The National Register.
London, England, 1817-01-20 00:00:00

11110VINCIALS.

CALAMITY AT Cltini IN WALF3.-011 CVellitlg
the Bath Mt. owing, as is supposed, to the servants in the
Ellesmere ICanal Company, the stop gates, plugs, tee.
for regulating the quantity of water ou that part of the Canal
which is embanked up to the Chirk Aqueduct, were neg-
lected ; the fatal consequeuce was, that flu:embankment be•
ingot erpowered by the great weight of superfluous water.
gave way, atid falltlig down a precipice, completely dammed
up the river Cering, which flows below it, and over which the
('anal is carried by an Aqueduct.—Tile water being tiles im-
peded, quickly found its way in :mother direction, aril in
half an hour every pit belonging to the colliery was tilled
with water, earth, gravel, The machinery was turn
to pieces by the tremendous force of the current, and very
cousiderable damage done to the stirrouuding country. Had
it not been for the judicious and timely imerference of Mi.
Edward Davies, engineer to the Chirk colliery, the whole of
its water must have swept away Chirk Mills, and every thing
in the valley, into one genet at tie-truction. Most providen-
tially this was the only nielit in whieli for several years past
the workmen were absent from the pits! They hal been
allowed a little flint. rollect Christmas bounties. All the
horses employed in the works were instantly drowned. The
loss to the Proprietors of the works, is immense.
PLUNDFItINO A IVREA K.—During a severe gale, ell-1y oa
Saturil ty fOrtiu glit. a brie was observed In Mount's bay, ap-
pro:telling the mifiuished harbour at Portleaveti ; when within
;theta two macs of the shore, *lie came t MI anchor, and sue•
everted in in riding out the storm moil about six o'clock in
the evening, when Molitor; that tio boat could approach, and
havilig, pat tell one auchor, the master cut the other and ran
the vessel ashore. as the ouly C111111(!e of preserving the lives
of the crew. She groan:led oa a tine sandy beach a little to
the eastward of the new pier, and as the title had began to
ebb, the whale of the crew were enabled to reach the shore
in safety. She proved to be the Resolution, ltrysan Master,
from Oporto to Loudon, with wine and ti nit. As sums a. the
ebb tide allowed, the vessel was entered by crowd, of ruf-
fians, who proceeded to plmider. All the private property
of the captain and crew was carried off; the heads of the
pipes and hogsheads were staved in, kegs, tee. filled with the
liquor ; the whole of the fruit was either scattered about or
carried away ; and out of a cargo of 375 pipes, amt 2i hogs-
heads of wine between 5 0 and 60 pipes were save by the
agents. About It dismounted dragoons from Helstnu came
' to the spot, lint they wholly unable to restrain the ferocious
multitude that rushed in oil all *ides. 'flit vessel by Monday
was a complete wreck. Surely sonic steps ought to he taken
to be taken to prevent t;it- recurrence of similes which, in the
eves of strangers, stamp such thsgraee on the county of Corn-
wall. We have no doubt that the magistrates in the neigh-
bourhood will do their duty, and endeavour to bring sume of
the principal ruffians to jitstice.
SINGULAR DETECTION OF A ROBBERY.—AIIIOIIIt a twelve-
month since, the house of a lady of Clifton, which had been
left in the care of servants, was one ft, ;ht completely stripped
of all its furniture, even 110W11 to iti hairs and tables: At a
sale last week in that village, an attendant thought he recog-
nised some articles he had seen before, and, after inquiring
of an upholsterer, ascertained that they hail oeen made by
111111 for the lady whose housc had been robbed. A warrant
WaS consequently obtained for the apprehension of the person
whose property was selling ; and upon examination before G.
Gal/key, I the Mattionne then sitting at Lawford's Gale,
the only account he email gist, of the nay in which the pro-
perty came into his hands, was, that lie bought it one mor g
of a sailor passing by his dour. lie has conseqiiently been
roily committed for trial at the next Gloucester Nisi/t.,.
A few evenings ago, as Mr. Wm. I zaril, of G rattco. wig re-
turning from Tewkesbury market, lie ssas !111/Oiled, about
three miles from that town, by a hieliwayntan, who presented
a pistol at his head, awl iluotatidell his money, Mr lizard re-
collecting tie had reeently passed two of his neighbours on
the road, immediately turned his horse romul and galloped
back towards 'Tewkesbury, the robber riding :11011.:Sille of
Rini all the time. and swearing he blow out his brains
it' be did mot stop and deliver lip his looney. When Mr.
I /aril came near his friends, he cried aloud for them to stop
the highwayman's louse, but they not bring able to effect this
purpose, he rode past them and escaped. There is ereat
reason to suspect that this villain is the same who recently
robbed Mr. River.
Some short time since an intent, a few day* old, was found
hanging from a tree, in Sandy-lane, near Kew ; it was !,us.
pendeil by the string of a colotired apron. Suepleirni tell
upon it .sultan who carried about milk at Alurtlnise ; sit. had
been remarked to be with child, and to have: appeortql
lees
:moot the period when the child was discov.•ll.ll; Slit! Was
asked if' she had lost an apron, and she triitl she had ; and on
the apron Lying shown to her, which was follll,l with the.
eli.iti, she admitted it lii be hers, but denied her having been!
with child. The evidence of a midwife, and a mall midwifel
and surgeon, proved the falt;:llood of her ariertioa; and she

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was committed on the Coroner's warrant to the new gaol in
I lorsentonger-litue ; she rehrsed to make any discovery : hut
said, that when she was tried she should say what she knew.
She died last week in the New Gaol. —About Iti months since
a child was ftiond untraveled and slightly covered with earth,
in a tieldCar Mortlake chord', and she wit. then alto strongly
eosin-toed ; and during the investigation which had taken
place on OW present ot•cittrencc, it has been diseo.ercd, that
the wretch hitt tied from Wales on suspicion of traviog
dds-
troled it tittle) there. She was a fifth coloured handsome-
looking w an, about 27.
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF FEMALE ItEROS4M.--Sonte time
since the wife of Mr. John Cobb, of Vrovidenec, abode Is-
land, observed a wolf following sheep directly towards hie
house in which they lived ; and as leer hustsautt was absent,
she immediately took down the ride ismd approached the
wolf, it lei stopped as she advanced. She levelled the piece
at hint mid snapped it duce times in sueeession without ce.
rect. Being convinced that the rifle woli;e1 not go oil, She
resolved amm another moue of attack, and immediately a•
proaehed the wo.t; wit.) brawl 11/ advance, anti wilt the
breech of the gins, she struck Win Out the head, when tlie
breech broke otf; nut discouraged, however, at this accident,
she kept the wolf at tray with the o trrel, and ealleil to her son
(a boy ofabout tell years) to tiring an axe, who did an 4 but as
he approached, the wolf made towards Iti,u, when he threw
the axe at tile wolf and retreated. The wolf humeaialely
turned, and again attacked the woman; who had in the mean
time secured a club; with which she brat the wolf and kilted
hint, without receiving anv injury.— Awriecoa

Frcnn ilw LONDON GAZETI'E, Tuesday, Jan. U.
tThis Gazette announces, that the Priuce Regent ha.; appointed
G. %V. Chad, Esq. to be Secretary of Enibasiy at the Court of the
Netherlaads :—and has also, in consideration of the long and me-
ritorious services of Sir D. Ochterlony, granted him the following
honourable augmentation of his Arno:—•• On an cinhauled chief
two banners in satire, the one of the Mailman- States, inscribed
DELHI, the other the State of Sepatil, NErAttr., the staves
broken and encircled by a wreath of hutch," with this Ilin!:o to the
Anus, viz. ••, Pao DENT IA ET AN I Mt) I" and the cre,t in' honour-
able augmentation, vii. •• Out of an eastern Crown, inscribed Ni:-
PAU 1., an a.-in issuant, the hand grasping a baton of command en-
twined by an olive branch."l
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGE!).
G. CA :ttPnET.I., late of Fenchurch-street, merchant, from Jan. lit to
March S.