ACCIDENTS 105 



a very serious accident, being overturned when 

 leavin": Bris^liton on the eveniui? of July 15th. 

 A booking-clerk, one John Snow, the son of a 

 coachman, and himself a sucking Jehu, was 

 driving, and upset the coach by the New Steyne, 

 with the result that the passengers were throAvn 

 into the gardens of the Steyne, or hung upon the 

 spikes of the railings in very painful and ridiculous 

 postures. Goodman had the satisfaction of pre- 

 sently learning that the bad-blooded sportsman 

 and his jiartner lost some very heavy sums in 

 compensation awards. 



The " Quicksilver " was thereupon repainted 

 and renamed, and, under the alias of the 

 " Criterion," resumed its journeys. But ill- 

 fortune clung to that coach, for on June 7th, 

 I80I, as it was leaving London, it came into 

 collision with a brewer's dray opposite St. Saviour's 

 Church, Southwark. A little way on, down the 

 Borough High Street, the coachman Avas obliged 

 to suddenly pull up the horses to avoid running 

 over a gentleman on horseback, whose horse had 

 bolted into the middle of the road. The sudden 

 strain on tlie pole, already, it seems, splintered in 

 the affair with the dray, broke it off. It fell, and 

 liecame entangled with the legs of the Avheelers, 

 who became so restive and infuriated that attempts 

 were made to put on the skid ; but before that 

 could be done the coach overturned. Sir William 

 Cos way, who was one of the outsides, and 

 was at that moment attempting to climb doAvn, 

 was pitched off' so violently that his skuU was 



