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London, England, 1809-01-30 00:00:00

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DREAM UL FIRE.

At half past roar, yest..rilay afternoon, a nio,t
alarming lire broke out at Warne's hotel, iti Co:I-
-duit-Areet, Bond-street. The bowl consisted or

two houses, being No. 19 HA ,20. The a ipear-
mince, on its first breaking out, was most frightttil.
A great body of smoke issued from the premises,
which entirely prevented the passengers from seeing
their way in the street. The inmates of the house,
including several gentlemen and &indica, dew iu
every direction. an instant afterwards, the
tones burst out front every window of the house,
and the whole side of the street, from the corner

of (}gorge-street, Hanover-square, to ,Hill-street,
was enveloped in flames, threatening destruction to
the whole neighbourhood. The drums beat to
arms, and the St. James's, Bloomsbury, and St.
ieorge\, Hanoi er-square, volunteers, repaired to
t 'mot with the e teat est alacrity. Engines arrived
all de fertions,b"ut water could not be immediately
It nearest. The lire be; ned with the greatest rapidity ;
tit, first I ..... ISe Ailm nearly consumed before t lie engines
could be brought to play with any effect, though
the firemen used every exertion in their power;—
the wind heing very high, the flames spread to such
ro extent, that It almost impossible for them
t.s woi k. M tuv of than rushed into the Hotel to
save some of the property, and, we are sorry to say,
that, a•rording to the latest account we could col-
lect, foar firemen mid a i.oy were missing. Tice
tire was got Ult,ler about nine o'clock at night.
The Hotel is entirely destroyed, and part of all 11.1
.01 ' g house, including the back premises. which
extend nearly to the gates of St. George's Chapel,
in George-street, Hanover-square. The evening
service was not over art the time the fire broke out ;

the Haines seen through the windows of the chapel
alarmed the congreg mon. The service was imme-
diately stopped, and the congregation made their
escape. Great confii,ion ensued ; the charity chil-
dren, who alway. attend there, ran in every direc-
tion—some without tivir hat., the girls witlinu-
ht./mists or Omsk.. ‘Ve are afraid that many per-
sons were hurt, as the confusion was were great, and
the eniigregation
church plate oat secured, as the Cha!e.i, at o:te
time, was thought in gnat datt.,er. (;rest praise
is due to the Earl of Chesterfield. Oa hearing of

the Resident, lie sent fort party of who in-
stantly repaired to the spot, and cleared the erir-
riages in Boud-street, which were four a-hreast, :eta
entirely impeded the progress of the engines. Earl
Percy also ordered the swine f.out Northuarber-
land Douse to intend ; and the Duke of Port-
land sent out a supply of tile to these who
were employed at the fire. Sir Walter Far-
eitikar ordered his servants to render every ab-
stinence. and great part of' the furniture saved
from the flames was brought into his honer. We
are sorry to say, that hi addition to the firemen
said to be missing, another was very ,nlieh injured;
tinr hair of his head was entirely burnt off, and part
of his clothes. lle was re,cited from his perilous
• situation by a milkman who served the house, and
ran to give every atsistaece; he was a1,.0 very much
burnt in the hand. lie head waiter is also said
to be missile; ; and it was repo, t•;i1 that two gaols.
suers rushed m to save their property, and that they
were buried in the passage by the falling in of some
of the ruins: we only give the latter as a report.
Most of the families that were in the hotel, as soon
as the alum was given, went to hater's and other
hotels, in Jerniya-street, St. James's.
The fire is said to have been occasioned by the
carelessness of the porter, who hail been to a cellar
under the staircase,coutaining birch wool, and lied
left his candle, and having a scuttle of coals to
take up at the time, lie locked the dour, leaving
the cradle human inside.

Yesterday, the Duke of liuda waited on the
Rt:su. and transacted buaciess with him. His
Royal Ifighnese could scarce get to Windsor for
the flood, which is so great, Eton and the College
are all (overflowed ; the oater Canal into his Royal
nightie's'. carriage. Ile was obliged to get out.
mud gtt into a cart, to be brought through Eliot.—
On hie return, he rode his horse as far as he could,
when he was conveyed to his carriage in a boat.—
The inhabitant. of Eton are till obliged to live up
stair. and peovisious and neceseories of life are
rabhge4 to be conveyed to them in carts and boats,
we is the case in all the villages nasal. Last
night. the tiftecti-arch bridge which crosses the
rood from Eton to Slough, was blown up. The
stages (Amon come into Windsor, stet are obliged
to put their passcosgers and luggage into boats and
runs to he conveyed. Otte of the privates of the
Staff in Regiment has been drowned; atel. we are
afraid, we shall hear more accidents. His Royal
the Duke of YORK behaved very hand.
stoutely to the man who took him in the cart, and
the man who took Isintiti the boat to his carriage on
his return.
A firmer, going frota Wi.olsor market t
home, at Stoke, was fidSheal away into the fields,
with his cart and horse : used,. load it net been for
the boats which went to his'amiatauce, be and his
horse must have been drowned.
'lit, Boadicea. Copt. ATI.LY ; and the
Captain Pyrs, are under orders to join Admiral
Bearre's squadron, at the Cape of Good
The /phigeeia frigate, Captain LAMBERT, sailed on
Saturday morphia for that station.
!Saturday, a battle took place in the Commereioil-
road, between a butcher, named Shown, and a la-
bourer in the I,l"est India Docks, named Reid, in
s oitsegitence of the former having set his bull-flog
to worry a little terrier passing at the time. After
lighting half an hour, the butcher had his jaw
broken, nail WAS carried off amidst the hootitig mid
hissing of several people assembled on the occasion.
On Saturday Was committed to Southainuton
gaol, John P 'aroma Garrett, for stealing n lani!,,
the pmperty of E.J. FOOTE. E.<9. ot'Wersast),--tte
INS apprehended at his father's house, at iti44-
mount, near that town. after a desperate resistonce,
having been pursued by a party ot dragoons. iu eta•
deavoitrilog to smoke his escape ; lie shot one of the
dragoons in the hand, and received liititsttf a
its the left hand, which confines) him id the tool :ill
he is fit to he removed to Winehester.—ii is a
maim of a notroiously had character, and had awn
de, lared I.e would never be t..ken vrss
arated itli three pistols, which he fired several
t •tties at those i., quest of biota. mad it was not till
Ina eve we. shot out by a dragoon, area he MI,
that he was taken.

LAW FATtik.rfiliki.k.

COURT OF CNA NCV,ItY, SATURDAY, J•n. as.
DAN K RC PETITIONS.
The CH itscEl.Lus, wishing to check the preva-
lence of petitions in eases bf bankruptcy, many of
which are presented without the bankrupts know-
ledge, dire,ted, for the future, that all bankrupts'
petitions shall be signed by nil the parties present-
in, them.
Messrs. RICHARDS and An in, however, rap:Nest-
ed, that an order so genre:ll in its terms might tie
attended with hICIIIIVeIiWiwv, as ua virtrierchip
firms, or in cases of temporary abseil' e firma the
country.
Ills Lordship expressed hiin,eif obliged by the
suggestion, and directed further, that in ilia:, of
partnership, the signature of one of the firm would
be sumcicr.t, and in ca.:es of absence, the :,etitiou
might be si4cied by a person authorised to under-
take. Au order was then directed to be then up,
embracing the desired object.

COURT or KING'S lIENCII, 3.11,31.

I.IUELS.

THE KING V. JOHN SRO% SE DELI. and JOHN DE

CAMP.

Mr. Serjeant BUST 141;;;;41 cause against a rule
obtained by the Attorney-General, calling on the
Defendants to sliew cause why a criminal infor-
mation should not be tiled against them, for two
libris winch hal appeared iii the we, kly news-
paper, The Natiund Ile4istee, in the months of
September and December last, relleetinv, on the
Governor and Guardians of the Foundling Hos-
pital. l'he Learned Serjeiist admitted thatthe ob-
servutious on thus charity, reflecting on its manage-
mint, were absolutely unfounded. lint 1114 e tics
fendants did not insert them through malice, as
they were per:'ectly e.aeituanited with and• of the
parttes who hail the management, and acted, bona
fide, tinder a mistake.
The ATTORII KT-GE/If:RAI. said, that these para-
graphs, which acre found iu publications ol this
kind, were the salt with which they made their
dishes palatable to the pablie ; so far was the
a!fidavit of the Defendants horn being au excuse
for what they did, that he nitwit to move for atlit-
ther cri sal information against them, on their
own affidavit, for another libel tai the Reverend
Gentleman who, performed divine service in the
Chapel of the tlaspital.—The Rule was made sub-
rolute.