The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-05 00:00:00

ROBBSKY.

Chariot Sow, Was. Pethrich, and Fenton. were
ra•eaamtned, charged Wader very aggravated cireuensiances.
A Caplet* Mackay, on his return from the Continent, tusk
apartment. at Mrs. Cook's house, in Portman square ;
Seam) was her footman, and under pretence of borrowing
the Captain's mal, -for *is mistress to seal a letter, be de-
camped with his watch, chain, and seals, and a quantity of
other property, from the house. He escaped justice ever
since last June, but was eventually taken in custody, when
he confessed the robbery, and implicated Pethriek and
Fronton as having received it.—After a patient Mario(
Petbrick was discharged for want of evidence, but Sitaito
and Fenton were fully committed for trial.

HORRIBLE CATASTIMPHi.

[FROM A MADRAS PAPER I

CAMP, MURDWAR, APRIL 14 1820..

Under the impression of one of the most horrid.
sights, and in the agitation which it has itaturally
occasioned, I write to give you n hurried statement
a the scene of which I have beet, an eye-witness.
From the suet of the Fortier unfortunately hop.
petting ut the hour of three and half Etighsh time
of this day, a. m. crowds of infatuated pilgiiini
forced their way in overwhelming masses to the
sacred bathing place.
As most people who have been op the country
have visited Hurdwar, and seen the steps leading
down to Hurke Pyre,. I need not give a descrip-
tion of them, further then stating they are very
steep in descent, and about ten feet broad, with
high walls on one side. At the summit from the
town of Hardwar side, there is an ascent by • broad
flight of steps, at the tops of these the guard. were
stott9oad to prevent the crowds pressing indiscri-
minately ; • little before day break the Sunyassees,
and Byragees, who had the quarrel in 1796, vied
with each other at the top for precedency of bath-
ing, and made a sadden rush, in which the %mho.-
imitate Sepoys, and all the multitude who were de.
scending, were carried down with such violence,
that they got jammed together within three steps of
the water, where an angle of the old sacred Pyree
Muth, and an angle of the Mundor of the Mahedee
closes the passage to shout seven feet, and opens
with a swell behind. Here the unfortunate beings
were crammed together with such violence, that
motion or use of limbs was unavailing, the weak,
the strong, in vain made efforts, it was all the same,
the more exertion made the more intwined their
limbs became. .

At half-past seven, a. it. I was a witness to this
horrid scene ; the crier, the moans of the unfortu-
nate multitude were liesrt-rending in the extreme ;
strength, force, or any contrivance or effort to assist
them was vain. I made several to extract those who
were in the foremost file below, hut their bodies,
legs and arms were so intwined, that it was impos-
sible to extract one of them, and nothing equals
the apathy of rascally Pojaree Brahmins. A
pleasing part of this recital throws a ray of a brighter
hue on the Sepoys of the sth and 47th, and the
Gorkeeali corps, who though people of high cart
and prepossessions were stript and actively employed
in extracting the dead : this was • labour of no
small exertion, as they had to clear awes the dead
from near 60 feet, in au angle of 56 or 60 degrees,
before they could extract the living who were below.
Colonel Patton and suveral officers by their ewer.
tions and cheering the Sepoys, induced them to
deer the mass of dead away. At 10P.M. the living
who were below, were extracted in a must horrid
state; their limbs blistered, inflamed. and in a
state of putrefaction ; the number alive, did not
exceed 30 .beings, and an extraordinary instance I
must record. which was a young woman who was
under the whole mass in the centre and alive, who
had merely her head and arms free.
From the information I could collect from those
who were present when this unfortunate circus,-
!dance occurred, the time, us stated, was three or
hall-past three a. on. and what must have been the
cause of the death of those ou the upper steps.
must bare been the multitude who rushed over
them downwards, and who could not return until
the milita►y stopped up all the passage above, and
',wanted the other crowds following them. Al-
though the Bramin's prediction of sickness hap not
been fulfilled, the deaths at the sacred place have
gtveu some sanction to their prophecy. and. even
this unfortunate accides t they will make a plea of
still deluding the ignorant multitude. Nu exact
account of the dad can be gisen, but it must ex-
ceed 400 person. ; a vast number of these were
Sunyasses arid Byragees. I saw four of the Gor-
keen!) corps, onlj one alive. and who was jammed
close to the angle of the small ninth.
Two hosts have also been sunk by the press of
persons on board, and maim people drowned ; the
fair has x-ommeueerl 'hiuomag, the crowds going
sway are mostly flow the nearer places : the trier-
chauts have been unable to dispose of any thing,
from the bustle ; most of the purchases and sales
will cominerice to•murros.

P.S.—Tire report of the drat •mounts to 430.
Lieut. Boyes, of the sth, as soon as intelligence
reached him of the guards brtsig forced, moved up
with a company, and it is said stones wrre thrown
from the houses. At daylight be begun re-moving
the deed bodies. The Brad acre all floated in tt.e
Ganges. Our of the chief Nleltilutt of the Byre-
gees, who had conic from the Drcan with a num.
her of followers. was extracted from this intwitied
mass of human Lodits.--(Calcutra Government
Galin,, May 4.1