CHRONICLE. 
Halkin - street, Grosvenor-Place, 
on the body of a hackney-coach- 
man, who was blown off his box 
by the high wind, and killed by 
one of the wheels of his coach 
going over his head. Verdict.— 
Accidental death. 
30.—A melancholy instance oc- 
curred of the fatal accidents from 
unguarded fires. The daughter 
of Captain Tuckey, Royal Navy, 
a beautiful child, seven years 
old, mounting on a chair to view 
herself in the chimney glass, her 
muslin dress was drawn into the 
fire, and before her mother could 
stifle the flame by rolling her in 
the carpet, she was so dreadfully 
burnt as to preclude all hope of 
her life. Mrs. Tuckey’s hands 
were also shockingly burnt in the 
attempt to save her child. 
APRIL. 
1.—This morning, the bodies 
of Elizabeth Preston and John 
Sanderson were found lodged un- 
der a pollard, near the Bucks, be- 
longing to Caversham mills. The 
girl (only sixteen) was servant to 
Mrs. Stevens, of Lower Caver- 
sham, Berks, and having been 
reprimanded by her mistress for 
misbehaviour, left the house be- 
tween six and seven o’clock in 
the evening of the 23rd of Febru- 
ary last, taking her mistress’s 
grandson, about ten years old, 
with her, and having proceeded 
across the lock to a meadow lead- 
ing to Caversham, she tied the 
boy to herself with a pocket hand- 
kerchief, and taking him up, 
jumped into the river: the poor 
boy evidently made resistance, as 
his hat fell off, and was found on 
the spot. 
27 
Loss of the Bengal Indiaman.— 
The following is an extract of a 
letter from Captain George Ni- 
cholls, giving the particulars of 
that unfortunate event :— 
*‘ Cape Town, April 5, 
1815. 
«‘ The Bengal had, by dint of 
great exertion, completed her 
lading on the coast, and joined 
the first fleet at Point de Galle, 
and the whole were to have sailed 
on the 19th of January last, un- 
der convoy of the Malacca frigate, 
my passengers were all on board, 
and all was clear and ready for 
starting. 
«‘ Owing to there not being 
sufficient space in the spirit-room, 
four or five small casks of liquor 
had been stowed in the gun-room, 
and covered over with bags of 
rice for security—as a measure of 
precaution, the gunner was di- 
rected to look at these, and as- 
certain if they were all safe, and 
he since reports them to have 
been all tight and dry. 
“The largest cask, however, 
containing about 20 or 25 gallons 
of rum, and standing on its end, 
did not seem, as the gunner 
thought, to have its bung quite 
firmly in, and he struck it a blow 
to drive it further into the cask ; 
instead of going in, the bung flew 
out, and the spirit, rushing forth, 
caught fire from a candle in a 
lanthorn which he held in his 
hand at the time; all was in- 
stantly in flames! and though 
every possible exertion was 
promptly made to arrest the pro- 
gress of the flames, in less than 
an hour the ship was so far de- 
stroyed, that she sunk a blazing 
ruin ! 
*‘ The ship's company behaved 
admirably—they were to a man 
