The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-08 00:00:00

FATAL. ACCIDENTS.

Amongst the numerous melancholy accidents occasioned by
the late Booth, we are sorry to reconl the following fatal catss-
Ve:—
bout five o'clock In the evening of Tuesday last, Mr. Joseph
Hooper, aged 28, and his brother Robert, aged 18, sons of 81r.
Younger flamer, a very old and respectable fanner, raiding at
Dymock, in this eoonty, accompanied by a boy, were on their re-
turn with a team and a load of coil from the Forest of Dean. On
reaching a part of the road at Leddington, called IVindcroes,
they found the water very much out, and Joseph mounted the
fore-horse, his brother standing ott the shafts, the boy being
on the top of the load, and endeavoured iu this way to pass
through the current. They had not proceeded far when one of
the wheels of the waggon came in coatact with a post on the road
side, Lind it became necessary to dismount, in Order to extricate it.
While about to do this, the leading horse lost his foxing, owing
to the depth of the wrier and the strength of the current ; and
Joseph Hooper, seeing their perilous situation, exclaimed, "Good
Clod! we arc all lost 1" and at the same time called to his brother
to unhook the other hones from the thiller. Almost at the same
moment he tell from the hack of the horse on which he was riding,
and was seen no more. The younger brother, Robert, sueceeded in
disencaging the hearse, but whilst so occupied, melancholy to re-
late, he was likewise carried away by the velocity of the current,
aral, together with the four valuable animals he had been trying to
save, was swept through a culvert or tunnel, which at that part of
the road passes uncles the bed of the canal. Both the brothers
were drowned without the possibility of assistance. The horses,
after being forced through the tunnel, regained their feet, and paned
over awe:Wow. but agaiu getting into the !Took, they aloe perished.
The body of Robert was picked up the following morning,
about a quince of a mile from the spot, and that of the other u:..
fortunate autraer the tonne evening. Both were conveyed to the
house of their brother, Mr. Younger Hooper, jun. of Pounds
Fait, where an inquest seas held on Friday 4 before John 4:Linke,
Esq. Coroner, and a verdict of " Accidental Reath" returned. It
is needles. to say, that the funnily are in a state of the most dis.
tensing affliction. One horse was used by a Mr. Elliott. who
ventured his life in its rescue, by wading in the water up to his
chin.

e hear, that on the same evening the above melancholy occur.
rence took plsee, three other persons, two women and one man,
lost their lives by being drowned in the overflowing waters between
Lodbury and Mosbury, but the particulars of the accident have
not reached us.--Glauceskr Journal.

Josh 'Judson showed himself yesterday at the Fives
Court, and looked well.
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Joseph IVaral Pearce, the pugilist, who calls himself
" one of the first setters-to in England," last week de-
camped from Newcastle, after practiiing upon the crc-
dulity
of sonic of the inhabitants of that place and the
neighbourhood, who had lent him their aid durin7 his
short residence among them. He had brought with him,
he said " from London," what he called " two of the first-
raters of the day, viz. Young Richmond, a man of colour,
and Young Goulding, the Bristol Champion," and took a
room in a public-house, in Gateshead, fur the purpose of
'hewing the iliffrrent attitudes of the amateurs of the
present day. On the first evening of the performance.
Pearce ditfereall with companions, and could not
(although a good company was collected to see the exhibi-
tion) be indem. ! to set-b 3. On the following evening,
however, alter getting rid of one of his companions
(Goulding) he joined the exhibition ; and after atair set-
to, and pinking up what he could get, he fairly " set-off,"
intending, no doubt, if not urrested in his progress, to
" box the compass" of England, and " floor all the fiats"
in his way who have r tt learnt " the art of self-A/ince in
all its aa►icties," which lie displays.--DurAam Paper,