A most melancholy acciden...
The Times, 1824-12-01T00:00:00

A most melancholy accidlent took place on the river Mer- gcy on sunday last. The Cily of Dublin steam-packethad come to on'the other side of tle rock. Several boats went down the river for the purpose of bringinig up the passen- gers. One of these, on its return, was unifortunately swampedl, and the passengers andboatmiien were precipitated into the water. As soon as the catastrophe was observed from the shore, boats wenit to the assistaDqe of th e unfortu- nate people, several of whom were rescued from an in- timely grave. The nunmber of ind(ividuals who idat their lives by this ,melancholy accident cannot be exactly ascer- tained; but not less than nine are supposedl to be drowvnied. Among the permons savod is an infant, whose mother lost her lfie. There were no cabin-passengers amon]g the un- fortunate sufferers. Extract or a letter, dated Paris, Nov. 25:-" Vhatever may be said relative to the arrest of Noiret, it is certain that in the first instance he was taken into custody upon suspicion or under pretext of conspiracy. Not only was the Count arrexted, but the keeper of the hotel in the rue du Mail, where the parties lodged, was detained for two daye, and examined; and a French lady, wvho dineet at the ialk d'hote, was examined as to the persons irequent- Ing the table, the coniversation. &c. These meafbres, in the event of Noiret's being considered mnerely as a deserter, would have been superfluous. It is not true, either, that Noiret belonged to a rcgi. ment of discipline. At a3l events, he was sent from Paris to Lille on Friday last. for trial, that place being the principal town of the military division in which the regiment to which he belongs is quar- tered. Many persons are of opinion that the charge of conspiracy was merely a-pollce manewuvre, the object of which was to frighten conspiratorJ tonetuy themselves, if any such existed. The CoUnt de Al v I e l1as beea set at libirty, after neasrly a fortnight'is in]- prisonment. 4 clarge- of bbing implicated with Noirettwas cver brought against him; but he was detalned in consequence of a breaeh of milijary discipline, in remaining at Paris without hav. ing declared hs's arrival at the Biat Major (le la Place. At the cotton-miUitfactory of tlhe late C. Stantoni, Esq., at Dlansfield, on Saturday last, a young woman, of the name of Knight, tpoJc with her a younger oister, about nine ye-Ars of age, with an intention of procuring ber employment at the same place, when about nine o'CIoCk the ntii was thrown into the utmtost con- sternation and alarms, on discovcring that the child, by approaching too near oze of tshait* and her clothes getting entangled therein, was carried round with e utmost rapidity, every round her head rdashingagaesat the wall, and her legs against a pair of steps which stood near? with suclhfrce as to break the steps. The works were, stopped with the utiiot promptitude, but it was found that the skull was fractured, the thig1,hones broken, and the bowels pro. truded through tbeski. In-thiadreadfulsituatiol she lingered till four o'clock the following uorning, in the greatest agony, wvhen death putan end to ber sufibings. An inquest was held at Oxenwood, near Hungerford, before H. Hemstetl, M. D., Coroner, ol thc body of an interesting, young woman, named Platt, about 18 years of age,'servant in a fa. wly. It ippeared the deceased was chastised by her mistress for. drawing ale for the servants,.(which ash had donie more than once before), and informed, that' Ur fatlier, wbhowas bailiff in the family,. sbould be told of her conduct. The poor girl took- it so much to: heart, that she jumped do wn a well more than 50 yards deep.WlWen; drawn up, she was sitting in an erect posture with all the appear. ance of being iln a sweet sleep.-Verdict-" Temporary ITsanity." -Rcading Afercury.