Star.
London, England, 1824-11-12 00:00:00

FATAL ACCIDENT FROM A SPRING GUN.

Sunday afternoon last, about four o'clock, William
Brownsell, who for a considerable number of years has
been in the service of William Mason, Esq. of Necton
(four miles from Swaffham) as a hurdle•maker, went
into one of that Gentleman's plantations to examine
what timber would be fit to fell for hurdles, when the
poor fellow, through ignorance of the place where the
gun was set (and one would naturally suppose that such
a weapon would not be planted in a road), as he was
crossing the road trod upon the wire, and the gun went
off, lodging its contents in his body. On Monday
morning he was found in dreadful agonies, and con-
veyed to the nearest house for relief, but in vain ; he
shortly after expired.
An Inquest was held last night, at the Three Tuns, at
Necton, before W. Brooke, Esq. Coroner, when it ap-
peared in evidence that the report of a gun was heard
about four o'clock on Sunday afternoon ; but as the
occasion was not suspected by any one, no notice was
taken ; that on Monday morning, about eight o'clock,
as the gamekeeper was going his rounds, he found the
gun sprung, and about eighty yards further discovered
the wretched Brownsell weltering in his blood, but still
alive. It would seem that the deceased, who must
have lain sixteen hours in agonies which cannot well be
imagined, had rolled round through briars and brambles
to a tree near the spot, where the ground appeared as if
a horse had been tied there and paned the earth all
round ; he bad afterwards crawled upwards of eighty
yards to a hollow part where there is a seat for the
keeper to watch, and where be was found nearly in-
sensible, muttering only " Let me alone."
After some deliberation, the Jury came to the fol-
lowing verdict, which of itself speaks volumes Ac-
cidentally came to his death by a spring gars set in a cast
road leading through a plantation of Mr. Mason's, called
the Furnace, adjoining the boundary of Sporle."

An Inquest was held on the body of B. Gough, a
sailor, who„fell from one of the Bath coaches two miles
from Colnbrook, on Wednesday morning. A witness
proved having seen him drink 17 drams in a short space
of time.—Verdict, Accidental Death.

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CORN-EXCHANGE, MARX-LANE, NOV. 111.
The arrivals of most kinds of Corn this week are tolerably good,
and there is another large quantity of Floor. Prime samples of
Wheat are scarce, and fully support Mooday's terms; other kinds
are extremely dull in disposal. Barley sold freely at Monday's
prices, but since the London Return has been known, the tradable
been stagnated. Beaus and Peas have no variation. Oats sell
freely, and rather exceed Monday's terms.
Arrivals—English Wheat, 3,800 quarters; Barley, 6,558 guar-
ten ; .Oats, 900 quarters • Irish Oats, 11,300 quarters ; Foreign
Oats, 3,500 quarters. Flour, 12,600 sacks.
London Averages for the week ending November 6.—Wheat,
11,895 quarters, 695. 9d. Barley, 25,799 quarters, 4155. 541.
5,138 quarter., 245. sd. Rye, 18 quarters, 545. l ld. Bean,
2,316 quarters, 445. 3d. Peas, 1,014 quarters, 435. 114 Z
SMITHFIELD MARKET, NOVEMBER it„
There was a good supply of Cattle at market this ta and
the prices may be goosed much the same as on lag marokreittintyl
Beef, per stone of albs. 3s. to 411..illattOO,11s. f to 4s. 4d. Vode.
4s. to 55. Poit, 46. to 55. .

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