The Sun.
London, England, 1816-10-17 00:00:00

stlnt co;terrns.-

The numerous accidents which have cf Into oc.,a
enured through the ups, tt jog of 'Slog -Co
anti the midripiied instances of etreiessne‘s erite-
ed by stage-eonclimen, which have so frerpomite
been rtttOitlerl io our PaPer, should na%c p rat, it
u %Yarning, in ptevetning the term Ituc .•t 'at%
e% prep,oant with ine;tlenhible ttt ;chit f.; hot we
fear neither our adnorniiionS; nit the recit4 of
the cataiiticies ot iutlividuals who .hive .
torh,ippily
,idr, reit through such e4relessuess, wilt attest the
evil, while avarice prinnpts proprietors ot roar he's
to ov-crier:ld them with pa.seners mut luggage,
purticularly on the toost elevated parr of the nid.
chine'; anti irppositiou !coitus the Oliver to ilectle.
rate the.veltreuy of his horses against tactic or any
antagOilist. We feel persuaded the proem arm r.:f
legislative interference alone will pre% ail to re-
medy the grievance .; we therefore trust the sub-
ject %vill, in the ensuing Session, not only lie
revived, but that some strung regulations will lie
enacCed for the safety Of persons compelled to ha-
zard their lives in stage-coaches. ACorrespoodent
informs its, that while travelling recently in the
North, he saw and heard Of several accidents to
Coaches traVelliOg beyond York, that have not
yet ajtpeared in the London Prints, and %%illicit ter-
minated in the less of some lives ; in short, so pre.
vatetit has been of late the mischief on that road,
that passengers are frequently congratulated in iv.
country town on their safe: arrival, and escape front
?tome dafiger they recount Of Stages passinic that
way—hut the peril is not **trine confined toitin;
stages, foe it seems some of the stages in the vici-
tiity unlit: Nretropedislhi'Ve followed the example. In
travelling smith of Loudon Bridge the Brighton',
Croydon, Greenwich, and other stogeS, being fre-
quently. opposed by rivals, drive with terrific im-
petm'Aity ; this hits also beet, too often the case
with the Peckham Rye stages. A coachman pos-
i'eSsiug humanity ti ill be careful that he does not
driee with Such fury as to injure his horses, or risk
th safety of his passengers. Opposition, in many
instances, ha's destroyed monopoly; subdued op-
pression, and thereby benefited the Public; hot it
should never he exercised or eticont aged where
life it endangered. A compensation may he ob-
tained if, a Court ot Law tor the loss ot a limb,
or other severe injury, arising through the over-
turning of a coach, but this will ever be mitotic-
Tittle to alleviate the severity of so. much affUe-
tiou—a pecuniary recompenee is but a tritliog
consideration, when compared with a protracted
life of suffering pain. We' therefor e trust some
strong measure will shortly he adopted to st,p
the mad career 'of slage-coirehtneo, who drive
without any consideration as to consequences.

A NOTIIIIR STAGB CoACII ACCIDSNT.—On Toes«
day wbont I I o'clock, one of the Livii•t=ing-
too stage-eoaehes kvas' ove-ittiroed in the hallo*
port of oppttsite .4114.Green•patk, iai
cnoStAptenee •ot :the driver tilloping his horses
forintisly down itie slight dectivi.ty artlint part oi
the street. The roaelotoot solfere,tl.meverely for
hii impruticuce, for he wits taken up with heverkil
ribs broken, and he is nut expreted to live. A:
person on the lito: with itluk tool ;Os') thighe •
hone broken : the c•oiell 'was:loll, inside toot oat)
but, with the exception of some slight scratches,
no others vt ere loot. The two wounded urn werc
conve)ed to Mr. Fidler's, the apotheeaty, in Pic;
caililly, mid from thence conveyed to St. George's
hospital.

STRE2T-11011111;liY.--•1Ir. Popplewell, of 014
Swan-lane, in passing through.Philpot.lane, Fen-
church-street, about 7 o'clock on. Nat urtlay even.
jug, was knocked4lown.and robbed of 6/, in cash
and notes ; also at his pocket-book,•,containing
sundry. exeitange:- so sudden and severe
was the blow he received ,on the right side `at :the
face, that he has no recollection of the naafi;,
save that there was more than one person. Mr.
P. was kindly taken to a neighbouring Gentle.
mait's.honse, .where every possible attention was
paid him, hut hiS right eye and..side of -the head
are ..extremely disfigured. .A situilar net •of
hence and robbery= took place not %Try long be=
fore, in the same,strect, and about the same spot
where this happened.

The Assize Court of Paris lately condemned tt
bend of robbers,. several of whom were of one
family, to. foreed labour :old different periods of
imprisonment. One of them, named, Chevalier,
'induced by a hope of some mitigation of punish,
went, made a confession of the crimes committed
by his companions in iniquity with himself. It
appeared, that the .deptvdations of this gang e -
tended to every kind of property, linen, clothes,
jewels, sngar,,soap, cheese, oil, hatter, poultry.
in fact every thing thry could lay their hands On..
Two of them cut open it portmanteau behind one
of the Royal carriages, and stole from it scrotal,
articles belonging to the , A pair of his
Alaiesty'l black velvet boots wits found in tito
16(1\4;1i:filof s
itg)f t
hrh
ais).r iAsio n,nctrosii
gardener,
row_
titittott,iint's e ttivi ,itstesaoroin'etaafi h
after
rsaeviizng ;one
ed,yihiintttriwt tiolft caigplil
,rrliTetxtry7s:
and instantly eNpited. On the erening of the
same day, aline young girl, about 3 years of age,
residin hi Cleywitoles, in the same neighbour
hood, who, in the absence of .lier mother, hail
been ineantionsly left alone in the house by In
great-graotlinil4er, having gone too near the tire,:
the flames caught her clothes. ()v. -which she was,
so.cireadfully burnt that s he' died, . .
Wednesday 111(11'11'60g', uhout three o'clock, a.
block-cutter, of the 11;lftie of
sided in Tradestown, Glasgow was food ly,hrx
In the .treat, shockingly litut,cri. Ile was vdten
Co the lio;a1 Infirmary, where it died ist!Mlt o'
No person was in the.house itlong 1114101'«
tnitute num at the 1114 et bripputfra
lie it'll nit( of the in a fit of slecp.,vaikit;g,
We are told by a Correspondent OHO at C 1111)
s, in the neighboorho of Sohn, havc
obtained it Share of one ti ' the Grent
the late Latety, sold by fitt.ntartroopi, 004.0.
I,b-cit, anti CD. We tire, tilw;tys 1414t1 to Lear that
Fool one in the iliorihotion of bk.e Outs ,lects
those to whoin they ;ire needful...which not
oft,m :v.se. The above ciretinistaiit'e 1104,
eatistat 1,4 formation of serval mor:' uuk)A tor
'the ptieatase of Tickets and Shares in iho State
Lottery which is to be Vrawn am 31st ilittapt.

POLICE jN'rratLlOENcE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

PettitUOURSR SEAMEN--,.-Yestelday twentysrour
ifrisearged POI ttignese sailors complained to Ott
"Losn NlA.vos, that the Consul had refusedto pro-
Ctire them conveyance to their own country, or
ivoi to give them temporary relief'.
Tr— Low" rtfryog immediately sent to the of.
*fire of the Portuguese Cnissul, to learn the
gron
. .
ntit upon which the applications were refused.
he Deputy Consul waited %quill his Lord kip,
:who itiquired whether the Portuguese Govern-
meta had !node no provision for its subjects under
the sirenttistanecs of tilts present applicants:And
vri:ether the Consul was to withhold even the
niers of supporting life, In ease that the didieul-
,
s,t procurm:4- convevance to rortup, occasion-
rd eu notivoidal,le stay in this comitiy ?
The Di PVTY said, that a very titistiten
prevoiled amongst the. Portuguese sailors,
politely, that the Consul had a fund tor their be-
netit : there positively existed no fund of the kind.
besides, the greater number of applicants for re-
lief Consisted of sailors who had been hi the Bri-
tish serOce, to. VI;OKI the t)OTlsi.mese Govern-
._
ntetir, instead of. administering support in their
exigencies, awarded the punishment of the gallits,
*fur having fOtteht tinder foreign colours.
The LORD MAYon directed that those who had
thus subjected themselves to ihe penal statute Of
PorPtigal should he sepal-iced front those who bad
not.

, Seven of the twenty-four stood forward and
.said, that they had fought in Liritiih men of witr,
evd to those his, lordship gave directions to go
.to the Admiralty, when they would be provided
.tor the rest lie recommended to the care of the
The DEPUTY assured his Lordship that the re-
commendation would be altogether unavailable,
std the Cowtil could not itvcrtere.
In this difficulty, his Lordship directed the re-
jected nt.•n to apply for temporary relief to the
prish officers of tVupping, where they reside,
and in cast' of a refusal from them, to complain
to the :Magistrates of the district. lie .said, that
te should himself have an immediate interview
:with Lord Silmonth upon the subject.
NURANCE.—A petition Was prcsented to his
tordsh ip, signed by several persons who rent shops
rind ~bees under the north-east Piazza of the
11.0yal Eixchange, iu Leadenhall•strcet, complain-
ing tb4t a nuisance csimed'there, Occasioned by
Abe increase of the number of stage-coaches which
were allowed to ply for pithsynors betore their
do. Ors. Quarrels and obscene lantoorige were the
daily emploviisent of the drivers, by wHich the
cattiogs of the petitioners were greatly prejudiced.
. The Loen MAYOII said, *1145 he Would attend
to the metier at the petitiOnde

now-STREET.
STAGE CoACHEti new coach was started by
*come Jews in the Spring to run to Brighten, a
'distance uf 5`,/ tildes, in 6 hours, with a pledge
that if they did not accompliib the journey in that
they would carry the passengers gratis r to
sects:uplith -which the•horser were kept upon a
gallop all rite way ; and notwithstanding this
great t•H•i, the, coach was always fined with pas.
seoger.. • In .otie of the jourbies the coachman
broke three wttips, v one week 15 holies died !
The coach, intsvever,.. has never ken overtorned,
anti no material accident happened, 'except over-
turning a file cart near lietminttost.common,
ivhelihy the driver was initned,hut not seriously.
This vas continued for about three months, and
excited attentiou and curiosity all the way on the
road : a Crowd of persons was daily collected at
the Elephant and Castle, to see it start and come
in, and it always kept its time within a few mi-
nutes. This, however, became alarming; pArti-
eularly in the popnloni 'neighbourhood of Newing-
ton, through which it passed ; anti the parish
oficeta there caused informat out to be la.id against
the drivers for driving.ftiriously on the public toad,
so as to endanger the lives of his Majesty's sub-
jects, under the Act of Parliament for regulating
brake-roaehes,• &c: This being followed up, the
speed was reduced, and the coach is woe about
three quarters of an hour or an hour longer on
bite road,'

A charge under the sane Act of Parliament,
the 50th Geo. 3. cap. 48, .see. 11. against the
driver of one of the Hammersmith stages, wAs
yesterday preferred at this office.
John Hanson, El. said; ha was travelling by
the coach cast Saturday, with five ladies, will NO(
uween the chapel and the turnpike-gate, a Brent.
ford coach came up, drawn by three horses, Nuns
which the defendant started his horses, and 'conti•
nueil to flog them to runt a tare with the Brewton!
couch : he and the ladies became extremely alarm.
ad, rxnecting the coach to be oveetutned every
'tuito,te, from the eareless manner in which it op,
viiiired to be thriven. The holies 'mutates! him to
check the 'coachman in the furious rate at which
he was dtising: he accordingly solicited him not
to ;hive at such dungerons pace; this had no
"Gm' ; he then made use of ell the threats he could
thiuit uf, telling him he was is Magistrate, and he
certainly would punish 'him ; but he continued his
loos pace till it appeared to hint that the tic.
f,;,,,tint found himself unable to overtake the
Brewton! coach, which bud three horses, and he
had but to a. A gentleman on the, outside was
also In greet tenor. •
The coachman; inhis defence, denied that he-
drove at this speed wilfully.' He had a young horse
in tife 'coach which had not done any work for sere-
tel days; he had pulled tip at,the Red Cow public-
hnitse in the Hammersmith road when the Urentford
cued passed, the coachman of which smacked his
whip violently,which startled the yonng horse, and
they' both went off at full speed, and he could not
stop thew till they.got opposite the Black Bolt
Public-house, .which is very little more than ItYO
pat N.
l• Two of the Ladies, who ts•tre passengers
et the time, would luive attended to speak in his
behalf, but they were gone to Brighton.
Sir N. crttiAitT observed, that he considered the
charge fUlly provedi as it was admitted that the
horses were galloping, which lie considered to be
driving 611,k-wily, mid so as to.endanger the 'lives
of the King's sobjicts ; he therefore convicted
hint in jhe inirigated penalty of 50s.
rand coati.
MA**• 161".,'ir and ,Safnail tw.o

loWe'n elikrieclers, svcrt ditargea with attempting
to rob the .rompany c►tming out of Drury-lane
Tneatre, hn •Tuesday night.
.-
John Townsend, belonging to the Office, stat-
ed, that on Thesday night, between 11 and 12,
o'clock, he observed the prisoners loitering idiom
in 11,qiselli!street, opposite to the entraitce of
.Drnt Haim Theatre, at the time the company
were 'coming out, at the close •of the perfor-
mance. He knew Kelly to be a repined thict.
ion! Hutchinson to be a. barl _character, and had
no doubt .hut they were there for the purpose of
robbing the company coming out of the Theatre.
lie had trequen►ly warned them to keep away from
the Theatre.

George Rutliven c►►nfirmed the statement of
Tovuse►nd, and stated, that lie had convicted Kelly
as a repined thief at the Westminster Sessions
llntchiason had been in .custody several times on
a ,charge mf felony, and he' frequently saw him in
he sonspAny of thit ves
They were convicted as reputed thieves and
rogues, and yaw al►onds, under the Police Act.