The National Register.
London, England, 1811-09-15 00:00:00

PROVINCIALS.

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DRIPADFOL, AFFMAT.—On Monday last, about-eight o'cloelt. •
:in the evening, a deeaditil array occurred at the Plough, at
.Thatcham. A party of voluntea r- from the Irish militia, on
• •their' way to join the 87th regi•eent at l'ertsmouth, quarrelled
amongst tiiernselve;, and afterwards with the persons who were
in the house, of which they s •on took full poFsession, turning
.the guests out. The inhabitants soon assembled, armed with
%gnus,- and broke open•the. doors, desiring the soldiers to surren-
der, which they refteed to do, with threats and attempts to
wound those who approached them ; on which they were in-
formed, that unless they immediately submitted, they would
13,2 fired Upon ; they replied, " shoot and be damned," oil which
a gun was discharged, which killed one of the lrishrry n on the
seot, the contents letly,ing in his heaq. • A Coroner's inquest
.was held on the body, who returned a verdict of JuslOiabic Ho-
micide. The soldiers are now at Newbury, and the matter will
be brought before the Magistrates of that place in a few days.
A destructive fire broke out on Monday, in the rick-yard of
'oult a Lrater, at East-end, nor ';iitortesbrook, in
Oxfortshire, occasioned by the descent of a tire balloon on a
. • wheat riclt. The balloon had been sent up in the neighbqnr-
hood of Marlow, nearly VC) mils from v. here it desce.nied.
"me daniage wasvery extensive, for besi.ies the burning of four
- r cl, a barn, containing, a full stowage of lint hreshed corn, toge-
Leer with several outhoust s, fell a prey to the devourirg element.
A similar circumstance occurred in Berkshire some thee since,
when the authors of the misfortune paid dearly for tech amuse-
. rilent at the Assiees.
n outrage ot a most daring description, •^ok place on Wed-
II iay night, about ten o'clock, between Nettlehiai end H,nley•
U on-Thames, by a gang of miscreant, that infest the woods in
tat vicinity. A carriage belonging to J. li'arry. Fig. on its way
t) town empty, was thrice firt d at by the miliaria, who, with
h grid imp•ecations, demanded the coachman to stop, hut. by the
• a ed of the horses they escaped, with several shot holes in the
p teli.of the coach. Had any persons been inside, they must
h bee;: kif led,
At the Caernarvon Assizes, a whimsical proof of PO saga.
city was giten by one of the Jurymen who tried a prisoner for
sheep-stealing. He convinced his fellovyltuors that, though
there was no doubt the prisoner stole the sheep, yet as no one
saw him steal them they must find him Not Gni/tu; and they
actually llought in a verdict to the• above effect ; brit after a
trifling philippic from the Court, these sates in the law were
o'iliged to alter their verdict.
A man AiAl s 116 y lately 'employed in fixing 'a pump on Bees-
ton Hill, near Leeds, on their descent into the well, met the
black dump, alit-14 tailed, and were precini:atedito the bottom
in a lifeles4 State. 'l'l tee' was soon restored to animation ;
but the wan laid at bott• *three quarters of an hour, and
when tirquith! up, signs ot life •had vanished , hut after being
espo-ed thy. air for nearly an hour, the vital spark was re-
it Mae; grrif-;ing to the curious to know hwr
death in thiA way attiiails his subjects. AceOading to -the man's

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