The National Register.
London, England, 1814-05-08 00:00:00

POLICE'.

UNION HALL. -- Osborne, H.sli, JOIIV4, and Whiffen9 who have
been some time in custody on vat ions eiewges of robbery, were ex-
mined yesterday on a eli.irge of borgiary a Louse in the City-road,
into which sorve goods had been pot prrparatiny to a sale. The
prisoners were recognized by a rung %rowan yr the name of Smith.
;is having been at the door of the hone iu aptcAion with a horse and
cart on the morning of the rohhery. She saw them put come bilge
bundles into the cart. A watchman, who sow them, observed they
were about no root, but refused to intevropt them as they were
not on his beat. A cart, which had been found in the prisoners'
possession, was also proved by the young woman to be thMt she had
seen at the door of the bonse.—The prisoners were remanded, and
the watchman who had acted so reprehensibly was ordend to at.
tend.

MaNstox-not.:st.—William Farrow was yesterday charged with
having improperly appil.priated to his own use the amount of a Bill
of Exchange tor 159;., Well had beet* entrie:ted to hint by a re-
spectable clotlitactor iu Wood-street, Choapsidc. for the piii.pose of
bring dkeolinfril. the charge was preferred under the Einbezec-
:tient Act, which was pissed in the 52d of the King. to prevent
bankers' agents, or others, flout misappropriating valuable securities
deposited in their hands, for special purposes, and is the first which
had been made under this Act. The offender was held to bail to
take his trial for the misdemeanour.

On Tuesday last On. 1,77 i, drawn a Prize of 4.000/, likewise
No. 7,768 entitled to TEN WHOLE rfrceirrs in the Next Lottery,
were both sold in Shares by PInnING, & Co. No. 1, Cornhill, and
No. 3, Charing.' ross ; the farmer in One Half and Eight Six.
teenths, the latter in One Quarter, Three Eighth,, and Six. Six-
tenths ; and it is not improbable bnt the 15,00 a which will belong
to the First drawn Prize above 17! NEXT Tuesday. May 10, will
else be sold at Old-livy's Lucky Corner, Nu. 1, Cornhill, where
'tickets and Shares continue on sale, warranted Undrawn.
On Friday List, a shocking accident happened at Newbury : a young'
n was in 'be act of brill a cannon, when it unfoitunately burst,
tit.d ab drem.::ully shattered his AO, as to cause his instant ticatb.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

MAY 8

No doubt now remains of the total loss of the licenced chip
John Palmer, Captain R. A. Reid, on the 9th of March, off the
coast of Portugal, oil her homeward bound passage from India.
The subjoined may be depended upon as a correct OAt of the pa,%co-
gers on board at the time the lamentable event took place :—Mro.
Edwards, her two sous and two daughters, Miss S. Colebrook, and
1116 s Armstrong, from Bt.ngal ; Masters H. and F. Weeke, front
the Isle of France ; Col Wade, late of his Majes.ty's Bth tiragnotic,
Mrs. Wade, Lieut. 'Wade. and three clii!dren, who, soon after the
fleet had crossed the line, quitted the Henry IVelie4ey, and went on
board the Palmer, for better accommodation ; Capkiti Cann:roa .
and Mr. Paulin late stvoinl Officer of the Didna, exeliangiog bju hs
with the Col. and fami!y.—(M.,rn;..4; (hronic/e.)

On Wednesday, between twelve and one o'clock, two old hones
in Lornbard.street, Mint, in the Bereugh, fell down with a trent
dons crash, Four pei.,uns were by this terrible accident—two
rnen, a boy, and a girl. These unfortunate creatures were literally
bruked to mu nroies, and were with gloat difficulty got out if the
rith!iish : three others were much hurt, an'l taken to the hospital.
The ii ses fyid not been r-paired for a considerable time, 2111 like
many others in the Mint, w re maul .lering with age.
A serion; ;:ffray rook place at Plymouth on Monday last, The
Plymouth Chronicle of Tue day says —" Five office's, two biangiug
to the Mayo Mili!ia, t wr, to the R.,yals. and the other a Poi twines;-,
together with several sol tiers of the Mayo Milja, we untierstanl,
are implicated in it, and uie!er examivation. Some severe vconii.ls
were received during the affray, which comtnenred n-ar Frani. t et-
plare, ithri was not tertni;iated but by the interposition of a part)
the East Norfolk Militia "
A shocking accident oceured on Viursday. at the :Jew Lord's
Cricket-ground pnbi ic-ho:i.;e, Mary-le-hone fi •Ids. The landl idy of
tile house had occ,e,ien to Use a small quatrity of gunpowder, and
whilst in the-act of taking the same from a p iper, contaning a pound
weight, a spark from the fire catight it and it went off with a great ex-
plosion. The hndl ley, her sister, and two li,tle girls who were in
the room were serieusi burnt. ThLf two Fortner are in o daneerous
way. The explosion broke every pane of g!as., ut ;l:e room and also
set it 011 fire.
Durele the rejoicings at Scattier:melt, a oolv having proce•rd
severa' swiyeelq, one of them hurst, aid aim •st took the .high of a
young in in from the body he died six hours afterwards.
On Thursday afternoon last a melancholy event hanpened on the
river, at Willingham Reach. J. B. Tooke, F.r.ci of Norwich, aud
a few friends, were sailing on bOard that gentleman's pl..asure baree,
when Samuel M-iton, his servant, by some accident fell overboaht,
and :;tal.. In the human lesire of saving the poor man's lite, Mr.
Tooke in eatitly plunged into the water alter him, and had at one
time succeeded in bringraz him close to the shore, hut exlviusted win*
exertion and the weight of his clothes. la• lost hip hold, and must him-
sei fineviribly have perished, had not Robert Osborn rescued hen fron.
hie dat:gerous situation. The same man afterwards brcuaht Mete-ties
body cut of the river, whon every means of resuscitation were Wed
in vain.
Thomas Bryan, a miner of Bilston, Staffordshire, in a fit of drunk-
enner.s and jealousy, stabbed his wife with a carving knife, on Tues-
day se'imight, of which she died. Bryan is committed to Staffird
ga,d.
At the Chester Assizes, Peter Mather and jame.i Gibbon obtained
a verdict with two thousand pounds damages against a Mr. Peter
Bailey, for maliciously prosecuting plaintiffs on a charge of bur-
glary.
At the Gloster Assizes, on arraigning a person for forgery, it was
discovered that the principal evideice (R. Payne, Esq. of Weils,
had that morning been found dead in his bed !—The prisoner wss,
course, discharged.

BIRTHS.
At Broomhall, the Countess of Elgin, of a con.
At Taplow House, Bucks, the Hon. Mrs. Great-11, Esq. M. P. of
a daughter.

DIED.
John Alcock, Esq. Lient.-Col. Commandant of the Princess
Charlotte's regiment of Loyal Southwark Volunteer Infantry.
At Charlton, after a long life, devoted to the service of his
country, and in his 73t1 year, Lient.-Gen. Sir W. Congreve,
Colonel of Artillery, and Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory-.
Mrs. E. Barwis, aged 100 years, relict of the hate J. Barwis, Eq.
of Lancri4 Hall, Cumberland.
At his home in Great Puitney-street, Bath,
in his MIL year,
Alcvander Hood, Lord Viseonut Bridport, K. B. Admiral of the
Ri Vice-Admiral of England, and a General of Marines. "I he
title devolves to the Hon. Salute' Hood, 111. P for lieytesbillf
grandson of Viscount Hood.