The National Register.
London, England, 1814-08-14 00:00:00

AUG. 14.

ACCIIJENT,S* AND OFF A'G'ES.

BURNING OF THE PARK RAILING.

We are sorry. to state, that at ten o'clock on. Friday night a mob
ronected in the Green Park, composed, perhaps of all the disor-
derly characters in London. Acting in the spirit of mischief, they
pulled down the lence outside the Temple inclosure, and , mule a
Nwfire. In consequence of the immense number of perlions
leered, the seltrics found it impossible to oppose their depredatitms .
It was not deemed necessary to resort to a proper force in order. to.
compel them to desist, as in all probability many: with their liVes
would have , paid for -their misconduct, had they been treated -or:
ricters. Finding a forbearance, they went on with impunity, and
piled up the railings until a volume of flame arose, which alarmed
the metropolis at its eastern extremity. Many supposed a number
of houses were on fire, and the engines drove through the Pal k.
under a belief that St James's Palace was in-flames. The multi-
tude, with a disregard.of propriety, proceedtd mita they had hunt
nearly all the fences ; sentry boxes and branches of trees were
thrown into the flames, and considerable apprehensions were enter-
tained for the fate of the Temple, which was menaced, with the
other range of building bearing the name of the Military Officers,
The Temple remained safe, surrounded by sentinels, and the mis-
chief dope does not extend beyond the destruction of the timber
which formed the railway. The mob left the Park when daylight
appeared. Several are in custody.

A melancholy accident happened on Saturday se'nnight at Yule,
about seven miles cast of Plymouth harbour. In a heavy squal of
wind, three men were upset in a small•boat and drowned. •A boat
with five men put ot1•to their assistance, which also upset, and two
out of the five were drowned.

A few days since what; some men were digging in a coal pit at
Wedgebury, Staffordshire,. part of it fill in and overwhelmed two
men and a boy ; the former %vete cle..d ere they could be extricated,
and the lattPi• es:piled scou after being taken to the hospiral.• •
Kilwinning steeple, in Scotland, fell on the night of the 2J inst.
with a treuleDdonS clash ; but happily no lives were lost. This
steeple was all that remained of the ruins of Kilwiaming.Monastery,
%%Well was founded in the year 1140, by Hugh. de- Moreville, Lord
ot'Cuuningliame. •
iirednesday morning, the butler in the family of Mr. Gibson, at
Uxbridge, vas discovered hanging in the granary, by a servant maid,
whose cries brought two others to her assistance, and the unfortu•
nate man was ~utt down. 'Medical aid was procured, and he' now
lies in a lair way of recovery. Jealousy is stated to have been the

cause.
Wednesday au inquisition was taken by the Coroner for the town
of Cambridge' on a view of the body of Jane Bays, aged 10, 'daugh-
ter of Mr. 'Thomas Bays, of Trinity- street, who died on Tuesday
afternoon, at four o'clock, in consequence of having swallowed in
the morning, a tea,spootitid of curios:ivy swblimate, dissolved in
water. It appeared from the evidence that the unfortunate de..

ceased ti;ok the medicine by direction of an ignorant quack, named
Booker, residing' at Cambridge, ‘‘fro gave it her as salts, to curean
eroptionin the fare. .The Coroner expressed himself very forcibly
on this al:flirting instavce of the etiCcts Of gross ignorance and tlirire-
.fol imposition; hut there being no bad motive imputable to Rooker,
the Jory retcrned a verdict —Died by the violent effectA of corro-
sive sublimate cflOicury, by nusadvtnture.

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