ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR. WITH infinite pleasure your work I survey, After bearing the burden and heat of the day The welfare and care of the humble in life The Beacon* an awful example may be! Ye careless and indolent! open your eyes, Consider ye Parents! on you it depends To bend the young Sprig while it's green; I'm apt to believe, you'll accomplish your ends, By a purchase of this MAGAZINE. Then like TOMMY the Hero*, (or Bricklayer's Son,) Without his endeavours would all been undone.- How lovely is Virtue in juvenile minds, How cheerful at even, reclin'd on the lea, Attend, too, ye fair ones, the pride of our kind, For cheap, moral instruction, I've heard you express 'Tis prepar'd, it is here;-seize upon it, possess The surest direction these volumes present, You may learn, you may practise; nor will you repent · Purchase, read, and reflect, and prevent the despair, And to copy Old William's example, take care, But my pen I must quit, for bright Pheebus has fled, Being wearied with labour I hasten to bed- Annan, October 11th, 1813. A LABOURER, And Constant Reader. No. I. of Vol. II. will be published on Friday the 14th January 1814. REMARKABLE EVENTS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE NATURE OF THIS WORK: EXTRACTED FROM PERIODICAL SOURCES OF INFORMA TION IN THE COURSE OF THE YEAR. JANUARY. [4] GAMING.-At Alicant, Oct. 30th, a Spanish officer having lost, at billiards, 3000 dollars to a British officer, waylaid him in a dark passage from the billiard room to the street, and stabbed him through the heart. [6] Fire occasioned by a chim ney. On Monday last a house in Abercromby place was discovered to be on fire, occasioned by the burning of the chimney of the neighbouring house. [6] Accident by a thrashing mahine-On Tuesday last, an interesting boy about 6 or 7 years of age, having got upon the lever of a thrashing machine te ride, he was unfortunately caught by the beam, and killed on the spot. [8] Accident by ice breaking.As a party of boys, eigh een in number, were amusing themselves last week near Battle, in Sussex, by sliding on the ice over a pond which was remarkably deep, it suddenly gave way, and the whole went under and were drowned. (8) Accumulation of wealth from a small beginning.-A person of the name of Baldock, died lately at Canterbury, at the age of little more than sixty, possessed of one million and one hundred thousand pounds. He was originally a poor boy employed to look after cows, and remarkable for sloven liness. He afterwards carried the hod as a bricklayer's labourer, and at length by dint of industry and parsimony, with some assistance, he amassed money till at the time of his death it amounted to the enormous sum stated above. [11] A child's death by Fire Tuesday an inquest was held before G. Hodgson, Esq. Coroner, at Ashly-arms public-house, Clerkenwell, on view of the body of Henry Alder, a child, four years old, who it appeared, came by his death by his clothes catching fire, in the absence of his nurse [15] Accident by a maid falling asleep on the roof of a coach.-On Tuesday evening last, as a young woman was travelling on the outşide of the Arundel stage-coach, she dropped asleep on the roof, and fell from it, when one of the wheels passed over her, and unhappily kille her on the spot. [15] Sliding down balustrades. Lord Loughborough, a youth, only son of the earl of Rossyln, amusing himself last week by sliding down the balustrades of the stairs at a house in Canterbury, pitched on his head, and was taken up apparently lifeless. [20] Feeding rollers.—On newyear's-day a girl while feeding the rollers of the Monkland lint mill, near Airdrie, had her right ara unfortunately caught by the rollers, EEE which which shattered it so much, that amputation was necessary; and she died in a day or two. [20] Bank loosened by a thaw. On Monday last while two men were employed in boring a stone at a quarry called the Dancing Cairn in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, part of the bank being loosened by a thaw after a severe frost, gave way with some of the solid rock, and falling upon them crushed them very severely. [25] Accident in a mill-At Arundel, whilst Mr Horn was attending to the operations of a mill, the cogs of one of the wheels caught his clothes, and drew him into the works, by which he was - crushed to atoms. [27] Fire arms.-The following melancholy event took place on Friday last at Hassendeanburn :— Two of Mr Dickson's servants went out to shoot hares, when the gun which one of them carried accidently went off, and so severely wounded the other that he died in about half an hour thereafter. [27] Ice breaking.-A distress ing accident happened at Mid-Calder: some school boys amusing them selves on the milldam, the ice gave way, and two of them fell into the water; other three in attempting to rescue their companions, also went beyond their depth, and two of them only were got cut alive. [27] Accident from atea-pot. A fine girl about two or three years of age, was so burnton Wednesday night in George-street, Glasgow, by swallowing boiling tea out of a tea-pot which was standing on the table, that she died next day. FEBRUARY. [S] A young woman burnt.A young woman of the name of Georges, servant to Mrs Rowlands, in Oxford-street, was so shockingly burnt by her clothes taking fire, on Sunday evening, that she cannot possibly survive. She had fatlen asleep by the kitchen fire, and it is supposed the candle set fire to her dress. [15] Fire communicated to joists. On Thursday afternoon a fire broke out at Mr Affect's, baker, Broadwell, Ratcliff, which in a short time consumed the premises. The fire is supposed to have been communicated from the flue of the oven, which runs under the parlour to the jo'sts of the floor. and so rapid were the flames, that but a small portion of the furniture was saved. [15] Clothes taking fire.-As Mrs Pryse, (lady of Pryse Pryse, Esq. of Gogerddan, was preparing to go to bed, on the morning of new year's day, her night-dresscame in contract with a rush-light and was instantly in a blaze, and although she had the presence of mind to ring the bell, and almost immediate assistance was afforded, it had only the effect of preventinger instant death. [22] Accident from walking the streets in wind.-Friday as a poor woman was passing along Oxford-street, the wind blowing tremendously, she was felled to the earth by a chimney-pot, which caused her almost instantaneous death. [23] Ice breaking.—A young lad of twelve years of age, was drowned in the Dunfermline town loch, about three weeks ago, by the breaking of the ice. MARGH. (1) Great rise from a small beginning. In John Henry Bunn, Esq. who died at the advanced age of 88, after having filled the office of vestry clerk of the parish of Christ Church. Surry, we have an braised him so severely, that he [8] Fire arms.-Owing to the culpable negligence of leaving firearms within the reach of young people, the following accident happened lately:-The son of Mr Shepherd, mason, near Wincombe Church, Somersetshire, took up a gun, and, not knowing it was load [3] Accident by a rail giving way-On sunday night last, James Skinner, late glover in Perth, fell over the s air of his own house, by means of the railing giving way, and was so much hurt that he died. [4] Child stripping.-On Monday, a woman was detected in the act of stripping a child, whom she had decoyed from his parents' door in Fulham Rents,Tottenham-court road. [5] An example to be imitated. The Spitalfield soup society, state in a public advertisement, that, in the years 1811 and 1812, they sold 425,784 quarts of soup at one penny per quart, affording relief to upwards of 4000 families, each consisting of six persons, on an average. [5] Climbing high walls-On Saturday se'ennight, as some boys were amusing themselves at the Seaton dykes in the vicinity of Aberdeen, one of them being in duced to climb up for the purpose of recovering a hand ball which had lodged on the top of the wall, a large stone fell upon him and [10] From wind.-At Montrose on Saturday se'enight, a young girl had her skull fractured from the door of a passage being suddenly driven back by the violence of the wind. [17] In burrying from Church.-On Sunday se'ennight, while the people were assembling in the church of Roskeen, a part of the loft, which was immensely crowded, yielded suddenly with a crash, which excited the greatest alarm. In endeavouring to escape from the danger which threatened them, many persons were trampled down and dreadfully bruised. Two of the women have since died of the injury they received, and several others are in a hopeless situation. APRIL, [2] A fortune-teller drowned. A vigrant who imposed on the peasantry by pretending to read fortunes, was drowned on Tuesday last in the river Ægish; it appears that he was intoxicated and fell out of the passage boat, his wife and another woman were present but could afford him no assistance. [5] Fire occasioned by a chimney. We are sorry to learn that a fire broke out onSaturday afternoon about three o'clock, in the vent of the chimney of the kitchen of Ec cles manse, which communicating with the wooden rafters, soon set the whole building in flames, by which in a short time it was en EEE 2 tirely |