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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



[Sept. 



Horsemonger-lane^ thousands of 

 the multitude attending the coachj, 

 with arms of various kinds, in 

 order to prevent the possibility of 

 his escape. 



While this was going on, sur- 

 gical aid had been procured for 

 the wounded, and the result of the 

 examination made by Mr. Dixon, 

 surgeon, of Newington, was, that 

 he considered the husband likely 

 to die, the wife dreadfully though 

 not mortally wounded, and the 

 girl, though very seriously hurt, 

 likely to recover. The man and 

 the servant were at the recom- 

 mendation of the surgeon taken 

 to one of the hospitals in the Bo- 

 rough. Mrs. Jones was carried 

 back to her own house. 



The Norwegian brig Bergetta, 

 Captain Peterson, was wreck- 

 ed on Cefn-Sidan Sands, in Car- 

 marthen Bay. She was bound 

 from Barcelona for Stettin, with 

 a cargo of wine, spirits, &c. when 

 the master losing his reckoning, 

 owing to a thick fog, fell into the 

 fatal error of taking the coast of 

 Devon for that of France, and 

 acted under that persuasion. So 

 circumstanced, a violent gale, to- 

 gether with the tide, drove the 

 vessel into the Bristol channel, 

 and she struck upon the above 

 sands, and, in the space of two 

 pr three hours, went to pieces. 

 The master and crew, with great 

 difficulty, got into the boat, and 

 were all happily saved. Notwith- 

 standing the greatest exertions on 

 the part of the officers of the Cus- 

 toms, supported by seveial gentle- 

 men and otheis, acts of plunder 

 were committed to a considerable 

 extent. Of 266 pipes and casks 

 of wine, &c. not above 100 have 

 been saved ! Hundreds of men 



^nd women were reduced to near- 

 ly a state of insensibility through 

 intoxication. 



28. Particulars of the distress- 

 ing fire which occurred at Neus- 

 tadt, in the duchy of Holstein. 

 The fire originated in the house 

 of a distiller. Only five dwellings 

 in the whole town escaped the 

 general conflagration; and not 

 fewer than 1,400 inhabitants have 

 been left without the means of 

 shelter. This unfortunate place 

 has an excellent harbour on the 

 Baltic, an(t very extensive expedi- 

 tions were despatched ft-om it at 

 the time during which Lubeck 

 was occupied by the Fi'ench. A 

 great quantity of corn is said to 

 have been consumed in the ware- 

 houses on this disastrous occasion. 

 Every attempt was made to save 

 the merchants' stores from the 

 flames, but unfortunately without 

 effect, owing to the high wind, 

 which increased their fury. 



30. We are sorry to relate a 

 dreadful accident which happened 

 near Kirby-parsonage, Bungay, 

 the residence of the Rev. Mr. 

 Wilson. Two very fine young 

 men, both under twenty years, 

 the Hon. Messrs. Keppel, sons of 

 the Earl of Albemarle, went out 

 with their guns, and in getting 

 through a hedge the coat of the 

 one caught the other's trigger, 

 and the whole contents of the guri 

 lodged in his brother's leg. The 

 youth not wounded rendered his 

 brother every assistance possible, 

 but finding he could not remove 

 him, or do him any permanent 

 good, fled with the greatest speed 

 for medical aid, which happened 

 most unfortunately to be at a 

 great distance; and, sad to relate, 

 on his return with a surgeon he 



found 



