Mr. Swainson, a young gentleman residing at Barnes, left that
place on Saturday last, in a small skiff, accompanied by two ladies, to sail down the Thames to London : but when a little below Battersea Bridge, the skiff struck against a trading vessel, and was upset. One of the ladies, Miss Anderson, was drowned. Mr. Swainson and the other lady were taken up by a wherry. Benjamin Price, a young child, was drowned on Monday, in the Ser- pentine river. His father, who lives in Great Marylebone Street, ap- plied at one of the offices of the Humane Society, for the use of a drag to recover the corpse ; but was refused, unless he would pay three *guineas for it. This he would not consent to do ; but said he would apply to Lord Tullamore, who is one of the subscribers to the society. [The propriety or impropriety of this refusal depends altogether upon the means of payment which the applicant possessed.]
On Thursday morning, James Short, a weaver, underwent the de- grading punishment of a public flogging in the Bethnal Green Road, for embezzling two looms of silk, which he and his wife bad been em- ployed to weave for Mr. James Shin, a silk-manufacturer. The loss sustained by the employer was about 301.
William Rudland, an old man residing in King Street, Deptford, was found dead on the floor of his kitchen, on Tuesday ; and his wife, who is upwards of eighty, lying insensible by his side. It was at first suspected that he had been murdered. The old woman could not ar- ticulate so as to give any evidence as to the facts ; but it was proved, to the satisfaction of a Coroner's Jury which sat upon the body, that he had fallen down and expired in an apoplectic fit.
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