when the odds, which were three to one on the captain before starting, were reduced to seven to four, and it was the general opinion that Wood would win. He, however, fell off his pace gradually in the next three hours, and he did not even keep pace with his adversary in the last two hours.-He stopped twice, and pulled off his shoes the second time, by which he cut his feet; after resigning he was in a weakly state. Capt. Barclay kept a steady pace of six miles an hour, without a minute's deviation; and he stopped at eighteen and thirty-six miles, and ate heartily. He went thirtyeight miles in six hours and twenty minutes; and after Wood had resigned, he went the forty miles to decide some bets. Hoddesdon, Oct. 21. Two of the most atrocious murders perhaps ever committed, have been here perpetrated upon Mrs. Warner, the wife of Mr. Warner, an eminent brass-founder, of the Crescent, in Jewin-street, and another lady, a relative of the family, then upon a visit with her.

Mrs. Warner, had spent the summer chiefly at the residence of her father, Mr. Boreham, a farmer, at Hoddesdon, in Herts, where the lady, her friend, who has shared in the saine catastrophe, was with her on a visit. Mr. Warner was attending his business in town, whither Mrs. Warner, in the last month of her pregnancy, was preparing to return in a few days, in order to her approaching accouchement. A servant maid in the house was frequently visited by a fellow, who had been formerly two years in Mr. Boreham's service, as her sweetheart, whose admittance Mrs. Warner Irad frequently forbidden. He came there again yesterday evening, and the servant girl repeated to him her mistress's orders. He refused to depart, and disputes came so high between them, as occasioned Mrs. Warner to ring the bell, and inquire the cause of the noise. The servant told her, and requested her mistress would order him to quit the house, as she never wished to see him there. Mrs. Warner accordingly repeated her directions aloud, and desired he would immediately quit the house.

From the silence which at first ensued she imagined the fellow was gone,

but was suddenly alarmed by a noise in the kitchen, still louder than before, as if he was proceeling to some violence towards the girl. Mrs. W. and her friend immediately went to the kitchen, supposing that by their presence and peremptory orders he would be immediately induced to depart, without dar ing to prolong his stay. They were, however, most fatally and lamentably mistaken. They found the fellow, with a knife in his hand, standing over the girl, who was extended on the floor; and on Mrs. Warner entering the kit. chen, the sanguinary miscreant plunged the knife into her neck, just below the ear, and laid her dead at his feet.

He then turned to the other lady, and with the same weapon, recking with the blood of her friend, he instantly stabbed the unfortunate visitor, who survived but a few hours. Mrs. Warner's mother, at that moment, came down stairs, alarmed by the screams of the ladies, and was also stabbed by the villain, who atteurpted instantly to fly, but an alarm having been given by the servant inaid, who had escaped into the farm-yard, in the confusion, the horrid wretch was secured by one of the inen servants, and conveyed to gaol. Mrs. Boreham, though not dead, is deemed in great danger.

BIRTHS.

Sept. 13. At her mother's house, Charlotte-street, Portland,lace, the lady of the Rev. T. Bennett, of a daughter.

22. At the seat of Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart. at Hawarden-castic the hon. lady Glynne, of a son and heiz.

28. In Blandford-street, Portra square, the hon. Mrs. Graves.

son.

Oct. 4. At Cadogan-place, Sloanestreet, the hon. Mrs. Buchaanan of a daughter.

6. In Threadneedle-street, the lady of William Willoughby Prescott, Esq. of a son.

15. At the Rev. J. Faithfurs, War

frie, Berks, the lady of the Rev. J. Fen shaw, of a son

MARRIAGES.

Sept. 8. At East Dereham, in Norfolk, by the Rev. John Stanhawe Watts, Rector of Ashill, Edmund Preston, Esq. of Great Yarmouth, one of his Majesty's Deputy-lieutenants of that county, to Frances-Maria, 2nd daughter of Thomas Sinyth, Esq. of Dereham.

26. At Christ-church, Hants, Capt. Stuart, Royal Navy, second son of the late hon Sir Charles Stuart, K. B. to Miss Sullivan, eldest daughter of the Right hon. John Sullivan.

28. At St. Martin's in the Fields, James Gibbon, Esq. of Adam-street, Adelphi, to Miss Mary Duff,,daughter of Lieut.-Col. John Duff of the hon. East-India Company's service.

At Clapham, by the Rev. John Venn, Edward Rogers, Esq. of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, to Miss Wolff, eldest daughter of George Wolff, Esq. of Balham-house, Surrey, 29. At Linton, Kent, the Rev. Hen. Wm. Nevile, second son of Christopher Nevile, Esq. of Wellingore, in the co. of Lincoln, to Miss Amelia Mann, 2nd daughter of Jas. Mann, Esq.

Oct. 1. At Walcot-church, Bath, the Rev. Edwin Stock, eldest son of the Bishop, to Miss Louisa Droz, daughter of Sinicon Droz, Esq. of Portland-place, in that city.

In Sackville-street, Dublin, by special license, by the Rev. Wm. Lyston, James Shanly, Eq. Barrister at Law, to Miss F. E. Mulvany, second daughter of Charles Mulvany, sen.

Richard Fountain Wilson, Esq. high sherif for the county of York, to Miss Sophia Osbaldeston, daughter of the late George Cabaldeston, Esq. of Hutton Bushel, Yorkshire.

8. At St. George the Martyr's, Queen-square, Daniel Buchanan, Esq. of Liverpool, to Miss Owen, daughter of the late John Owen, Esq. of Richmond, Anglesea.

10. At Brighton, Lieutenant Brookman, of the South Gloucester Regiment, to the amiable and aceon plished Miss Longford, third daughter of Surgeon Longford of the same corps

DEATHS.

Sept. 22. At his house at Stanmore, Wm. Roberts, Esq.

At Brompton, Horace Walpole Bedford, Esq. of the British Museum.

Suddenly, on Saturday last, in the seventieth year of his age, at his house, Norwood, in Surrey, Christopher Spencer, Esq. of Great Marlborough-street.

26. At his house, No. 94, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, Samuel Greig, Esq. commissioner for the navy of his imperial majesty the emperor of all the Russias,and officiating Russian consul-general in Great Britain, aged 29 years.

28. At Hanwell, after a long illness, Miss Hansard, eldest daughter of Mr. Hansard, of Great Turnstile, in her 29th year.

Oct. 2. At East Sheen, Sir Brook Watson, Bart. an alderman of London, and deputy governor of the Bank of England.

4&5. Elizabeth and Louisa, daughters of the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbrooke, F. A. S. &c. of Horsley, Gloucestershire.

5. In Gloucester-place, Portmansquare. Mrs. Margaret Horsley, aged 72, relict of the late Isaac Horsley, rector of Antingham St. Mary's, and vicar of Briston, in the county of Norfolk.

8. At Wrexham, in Derbyshire, after a very short illness, Thomas Oliver Vassall, Esq. eldest surviving son of the late John Vassall, Esq. of the Crescent, Bath, and of Chatley-lodge, Somersetshire, and brother to the illustrious hero of that name, who fell in achieving the glorious conquest of Monte Video, on the 3d of February.

12. Mrs. Grosett, wife of Schaw Grosett, Esq. of Rodney.place, Clifton; soon after her return from divine service on Sunday, her clothes caught fire, while alone in the drawing-room; her cries gave instant alarm, but such was the rapidity and violence of the flames, that the injury she received proved fatal, in defiance of every exertion, and the immediate aid of the faculty. In this scene of woe the house took fire, and was with difliculty saved.

ACCOUNT of the CALAMITOUS ACCIDENT at SADLER'S WELLS, collected from the most authentic information.

ON the evening of Thursday, October 15, about a quarter past ten o'clock, in consequence of the riotous behaviour of several men and two women in the pit, it was found necessary to have them, removed from the house by the Police officers. While they were taking two of them out, the women endeavoured to prevent their removal, screaming, and uttering the words don't fight'. As the house was very full, it being a benefit night, and this circumstance occurred at the back of the pit, the audience had-only an indistinct view of the confusion occasioned by turning out the rioters; and alarmed by the exclamation fight', which misapprehension and fear interpreted into 'fire', a general alarm was the consequence. The ladies in the boxes were greatly terrified, and by screams and gestures manifested the utmost alarm. The gallery caught the infection, which acted like an electrical shock instantaneously. Two women and a sailorboy threw themselves from the gallery into the pit, and escaped with a few bruises. Immediately the whole gallery rose at once, and began rushing down the stairs, in spite of the remonstrances of Mr. C. Dibdin, jun. (the manager, and one of the proprietors of the Wells) Messrs. Reeve, Barfoot, and Yarnold (proprietors), and several of their friends, as also the perform ers and servants of the Theatre, who as loudly as they could vociferate, and with the aid of a speakingtrumpet, assured the audience that the alarm of fire was unfounded, VOL. XXXVIII.

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and entreated them to remain quiet, and above all to be very deliberate in their departure, as so large a body driving at once from the gallery in particular, in which were near nine hundred people, must be productive of some distressful disaster. But all attempts at allaying the ferment were vain ; open the doors" was called out by two men very riotously in the gallery, though, they were repeatedly assured that all the doors were opened, and the master carpenter of the Wells, (Mr. Garland) ran up stairs, and with an iron crow broke a way from the gallery through the flies, (that part of the stage where the scenes and drop-curtains are hung, and where the machinery for working them is fixed) by which passage hundreds were passed out of the house in a more expeditious way, and to the preservation, probably, of many lives. In the mean time Mr. Barfoot, with two other gentlemen, forced their way up the gallery-stairs, and by persua sive and personal efforts prevented the crowd remaining on the stairs from proceeding farther. On their retiring into the gallery eighteen bodies were discovered lying on the upper part of the stairs, all of whom appeared to have been thrown down at the same moment, and suffocated, or trampled to death. They were immediately conveyed into the dwelling-house of the Theatre, and Mr. Dibdin sent for the immediate assistance of Mr. Chamberlaine, and several other surgeons, when every thing was done which skill or humanity could suggest, but in vain.

The names, &c. of the unhappy sufferers were as follow:

Rebecca Ling, 5, Bridge-court, Westminster, 4 D

Lydia Carr, 23, Peerless-row. James Phillipson, White-Lyonstreet, Pentonville. William Pincks, Hoxton-market. Rebecca Saunders, (nine years of age,) Walker's-buildings, London Wall.

Edward Clements, Paradise-row, Battle Bridge.

-Mary Evans, 3, Hoxton-market. Joseph Groves, Hoxton-square. John Labdon, 7, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.

Benjamin Price, Lime-st. Leaden

hall-street. Edward Bland, Bear-street, Leicester-square. Charles Judd, Bishopsgate-street.

Artillery-court,

Amid this dreadful scene the most affecting and distressing incident that occurred was that which attended the death of Mrs. Sarah Chalkley above mentioned. She hung round her husband's neckhe clasped her round the waist. They were both thrown down by the crowd, and so severely trampled upon that they were taken up apparently in a lifeless state. When they were taken into the proprietor's house at Sadler's Wells, à surgeon opened a vein in the arm of the wife, but no blood followed. The professional gentlemen then breathed a vein in the arm of the husband; a few drops of blood issued from the spot; the reviving man had a weak convulsive shock,

roused as if from a trance, and bes came completely reanimated. But the first object that presented itself to his weak and bewildered senses was the body of his dead wife. Exhausted as he was, it was impossible for human nature entirely to withstand the shock. It was with the utmost difficulty that the poor man was prevented from relapsing into his former state of insensibility. Notwithstanding all the efforts of the professional gentlemen that attended him, he expired four days after, on the evening of Monday the 19th.

It is a remarkable fact, that among all who lost their lives on this dreadful occasion not one was found to have had a single bone broken, though many had received very violent contusions.

The bodies were all claimed in the course of the same night and the next day.

On Friday morning the coroner's inquest was held at the Theatre dwelling-house, by G. Hodgson, esq. and a jury, who, after most minute investigation of the circumstances, delivered a verdict that the eighteen deceased were 'Killed casually, accidentally, and by misfortune;' after which the coroner said- Gentlemen of the jury: you are all, I believe, satisfied that no blame can be attached to the managers of the Theatre; they have done all that humanity could dictate; nothing has been ne glected.' In this all the jury concurred, and proposed to Mr. Dib'din if he would draw up any me morial to eradicate from the public mind any ill impressions that false or vague reports might occasion, either of fire having actually happened, or that any part of the house was insecure, they would sign it. But the coroner observ ed that there was no occasion for

this, the jury having examined the house, and found that there was no ground for any reports of the kind their verdict and the observations he had made, as they would be noticed by the newspaper reporters present, was sufficient to satisfy the most prejudiced minds. On the Saturday and Monday following, a number of shawls, shoes, hats, &c. which had been collected and preserved by the proprietors, were delivered to their owners.

On Friday evening Vincent Pearce and John Pearce who were taken in custody the previous evening at Sadler's Wells, being two of the persons concerned in the disturbance from which the calamity proceeded, were examined by Mr. Justice Baker, at the public office, Hatton-garden; and two women, viz. Sarah Luker, and Mary Vine, being recognised in the office by one of the witnesses as persons concerned in the riot, were ordered to the bar, and put on their examination also. Mr. Dibdin (as prosecutor) related to the magistrate the general circumstances as above detailed, and signified that he understood that the men, prisoners at the bar, were taken by the Police officers in the act of rioting, and that witnesses were ready to prove that riot was the actual cause of the calamity that so fatally ensued, but not having himself seen the prisoners before, he could not speak to their persons or behaviour.

Mr. James Dobson, chemist, of Coleman-street, deposed that the prisoners were very riotous all the evening, insulting every one, and fighting among themselves, (pretendedly,) for the purpose, as they asserted, of Kicking up a Row.' He was perfectly of opinion their conduct was the eventual cause of

the calamity; but did not hear them repeat any such words as fight or fire.'

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Mr. Sutor, of Ossulston-street, Somers-town, deposed that the two prisoners, with others, and particularly two women, (whom he pointed to, who were standing as spectators in the office, and were iminediately secured and put to the bar) were particularly riotous all the evening; detailed many circumstances of their ill conduct and language; and concluded his testimony by asserting that he firmly believed them to have been the cause of the accident, by giving rise to a false alarm of fire, but not intentionally.

John Hoddinot, Charles Leaver, and another (all Police officers and constables of the Theatre) deposed severally that the prisoners were riotous in the extreme, and when they remonstrated with them, 'd-d' them and their staves, and all crowns,' and used such language that they were obliged to take them out of the Theatre; that while they were forcing them out they fought, and the women screamed, and cried out to one of them, 'Don't fight,' or something to that purpose, and from this the alarm of fire arose, which occasioned the confusion and accident; but neither of them conceived that the prisoners acted with the intention of producing such an effect.

When called on for their defence, Vincent Pearce said that he was a servant to Mr. Whitbread, the brewer; and went to the Wells with his brother, (who had just come from the country for a place), and the women prisoners: that it was late when they went into the Theatre, and not being able to. procure seats, they stood on a form or bench: that an altercation en