The National Register. — 1821-04-30 (London, England)

FATAL ACCIDENT.—As some old Chelsea pensioners and soldiers were regaling in the club roomat theSnotvShoes public house, Chelsea. between ten and eleven o'clock on Sunday night, the conversation turned oti the Peninsular war, when James Rowden. one of the in. pensioners, warmed with liquor, and animated with the thoughts of his former battles, began to relate his various exploits, and how he would have acted in that war; he accompanied his words with various gestures and ma• nceuvres with his crutch; at length he became the butt of the room, and several tricks were played upon him, by shoving one another against him, and pushing him from one to another. Unfortunately, as he was going out of the room, a matt of the name of Robert Ullam gave hint a slight push, and he being standing at the stair head, was pitched down to the bottom, and killed on the spot. '1 he landlord sent i 111 l nediately for a constable, and Ullam was taken into custody, and sent to the watch-house, he was kept in custody two days, until the result of the coroner's inquest was known, when it appeared from the evidence that the push given was a very slight one, and not given with any intention of injuring the deceased, who bore him no and that Ullatu, after the accident, expressed much sorrow at what happened, and did not attempt to escape. The verdict of the coroner's jury was—" That the deceased came by his death by falling dowu stairs, occasioned by a slight push from Robert Ullam, he at the same time not designing the deceased any harm." After the verdict was made known, the prisoner was set at liberty. The following is related at Lille, and has created much interest among the inhabitants of the village of Frelinghien, where it occurred. At the commencement of the French revolution a company of artillery was stationed in the above-mentioned village, where they remained during a very lung penod. An officer of the company fell in love with a girl of the villsge, and married her according to the new ceremonies introduced— namely, by espousing her in presence of one of the civil ' authorities. A female infant was the fruitof this union. A short time afterwards the company commenced the campaign, and quitted the cantonements for the field.-It appears that the uflicer obtained rapid promotion; his good fortune turned his head so much as to make forget his wife and child. At first he wrote but seldom, and at length abandoned them, and wrote no more.— The poor woman, than deserted by her unfaithful husband, was reduced to poverty, and by the labour of her hands maintained herself and child its the best Mauna she poshibly could. Twenty seven years passed on its this way, when she one day received a letter dated front a fortress in the East. informing her that her husband, who had arrived at the rank of fieldonarshal, had just died, and left her all his property, which was very considerable. At first she refused to believe this intelligence —hut a second letter set the matter beyond all doubt, and confirmed the happy event. It happened that an old soldier, a private belonging to the same company with the deceased, revealed to the poor woman every thing that had occurred; she succeeded in establishing her claims to the inheritance, and is now in possession of a brilliant fortune. They still reside in their old obscure and humble abode, where they have now brought the splendid furniture of a French general. This advt.°. ture has caused a very great sensation in the village, and has raised the curiosity of all the inhabitants. Sunday night, about eight o'clock, a young man of respectable appearance, was observed walk.ng backwards and forwa,ds in a very agitated state on Waterloo-bridge. At length he suddenly sprang upon the parapet nearly over the cemie arch. A gentleman near the spot immediately ran towards him, in order to prevent him jumping off, but before he could possibly arrive thither, the unfortunate young man precipitated himself from the bridge into the water. An alarm was instantly given. and some watermen succeeded in rescuing the body, and they carried it to Waterloo House, at the Surrey side of the Bridge. Medical aid was procured, awl every effort was made to restore the young nun, but all proved ineffectual A dreadful injury was discovered on one side. which must have proceeded from his falling on the base of one of the pillars attached to the Bridge. In the course of the day he was owned ; it turned out that his name was Whitten. a coal merchant, near Backside. The cause assigned for his having committed this rash act is, that a short tint.: previous to the last execution at the Old Bailey, the deceased visited One of the culprits with whom he had recently been acquainted, and it had such an effect upon his mind, that ever since a degree of melancholy had attached to him, and his conduct at intervals bordered on madness. He was between go and 3U years of age. He has left a wife and three children to lament his unhappy fate. CUaloUll Couttralise.—A young gentleman and lady happened to be in the same pew, in a free church in America. During the course of the sermon, the youth read something in the eyes of the fair, which made a deeper impression on his mind than the pions lecture of the preacher. As love, although blind, is never at a loss fur expedients, he presented the maiden, whose charms had attracted his notice, with the follow. log passage, being the sth verse of the second Epistle of John--" Now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another." After reading this passage, the lady, in reply, promptly relerred her suitor to another passage, in the Old Testament. namely, the 16th verse of the Ist chapter of Ruth Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee, for twhiiher thou goest. I will go; and where thou Imhzest, I will lodge: Shy God." shall he ray people, and thy God shall be my God." Thus was a treaty of alliance proposed, which, in a short time afterwards, was fully sanctioned, and ratified by the min Utter.  entesupled Suicide--A linuse.niaid in a gentlenian'a faulile. In Sloane-street, atteitipte.l in destroy herself OR Thursday morning, in a water closet, in the house. She Wail tliworerrd susp..niled from a bruin, 6y a fellow servant, and fortunately she was cut down in lime to re.tore stivetuled aninfakion.—Pre,lauc) wss tit,: cause of the rash act.   182