pt^ 



ANNUAL HEaiSTETy, ISO: 



rei^r Cheliusford, received s^ mucla 

 damage by tha great swell of water- 

 dunngthe last wee){, th%t this morn- 

 ing, a,bout 4 o'cloclj;, as. tlie. mail- 

 toacli -H-as passing over it, it sud- 

 denly gave ■sva.y, and the passengers 

 escaped only by the velocrty M-irh 

 Tliic'a the carriage was going, as, a 

 fa>v moments afterwards, a. gret^t 

 part of it fell in. Th^ coachman 

 and guard, much to their rrf dit, im. 

 mediately took the necessary pre- 

 cautions to prevent other ca,rriages. 

 from passing ; and the coaches now' 

 take the circuitous route of Baddow 

 or Writtle. 



Messrs. Heriot, Taylor, ]\I' Mil- 

 !an, and others, the proprietors, 

 printers, and publishers of the Sun 

 ^nd True Briton newspapers, were 

 brought into the court of King's 

 Bench to receive sentence for a libel 

 inserted iu those papers against lord 

 St. Vincen,t; when Mr. Heriot was 

 sentenced to six months imprison- 

 ment, Mr. Taj'Ior to pay a fine of 

 100 niarks, and the printers and 

 publishers to one months imprison- 

 ment. 



A gang of robbers, vho have 

 lately committed great depredations 

 in the neighbourhood of Bristol 

 and the Hot \^ ells, were fomc days 

 since taken in a rock, called giant's 

 hole. Four of them were at the 

 time frying eggs and bacon, having 

 sent two women, belonging to (he 

 ga«ig, for beer. They had furni.slied 

 the cavern in a very comfortable 

 manner, with chairs, tables, beds, 

 kc. 



A few days ago, the extraordina- 

 ry number of five lambs was taken 

 Alive from a ewe belonging to Mr, 

 Holmwood of Pilstie, in Cuckfield, 

 Sussex, which had been killed on 

 account of a disorder called (he 



^t^ggerq, -vvUh which si;ie was aftid- 

 dej>ly. a,ffected. 



13th. A few days ago two respect- 

 able young men, of the names of 

 Hippou aiul Smith, having set out; 

 from Stamford to visit some friends 

 at Baston, proposed to skait thither 

 along the river, when, before they 

 hac^ proceeded far, the ice gave vvay, 

 and. th&y were both drowned. 



The lemale servant ol a farmer at 

 If'undenhali, Norfolk, having lighted 

 a. fue in ^ heater stove, iu which her 

 master had iiu^antiously placed a can, 

 nister of gunpowder to dry, an ex- 

 plosion took place, which killed the 

 poor woman on the spot, and did 

 considerable damage to the liouse. 



As a person of the name of Car- 

 ter was returning, wiih his wife and 

 another person named Burridge, ia 

 a cart, from Wisbech to Emneth, 

 the horse- on leaving the town, got 

 out of the road, and overturned the 

 cart into the new canal, by \vhich 

 Messrs. Carter and 

 drowned. 



A poor man, 7-^ years of age, re-, 

 siding in Castle-Cary, lately strang- 

 led himself in his apartment. He 

 was so determined on the commis- 

 sion of suicide, that, sitting on the 

 bedstead, and fi.\ing the cord round 

 his neck, he forcibly bent himself 

 forwaid, and so continued till ho 

 expired. His wife, who has for 

 many years been confined to her>, 

 bed, was }a tJie room, and kiicwfi ] 

 nothing of the transaction till he was^.| 

 dead. 



Burridge were 



Lately, a 



youth, aged 17^ 



son of Mr. A. Staffurth, a maltster, 

 near Ramsey, Huntingdon, on turn- 

 ing round the malt, had his head, 

 forced between the mill yoke and 

 the wall, by which it wut crushed to 

 pieces. 



