The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-08-01 00:00:00

A grand Match of Cricket commenced on Mon-
day, between nine Gentlemen cf St. Alban's, with
Lord F. Beancletk and Beldam, against eleven Gen-
tlemen of Rickmansworth and Uxbridge, for 500
guineas a-side. The match concluded on Wednes-
day as a tie game, and the bettiir, on both sides,
is, on this account, rendered void; the present is the
only instance of the kind wlich ever occurred at
Lord's Ground.
The following is a correa statement of the differ-
ent innings :
lIICEMANSWORTN. TINS?
Mr Bud I l7 13 Lord F. lierucLik.
Shackle l4 B. Do.
Pontirax 0 B. Do.
Stevens 4 R Beldam.
Young t B 'Lord F B.
Webb
Lord. 9 Run out.
Capra.. OB. Beldam.
Clarke., II B. Lent F. B.
Hoare ....1 Not nut.
Timber 0 B. LOl4l F. B.
Byes

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IT. ALMAN.I. MST 110311 Mat.
Aislabte 0 C. Young.
Beldam 23 B. Pootlf.ill.

Lord F. Bnaucletk $ H. Webb.
Mr. Lambe
Seabrook. 1 B Do.
Oote i C
Newman... .1I Do.
Vandermuland 0 B. Tont.fax.
Lawa (I B. Do.
Biddle
Byron... 0 B Timber.

Byes I
55
II IeEI4•IIIWNS TX• Iltf..ON 0 INNINGS.
P.ntifas l4 C. I.•nd F it
Hoare 0 Leg Ixfnre Wi,ket.
Shackle
- Budd. l'i B I aid F B.
Webb 34 H. Se.ihrook.
Young 0 H. W-1,1.1,71,
Stevens
Lori II R. s,terbolt.
Cavite 0 C. Lambe,
Teinlrer.
Carl. o IL Lod F. L
BYel 0
Total l3 •,-";" r- --4.
ST 'Si *CONS memos.
llosbrork . 9 IL Lord.
Newman OC. Shackle.
Belden 19 C. HO.Nr.
Lord R. 12 27 H. Webb.
Ai•labie 2O C. Cape!.
Lambe., 2l. Timber.
VaArrmuland ON. Ditto.
Oille
HMI* .. 2 N. Puntifax.
Laws 0 B. Ditto.
Myron 4 Not out.
Spa... 5
--,
Total, AI
DREADFUL ACCIDENT. -
_ __......--.
A letter from Wellington, dated July 26th, con
Gins the following disagrous account :—On Friday,
the II th instant. as some collier. were at work in a
pit, 151 yards deep, belonging to John Bisliton. Esq.
and Ca. at Snedshill ironworks near this town, one,
of their candles came in emits& with a quantity of
hydrogen gas, mixed with atmospheric air, and
caused an explosion, which severely burnt rig t or
nine men; bat fortunately the whole Are in a lair
way of recovery. On the Monday following, si--
. petal others were employed in repairing the air.
rap in the same pit; some of whom had ascended
i six others (who had previously extinguished
males for safety) were in the aet of a,crnsinn.
in the chains and one irons the knot of the
reps, when, unfortunately, the current of hydrogen
front the pit, blended with the air of the Atmosphere,
was blown by a brisk gale of wind in coma& with
a fire that bad been left, inadvertently. burnirg
about three yards to leeward of the pit.head, ai d
caused an explosion which proceeded down the pit,
towards the source of the hydrogen. involving the
miserable colliers in a volume of flame. At the
moment rf the combustion, they had ascended up-
wards of a hundred yards, and one of the poor I. I-
lows, preferring instant death to the acaten is of
his pains. made an effort to disengage himself from
the chains, and precipitate himself to th, bottom,
but failed in the attempt ; another fainted from ex-
treme pain, and a as brought up hanging by his legs
in the chains; four others came up in the usual sitting
postage; and the man who was sid'og erect upon
the knot of the rope, miraculously retained his hold,
though his clothes were entirely consumed, and his
body scorched all over, and reached the surface in
that position. On being disengaged at the pit.heAdhy
some persons, whrm the noise of the explosion h 4,1
brought to Wtness this truly affecting scene. one of
them, iti a delirium, arising from excruciating pain
and terror, rushed homeward in flames ; the others.
more Weeded. required to be carried to their
abode. Five died soon after, in the greatest agonies,
and the other expired this day. Two widows and
some children remain to lamei.t their unfortunate
exit. The other four were unmarried. The explosion
blew the caps from their heads forty or fifty feet
above the surface, and r-....01iica a great part of the
timber framing of the pit to a state of carbon.
Some penults who were in the vicinity of the pit at
the tune, saw, previously. partial ceenbastions take
place between the fire an.' the pit-head, which proves,
that the hydrogen was then deficient in qiiantity. or
not sufficiently blended with the oxygen of the at-
=sphere. no produce a general one. Had they re-
moved the fire immediately (and it is probable there
was sufficient time to do it in) the :.ccident would
not hare taken place, and the men who Lave just
studs into the silent tomb, might have rernag.ird
many years !cwr toeful members of society. The
accident is oser and irretrievable. but we hope its
terrible consequences will preclude a similar one i
aril that no collier or mow with hereafter be so
unmindful of his own safety, as to make a fire near
to a pit containing hydrogen gas, or aadpiter, as they
generally (though wrongly) term it.


We are happy to inform our readers, that
this ilsy no new vessel, 41' veuel YAM:: hat ot.t !seen
employed during her last voyage to the .4,,
Trade, will be ailqwed. by law, to eiesr nut at

Jny of not
for slaves.

tot ti 4 coast of A.tic

L /or INTRLLICENCE.

COURT OF CIIANCFRT, Ltricocis-Irm, JULY 31.
Ea-pirt- C,AaNEH, a Lunatic.
This alms an application, by petition, which the
SoLiciron.Gerienar. and Mr. WSTRECAL con-
sidered to require the special interference of the
Court, under all circumstances.
On Tueslty last, Mr. Henty Cranmer, a gentle-
man of cons:cfnable fortune, and near 90 years of
age, residing in the county of Essex, was touni by
a Jury, in the usual way, to be a lunatic. For
some time he had been under ate influence of a Mr.
Winston and his wife, who had insinuated them•
selves into his good graces, and, at last, entirely
lived with him. When Winston was summoned
before the Jury, for the purpose of being examined,
he appeared before them like a maniac, in a most
extraordinary dress. He wore an immense iron
trmchenn be his side, ar.l a brace of pistols in his
girdle, but notwithstanding his strange appearance,
and the evidence be gave, the Jury found Mr. Crea-
mer a lunatic.
Mr. Winston, soon afterwards, was committed
to Chelmsford gaol, for an.assault upon one of Mr.
Cranmrr's tenants. The next morning his wife,
who hod formerly been a servant in the tastily, took
the lunatic the back way through the garden, and
contrived to have a post-chaise ready at the road-
side in a back lane, and brought him to London ;
hut where, or to what part, is entirely unknown to
his friends. This was dune in the most impudent
and gross defiance of the authority of the Coutt.
The Committee, the Learned, Counsel observed, had
not been completely appointed, but the Master had
made his Report, and it only lay with the Court im-
mediately to confirm it. By the Rules of the Court,
the lunatic was always considered in custody, from
and after pronouncing the vet dial, and at the com-
plete disposal of the Court. There were two ways
of proceeding in such cases, either by an order made
upon the party to deliver over the lunatic to the Com-
mittee, or by Haocci Corpus.
The CHANCLI.LO4 direded a reference to the
Master, and an order to deliver over the custody of
the lunatic to the Committee. lie bad no doubt
upon what he ought to do in such a case, and should
there be found any difficulty in serving the order,
he should then take such a course as would make it
available.

to_n c sive, r. LOCO POWIII.
This was a question upon the construaion of eer-
tain words, in the Will of the late Lord Powis,
respeaing some devises of real and personal pro.'
perty to youoiger children, as mentioned m our
raper of yesterday.
The Avvoanev and SOLICITOR•GCNIIIAL, on
the part of the Defendant, entered into a long and
1./earned argument, which was wholly uninteresting,
,except to the parties concerned in the cause ; after
which, Mr. Pzaciv.te was heard, at some length,
in reply, in support of the Will.
The Loeb CHANCaLLOR, after a few observa-
tions, deferred his final decision of this case, until
Saturday, that he might, in the mean time, have an
opportunity of looking into the cases upon this
subj ea.
KANT ASSIZES. .

M a IDITCIIft, JULY 30.
CIVIL SIDE
LLOYD v. 1a11414.
This was an affirm for an a+saul►. The Plaintiff'
is a lime-merchant, and the Defendant a Captain of

Pencilsles, at Dover. It appeared. by the evidence,
that the Plaintiff had arrested the Defendant for a
lime bill, in consequence of which the Defendant had
conceived a grudge against the Plaintiff, which he
took an opportunity to revenge; for, on the Fast
DAy, he met him at a fish shop, at Dover, and when
h.- went out, immediately followed him into a
lane. leading from the how.. The Defendant had,
in his company. a brother of his. who was a Mid-
shipman ; And, as they passed the Plaintiff, the De-
leadant slipped off the pavement, or, at least, pre-
tended to slip off the pavement, and drove his bro-
ther Against Mr. Lloyd. The Plaintiff immediately
asked Captain Fa'sian, if he meant to do that on pur-
pose ? he answered that be did, and world give it
him for hating arrested him. He did accordingly
give him a severe beating. in which he closed up
both hi. eyes ; and, as the Surgeon stated, left him
in imminent danger of losing one of them. It was
also in evidence, that Mr. Lloyd was, at that time,
in a very bad state of heal:h, and qu;te unable to
cope with Captain kabiao, who is a very power-
ful man.
Mr. Serjeant Barr. for the Defendant. made a
very ingenious speech, in whir'', be stated, that the
t!AITARS sustained by the Plaintiff was very trivial,
and that he had hrookit it upon himself by his own
intemperate language. He quoted an expression of
Lord Eldon. upon a case of a similiar sort. which
was tried before him in London, in which that Nolde
Lind said-=. That if a Defendant colas: scot keep a
tie', tongue in his bead. he must not expect that his
teeth si.ould keep their station ;" and added, he
►hould prodnee evidence as to the confine of the
Plaintiff. He accordingly called the brother of the
Defendant, who was in his company; he stated. that
his broiler slipped of the road by accident. which
inadvertently drove the Witness against the Plaintiff
Mr. Lloyd asked, if that was dune on purpose! His
brother replied, that it was a mere accident. Mr
Lloyd %Rawl forward. and, puma* his list in his
brother's face. said, he was a liar, and that it was
done on purpose; and he c,.minned this abuse, until
provoked the Defendant to strike bim.
'I he Conniel the the Pluntiff, in his telir, dwelt
on the peobabilitios of the evidence adduced oa the
other rde.

The Lean Cult, Dation observed to the Jury,
that the way to elisci.urage paltry a. Ic is ol assault
Mfg to give sidisturial damages, when trey were
really 4%66,811/k-4w, and heavy damages in tiffs a,
ml aggravation t he then reespitu,ated the evi.
cleat, in this case, and left it to the Jury to say
whether the Delin4ant bad not ailed rentarist an.
real provecnti,,n, but f-oen revengeful motives, ai,
having been arrested be the Plaiatiff —Verds3 I.
the Platruilf—Dareitur by
Name.
Arty('

The hoolkas. 74e..„ whidh froff,
the Metitteriesten. lett I.Ard Cott tettwatto
ratLe es the Sth We. The S. enietds hove etillit sail
of the bee I. Cadge, mid ills sane ausibet it Cat-
%basses.