She sunk with a full cargo

A dreadful accident happened a few days ago on board the Jason, a vessel of Boston, lying about four miles from the town, in a part of the Deeps called Clay-hole.

Mr. Massam, the master, was on business in Boston; but before he quitted the vessel, be had carefully locked up the cabin, in which were some swivel cartridges, and a quantity of gunpowder. The mate of the vessel, to relieve the tedium of waiting for a wind, imprudently broke open the door during the master's absence, took out some powder, and went from the vessel to shoot sea-fowl, leaving on board only a boy about fourteen years of age.

The youth, thus left, amused himself by getting a handful of gunpowder, and throwing it in small quantities into a fire on board; but having, it is supposed, scattered some between the cabin and the fire-place, the flame ran along the train, and in an instant, by the tremendous explosion of all the powder kept for the guns which the Jason carried, the whole stern of the vessel was swept away, and she sunk with a full cargo of oats on board.

Providentially the boy was not hurt by the explosion, and was taken from the sinking vessel by a boat which was put off from the Tre Madoc, lying near.

The wrong chimney

A poor chimney-sweeper's boy lost his life in a most shocking manner, in a chimney, at a house in Orchard-street, Westminster.

He went up a chimney to clean it, and got out at the top. On his return, he got into a chimney belonging to the same house, by mistake, which had a fire at the bottom, in which he got stuck fast, and was suffocated before relief could be rendered him.

Till death closed their mortal career

On Tuesday morning, the 15th instant, when the men employed at the lime-kiln near St. Catherine's, Waterford, went to their work, they found a man and a woman lying dead on the edge of its eye. The parties were.soon recognized; the young man having lived in the immediate neighbourhood of the kiln, and the unhappy woman, who, we understand, was the widow of an industrious carpenter, at no great distance from it.

The wretched youth was known to have been drinking at a late hour in the neighbourhood the preceding evening, and it is thought the parties must have found their way into the yard at low water, through the sluice at John's Hill.

Incapable of reflection, they had suffered themselves to be so much attracted by the heat of the kiln, as to seek repose on its very crown, where, rendered senseless by the mephitic vapour, they were retained till death closed their mortal career. When found, one side of the man was literally roasted.

Walked through the water

At Fishtoft, Mr. Smith Sessop (formerly in trade as a grocer at Boston) lost his life in endeavouring to rescue some of his father's sheep. On Saturday night, old Mr. Sessop, accidentally looking out of his house and mistaking the approaching deluge for a fall of snow upon the ground, exclaimed to his son that care should be taken of some sheep on his pastures.

The deceased immediately went forth, and before he recovered from the astonishment excited by the scene, walked through the water, in his way to the sheep into a pit, where he was drowned before any assistance could be rendered.

Epitaph

0n a Monument lately erected in Horsley-Down Church, in Cumberland.

"Here lie the bodies Of Thomas Bond and Mary his wife.
She was temperate, chaste, and charitable;
BUT
She was proud, peevish, and passionate.
She was an affectionate wife, and a tender mother;
BUT
Her husband and child, whom she loved,
Seldom saw her countenance without a disgusting frown,
Whilst she received visitors, whom she despised, with an endearing smile.
Her behaviour was discreet towards strangers;
BUT
Imprudent in her family.
Abroad, her conduct was influenced by good breeding;
BUT
At home, by ill temper.
She was a professed enemy to flattery,
And was seldom known to praise or commend,
BUT
The talents in which she principally excelled,
Were difference of opinion, and discovering flaws and imperfections.
She was an admirable economist,
And, without prodigality,
Dispensed plenty to every person in her family;
BUT
Would sacrifice their eyes to a farthing candle.
She sometimes made her husband happy with her good qualities;
BUT
Much more frequently miserable - with her many failings:
Insomuch that in thirty years cohabitation he often lamented
That, maugre all her virtues,
He had not, in the whole, enjoyed two years of matrimonial comfort.
AT LENGTH
Finding that she had lost the affections of her husband,
As well as the regard of her neighbours,
Family disputes having been divulged by servants,
She died of vexation, July 20, 1768,
Aged 48 years.
Her worn-out husband-survived her four months and two days,
And departed this life Nov. 28, 1768,
In the 54th year of his age.
William Bond,brother to the deceased, erected this stone,
As a weekly monitor to the surviving wives of this parish,
That they may avoid the infamy
Of having their memories handed to posterity
With a patch-work character."

A dreary road

This day a post-chaise was hired at the King's Arms Inn, in Salisbury, to go beyond Collingbourne. After setting down his fare, the driver was returning at night towards Collingbourne, a dreary road, with which he was unacquainted, and it was so dark as to make it impossible to see the road.

Thus situated, he unfortunately dгоvе over a precipice, at the bottom of which he was found dead the next morning. The chaise was nearly broken to pieces, and the horses so much hurt as to render them nearly useless.

Playing on a straw-stack

As some children were lately playing on a straw-stack, belonging to Mr. Coulson, of Bottle Barns, near Morpeth, one of them, Mr. J.'s daughter, was sliding down, when a fork, which had been left upright against it, penetrated her side and caused her death.

Here goes!

At the execution of Matsell, at Birmingham, for maliciously firing at and wounding a watchman of that town, being desired to give a signal the moment he wished to be turned off; when every thing was ready, he threw up a handkerchief that he held in his hand, and exclaimed, "Here goes!"

In their hilarity

This evening, on finishing a house in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, the bricklayers went on the most elevated part of the building to drink a gallon of beer, with three huzzas. In their hilarity, four persons fell to the ground; one was killed on the spot, and the others were taken to the London hospital; one of whom is since dead, and the other two not likely to recover.

Mistaking a paper of gun-powder

A melancholy accident happened at a cottage adjoining the city walls in St. Stephen's, Norwich, on Saturday last, by the occupier mistaking a paper of gun-powder for black lead, which she used in cleaning a stove, when it suddenly exploded, and herself with three children were so dreadfully burnt as to endanger their lives. They were all conveyed to the county hospital.

Blown into a tub

Joseph Gardam, an old man, aged 70 years, was, by a strong gust of wind, blown into a tub of boiling glew, at Hull, by which he was so severely scalded that he died.

Wife for sale

A man named John Gowthorpe exposed his wife for sale in the market, at Hull, about one o'clock, but owing to the crowd which such an extraordinary occurrence had gathered together, he was obliged to defer the sale, and take her away. About four o'clock, however, he again brought her out, and she was sold for 20 guineas, and delivered in a halter to a person named Houseman, who had lodged with them four or five years.

In shooting birds

A lieutenant of the navy, in shooting birds at Fratton, near Portsmouth, as he inadvertently attempted to divide the briars with the butt end of the piece, it being on full cock, the trigger caught to a bramble, and the contents of the gun were discharged through the officer's heart, who expired immediately.

Shot her through the head

The following melancholy accident happened at Southburne, near Great Driffield:- three or four warreners having been their rounds in the rabbet-warrens adjoining, on their return deposited their loaded pieces in the house of one of the party. Shortly afterwards one of the guns was taken up by a boy of eleven years of age, who levelled it at the servant girl, aged fifteen, and shot her through the head. She died in great agonies.

Azotic gas

This morning, an excise officer, named Littlejohn, was found dead in a vat of strong beer, in a state of fermentation, at the brew-house of Mr. Thornton at Horsham.

It came out, in evidence, before the coroner's jury, on a view of the body, that the deceased went to the brewhouse, on Monday night, to make his accustomed survey; and that in leaning over the vessel, the azotic gas, arising from beer in such a state, might suffocate him, and cause him to fall into the liquor; they therefore returned a verdict of accidental death. The vessel containing about 16 barrels of beer, was by Mr. Thornton's direction, thrown into the common sewer.

His leg got entangled in the rope

A singular accident happened at the new church, Dagenham, Essex. The society of Cumberland youths were invited to open the new peal of bells, which they performed in the morning, by ringing 7008 changes of Oxford treble-bob-royal, in four hours and forty nine minutes; but, in the evening, Mr. Channon, master of the society, wished to oblige the inhabitants of the village with another peal, when, unfortunately, his leg got entangled in the rope, which drew him up to the next loft, and falling thence on his head, he was killed on the spot, the upper part of the skull being beat in so, that the brains oozed out through the cavities.

Crushed entirely flat

This day as a cart, laden with sand, was coming up the lane from the Bell Sand Wharf, in Upper-Thames-street, (which is so narrow that, except in a space where a warehouse door is fixed, the wheels graze the walls) a young man, a lighterman, met it as he was going down. The carman warned him of his danger, and requested him to go back, which he refused, but ran on, hoping to gain the door-way; unfortunately his head and the wheel came in contact with the wall, the poor young man's head was crushed entirely flat, and he was left a shapeless and nearly headless corpse.

He sunk and rose no more

A man, who some time ago leaped from London, Blackfriars, and Westminster bridges into the Thames, in three-quarters of an hour, undertook, for a wager, to perform the same exploit again.

Having leaped from London bridge into the water, he sunk and rose no more; when the body was found, it appeared, that having gone down with his arms in a horizontal, instead of a perpendicular position, they were both dislocated by the force of the water.

When his foot slipped

A lad, of Castor, in Lincolnshire, who had been witness to the execution of Pidgeon, at Peterborough, was explaining to his younger brother the manner in which the culprit made his exit; and, to make his representation the more striking, he fastened a rope over a beam in the barn, got a ladder, and placed a noose round his neck; when his foot slipped, and before the family could be alarmed, he was dead!

Worried him to death

At Harrowgate a servant had been riding a small stallion poney, the property of a physician at Manchester, and on alighting, slackly retained the rein whilst he stood with his back towards him. The poney directly seized the man, threw him on the ground, knelt on him, and in the most vengeful manner worried him to death. The mangled corpse, was rescued with difficulty from the devouring beast.

Shockingly mangled

This evening the following dreadful accident happened:- A very genteel dressed man having got behind one of the Stratford stages, he unfortunately got entangled in the wheel, which at length drew him almost double between the spokes, and impeded the progress of the carriage.

To extricate the unhappy man it was found necessary to take off the wheel, when his head appeared nearly severed from his body, and otherwise shockingly mangled. He was taken to the Plough, at Mile-end, for the inspection of the coroner's inquest.

A most horrible project

The French papers mention a most horrible project which was attempted to be carried into effect by a miscreant at Lyons.

He had hired a sort of stable having an entrance from the street; in this he had dug a pit about six feet square, and twenty in depth. This was covered by planks moving on a swivel, which at one end were confined only by a slender thread. There was a lateral hollow in one side of the pit filled with straw, which by an apparatus he could set on fire, for the purpose of smothering his victims, with a sort of windlass to draw them up, and in an obscure corner a grave for their interment.

He first tried this infernal machine on a country woman coming to the market with fruit. She being called in, sunk into the trap, and he attempted to set the straw on fire; in his haste he happily failed, and being affrighted by her loud and reiterated cries, he took to flight. The woman was extricated by the neighbours with but little injury.

The villain was arrested, and will undergo the punishment due to his crime.

Unnatural reprobate

At the Monmouth assizes, Mr. W. Sanders, an old man of Liverpool, was found guilty of manslaughter, and discharged, on paying 6s. 8d. His son had violently beat him with a stick and horsewhip and threatened to murder him on the first opportunity that offered, with a view to intimidate him. The old man loaded his gun and presenting it at the unnatural reprobate, shot him.

Killed by his cat

DIED.- 9th. In consequence of an extraordinary accident, Dr. Hoare, master of Jesus college, Oxford, and prebendary of Westminster. As he was sitting at tea, somebody moved the table upon his favourite cat, and gave the animal such pain, that it flew directly at the doctor, and the wound by its claws occasioned a mortification, which put a period to his life. Dr. Hoare was upwards of ninety years of age. This gentleman attended the late earl Harcourt to the court of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, in 1761, and had the honour of marrying our gracious queen.

By some accident blew up

Several barrels of gunpowder, in the stores of Messrs. M'Intoss, Inglis, and Wilson, in the centre of the town of Inverness, by some accident blew up, spreading devastation round them; some houses have been rased to their foundation, others unroofed, and not one that has escaped some injury. Fragments of the buildings were driven a great distance, three women and two children were buried in the ruins; and two Miss Frasers, of Fanellan, unfortunately passing, one was killed on the spot, and the other so desperately wounded, as to render her death a desirable event. Many other people were wounded, but not dangerously. The shock was felt many miles round.

Inclosed in an oak coffin

A hair-dresser, at Brussels, having lately quarrelled with a woman to whom he was attached, shot her through the head with a pistol, and, finding that she still gave some signs of life, he killed her with the butt-end of a musket. When the guards entered the place, he threw himself on the dead body, and before he could be seized he blew out his brains with the musket.

An innkeeper, returning from taking a walk with his wife, was so affected at the spectacle as to drop down to all appearance dead; the medical persons who were called in declared him to be lifeless. The next day he was inclosed in an oak coffin, and deposited in a chapel till the funeral was to take place.

Some of the neighbours hearing a noise in the chapel, ran to the place, and found the poor man bathed in his blood, and really dead, having, as it-appeared, made most violent but ineffectual efforts to break his coffin.

So much liquor

Two labourers, employed in a warehouse at Deptford to remove brandy; took occasion to broach one of the hogheads, and by means of a reed, sucked so much liquor, that they were both found dead by the sides of the casks. One of them a few hours before, was seen at a public-house, seemingly sober, drinking a pot of beer.

Missing balcony

Died 21st. At two o'clock, at his house in Upper Harley-street, in consequence of a dreadful accident he met with on the preceding Wednesday night, about eleven o'clock, William Bosanquet, esq.

He was making some alterations in his house, and, amongst others, had removed the balcony from his back drawing-room window: unfortunately forgetting this circumstance, he walked out, and immediately fell into the area, and, in his fall, broke the vertebrae of his back, and was otherwise most severely bruised and injured.

He was sensible of his inevitable dissolution, and bore his sufferings with a fortitude of  mind almost unparalleled, dictating, in the extremity of torture, some additions to his will. He has left a most amiable lady and ten children to lament his loss.

Mr. Bosanquet was a son of the bank-director, and himself a partner in the banking-house of Foster and Lubbock.

Boiled the baby

A child of Mrs. Dandy, of Rotherhithe-wall, near Dock-head, being about to be put to bed, and crying vehemently, the servant, Anne Vines, to quell its obstinancy, threatened to put it into the copper, unlens it consented so go quietly to bed.

Persuasion and remonstrance being in vain, the servant suspended the infant (not three years of age), over the place of terror; when it slipped from her arms, and sunk at once to the bottom of the boiling copper. It died immediately, in a most shocking state, the very skin coming off with the clothes, when taken out.

The jury sat the next day, and, after a minute investigation, returned the following verdict: feloniously killing and slaying, by putting the child in the copper, but not with an intent to kill.

Anne Vines has since been tried at the Surry assizes, and found guilty of manslaughter.

The campanilogers art

A short time since, eight members of the society of Cumberland youths made an attempt to ring 15,136 changes of Oxford triple-bobs on Edmonton church-bells. It requires upwards of ten hours time to perform this task, at 25 changes a minute. They had entered the ninth hour, when an unlucky accident befell Mr. Cross, the composer of the peal: making an attempt to slacken his knee-buckle, his leg entanged in the coil of the rope, by which he was elevated to a considerable height, and, thence falling down on his head, he broke his collar-bone. Had it not been for this accident, no doubt the feat would have been accomplished, and the performers crowned with perpetual honour, as nothing to be compared with such an achievement of strength and skill can be found in the records of the campanilogers art.

Apparent negligence

This afternoon, as the Chatham and Rochester coach came out of the gateway of the inn-yard of the Golden-Cross, Charing-Cross, a young woman, silting on the top, threw her head back, to prevent her from striking against the beam: but, there being to much luggage on the roof of the coach as to hinder her laying herself sufficiently back, it caught her face, and tore the flesh up her forehead in a dreadful manner. She was conveyed to an hospital, where slie died on the 19th.

A coroner's inquest was, on the 22d, held at the Westminster-Infirmary on the body of the above young woman, who, it appears, was only 19 years of age; and brought in their verdict, accidental death; but, on account of apparent negligence in the coachman, they fined him five pounds.

It appeared, that the deceased had come to town to visit a lying-in sister, and was on her return to Chatham, when the accident happened.

Death by tea

A few days ago, two women in De-la-port-court, Hull, were suddenly taken ill aster drinking tea in the afternoon. As their illness seemed to be the effect of poison, the kettle was examined, and in the water were found spiders and other insects, which, it is supposed, had remained there so long as to make it putrid, and to occasion the death of both mother and daughter. The former died shortly after, and the latter on Tuesday last.

Discovered in flames

Last week, the cabin of a boat at the canal-basin at Chesterfield was discovered in flames, and two young men were taken there-out burnt to death, in a manner too shocking to relate. It is supposed, from the severity of the weather, they had made too large a fire in the cabin, which set the boat on fire, and caused them to be suffocated.

Killed by her petticoats

A poor woman was killed at Burnley, owing to the wind blowing her petticoats into the machinery of a cotton-mill, by which she was literally torn to pieces. She has left five infant children.

Such a dreadful explosion

Plymouth. A melancholy accident happened yesterday evening at the gun-wharf in the dockyard at this place. Mr. Brace, with his son, about 12 years old, G. Newman, R. Herden, and G. Searles, were employed in removing a quantity of bomb-shells, landed from the different French prizes lately brought in here, and purchased by Mr. Brace at public sale, when, by some accident, one of the shells took fire, which communicated itself to several others, filled also with combustible matter, and caused such a dreadful explosion, before any of the above persons could gel out of the reach of its destructive influence, that Mr. Brace and his son were killed on the spot, G. Newman had his right thigh blown off, and the other two were dangerously wounded. Many others had left the spot only a few minutes, by which providential circumstance their lives were saved.

The explosion was distinctly heard at Castletown, three miles and a half distant from the spot. A young midshipman was also brought to the Royal Hospital from the Castor, dreadfully mangled in his face and hands, having been blown up by letting off some loose powder from a priming powder-horn.