The National Register. — London, England, 1815-05-14 00:00:00

MAY I A NOTHIIt R Phillimore-pli daring manner the family, w house, and he couraeeous. tVednesday was made to tinie, by (thet rioe of break who got tuffs ; he prose tumid the kit. a butcher. 1-1 took an aim, was only loads the spot. lie the doer, thrc him tor a con: did not exact!' vaunted, he di kitchen door, rebb?ts must copious disci co:it t-yard, their woundet female scrvar thieves, etc. state, who ha tiesday, at the were tV.%) Wat rein SS COndllC On Wednet Colliery, neat had betorne e. on Wedioesda: present colliei and inundated near the spot the shafts. ar text Mr. Mill petted, when working in th able to etfect The water ru the lowest p escape, by. ch soon rose to t: tither been ov to the higher the level of t darkness and are at this pre (where they a feeling heart the number o there are bets , The number of the men be anti eight chit no , v incessant pit, but they the shaft am, gained upon ernal reervo it still stood learn thtt the notwithstand in the lowest vas found to thought that on the Town Pit • The nu for several tress th;:n wt in the pariih of Friday, A have been dr with their cr raging temne thaws have to six children I sistence. A Is , been totally 1 and twelve cl A few eve! bor , r. A bo: pokite coast; THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. Rossrte Sitor.—The house of Mrs. Billamore, in Lower dace, Kensington, has lately been attacked in the most :r, three times very lately. A young man, a servant in was entrusted with the defence of the interior of the he has proved himself highly trust-worthy, as well as morning, about two o'clock, a most desperate attempt break open the house of Mrs. Billamore, for the third !re is every reason to believe) a gang of robbers. Their .ing in awoke and alarmed the trusty young man the set ,t up and dressed himself; he had a pair of loaded pis :ceded softly to where lie }ward the noise come from, and :ellen door cut open with a large knife, such as is used by Ile was only about two yards from the robber when he and di , charged his pistol at him, which unfortunately led with shot and not ball, or it must have killed him on le was filed at by one of the robbers from the other side of rough the aperture which they had made, which stunned nsiderable time. On his recovering himself, although he ply know his own fate, and his courage continuing un discharged his second pistol through the aperture of the but with what effect is not known ; however, one of the have received the contents of that or his first pistol, as a :barge of blood was discovered on the pavement of the &c. and the robbers contrived to make their escape with nded man, although the neighbourhood was alarmed by a. lnt of Mrs. Billamore's springing a large rattle, calling .—The house is within two of Mr. Sketchley, the Magi. had the dreadful business investigated before him on Wed. :he Public Office, Bow-street, when it appeared that there atchmen employed to watch that row of houses, whose Jet is to be further inquired into. tnesday morning an accident took place.in Heaton Main ar Newcastle. In the coarse of rime the old workings entirely filled with water, which, at about four o'clock 'slay morning, broke through the north-west part of the '' , ry, at a point where the strata are disturbed by a dyk., (ed the workings. Some of the men who were working . where the water forced its entrance, ran immediately to and happily escaped from the pit. On their way they 'ller, the underviewer, and informed him of what had hap ' he ran to give the alarm to the other men, who were he higher part of the pit, in the hope that they might be their escape also, but this, alas ! was not permitted 'fished in with dreadful rapaclity, and flowing naturally to parts of the workings, soon cut off the only mean's of closing the lower mouth of the shafts, in.which the water the depthOf 19 fathoms. The unhappy men have thus Nerwhelmed and drowned in the torrent, or having retired part of the workings, which, it is said, is much above the water in the shafts, arc at this moment pitting in .in waut, without scarce any hope of escape. Exertions iresent moment making to endeavour to reach the spot are supposed to be) from some other workings. Every t must sincerely wish them success. We have not heard of men now below exactly stated, bur it appears that ween 60 and '70.. The whole stock of horses is also lost. of men who escaped amounts to only nine or ten. Many below have left large families ; Mr. Miller hast left a wife ',Wren. Three large engines (one of ISO horse power) are fitly employed in endeavouring to draw the water from the have not yet produced any effcct upon it. The water in ;minted at first to nineteen fathoms ; but it subsequently them, limn which it would apvar, that some other in roir had burst into the pit at three o'clock on Thursday I at SO fathoms.—Since writing the above, we are sorry to le water has gained upon the engines during the night, using they discharged teoo gallons tier minute. The water it shaft was plumbed early on Friday morning, when it (o be S 3 fathoms. From this great flow of water it is some other wastes have burst, and and that even those 'n Moor may be now discharging their waters through this iumber of horses below is LO. years there has not been a more afflicting scene of dis 'hat now exists in the villages of Rtinswick and Staithes, ►of Hinderwell, near Whitby. By the tremendous storm pril 14, about one-third of the Fishermen of Runswick Irovvned. Three fishing-heats belonging to that place, :rews. twenty-one in number, have fallen victims to the iest ; N poor women have lost their hushaeds ; two wi lost their sons, who were their only support ; and thirty ' have become fatherless': and herett of all means of sub lso one fishing-boat belonging to Staithes, entirely new, has lost, with eight persons on board, by which four widows !hildren are left destitute. felting silica, a melancisoly accident occUrred ofFßye Har boat had lett Hastings, hi which were five men, for the op. t; they had scarcely left the roads, however, when the wind changing, they were driven towards the harbour of Rye, where._ after beaticg about tor some time, the boat upset, and the whole of its crew were consigned to a watery grave. Thoy have left large fa milies to lament their loss. Su re' rit.—On Sunday evening, Thomas Maynard, Esq. of No. 22, Great. Charlotte-street, Illackfriar's-road, put a period to his own ex istence, by hanging himself. Mr. Maynard took an earl); dinner with his family, at which time he was in good - spirits, after which the car. riage was ordered for the ladies to take an airing, Mr. Maynard having excused himself from accompanying them, by saying he would amuse himself with a book until they came back. Th: ladies returned home to tea between five and six o'clock. They enquired for Mr. May.. nard; the servants sail they supposed he was in the drawing-room, as they never heard him come down stairs or go out ; after some search, however, he was found hanging in the attic, in one of the servant's rooms, quite dead :—the body was cut down, and a surgeon sent for, but it was too late. No cause can be assigned for this rash act, as he was blessed with every domestic comfort, and died very rich. The Coroners inquest was held on Tuesday, on the body, at the house of W. Southall, the sign of the Anchor and Hope, in the same street s and returned a verdict of Lunacy, DRLADFLYL Accinaue.—On Monday evening Mrs. Kay, who re sides at the King's Head, in Bear-street, Leicester-square. went out a short distance, leaving her four children locked in a room on the se cond floor. Shortly after, scveraf of the neighbours as well as those in the house were alarmed with their piercing screams, but unhap pily no person attempted to burst open the door until tile unfortunate woman returned, who, on opening, it, found two of the children stretched on the floor involved in flames, and the other two hid in the corner. Several eminent surgeons were called in, but one of the chil dren died immediately, and the other was so much burned that there are no hopes entertained of his recovery. On Tuesday se'nnight, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Seven Oaks, in Kent, were visited by a tremendous storm of hail. which exhibited stones as large as walnuts, and in hollow ways formed masses of ice, it is said, four feet thick. The corn and bops within its range, were greatly injured, and on declivities. totally de stroyed. The effects of the dissolution of the Gil, were also severely felt, and particularly in a village, where a poor old woman, eighty years of age, blind, and insane, was confined -in the cellar of a house, and drowned by its inundation before she could be rescued from her dreadful situation, though great exertions were promptly made for that purpose. A similar storm was experienced on the same day, at Riddlesdown, between Godstone and Croydon, by which the turn pike road for a considerable distance, was in a very short time, bid completely under water. to the annoyance of travellers ; and in other respects, we hear, that much damage was done by it. On Monday morning, about half past eight o'clock, as one of the porters belouging to Lincoln's Inn opened the door of the great kitchen to get a broom which he kept there, he met a man coming out, hea vily laden with copper stewpans, they being made as the French term en batterie, to fit one within the other, froei a very large size dowse to the very smallest. The man thanked him tier opening the door, and requested that he might leave it open for his shopmates to go out. The porter, on going into the kitchen, saw there three other men ; two of them were equally loaded, and the third had his load read, to take up, which he requested the porter to help him on with. The porter complied; and the four men went off with their loads. A tier they were gone, something struck the porter that every thing was not right, and he went to Mr. Williams's Chambers, who had the care of the Kitchen, and intbrmed him of what he had seen. Mr. Williams on this information, accompanied by two or three more of the porters, pursued them, and two of them were taken sweating under their loads r the other two escaped, one of them named Han key, lately returned from transportation, the other is named Wil son. On Thursday night or early on Friday morning, some daring thieves broke into the warehouse of Mr. Colthorp, in Finsbury-place, City. road, and robbed it of broad-sloth to the value of 3col. Then effect ed an entrance by crossing the wall at the back of the preuikes, and getting into the workshop, and returned the same way with their booty, and got clear off. A CHILD or STRAW —On Friday Win. Read, jun, one of the Po lice Officers of Hatton garden, took a woman into custody in the act of begging from door to door in that street, telline a mait deplorable tale of distress to excite compassion for herbell and her poor father. less infant, which she carried wrapped up close to her bosom. On the officer taking her into custody, in order to bring her before the Magis trates, she struggled hard to effe, t her escape, but in her struggles she unfortunately dropped her chi id ; but 10, it turned out to be a bundle of straw carefully wrapped up, so as to represent an infant with a cap on ; this discover) , caused a heart' laugh, and the impostor, at the in tercession of some ladies, WAS suffered to depart, on her promising the otfi , .er she would not be guiftv of the like oflimee in future. Tuesday evening, as Mr. Inilywhire, the proprietor of the Windsor coach, was driving his coach between Colebrook and Langley Broom, he discovered a man lying in the toad, who proved ti be the driver of a loaded cart, who being intuxicatel, tell down'; the cart went over his hody and killed hint un the snot. Iv:ry tiasistence was given by 154 i. Lifiy white, and the passengers, 11111111711111111111.11.1...17mmmillill !! 319 i