The National Register.
London, England, 1817-03-17 00:00:00

4CCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 4.c.

MORE APPREIIEN4IO,OI FOR SEDITION, &e.—Friday morn-
ing, Nichols, the Bow street constable, apprehended a
QM in London, who Is charged with living a great promoter
and propagator of what is called the Spenecan system. lie
was taken to the Secretary of .hate's office, and after a short
investigation was committed to prison.
The snag who was apprehended on Friday, by Nicholls, the
Bow-street constable, on suspicion of being concerned in
seditious practices, &e. underwent an examination the came
day, when it turned out that he was not the man he was sup-
posed to be : he was, therefore, dischai getl.

Drummond, Bagnley, Ogden, and Johnson, who were
brought to town on Thursday morning, or late on Wedne,day
Hight, by Mr. Viek and others of the King's messengers
from Manchester, underwent a short examination on Fi iday,
and afterwards we►e remanded. One of them is a tailor, anti
was living in one room with his wife and six children ; he left
London about six mouths since to go to live in Manchester.
There is no doubt .but he was apprehensive of being taken
into custody, as he had prepared two retreats from the back
of the hon:•e where he fiend, by two large holes, which were
merely filled up with lath and plaster. and his wife denied
his being at home when a magistrate and officers went to take
him, and said he had been out for three days ; but he was
taken in attempting So break through the lath and plaster at
the back of the premises.

Taunton, the Bow street officer, has returned to town with-
in these few days from Dumkiik, where he had been in pur-
suit of two men answering the description of young Wat,on
aml Thiselwoud, who were going to America. The same
men had been In Jersey and Guernsey under suspicions cir-
cumstances. 'rite information, however, respecting them,
turned out to be incorrect.

Mr. Farley, of Covent.garden Theatre, was run over by a
horse at full gallop in Hyde-park, on Wednesday last, and,
we are sorry to hear, was so severely hurt as to be considered
in a dangerous state.
Two poor defenceless boys, returning from their labour,
near Great Cbestertiird, in Essex, were inhumanly fired at,
on the evening of the slh instant by a man in the dress of a
pone keeper, «ben the whole contents of the piece were
lodged in the thigh of one of them, who lies without hope of
riCoVcry. . . . .

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A Coroner's Inquest was taken at the Cleveland Antis,
moil:ague-street, Moutagne-sipm reoupou the body of a
ho was suffocated in the chimney Of the house of Mr. Buck,
of Cumberland-street, Bryanstone•soate. The deceased
was apprentice to Mr. Guy, master bn ecp, Park street, my-
road. Verdict—Died by sulfite:lf .
But Svictne.--A Coroner's Inquest was on Fri-
day herd on the body of the Rev. Dr. Hughes, who shot him-
self a few days ago at his lodgings in Holton-street, Picradilly.
The deceased wits 1 ti years of age, and WWI married about
three months. He. had no childt en. The decea-ed nits in a
very de:, ponding state for some time past. Verdict-- Itkanity.

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