The National Register. — London, England, 1811-03-24 00:00:00

Mfv• 4 ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. DREADFUL •••••••••• Noittnen, Mallen 19.—0 n Sueiday morning last, about one o'clock, the inhabitants around the market place, in this city, were awoke by an alarm, of fire, and the preniisea of Messrs. Culley, grocers, were discovered to be in flames, raging with the utmost fury. It is evident that the fire had long been kind ling in the large warehouses, amidst the moot combustible ma terials large casks. and reservoirs of oil, hogsheads of treacle and sugar, numerous chests of tea, &c. all contributing tp in crea e! the power of the smothered and colditeM fLsmes, which soon burst into the air, forming a elqatd . of fire aeceeding an. immense height, illuminating the whole city. Full an hoar elapsed before even the city engines could begin to play with any effeer, and then they wore in such bad repair that a great part of the water was lost through the pipes. It was very certain there coull not be any chance of saving those premises whence the fire originated, and therefore the adjoining dwelling-house of Messrs. Culley, on the one side, and Mr. Freeman, cabinet maker, on the other side, with the Pope's Head Inn, also ad joining, and the premises of Messrs. Weston, bankers, uniting with Mr. Culley S house, and ranging against the burping ware houses, became the peculiar objects of attention. The alarm of tire. soon. reached the barracks, and all the corps of artillery, with their engine, hastened to the spot, and by the extraordi nary itaertions of those who worked it„ some check was put to the aeparently wide devastating flames. Mr. Culley's dwelling- Lowe was preserved, with the loss of the warehouses and all their contents, the counting-room tied a part of the shop, with the chambers over the warehouse: (in one of which Mr. Benja min Olney slept, who fortunately escaped, the room being filled with smoke when he awoke). Mr. Weston's premises sustained but trivial injury ; and, beyond all expectation, the Pope's Head Inn escaped with only little damage, every part of the furniture bating been removed. Less fortunate was Mr. Freeman ; his house was newly erected, a capital brick building three stories Wail, with a parapet well ; it was filled with the most elegant furniture, in value etuounting to some thousand pounds, and of such a nature (beds standing for sale, large mahogany tables, sideboards, Ecc.) that it could not be moved with the required celatity. Mr. i.retenan a, first bad hoped that his walls could withstand the fire, fur the flames ascended straight in the air, and there eves uo wind. However, after an hour and a half had elapsed, it evidently became necessary to remove the property. The roof of his dwelling-house began to burn, the upper rooms were in flames, 4nd all was confusion. The. fire s pread so rae pidly, that there was only time to throw out of the windows the more purteble and lighter articles, and those were greatly de maged het the fall, and subjected to the plunder w licit, alas! too often accompaniea such an event. The roof of the house and the ueper, rooms were-consumed, Nit tile large quantity of un wrought stuff iothe lower apartments gave increasing power to the destructive element. Mr. Freeman's shop was the only part resew', and about six o'clack the flames were subdued.— In the meatory of man there has not been such a fire in Nor wieb, and the loises are calculated to amount from eight to ten thuusatapeunds; but we hear that Messrs. Culley were insured at the Albion (Alice ior 50001. and Mr. Freeman for 16001. in the Lqpitettle ()dice of Norwich. The Norwich Volunteers, since the accident, have kept guard around the demolished pre nii.eee and some perseus are sent to prison, being detected in villainously plundering at sue;i a moment of distress. At Niarlburough•street Police Office, on Friday, a young man otgenteel appeari.nce, recently :Jerk at n jeweller's at the west end or the town s , was charged with forgery, and uttering a checque for 961. at. the Banking-house of gird, and Co. in Bond-street. The prisoner was apprehended at his lodgings in,Pukeney-street,yestetday, and the forged instrument had the iiigiature of the p isoner's makter, whose service he had left six weeks, and who kept money in the Banking-house. The 'prisoner was not identified Lis the person to whom the money Was paid, -hat the hand-writing much resembling that or the accused, - and. other cirzems:ances of suspicw , i, induced the Alagistrate to.commit him fir fin.ther examination.. Tuesday morning, the stables helooging to the Marchioness Wellesley, situated iit South Atalley-street, Grosvenor-square, fell &wit with a tremendous crash, by the foundation of the building giving way. Tit-! kitcLen also a Jjoining the premises gav e way in the samernanner, and the servants narrowly escaped with their lives. Edited by E. ROC the Newsmt i;, the per 54:4 terp, US the cruel treatment s ___ poor .Jlig(d to endure in being conveyed from one place to another. 'l'4e blow so enraged him, that he ran after one of the Cadets some digtance, who, finding the animal gain upon him, threw himself fiat upon the ground, which cpmpletely prevented the bull from goring . him. Dikappointed of his revenge, he immediately ran after another Cadet, of the name of Rogers, and coming up to him before he was aware of the animal,.he gored the poor youth in the lower part of the back, and drove his horn nearly through the;body, tossing him at the same time some height above the ground. Tile animal, after this, laid himself down close tie • poor Rogue, and the other Catlet immediately ran for assistre ance. A gun was soon procured, and the animal killed by firing twice at him. Rogers was then conveyed to the Cadet . Hospital, with very little hopes of life. He continued in gteg agony till the next day, when he expired. • A most horrid attempt was made by a man who resides near Dock Head on Friday last to poison his wife and Three chil dren. He took a leg of mutton home and ordered it to be roasted for dinner. His wife accordingly roasted it, and gotit ready by the lime he appointed. He did - not come home to dinner, and • the wife and children made their dinners from some provisions that were in the house, and did not cut the leg of mutton. The husband did not arrive at home till supper time, and In ade an excuse for not coming to dinner. She offered him some of the kg of mutton for his supper, but he declined it, saying, be had brought home some fish for supper which. he wished .to have • fried; and his wife fryed them with the dripping produced from the roasting of the leg of mutton ; and he ate heartily of the fish. In the night he was taken extremely ill, and has con tinned in the most excruciating torture ever since. He inquired how the fish bad been cooked, and being informed that none of his family had partaken of the mutton, he acknowledged his guilt, by saying the deadly al td diabolical scheme he bad laid of poisoning the whole of them had fallen upon himself-Aaving laid the leg of muttou in a quantity of arsenic fora considerable time; and also to have rubbed it into the meat.—The me:et - ebbs wretch is languishing in the greatest torture of body and mind. MARRIED. On Saturday the i(th lust. at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Capt. Cook on, of the t;C•th Regiment,lo Mary Anne, second' (laughter of David Stephenson, ksq. of that town. DIED. In the 70th year of his age, the Rev. William Piggott, rector of Edr loud and Chetwynd, Salop. ..dgm The Rev: Fdward Fvxna, Vicar of Aettws, and,. rector oi. Llanddullas, Denbighshire. Lately, at Meriden, after a few days illness, Mr. Addison Ashburn, relative of the Author of the Spectator . ; his cheerful manuers endeared him to a large circle of acquaintauce. On Wednesday, 27th Feb. in the 108th year of his age, John Cov% ie, beilman at Criniond, Scotland. In his youth he fought the battles of his country by sea and and, and was discharged as worn out in the rear 1739; but again took in 3 arms in the mo. Riorable year of Culloden. As he advanced in life, a consider able variation Vt".S observed in the use which he hat-of his fa culties. For some time he. was under the necessity of using spectacles, again, and particularly during the last few years of his life, he c,ould.read the smallest print without them. When he its above 70, having secured himself the affections of a woman who had some money, he thought himself too old, or too rich for being bellman. Another was appointed, who kept the office twenty-five years, at whose death John applied to be reinstated. He discharged the duties of his office till within ten days of his death ; and in the exercise of it, he recovered the use of all his faculties, which had become much impaired during the reriod of his inactivity. I - le Mid two daughters (twins) by his last wife. pIt:CE OF STOCKS. 3 per Cent. Consols 64/1 5 per Cent. wavy Annuities. - 964 7 6Th Imperial 3. per cent. 63 India Bonds 213 N. 21s. pm. P.xeliequcr Bills, :3d. ss. 2i. pni. Onmiuin Consols for April 64ii iHER, No 5, Pickett-street, Strand, near Temple-Bs throughout tlietruited Kipplom, free of posta,go, iUt ifirbdon : Printed and and forwarded by all tit Countryar lQa. 34J 'HE, by JOHN FIS CI • Bookliclier4 t e 0 F - 4` • • %.;.- • . • -,:.7•4 .TI7E - NATIONAL REGISTER . . FFENCEB. , Lately., auspice of the Cadets were playing at the. back of the Cadet Narracks, at Woolwich,: one of them t,truck a bull that hadthe day before been driven from Smithfield market, on L. its way to Chatham, and was possibly rendered furious by the cruel treatment which these poor animals are ohligtd to endure .fiVn,4 w..~.. ... •• • I , • .1