The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-22 00:00:00

AUGUST '2:

&claws of the bloody sheets, his shirt, and the poker,- Ile betrayed
the most afflicted emotion. The poker appeared particularly to
shock him. He seems about twenty-six years of age. with no mark
of any thing violent whatever in his countenance, which is rather
remarkable for the expression of meekness. In fact, his look
wholly baffles the calculations of the physiognomist, for we scarcely
ever observed a face less expressive of any thing cruel or ferocious.
His voice was quite guttural and indistinct, probably the effect of
the wound in his throat.
Nicholson is, it appears, a native of Chester, and the son of a pri-
vate soldier.

The trial of Charles Masureaux, Francois Aime, and John Wa-
tigny followed. These men, who are French prisonersi stood
charged, the first as principal, and the two latter as ;wee:Andes, in
the murder of Win. King, on the 6th July last, on board the Samp-
son prison-ship, in the river Medway.
Masureaux pleaded guilty, but, by the advice of the Judge, with-
drew the plea and took his trial. He was, however, found guilty ;
and the two latter, who were accused of furnishing him with a
knife, and advising him to commit the murder. were acquitted,
and Alastneaux was ordered for execution on Monday next. •

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Six powder mills at reversham, belonging to Mr. Hall, Dartford,
Kent. blew up on Friday morning at one o'clock;with a terrible
explosion. No lives were lost, but one man was severely bond.
Patrick Whelan was senteoced, at the Lituerick Assizes, to be
hanged on the 14th of next morth, for maiming one Timothy Leary
with a seethe. this wretch hail been one of the insurgents during
the rebellion, and conceiving a hatred towards Leary, he cut away
and at two sweeps mowed down all the fingers of his right hand.
Leary's inoffensive sister came likewise in for her share of the pri•
soner's brutality; for, in her virtuous struggles to protect her
brother, he released himself from her grasp by the summary pro-
cess of snapping and fracturing one cf her fingers.
The followitig dreadful accident occurred on Tuesday se'nnight,
at Bradford Colliery. near Wednesbnry, in the comity of Stafford.
About ten o'clock in the morning, while twelve men and three
boys were at work in a coal-pit, 54 yards in depth, a great body of
water, sand, and gravel, 00 yards in circumference, suddenly sunk•
in, and, shocking to relate, buried or inclosed in the titrther end of
the pit nine men and one boy ! Three men and two boys, by being
near to the mouth of the pit, were most providentially saved. The
remainder of them were given over as lost, notwithstanding-which
it was resolved to make a road to them, from an adjoinim.., pit, by
cutting through the solid coal nearly 70 yards, in an horizontal di-
rection. The work was immediately begun, and continued night
and day until about one o'clock on Monday morning; having nearly
driven through to the place in which they were, one of them was
heard to call out " work more to the left," and, astonishing to re-
late, by one o'clock at noon, eight of the men, and the boy, were
lm at alive ! 'As soon as a sufficient opening was. 'wide, a cup of
gruel was, by direction of medical gentlemen present, administered
to each, when they were removed towards the shaft of the pit,
where beds were prepared, into which, after being rubbed, they
were put for two hours. They were then attended in a coach to
their houses, and, we are happy to say, are likely to do well, af.er
being enclosed nearly seven days in the bowels of the earth, during
which time the uuly sustenance they received was a little water,
which dropped front the roof; awl which they caught in a small
iron pan.--John Keeling, a man with a wife and six children, has
not yet been found, but it is supposed lie has beed bilried Under the
fall, in endeaveuring to escape.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS.—On Sunday last, a party of six
young persons, consisting of the son and daughter of Mr. Hales,
pin-maker, in the Borough ; the son and two daughters of Mr.
Bates, garner' in the Borough : and the nephew of the latter gen-
tleman, went down to Gravesend in a small boat. On their return
home, when opposite Erith, flue sail of the boat being up, a sudden
squall upset the vessel, and five of the party perished, namely, the
son and daughter of Mr. Hale, and the son And two daughters of
Mr. Bates ; the sixth was providentially preserved, when almost
expiring, by a barge, which bore down to the spot on seeing the
accident.
• StioexiNo ACC/DENT.—Friday afternoon, shout four o'clock,
George Must, a lid, twelve years of age, fell from the top of Air
Mar:in's house, No 66, St. Mary Axe, Leadenhall-street, into the
stone-yard, And.was killed on the spot. He pitched on ids forehead,
• and literally dove his skull off.
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the pokier,- ire betrayed -- MARK IED.
peared particularly to Yesterday Mr. W. Stro!her. of Holborn Hill, to Miss Robertson, of