The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1810-07-30 00:00:00

DREADRiL FIRE! •,trrday morning a. i nnattoemendoui fire broke in the warehouse and printing-office of Mr. It, S•lliSbUry•MlU:Sre• At twenty minutes after „; c lock, Mr. Gillett was awoke by a violent „1 01 l at the street shun, by a little boy who obAerred the smoke ist.iiing from the warehouse. • opened the two-pair window, not wait s° dress himself ; nu his being informed of the he riil44l out tire !" and alarmed his fa- Aineh consisic .1 of lira. Gillett, his two tons, I reams. Ter y . S'l.l apilt tired at the street , „ on ly nodre-sed ; about twelve persons were hit our colt- cted in the square. Toe flames rat out from the warehouse with proiligmus re i,y; at twenty nininte. before live, two eniciuta larrived ; the firemen having perceived the as they %Pre returaleig from a fire at Spital whare tau inoti-ea were horned. One of them statioutd in Crown-court, and the other in , er-1 me; they passed a hose throUgh a house in !er-hoe, hist 'nine time elapsed before any laity of slater could be procured : other engines a came pouring in from nil quarters. At five twit the roof fen in with a tremendous crash. the A .mes communicated to two houses in .snewourt ; to Mr. Swan's, printer, in Salisbury rt; Mid at th•l hack of Mr.Gillett'a t toMr.Gale's, the lite Gosport Bank, in Salisbury-squaee.— ht Dow bee true truly ir.vful, sheets of born ::;yer were fiyin4 in the air in all directions, ;: e varto books in a blare ascended to a great 41 took a course withthe wind towards Paul's; some of them were picked up us Fins eyeluure. At half-pii,t Mr. Gillett's ware- Se an d printing-office were nearly consumed; floor, had Glit.nt iii; the noise was immense 113 the falloig of the type and printing materials. lie engines were now tolerably well supplied with - . . . ter: toe furniture of the three adjoining houses r a Salisbury-vitt ire were thrown out of the win- ' ~ and ht.. eil is a pile in the middle of the mere. At sic o'clock the flames burst forth from it roif of the hire bank ; it being envered with le, a. t .• hest op•rated on theta, the I itch cracked. ill mall 7 pi ees were dr.veni two and three huii- Nd yar.is : the heal. became intense. At half- Ket six the roof felt in, but was stepped on she t:le floro ; this gave the engines an onoortunity r playing with grea:er etiect. The roofs of Mr. lillett's and Mr. Gate's houses were now in flames, nd by seven they fell in. The engines seemed to as got the command of the tire, there being ten ilayin‘ on the three houses at once. Fleet-street xiiihited a most distre:sing scene ; the inhabitants Sdlshury and Crown courts being ehn fly roam. Two, Mr, had brought their little furniture into r Ptrert, where they were piled tit setvirate rue liitras of the women and their eillrett is Inland description—the off ighted infanta clinging thei r mothers for that proteCtion they were 10 lauch themselves in need of: one poor family con nted cf a widow and two children. their whole furniture did sat appear .to he worth SI. and on it lay a cofia containing the corpse of a fetnale iafant Mich was to have been interred yesterday : we ire happy however toatate that their little der Olings escaped the cooliagrailori. By eight o'clock tlie fife mat nearly got under : at one time the whole of be pile of buildings from the Stiusre to Fleet- Tett in imminent denrr. us the wiurl Wee in Lim direction. Ton much credit cannot be g'.von to the Firemen 1 the respective Offiote fee their exertions ; they dir layed the greatest intrepidity; one of them bad et been more than half a adulate 4 ef ore the roof of r. Gilllrtt's house fell in, at the attic window, giving directions to those eonducties the engines. Mr. Gillett and his sees wow actively employed in trying to preserve the property and furniture. Mr. G. del sot I •ave his house until the roof had fallen in. It ea, with the greatest d iTn-ulty he could be then prevailed nn to retire, and assisted from his own thice to that, of Mr. Pearkr, hi s opposite nvighlrour: he appeared quite overcome with troth. bte led iloigue; the only coveriug he had on was his great coat and night-cap. His warehouse and printing-office Ire entirely consumed. It is not vewe than three years since they were built, and we itederstand they cost him 9,000 guineas. The whole of the printing utensils his extetwive stock in trade, and the number of valuable books, finished mid utifiiiished, belonging to the bokaellers by who m he was employed, have also fallen victims to the destrnetive element. It is Suppose I his warr hose coutained property tee an immense amount. His dwelling.house hits received contidetable in- ' very, the roof and attics ere buret, and the house is otherwise much Injured. The two adjoining home s have suffered equally. The furniture of the tluee oust have heed greatly deteriorated by the haste they were obliged to be removed with. We understatid the buil.lings and furniture are in utreol. M:. Swan's dwelling-house, in Salisbury. (wort, is bison' to the ground ; he was not insured* although about toe years age he was completely hunted out. Hie lees was made up by a sebecrip tie% which enalded him to build • new printing (l6,:e, which has fortunately escaped. The upper Islet of two houses in Crown-court •re consumed. e'ul several others mush injnred. Sonic of the efflett and most experienced firemen have declared they cover kuerr so rapid a era; the pongee to do place where it is supposed to have originated are very confined, and Oils nit) , account for its not havin g been got limier tamer. There were a great concourse of people from an early hour in the morning until late in the evening y. sterday and wr rejoice in stating, that no aces= dent took place, no: dill we hear of any theft hay. ing been committed. The following engines from imeeral Insurance Offices were iu attendance : the Imperial. Sun, Phoenix, Royal Ear:bongo, British, Westminster, Albion, gagle„ Rope, Elm Al in.Hiusd, Union. Atl is, London Corporation, and the Globe. It is the general opinion that the fire originated in the lower part of the warehouae. which contained publications to a large amount belongin4 to Sir Rirliard Pnillips. They are in siirrd, but nothing neer their value. We under. stand that there hail not been either a fire or a csurfic in the building since the printers left off working by candle-light, in March last; and that Mr. Gillet, accompanied by his sons, saw that every thing was secure before they retired to bed on Saturday night. It was customary to leave one of the windows in the lower wareroom open during the night. for the purpose of drying the sheets, which has hail to the dupposition, that some- in cendiary had intioduced through the own window some coinimAible matter, which communicated to' the paper. Sir Richard riillips's monthly numbers of . The Bible and Geography, which were to be delivered oil the tit of August, and were jest finished. are amongst his losses. Sir Richard appeared entidoy-il ii, the iiet4lilmileiond of the lire, picking up the parts of the books which were only in part consumed. This calamity most fall heavily on Mr. Gillett, whir 'net with a similar misfortune only four years autece.l mt. Ilis banks and accompts are buried in the ruin., and inWier articles in trade or house hold firnittire were riisti:ed. The ruins remained harning cad the engines playing at a late hour last night. LAW IA I'ALLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCII,OUILDM4LL, JULY 26, Sittings Wore Lord EL1.F.,1130201:G1i, and. Spe cial Jury. . O.IIIMETT u. DUSRIK. This was an wain' liy which ci.• sought to recover a co niimsation in claniwg.s from the De fendant; for att ass.sult comm teed on the Plaintiff by the Defendant nu the Ptilitie Corn Exchange. —lt appeared, that the Plaintiff and Defendant (both of whom are Gentlein'u of respectiltility en gaged in the corn trade, and also Officers of Volunteer Car dry C01;14, the Defendant lie.. longing to the Surrey Yeomanry Cavalry. avid the Minima* to the London Light ItirAi) had word, together on the Corn Exchange, on a certain day in May at, Motive to a prosecution commenced by the Defendant against a servant of the Plaintiff's, bat which the Defendant had abandoned. The Defendant as.ignecl as his reason for not persisting in the prosecution. the respect he felt for the house of bosiness of which the was a partner; and the Plaintiff, nu the other hand, alleged, that he had been anxious that the Dffend ant should have proceeded. In the course of this altercation, as the evidence for the Plaintiff went to thew, the Defendant accused the Plaintiff is es ' setting a falsehood, and struck hum ou the face, calling him a mean contemptible fellow; the Plain tiff retorted the words on the Defendant, who then took up a handful of wheat, and threw it its the , Plaintitrr face. The evidence fur the Defendant was of a different nature, and wrist to prove that the °yield; et least so far as lOtr he was given, came, from the Plaintiff. The paradigm, men after the words were first used, called on the Plaintiff to repeat the insult. if hr held to et ; cautioning punt, if he did repeat it. that he would chastise him.--The for the Defendant, h r, did not see the whole of the transaction; hit, from what he did see of it, he considi red the 1/deaden' es being the person aggrieved. Lord ELIANIBOROUGH left the circumstances of aggravation, Of of alleviation, to be considered of by the Jury.—That an assault had been committed, so that some damages must be given was not drhie.l. The queshun for the consideration of the Jury was, did the charge of ',astound originate on the part of the Defendant i or oiling Plaintiff? according to their belief of the one or the other, they would give tog gravated or mitigated diunages.—Verdict fur the I Plaiutiff—Damages 601. POWW•LL V. NILLSON. This was an action to recover the mount of 490 berrek of turpentine; but it was brought to try a question of custom at Liverpool. The Plaintiff sold to the Defendant the turpentine. under a war ranty that it was two-thirds soft ; bat on its tieing elm:tuned, it was found that it was only 'worn 'mord 281 barrel. soft to 50. and the Defendant refas til to accept of it. It appeared it was cusv triunity in Liverpool, that if it exceeded oat half soft, to sell it as two thirds, Mid the present at hull was broneht to try the validity of that ciwnin. Lord ELLEM 11011.0 04H observe I, that it could not be held iu Lll that iSi were the two-111416 01'50 ; if they did, it was time to get a new arithmetic aNsi a new language. Nonsuit. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. 4111ILDItatt,, Jinx 941. afore Lord Chi.f looks MANSFIELD Mid • 'Foci*, Jots. MI JOHN ROAR A. JACISOM AND °Maas, ALIO- ',AAA or RA/tut: ROSS, A ......... Tin , wog an action of litrier, brought by the pt o iiittlf, it Knight of the Swedish Order of the ;:uueil, Gild a Lieutenant in the Nary, against the 113rfesi4aiits„ asrieneea of Ina brother, George Roe. a bankrupt, for the fee:over, of ISall. the price of a qusouty of household furniture, purchased by Sir John Ross, outlet arteattosit bom the Crown, issued toraitiet his brother's geode; which furniture had been d e r s ,,, e a by th e Ili's', ;0 res of George Ross who, substkpient to the issuing of the extent, had become bankrupt. The fact of thebill of sale hiving. heen executed by the Sheriff to Si r Juba ROl l 4, Wlab not attempted tu be disproved: The defence set up w. 19, that the sale was not a boas fide transaction; as, in point of fact, the goofs were paid . for by a alrt:ft on the !verse of Brown. Cobb. mud Company, and sigued "John Ito4s,'' though it was, in reality. 'mom by Mr. G. Itos., who had lodged money of his own in that house. in the items of his brother. and sought by that means to conceal bit property from his creditors. The case on the part of the Plantar, therefore. rested on his ability to poet that the account opened at the liouee of Brown and Company, in his osine, by his brother, wes,,iii fact, what tepurporteil to be. For this purpose, ' Thomas Winter, clerk to .the bankrupt. bus called; who. proved *het the draft given for the furniture, 'was signed by Sir John Ross, and that he had taken mousy fur bun to the house of Brown owl Co. before the issuing of the extent —Charles Renate, clerk to Cobh and Co. was also examined ; be brought with him the ledger, and the account of Sir Juhn Ross was gone through, iteru by item, for the purpose of discovering in what notes, and by , whom the different rums were paid in. By this ex amination it appeared, that Sir John Ross hail had an account with Brown and Co. which closed about twelve months ago. and was renewed in December hist, so that, both before and after the trancicion in question, Plaintiff had a running account and a balance at the house of Cobb and Co. Part of the money, also, which had been paid in to the account of Sir John Ross, was proved to have been in paper, which he hunsell lied received from his navy agent. Mr. Ross, the bankrupt, proved that he we, till.. • powered, by letter of attorney, to receive his bro ther's pay. end the rent of ail estate which lie hsd ill Piccadilly : since his bankruptcy, he had always placed his brigher's money to his account only ; they had tot asked account, with the exception of there sums, which were immediately withdrawn : the money which paid for the furniture was ,his brother's ; the draft was signed by bleu ; his rea son for withdrawing his account from the Bank of England was, because a clerk whom lie had dis charged was in possession of a number of blank ac ceptances, which Ire might till to Huy amount ;' he also thought his money more safe in his brother's name than his. When pressed by Mr. Serjestst SHEPHERD, as to what safety he allotted to ; he said, after much difficulty, safety front attachments. He also deposedi that his brother lett him a num ber of blank acceptances, so that he might draw for what Wins hr pleased. It was contended, on the other side, that the whole story was too groat to he believed ; for, at the very tone it was us., rted such numerous burns were placing in the hatidsof Brown and Co. belong ing to Sir .1. Itms, he hail over-drawn his %remain with his Navy Agent, and was actually aubject to the payment of interest for the money so over drawn. The fact was, as proved I. the Briiktupt% letters. which had been read, that he directed ins confidential clerk, the moment he discovered that a docket was struck against him, to withdraw his property from the Bank al England, where h.s ere tailors would find it. and place it in other hands, under his brother's name. The first reasoa lie ta sselled for withdrawing his account from the Bank of EnglauJ, was a very goof our, for changing the banker, but not for changiiig the wane in which the bank account had been kept for many years. Hit second reason wa. the true oue.--he wished to preserve his property from attachment, The Jury returned a verdict for the Plaintiff -1.131. The trial lasted from ten o'clock in the morning till near three. POucz: 110W-SIRERT. It is extremely to be lamented that the public are not more cautious in sending money or Bank notes by the port; as, sintwithstandinz the shin t and excellent regulations adopted by the Post-Office, the stealing u( letters and their content■ is still earned no to a very considerable extent, whirls might in ■ great degree be prevented, if thus, who have occasion to witti Bank notes by the post would adopt the precauticin to cut their notes in two halves, and ablaut au acknowledge• meat of the thrust half before the second in sent off; Of pro cure Bank post bills. Information has lately been received at the Post-Office of myriad depredations of ibis kind. Suspicion fell upon George Camay', a messenger ; and on Friday evening Clerk in the employ of Mr. Parkin, the Solicitor to the Post-Office, and two yoaug men belonging to the OffiCr, seized him, and found up.w him the cover of a letter which had been mules, and several ut the notes, which had been %mei) in change fur the tool. notestolen. Harry Adkins, betoneinz to Bow-sheet Office, was seot for, and be was steliveri.4l inio his rusto.ly. Un 5.11111411% he was exarninra at Bow-strect Office, a-id was committed for further ex Me :lion. The Pri ono has only belonged to the Office 'Mont six mantles ; Es was recommended to the Post Masters General by Geimeal Needham. Daub 01001 was chsrvil with violently assaulting and !mating his mother, Catherine (of whom he Wfiß the child by a former husband), tht. wife of John Swiuney, of Legrilley, Long-acre. The Prisoner baring been to sea in the merchants' service, Mr NASLO, 'the sitting Magistrate, nest bim un board the tet.dcw. UtlOts- IIALL, JULY qt. W. It Johiona was examined tor hawing titrOwa • glens batik oat of the gallery at hketky's, into the pit, by which youth haJ his bead much cut. The Prisoner was permitted to make compensation, anil dim-barged. APITAPH. The Ir.:flowing extrairehrtar, inscription has late ly been cut upon% tuenh-ataasa, at the Kick of St. Iklartin's Church, iti the small piece of bilt)ing groom* in Church-court Sacred to the nientnej of JOHN IRWIN, E.q. of Sligo, to Ireland, Smyrna to His Majesty's Forces. who dml on Ow 2.441 day uf April. t 10, Aged Ja years; A victim, like thousand. of our RAllsat Coootrymen, t, the fitsl routequetices of the %wk.& innate Expedition to the Stbeldt, commanded by Esrl of CuaTnAlt. . The poisons wt.e ter-roily eppreheoderl the wretches to a pul.hc-hottbe in Pyre-etc... 4, Clam our ket, on • wpm iiiii of the turns untn.llll prsetire • . deMre 11% to way th.it the person Mh., wsa s.oong them of the tient, of litsteplirPys. was not 0)0 C. Hotitylsrers brloubing to the Public oMce. 'met. FROM SATURDIY CAZErri. Admiraltg•glicr. July 'lB, 1810. Copy of a letter Guam Captuno Mewls, of His Mtry,,,t ) 's ship the A rti;111411, audrrased to A. 1111410 LOA 611111' , 11'1 . nod „ trAie,o,tted by his Lordship ("Juba Wilson Cruk His Majesty's ship Areilinsa, sett Bellamy July it, ism. M Y Loeb—After a cutistsitattein with th e Jn',ta of Astziriss on the 424ti0 ultimo, I COllOOlllO.l 10 tr. clime on board of the squedron your Lorelehiv ;eta • been pleased to place under my c•ttrontiod, the. Brigadier-Genetal Varner, an 1300 of his soldiers, with the intention of beating op the enr. - my's quarters along Cie coast of Cantaleria and Biscay. in order to make a diversion of 6i. troo ! ,* • towards that aea.p'ota •io his posseesion, and dips .. iefi . ord seta opportunity for a cornhined movement the :•;pritish armies to Asturias, by coa,klite:g the enemy to detach more of his forces to oppo se us, and ) thereby weaken the interior of that itroviirce rod St. • Andero, or to suffer hie sea-deleteces ve be destroy ed, and his supplies c..astways cut off. the owe or other alternative appranng to me an i:!evitable re. sult of such moraine:tie. I have new the plersire of informing your Lordship, that we have eon!. pletely succeeded in the maritime pint of the ex. pertinent, without the lo•s of a single min.. Marinedestroyed all the blurrier (with the exception.rif Castro) frond St. Sebastian to St. Andero, on 'which were tumid about 100 piesesolliestry cannon utter, ther, and laid that whole extra of er.tire. ly hare of eleCmce. . . . Communications are thin, opened with these pro vinees, and the zealous attachment of the hill 'ln fants to the independence of their voun,ry tower. • tattled, should it hereafter be deemed expedient to act mi it. The strong port of Santona, earl the nom••rous batteries round Bernier) being diemardled, our ships will hive in future two I vor' iniehorages no the' coist i n westerly gale., as it will he u work of •rot - sidenth'e time mod labour to re-mount heavy can non on the varintis emitiencesof those places, whist must all be coeveyed ho sea, the country twitter Ito exit-emote mount,mons, 3 1 , 4 the ro•ids so bad, thot land eat riatze is almest oup•artietihle. The brigade of seamen and to trine, from the squadron tieing commanded Inli the Honourable Captain Ayliner, of the Nareis:ad,, his I••tter to me of the !ph instant will inform your Lordship of the events which took place on their binding at Santerni, sod dining the short time they oectiiird it. To the zeal and ability of that exciAleot !Art - Tr I tun much indebted, as well as to that of Capt. Bowles, of the Aldose, alit most anxiously solicited is he attached to the britode, and acted as second id command; Mr, Hugh Pearson, my First Lies.; . tenant, and Lieutenant Dcsbrisay, consmandlne the marines, diatinguishrd themselves 01,4 res. rippler!: conduct ; aa, is short. did ell the other officers and men composing the brigade. The disposition of the boats made by Captain • Galway of the Dryad, assisted by Ca-tain Joyce of - •, the AMAMI, at our different Sandhi -4s, was soya! `- diciolis as to prevent either et.nfosion or loss a hem the surf was frequently extremely dangerous to ap. 'mooch ; nor were the lei-vice" of Captain OILY* of the Cossack, le , s , inportant in forwarding every part of the various ditties going en both night andl day ; and I bate only to regret thot the early re treat of the enemy omi. the 7tti, deprives roe of set opportunity of ..mounting to your Lraditieli Lis entire delest amid si.i••• Having, by our landing at Santons, induced the enemy to *bunion several positions in the interior, 41 4 Sell as on the ses-eosst, in order to collect a suf. lima force to prevent our continuing iirponesaion of that place, 1 shall be happy to find that the so. min of Asturias, and of the mountains of Sr. An. derv, have brew put iu motion, during the absence a the French, which was the principle agreed upon between the Junta of Asturias and myself, bat ais yet I have no ttfortintion on that head. This expedition has, however, coat the enemy upwards of .260 men, besides an infinity of trouble and marching, and adding nigh don volunteers to General Porlier's little army. I ani also happy in having this opportunity of bearing testimony to the talents of that distinguished Officer, and the gal lantry of his small hand of Officers rod sohis. who, on every occasion, were emulous fir their own and country's honour. I sin now . proceeding westward, to land the Ge. nand and his men at Ribaden, ami shall feel happy if the complete success of this Lttle expedition. the zeal with which it has been executed, and the prin ciple on which it was undertaken, be hoeoured with your Lordship's approbation. I have the honour ti Le, &c. 11. MEN DS. Right Hon Lord Gambier, Admiral of the Dior, a.c. Narcissus, Jay Sta—Herrin I big leave to detail the proceed ings of the battalion of Seamen and Royal MP Skeet which you did nre the honour to place snider env coramarad, acting in cosjunctior. with, mod mailer the orders of Brigadier-General Porliev. • On the mowing of the sth instant, we landed with the Spanish force ou the beach to the west. ward of Sultana, and i.uweliately went forward to the town, which we entered witivout auv loss, the French retiring across the river ; our adven. e I guard under Lieut. Destirisay, of the minims of of the ilmuon, with the Spanish tirailleurs, suc ceeded in stopping a part of the rear guard of the French, after k:llinz two, and wolinetag a few more, and taking some privmets: in the course of the. day, Brigorlier.General Pettier tame off some if his meo on the road to St. Assdero, and Lieutenant Pearson, of the Areshasa, was detached with a wiry. of +molten tis destroy the guns in the forts, wh en wit ensnpl..!.•ly effected. • Th. lift was ernployel in mining the plate, is case of being attacked by the 1 7 ranch. whom Ilk had reason to capect would advance in farce from St. Amiens. On the morning of the 7th, we placed the host.' carronadcs on a hill which commanded **lsthmus le sdeog to the town. sad pasted the men elms t h e hedge. and vineyards in front of the position, the I,le ng riaia nn i i i4l z ,sitls .e i r p.n iit on a the test,res the Eighth, siths 'he Ipanteh tirsa lkere, iii the Ct sirS At about 11 eeTeck. e. R. a filing wits hea• ra. mid oar advanced poetise retirett.'closely folloatd by the Fren , h. The marines co .i ! essitig our outpost. sing. r Lieut. Fenikl, of the .. , frethrure. retired 1:1 tl.e mo,t, perfect older. Very shortly tlitt _