84 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



the deceased, who was put to bed ; 

 she continued in her senses till her 

 death, which was at half-past nine 

 o'clock on Monday evening, being 

 24 hours after the accident happen- 

 ed. The deceased was much burnt 

 about the mouth, breast, right 

 shoulder, arm, and one leg ; she 

 supposed the accident must happen 

 by the snufF of the candle falling 

 on the skirt of her gown, as she 

 was on her knees. 



8. As a poor woman of Up- 

 pingham was, with her son, ga- 

 thering nuts in a small wood, 

 called Holyok Spenney, about 

 four miles from that place, the boy 

 perceived part of an earthen vessel 

 emerging from the bed of a small 

 stream, which, on examination, 

 proved to be a Roman vase, filled 

 with silver coins of the Emperor 

 Valentinian,Valens, Gratian, Theo- 

 dosius, and Maximinus. The coins 

 are, consequently, from 1430 to 

 1450 years old, and the whole are 

 in most excellent preservation. 



9. This night, at half-past 7 

 o'clock, the large machinery work 

 of Mr. Dunn, of John-street, Glas- 

 gow, was discovered to be on fire. 

 The flames originated in the second 

 story, and in a few minutes the 

 whole building was in a state of 

 conflagration. Before ten scarcely 

 any part of the house was standing. 

 The progress of the fire was so 

 quick, that there never was any 

 hope of its extinction. We have 

 not heard of any persons being 

 hurt. The premises were insured ; 

 this work was burnt down in 1805; 

 there were employed in it nearly 

 100 men and boys. 



10. Colonel Thornton entered 

 Rouen with his famous pack of 

 hounds. He was attended by a 

 number of English gentlemen on 



hunters, and the novelty of the 

 sight attracted much notice, and 

 drew thousands out to witness it. 



13, Newcastle. — On Monday 

 se'nnight a melancholy accident 

 happened on the Kenton waggon- 

 way, near this town. A young 

 woman named Margaret Dobson, 

 in service at Shields, daughter of 

 a waggonman at Coxlodge colliery, 

 had leave to visit her parents, and 

 returning, she and another woman 

 seated themselves on aboard, be- 

 hind her father's loaded coal wag- 

 gon, to ride to the Shields turn- 

 pike, over which the waggon way 

 passes. Near East Benton, a wag- 

 gon which followed them at some 

 distance, ran amain, and they sup- 

 posing it might be stopped before 

 it reached them, did not move till 

 it came too near, when M. Dob- 

 son, in endeavouring to escape, un- 

 fortunately slipped and fell with 

 her neck across the cast metal rail, 

 and the sharp metal wheels severed 

 her head from her body. The 

 other had her foot severely crushed. 



15. About thirty-five minutes 

 past one o'clock Mr. Sadler, jun. 

 ascended with the grand balloon 

 from Pontefract, accompanied by 

 Miss Thompson, The aeronauts 

 took a direction due north for 

 about ten minutes, and afterwards 

 moved north-east for about half 

 an hour, when they gradually de- 

 scended near Grinstead hall. They 

 returned to Pontefract in the even- 

 ing. 



16. Venice. — The day before, 

 yesterday a fire broke out in the 

 Mont Saint Bernard ship of the 

 line, which lay at anchor in the in- 

 ner canal of the Arsenal. The 

 flames immediately spread to ano- 

 ther ship of the line, the Casti^- 

 lione, which lay close to the for- 



