The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-06-05 00:00:00

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Of tht Queen, and adverted toils, continuance of his
Majesty's subscription of 100/. per annual by the
Prince Regent to this Society.
The eventing was spent with the utmost hirmony
—and a considerable subscription was entered into
to promote the objects of this valuable system.
As his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex was
driving in a landau and four horses, accompanied
by Mr. Bennett, to attend this Meeting, ot as he
had passed through Islington, at one o'clock, and
while the landau was turning into a narrow pant
of the road, a child was nt the moment dartini!,
across, and fell between the wheels of the coach.
The drivers, with admirable dexterity, pulled up
at the instant, and the child was thrown by a graze
of one of the fore-wheels under the body of the
landing; but the stopping was so sudden, that the
hind-wheels rested almost at the moment, and the
child lay just under the body of the carriage. The
alarm being given by the postillions, a pour woman
accidetitally passing at the instant, rail and took
the child up in her arms. It seemed about four
or live years of age, and was naturally greatly
alarmed, with. its left arm bleeding. His Royal
Highness and Mr. Bennett instantly jumped out
of the land.itd begged to be conducted with
the child t nearest medical assistance. A gen-
Ileum) passing at the time felt the arm of the child,
and assiirerrhis Royal Highness, that there was no
fracture. The Duke and Mr. Bennett accompa-
nied the %/Ninon who curried the child to the next
surgeon's rlllidence, but he was from home, and in
answer to an eager inquiry of whether he could not
be sent for, it was said neither tlw surgeon nor his
partner were shortly expected. 'Flue illustrious
Duke and Mr. Bennett then went to the next apo-
thecary's shop, and after an examination of the
I child by the gentlemmi, had the satisfaction of
knowing that the injury was a mere contu-
sion in the fleshy part of the left arm, unac-
companied by any fracture. This forma'
gave evident satisfaction to the distinguished
parties. The woman, who happened to be acci-
dentally passing, and who carried the child in her
arms after the accident, received a Bank note fur
her trouble ; the mother of the child was immedi-
ately sent for, and the Royal Duke did not quit
the place until she came, and the necessary direc-
tions were given for the ultimate care of the child.
The anxiety of his Royal Highness and Mr. Ben-
nett was extreme. The wound was so slight that
the apothecary bound up the child's uriu merely
with the common adhesive plaister.
As his Royal Highness returned to the place
where lie had left his equipage, the feelings of the
spectators, suddenly attracted by the rumour of
the accultut, evinced that acknowledgment of his
Royal Highness's propriety and humanity to which
Isis conduct on the oci'asion so particularly entitled
him. Not the slightest blame could attach to the
drivers, and the child's escape was perfectly mi-
raculous. We fear these constant escapes have no
efr-ct in remedying the negligence of the lower
classes in the cure of their children in the vicinity
of the public roads.