The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-20 00:00:00

ZHOCKING ACCIDENTS.

Yesterday, as three boys it; the employ of News. Yoyer
and Hicks, chimney-sweepers, in James.atreet, Grosvenor.
square, were sifting root in a vault occupied by their mas-
ters, in Bird.strect, the arch gave way, and !storied two of
them in the ruin,. Oue was immediately got out, with
little injury ; the other, about 12 years of age, owing to the
great holy of rubbish which fell upon him, was not found
for ■pwards of an hour, when he was lifeless.
On ruiday evening last, as a party of Ishonring men, of
Chester, were on their return home, proceeding up a bill,
near Hm:thou, with a waggon load of coals, drawn by them-
inlets, six or seven of them, who were pushing at the back
part of ulhe vehicle, fell down at the • uric time, owing to the
shpprry state of the rued: the men polling iu trout out
being aisle, in consequence of this occurrence, to hold the
waggon, it receded, with great rapidity, down the hill, and
in its progress the wheel passed over the hotly of tine of
them, of the name of Job 11..eilow (a native of that eily),
and crushed him dreadfully. He was removed to a public-
house ii. the Neighbourhood, where, after lingering in guest
agony about two hours, he expired.

rFrom a Gioacetter Paper.)
Oa Monday last a poor boy, named James Brodie, was
drowned in the river Severn, at the quay, in this city, iu the
humane attempt to Midst a dug, which had been mischiev.
ovsly thrown on the ice. He bail succeeded in getting to
the animal when the ice broke, and no assistance could he
afforded him. His body has nut yet been found.
Amongst the casualties brought to our Infirmary last
week was one which befel a little boy, who became entangled
amongst the machinery, at a clu:hing•mill, near Stroud, and
bad both his thighs broken.
Tuesday evening last, a poor fellow was brought to Bristol
Infirmary, from Mangoisfichl, in this county, with one of
his legs torn entirely off, by the machiner• of a coal-pit.
The limb was so shattered, that hr was obliged to submit
to immediate amputation above the knee. Nothing but his
extraordinary presence of mind saved him from instant death.
The chain caught his body in a coil ; but he pushed it
down with all his strength, and disengaged himself. His
expression was, that the tearing air of the limb " was done
in the twinkling of an eye, and he scarcely fell it!" There
is at present every reason to hope that he will du well.

There was a thin market at Norwich on Saturday,
and little business was transacted. The prices of
corn remained much as last week.—There was more
stock than buyers on the Hill, feed being difficult
to procure. The peas were partially tilled, but
mutton keeps up its price.
1)n the afternoon of NVediresdayse'unight. as
Mr. WALTER CI!AMBERLAIN, youngest son of the
late Chief Magistrate of Worcester, was amusing
himself with skating on the Diglis Basin, near
that city, he suddenly fell through a hole slightly
frozen over ; on rising, he caught at the surrounding
ice, which broke under his grasp, and lie a second
time stink into more than nine feet of water; hut
more fortunate in his reinimersion, he caught, by
one hand, a firmer hold. whilst Mr. DEtritteors,
stationer, who saw the dreadful accident at a con-
siderable distance, swiftly approached, and, regard-
less of danger, a ith a prompt humanity highly
honourable to him, rescued this young man front a
watery grave. Much praise is likewise due to the
great presence of mind shewn by a little boy, who,
skating close after him, and seeing the plunge, sud.
denty threw himself on his back near the aperture,
and by catching at his coat, on rising the last time,
materially assisted in supporting him till Mr.
DEIGUTOWS Plost provideoial arrival.

LORD BYRON.

A gentleman of this town, whose literary ardour
and tasteful pursuits have led him to visit moat of
the capitals and principal towns in France, Ger-
many, Switzerland. and Italy, in his prowess re.
sided some time at Venice. In a principal coffee-
house of that city, in the Piaui St. Mark. he
found himself in company with Lord Byron. with
whom he conversed a considerah;e time. his Lord-
ship mistaking his interlocutor for en Italian. On
discovering the fact that the person with whom he
was discoursing was an Englishman, his Lordship
did not manifest that disposition to avoid the society
of his countrymen, which has been so generally at-
tributed to him. The deportment of this Noble-
man was distinguished by the eccentricity of hew-
ing two handsome horses. which lie almost daily
exercised in • limited spot, called, " The New
Foundation." to the great astonishment of the Ve-
neri•ns, who, besides coutemplating she famous '
brazen horses of St. Mark. very rarely witness a
steed in their aque•wo city. Terre is another trait
in his Lordship's conduct which, in justice, we must
rueutiots. and which it is pleasurable to record. His
Lordship's inuaificence Ices berm displayed in seer•
rah pre•emntent arts of liberality. sad has excited
towards him, in consrq • seutiment of respect
and admiration,. The lust instance which occurred
was that which arose from the destruction by fire
of the house of a shoemaker, near his Lordship's
residence its St. Samuel, who lost every article lie-
longing to him, and was, with a large family, re-
duced to a must pitiable condition. Lord Byron
keying ascertained the afflicting circumstances of
that calamity, ordered a new and superior habits•
lion to be immediately built for the sufferer, the
whole expense of which was borne by his Lordship,
who also presented the ank-tunate tradesman with
a sum equal in value to the whole of his lost stuck
in trade sod furniture.— ( Tairsaan Courier.)

A detachment of the 634 regiment arrived in
this city on Friday, the 14th instant, from Ply-
mouth, and marched on Saturday morning to Li-
verpool. On the latter day the remaining part of
the same regiment reached here, and remained in
quarters until yesterday morning, when they pro-
ceeded to the above town. Their destination is the
sister kingdom.—(Chester Guardian.)
Un Saturday, the 15th instant, the first division
of the 634 regiment, under the command of Cul.
OIiARA, arrived here from Plymouth to embark
for Ireland. The remainder of the regiment is ex-
pected this day and to•ruorrow.—(Liverpool Ad-
vertiser.)

In looking over some productions of the daily
press, about half • century old, we were struck
with the following proposal in a newspaper of 1771,
the approximation of which (though of course in
an imperfect degree) to the charity now carried
into etfcct at London-wall, may be considered as
curiaus

" Until proper and convenient halls can Ise built for the
purpose, let a house in every ward he hired and fitted up in
the following manner:—Let a large German stove be placed
in the middle of the room, with a long funnel to be led per-
pendicularly to near the ceiling, and then to take a bend to
be brought into the chimney. By that means as much heat
will proceed from the funnel as from the stove itself, and the
fewer coals will be requisite to warm the room. Round this
stove let there be placed fixed benches at a convenient
distance, and another row of the same along the wall.
Between those two rows of benches let there be laid at night
canvass bags filled with straw for the poor to lie upon; sod
lel them be laid in such a manner that the bench at the wall
shall serve to cover their heads. A flap of cloth or leather
Axed to the bench, and depending from it, might supply the
use of a curtain. Let clean straw be put into the bags every
month; let there be two porters belonging to each hall,
who should relieve each other's atteoslauce every six hours.
Their business should be to sweep the hall, supply the
mese with cual9, and take charge of the bags of straw. They
should also have anthority to keep order in the hall, and
to admit no more people into it than it could conveniently
contain. No eating, drinking, or smoking should be al-
lowed in the hall. The hall should he lighted with lamps,
hung up out of the reach of the people. One ward should
have • hall for melt, Our ward a ball fur women, alternately
through the city."
Ar Huntingdonshire Quarter Sessions, John
Leads and Junta Curter were indicted fur stealing
thirteen turkies and two geese, the property of
JOHN PASHELLRR, Esq. of Godmancheater.
Leach having turned King's evidence, Carter was
found Guilty, and sentenced to seven years trims.
portation.—frillium Thorley, John West, trillium
WWl's, William Neale, and Henry Sawyer, were
indicted for an assault on JAMES BARNES. a con-
stable of Eyiresbury. The Prosecutor belongs to
a party of singer., who, last Christmas-eve, went
round the town rf Eynesbury. singing hymns and
carols; they were annoyed by the Prisoners, who
followed them, drowning their voices by noise. and
inging immoral and indecent songs. BARNES
frequently requested them to go home, which they
refused to do; at lust, after much provocation, he
laid hold of Sawyer, told him he was a constable,
and insisted on his going with him to the cage.
Sawyer on this struck him a violent blow on the
face, made his month and nose bleed, tript up his
heels, and ran away. He was afterwards again
brought to the ground, when the whole party
rolled him in the kennel, and struck him several
times. They were all found Guilty; Sawyer and
Thorley were sentenced to be imprisoned one
month ; the others to enter each into a recogni-
zance of 101. to appear in Court at any future time,
if called upon, to receive punishment.
It has long beets a vu bject of complaint, that
letters to and from foreign parts, by way of Har-
wich, travel round by London, which occasions de-
lay in some cases of two days. Many merchants
and others, therefore. resort to ship conveyances
from trading ports. whereby the security of cor-
respondence. and the Post-office revenue, are ma- I
terially affected. To remedy this, it is proposed,
that the various mails and cross posts which already
run near the direction of Birmingham, Coventry,
Lutterworth, tlarboro', Kettering, Huntingdon,
Cambridge, and Ipswich or Colchester, to Her.
rich, a distance of 160 miles, should be connected
and put into one coach, so regulated as to leave
Birmingham at noon. to pass the Chester and Holy-
head. Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow,
Edinburgh. Lincoln and Norfolk mails, very soon
after they pass South, and the lost-mentioned mails
immediately before they pass North, mid to arrive at
Harwich at noon, in tune for the foreign packet.—
This plait will save much time in foreign letters
passing Harwich, ill or. from most parts of Eng.
lauds N9lth of London, all Ireland, and all Starts
a laud.

LAW INTELLIG-ENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, laireas.W9 Irrj
WIIDNViDAT, JANUARY 19.

LUNACY.
WILLETT IN TES MATTES OF WILLETT, •
LUNATIC.
Mr. SIDEBOTTON requested leave to mention
this petition in lunacy. It merely related to the
regulation the income of the lunatic ; he had been
allowed 3,0001. per annum for his maintenance, but
the rents and refits of his estates having fallen
lower than that sum, it was found necessary to re-
duce his annual allowance. The rents and profits
bad now 'risen considerably abase the 3,0001. a
year ; hod what the petition prayed was, that it
might be referred to the Master, to inipiire and
report, whether it would hot triad to the comforts
of the luttalic, teat the original sum ordered by the
Court should he allowed for las maintenance.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—" Take your mo-
The prater of the petit granted.
LEGITIMACY.
GOLDING, AN INFANT, BY His NEXT FRIEND,
V. EULETT AND OTHERS.
[The circumstances of t!tis case we reported yes-
terday.]
Mr. HORNE, Counsel for the infant Plaintiff,
said, it was not his intention to follow the course or
his Learned Friends, by entering into the evidence
given before the Jury, as he had a much better
ground of opposing the present application for •
new trial, that of the verdict of the same Jury, es-
tablishing the legitimacy of his client, ou the evi-
deuce which had been so much arraigned. Did his
Learned Friends suppose that the memories of the
witnesses would be refreshed on a new trial, if it was
granted, because ten years had elapsed since they
had been in the Jury-box? If they had this ex-
pectation, it must be from come communication the
Defesidauts had with the witnesses. He would not
call it tampering, but a second Jury would know how
to appreciate it, if ever they were produced before
them ; but that opportunity they would not have,
as he was certain his Lordship would never grant ■
new trial. As to the opinion of the late Lord Chief
Justice of the Court of king's Bench, at the trial
of the issue, it could not now have any weight—it
hail not any with the Jury, for they returned a ver-
dict in contradiction to it, and must properly, as it
was not a question ef law, but merely an issue for
the decision of the Jury 011 the evidence adduced
before them, " whether the infant Plaintiff was the
legitimate son of the late Mr. John Golding, or
not ;" and they declared by their verdict that he
was, and he would undertake to say, that if it went
to ten Juries on the same evidence, they would re-
turn similar verdicts. The Defendants had not
attempted to shew that they had any new evidence
to prove the illegitimacy of the infant Plaintiff,
but rested their application for a new trial on the
very evidence which, ten years back, a Jury had
returned a verdict establishing his legitimacy. He
was not Counsel in the cause when his late
Learned Friend, INIr. Holies, moved, after the
determination of the issue, for a receiver, which was
granted, and at the statue time (ma he understood
from his Learned Friend, Mr. Hart) that he was
about to move for a new trial, whets he was stopped
by his Lordship, and told he might move it when
the cause came on for further directions : from not
being in the cause, it certainly was not in his recol-
lection, but he was of opinion, if his Lordship
thought Mr. Hart had a strong case to entitle him
to a new trial, he would have allowed him to have
mode his motion then, and not ten years afterwards.
He would not trouble his Lordship with any further
observations, as he was convinced he would dismiss
the application.
Mr. HART replied.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that his opi-
nion was fully formed on this application, which
was, that it was his duty to dismiss it, and empha-
tically added, " I will hear no more of it."
Application dismissed, which confirms the legi-
timacy of the infant Plaintiff, who, we understand,
is about 18 years of age, and heir to 30,0001.

Tuesday was settling day for the Account,
when an unusually great quantity of liminess was
done. The funds have since declined. The Con-
sols+ closed yesterday at 67!, and for account at
672.
The letters of Saturday last from Paris quote
the concluding price of the relates on that day, at
72 r. 30 c., with 24. 80. fur the rate of exchange—
s material improvement un the prices brought by
the preceding mail. The previous fall is attri-
buted to very extensive sales made on English
accounts.

It hes been affirmesl, on the authority of intelli-
gence received through the United States, that
such was the unfavourable state of the troops of
the Royalists in Caraccas, that General MortitAo
had determined to proceed to the Havannuh, where
lie was expected on the 10th of November. Let.
ter*, however, from thence • month later than this
date, do not give any confirmation to the report.
iVithin the last day or two some vessels have reach.
ed the coast from the West Indies, one of them
from Trinidad ; but no late information respecting
the operations of the Royalists mid Patriots have
been received by any of them. It i., however,
stated by the Agents for the Patriots in London,
General Mott:m.o was at San Carlos, where he
would be attacked by the troops under General
Boj,iyAo. from a western direction, and by the
English forces which were at Maturin, ou the 20th
October.

We feel much pleasure in communicating that
the documents forwarded by the Sovereign to Mr.
GRANT, respecting the poor Irish families tran-
sported from Cailtale to this country, and landed
in the most forlorn manner upon our coast, under
the provision of two Acts !moved in the SO' of the
King, have received the immediate attention of the
Chief Secretary, whose reply to Mr. Vsam se. testi-
fies the kind interest lie takes in the concerns of
this country•. He closes his letter by requesting
Mr. Veltman " will communicate to the Commit-
tees who have called the attention of the Govern-
ment to the Acts in question, that the Government
will not fail to pay to their appeal every con•
sideration."—Ths u a gratifying centuple of the
confidenecto be reposed in the Secretary for Ire.
land.—(Beffaat News Letter./