The Sun.
London, England, 1813-08-24 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS, &c.

•On Stmday a most shocking.
,accident, happened
at tiompuin : a man who keeps a, green, grocer's
s. op in James's-street,. Oxford-street, accompa-
nied by
.his wife, tatul A young child, were in a gig;
when, by a smitten ;irk, One of the shafts broke,
and the splashing board falling on the horse,:
frightet.ed the animal, which set off full
.The man.had no power to stop him, and losing
all pre,:enee' of mind, jumped 'out his wife fol-
'Owed his example, leaving the child in the gig,
when, opposite to Bushy Park gate,, the horse,
wai stopped, and the child rescued iron its pe-
ril us situation, without sustaining the least
injury.- The man %vat taken up with his arm
dreadfully frActured and much lacerated, his face
cut in several places, and otherwise much in-
jured. The -unfortunate woman, dreadful to re
late, was taken up 'quite dead, and, conveyed to
the Toy ion. Medical us:sistaucc was almost
mediately given, bnt life was gititc'extinct. She
ha 4 left a family of five, Children to lament her
loss. The man was sent Off in a post-chaise to
one of the hospitAls., Qn examining the gig, it
was found to he in so decayeri and shattered a
state, that it was impossible for it to perform a
ifmrney without breakirig.The man's name is
Townsend ; he was-alive this morning.

On Sunday Mr. T. Sawter,.watel-maker;'Don-.
easier, w.is unfortunately drowned, as lie %vas
bathing in the river. Desirous to learn to swim,
be had first had the precaution to have a rope tied.
• round his waist, for the
purpoSe of polling him
brick .whenever he should be in danger. But,'
hiinself able to do without this, he had,
thrown .time rope aside, and advanced into the mid-
die of the rivet without it, when. he sudduily
sunk, nor could'assistance be given till he' finally
'sultk,co ruse na inure.

. ,
4 *land :ay accident occurred on the Humber
last Satiirday. A boat. containing three persons,
who had been catching shriMps on the sands, was
upset by the violenee of the wind and surf on the
Dfliad Grotind, ne,ar StallingboroUgh. The acei,.
dent' was observed, by a brick-maker, on the Lin-
colnshire from shore, but the state of the tide and
Nt'ind, it was utterly impossible to render Duty as-
sistance ; the whole were lost ; and ‘vhat adds to
the " painful. catastrophe ,is; that David Duncan,
one of: the sufferorsi, has left a wife and six small
children bereft of. their only dependence for sup-
port. The names of 'the other unfortunate men'
were, A. Warden, fisherman, and 'l'. Ashliti, son
of Mr. Ashlin, in the Custom flonse None of
the bodies have yet been found.
The, party who tnet with, so fatal an accident on
the 156 inst. oft I.42.rith, consisted of five persons
only, viz. a son of Mr. Hales, who was drowned,
arid, a nepliewl Who was saved; and a son and
two. daughters of Mr. Bates, who were also
drowned ; eso daughter of Mr/ Holes being with
them. Mr. Hales s sou, ana the ann and a daugh-
ter of :Ir. Bates, have been found, nod a Coroner's
Inquest held, apt! the Jury have reownol a verdict
of Accidental Death.

lz,tily on 'Monday morning last, in the parish of
d lkivoir CaAle, at a place \, here
t tat Dole cJI. Rutland ihtenthi building a
; ior t-wo nteu were titutcrtaining
11.,hovilig' a body of (...trth, about t_wett feet
pile li, ~ttv of theta, hooted John..WaLcheld„ was
et:topictelyitunitired by- its *ll. Jen-
kihsoti, his cOmpanion, seeing the. dreadful situa-
tion of WaS clideavourint,r to extricate
bun, lint while in the act of tliggitt4' him out, litt
k i s, in) was by a st:cond follofearth,literally
et-tidied to le I,oce Au excellent Chartte-
61',' gad lab hisitt hint,a vtile anti eight
ehildren to lathent nicialicholy lute. Wake-
field bad' 'an at-i`il'brot,cii;' add was otherwise's-0
nutch briti,l,cti, that his liter is di vaired!d-. There
13,-vrty two (utter inch at ,work at the-job, who just
ci'ute,tip to Alit. so, ti ‘htotigh to witne;isthe
1111 that proved so total to poor Jenkinson.—
/Nottidgqun lepaeiv)

t.)11 Ttlem.lay last, 'a, journeyman plumber de-
fteentied into an • old well on Odd-,Down, near
butt had not been there many minutes before
hv. was annoyed by foul air, and became totally
I'ottret.)lliejrs pafising by were implorea
to reudevassititano,,by a %vanilla who saw the
plumber's perihrits.bl:ite;
,one tif them only,would
•fti tend, itud lie witb tunch'illtterity' descended the
; but the, noxious val)i)LU was too 1 owerftll,
and"h4, was obliged to he drawn up without ttc
I:omplishing his benevolent design; being. Soon
rcleeshed, be again descended, and was again
lorecd to return weiaccolul ; still determined to
persevere, the h umane fellow went down a third
t me, and brought up the poor, sit nerer, apparently
corpse ► fiest',scitating meatts were, however,
rt...,sorte4l to, under medical instruction, anti after
20 minutes', tile vital spark re-aßpearccl, he was
6001 i 'restored, and is now perfectly recovered.
DOEN DEATiI6.--Ltilt week, hlr.,.l.l.*Lirmitts,
who,' rented the Toil-gate, ilkesttin; Derby-
at the Horse and l'irotnn
:77!, Peter's Gate.,. in Nottingham, to take
rro.bli Int,titrs ,-2-1 I e e,nttred •into con versat ion with
4r,thj. eitCeriahles,. Mitt appearild to enjoy'
licrft" ,)1,0 o'elovis, he retired
into dig back exhibiting any
;,ptOtti of ilities3. A sl,ott titiw only elapsed,
ltel*,,re lie was diseo'vered a corpse.--The deceased
in his 64th year.
• •

A man at the nmite of, Smith, while reaping
tr.0....it ill a field flciMP4)Ver, Oil Saturday, dropped
down, Hnd instantly espir,:d. Lie had at the mo-
ment spine . wheat in one hand and the sickle in
th uther.

. , .
~silllan.cknt.
salt SAWILay the inst. 0014 n'ne
0'
S
in tint eroait)g la)onring man.] lamed if
,
ahoe of Martin,
rassin toroogo toe
g
Jmor Gainbnrtugh, with u- 'untied in Ili(' I"nd'
,‘,(iiin.; man of the name of Rather,
wilt) 'Witt) :UMW Of acquaintances in ,the
raters-, anti said that the owed him a grudge, and
py-huii : lifter utteriitg these word;, he
(likichargcfl the Contents of his gnn into the body
I,vltielt in a tew minute 4 tenni-
cxiitencv, tt>tll immediately made his
.e,ipe, but has since been taken, oncl comtuitted
I.4in„coln

THE POLICE.

THE LATE - MURDER OF. T.:Mt/AIM ,cLTVI7OI9?..

ATTIOZ• GARDEN .-Yesterthiy. Catherine Leary,
the wife of James Lettry, was brOught up from the
•I-louse of Correction, Coldbath-fields, in order to
undergo an examination relativi to the murder of
Edward Clifford. The two eldest daughters of
the supposed widow of the deceased were also
brought 'from the workhouse, and several fresh
Witne.ises atteuded, whoSe testimonies might
throw some more light.ow_this mysterious mur-
der. -The two children of M'iS,..Cliffora; by Burke,'
sat,witir, their mute, Mr7ilhomai in the
parlour of the • Bleeding Hart public-home, and
•Mrs. Leary with her infant in her arms sat above
'stairs' hi the saute house, in the custody of Cooke
and Thigleton, ,two active and vigilant Officers, to
whom the publie4tre much indebted fur their exer-
tions in this; as well as every other affair of mo-
ment., antkvlio, although rigorous and strict in
the execution of their office, their tenderness- to-
wards the unfortunate, prisoner has been very
praise-worthy. At their own expenee they order-
ed her both meat and 'drink, and promised her,to
represent her situation to the Maugistrates, in or-
der-to let her have a little more allowance whilst
in prison, she haying a child seven months: old to
support, and lost her, breakt of milk. Site was,
also promised that she should see her unfortunate.
„husband that evening for a quarter of an hour, in
the presence of the officers, on condition t hat she
should HOt speak a word of Irish.
Colonel O'KatLY sat tilting "with the Magis-
trates, who commeaced the business of the day ley
hearing suinmonses and night charges, &c. in or
der to have the office clear, when a,differenee. be:
tweet) some•builiiers took up the tine till marl}
three o'clock, an hour too late to comnienee the
intended eitimination,. anti in 'consequeuee of
which it was postponed. " -