Star.
London, England, 1812-12-14 00:00:00


YNE P4R KS.

The intensity of the frost for the last few days and
nights, but more especially. during Saturday night,
held forth such flattering hopes of amusement to the
admirers of skaiting, that thousands were induced to
take the field at an early hour yesterday morning, in
pursuit of this favourite exercise, and in a short time
every pool of water in the neighbourhood of the me-
tropolis was covered with steel-shod heroes.
.As
usual, on such • occasions, the Pat ks constituted the i
principal sources of attraction, and, in the course oft
the day, the Knights of the Slates were seen flecking
towards St. James's in great numbers. At one
o'clock some hundreds had ventured on the ice at
the upper end of the canal, the eastern end next the
HorseGuarde having been completely cleared of the
ice by the confectioner 'on Fiidar and Saturday.e—
The el. mple of these soon dissipated the fears of the
more cautious, and in a short time the throng of :
tiaiters, Aden, and ordinary pedestrians were .so great!
on the glassy surface, as to render. a quick progress
extremely difficult. While-all seemed confident of '
security,. however. inn-accident of a most melancholy
description created universal alarm, and gave but
too forcible a signal for retreat. A young man of
genteel appearance, who was cutting a figure of eight, !
about the centre of the canal, suddenly sunk, and for
a moment disappeared. He soondiowever, emerged
from the deep, and endeayoured, by .striking nut
'with his hands, to keep himself afloat. The cosing
fragments of the ice, however, prevented Lint front
availing himself of this effort, and alter he had for
a short time grappled with the edges of the too foe
Bile surface, he sunk in the presence of thousands to
rise no more. The shock occasioned by this heart•
rending spectacle may well be conceived y inevy libel).
Boned their sport altogether, while others became
more cautious, and for the remairidetof the day the
crowd on the canal was considerably diminishele—
The body, of the young man was not discovered for..
nearly three quarters of an hour after his final immer-
-1 sion. It was conveyed to Storey's Gate Coffee.
1, house, where it now remains for the Coroner's Jury.
1 Six other persons fell in at the same time, brit
were extricated, with the assistance Of a'basket boat.
The deceased was only' '2l years of age, and an in-
habitant of Princes-street, Drury:lane. On Saturday
a drummer boy and two others fell in, and a Gen-
tleman, in humanely attempting to save them, fell
in also. • They must have all perished had it not been
for the exertions of a sailor. He was up to the neck
ifs water while extricating them from their perilous
situation-
The canal in the Green Park reelebiltostry thinly
attended, while fair Rosamond's pond -*us thickly
, sprinkled with students, whose clumsy filliexcited SO
small delight amongst the spectators. t-
The Serpentine River in Hyde Park. was weliciTOl:
vexed with good ice at the western end, near -
sington Gerdens, and exhibited a very numerous corps
lof good skaiters, Who displayed their agility to a lea
sltionabie assemblage which graced the bank on the
southern side of the River. The only accident that we
observed was of a very trifling description, and ended
only in the ducking of an unfortunate wight, who. to
his great enortificauon, became the laughing stock of
thousands.
•
CeilON Ea's Iweuesrs.—An Inquest was on Tlauris
day held before J. Uevrifs, Req. at the City Artlll4l
Poplar, on the bodies of Theism and Tristram G
one three, the other six yells* Old, who being left b -
that mother, while she went to carry their fat .
dinner, set fire to their clothing end were to dreg
burst that they died the nalledWe. Also melte F "r.,
Arms, wikchnorfAin, °Olio-bodies. of Mary. -I
Comer Younsellsbesotredisind,ebe ether two
msd a half, vs enteleMl et• widow, left'diem:,
she went to get beef, hweibgi iss site *Mt** pleand '
the candle out of their nub.. The younger, blesteeeie
get at it, and set
,gge t 9 ka clothe% the llesse. o
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*bit'll caugh't tbpse pkthi elder, in bis Mein* wipe
_press them, and they Were troth an miserably- •
at * their dtiagh in .1./ ii1k1440,„ 'f '
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