430 
river, at Casterton, near Stamford, 
in Lincolnshire. The accident was 
owing to the proper driver trusting 
to the guidance of a caddec, whilst 
he loitered behind. Fortunately, 
several passengers had previously 
stopped at the public-house at Cas- 
terton, or their limbs (probably 
lives) might have been sacrificed to 
the carelessness of the waggoner. 
The horses sustained little injury, 
though they fell a considerable 
depth. Several yards of the bridge- 
wall are beat down. 
13th. This morning, as the first 
regiment of East India volunteers 
were practising street firing with 
cartridge, serjeant- major Brown 
stood before one of the six-pounder 
guns, dressing his men, when the 
gun being fired, the wadding car- 
ried away part of the flesh of his 
arm, and lodged near his ribs. 
A few evenings ago, as a party of 
the Law association, in Temple gar- 
dens, were charging with the bayo- 
net, a gentleman in the front rank 
fell, in consequence of which, two 
who were behind fell over him, one 
of whose bayonets was run through 
the coat of him who fell first, near 
the shoulder, but without injury ; 
the bayonet of the third entered the 
ground, and was broken by the 
shock. 
14th. Lately, near Halifax, York- 
shire, a person in a market-cart, 
with two spirited horses in it, ran 
full speed against Thomas Lambert, 
esq. of Elland-hall, who was on 
horseback; the cart was overturn- 
ed, and the unfortunate gentleman 
thrown under the horse’s feet. His 
face was disfigured in a most shock- 
ing manner, and six of his ribs were 
broken. Ile languished till this 
night, when he expired. He was 
69 years of age. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1803. 
The house of Lindo, in London, 
has lately failed, owing to its cons — 
nexion in business with the. F rench — 
government. It made, during the 
peace, immense shipments to the 
French West India islands, on the — 
faith of the consular court ; and we — 
understand it now holds a bill, drawn 
on the republic by the late general | 
Leclerc, for 260,000l. which, like | 
most other demands on it, has been — 
dishonoured. ‘The pretext under 
which the payment of the bills is — 
resisted is, that they were issued at — 
an improper discount, or that full — 
value was not given for them. 
Gen. Rochambeau lately caused — 
the following to be inserted in the 
official gazette at Cape Frangois :— 
‘* The general in chief gives, in the 
most formal manner, the le to the 
letter of the minister of marine, ad- 
dressed to the first consul, under 
date 5th Floreal, inserted in the 
Moniteur of the 10th of the same 
month. This letter falsely censures 
the government bills drawn on 
France, and particularly those of 
Alexander Lindo. I am compelled 
to remove this notorious calumny ; 
and I owe it to gen. le Clerc, who, 
alone with me, has issued them, to 
unmask the falsehood of such an as- 
sertion. 
(Signed) ‘¢‘ D. Rocuamerau.” 
15th. A man, who some time 
ago leaped from London, Black- 
friars, 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, in- 
stead of a perpendicular position, 
they 
