The National Register.
London, England, 1814-03-20 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

CAL`I lON To P.anrris.—A turlancholv accident occurred on Thnrg
day evw•ine to two floe childreh, belonging to Mrs. Wilson, in Whit.
oolub court, Whitcomb-street, H iymarkt_i, wlio, during the temporary
ojsence of Mrs. W. began playing wi:l; some lighted paper. which im-
ineliately set fire to their elutLes, and dreadful to relate, they were
w-orly burnt to ashes. The bodies presented a scene too shucking .for
description.
Lenart N sTert, M4n r 6.—A dreadful accident occurred in this
town yesterday evettiotr, by the falling of a floor over the kitchen of
wynde, a rasrriable maltster and merchant. Tire floor, it
appears, was loaded with a lane quantity of wheat, but not being
properly scenred, some of the timbers gave way, and the whole was
instantaneonsly precipitated through a second floor into the kitchen,
where Mts. Wvhde, her aunt, four children. awl two female ser•
wants, wrre.,itting., An alarm being immediately !zi..en..by a man-
servant, who happened fortunately to escape, though burial neatly
breast high. the nmst prompt assistance was rat rdtd, and in le2s
than half an hour the whole wete dug out.- The three yontiger chil-
dren were dead floor sutfec%tiont and the two servants front violent
enntusiot s and frarthres on their hoods. Every exertion was made
by a lumber of medical
.men, who we re soon upon the spot, to re-
Cote ahimation, but without effect. Mrs. Ni'vrole, her hunt.- anti
the eldest danuhtcr, miraenlonsly e:caped death, the aunt and
danghter fotu-ti in an upright situation, covered ,;bent .breast
high with fallen timbers, bricks, and grain. Mrs. Wynde was the
last that was discovered (except the two servants). upon the floor.
under the whole of the rubbish, and by proper exertions, was soon•
recovered but her immediate inquiries about her children, and her
lamentations when informed of the fate of her family, were heart-
rending beyond description, Indeed but', a truly distressing scene

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was scarcely ever•witnessed. Mr. Wynk, Wlie had been subpeeatted
to Worcester Assizes, arrived this 'meaning by express ; and those
-who arc husbands and parents may feel, but cannot dc...cribe his si-
tuation—bereft in an instant of nearly the whole of his family.
Moat MOUTH, A sacs 9.—About 27 years ago. the body of a young
woman named Mery Prichard, was found in a twill-pond in the neigh.
bourhond of LongtOwn,:in the county of Hereford, with many marks of
violence theron, and a Cornuer's Jury being summoned, after a patirnt
investigation, deliveeed `a verdict of Wilful Murder. The deceased
had for some time' lived servant with Mr. Gilbert, of Cluddock, and
two young men, John Davies and John Jones, being her intimate ac.
quaintance, suspicion fell upon the..., and they were' in conssinence
apprehended.- Jones had formerly lived at Mr. Gillitnt's with her as
a fellow servant;. but his then mists ss (Mrs. Hopkins, Erelandon)
sweariug that he was in her Weise all the evening, that heavent to b'-d
before her, and that he did not rise till alter she Was up; and this be-
ing cot roborated ,by a lay, who swore that he slept with him, and
that to the best of his knowledge he was tint out Of bed till he arse
With him to gl to their usual emnlovtuvat, he was discharged. 'Davies
also proved his innocence. Some time after this Jones left that neigh-
lawhood and took up his residence in Monmouthshire, when he mar-
red, and had five children, but his wife has been dead some years,
and lie iv now in the decline of life. Being at length severely afflicted
with illness, and fearing the approach of death, rte sent .a few days
since. for the Rrv. Mr. Saver, of k, to .vliota he Made a full
confession of the murder. He acknowledges that he retired to rest
with the boy before his mistress went to bed, that when he thought
all the family was asleep, (having previ,iusly appointed to meet the un-
happy girl, who was pregnant by him), he stole out of the house,
committed the hart id deed, and returned to his bed without disturbing
any one, having .been,bit! a few ninutes absent. lle still lives, though
in a very weak mote, .and appears much easier in his mind since the
confession. His present :evidence is ohPenalth Common, near the
Harglied, about, three miles from hence.

BIRTHS.
At Evington, Kent, the Lady of Sir J. C. Honeywocd, Bart. of a
soil.
The four children of Mrs. Pickworth, of Sempringitsm, Lin-
colnshire, whose extraordinary delivery we mentioned last week, are
all since dead.

• MARRIED.
At St. Mary-le-hone Church, the Hon. John Reginald Lygon.
second ti on .of ,Lord Beauchamp, to the Lady Charlotte Scott, only
-daughter of the and sister to the pre.ent Earl of Clonmell.
On Wednesday 11,1orning, at St.. Martins Church, Mr. john Kelly,
Bookbinder of the Strand, to Mrs. Reed, of the Cheshire cheese.
Russelteofirt.
On Sunday the 13th inst. was buried, at St. Dtmstan's church.
Fleet-street, Mrs. Smith, vkiife of Mr. Benjamin Smith, 'auctioneer
and appraiser, of Carev-street, near !.jncoln's Inn, who had a solemn
dirge ping in the evening ; and on Monday morning, the 11,h
the said, Mr. Benjamin Suith was married to a young lady whout
(report says) he never saw until Siturday evening, preceding the fu-
nerd! of his late wife. He obtained a merry peal to be rung on tk,
occasion of es the ceremony.

DIED.
Ate Treilrea, in Cornwall, tlre Rev. E. 'Giddy, Senior Magistrate
of that county, in his B)th year..
At Northampton, Mr. Charles Smith, a vigilant Magistrate of that
town, and Treasurer of the infirmary.'
At Welbeek street, H. JorlrA, Esq. of Bayfield Hall, in Nor-
folk, many years Recorder of Great Yarmouth and Representative
in Parliament for that town and Bramber.
In London, rather dilhipectedly, where he 'had gone to consult
his physician, the Rev. J. Wise, many years Curate of Rochford,
Essex, and one of the oldest inhabitants of the Rochtord Hundred.

t 92, STRAND.
. PATENT SELP-AD.,,TSTING ,TRUSSES.
These Instriiments..are 'Ten an entire t! principle, the Springs
arc so eonstructvd as to admit of increase or decrease in size and
force ; w;ll answer for right and left side, without any strap
whatever.
SIT ZION, ODY, and Co. confidently recommend a trial to all
those whn prefer perfect ease mid seenkitv to the galling application
of the common Truss, on their a-nal liberal terms, viz. that the full
cot shall be returned to gall Purchasem if not found superior in case
and eflect to every other invention, after any trial, welt., er
The l)::tente6s have •reccivcd the fAlowitig appointments : The
Royal Navy. the Navy Hospitals lid Mick-yards, the Ortlitaixt.,
Greenwich Hospital, the HoiJourable East India CO?liritly, N(!.
N. B. Persons residing in the country, sending the eirl•auiterviire
of the body, in inchesl just above the hips, inactivec:.d qua IP ;Hz
accurately fitted.