The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-29 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFE.NCES.

On Monday, Mr S. an attorney, was committed to Newgate, eu
a warrant then Mr. Justice Le Mane, charged with a capital
elfieece. An inilietn,.•nt has been found against him at the Middlesex
November Session', charging him with maliciously Nlinotii;g at Mr.
Sewell, an accomitaet, of Bond-court, Wallwook, with a gnu, with
an itacia to kill him. Mr. Sewell hail called on him on some
business. when a dilmrte arose, and when Mr. Sewell was leavine
Mr house, he distbaresed a musket at him, but it fortunately did
no injury
While on Friday se:might, a qnarryman, residing near Trene-
erydd Pemhsokeslitre, was ineautionsly filling, a flask with erne
powder, from a bane emit:doing. nearly all lbs. of the same, and his
infant 06141, ',bona twelve months old, being at the mother's knee,
win plaing with a small stick, one end of which was on fire, a spark
liVa‘ unfortunately communivated- to the powder, which instantly
expl.oled, carrying away the roof of the cottage, and blowing up the
poor woman, who fell across one of the beams. She was dreadfully
acoialied, arid her nose completely crushed; the mall was forced
through a- pat Winn wall, being shockingly burnt and bruised, and
the pow mitre. who was the unhappy but innocent rause of this
'Calamity, exhibited 5%1(.1, a lamented spectacle of disfigurement as to
agonise the feelings of all wino witnessed the iithicting scene. To
'the further surf. rings of the father and child death has put a period,
but the I woman, notwithstanding the injury she sustained, was
Alive on Wednesday last.
09 Monday, an inquisition was taken at Pie'niegton, iu this
colfeety,,ou view of the bodies of Robert Cave, and Jane, his wife,
tot ° 'Were Attppl/Sed to have been wilfully poisoned ; when, upon an
investigation of upwards of seven biters, it appeared that Robert
Cave Who malady worked at Horton (about a mile distant) was
accustomed to have something hot provided fur him on his return
borne ;al fife evening, generelly some. broth, and a pudding or dinuplitig
that on the preceding Wednesday evening he had a suet dumpling
prepared foe him ,by his wife, the whole of lahich he ate, and found
no ill effects from it.: that on the next day (Thursday) she also
prepared another suet thimplina for him, taking the note out of the
tame bowl,-and the suet from the :--anie place as on Wednesday. In
eating it ni torlipliiiired of its taste, and only ate Mona half of it.
ills wife than ale part of the rcmaindr, r, giving some to her eldest
daughter, telio may took eery small quanti!y. They were all very
snarl afterwards taken extremely ail. awl Jane Carve died in about
aive hours; Robert Cave lived only about eight hours, and the
thiegliter is now vet y ill, but likely to recover. It did not in any
Nvay appear how or in what manner the poison wins introduced into,
sa got mixed with the doer or suet,- both of which were atrougly
impregnated with irrsenie; no person having been in the house
since the mating of the dumpling on the IVerlnesday, except the
family of the deceased. Verdict—Died by Poison.— ( Noel/urn:Aix
Mercury.) -
COM/NI:WS Isett'esT. Monday evening an inquest was held at
the Limeand Lamb, Lower Grosvenoe•street, betnre Anthony Gell,
Esq. Cllr ;nor tnr IVestutiirster, on the body of Sarah Silvester, *rt
,cook in the family of Dr. Robert Hodgson, Rertor of St. George,
Hauover-square, who pint an end to her existence by cutting her
throat with a r zor. It appeared in evidence, that between tern and
eleven o'clock on Thursday morning, the deceased WitN edited from
-ter mastee's ; it was then supposed she was gone out on some
bus'oess oft&er omit, bnt not returning its the dinner hone drew near,
the butler inquired for her, at the houses of several persons where
he used to krquent, bet she was not to be found. Between seven
And eight o'clock in the evening the butler and the kitchen maid
commenced i fresh search for leer, and after looking over every part
of t;:e house, they searched the out-offices; on their going up to the
iota over the stable, they found the door shut close to; the butler
knocked at the door arid called, but receiving tw answer, he pushed
tiara, and hound it was unlocked, but kept shut by something
-.)slug placed against it on the imille; he forced open the door so
far as to admit his head, and looking iu saw the deceased lying
a-most the tor with her throat cut, and the neer covered with