The National Register.
London, England, 1808-04-25 00:00:00

PROVINCIALS.

Last week, a valuable mare, belonginA to Mr. Podmont,
,farmer, near Ilawarden, Vlintshire, was saddenly taken
;after drinking some water in a pond, and alt efforts to swallow
,any thing proved ineffectual. She swelled remarkably large,
And lived two or three days in the most excruciatheg agony,
hen she died. On opening her, nothing was found in her
'bowels that could occasion her death ; but ota cutting open the
'wind-pipe, a large thad was discovered alive !—which she is
supposed to have taken into that orifice on drinking the
4rater.

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A few days since as some children were gathering primroses
and violets, on a sonny bank in the parish of %albumin, near
Arundel, one of them, the son of Mr. Randal, was bitten on
!his arm, by an adder, the venom of which caused such a violent
!swelling and inflammation, that the poor child's life was cot,.
isidered in imminent danger. A young man went afterwards to
!the spot, and with a stick destroyed three of these venemous
Ireptiles.
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About a week sinm, a Nobleman's game-keeper, in Kent, shot.
: hare, which, on taking op, he found to be very big with young;
;he therefore opened her withsare, and drew foro two living
leverets, which, on being w iped dry, skipped a bout the dead ani-
mal, and actually sucked her as long as warmth would admit the
flow of milk. One of them died soon afterwards; but theother,
vve to Liebe, is in a fair $s nNo of recover.
A shocking accident held the lady of W. G. _At:runner,
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1 Esq. of Clewer. Surrey, on Monday night. Mrs. Althorpe,.
her son, and two daiy,liters, had returned home from a iisit,
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when toe former went into her bed-room, leaving her family
is the draw ing-room imderneath. The shrieks of the mother
tat med tier children, and on their hastening up stairs, Mrs.
A. was l:, ing oa the floor with her garments literally reduced
o tinder. Surgical aid was adinioistered ns quick as possible,
nst the unfortunate lady (lied, in about three hours after the ac-
trident happened. The deceased has left eight children to be-
,,wail her loss. _ _.

• Lately, Llii a butcher and his wife, of the name of Bevan, mere
eturning lanne.from Chepstow market, with a horse and cart,
n going over the Undy bridge, they fell into the w atcr and were
Browned : it is supposed they had fallen asleep in the cart
llirnugh fatigue, and the horse being left to himself overturned
,the cart, under which the bodies were found. The woman was
heady ready ,to lye-in: they have left four infants, two of
witecit ore twins of 14 months old.—The same nigh:, a man em•
loved in a paper-mill, at Niounton, near Chepstow, got ("t-
-angled in the wheel, and was crushed to death.
A few
,days since the following distressing circumstance hap-
ened at Hull. A woman of the name of Slather, being em-
loyed in cleaning her room, with her back to the chimney. a
sy about three years of age caught hold of a kettle upon the
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re, and putting its mouth under the spout, poured a quantity of
()oiling water down its throat, which scalded it so dreadfully,
that it languished about twenty-four hopes, and then expired.
Last week at Coaxey, near Wells, a voting man, of the name
of PritHen, having occasion to go to a blacksmith's shop on bu-
siness, some irritating language took place between him and the
blacksmith's a pitrent ice, and the capenter struck hint, when the
lad immediately thrust a piece of red hot iron into the- or pen-
tees aide, and killed lii,al on the spot. Verdict—Mawfaushier..

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APRIL 25•

THE NAI

'ION,

Ex ccter o sts.—On Saturday sennigut, T. Sutton, aged 24;
J. Chapman, J 4 ; and W. Fuller, 26, were executed on the
Castle-hill, NOM Wt.—Sutton was a remarkable instance of the
effects of an unprincipled 4:Lineation. His father suffered an ig-
mniutou• death, and his brother was trati•ported. His first
Inducement to crime seems to have been a vri•li to join the latter
at Botaliv Bay; to this end he committed two robberies upon
General Money, with vs hom he lived, and was tried twice; his
second sentence confined hint to the hulks for seven years.—At
the expiration of this period, he returned to Trowse, his native
village, and nu application to General Yoney, as to his future
life, that gentleman provided him the means of an honest livell-
bood.—This was, however, frustrated by an attachment to a fe-
m:;le, who--Irft him at a time when his hopes were fixed upon an
union with her. Courses of vice foilowed : and with the were
intention of committing stone act Iv hich might subject his life to
the law, hr set fire to the stacks and premkes of General Money,
tic crime for w hick he suffered de,.111. It i• remarkable that he
vlinuld have chlasen his only benefactor as the object of his injury.
After condemnation, he conducted himself with much penitence.
J. Chapatti' and W. Fuller, are victims to an offence arising
out of a breach of the game laws. They were poachers, and
in an encounter vt ith Lord Cho;))))) watchers, they fired
unto' and wounded W. , the principal keeper. Since
their sentence, they have conducted themselves is the most ex-
emplary manner : considerable ellOrts were made to obtain their
si:priete, but without effect.