of the wretched victims who bad fallen were discovered, and dragged forth in a mutilated state. At three o'clock the remains of Mrs. Liehilien, her sister, and that of a female servant, were taken out and deposited in the bone-room of Spitalfields Church. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Monday, an inquest was he'd at the Ten Bells, near Spitalfieles-church, on the bodies of G. Leschil les, his wife, Penelope Lesehilles, his sister Susannah Leschilles, William Old ham, an aged gentleman, who was an iemate in the famih , and Mary Blake, a servant with Messrs. Broom and Taylor, eminent silk weavers next door, when the fire haepeneel in john -street, Brown's-lane, on Friday week, aed by which the unfortunate persons above stated lost their lives. Mr. Peter Rub nson sworn, stated that he is a harness maker, at No. S, Catherine-wheel-alley, Btshopseate street, that he called at Mr. L.'s house about a quarter before nine o'clock on Friday night; he was then behind the counter ; Miss L. and Mr. Oldham were in the back parlour, where a cloth was laid for supper, and Mrs. L. came in with a pot of porter ; witness was invited to wait fur sup per, bet he declined it, in consequence of a previous engagement; two boys were in the shop buying crackers, one remained atter wit ness, no light was in the first shop, but a pair of candles were on the supper table; he was only a very short distance from the house when he heard a report, another instantly succeeded it, which he supposed was the firing of guns, and he proceeded on his journey until he came to Bethnal-green, when he was informed of the dreadful calamity, and he returned. Cross-examined—said he was intimately acquainted with Mr. L. who told him about a fortnight ago, he sold out 501. in the Navy Fives, and purchased a quantity of salt-petre, sad witness thinks gunpowder. He is positive he was quite sober at the time of the unfortunate circumstance. It further appeared from the evidence of Beery Potts, eleven years of age, W. Thomson, seven years of age, C. Burch, twelve years old, all of whom happened to be in the shop, purchasing serpents, and crackers, a few minutes before the fatal ca. restrophe occurred, that Mr. Oldham bad taken a candle into the cellar, which he left there, and brought up a great quantity of fire work's with a part of which they were served, and which they let off within fifty yards of Mr. L.'s Souse ; in a few moments after, they per ceived a vast quantity of rockets, serpents, &c. come out of the shop door, which was instantaneously followed by an explosion, as before mentioned, the shock of which knocked some of them down in the street, and then the fire spread in a most destructive manner, as already mentioned. A NoTtiER DREADFUL FIRE.-011 Friday se'nnight a fire broke out in a range of buildings between Upper Shadwell.- The fire seemed to proceed from a store-house belonging to Mr. Lyons, and was first discovered about half-past twelve o'clock on Friday night. The flames spread with furious rapidity, and in a few minutes the entire of the building between the street and the river were in a blaze. These being chiefly warehouses, and filled with combustibles, such as wood, pitch, tar, oil, coals, sailcloth, and other inflammable goods, the the at once became irresistibly terrible. The shops and houses in front of the street soon caught the contagious element, and eventually shared the fate of the rest. Unfortunately the tide was at the moment upon an ebb, and no water being to be obtained, the fire raged without resistance for nearly two hours, notwithstand log that several engines had arrived. In this wide devastation we regret to state that no Lesotho's 4 21 concerns were wholly reduced to a heap of ashes. In one of the premises we understand that some vats of beer burst, and in another a quantity of powder also exploded.--These, however, only had the effect of hastening the work of destruction, by throwing down several walls, and smashing some windows of the adjoining houses. We are happy to state that in this dreadfid conflagration no lives were lost but it was said that Mr Chandler, a boot and shoe-maker, atttemping to rescue sonic of Isis property from the flames, was dreadfully burnt, and conveyed tp the hospital. The prin• cipal sufferers on this melancholy ocoasion were Messrs. Barber and Co. dealers in florin stores; Mr. Hooper, soap seller winigamili m i owe i 47S ; fr, Pr SP 1 Phil