The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-08-20 00:00:00

FATAL A CCI D R N7'S.

About nnon.day on Fruity week, a melancholy event oe
coked in the vicinity of Cireacestrr, cutler circumstances
of peculiar affliction.—Mr. and Mrs. Stephens, ass aged and
re.pertable pair, who had recently resigned their farm at Sid-
ditigion to their son, and had fixed the " dwelling of their
declining days" in Cirencester, set out with the intention
of walking over by the Canal side, to visit their son, the ilia-
tam, acareely exceeding two miles. They had not proceed.
ed far, when Mr. Stephens met an old labourer with whom lie
entered into conversation on some business, whilst Mrs. Ste-
pet ns contionad leisurley on her way ; but what most have
beets the agony, the grief. and the asionishatem of her lass-
baud, who was sot long recovered from severe illness, on
reaching a point of the Canal where a high wall was raised
so a level viii, the bank, instead, as he expected, of rejoining
Ice to hod atone labouring men actually dragging out of the
water a lifuless corpse, the beloved partner of his age; whom
he had seen not five minutes before in the esjoynteut of
bealth, soil happier than she had bees for years in witness-
ing his convaleseence !—lt is supposed that Mrs. Stephens
bad left the path to look at the plan of a swing.hridge, which
is to be placed over the Canal at this spot, and being seised
with sudden giddiness, bad fallen on her bead into the water,
nod life became instantly extinct. It would be a painful,
but a vain attempt, to describe the effect of so dreadful a
shock upon her afflatted husband and her affectionate family.
(to Tuesday night the 7th insi.as 'Ohl] Fraueis Cnrr.
solicitor, sod Mr. Woodcock, spirit-merchant, both of Wake-
field, were returning home us a gig, from the neighbourhood
of Pontefract, the horse took fright, and they were both
thrown out with !great violence, at a short distance from
h•ue's Villa, where lb y had been spending the day with
Air. Cares brother. Wilted amivtanee was immenintely
procured, and it is expected that Sir. Carr, though severely
injured, will recover ; but Mr. Woodcock expired about two
o'clock on Wednesday mottling. its consequence of the
dreadful wounds he received by the wheels going over b a
Lead.

EnT pr.—in the jooruey to Dongolah, in corn.
piny with the expedition under the direction of
ISMAEL BET. M. FREDERICK CAII.I.AIJD halted
~,,, c tune at Thrbps, where lie found in one of the
siihterraneans of Thebes a mummy coeval with the
time of the Greeks. On the bead of the embalm-
ed personage is a gilt crown, in the form of a lotus.
The body is wrapped up in bandelets, after the
Egyptian manner. On the case or sarcophagus,
which envelopes the mummy, nisei iptions are visible,
scenic in Greek and others iu hieroglyphics. On the
right side, there appears, tied with fillets, a (nano.
script on papyrus, in the Greek language. The
limo that Covers the mummy a overspread with
Egyptian subjects and hieroglyphic signs. In the
interior of the case are the signs of the Zodiac. •

EXECUTION.

Saturday morning, soon after eight o'clock, John
Brooks, who had assumed the name of John Wood-
■of, a private in the 51st refit. for breaking open
the house of Capt. J. K. White, R.N. in Jubilee
Terrace, Portsmouth, and stealing considerable
property ; and John Hughes, fur a similar crime, in
the parish of Romsey Extra, attended with cruelty
towards the proprietor, M r. Hickman, and his house-
keeper, both old and feeble persons, were executed,
pursuant to their sentences, on the new drop, at the
back of the City Gaol, Winchester. Brooks was
only ee years of age, a native of the Isle of Wight,
where he has • father and mother now living, and
who came on Wednesday, and took a most affect-
ing leave of him. He acknowledged having com-
mitted many other offences, among them, of his
being the person who took Mr. Culley's till, in
Winchester, et the time the regiment lay in the
barracks. Brooks, before his execution, confessed
that he broke into Captain White's alone ; that he
carried away all the property except the dollarautid
notes. of which he denird in the last any know Irdge,
but this denial, it is suspected, arose from a desire
to shield those persons to whom he had disposed of
them; for, before his trial. he told some of Ins
fellow prisoners that lie had them and the notes
concealed ; that Thornton did not know of the
robbery till the next day, when he acquainted him
with it for the purpose of his getting a pass and
taking the property to London. During his con-
finement he ingeniously framed • ladder with small
faggot sticks, lung enough in reach the top of the
wall, mid sufficiently strong to bear his weight, by
which lie intended to have escasied ; but it was
frustrated by the vigilance of Mr. Macklin, turnkey
of the gaol. He told some of the prisoners !lilt if
he had escaped he should have gone to Portsea, got
his treasure, and sailed for America. Since his

con& 1111 l ation he received the kindest attention Nod
assistance of the Chaplain of the prison (the Rrv.
Mr. Zillwood), at first with little advantage to hint,
but as his time grew shorter, and all hopes of it re-
prieve being at an end (which he for a time indulgrd
ill), he was more serious in his preparation. Ile
was a fine young man, but had long borne • bad
character in his regimetit. There were five other
persons charged with Brooks in the robbery, two of
whom, Malachi Thornton and John Smith, were
also sentenced to dead), but were afterwards re-
prieved.
John Hughes, the other unhappy culprit, was
only nineteen years of age. He conducted himself
very penitently since Ins condemnation, and ay-
koowledged that he had long lived a life of plun-
der. He left Bsistol in company with the man con-
cerned frith him in the rubbery (but he would not
disclose his name) for the express purpose of rob-
bing Hickman's house, understanding that he
always kept property in it. He was a native of
Hedington, a village near Caine. in IViltshne,
where his father and mother are now living, who are
honest industrious people, and who endeavoured to
bring hem up to honest habits, and the trade of a
latlicutter, but whose advice he scuffed at ; and it
was heart-rending to witness the parting scene of
the poor old father from his profligate but dying son.
FA EL .110 IRA PACKET.

The total number of persons s►ved amounted to fifty.
four, of whom three were females. The bodies of only
fourteen of the siiffeiers have, es yet. been picked up. four
of which have been brought to Liverpool, Mice women
and one man. Throe men, three women, and three
ehildrea have been taken up at Wallasey. The names
of the persons brought here are Elie ilieth Yates, Chat
Milner, Catharine Grace, and Matthew *Bride, who have
all been interred. Catharine Grace, with her two in-
fants, who had been picked tip at Wallasey, was interred on
Monday, the disconsolate limbssid and father having come
hither from Nlanchester, where they reside. The names of
only two of the persons picked op at Wallasey arc already
aseutiuned.—(Liverpool Chronicle.)