The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-14 00:00:00

POISONED PICKLES.

A person apparently of robust habit, but evidently suffering from
recent illness, applied yesterday to the sitting magistrate, It. Twy.
ford, Esq. at Worship-street, under the following circumstances:
On Monday afternoon he had dined at an eating-house. The din-
ner consisted of a beefsteak, with some pickled onions and cucum.
bent. He afterwards went home. About eleven o'clock at night
he was seized with the most excruciating pains. A surgeon being
sent for, an inquiry was instituted as to that the patient had taken
that day, and the pickles being mentioned, the surgeon, coupling the
circumstance with the symptoms of his patient's disorder, concluded
that the pickles were strongly impregnated with some preparation
of copper, which opinion was afterwards confirmed by examining
the contents of the stomach. Half an hour later, the consequences
must hare been fatal. His object was to guard the public against
I such it dreadful risk, by making this public statement.
Mr. Twyford observed that he had no control over the press;
and that if the applicant's object was to give publicity to the state-
r went, he should at once apply to the press.
The applicant then retired.

F• TA L Acet DEN T.—We briefly noticed in out last rum-
ber, the distressing event which happened on Monday, the
'nth of August, when, by the upsetting of a small boat off
Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight, a young gentleman and
his two sisters met with a watery grave; the seaman, an
individual of the name of Prowten, alone escaping to tell
the tale. It appears that the three unfortunate young per-
sons were the children of Samuel Headen, Esq. a London
merchant, and had been for some time lodging in a cottage
near Shanklin Chine. The boat upset on an attempt to
r turn, when about three miles from the shore ; the water-
wan succeeded in gaining possession of the wreck, while
bottom upwards. and after drifting some considerable dis-
tenet undressed himself, and swam for his life, which was
shyer; by his being discovered and picked up, much ex-
haused, near Bonchurch. It does not appear, even by his
owh relation, that he made the least , exertion to save the
unfortunate young persons who were perishing around
111P11. The bialies bf the deceased hive not yet been dis-
covered, which deprives the distracted parents of the only
melancholy consolation left. Boats have been daily em-
ployed in the search, but as yet without success.—South-
ampton Herald. _ _

AT:ARMING Ftas.—A serious fire, threatening the most
destructive consequences, and attended with the loss of
life, broke out yesterday morning in the premises of Mr.
Bell, an oilman, residing in Shoreditch. About a quarter
past twelve the watchman, on going his usual round, ob-
Served some smoke issuing from the lower part of the house,
and immediately gave the alarm. For some time his
effbrts, as he supposed, to awaken the inhabitants were in-
effectual. The house was completely in flames before any 11
tidings could be gained of the fate of the inmates. Happily,
however, only one person has fallen a victim to the devour-
ing element, and that is Mr. Bell himself. It seems that
the female part of the family, upon hearing the alarm, ,
effeCted their escap,- through the back of the premises,
whilst Mr. Bell, mt. :,d^rl by his man, endeavoured to
force a passage through the lower part of it. On proceed-
ing down the stairs, howevP-, the smoke became so dense,
that they were nearly suffoesteri. Tite man endeavoured
Ito persuade his master to absnelon his iment ion of reaching
the street by the front door, and they were in the act of re-
tuning when the staircase gave way, and precipitated the
master into the destructive eletrifitt. Mrs. Bell cut herself
most dreadfully by falling on the skylight, and the ssomah
-servant is most shockingly bruised. Mr. Bell's house is
rendered a complete skeletqn, and scarcely a vestige of the
property it contained saved. The house of Mr. Jacobs,
and that of Mr. Recce, which adjoin that of Mr. Bell,
r bate sustained considerable damage, and property to a
'ay large amount has been in the latter destroyed. Mrs.
Jacobs, whose aceouchement Is expected every hour, re-
mains in a very dangerous nate, in consequence of the
fright she has undergone. • The pickpockets were, as usual,
on the alert, and several offenders are new in custody, who
were taken before the Magistrates.

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paid his two-peeve to walk along the paved
algae the pier, promenaded the pier as if foul*
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mastery absence of all persons from the pier heed, mounted the'
taking, and thence plunged into the Rea. The pier-mutes instantly
=scout ropes and grappling irons • but they availed nothintetti:
were made to get out boats, but they failed, the sea
airy tough. About halt a dozen strong and astonishingly Mew-
taxon. fishermen 'then provided themselves with long ropes; W
fasten to belts strapped round the middle; these ropes were fas-
tened to the strong railings formed along the made-beach leading to
the plealead, and each rope had several men to gaud it and pull
back the rhea who might bo washed off too far by the dashing of the
waves and the Mrce of the breakers. titre they waited for events,
but yearly ten o'clock had arrived before any signal was given that
the body had been seen. Cy this time thousands of spectators
thronged the beach, the pier-walk, the jetty, and every station
commanding a view of the sea where the men were lashed to the
ropes, A shout was given that the body was visible; and such
was the fact ; about every. eighth or ninth wave the head, the
clothes, or the body, was visible for a painful moment by the thou.
sands of anxious spectators. The men rushed forward through
the surging of the sea as soon as they caught any glimpse of
the body ; but long before any of them could get near it, the
breakers knocked them back and rendered them powerless, while
the retiring waves were seen bearing the body back several
hundred feet. This state of things continued for more than an
hour, the body at every eighth or ninth wave appearing at a
great distance from the men, bat lost to their view and their
grasp, as BOOR as they got any where near it. At last the
body got into such a station that it was beaten in and out in
nearly the same line t the men observed this regular recurrence,
and then every time they rushed out, on returning they made
towards each other u well as they could, and closed as much as
possible, so that if they were lucky enough to get before the body,
in retiring it might come against their persons, end thus enable
them to clutch it. Eventually this plan succeeded ; three of them
were seen to stoop under the waves, as if clasping something ; and
the waves, which had increased in fury, having again broke over
them on retiring, enabled them to walk towards the beach, and it
soon became visible that they had got the body. Vray was promptly
made by other men, and the body was got on shore, greatly bruised
and cut, particularly about the shoulders. The -face was also
greatly disfigured and lacerated, but not so much is might hare
been expected, considering the rough agitations to which the head
must have been subjeeted. The clothes were torn into strips, par-
ticularly the smallclothes ; they altogether, with the mutilations
of the body, presented a most tattered and appalling appearanoe.
Soon after the suicide had jumped from the pier-head, Inquiries
were naturally enough made as to who he could be. It was not
!wig before it was ascertained that Joseph Idle, the landlord of the
White Horse in the rear of the White Horse Inn, kept by Mr.
Allen, near the Post-office, and leading to the East Cliff, had dis-
appeared from his home somewhere about seven or eight o'clock this
morning, under at least suspicious circumstances. IVithoured-
verting to wbat rumour says (perhaps erroneously) as to wranglings
aehome, for, true or not, the poor wife, whose confinement has
' been daily expected, at all events, must now be in affliction enough,
it appears that some threatening statements were made ; that the
roan took bls watch and money out of his pockets and put them into
the cupboard, and that he then quitted the house, proceeding di-
rect, as it has transpired, to the pier-head and plunging from the
railing there, as poen as the absence of observation presented the
opportunity. It is also stated (likewise perhaps erroneously), that
the landlord Idle was in very embarrassed circumstances. lie was
at
_young man, and, besides his wife, has left two children. Her
aMictiou is stated to be great. The body was taken to one of the
out-houses of the public-house, where medical men immediately
visited it. It remains there to await the Coroner's Inquest, which
cannot be till to-morrow, as the Coroner (Mr. Owynne) resides at
E Lewes.

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