The National Register.
London, England, 1809-01-01 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Monday whilst a young man of the name of Stevens, Servant
to Mr. Tibbalt, of' Charlotte-street, Portland place, was sliding
on a pond at Paddington, with a youth eight years old, his
master's vephew, the ice broke. and the former fell in and was
drowned. The youth was with difficulty saved. A ouiig man
of the name of Younger was also drowned un Sunday.. in the
Park ; and two boys met the same fate in the Hampstead road
on Saturday-.
On Tuesday last, a person belonging to Drury-lane Theatre/
who had mounted by a ladder to the top of that building, mmith
intention to sweep off the snow, fell, and ex traordittary as it may
appear. pitched on a great quantity of snow in the waste ground
near Brydges-street, without sustaining any serious injury.
Suict D E.—On Wednesday night a Lady and Gentleman got
into a hackney-coach at the stand in Oxford-street, opposite
Rat hbone-place, and the Lady was set down in Warren-street,
Fitzroy-square. The Gentleman ordered the coachman to drive
him to a public-house at Brompton, but, on his arrival there, he
was found lifeless, having cut his throat in a shockinP. manner
with a pen-knife. The deceased was a Lieutenant of Marines,
• and is supposed to have committed suicide in-cobsequence of
some losses at play. •
Friday a great crowd of people gathered round the house
of a Mr. Hunt, a tinman, in Chandos-street, eovent-garden, pa
the supposition that a girl, who had been his servant, had last
her life through beating and starvation, as was very universally
circulated through the crowd. in the evening, the popular in-
dignation rose to such a height, that several panes of glass were
broken in the house by the mob. Police Officers tvere called
in, and the crowd was dispersed. Au inquest. was then held at
the Crown and Thistle, in the same street, before Anthony Gel,.
Esq. Coroner for Westmieiter. The substance of the evidence
was, that Ann Fane, the dreeased, was a girl about 15 years of
age, and had been a pauper in the Workhouse at Lynn, in Nor-
folk, in consequence of her having been the orphan chilli
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poor parents. She wa.; taken a short time hack inli) this srv.ets.
of Mr. H. as an apprentice. She was thought b' her 111.4 res..
to be an untoward girl, and at different times reerived (.111 ter
Lion. From what cause it did not appear, but she fetl into a
dangerous state of ill-health. Dr. Merriman, of the Western
dispensary, prescribed for her at different times, but she
always in the company of Mrs. H. A relation frequently visited
her, but always in the presence of Mrs. H. but nothing particu-
lar came out. A neighbour had frequently heard the girl cry
out, and there were the marks of blows upon different parts of
her person. But Dr. Merriman was of opinion that there was
not any appearaace whatever of injury, such as was sufficient
to have occasioned the death of the patient, either internally or
externally ; and this deceased having been for some time ill, the
verdict was-Died -a Natural Death.

BIRTHS.
At Gloureoer, on the 'nth ult. the Lady of Captain John
NV Doneli, 6th Royal Veteran Battalion, of a son.
Thursday morning., the Lady of John Gosling, Egg. of Glou-
cester Place, New Road, Mary-le-Bone, of a &tighter.