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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



party are Miss Eliza Shute, Miss 

 Ann, and Mr. Rothery, the latter 

 of whom had been twice carried 

 down in supporting his wife, by 

 struggling friends clinging to him, 

 and checicing his exertions; heat 

 length got her to the head of the 

 , upset boat, but from one of the 

 party again cUnging to them, they 

 botii suddenly disappeared, and it 

 was long before Mr. Rothery rose 

 to the surface, when he again 

 grasped the boat, and was taken 

 up in an almost lifeless state. Miss 

 Ann Shute, after long struggling, 

 reached the boat, and was taken 

 off its bottom; and Miss Ehzawas 

 taken from underneath, upon turn- 

 ing up the boat. The unpardon- 

 able conduct of the person who 

 fastened the fatal rope to the pier, 

 contrary to all rule, and the regu- 

 lation of the port, never before 

 known to be done, and by which 

 three families have been plunged 

 into the greatest misery, renders it 

 proper that his name should be 

 made public ; the coroner's inquest 

 (held on Mary Shute, whose body 

 is the only one yet found), states 

 him to be J. Halford, of Bristol, 

 the pilot who carried the vessel, to 

 which the boat was attached, up the 

 river. 



M. Zambeccari, accompanied by 

 a friend, ascended in a balloon, 

 from Bologna, on the 21st Sep- 

 tember. On his descent, the bal- 

 loon became entangled in the 

 branches of a high tree, and, before 

 it could be disengaged, caught 

 fire. The two aeronauts leaped 

 out. M. Zambeccari was killed 

 upon the spot ; but M. Bologna, 

 his friend, survived, though some 

 of his limbs were broken. 



The ascension of the mechani- 



cian, Bittorf, from Manheim, was 

 equally disastrous. When he had 

 risen to a considerable height, he 

 perceived, too late, that his balloon 

 was damaged, and had no other 

 resource than to open the valve. 

 The balloon descended with ex- 

 treme velocity ; the inflammable 

 matter which it contained took 

 fire ; the shreds of the balloon fell 

 upon Mr. Bittorf's head and breast, 

 which were much burnt. On a 

 sudden, his crazy vehicle struck 

 upon the roof of a house, two 

 stories high, from which he was 

 precipitated, and died the next day 

 in great agony. 



22. Car Hon' House. — This day 

 the baron de Rehausen, envoy 

 extraordinary and minister pleni- 

 potentiary from the king of Swe- 

 den, had his first private audience of 

 his Royal Highness the Prince Re- 

 gent, to deliver his credentials. 



James Hall, farmer, and Samuel 

 Blow, miller, both of the parish 

 of Holton Beckering, Lincolnshire, 

 were, on the information of the 

 rev. John Hale, the rector, charged 

 before Richard Elmhirst, esq. one 

 of his majesty's justices of the 

 peace for that county, with scan- 

 dalously profaning the preceding 

 Sabbath, — Hall having allowed two 

 of his labourers to devote the whole 

 of that day to reaping corn, and 

 Blow having suffered his mill to be 

 at work, not only the greater part 

 of the day, but during divine ser- 

 vice. They were both convicted 

 in the full penalties agreeably to 

 the statute. The money was laid 

 out in bread, to be distributed 

 amongst the poor people of the 

 village. 



In inserting this article, we add 

 the remark, that it was in the 



midst 



