The National Register.
London, England, 1812-11-08 00:00:00

NOV• 8.

One of them was shot dea ! on the spot ; the other was only w:itmded ;
IL, %volt the assistance et Palm, both were nistantly thrown over.
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The wound-d man swam alter the ship, and caught hold of
ruMer, upon which Palm took up a spi,tl, and swore if he did
ton let the ruVer go, he would cut his hands off.; upon which the
IL,fortunate wretch let go Ins and was seen no more. Ater
this they p!tinJered the captain's property. Palm then took the con.
tint of the vessel ; but atter soapccwsuitation, it was determined t:•
nettle her, and tidce to the boats ; two boats were accordingly 1.-re-
puted, a. d provisions put on board ; the crew, consisting f eleven
pmts;, then got into them, and. they steered for the coast of Africa :
Cal were three days and three nights before they made land, and then
one cf the beats was swamped, and a boy was drOWned in getting on
tu,:re. They walked along the beach till night, when they Liy down
oa the hands to sleep, and the following morning procet den farther
into thecuuntry, and perceiving some stn.ke to rise from the midst of
a cluster of trees, at a distance, they made towards them, when the
blacks tusked out upon them, overpowered and stripped them, and
then maraca them some distance into the country, where they were
kept for some weeks, when they were sent to Port Lopez, a Portu-
guese settlement, from whence Mades, Palm, and the deponmt, g;:t
w Liverpool.
boa after the Adventurer left England, the crew were put on short
allowance, and so continued ; they were discontented at this generally,
and said they might as well be killed at once as star sred to death. On
the morning in which the captain and mate were murdered, Palm,
nitist he was striking a light, said he would kill the captain ; the
Swedes agreed to do so, and said any one who did not should share the
MC tate. The deponent assisted in throwing overboard the two
blacks, hut did not touch the captain or mate.
Palm's account was as torows :—He sailed from England in tilt
Adventurer, as second mate; he had no disagreement with the cap-
tain till they arrived on the coast, and then they d tiered about wages;
he remembered the captain's bringing two black men en board from
St. Tno:na,'s, and that soon after the captain was drowned by the
bite ot a whale-line having accidentally caught his kg after he had
struck a fish, and he was thereby pulled overboard ; one of the blacks
went over immediately atter him, and was seen no more. He did
mn know what became of the other, but had been told he went
over also. Mr. Smith, the mate, was an old man, and died of
sickness on board, during the voyage. This was all he knew of the
circumstance.
They were both committed for re-examination.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

MAIL ROSBIRY.—An occurrence has taken place, which is likely
to lead to a discovery of the Leeds mail coach. A man who keeps a
toll-date near Kettering, and who was seen in conversation at a public-
house, with two of the men belonging to the caravan, or tilt cart,
which, as we formerly said, had been driving about that part of the
ciaintry, has been taken up on suspicion, and undergone an examina-
tion before four magistrates for the county of Northampton. In his
bed were found sewed up two fifty pound bank notes of a recent date,
but whether they were abstracted from the mail has not been ascer-
tained. The officers are in pursuit of the man who was guard of the
Lends mail, when formerly robbed. This man had been discharged
for negligence on that occasion, and for losing his time-piece. It is
remarkable that the back, or brass-plate, on which was engraven
" Leeds," and G. P. 0. together with the number of the time-piece,
had been inadvertently nailed to some part of the toll-house, taken
elf by some per:on, and forwarded to the General Post Office: It
was found, on referring to the books, that this was the back of the
idoitical piece which had been lost on the night of the robbery, near
Barnet, upwards of two years ago. The discarded guard has never
been in any regular employment since his dismissal from the service
of the Post Office, nor had any visible means of subsistence. He has
been observett lurking about the ale-houses several weeks, and is sup-
posed to have accompanied the cart.
Mit ANCHOLY Acc oseer.—Thursday afternoon, about two o'clock.
Is a wagg.an' laden with three, casks of spirits, belonging to Mr.
Dorrington, distiller, of Brent ford, was turning the corner of High_
street, Lambeth Butts, it upset, when two brothers (sons of the
carman) who were riding in the waggon, were thrown out of it, and
the casks rolling upon them, one, a boy of nine years old, was killed
on the spot, having his skull fractured in several places; stet other, a
oy of six years old, had both his legs and hands lacerated in a shock-
!nit manner, and was conveyed in a coach to St. Thomas's Hospital,
iii almost a lifeless state.
Wednesday, a Coroner's Inquest was held at the King's Head, Pim-
lico, on thi body of two sisters named Taylor, will died at the West-
-I,lltrisier I otirniary, in consequence of drcad:ul bruises received in their
bed in Fox-court, Strand, by the falling of a chimney, which broke
through the roof of the :louse, during the late dreadful storm—Verdict,
Cidelkt al Death.
~Saturday, about two o'clock, a gentleman was robbed by a single
t ",)!Pad, on the other side Wandsworth. On giving an alarm, the
be"..oillal. was pursued and overtaken, when finding himself' certain of
gaPi'r:ltentlM, he drew a 01101 and shot himself dead. The body
gas conveyed in a wire. lbarruw to Wandsmatili.