The National Register.
London, England, 1823-01-27 00:00:00

BRIDGE-STRZAT GANG..—In our obituary of the
2816 alt, we mentioned the death of Mr, John Reddish. also
was formerly a respectable bookseller in this town. The way
this person was treated by the Society we th nk it proper to
notice. We apprehend it will he then dillicuq to find any one
wl o will say that the iiitribute of mercy forma any part of its
character; we wish the subscribers knew of the proceeding,
for we think in that case many of them would ithdraw their
support :—ls July, 1521, they procured • Judge's warrant
against him to appear In the Court of King's Bench to an in-
dictum to be preferred for selling the lauldiral Midi, Nary, a
work published in Loudon, neither the author or printer of
which had been prosecuted. Mr. Reddish was arrested, though
on the verge of 70. and in an infirm state of health committed
to prison, where he remained from Friday until Monday even•
ing, when be procured bail ; lie heard no more of the business
that year, and supposed they had given op the prosecution :
bat in the spring of last year notice was served upon loins of
trial at the Lent Assists. Dewing this interval his health had
PO tench declined, principally from the effects of this proseca •
Cron. that he bad given up business. His children, end some
old friends who had known him in more prosperous days, re-
commended an application being merle to the Bridge street As-
aociation to stay proceedings, ■s the expense of defending
himself vilest so formidable ■ power would be great, and at
th's time of life they apprehended, if convicted, iniprisonment
would be of serious consequence. A respectable solicitor wee
employed to write to the Society's agents, informing 11111111 of
Mr. lleddieb's very weak stale ; that he had declined business,
and as a further inducement an offer was made to oribuit and
withdraw the plea, upon en ❑nderstanding that he shoeld not
be call dup for judgment, unless he again offended. To this
Mr. Murray replied, that be must consult the committees--
Some time elapsed, and after several •pplicstioaa, as answer
was sent that the offer could *mot be complied with. Oa re-
ceipt of this reply, Mr. Reddish made his cue k.ows to 11011/0
gentlemen, and • subscription was immediately set oe foot to
dieted him. Mr. Broeghain and Mr. Joshua Swabs were rr
Weed.; and poor Reddish, though apparently at death's door.
set off on the Slat of last March for Lancaster : the nest mere-
log his trial was to come on, bat before the Court met, Mr.
Murray sent a note to Mr. Brougham, to the effect that the
Association would accept the offer before 1011110 to poked guilty
on the same conditions—and the spirit-brakes defeadam, for
the reasons already stated, was recommended to accede to the
offered term►. This conduct speaks for itself ; sooner than the
worthy Secretary would lose a journey to Lancaster, the lib
of a poor feeble fellow-creature was to be naked ; and it was
only when it was seen that Reddish bad friends, and was to be
defended by Mr. Brougham, (who, we doubt not, would have
given the Society and their Secretary a handsome dressing,)
that the same offer was proposed by Murray, which was by
hits before rejected. The excitatioe this 'Weir produced on
the frame of Mr. Reddish was so great, and the journey to sad
from Lancaster weakened him so much, that on his arrival at
home he was obliged to be carried up stairs, and he POOll afto
took to his bed, from which be hardly ever roue.—Arenstmew

PROVIDINTIAL ESCAPE.—On Tuesday evening, between
Ave and sic o'clock, four girls, under fourteen years of age,
whose parents reside in the Wandsworth-road, agreed to ac-
company each other to the adjoining meadow, for t .e purpose of
engaging in the exercise of sliding. On their way thither they
met with a youth, aged about 116 jean, the sots of a Mr. Motive,
'respectable engineer, residing near Kennington.eross, who
accompanied them also. They had scarcely, however, 'entered
on the Ice, when it broke, and the eldest, a fine girl, unable to
preserve herself, was sinking very last. The youth observing
her perilous situation, hastened to her "mistime, bet in his
laudable endeavours he himself fell in. With great presence
of mind he still kept fast hold of her, and at length succeeded
in bringing her out of the water ; yet, drenched ..• he was, he
would not leave the object of his preservation until he had taken
her borne to her friends, nearly perished wish cold, and met
with such reception from them as his exertions required.
At.aliss ten Aectnesers.—For some time past
bricklayers and labourers have beret employed in pull. itg
down • number of old bons *a in James's-street, Gros-
venor-square—and on Wednesday nominee aimed ten
o'clock, one of them, oa the third door of which sic nwn
were standing, gave way, and precipitated the nufortei-
nate being" to •he bottom t they were completely covered
with the ruins, aad a eousidesahle space of time elapsed
before they could be dug out. We are happy. has
to state that three of them escaped without scarcely any
Injury, butt the °theta, though not supposed dangerously,
were coesiderahly hurt—they were Immediately conveyed
to Si. George's Hospital. Another iselancholy Deterrent%
took place on Tureaday evening, in Marmon Crescent.
Lord's Ground, at the house of Mts. Weipart. blise
Sasitheamt' her niece, went sip oolitic dress for • lea
party, and in a short time atter lier shrieks alarmed the
bonne, and usi the Restrain going into the reom a frightful
*cent presented—she met the young lady at lilt chamber
door esiseloped in Names, and the bed furnitrire wee also
• fire. Iu her shuns the nt sinew the connierpene
of' the bed tumid the sufferer, and eatingnisbed the
slaters, bet toot is oil Ill• htilr was bent. ficissathe head.—
The young lady was alive on Wednesday morning, Under
the t acute sufferings, hot hopes of a recovery ere at
an end, The sufferer is only 17 years of age, and else
was on a visit at her 'a.

AL•RMINO ACCIDENT ♦T THR SCAT Of LORD VI--
COUNT Gir•stet tut.— Wh►rsied long,. ins Sntiulk, last
the noble Lord hail • large party of friends, in
enjoy the sports of the hill. On 'Thursday last, they
were out sron►ing a wood. The inurning was hazy, and
the Doke of Wellington was so intent on his game, that
hr lost sight of the pasty, and in filing his dosiblr-bar-
relied gun. he sinforinnately lodged a pail of the conk:site
1.1 the face of his noble host ; seven !wan %hot entered
the cheeks, and one the 0.n.0.. Hiss Greer, hearing ass
eael:ltnalio• of t. I ant Ant." threw down his pis cr and
tall 10 the spot, whets. tie his friend Iraillnp manias/a
a !lee, Ilse litre .Irediniog with blood. ...I se of the isgsly
-•••I. for medical gisl, the oth, ra
to• the lodge. A ....s-
-hout auricled, estrarietl die shot,
stile patient 1.. be am in any d anger.
;lies his lord.bip is now perfectly
to Mnwu.
has mil been known studs an
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as. Mar. Citattielit, ut Wick,
tip at farm of WA 00111. at Iloilo ,
im less than half em loon he
_der thar iwelar woodrork., nine of
he begged. Is is Ili. ttf.itt•o s
I whets sorb Inrda unit as in •. 111 sl
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no strew al assignee t r-
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