Loaded with slugs

The following melancholy accident happened lately in Gracechurch-street: an officer who had come to the Cross Keys, in a stage coach, and had brought with him a gun loaded with slugs, for his security on the road, having ordered a coach to carry him from thence home, bid one of the porters of the inn put his gun into the hackney coach, in doing which the gun went off, and shattered the leg of a Camberwell stage coachman, who was on the opposite side of the street, waiting to turn into the inn. Another s1ug is lodged in the poor man's thigh, and two in the buttock of one of the horses. The man was carried to St. Thomas's hospital.