The National Register.
London, England, 1816-08-04 00:00:00

UNION 11,114,.

Benlamin Burdett was yesterday broil:. ht up. by Shear.gild charged
on suspi,ion of b:ing concerned in stealing a variety sf articles, the pro-
of Mr. Itriant, of the Horns Tavern, Kenningtou. It ayp.ared
from tl.: evidence, that within Cie List three niJntlis, Mr. Bruen has
been pliind.:reil of near twelve dozen pewter pots, twenty dozen of knives
as forks, and various ot!&er articles. The prisoner is one of three or
four men who are constantly loitering about the premises of Mr. Bri-
an." and u'iout the coach-stand in the front of the nouse ; and liim4elf
and one of his companions getting into a quarrel together, one of them
pulled out a knife, the pro,ierty of Mr. lin:mt, to strike at the other.—
This led to suspect Ciey were the thieves who had robh,il Mr. Briant ;
the other man escaped, but the prisoner wa► secured. He was commit-
vd for re-e%amination.

Wodnes.:ay a French Gentleman attended and stated, that on Friday
night i tit he had been at Vauxhall Gardens, and cone from thence
ah•-• ; o'clock; while crai,ing over the mail he was assailial by live
or sac men, who knocked him down, and he became If nsrless ; when
he recovered, he found himself at the Vauxledl Watch-home, and dis-
covered that his watch (a gohl one) and two seals were stolen. A
watchman attend.xl and stated, Mat the Gentleman was brought to the
wiach-houx in a state of insensibility; he was lying in the road; and
in consemtence at incomiation given by a boy, who observed him in
that sane, he was tak.ai to the watca.lioase. The boy alio attended,
awl stated, Chit observed several men collected in the middle of the
ram!, and wns go!o, to the spot to see whet they were about. when t' iey
ran away, Rath!. liscoverai the coamlainant lying insensible in the
road; wnen he went to the watc4-house, mid gave the inforniation
Above st.ontL Gent! .caan had I 11. in Rank-notes in his pocket.
which e:car.i the sr:Heins. The Nfogiatrates directed the Officers to
use every exertion to .4Krehend them ; and, from the description which
the gentlem in and the boy, who saw them, was able to give, there is
every probal.ility 01 taeir being AU xolifuL

As UN r:II 4 lin e. gentleman of respectability,
nam It., ss, a Oil Saturday charged by his female servant,
Diary Fla:•ris, with assaalting her and violating her person.
The pr ,seciorix staled that she had been in Mr. Hicks's service
thr-e weeks ; on Sunday morning the 21st instant, her
master ca.ae home late, and going up to bed, immediately de-
sired she would take him a little gin anal water up to his bed-
room; she accordingly did so: when she went up stairs, her
master was partly undressed, and she also had some of her
clothes off as soon as she entered the room, her master took
hold of her, threw her damn ou the bed, anal notwithstanding
her resistance effected his purpose.
On being questioned by hlr. Sellon, the Magistrate, she con-
fessed file should not have brought the charge against her
master, if he had not turned her out of his house.
Mr. Hicks denied the truth of every part of the girl's state-
ment ; anal the Magistrate ffeliug convinced it was not founded
on fact, dismisse . the charge.
Mr. Hicks said he had now a very scrions charge to prefer
against his accuser, who, upon this iiiti:natioti, took the place
of the accused. Since Mar) Harris had quitted his service,
she had been frequently at his house; after she went away, one
day a pawnbroker's duplicate was found in one of the rooms in
which she had been, and near it a silver milk jug, belonging to
a friend of hie, who was gone into the country, and had 101 l
his plate in his (Mr. Hicks's) care ; he strongly suspected the
prisoner of having taken it front its proper place; he had also
missed several other articles;and had no doubt, if the prisoner
was committed fur re-examination, lie should be able to pro.
duce such evidence us would induce the Magistrate to commit
her for trial She was accordingly committed fur re-examination
on a future day.
Au accident which we have long anticipated, happened on
Friday night at Vauxhall-gardens to Madame Suqui : as she was
dancing on the tight rope, which is substituted for the cascade,
she tell; and, twit herself considerably.

In the Court of Chancery on Thursday, Mr. James Coombs a
bankrupt, lately a banker in Windsor, in partnership with Mr.
Brown, who had been committed to Newgate by a warrant of
the Commissioners of Bankrupt, dated 2sl of July, fur not an-
swering to their satisfaction the interrogatories put to dint on
his examination, was brought before the Lord Chancellor by a
writ of llubca Corpro. After the return of the writ was read,
embodying the warrant of the Commissioners which contained
the interaogatories anti the answers to them, which were de-
clared to them unsatisfactory, Sir S. Bomilly, the bankrupt's
Counsel, moved that he be discharged, on the ground that his
answers were not improbable nor evasive, and what was not
thought satisfactory by the Commissioners should b. declared
so by the Court. The bankrupt had declared on his catmint*
tion, that on the two slays prior to his bankruptcy, and one of
ter it, he had burnt 17,0001. of Bank-notes, and could give no
account of his motive, but such a one as the Commissioners
declared unsatisfactory.—Mr. Cullen was likewise heard for
the baukrnpt. and Mr. Hart and Mr. Montagu for the assig.
flees. -The Lord Chancellor did not then deliver judgment;
but the next day ordered him to he liberated.
T. Thorpe the younger, who a few days since was com-
mitted (ruin Bow-street Office ou a charge of bein7 concerned
with three others in breaking open the house of Mr. Franklin,
at Ivor, with their faces disguised with masks, &c. and armed
with pistols' was tried on Friday at Buckingham, and found
guilty ; Sir Vicary Gibbs, on passing sentence, in a suit u hie
abess, admonished hint to make the best use of his time, as it
was but short, and ordered hint for execution nest Wednesday,
giving him no hopes of mercy. The prisoner denied the charge,
a, he slid at How-street. G. Thorpe, his node was cried and
acquitted, on an indirtinent charging him with being one of the
gang, and concerned with his nephew.
T. Raison was found guilty. at the same Assizes, of the wil-
fill murder of an old Lady; he was executed on Friday morn-
ing at Aylesbury, conformably to his sentence.
A melancholy event lately occurred at Derby. Two young men,
Joseph Flutings, the eldest son of Mr. Holmes, cutler, of that place,
aged 23 ; the other J. lisinfotd, son of Mr. B. of Itemon, aged el,
were unfortunately drowned in the river Dement. They went togethea
early in the morning. with the intention of bathing; and, notwitlistand.
ing the river was considerably swelled by the late rain, it unfortunately
slid not deter them Loin their purism!. They entered the water at the
toast bathing-place in the old meadow ; and it is supposed they were
ianueliatAy carried beyond their depth by the incr.ataing bulk and ea-
pidtty of the current.
A 'errant of John Atkinson, Esq. of Marie Bays. near Lichfield,
was killed by the lightning on Thursday evening, near Lemonslcy.
Monday. Captain T. G. alarmy, of the East India service, cm his
throat, and afterwards discharged a double-barrelled pistol through his
I- A, which caused his death ins few minutes.— The unfortunate Gen-
ii:us-Ss Ic:t town t!.e 7-a:ding c:enins on a friendly visit.

TM. NATION-If, tr.Gl.-Tr:rt.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.
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Friday an Inquisition WAS held at the Crow% Tavern. Clerkenwell
Green, on the bady of William Ruby. Wm.! -.mei was occasioned by
the earth falling Mon him, and bariing him, waist in the act of sink-
ing a deep giave.
Mass Patty Bacon, samm and etamined, said, she Ilya at No.
17. It al Lion-street. Clarkenwell; last 'heat ten minutes put one
o',doek. last Wednesday aftnnoon. the we. standing besith a Ti:made
grave in the wen part of the buryhq-gcom33 of tit Jaime's, Ch-ken-
well; the grave we very deep, and AI, fie tl. cee r;,
ltuby, u the bottom of it, an.. an;o:aer man. ns.ned St,:phs
abou half WiV dryara ; she shortly attar heard a crash, ozeasionAl by
of the boar.ls used itt shoring it, an I me falling in a the earth,
whien ,filled it up and weed co n:detely over them ; ah. SST there was
no time to t, as several roam were inam aliately eni2loyed in shovelling
away the earth: she reiashied for consideriede um: looking on, but
the crowd inereasi.. ;. she -_tiros into the church, where sae remained
until ten animates pas thre • o'clock; when Steel in Butcher, who was
released froai his peraoas , nation, was brought tote the vestry-room,
where he was attendel by Ntr.Chamberlaw, t I,urgatra, and he shortly
afterwards partially recovered : but ea., und, ratold tha; *lie body of
the deceased WAS not found until lia'‘'-past ten o'cl:A th .aine night,
and the.: he was dead.

Miss Hanna% orgAnist to the church, and elstzr to the lest
witness, &posed. this. she ./14/1 ...Analog with her sister et tile time, end
11,111 thc ardent, aol thAt the :tceount her sister gate is perftntly cor-
rect.

W:fliarn Clayton, being sworn. said, he lieu at No. 4, Frwich-yarti,
Bowling-green-Lux, and is grave-digger to St. lam ..s church
well, , Clerk-
enell, in which situation he ti been emp!oyel . nine years ; that
Stephen Budder had Seca ensployad by him to ..t ike grave. more t'i to
three years. and die deressed, William Ruby, mile About two months ;
that it is a (volition thing tt it burying-ground to sink dean grtves ;
he had made &Lae as dee,. es tie fa'.4 ; it was the order of the
families, to: ta • niece of kezetive • gru I'd fur themselves, and by
sinking deep, the more r00:16 w0....1 rem un to receive frish arrpoes,
without diata:bing those air •Aly intsrred. pleety of boards
aad thither for shit:ire! to etweat ...damn; ; he newer had an accident
occur nelnre he ...wars sapainteade i the digefne of deep graves, and
fixed Cie shares hiniitli"; he never eatrastal say of Ins inen to fix the
shores, far fear of aceident. Stephen Butcher, who :tad been upwards
of ears years in his employ, never attempted to fix tie shores in a deep
grave. Toe grave in question. intended for Miss Burrowes, of
Lion-st. was la feet deep, and within thee:feet of the brick-wall. About
six inotteu before there was a Mias Griffin buried, about ten feet
deep close to the wall, on which account he was the more careful
to have the preit grave well shored up—knowing that the earth
between it and the wall was fresh and very loose, and was therefore more
particular in his directions to the deceased and Stephen Butcher, at
their peril:, not to fix any of the shores, but to call him fur that pur-
pose: and that always when they sunk two feet to call him to fix them,
which he did until it was beyond ten feet. lie then went home, being
up the preceding night, to have half an hour's sleep, giving them
orders, when they stock two feet more, to call him up, in order to fix
the shore, but by no means to attempt it themselves. Instead of com-
plying with his orders, the deceased, without calling him, fixed that
shore himself, and then dug two feet more. When witness returned
and found what had been done, they assured him it was perfectly se-
cured ; at all events, it could not be remedied, and witness himself
fixed the remainioe shores to the bottom. About one o'clock on Wed-
nesday afternoon, as he was standing at the grave, when the deceased
was at the bottom of it, and Stephen Butcher about midway down, he
ordered them to do no more, but cone up immediately. NVitness,
hearing the approach of the funeral of Miss Burrowes, went to bring
boards and ropes, and was not five minutes away, when he found the
ground had fallen in and buried them: they were completely covered :
there were several men instantly employed in clearing away the earth,
and it was about 23 minutes before they succeeded in uncovering the
head of Stephen Butcher, whom they found alive; but being closely
jammed by the timbers. some of which were across his shoulders, and
pressed on various parts of his body, they did not suce;:ed in extricating
him until in minutes past four o'clock, during which interval they
were frequently obliged to give him some refft'ShMent to prevent his
htinting. He is now confined to his bed very ill fmm the bruises he
received; it was half-past ten the same night before they found the
body of the deocased, who was at the bottom of the grave, and who, he
supposes, was killed in the first instancy from the timber, his head being
found turned on one side and closely pressed betweeti the w.)11, and
several marks on various parts of his body. The occasion of the length
of time in digging for him was, that, after extricating Butcher, they had
to shore again as they dug, or another similar accident might happen
from the weight of the loose earth and coffins on each side.
The Coroner and Jury expressed their entire satisfaction at the pre-
caution used by the grave-di:eeer, and attributed the accident solely to
the deceased in fixing that slio..e which is s ipposed to have given way,
and returned a verdict of—Accidental Death.