The National Register.
London, England, 1815-05-28 00:00:00

PROVINCIAa,

LANcrIOT.V OCCU rt R EN( E.—A mint distressing occident (recurred
off Sidmouth on Thursday se'onigla. A party, consisting of fifteen per-
guns, were returuitur, Iron) the (~ruler place to Ottertun by water when,
having sailed but a slot u:stanee, the hat of one of the melt fell over.
board, who, in his haste to recover it, upset the boat, and the whole
weto plunged into tke sea. Three boats immediately went otrlo their
ass4tance, but only succeeded in saving five'persuns; the other ten
(nine of them females) were totally lust, two of whom were married iu
the morning, and, with their cumin:nth had spent the da,,y Mt biclumoutii,

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The following is an extract of a letter boa Lady at Sidwuu,h, on
Ca.' distressing subject A boat full of people upset, list evening,
at.olit three miles riff this shore. and out of sixteen on board, leo were
drawneci. II is not possible to.descrilse the horrors of the scene. Wt-
wire walking on the beach, when we obsersed a few people looking
tiwards the sea through a telescupo with 'rime appearance of anxiety ;
we also saw smile bouts going o.st, and immediately atierwaid, numbers
of paisaus running tors:ird• the si a. On inquiry we undersitlllii that
a party had com• ill trout Or.tertiin in the morning, two of along had
1,. en married there just Amore ahoy set • out they •came here to pass
their bridal day, jihad dined at no inn herr. and set out in high spirits
(num of !hero! intoxicated) to return home. The boat was crowded,
and the party on knew ronlimg of the management of the vessel.
A little rlaytul scut& ensued ; a hat Irll overboard, and, in the attempt
to rec•evcr it, the boat upset, and the unfindimats eatastraph-e followed
We retrained on the beach, watching the progress of the boats,
which went off immediately, with an alacrity tint did I lomiair Io
T,i.ab.tarns of Sidieorith.-0 he more so, as tame of them had any re-
'a:low or rear friends no hoard the unfortunate vessel..

tt We had no power to leave the beach, though we dreaded every
rl::titc would being sowe of the unhappy sofferers before oar e 3 e..
At lasi I s;:id, I would stay t o longer,' and turned to go ; but, before
I reached It me, a boat lauded with some of the people—souse
5,10 e d-ad. Instantly the silence of expectation ceased, arid dreadful
dies koke floor the els‘eri.bled multitude. We ran into the first house
pear I. and waited till the crowd had carried the first objects of eh- ir
laturtited attention to the rtedieul baths ; happily I escaped seeing any
of them ; ne b. i 1 I afterwards saw, indistinctly, as it *as carried into
Slockey's. All the woman and a little girl were drowned ; they
lad hopes or some time that the poor bride was recovering, but all
the et Hunt that could possibly be made were ft nit less ; the ettifortu-
n-ne huSband •urvived. Anwher of the gills came to Sidmouth on
p'!rpose to eneaie a young friend to attend her wedding nett Thursday.
%Whittle dreadful, what an awful reverse !
" I need not tell you how much we all suffered. The town has
1),!•-n in a hustle all the morning ; the (fiends and relations of the parties
lia,e been crowding in. Boats are still out, and one or two more bo-
dies have been brought nn shore ; three only are now missing, probs•
bly they h ye been washed out to sea, as the tide set from hence at the
time. Not a boat was leti on the beach; I never witnessed such exer-
tion.

‘' A young lady saw the whole from the brick •field; she even saw
owe of the women clinging to the boat, and heard her shriek when she
sunk. - Imagine what a scene I"
Thursday se'imight, a girl, about five years of age, in the parish of
St. Thomas's, Exeter, being left by her mother r a frsv minutes, at-
tempted to reach a cup from the cliiinney-piece, when ber clothes
caught Ste, and she was SO dieUdillily burnt, that no hopes are enter-
tained of her recovery.
The extent of the calamity Web happened at the colliery at New-
castle is stated as follows : Mr. Miller, (the undervievter, Ito hiss left
a Kite and eight cliiklren,) 3'2 workmen, 44 boys, and 37 horses, have
peri-herl ; and %%Mows, with ;Mont CO chedren, are left to bemoan
' - sudden death of their husbands and fathers.

the 'l•2d ult. was executed, at Lancaster, Atoses.Ovren, a native
Witte, and one of the nutrition; Cock•road gang, near
Tted at the tact Lancashire assizes. of stealing from the
Chachtlek. of Ltii AV.IIIII. Suniersit, u vtry valuable
••t gelding. Jame► Cribb. the accomplice of Aluses
was at .•aese 4.eizzs sentenced to be transported for life.