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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



magistrates;, also attended. At 

 tweho o'cloek this day^ the en- 

 gines continued playing on the 

 ruins, which presented a column 

 of smoke, and the fire was not 

 then effectually subdued. — (Dub- 

 lin Correspondent .J 



An inquest was taken by James 

 Mander, Esq., one of the coroners 

 for Derl)yshire, at Ladyshaw- 

 bottom, in the parish of Glossops, 

 on the bodies of Mary, Daniel, 

 Elizabeth, and Rachel Bradbury ; 

 the eldest aged IS, Daniel and 

 pjlizabeth (twins) It, and Rachel 

 11, the children of Peter Brad- 

 bury, of Ladyshaw-ljottoui, la- 

 bourer, who, at eight o'clock on 

 the '24th ult. gave to each of his 

 children a strong dose of white 

 arsenic, thinking it was creanr of 

 tartar ; the three youngest died 

 about noon on the same day, and 

 the eldest at midnight following, 

 after every exertion had been 

 used, but in vain, to counteract 

 the fatal effects of the poison, 

 when the discovery was made : 

 the father had also taken a quan- 

 tity of the poison himself along 

 with his children, iait is expected 

 to recover. 



A letter from Pillau, dated the 

 -arth of March, says — " When 

 the Vistula river broke up on the 

 21st inst. the ice cut the bulwarks 

 and dams, and foixed its way on 

 the main land, in Marienberg 

 Werder, and overflowed about 

 100 English miles in circumfer- 

 ence. The misery occasioned by 

 it is dreadful, and many of the 

 poor inhabitants lost all their 

 cattle, sheep, horses," &c 



30. Inspntck. — There is yet no 

 sign of spring in tliis country ; the 

 mountains of middling height are 

 still covered with snow. A cold 



east wind, accouqjanied with frost, 

 pre\ ails in our valleys, and checks 

 vegetation. The standing waters 

 are eveiy morning covered with 

 ice ; the winter corn has suffered 

 severely, and in many parts it has 

 been necessary to sow it anew. 



The following paiticulars of 

 the Woolwich smuggling have 

 been published in a morning 

 paper : — On the voyage home, a 

 car[)(niter employed in securing 

 the packages discovered the se- 

 cret. Jimnediatcly on arrival he 

 gave information at the Custom- 

 house, but it was ten days more 

 Ijcfore the ship was inspected ; 

 in the mean time much of the 

 smuggled goods for certain per- 

 sons were got away, and only 

 those were left for men of less 

 note. There were to the value 

 of 7,000l. for one man, packed up 

 as — "Return Congrevc rockets.'' 

 There were many rare things 

 which were got out of the way. 

 In the mortars were laces, gloves, 

 cambrics, &c. and in the tunibrils 

 were claret, champagne, &c. 

 Many })cople have. long supplied 

 themselves and friends with wine 

 in this way, and their wives with 

 tinery. This is the only vessel 

 \vhich liaG been detected, but the 

 trade has long and successfully 

 been carried on to a great extent. 

 The man who informed got about 

 1 ,0001. 



APRIL. 



1. At night, about 9 o'clock, 

 three men broke open the dwell- 

 ing-house of Mr. Samuel Ward, 

 a small farmer, of 70 years of 

 age, at Charley, near Loughbo- 

 rough, one of whom, with a 



double- 



