The National Register.
London, England, 1815-05-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Rossrte Sitor.—The house of Mrs. Billamore, in Lower
dace, Kensington, has lately been attacked in the most
:r, three times very lately. A young man, a servant in
was entrusted with the defence of the interior of the
he has proved himself highly trust-worthy, as well as
morning, about two o'clock, a most desperate attempt
break open the house of Mrs. Billamore, for the third
!re is every reason to believe) a gang of robbers. Their
.ing in awoke and alarmed the trusty young man the set-
,t up and dressed himself; he had a pair of loaded pis-
:ceded softly to where lie }ward the noise come from, and
:ellen door cut open with a large knife, such as is used by
Ile was only about two yards from the robber when he
and di,charged his pistol at him, which unfortunately
led with shot and not ball, or it must have killed him on
le was filed at by one of the robbers from the other side of
rough the aperture which they had made, which stunned
nsiderable time. On his recovering himself, although he
ply know his own fate, and his courage continuing un-
discharged his second pistol through the aperture of the
but with what effect is not known ; however, one of the

have received the contents of that or his first pistol, as a
:barge of blood was discovered on the pavement of the
&c. and the robbers contrived to make their escape with
nded man, although the neighbourhood was alarmed by a.
lnt of Mrs. Billamore's springing a large rattle, calling
.—The house is within two of Mr. Sketchley, the Magi.
had the dreadful business investigated before him on Wed.
:he Public Office, Bow-street, when it appeared that there
atchmen employed to watch that row of houses, whose
Jet is to be further inquired into.
tnesday morning an accident took place.in Heaton Main
ar Newcastle. In the coarse of rime the old workings
entirely filled with water, which, at about four o'clock
'slay morning, broke through the north-west part of the
'',ry, at a point where the strata are disturbed by a dyk.,
(ed the workings. Some of the men who were working
. where the water forced its entrance, ran immediately to
and happily escaped from the pit. On their way they
'ller, the underviewer, and informed him of what had hap-
' he ran to give the alarm to the other men, who were
he higher part of the pit, in the hope that they might be
their escape also, but this, alas ! was not permitted
'fished in with dreadful rapaclity, and flowing naturally to
parts of the workings, soon cut off the only mean's of
closing the lower mouth of the shafts, in.which the water
the depthOf 19 fathoms. The unhappy men have thus
Nerwhelmed and drowned in the torrent, or having retired
part of the workings, which, it is said, is much above
the water in the shafts, arc at this moment pitting in
.in waut, without scarce any hope of escape. Exertions
iresent moment making to endeavour to reach the spot
are supposed to be) from some other workings. Every
t must sincerely wish them success. We have not heard
of men now below exactly stated, bur it appears that
ween 60 and '70.. The whole stock of horses is also lost.
of men who escaped amounts to only nine or ten. Many
below have left large families ; Mr. Miller hast left a wife
',Wren. Three large engines (one of ISO horse power) are
fitly employed in endeavouring to draw the water from the
have not yet produced any effcct upon it. The water in
;minted at first to nineteen fathoms ; but it subsequently
them, limn which it would apvar, that some other in-
roir had burst into the pit at three o'clock on Thursday
I at SO fathoms.—Since writing the above, we are sorry to
le water has gained upon the engines during the night,
using they discharged teoo gallons tier minute. The water
it shaft was plumbed early on Friday morning, when it
(o be S 3 fathoms. From this great flow of water it is
some other wastes have burst, and and that even those
'n Moor may be now discharging their waters through this
iumber of horses below is LO.
years there has not been a more afflicting scene of dis-
'hat now exists in the villages of Rtinswick and Staithes,
►of Hinderwell, near Whitby. By the tremendous storm
pril 14, about one-third of the Fishermen of Runswick
Irovvned. Three fishing-heats belonging to that place,
:rews. twenty-one in number, have fallen victims to the
iest ; N poor women have lost their hushaeds ; two wi-
lost their sons, who were their only support ; and thirty-
' have become fatherless': and herett of all means of sub-
lso one fishing-boat belonging to Staithes, entirely new, has
lost, with eight persons on board, by which four widows
!hildren are left destitute.
felting silica, a melancisoly accident occUrred ofFßye Har-
boat had lett Hastings, hi which were five men, for the op.
t; they had scarcely left the roads, however, when the

wind changing, they were driven towards the harbour of Rye, where._
after beaticg about tor some time, the boat upset, and the whole of
its crew were consigned to a watery grave. Thoy have left large fa-
milies to lament their loss.
Su re' rit.—On Sunday evening, Thomas Maynard, Esq. of No. 22,
Great. Charlotte-street, Illackfriar's-road, put a period to his own ex-
istence, by hanging himself. Mr. Maynard took an earl); dinner with
his family, at which time he was in good -spirits, after which the car.
riage was ordered for the ladies to take an airing, Mr. Maynard having
excused himself from accompanying them, by saying he would amuse
himself with a book until they came back. Th: ladies returned home
to tea between five and six o'clock. They enquired for Mr. May..
nard; the servants sail they supposed he was in the drawing-room, as
they never heard him come down stairs or go out ; after some search,
however, he was found hanging in the attic, in one of the servant's
rooms, quite dead :—the body was cut down, and a surgeon sent for,
but it was too late. No cause can be assigned for this rash act, as he
was blessed with every domestic comfort, and died very rich. The
Coroners inquest was held on Tuesday, on the body, at the house of
W. Southall, the sign of the Anchor and Hope, in the same streets
and returned a verdict of Lunacy,
DRLADFLYL Accinaue.—On Monday evening Mrs. Kay, who re-
sides at the King's Head, in Bear-street, Leicester-square. went out a
short distance, leaving her four children locked in a room on the se-
cond floor. Shortly after, scveraf of the neighbours as well as those
in the house were alarmed with their piercing screams, but unhap-
pily no person attempted to burst open the door until tile unfortunate
woman returned, who, on opening, it, found two of the children
stretched on the floor involved in flames, and the other two hid in the
corner. Several eminent surgeons were called in, but one of the chil-
dren died immediately, and the other was so much burned that there
are no hopes entertained of his recovery.
On Tuesday se'nnight, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of
Seven Oaks, in Kent, were visited by a tremendous storm of hail.
which exhibited stones as large as walnuts, and in hollow ways
formed masses of ice, it is said, four feet thick. The corn and bops
within its range, were greatly injured, and on declivities. totally de-
stroyed. The effects of the dissolution of the Gil, were also severely
felt, and particularly in a village, where a poor old woman, eighty
years of age, blind, and insane, was confined -in the cellar of a house,
and drowned by its inundation before she could be rescued from her
dreadful situation, though great exertions were promptly made for
that purpose. A similar storm was experienced on the same day, at
Riddlesdown, between Godstone and Croydon, by which the turn-
pike road for a considerable distance, was in a very short time, bid
completely under water. to the annoyance of travellers ; and in other
respects, we hear, that much damage was done by it.
On Monday morning, about half past eight o'clock, as one of the
porters belouging to Lincoln's Inn opened the door of the great kitchen
to get a broom which he kept there, he met a man coming out, hea-
vily laden with copper stewpans, they being made as the French term
en batterie, to fit one within the other, froei a very large size dowse
to the very smallest. The man thanked him tier opening the door,
and requested that he might leave it open for his shopmates to go out.
The porter, on going into the kitchen, saw there three other men ;
two of them were equally loaded, and the third had his load read, to
take up, which he requested the porter to help him on with. The
porter complied; and the four men went off with their loads. A tier
they were gone, something struck the porter that every thing was
not right, and he went to Mr. Williams's Chambers, who had the
care of the Kitchen, and intbrmed him of what he had seen. Mr.
Williams on this information, accompanied by two or three more of
the porters, pursued them, and two of them were taken sweating
under their loads r the other two escaped, one of them named Han-
key, lately returned from transportation, the other is named Wil-
son.
On Thursday night or early on Friday morning, some daring thieves
broke into the warehouse of Mr. Colthorp, in Finsbury-place, City.
road, and robbed it of broad-sloth to the value of 3col. Then effect-
ed an entrance by crossing the wall at the back of the preuikes,
and getting into the workshop, and returned the same way with their
booty, and got clear off.
A CHILD or STRAW —On Friday Win. Read, jun, one of the Po-
lice Officers of Hatton garden, took a woman into custody in the act
of begging from door to door in that street, telline a mait deplorable
tale of distress to excite compassion for herbell and her poor father.
less infant, which she carried wrapped up close to her bosom. On the
officer taking her into custody, in order to bring her before the Magis-
trates, she struggled hard to effe, t her escape, but in her struggles she
unfortunately dropped her chi id ; but 10, it turned out to be a bundle
of straw carefully wrapped up, so as to represent an infant with a cap
on ; this discover), caused a heart' laugh, and the impostor, at the in-
tercession of some ladies, WAS suffered to depart, on her promising the
otfi,.er she would not be guiftv of the like oflimee in future.
Tuesday evening, as Mr. Inilywhire, the proprietor of the Windsor
coach, was driving his coach between Colebrook and Langley Broom,
he discovered a man lying in the toad, who proved ti be the driver of
a loaded cart, who being intuxicatel, tell down'; the cart went over his
hody and killed hint un the snot. Iv:ry tiasistence was given by 154 i.
Lifiy white, and the passengers,