The National Register.
London, England, 1814-10-23 00:00:00

PROI'INCIALS.

A destructive tire broke out on Sunday, nn the premises of Mr.
"Cobbett, the political writer, at ReglinTton, in Hampshire. AU
his barns, stables, 6:e. were burnt to ashes. The live stock, in•
chub :g axen, horse 4, &e. were all saved. The property was insured.
The fire was cansvd by a spark aveidestally catching thP thatch.
On Sunday last, two stage coache4, on the Essex road, came in
contact, and one of them (the Nelson) was tipQet. The passengers
suffered severe!y. some of them being dreadfully bruised, but it does
not appear that any Ore was lost. The accident was occasioned by
a cantentiOnsbetween the tw° delvers!
Suiting.--On Monday erenine a gentleman named Fibber, said
to have been au Officer in the 26th infantry, 41,i1 .tispended
from a tree in Loekswood, betwixt Watford and lekended. He had
taken lodgings in Marlborough row, but had slept in them on.Satnr.
day night only. He had letters of recommendation in his pocket to
" some persons of disthletion; hnt his irunk, on being exlmined, con-
- tiineil but few clothes, and poverty is supposed to have caned

suicide.
• A woman vras lately I,nnd murdered at Hareffeld, near Winillsor ;
it is suppo•sed the horrid act was perpetrated by a footpad, as she
Was robbed, and the ear-rims cat from her cars.
' Tuesday night, as Sao:. Pay, aged 15, was coining over Gritford
Bridge, Bedfordshire, in a waggon, the horses ran away with it. The
IA was called by his father to jump out behind : but Irani tun•itely iti
his fright jumping out before, the wheels went over hint, and he was
dialed on the Fpot.
On I T n lay se'nuight, between four and five o'elock in the afternoon,
a' Mrs Howes. wife of Mr. Howes, solicitor. of Noriliampfue, was re-
, toridnir to Bughrook, in company with a Miss Pirkins, they were stopped
• by a villain near the side of the canal, who, with imprecations, de-
' ma:ided their money. Mrs. H. positively refused to give him any ;
m.
which he gave her a slap on the face, which she very spiiitedly re-
turned. The vill sin then seized Miss Pirkins. threw her into the
• he4g, ~and t..re her clothes : Mrs. H. immediately on his hack being
tosva-ds her, caught him by ihe throat, and griped hint so tialnly, that
• be beggod she would release hiin promi.ving that they should then pro-
ceed without farther interruption. The villain, however, on findi.,g
hi•siself disengaged, immediately turned to Mrs. H. and said, " NuWe
my lad I will be revenged of yon—l have a knife in iiv pocket, and
I will have both ruir lives. and your money ", Abs. 11. replied, he
-6httt&l n:1 h .ve her 'Hooey but with her life. A violent ensued,
when Mrs. H. was again fortunate enough to, get such hold of him a; to
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OCT. 23.

enable her to prevent lUar carrying los th,eats lour execcti or, and .ti*
secure him till a person Cs to her assistarice. They i famodktely took
the fellow before a Magistrate, who committed him to the County Gaol
fur trial.
On Mondav night, the 10th inst. n dreadful fire broke cut -at the. Sa.
racen's (lead Inn, Mosta%)le, which in a very short space of time totallv
consumed the adjaking tenements, as wrIA as part of the Inn, with all
the stables, granary, ricks of corn and bran; likewiw ttort.of Mr. Wil-
loughby's premises, wito his stock in trade. as a plumber, 'traw ware-
. house, &c. No part of his property was iturrd. Mr. Cooke, at the
I Saracen's !lead, was insured for upwards of 11001. but his loss is esti-
mated at upwards of 25001.
LnnniTES —By letters received on Monday from Nottingham,
we are sorry to learn that the ontragcs of those deluded people
called Lauldites still continue. A few weeks ago a man of the
name of Towle, of New Bastard, Was fully committed fm' frame.
breaking, upon the evidence of Mr. Garton of that place. and was
to take his trial at the varier sessions. Aware that the evidence of
Mr. G. ennui not fail to bring their accomplice to con lien punishment.,
the Luddites formed the hors id resolution of murdering him. With
this view, on Friday se'nnight a trendier of them assemb!ed about 4,
o'clock. Fos Innately Mr. Garton had ec:Tived previous intiMation
of their intentioos and had made application to the Magistrates, who
turniOied him with a guard of constables. On arriving at Mr.
',lnn's house, they eagerly enquired f r him, and swore they came
ito do for ; awl by way of intimidation, tired several times, but
ithont doing any mi,chief. On-forcing their way into the parlour,
I where the constables were waiting for them, the Luddite r'
received a shot in his head, am! (hopped down dead ow Cie spot.
lie proved to be a Nottinlzham man, named Boamford, and It
lately retmned from sea. The noise brought many of the neiglihorns
to the doors and windows : amount the re.st was Mr. Gillis-, who rsai
immediately shot dead by the ruffians, in revenge, as it is supposed,
for tl:e death of Boarnfard. Such confusion prevailed at the ;joie
that the villains escaped, although a great assemblage of people
were prebent.