The National Register.
London, England, 1808-07-31 00:00:00

PRAM,' 1 kI.S.

ORIt;HTON, Jet.v 22.—A singular accident occurred here
last night. Two sailors, who had landed but a shot time before
front the Dapper gun-brig, lying-to oft' the town, in passing up
North-street, observed a whisky empty, standing at the door of
the Coach and Horses-inn in Notth-street, a boy having the care
of the animal in the shafts. The sailors, both nearly intoxi-
cated, instantly determined on a ride, and presently seated theta-
selves in the vehicle, and called to the boy who held the horse,
to take care of himself. Without conceiving it necessary to
make use of the reins, the whip was now forcibly applied, and
the horse at full speed, dashed off with them. On reachihg the
top of the street, the horse, in lieu of pursuing the road over the
hurch-hill, took another that led into a chalk-pit, when., in
the end, his progress being impeded, lie turned himself about,
' and returned down North-street with the same degree of speed
as he had previously passed up, one sailor continuing furiously
to make use of the whip, while the other, with Stentorian )uric:,
desired all the people he saw to take care of their hulks, lest his
vessel, which was sailing after the rate of twenty knots an hour,
should run them down. It was at this tiple about half past nine
o'clock, and rather dark, so that the individuals ia the street,
from the irregular progress of the chaise, being as often on the
footpath as on the carriage road, were occasionally in the mast
imminent danger of being rode over. The sailors, however,
passed down North-street, and through Castle-square w ith safe-
ty ; but on reaching the Ste) ne, the horse, instead of turnin4, n 9
by the bye-road to the right, made a desperate leap at the fence,
breaking one of the posts and two of the rails, and throwing the
sailors with dreadful violence on the ground. One of them was
but little hurt, but the other had two of his ribs and his collar-
, bone broken. The latter was taken, in a senseless state, to the
shop of \l r. New ham, surgeon, w here restoratives were applied
with success, and he was subsequently put into a boat and con-
veyed to his vessel. The horse, with the chaise in a verb shat-
tered state at his heels, put to the rout the fashionable pedes-
trians on the Step ne, occasioning a scene of confusion there that
may be better conceived than expressed. Happily no oue, the
sailor excepted, was hart; and the horse, without hating sus-
tained any material damage whatever, was ultimately stopped
in the inner inclosure of the North part of the walk.
T EII OT rAToEtt.—ln a garden in Ipswich, on Tuesday
s'nnight, at a quarter past two P. M. the thermometer . was 99
degrees. On Wednesday, at the same hour, 93 ; and on Thurs-
day, at one P. M. 99 ; at live P. M. the tame dal, it had sunk
to 93; and at eight P. M. only to 80. Ott Friday, at five A. I.
it was 65. with sky cloudy, threatening a sudden change. On a
registering thermometer, near the Quay, it stood on Thursday
at 97. On another, placed in the steeple at St. Peter's Church,
the column of air there was 91, and in a garden near RV. 1t)
the marshes, contiguous to the town,
it was only hi, w hick
might be referred to a freer access of air, to evaporation front
the river, or to the different hour in which experiment was
made. The heat, at one M. on Thursday, was perhaps the
greatest summer heat ever noticed in the Eastern part of our
island. hoerhaave concluded, that should the heat of the :Lir
ever equal the standard of human heat, tv hich, front the naafis-
feet ion of the thermometer in his time, he placed at 9a, mstead
of 9S the true standard, that man could not remain in ex isteuce.
lint this great philosopher, in this, was mistaken : tor in the
observations above, it was exceeded by :t degree. In the Last
Indies it is frequently at l 0 within doors ; yet man not
nnly
lives, but lives int health. This happy accommodation ot
his
system of circumstances is brought about by the simple law of
evaporation ; for as the beat acemmtlates, it is carried out by a
more copious perspiration, awl the standard is preserved at the
f
same point. Transport him again to the icy mountains O.
lireenland, a:ld he will also live in health ; for pertpralloo, no"