The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-15 00:00:00

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- ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.
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FA VIE Ca A IRA vtaa.-.-A short thsw since Mr. J. Meyer, of NOTWOnd.
hour. Surrey, saw an advertisement m a Newspaper, by a loran's!'
wanting a islets, which he answered ; when a mate calling himself T.
Ifsrris applied fur the place, stating that he last lived with Mrs. Mary
!linden. a widow lady, at Runaineh, with whom he had been two years
and a hale Mr. Meyer on ute far hischaractsr, and received an answer,
signed Mary Mellen, representing Harris to be very honest. saber and
in every to srct an excellent servant ;. the letter contained the mark of
H mnslow. Upon this Mr. Meyer hired him, and he entered into his
service on Tuesday; the 34 instant. and appeared perfectly to under-
stand the business of a footman. On Friday, after dinner, during the
absence of Mr. Meyer, he went out, t-lling the roller servants he was
going to meet the Norwood coach, as Ise tweeted in receive a parcel
from London s but not• returning for some bosun after the aspects d
time, the house *es examined. when it was ssircovered that he bad
snide off with two 101. Bank of England notes which he had stolen out
of a drawer, besides a great quantiey of wearing apparel and other
things--Enquiries where made, and it was learnt !list the patrnle of
flat neighbourhood, observing him with two bundles, stopped hint, to
enquire what he had got, where ha was going. do. when he made some
eawniva answer, and was foolishly suffered to roared.
CAUTIMI 're Famteles.—Sunday last Mr. and Mrs. Shelcay. of
Bethnal Greets, sent out in their garden for a stick of horse reddish,
and the •ervantbeonght in a root, called pope's root, which exactly
resembles horse reddish, and unfortunately was used instead of it.
Tue consequence was. that they both found themselves very ill that
evening, and the next morning on sending for a Medical Gentleman.
he declared them boils to be dangerously poisoned, They remain
extremely ill.
Its the slight of Vl'edneaday se'itaight, a Dutch schnyt, named the
Twee Gebrorders, on her voyage from East Friesland to London,
with a cargo of about thirty lasts of oats, was wrecked on the
Lincolnshire coast, near the. loathing homes at Frieston. The vessel
basing received damage in the late storms, her Captain went on
shore on the Norfolk coast for a pilot, but before he could find one
awl return to his schuyt, she had driven out to sea again, and tke
first tidings the unhappy man heard of her were communicated by
some fishermen of Frieston, whom he met at Lyon, and who had
seen and visited the wreck on Thursday morning. The wife of the
Captain. a fine young woman, to whom he had been married only
eight months, was found drowned in the cabin, and an inquest was
held on her body at the. Anchor inn, on Frieston Shore, en Saturday.
Two seamen whom the Captain left on board the schuyt when lii
took to his boat for the Norfolk shore, are supposed to have been
washed off the wreck, sad to have perished.
Friday, one of the Portsmouth night coaches .was overturned
near Guilford, and most of the passengers materially Waved. A
sailor on the outside was thrown through the window of into
a room in which a man and his wife were sleeping ; and in his:fall
dislocated his shoulder. One of the horses was killed.—The With.
man was the only person who escaped injury.
1 On Thursday last. the following melancholy accident occtired at
Whitstable, Kent :.—As Robert Newing, one of the Company of
Dredgers of that port, was out fishing, accompanied by his son,
aged 16 years, he accidentally fell overboard ; his son immediately
threw a rope to his insistence, which he fastened to Isis body, and
with which the lad ineffectually attempted to haul him into the
boat, but not having strength to accomplish it, the unfortunate mar,
after beiug dragged by the boat nearly two miles, was drowned.
He has lett a wi!e and nine children.
On Wednesday an Inquest was held at the Queen's Head, Lower.
street, Islington, before G. Hodson, Esq. Coroner for Middlesex,
on the body of a woman arise, was found drowned at the New River
Head, Islington, name linknown. •It appeared that a woman, the
widow of Mr. baskwaith, a butcher. of Islington Green, was mis-
sing since last winter, in the time of the great frost, and front the
putrid state of the present body it we** supposed by many of tee
neighbours to be her. In consequence every inquiry -Was made to:
asece tain the fact, but nothing could be collected to substantiate the
supposition—J. Lucas deposed, that he lived near the Thatched
House, at Islington, and was inspector of the New River Water
Works, it being his ditty to take care that the water was regularly
on, he discovered a certain pipe deficient, he in consequence broke
open the place close adjoining the River Head, and found in the
pipe the body of a woman in a complete state of vitrification. The
body was removed in a shell to the honeleonse, where the Jury
new to see it, and.afterwards returned ,to the eleteen's Head, to. de.
aide their Verdict, which was given milder the diiectiun of the C.,,.
~' inner- l'unsid tlrow&d.