Star.
London, England, 1802-04-17 00:00:00

PUT LA ND T R.

The rld ad t e, tliat nt;,.briorrf 1 Vont come fitgle,
wa: rerhaps never more fu!ly eriGed than in the
(Aga! intlance, %%hid) late!v occurred in the
yaiitii c f Cambufilethan, in I....narkildre, to a
fat nwr of the name of V,"allace : He buried a
daughter is the he inning of a week in Jaluary ;
a f.,n, a flr"ag, aaive young man. rct tutting from
I.auat',, was crufhed to tkath the f..nie week by
the overtitrning of his cant, near Can hike ; and
a ao:her daugh:cr, a full gi own woman, died of. a
fever a few days afterwards.
Tuelday ever.ing, as Mr. Garland, nT Plymmith-
Dock, was driving h:s gig down the fteep bill Of
near that town, his hod:: tank fright at
fonte therlt, raii.furioally down the hill, urlet the
and threw him out fo violently as to break •
both his thighs. Ile was conveyed on a bier to his
Lonfe at Do,k.

On Thurfday fennizht a; a coachman was driv-
- fume failors though Foreareet, Plymouth
13,ck, in a very furious manner, he drove over a
in,or woman, with twn chilCren, one of whom was
kiii‘d on the (pot : the mother and the other child
were dreadfully bruifed. The Coroner held an in-
quell on the hody—verdia, accidental death by
the caielefliicfs (,f the coachman : of courfe his
en:Kit and liotces will he forfeited as a deodand to
the Lord Of Cie Manor. •

On Sunday hill a Waterman, of the name of
Nile. at Sliadwell•Dock.llairs, in croaing Step-
nrc was raddenly attacked by a furious boar,
to l,c mad, who wounded the waterman
with ; the enrazed animal !till ',caning
aiid to other defentive weapon about
liim ;ban a p,ti‘i:rife, he (tabbed the creature in
frvall parts cf its body, till at length exhaaled
with the lois of b!oorl, it fell into a ditch, and died.
A pct's ..;:feharged front the Nil-
fain: man of War ta I),:rtininuth, who rct.:ivcd
upwards of 901. prize-money, and wag•es for three
years ':•rrice on board the l'earl fri,-ate, was, on
the eveiiiit.; of tl.e fame dav that lie received it,
robbed of the mum total by his girl..
.bout twelve o'clock on Saturday evening la (1,
the Nuwaton carrier, front Coventrv,.and two
rie!f •ns in his cart, were RoTped and robbed of
mey and *-tods by lcarr villains armed with pill
tal7, abut a quarter of a mile from Nuneaton.
The Iliop of Mars. Topper and White, linen-
drapers, 4,f Chelmsford, was broke into in the night
o 1 Sat a; day 1.0-t, and a quantity of cottons and
other articles ilolen thereon!, part of which were
found concealed under fume timber in the church-
yard the next morning.
A remarkable ciicumaanee took place in one
of the P“,:patrick packets a few days ago, in its
paltize to Ireland. The v:111.1 was fuddenly over-
aakeik by a fquall, which laid her on her beam ends,
and threw two gentlemen and a.lady overboard.
The gentlemen were immediately picked up, but
the lady went down. Fortunately the vela's way
was flopped by the jib's fplitting, which threw her
to the wind. In a few minutes the lady came up
on the contrary tide, and by the a6live exertions
of one of the fearnen, who threw hinifelf overboard
and leixed her, was happily fasted. She had been
Upwards of r 2 minutes in the carer, and when
brought on board was fenfelefi. She foon, how-
ever, r..cover_J, and is now quite well.
On Tuefday fz'nitight an inqueti was taken at
If i,iio•lv, by one of the Coroners for the county
of Sulrrz, on a view of the body of William Reed,
a boy nt Aiwa is years of age, who, whilft em-
pliwed in tirivi.tg a plough-team, about ten o'clock
iii the ioren•ion of Saturday the 3J iallant, inean-
ti•nifly cat part tut the root of a plant, botanically
named jenan:beCrocirta,add corom . 11-.lv z,lcd Hem-
b;-k Dropworr, or Deer-Tongue. An hour after
yin.; eat.n the root, he was kind with diazinefs,
ft-lciii.l4, violent convidlions, and all the fymptoms
ufaally produced by poifon, and, notwithilanding
variou.i efforts to give him medical relief, he died
alsoilt two o'clock in the afternoon of the fame day.
Another boy who par toak of the root was attacked
at the Time time with the like fymptoms, but he
was relieved front its deadb; eiietts by a drong
enetic.

A trzlancholy necnrred at Braintree,
in Lifer, on Sunday night hilt, at the !mule of
Mr. James Theedharn, maltrler, of C.at place,
whofe eidelt•danghtrr,:6oott 2 years cot age, was
C) much bruited :sy the falling in upon her of an
upper 11,:or (wet loaded with mait,and uiteer which
Ilictl•pt, as to occ.afion her instant death. It ap.
pears. that for want of room in his malting, Mr.
l'llc;;Jhatti i•ad laid ainnit 3o quarters of malt in
a garret, is the room tmder which the deccaled
dept in one bee, and two children in another in
the coma. of the .me room. That Aunt ten
o'clock the dreadful arc:dela happened; which
awoke :tad lo alarmed :is. Thec.Ptam, that he
immetliattiv milted to the fpot, and precipitated
hinrfelt• among the ruins, and having f mewed a
light, Mr. Theedbant tetttrned ; and after tome
lahour drew out the two children, who had pro•
mtially received but little injury. There two
its wept mutt bit•crly tint the fate of their
and contitryscl calling her• by name, Inn, alas!
mad: no anfwtr, for on removin:; the t7mbers
malt, the was flint'