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London, England, 1814-04-16 00:00:00

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Utile* Habt....-Yesterday S. Neill, Am Robert:,
and Mary Wheeler were charged by W. Bilvebriand.
with a nut. The conolaitiant, it appears, is pro-
prietor of a patent colour manufactory, situate in the
neighbourhood Bine/driers-road, in the bourse of
' which he is in tbeabit of using large quantities of
blood. This is net unfrequently, when collected, in
a putrid state, and on those occasions it underwent st
purification by fire before at was fit for use. The
stenCh attending this process *as most abominable,
and, indeed, insupportable, to the neighbourhood;
and they determined to remove the nuisance by the
-short proms of deatreetion. Accordingly, on tio com-
plainant's commencing his operations of boiling bn
the evening of the 4th hist, a number of the neigh-
bours assembled and Commenced their attach upon
the premises, great part dr which, -consisting of a shed
and other out-bitildings, they had destroyed before
the atrival of Holmes, the officer, put them to light.
Next day the coinplainant applied fot Warrants for
the defendants, and they were biought before the Ma:.
gistrates ; but the complainant now stating, that he
(lid not wish to ptish the charge of beginning to de-
molish to extremity ttgainst them, hitt only to obtain
time pecuniary recompence for the injury itiis pro-
perty had received; Tire Magistrate inftnnted hint
he Must seek to do that by toil process ; and the
defendants were discharged. The Magistrate then
advised the complainant, that he was himself liable
to an indictment for a nuisance ; in reply to which
he observed, he wished riot to offend the law in any
way, and I.otild immediately abate the nuisance by
removing his manufactory to anoxier place.

The following curious robbery took place eft
Thipsday corning —Two or three men, having the
appearance of lamplighters, with ladders and halm.
piers, took down all the lamps which were used in
-illtiminating the fronts of two houses in Holborn,
:leaving the frames on which they hung. No suspicion
was entertained, and consequently they took ill away.
without being asked a single question ; nor was it for
some hours, when the real owner came to take therd
down, and found he was saved 'that trouble, that the
robbery was discovered.
Tuesday night Mt. Assent, of High Holborn, was
...lopped in the Hampstead-road, by two fellows, who
atter striking him a violent blow, rifled his package)!
bit watch, betides other property Mr. Boller, of avorge-street, Adelplii, on his re 4
ttirn from the Epping Hunt, on Monday, was stopped
by two footpads, and iebbed of his watch and four
Al notes: One of the ruffians snapped a pistol at
Lim, which Clashed in the pan ; while the other, hol-
ding another pistol in his hand, cocked, demanded.
,his money, with horrid imprecations.
Monday night last the Norfolk waggon was•stop.
peel four times by footpads, between Epping and
London. The waggoners. however; being armed.
stout bludgeons, resisted the attacks, which were
evidently made by the same persons, and thus Area
served their charge.
. Thursday, 'at noon, a beautiful child 18 months
old, belonging to a Mr. Ceby; of No. 12, Georg&
street, Grosvenor-square, fell horn the first floor win-
dow&_ in the absence of its mother, into the area
Gentleman passing sprung over the riding, and
brought it up stairs almost lifeless. It was iiikt.n to,
Mr. Itob;nSOil, Surgeon. Duke-street; Or gate very
little hopes of its surviving.
As Mrs. Hudson, a very old and respectable inha-
bitant of Hampstead, was driving from town one
day last week, in her one-horse cart, in company with
her son, it was unfortunately overturned on Hampt
stead Hill, by the meeting of tv o waggons, and she
wits killed on- the spot, by a coal-waggon passing over
her head.

An lnqu;sition was tahenmday, at the
Feathers, in Hat-street, Covent Garden, on the body
of J. Eaton, who met his death by falling from a
ladder, in an apoplectic fit. Verdict—" Died by he
visitation of Goo."—Another Inquest was held at the
White Horse, in Covent Garden, on the body bf.
George One who was found dead in his apart.
.rueiits in Southampton.street,. Strand, on Sunday
wonting, aftet retiring to bed in perkct health on the
,preceding night.4Terdiet, the same.
Gretton, thefollowingdreadfid and mysterious
circumstance is stated to have occurred :—Satur
day last Mr. and Mts. Godfrey, and their son, John
Godfrey, partoolv at dinner, of a baked meat pirdi•
ding, and after part of it was eaten, the dish was
taken to the kitchen to the servant boys. ft appears
to have contained poison f Mr. Godfrey was dead on
the Mtli, And it is said that Mrs. Godfrey and John
Godfrey were then dying. In the whole; eight per.
sons had eaten of this pudding, bet of the others we
have no informatiOn.

A most lamentable ocenrrence lately haopeoed irt'r
Pembrokeshire. A boy 11, and a girl 14 years of
age, children of E. Fraucis, who lives on Templeton
Mountain, near Narberth, having been recommended
to wash themselves in a snlution of arsenic, in order
to core a disagreeable complaint which they had con-
tracted, made use of a preparation so strong that it
terminated their existence in a short time, and they
were both buried on Sunday se'nnight.
Saturday sea:light, during a thunder storm, a
woman was killed by lightning, in a house on the
Common, near Macclesfield, and, at the same mo-
ment, a man at work in an adjacent house had his
legs scorched, and a horse was also killed.
The following scene of destruction lately occurred
at a village near Melton Mowhray :—One of the
principal farmers administered a drink to a numerous
flock of sheep, as a preventive for the red water. In
she conrse of four hours several of them were seen to
droop. and in a short time they died. When the
writer entered the field, sixteen lay dead, and a great
number were ill; so that nothing less was expected
than the destruction of the whole flock. On enquiring
into the nature of the composition which 'had been
given them, the answer was—about three table spoons-I
tul of a weak mixture of nitre and Pertorian bark,
slightly acidulated with oil of vitriol, had been given
to each : this was not thought sufficient to have occa-
sioned such eztenifive mischief; but on further inquiry
it was found, that the nitre and bark had been boiled
together in a copper vessel ; and the mixture was so
strongly impregnated with copper, that it very soon
gave a copper colour to the blade of a. case knife,
which was put into the liquor as an experiment.—
Here, no doubt, was the cause of this severe loss, which
is Instanced as a caution to those who have occasion
to administer any drink to their stock,

Wednesday, In the /vie of WVit,:ehe I.3dy of LieuteCohenel
Payne, Sul•emKeoetaut of the Alin), Depot, of a daughte.t.