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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804 



■when, the arrangements having been 

 made for the disposal of the two 

 vacant red ribbons, Major-General's 

 Moore and Ludlow were introduced, 

 and with the usual forms, were elc6ted 

 knights of the bath. After Mhich 

 his majesty received the recorder's 

 report in council, when Prentice and 

 Webb for horse-stcalina;, and J. 

 Lloyd, for uttering a forged bank 

 note, were ordered for execution. 

 Mr. Astlet, with other convidts, were 

 re'jpited during pleasure. 



This day came ou at Holyrood- 

 house, the eJec'^lion of one of the 

 sixteen peers of Scotland, vacant by 

 the death of the INIarquis cf Twee- 

 dale. The Earls of Kellie and Lau- 

 derdale were the candidates: the 

 former was elected. 



The workmen at Messrs. LIoj ds 

 forge, near Jinrton-upon-Trent, 

 , having had the misfortune to break 

 the large hammer anvil steady, were 

 about to blow up that part which is 

 fixed in the ground ; and as Samuel 

 Bamfonl (though repeatedly \varncd 

 of his danger) was driving iron 

 "wedges to further the operation, a 

 spaik comnuinicated to the gun- 

 powder, which exploded, blew oft" 

 his head, and otherwise mangled 

 his body in a shocking manner. 



loth. The following melancholy 

 accident happened at Southburne, 

 near Great Driffield : — three or four 

 warreners having been their rounds 

 :n the rabbet- warrens adjoining, on 

 their return deposited their loaded 

 pieces in the house of one of the 

 party. Shortly afterwards one of 

 (he 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. 



16th. Part of Mr. Hazicdine's 



iron founderv. 



Coleham, Cumber- 



land, was discovered to be on fire 

 this morning, which had been burn- 

 ing for some time. The roof soon af- 

 ter fell in. It was got under between 

 three and four o'clock. The night 

 was fortunately calm; and a quan- 

 tity of salt, added to the water in 

 the engines, was observed to have 

 very great efiicacy in extinguishing 

 the fire. The damage is estimated 

 at near 1.5001. 



One of the Leeds coaches broke 

 down near Sheiheld, M'hert one of 

 the passengers (the housekeeper of 

 Ldward Abncy, esq. of .King'.? 

 Newton, near Derby) was crushed 

 to death by the coacli. 



William Chivers, a collier, was 

 killed at tlic Rock Coal-work, near 

 A'ettlebridge, bv a chain of enor- 

 mous length, and upwards of a ton 

 ■weight, having broke by the force 

 of the lire-engine, and fallen upon 

 him. Almost every bone in his body 

 was broken, just as if he had suf- 

 fered on the rack. Part of the 

 chain was so entagled round his 

 neck, that it became necessary to 

 cut through the links with chissels. 

 Tliis poor fellow's life had been a 

 series of dej)lorablc accidents. 

 When a youth, his eye was struck 

 out by a stick in a scuffle. His bo- 

 dy was disabled seven years ago by 

 a quantity of rubbish falling on 

 him. lie narrowly escaped being 

 killed by the falling of a piece of 

 timber three weeks ago. Since then 

 he escaped death by a great piece 

 of coal falling near him. 



The Earl of Carlisle has pre- 

 sented to the dean and chapter of 

 York, for the embellishment of the 

 minster, a window of beautiful 

 painted glass, purchased during the 

 late troubles in France from the 

 church of St. Nicholas, at Rouen. 

 The subject is tlic visitation of the _ 



Virgin 



