400 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



sentence), for a conspiracy to de- 

 fraud (he public by assuming the 

 characters of merchants, drawing 

 bills of exchange upon each other, 

 some of which they got discounted 

 among nianufai^turers and shop- 

 keepers, whereas they were nothing 

 but mere swindling adventurers. 

 The concourse of people upon the 

 ©cession was very great. Affer 

 standing the usual time, they were 

 carried back to Newgate, there to 

 be imprisoned 12 months. 



About nine o'clock this nisht a 

 woman with a child in her arms 

 was run over by a stage coach, on 

 the west side of Fleet-n^arkct ; the 

 child was killed, and one of the wheels 

 went over tlie legs of the anfortu- 

 nate woman, who was taken to the 

 hospital without hopes of recovery. 



14th. As a boat laden with 

 Portland stone was last week cross- 

 ing Portland Roads, at Weymouth, 

 a sudden gust of wind fdled it with 

 water, by which it instantly sunk. 

 Two men, and a child four years of 

 age, were on-board at the time, 

 when one of the men, w ho could not 

 swim, was drowned ; the other, 

 though two miles from the shore, 

 caught the child in his arms, and 

 plunged into the sea, when a boat, 

 with some gentlemen on a fishing 

 party, came to his assistance in time 

 to save him and his charge. His 

 boat, the produce of his earnings 

 in the navy, being totally lost, a 

 subscription was opened for him at 

 Harvey's library, which, in a few 

 hours, produced 201. 



16th. At Gwenddwr, Brecon, 

 as two men were close cutting a 

 piece of timber, a ^'irl of about six- 

 teen or seventeen years of age was 

 sitting on the groujid near them, 

 when a part of the tree fell upon 



her, and crushed her in such a man- 

 ner that she instantly expired. 



Kith. This day the freeholders 

 of Middlesex, in the interest of Mr. 

 Mainwaring, jun. met at the Crown 

 and Anchor, to consider on the best 

 means of exempting him from ex- 

 pence, &c. and after some introduc- 

 tory speeches, a subscription was 

 ojjened, which amounted to 5,5251. 

 On imparting this infornjation to 

 Mr. Mainwaring, jnn. he candidly 

 declared that unless the subscription 

 amounted to 10,0001. he should de- 

 cline the contest. The business of 

 the meeting was then deferred till 

 the Tuesday following, when the 

 subscriptions were much increased, 

 and at the pressing solicitations of 

 his friends, the young gentleman 

 consented to stand the contest. 



A young woman this evening, 

 crossing the road with a child in her 

 arms, near the Small-pox Hospital, 

 Pancras, was thrown down by a 

 gentleman's carriage, that was driv- 

 ing along with great fury. The 

 child died almost immediately, and 

 the young woman was not expected, 

 to live. 



17th. A very affecting circum- 

 stance occurred about 20 minutes 

 before 7 o'clock in the morning. — 

 Two houses, No. 33 and 34, Dunk- 

 street, Mile End, New Town, sud- 

 denly fell to the ground, and bu- 

 ried in the ruins 35 persons. Both 

 the houses were let out to poorpeo- 

 ple with small families. As soon as 

 the neighbours recovered from the 

 alarm, which so dismal an accident 

 necessarily occasioned, they set to 

 work to clear away the rubbish, 

 with the laudable intention of sav- 

 ing as many lives as possible. A 

 person of the name of Richards was 

 the first who was so happy as to re- 

 lieve 



