The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-09-22 00:00:00

• • 1 rf J 1 r DREAD UL FIRE IT SERAMPORE. —...... . r Ezfract of a Letter from Dr. Joobna Mantua/in. of s e ramporr. Liu Dr. R 4 bond. isrimst. dated theMS of hilareb, mod =Ted 's e go ,f S •Wmher, 181% . " My MAR SIR,---Last night, about six o'clock, WWI I was sitting in my study, some one exclaimed', 6 The Printing-office is on fire;' I ran instantly thither, and beheld, at. the lower end of the office, whie.h is a room WV feet long, a stage, containing 703,e0ar,s of English p a per, sent out to p t rint the . , ?aril and Cingalese New "t e stament, enveloped in flan*. V,vefy door and viindow but one wits fasten ed by a large flat bar of iron, whieh went across it, aathvits secured by a Ott in the inside. .lii.live mi. MOW the room wes 30 - filled with smolt* that a can dle would not live. . •._ . ... , " Finding it impossible to open the windows, o r for a n y one to go in without danger of instant depth, we fastened that door again, in the hope of smother ing the flame, and ascending the roof, pierced it over the-fire, and by incessantly pouring down water, so kept it under for three hnurs, that nothing but the paperappeared to have kindled, and there the flame was greatly abated. The alarm which we gave, brought all the Europeans around us to our assist ance, be4des our own native servants, so that we had,all the assistance we could desire. While, how ever, the flames were got under there, I looked in, and suddenly saw a flame spread about twenty feet higher up. The smoke and steam increased so as to reader it death to get three feet within the wall. In a few minutes the flames spread in every direction, 'and took away all hope of saving any thing from thence, andilled us with terror for Mrs. Marsh man's school, about thirty.feet to the North-west, a 'bed-room for the boys, about sixteen feet full Nerds, which communicated with Brother Carey's,_ 'and the hall, library, and museum, within 12 feet : of it, to the North-east. The wind, howe ver, fell, 1 arid it. burned as straight upwards as fire on a' hearth, and cbmmunicated to nothing besides. lt remained burning for six hours, and consumed the beams, five feet in circumference, the roof, the win dows, and every thing but the walls. Happily no lives were lost, nor a bone broken. The loss we cannot at present estimate. It has consumed all but the six presses, which we rejoiced were saved, being in a side room. Two th,usand reams of Eng lish paper wets Consumed, worth at *le”t 50001. sterling. Founts of types, in 14 languages, be sides Eng!ish, namely, Nagree (twa founts, large and small), Bengalee (two founts), Orissa, Mah ratta, Seek, Berman, Tanga, Tamul, Cingalese, Chinese, Persian, Arabic, &brew, and Greek, were burnt ; besides founts of English for carry lug on ten works, which we have now in the press ; and the cases, stones, brass rules, iron chases, &c. &c. correspondent with all these. We have nt.; types left for the circular letter, nor even to print a statement of the loss. Theeditions of the New Testament, which are stopped, are nine, viz. the Hindoretanhee, Persian, a- 1 Tamul, printing under the pats ..nage of the Auxiliary Bible ''.ociety ; and the Hendee (second edition), Telinga, Seek, Burmen, Sungskrit (second edition), and Chinese. The edi tions of the Old Testament are fite, the Sougskritt, Bengallez (second edition), Orissa, Mahratta, and Ilindev. Among the English works suspended till ve get types from you are, the " Sungskritt Gram mar" (second edition) ; Brother Ward's Work on the 46 Manners of the Ilindoos" (second edition) ; " Confucius" (second edition); the " Dissertation on the Chinese" (second edition); enlarged to more than two hundred pages ; 46 B:11;..;alee Dictionary," and a " Telinga Grammar," both by Brother Carey. The loss cannot be less than 12,0001. sterling; and all our labours are at one , stopped. " I trembled for Ward, lest the roof should have Mien in with him, or lest he should have entered too far, and at once have extinguished the spark of life ; bat we are all preservee, blessed be God. The flames touched• nothing besides ; they might have consumed every thing. The presses are preserved, and happily the matrices of all the founts of types were deposited in another place; had these been burnt, it must have been years before they could have been replaced.— We can now, however, be;in , casting types to-mor row, if we can find money; country paper can be substituted for English, and thus two or three months will put the versions of the Scriptures in motion again ; but for English we shall be distressed till you send vs a supply; we know net even how to sent} you a circular letter. lam writing this at Calcutta to go by the packet this evening, whither I am come to in form Brother Carey, and therefore cannot tell you what types, nor how many. The Must, however, be all the sizes, from the text 4' ru'cius to the minion in the circular letter ; - alse • tau, and every; s printing utensil accompanying. Perhaps some friend in London, iu the printing line, can tell what goes to co:uplet . a printing office with PingliSh types. You must also send a fount of Greek and Hebrew. lam distressed to think where you will 'find • tneney, but send, if yon incur a debt—the silver and the gold are the Lord's. ' I " The Christian sympathy of our frie.vls elmosf l overwhelms me. Mr. Browne '(President of the College), was confined by illness; but Mt. Bird, his son-in-law, exerted himself for Us in the most Ore- . 1 Pitons manner. .1 fear it affects Mi.: . Browne's Mind, ) even more than my own ; he sent off an expresi St' mid:tight, to acquaint' Mr. Harrington, who is deeply affected. Poor Mr. TheMpson (Chaplain-to fteGo:'' Ye/mar-General) .:•ept like a child to-day on Fettling' of it. Ile begs us to make out a minute statement of ' our loss, and says he will vie all Ms interest 6u our behalf.. How it arose, we knot not; BrotheeWard and others think it must have hem dime by design,' and that some idolater among our servants, turning pale with envy at the sight oPthe• Bible printing in so many languages, contrived this mode of stopping the work. This, however, is a mere conjecture: • - ... . / Yesterday afternoon a Coroner's laqizeit was held at the Rose and Grown public-h'onse, in st. Maetin's-: lane, before Awritony CELL, Esq. on 11e body of . a young woman named Yowl - , who, it appeaFedin : evidettqp, • had, unkgbwis to beg rejlidwiss taken qiinfltity of rittiol, which ociasinned'hei• death.' Last week, gg scresof !ana belonging to the Ord, na ace, 'heated pear Fos-line,,Gillingharn, was let by &lb* action at Chatham SeViectfto ipe,conditions of , betng turn 4i up, tor theestraord uary annual tank t o f I , 11.55• an acre: • g STATE% MIA ERU Pr trAttyris. ST. VINCTNeg, ivor 4..—The.Wallibon Quarter, oti Sunday night last, witnessed a scene of horror and devastation, much more terrific and,destructive ipits effects than even the memorable night of the awful eruption of the Morne Sciuffriere. Prodigious ' masses of ignited substances, which': trete ejected from themotith Of the itatlibon river, effettually stopped the rolling of its waters, and a vast like, in a constant state of effervescenee, had formed het i its source, which continued daily to increase tilt it Co.l vered about four acres of land'.' On Sunday night ' last, the diffusion of water;' froth the fill of livery rains, became so great that the friihful reservoir ; overflowed, End the prodiginus flood burst through the barrier of volcanic combustible' with irresistible fury; and such was its destructive impetuosity, that. it completely inundated the adjacent. valley, and be ; sides its ravages in bearing down a number of negro i • houses, several lives were lost, and others so dread.' fully, scalded from the river of liquid fire which over- I whelmed them,. that their lives are despaired The mountain too, during the dreadful scene, had a return of one of its terrific fever fits; its roarings caused a general consternation ; and on the follow ing Wight % about eleven o'clock, a most violent con w cussio el the earth s such as the oldest iohabitauts never experienced, was felt all over the island. The following are the particulars of the horrid murder we noticed yesterday, which was perpetrated at Tre Madoc : Tuesday, the 9th instant, a horrid murder, al. most unparalleled in the principality, was committed. in the neighbourhood of Tie Madoc, Carnarvon shire. Thema Darks, who bad been employed at Mr. Maddock's embankment nearly four years, and who lodged at the house of a small farmer, returned from his work; and robbed • the cottage of his host, while the family were occupied in harvest-work at a short distance. Before he had completed his plans ' der, the daughter came home for the purpose of car rying provisions to her father, and the family in the Geld, Diviesimmediately seized the young woman, and with a pair of shears, stabbed her seven or eight times, and finally cut her throat , with them. The girl not returning in due time, the brother was dispatched to ascertain the cause of her delay. As he approached the house, he saw the murderer washing his face, .who said he had fallen down a rock and Cot his face. But When the boy entered the doer, and beheld his sister's bloody corpse on the floor, he ran and related the matter to his parents, who,' with some neighbours, hastened to the spot. On questioning Davies, he declared; in the most solemn manner, that he knew nothing of the murder, and that he came home at an un usual hour, because he was unwell. his hair being wet, lie was asked why he had washed his face, but he denied having done so. This contradiction of the child's testimony, with other circumstances, excited suspicion, and Davies was apprehended, in order to be examined by a Magistrate. For this impose he was fastened upon a horse, his legs tied to the girths of the saddle, his hands fastened together, and the rope film thence was held by au attendant. When night cam^ on he contrived to emancipate himself; and - hav-.. fastened to the saddle the one end of the rope, as else held by the person who had him in custody, he slipped off', and absconded among the tn. , untains near Tanybwlch. The Prisoner was, however, soon missed, mud a hue and cry being raised, he was re-taken nest morning, with the pocket-book, watch, and other property which he had stolen, found upon him, and is committed to Dolgelley goal. The consequence of his escape, therefore, is, that by his returning to a field where he had secreted the property, which was finally foutid in his possession, a strong evidence of his guilt is brought to light. He is a native of Lucton, near Ceoliiiry Mortimer, sixty-eight years of age, and six feet two inches high: he worked at Paris Mountain, in Anglesey, fourteen years, and from 1 his astonishing muscular power, was called the King of the Mountains. We regret to add another tragi cal occurrence—the uncle of the murdered girl, when searching after the villain, accidentally fell from a precipice, and was killed. A lamentable accident happened on the Ist of Au gust, in the small town of Villemur, near Toulouse. A house which was rebuilding suddenly fell, and in its fall pulled down another. A number of persons, of different ages, aad both sexes, were buried in the ruins, while large pieces of timber and portions of, the sc,!ls threatened to fall on and crush those who shun i rashly approach to give them assistance. By great exertions and -labour, however, '23 persons were dug out. Of these three were dead, killed at the instant of the fall, another died two days after wards, and all the rest more or less hurt; some having their arms*nd ethers their lerr ° s broken. The , landlord of one of thphouses which fell was found in the cellar, with halt his body buried in the ruins, , but his head was secured by pieces of wood, crossing each other as they fell, formed a kind of arch over him. In this situation he remained five hours, and heard the dying greens, of a girl of sixteen, who ex pitad ever his head, crushed to death between the s timbers which, by the particular manner in which they fell, had. saved his life. A mother, with a child in her arms, was killed by a. blow, from one of the falling beams, and her child fell at her feet.— The cries of the little infant were, heard, and it was at got out, no otherwise hurt than by a few' scratches on the face. . • Loyd ',Aston, who is one . of the best shots in Englaidlias'a. large parry of,sportsznen down at Ms v Cottageip NorTelit. Notwithstanding the scarcity 4 the season, they bagged, on the Ist of -September,, 11 1 4 brace of partridges, 26 brace of barer, and rab jilts out, of smother..z • Al:tfeloasgi oervaatan a .gig passitio • along Pall hoiie took . fright s ,ond with/ t utmost veto ;Wow 1(34,-.-±-" • door of. Mr precipitated._ . tonea.• the _ r., Kelly's Musical Shop, by aL ijkl i Acc id en t_ h e ,, i d o r., toostely recelveil from.the 4 1,41; ,of the dog, ft large d lacerated wOupd, extendiogsevend inches from Oa; 'corner of. kis mouth, up thnsid, of his faci;'sieetwl, large blood vessels were ruptured, occasioning* eery, profuse hemorrhage, which. was iii‘pediatalysiolpedl by the application of the styptic. E. 13a4ger, co(St. Alban.streetaiisting by at the time, Tfry. 42442 'sewedtifthe woua, maple ainipa 1' l, it kir do well: • " 2::.*•1 • OLD DAILEY. • MONDAY, Sarnuippok 21. Mtry.fing era, alias Mary Macdonald, was indicted for altering, as and for true, a certaill base and ceOblibrfeit piece of money, madeto tide thailitode Of a is having formerly. viz. in the Middisma Sessions, in Dec , misbers 1110), been convicted as a amnion utieree. The record of the former convietko was given in evidence, and it was proved by iiaiiey, the Clerk of. the New Prison, that the t'risnoer was the person then convicted, Mnag with another ;wisher maw & Wm. Allison, under the 01* e of Mary Donald, In prodder dertecent uttering, a puiali caa of.the naase.of Gosling, who keeps the White Bear in Lit; le Newport-street, was adduced, who proved, that the Prisoner having tendkrcd to hint a bad shilling in payment of two glasse s of gin, which he returned; the Prisoner being then in company with another woman, of whom be entertained suspicion, he fol. tossed theta to the shop of a linen-draper in the same street, and coinasunicated hie suspicious to an officer, whom be directed to watch them. Tu the shoptuan of this linen-draper tie Prisoner offered, in payment of a medallion, for which he charged ?id . a which the shopinan returned to bows had. While they were In conversation together, the officer employ ed ley Garliag came in and seized oq . the Prisoner, insisting on seeing w , at die had in her possession. Ile by force Opened her left hand, in'aibich was the shilling she bad o ff ered to the silos mansard white he was thus employed, the Prisoner tarew from her towards the window, among the geods placed there, shillings to the number of ten, which, on being picked up, were found to be all counterfeit. The Jury, without hesitation, found the Prisoner Built, — Death. John 1 lohloilt was indicted for assaulting on the King's high way Olof Ljungeranta, patting him in fear nod danger of his lire, and forcibly taking from his person sad against his will, a pocket book, 221. in Bank of England notes, six tokens of the value of 3s. each, and one token et the value of ss. 6d. The Prosecutor, a Swedish sailor, proved, that as he was pass ing along Broad-street, Rotherhithe, August 5, about a quarter before eight o'clock, along with two of his companions, he was attacked by the Prisoner, in company with several others. One of the party laid hold of his arm. They were all acting logether. They attempted to draw from him his watch, hut did not succeed. Oneof them, he'coolti not say which, asked why did the Prose cutor shove them ? lie answered, that be had not dime so. On this th e y pushed him against the ; and he fount that he had lost his pocket-husk. lie sung out that he had lost it. The Pri soner immediately run a cross ; when a woman told the Pro's.-- cuter that that roan (mauling the Prisoner) had it; Cie woman at the same time crying out, " Stop Thief I" The Prisoner la consequence was pursued and takes ; previous to a high, while he wits peosingehe School, at School-house-yard, he aas observ ed to throw something front hiss, and on searching the garden belonging to the school the pocket-book and its contents Were I found. Mr. Justie Citnes informed the Jury, that there was no doubt where a uninber of persons joining iu concert hustled a man, and in so doing took from him his property, that was simile forcible • taking as constituted the crime of ro bery. IThe Jury accordingly found the Prisoner Guilts—Deo:h. Pietro Poluni was capitally convicted for stealing ses seal ar e ticks of wearing apparel, the property of Michael Race, in his ' d ell ing-t se; es were also strjeso //asks; t, for stealing a jacket, a watch, chain, end two seals, the property of Salvadore lieorge, in the dwelling-lionse of Anton Sposito; Wm. !lia', for a hurglarly in the dwelling-house of William Wilkins, and ' stealing two feather beds and oilier articles his property; and l'honani Sinunixtrr.alias Denis, for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Robert Gunnell, and stealing goods, value es. his property. POLICE. GUMMI Beykam, was on Monday examined, on a charge of being connected with the persons who, in the month of int, last, boarded and robbed the Si:tcrs boy, of silk and ostrich feathers of a very considerable value. Mr. Brant, of Angel court, Throgmorton-street, the proprie tor of the articles stolen, stated, that having got it:for:nation from a Mr. Ross that the Prisoner had ofierea for sale souse raw silk, which he bad reason to believe %%:11 hie ptoperty, he bad him apprehended. Mr. U. Ross deposed, that be was a si:k dealer ; that some short time back the Prisoner offered to hint for sale a small quantity of Valenciasilk. S :s,,ectiog, from the appearance of the article, that it was part of that which had been stolen from on hoard the Shirrs; he questioned the Prisoner closely, and asked him whether be had any more for sale. The Prisoner said, he had none of his own ; hut he knew those ss ho bad a large bag and a trunk fullof it, and promised to intrude cc him to a man who had got it to sell. Witness kept the sample, and made an appointment to meet the Prisoner the following Sunday. bi the interim he went to Mr. Grout, and they con certed a plan for the purpose of endeavouring to learn where the great hulk of the silk was concealed. It was agreed that Ross should sutler himself to be apprehended with the Prisoner, and in tlw mutual confidence naturally arrising from such asitu ation, to eudeavour to extract from him the whole of the secret. Ross accordingly met the Prisoner on the follow big Tuesday, and after endeavooring to leneftirom him where the large quantity of silk to which he alluded had been deposited in vain; he gave a signal, an Officer entered, and they were both conveyed to the Poultry Compter. They had not long been there, however, w hen Ross's plan was, in some measure, defeatet by a boy who told them not to write any letter to be sent out • for if they did, it would be opened and examined. The Pelvis:re, thin put on his guard, did not although be bad intended it,w rite to his friends out of doors. W Reese endeavoured, in the course vf the day, to induce him to confess who were the persons concerned with him, but be evaded his solicitation. In the course of the morn ing some person caine into the yard below their windows, with whom the prisoner had some conversation ; witqess did not hear what was said, but on the prisoner ceasing to speak with this person, he turned round aid said, all was moved off; he did not care. Ile also said that Edward Ilackett, who lived at So. 2, Lad-lane, had assisted in moving it atvay the night beforr. Hackett, who was a servant to a silk dealer in Lad-lane s was apprehended. He denied all know ledge of the business. but confessed that be had known the pri soner for some time. Upon enquiry, however, it turned out that he had been absent from his master's house for nearly two hours on Tuesday night. In accounting for his absence, he said he had been to his shoemaker's, in Spitalfields t to speak about his shoes ; the shoemaker, however, denied most positively that he had been to his house that night. The prisoner Bevhato, in ac counting for the manner in which the silk he offered for sale had come into his possession, said, he met a man, some time hack, at the corner of Shoe-lane, who seemed to be a pedlar, and who asked him to purchase it, and after some bargaining, he bought itfori. Eight of the persons eh:texed with being concerned in the rob bery of the ves-el are in Custody, and a reward of idol. has been &erred for the apprehension of four others, whose descrip tions have been learnt. The quantity of raw si lk fouad in the prisoner Be ham's possession only amounted to 41b. (ma. Ile first asked 41. a pound for it, but afterwards agreed to take :As. the pound, which was the real value. Us:toe-Ham. —The Proprietor of ore of the Woolwich coaches was tined 101. and costs, for carrying more than the number of passengers allowed by Act of Parliament. Jolla Seat wa.fittedas. and costs, for riding ou the shafts of : his w noon. William Laws was fined 2(b. aid costs, having been convected , of gathering turnips in a field belung,ing to Mr. Smith, near the '.13112 Cow, :o the Kent-road. SINGULAR WAY OYIHOPL.RAIRAKING. — Betwixt the ' evening of Thursday the 3c1„• and the morning of Friday the 4th inst. the Old Victualling society Of fice, in kutherglen, was entered into by descending' the chimney; the house being onlys one story high, and a considerable quantity of sitter taken from the till ; but, whether being scared or otherwise disturb-. 1 ed, some silver was left behind ; the depredator made his escape by removing the catband and bolts, and afterwards forcing the locks of the street-door..' On Friday forenoon, a search warrant was obtained, when.a boy of the name of Mos 's Kinnon, in As , neighbourhood, was .apprehended, not from any iirroof that was brought .against him, he having 1 strongly denied the fact, bat from the uncommon smell of soot on his person and clothes, which was I perfectly felt tat several yards distance, mid when brought before a • Magistrate, he acktuowledged hie 314;114 and part of the money, 81. 15a. wns Seto.' voted. he hi4ieg hid it in an old thatched house in. ,Vediately adjoining the premises. The hoy is an old/ ielfender and was lately liberated from Liaidowell he is a native of GLsgnw, and came to liititerglen Jew weeks ago to reside with a friend; there' was In ,wateh-doit in the shop *hen broke . into, but what firthod Vras usettognieattlin is nut yet known. The boyientill 'ln *ration , a ord belts, net yet-confessed, "'haring had any accomplices. • a : . •We hear it is in contemplation of the alto tt • r Exchequer in Scotiaud to revive and enforce the 1.• A respecting the Royal Boroughs' Account, ‘‘. Li-s -muts Good. By One laus evoFy Scotch !toy,* VI. rough is obliged, en a certain Amy, annually to p ee . sent their accounts of charge and discharre fen. 21, c year preceding in•the Couit of livchoquer; anti the inhabitants are, (Moon days presious thereto, s. in. mooed by proclamation, to appear and object to tt,e same. The books and accounts de;•ing these ti. r oen days lie there, o pen (or the itiv,vi..l use parties concerned. It is much to be regrett e d .:, 1 laws so salutary shout.' have been/Monett to ill WO disuse, as many borough evils would.have heel pr... vented had they been kept in force. A. to e of the Court of Session, u 'hog upon this selot. t 4 says, " The unhappy consequenc e s of 1..301 11 st,, gistrates without any check or contront, aro !,.. sible to be disguised. The revenues of a r. ,al bd. rough are seldom laid out for titi• good of the tow% but in making friends to the party who are in i,st. session of the Magistracy, and 411 rioti-g and clru..k. enness, for which every pretext is laid hold . " Another consequence no lest fatal, of ka v l ng Magistrates to act without controal, is a ;trots . ; d e . sire, in every licentious horge . s, of steppi ng icth the Magistracy, for Isis own sake and that of i.is friends. Henco the factions and animosities that prevail in a l most n il the royal boroughs, wisich .re violently and indecently pursued, Is ithout the least regard to the good of the communi•y." If a curious fact, which we suppose is unknown to most of our Readers, and it 'appears from the re. cords of Exchequer, as we are informed by the same respectable author, thnt the tess'yr of Edlubufga I.l“ing first of all the other borongkx_fail4(l .to give in their accounts, Captain Thomas. Hamilton, mer. aloof there, by an action in Exchequer, compelled the Magistrates to produce, upon oath, their T r ee. serer's' acconnts; which were accordingly a adite(l. The borough accounts are now so long in arrest., that much labour will be occasioned in ..taminiag them ; but that consideration ought not to dater from the work, as every year's delay is only making the matter worse. The new cornet, which was discovered, at Mar. seil les, by M. Pens,and afterwards atParis by M. Boil. yard, did, according to the calculations of thesell9. tronomers, pass its perihelion on the l .ith September, when its distance from the sun, taking that of the earth at unity, was 0,77835. Its inclination to Cia • ecliptic is 74 dog. 20 min. In a ver,• clear night, and in the absence of the moon, it is just visible to the naked eye. Sunday afternoon a fracas happened in the Com mercial Road, W hithechapel, which iiad nearly ended in .a fatal manner. &Marine Seijeant on the Recruit. in Service, endeavoured to some a man he had en. listed, who attempted to goi away, being seconded by the mob ; the Serjeant, to oppose the great odds, was induced to draw his sword, which was wrested front him, and•himeelf taken to the watch-none. The af. fair- fortunately ended without bloodshed. • It is with much satisfaction we porceive that the army at bore have resolved to render their assistauce to their gallant comrades in arms abroad, by sub scribing to the Patriotic Fund for the Widows and Orphans of such as may be killed, and for those who may be disabled inaction with the enemy. This no ble example has been set by the 7th regiment, or I,),ueen's own Hussars ; and we have no doubt well be followed by the 'Brigade of !tossers, and by.every regiment, hOth regular and militia, throughout the United Kingdom. A short time since, Mr. Brand,' F. R. S. observed, . that the greater part of the wines drank in England are almost as hurtful as spiritous liquors, front the • quantity If alcohol or spirits of wine which they con tain : but a French chemist has remarked, that ac . cording to MrAmnd's own experiments, old Boor deaux wine contains only 12 or 15 parts of alcohol out of 100, and good Rhenish wine only 9 or 10, while brandy contains 53 1 : .3 ; whence it evidently appears that it is better to drink GI tvottles of gOod.• Rhenish wine than one bottle. of brandy. FATAL Frrecvs - oe Potiox—On the evening of Monday, the 7th inst., hlargaret Hamilton the wife of W. H. servant to a farmer in Cawford-John, le ceived a visit from her husband, who brought her a small quantity of oatmeal for her family, and having • remained till part of it was put into the meal-basra, returned to his master's house. Next morning (Tues day), the poor woman made porridge from the contents of the basin, and began to sup it with milk, but being struck with a peculiarity in the lltivour, she called in her neighbour, Allie Watson, the wife of a . miner at Waillockhead, and prevailed on her to taste it.--These two women were soon after both seized with such alarming pains, that Messrs. Meikie and Rankine, surgeons in Douglas were called in to their aid. All the resources of the healing art, how ever, could not save the life of Margaret Hamilton, who •died in great agony at fhe end of three hours, leaving behind her a helple;s infant born only three weeks ago. It is even said tkat Ai lie Watson, and a child about a year old, who took a single spoonful bf the porridge, are not expected to survive. Some of the porridge heist', given to a dog, the animal died ; i'snd wasthe nfloeaulnbdeitnogeoaintataliiznead Tabyrgethem d proper. gentlemen, Lion of arsenic. As it is likely the cause of this horrid catastrophe will be investigated by a Coed of Jag , tice, we forbear stating reports relative to the iadivi dual, to when; suspicion points as the murderer. A warrant has been issued for the apprehension of the husband of the deceased. Allie Watson and the chil , 4 ere now believed to be out of dauger.—(Duetft Courier.) SCOTCH NA ',tort. MILLI - A .l r Wharf: • • • b drpdo4d. • : Saitt. .. Trust (iiallauggtl),. Leith 1 1S Sept. 11( 41. Sept . , 6. . A si. 3 r• aza (Mar.h..ll) do 1 i r 4 , ' • ' • • • ,ifil(4l. WA . Itia . 1 1% I,ON pc/N Bittl9(t IVIS 11%Y• • jltinitzg. 4 ;adman after 3 I I.:wally. 44' oallttc's 001. Ilc . • , '', ." ~ 4 ,• • i - , __' mmikkE6. • •• . •el a 40-• f 4 tdd t liii 4- MO., E. .lobartoo; af Sishopsza..7.4treet, to o • 411 , 14: Illgoalth;oghtrso( J. Wily^. Esq. of jl..uNted , Keit. • DIM . 1 Os Wl.MnhitlaYlisti Mrs. Minot., edict of diet/de D. Mio" 8 K ; si,cmaif.744aft..• • Mt. Jame . ; So •. • • pupgoritlvat.44 his house is Bqel?in-lane, t t i ,! t; __„_ - htlit6 Ridled WA l'obillied by: tarns. si ha Ss swami Orrece, 87. Fiect-t 1 '''W4