The National Register. — London, England, 1820-01-23 00:00:00

DIMADITL neg.—A dreadful fire broke out Ti l es. day !wanting at five o'c.ock, in the house :if r. Kerr, boot and shoemaker, at the corner. of Norfolk-street, Strand. The flames were first discovered in the lower part of the house by the wateiltilifil and some rassengcr3, *tot an alarm was iinittediately given. By this means the family were providentially saved from an untimely death. Mr. Kerr escaped with scarce an article of dress upou him. His daughter was nearly enveloped in Haines, but was conveyed in a blanket to the house of an opposite worthy and respectable neighbour, Mr. lienwick Rohner, who afforded the family every accom modation in their distressed situation. Of all the va luable property on the remises a few of \lr. Kerr's account books only were saved. The flames advanced with an overwhelming rapidity, and in a few mi nutes the house was enveloped in one awful blase. —Engines 4010 every Firemflice in London soots arrived on the spot, but nearly half an hour elapsed before water was procured. The exertions of the firemen were then directed towards checking the progress of mischief to the adjoining houses. Its this pendent effort they were successful its Norfolk *erect, but in the Strand they were not equ illy for tunate. The devouring element soon caught the dwelling of Mr. Cary, the chart-seller, and in a short fosse that building added to the melancholy grandeur of the spectacle. Soon afterwards the roof and front of Mr. Kert's house fell with a tremendous crash. The most praiseworthy activity was now devoted to stem the flames in Mr. Cary's premises, but they • were irresistible, and soon advanced to the adjoining house of his brother, Mr. Cary, the optician, which was also destroyed. At hall-past ten the fronts of these houses were precipitated into the Strand, but happily no injury was sustained by the crowd which was col lected. This occasioned a complete stoppage its that part of the Strand, and all the cart' ig and foot passen gers were obliged to pass through Holywell-street or up Wycli-street. In time back of these buildings still greater tuischief is sustained, but as yet we have been onside to ascertain the precise amount of damage. The amount of property destroyed is 0011031 Se. Mr. Kerr is not insured. We have not heard how the tire originated. Business was quite at a stand the whole a yesterday, between St. Llement'i Church-yard and Surrey-street, tradesmen this not hat mug opened their shops. While the flames were raging in the Strand, at ha:f-past eleven o'clock, a fresh alums was given on the premises of Messrs. Brookes and Son, axle-tree.makers, on Waterloo-woad. The immediate I trinity of water,, however, and the prompt assistance of the firemen, led to its extinction after doing some slight damage. The adjoining premises being those of' a timber nterchaut, the most serious alarm was at one time felt. Mnanza aY Poisnx.—We cats scarce find words in which to pourtray our horror at the dreadful circum stances which we are fated to relate. On Sunday last a young man, named Collins, by trade a brogue maker, and a Corporal on the Staff of the Royal County Li merick Militia, paid a visit to a young 'Amnon, named Coiopy, daughter to a weaver resisliog at Bolter buoy, to whom he had for some time been paymg his addresses, and .was.consttlered in the light of her future husband ; they were to be united on the following slay. A tatimber of the young w an's friends bad assembled, and punch was introduced, of which the youitg couple were kneed to drink plentifully, and soon after became totally insen sible; they were theta placed on a loft together, anti were found the next mustangs in a st ice of total absorp tion, in which they lay wont about two o'clock, when the vital spark became entirely extinct in both. Thus they were united, if not its the bonds of wedlock, at least in the cold embraces of death! Au inquest is now holding on them by the Alayor, as Coroner. The bashes have been opened by the physicians, and it is ascertained they were destroyed In some deleterious drug, which had been administered to . them. Seven persons were apprehended on suspicion, tut as t. te examinations were not concluded, we must stop here. It appears the young woman was entitled, in her own right, to 6001., which, it is probable, was the stimulus to this most horrid deed.— Limerick poper. Mr. Accum, the celebrated Chemist, has published a most interestiag pamphlet, exposing the del, te r i ttt ts compositions which are mixed with various articles of food, which mutt trap the human constitution, and have no doubt produced many consplaints unkitown before chemistry•was .so well understood as it is at present. The exposure of these abominable adulterations is not only carious but frightful, and therefore as poison is thus notoriously retitled in • slisgoise, why is not some thing done to remedy the evils? As the existing laws are not stillicieinly severe to punish or detect such base and unprincipled offetiders, a Cumutit Ce of the House of Commons should sit on the subject inniediately after Parliament meets, that something may be clone to pro. tect the community final wicked and sordid knaves. It would be worthy the attention of the College of Physi cians to make a report on the adulteration of many ar ticles which are now vended for the food of 01 , 01, and give their opinion of the deleterieus articles, as to their edict ots the human constiimitton, winch probably Min account in sonar Measure lin the great increase tat late years of sudden demobs. We hate on record two cuss. frictions of persons fur mixing earth with flour, amid this, with the addition of allum amid other immaterial,, must solely ilepirll.,te 011 the hum us coustitution, and pro duce the most destructor complaints. During the night of the 23d Ikcember, three bri gands broke into the house of a clergyman stained Gull lerval, at Elamite'', in France, and having forced heir way into his Cll.l4ober, dens:toiled W.,,,000 francs. Ultimo the aumiwer to time respectable (mid 111J11, stating that he could hot maid . ), them, they fastened I.uto 111 fits bed, Wu! has Mg logiited some straw tinder his 1 . .13 extreme torture. Overcome by pain, the c urate _its to robbers his keys, and they plitudered Issas of ti,thit francs and mans srluabics.—Justice is in pursuit of them. .I.A J•Z. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. A Correspondent desires us to publish the hallowing singular species of fraud :—Families residing in the en virons of London are cautioned against the abominable prac.ices 01 a set of miscreants, whose object to extort money is of minor esti, compared with the they use to carry into effect their villainous schemes. Tiirse swindling wretches watch the heads of families Isom their homes in the morning, follow theirs to their others, by which they obtain their names, then return and in form the wile that her husband met with an accident, by a coach running over him near his office, and was taken with limbs broken into an adjoining house, and toe bearer was despatched by a surgeon to procure the attedie.,l advice of some eminent practitioner, then in the nei t ,libon r hood in attendance upon sonic family. A note accompanies the message, as from the surgeon, requesting that the bearer might be given clean clothes, and a couple of guineas; the latter to ensure the ttttt e• thine attendance of tire noted practitioner. A large family in Nine Ehns-lane, Vauxhall, was on Thursday thrown into the greatest tempuraiy distress of Wind b) such a diabolical scheme. A paper of Friday, complains that Mr. M. A. Tay lor's act did not provide for cleansing the footway, at this season of the year Our attention has been dr..wil to the Gad section of the act, by the lion. Member himself, which runs as follows :—" Footwa)s during the continuance of Lost, or after, or timing snow, to be swept by the occupier of the house, once every day, ex cept Sunday, all along the front, side, or back walls— Penalty ou neglect ten shillings each the flu. rough, turn were employed for this visions:. by the M tgi,trafee, and desired to charge each pause one pen ny, which being refused, the housekeepers were stini mooed, and tined ten shillings each. SHOCK ING• ATIaMPT AT SUICIDE.—About one o'akack• on Thursday morning, the crew to the Bee, a Scots trailing smack, lying off Downes's Wharf, iii the Thames; were alarmed by the report of a pistol fired in the cabin ; some of them went to the door, which being t:istened on the in,ihe, and receiving no answer, they forced it open, and discovered Mr. G.un, the owner and Captain, lying on the floor, weltering iu his blood; an open razor was I) tug near inni, also covered with Idowl, and the shattered remains of a pistol, which appeaied to be just discharged, at a short Instance from hint. Mr. Grin, was mute speechless; his right hand was shat tered, and his breast dreadfully lacerated from the burst ing of the pitted, and there were two large incisions across his tnroat, which appeayed to he Gone with the razor. Mr. Price of Lower East Smithfield, was imme diately stilt tor, who, after dressing his wounds, had bim fel tttttttt to the Cock and Lion, Lower East Smith field, where lie was put to bed. Yesterday the unfortu nate gentleman. underwent ampittaiion of his right hand ; the wound in the breast dots not appear to be mortal, and the art: riles of the neck are not cut, bin the witulppe is partly cut across, and there is but little hope of his recovery. Last week a woman with her infant child was found dead in a field, ile?f Itosltton, Shropshire. It is conjec tured that the unfortunate mother, in getting over the stile, near which she was found, fell down and fractured her kg. B..ing finable to mote, and without assiAarice, • the set einy . of the weather Iroze her and her infant to death nac.—Thursday night, a fire broke broke out in the sugar-house of Mr. Gerkins, 13ell.lane, W h tie chapel, which, we regret to say, totally consumed the house, but without doing any further damage. Owing to the very active exertions of the firemen. an adjoining malt store-house of Messrs. Elanbuty and Co.was liniunately prevented from cataingfire. Clerken well Stssions.—A measure was adopted on Monday last, at the proclamation for the discharge of those pristmers apinst whom no prosecutor ap p,,,r,d or the bills had been thrown out by the Grand Jury, which is not only calculated to miti gate tostress, but to produce moral benefit to the %.utionunity. The Keeper of the New Prison stated, that he had an order to give to thwe prisoners who would accept a, a sharing each, that, fur want of means to procure food or ;tightly shelter, they might have no temptation or excuic for committing fresh depredations, on the plea of immediate • distress. The thankluinLss with wsich the prisoners received this donation, proves its hene:icial tendency. Many of them declared, that without such relief, they might have been tempted to resort to a. new crime, merely to return the same day to the prison for nightly shelter, but that this pecuniary ussistanc‘ would induce them to look imme.butely around fur honest emp oyment. We have heard that the vor. thy chairman suggested the propriety of rendering this temporary aid an established custom on similar occesions. . RoMery.—Yesterady morning the house of Mr. Bourne, boot and shoemaker, New Kent amid, was broke open, and rubbed of boots and shoes, and other property. Mr. Bourne is a constable of the district, and has been very active amongst the thieves, who threatened to " serve him out." Several of the daili papers having stated, that " the Emily from the West Inai,s, who ludgid in Mr. Kerr's house, have recovered the trunk contain ing the dianhaids and otto.r valual.le property sup posed to have been desiroyed in the tire ; n clear ing sway the ruins, the trunk was liquid in the rubbish, much scorched on hie outside, but the eon. tents were not iunmsl," We have suilioitiy fbr saying, that. Mr. Thu., the getitl,rtuiii ailailcd to, has not regaiued any part of his property, excepting nn old writtng desk, widen only contained family 'Jotters, of no value whatever. Sr A tew days ago, at Lewisham, while a baker, whose horse anti cart, containing bread, was at a gentleman's door, and the baker was being paid his bill in the house, a thief' took the opportunity to mount upon the box of the ctrt, and drive off with it Upon the baker discovering his lass, he pro. cured a horse, and rode after the thief, and he was apprehended at Deptfonl gate ; he was immediately taken before Mr. Mason, the magistrate, and fully committed to take his trial fir the Molly. It has been correctly ascertained, that there aro• in laccmaking counties upwards of 200,000 poker women and children entirely dependent fir support on making pillow lace; which is now so reduced in price through the introduction or cotton lace, manufactured by machinery, that their earnings will not on an average amount to (id. per day, and thousands of them are at this moment in a state of starvation. They trust that the benevolent dispo sitions of the ladies will prompt them to introduce. us much as possible, the use of pillow inee in their various alt cles, which will be the means of-rescuing thousands from the deplorable state of distress and misery to which they are now reduced. Bayern, JAN. 19.—Either owing .to a barge striking against it, or to the sudden breaking up of the frost, or perhaps to both, one of the iron ribs of Hurford's-bridge, leading to Totterdown, gave way this mornimg about eight, and carried with it the feat pavement, iron-railing, gas pipes, 87e. on the eastern side. The crush was tremendous; a man and woman were passing at the time; both escaped without injury, but of course extremely frightened. The morning coaches from Bath to London were obstructed in their passage, and obliged to turn through a new and unhnished road which leads overßedesinster - Bridge ; •here Fiomont's Express coach, outwards, from the unevenness of the road, and the obstinacy of a waggon-driver, upset on the river side, and two outside passengers and the coach man were thrown down on the step-bank, anti would probably have perished in the river, which was running with increased velocity from the thaw, if. a sack of oats, also thrown from the top of the couch, and which was impeded in its progress by a stone, had not providentially formed an obstruction within two feet of the water. No material injury. was, however, done ; the crowds that werelooking - . at the bridge immediately run to their assistance,. . and the coach was raised and proceeded on its joarne3. On Saturday the 15th inst., and Sunday, a novel sight drew additional thousands.• A 'largo West India vessel, the Stedfast, belonging to 111- dermal' Daniel, was released from her confinement by cutting a canal in the ice ; the process avas per. perfiormed by making sections of 16 or 18 test square, aad drawing them underneath the main, body, which was done by men standing on tho detached piece, and by the help of levers forcing , it it below the level of the surrounding. ice. The Jane and Barbara, another West India vessel, was also cut out, and taken through Batbarst Basin ; . but the pao;age fir the Stedlitst was cut all the way to the Duck at the Howells. "Itis an ill-wind that blows no one good," and by the above contris vauLa: a number of men were employed who other. • wise would have had no means of obtaining by labour their requisite food. Arr VCK nti TI4N, MAIL.—Cork, CO,C I crow I)touliii to this ell ors attacked last night by a numbeo of armed men, at a place called Fite Mile b.idge, between 1 and 1 o'clock. A harrier of cars had been placed across the road for the purpose of stop ping the coach, and on its arrival et•thie impediment, a tire co 1111 l rimed from behind the &reties t gallon t..e mail. Doe of the guards named M•Goivaii, was shot in the arm in the act at raising Isis blunderbuss, to dis charge it, but the other maintained a rapid lire on the • midway, and in the lIICJII time, the coachman, Patrick • Daly, with great dexterity and resolution, whipped on the horses, and by • the i•topeous of the coach, aided by the slippery liaittre of the riorzts, succeeded in bursting • through the cats, and drove off withian farther injure. A gentleman (A' the name of Nogeitt is, however, • ; he was an inside passenger, but hating been taken ill at New Mile -stone, about titer miles from the place of get ick, mein outside, and Oil the e ))))) mencetnent of time firing, junked off the coach, and has toree•been Iterid of. The yroonded guaid left rt C otnucl , and tie understand his arm must be amputated. I . llo' place where the attack happeiteil was fire 111.4.1 , to the south of C OiluSCl, and the Wr tefford coach mod heels ottacktil • near the saute spot, a few 110111 s 61:(01e, but t,cdpetl injury. ‘Ve hate not h e ard is nether any of the assail- anis were hurt. A poor woman outside passenger on one of the coaches from London to Exeter, t!ied uu Thunsdaf morning, front the inclemency o► the weather, to which she had been sxposc•d during the night On the rcntelonnit perceiving that she was bentnnbcd by the frost, on the artival of the couch the nit stage below :4alistittry, he had her conveyed in doors, um' taken care of; but assistance was too late to prolong her existence more th►ni half an hour, Two children proceeling on Thursday week from Langport to Bristol, on a baggage wa;,:gett, were found, on its artivil :it an i.►n on the frozen to I