The National Register.
London, England, 1817-02-10 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 4c.

On Sunday afternoon, about half-past four o'clock, a most
melancholy and extraoi 'finery occurrence took place, just
without side the gate leading into and out of Hyde Park.
GPM Barton, of the 24 regiment of Life Guards. seated on
bis remarkably tall bay charger, was talking to a gentleman
who was on foot, alien Captain Bray, of the frth foot hap-
pening to be coating on horseback from Hyde Park into ton n,
just as lie came through the gate, the General's horse, (with
all the infuriate d savageness of the lioness that sonic time
since so suddenly pounced upon the leader of the Exeter
ran futionsly at the Captain, seized hold of the inside
of his thigh, with his tremeneons teeth, reared vehemently
lip, and tore away a large piece of the thigh, small clothes,
drawers, and all, and dragged the Captain from the horse.
111 the art of so sudden and vehement a re aring on end,
the 3ni,hat In,t his poise, and tell backward em his master,
the General, by which lee was unhorsed; bat he did not
appear to have received any serious injury. Captain Bray.
VAS immediately put into a hackney coach, tend conveyed
to his abode, bleediog very facets.. The re ischie r was dime so
instantaneously, that no effort whatever on the part of Gene-
ral Ballot' or Capt. Iliay could have prevented it.
A country paper records a most melancholy catastrophe,
which took place at Great Clifton, near Wiatingtan, on Fri-
day aennicht, about six o'clock in the evening. Captain John
Lash, of the Moni.t's Buy-, in a tit of derangement, deprived
wife of existence, by cutting her throat in a most shock-
ing manner. On the neighbours being called in by the ser
yam-gill, Captain Lash immediately cot Ills own throat es nil
the same fatal in:tromped (a razor), and died a short time
atter. 'nee parties were a respre;.l;,le young couple, aunt
apparently lived in the most pet feet harmony. Three y ming
clii:dren tone at the breast) are left to bewail the melaii
choly end of thtir unfortiniate parents.
DETI:sTABLIi OUTRAIII'.—An act of the greatest atrocity
has lately been committed in the neighbourhood of Rick
manswoith. As two girls were walking al mg tile towing-
path of the Grand Junction Coal, near the Copper Mills a
Harefivid, on Finlay the 21th day of Jannaiy last, between
I and o'clock in the afternoon, they were pursued by two
men betooging to a heat which was then in Springwell Lock.
(In; ..r* the num, whose name is Richard Status, overtook one
of the girls, named Sarah Summers, the daughter of a poor
man in the serving of Mr. Norton, of Uxbridge, and imme-
diately drancel tier foremuly a coos:dee-able distant e over a
bridge tee the lock, where the boat aas Ijiuig ready to start,
and with the assistance of another man who was in the Lino,
whose name is William Tookey, forced her into it. Stains
not being able to effixt his pnrpcse, called William Tookty
to assist him, w ken they tired the 1 nor girl in the most brutal
manner, and violated her person. 'the delinubent,
Stains, was :iiketi with Lis companion, and th,sy were brought
to St. Albans, where they were lodged iii gaol until Monday
last, a licn they were brought to Hirkinansworth, and node r-
want a long examination betere Mr. Salter and the neigh-
bouring magistrates, and were all fully committed fur heal
for the capital otheibe at the next assizes at Hertford. It
is bnt JuAtive to add, that the haslet af Uxbridge to which
the pour 4.1 belongs, have voluulartly come forward: and
not only undertaken to reimburse all expenses of apprehend-
ing the presenters; and deputed one of the overseer to attend
tlno examination, and enter into a erceglizence to prosecute
th...! °Wenders fur the heinous crime with which they stand
cha• grit.
An English calculator, says a German Paper, has es-
timated, that a Parliamentary Orator speaks 700 words,
at an average, in an hour ; and 7300 words when warm.
ad I,‘• i cal, ur 'Vied of the French !!