The National Register.
London, England, 1811-04-28 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, Bc.

. A shocking accident happened on Thursday afternoon near
the StAgs publi- -house, at the back of the Asylum :—A servant
girl, yirho had an infant in her arms 14nd three child:•on by her
side, twO of them ran from her ever the cross-way ; a brewer's
dray passing rc and the corner at the time unobserved by the
bitl, and out of the controul of the di iver, one of the infants was
knockLd down by the horses, and the dray went over the bidy,
and killed it on the spot. The scene that followed was very dis-
tre,sing : the girl fainted, and fell with the infant in her arms.
This circumstance, with the screams of the children, added so
muck to the distress of the drayman (who is a father of a family),

that he fainted on the spot.
An utilising manlier of robberies have been lately committed
in the city of Exeter awl its vicinity. Tue.,diiy morning the
houqe of Mr. 'l'. Densnain, of Okeford, wa..A broke open and
robbed by three ruffians, with their faces blackeued. They as-
wended the stairs Mee a room where the housekeeper slept,
whose brains they threatened to blow out, if she attempted to
*move or make the least noise; and the same threat they repeat-
ed to a servant-maid in an adjoining room : however, the house-
beeper posaessing an invincible courage, instantly rose from her
bed, !ti tick one them in the face, and erdeavoured to wrest
the pistol from his hard ; when Mr. I) alarmed by the bustle,
was coming from his chamber to inquire the occasion of the ui•-
roar, the robbers met him, demanded his money, and made
Dim open his bureau; they then demaned his brass bar, which he
gave, containing St guineas in gold ; and from the bureau they
look upwards ef col. in bank notes. They said they would
more—Mr.l). then offered them a 7001. country Lank inte-
rest note, which they refused, asking what had become of :he
ttboney he aura lately received ? he replied it was lodged is the
bank; upon which they left the house, and have nut since been
beard of.
The Solicitor of the Mint having received private information
slew days since, that !,everal persons were buying and selling
t gold current coin of the realm at a higher rate than they •
Vivre issued, and in consequence employed Sayers, the Bow- 1.
sireet Officer, and Mr. Nader, the City Marshai, to go in pur-
lui! of them. They received information that a man residing '
in Rirchirelene, was in constant practice of purchasing guineas,
half-guineas, and seven shillings pieces. On Nlonday they went
to kis house, and were fortunate as to find him in the act of pur-
chasing guineas of a man at the rate of °t ss. each.—After witness-
I the transaction the officers took hen into custody.
Coaoauct'a. INatierr.—An inquest was htld on Monday
on the bodies of hJr. and Mrs. Coulee, Peter and William, two
of their male children, a female infant only s a month old,
Martha Gairtnay a nurse., and James Shore, an apprentice to
IVir. Goober, who met-their death by the fire, the melan-
lcholy tiatticates of which we gave in our last number.--
-The Jury having been sworn, proceeded to Bishopsgate
Work-house, to examine the bodies, which were disposed in
shells for that purpose. A more dreadful or more harrowing
acetic evax scarcely ever exhibited to a Jury. The human form
was but barely 'discernible, and from the contortions to he ob-
served in their mutilated frames, it was evident that 8011': of
-them had expired In tbe•most poignant agontes.—This painful
task over, the Jury returned to the White Hart, where several
witnesses were tesernintei touching the on of the horrid ca-
tastrophe... The ofilyame whose evidence threw. any new light
Itputb-thti rihject, was Susameth Creed, the wife of a Waiter
in the London Tavern, who lodged on the first oor. She
located, that be had supped with Mrs. Coulee the night before
She fire, sad tha t. she and ter husband went to lied at half-past
tell o'elock.—She was awoke about two o'clock le. a loud
crackling, which siw et first conceived is proceed from some
wersons endeavouring to break into the house.—She immediately
got up and °peeled the chamber door,' when to her consternation
the saw a volume of flame ascending the staine—She wanted

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