The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-22 00:00:00

DREADFUL I.IRES IN EDINBURGH.

(From theNen:man. 1
It is our melancholy duty to record the most calamitous and de-
structive fire, we may rather say series of firm, ever witnessed in
this city. It broke out about ten o'clock on Monday evening, in a
tenement at the head of the Old Assembly-close, II ifeh-street, and
in premises, as we are informed, occupied by Mr. Kirkwood, the
engraver.
The alarm having been speedily given by the police, the fire-en-
gines followed one after another to the spot. From various obsta-
cles, a considerable period elapsed before they could be brought into
action, and even then the fire, which appeared almost simultane-
ously In the third and top. story, was in too high a situation to ad-
mit of their operating with much effect. Till eleven o'clock no-
thing but smoke was seen in front; and appearances seemed to
indicate that very ordinary exertions would be sufficient to subdue
the lire. About eleven, 'lames appeared in the windows of the
third flat, and spread with such rapidity, that before twelve, it
blazed out in immense volumes from all the windows, and when
the mof afterwards began to fall in, the building, with the creep.
lion of the ground fiat, presented one most terrific mass of flame.
The destructive element seized upon this tenement in the first in-
stance, but it was soon evident that it haul communicated to the
contiguous building on the west. Unfortunately it spread by the
upper stories, which the engines could not effectually reach. About
one, both tenements were blazing almost from top to bottom. The
spectacle was awfully sublime. The night was cool, with a low
breeze from the south-west ; and the moon and stars, seen
through the whirling cloudsof fiery flakes and sparks, appeared of
a pale blue colour. The burning tenements, like all those of an
old date, had in them a very great proportion of wood. This in.
creased the blaze ; and the showers of burning embers, Hakes, and
sparks, wafted by the wind over the town, spread terror even amorg
those who lived at some distance. From the second tenement the
flames now spread to a third, still to the westward ; and from the
third, about two or three in the morning, to a fourth, namely, the
tenement next the old fishmuket close, the first flat of which is the
publishing-office of the Ediosbwrch Cerruti. Fortunately, the
thick and solid gable of the building beyond this, arrested the pro.
gross of the devouring element in that direction. But long before
this it had diffused itself backward among the old tenements on the
two sides of Borthwick's.close. The engines had been playing oc-
casionally all this time, but with extern's', little effect ; the oar_
lowness of the closes, and the height of the buildings, were great
obstacles ; but it must be added, that there was a total want of or-
der, arrangement, and combination in working them. Where they
could be brought tobear upon the flames, their power was great.
In the front tenements the fire had sunk so far by seven o'clock
in the morning as to be no Wager alarming, having, by that time,
nearly exhausted its aliment. In the back tenements it was nearly
subdued by eleven o'clock. The four front tenements occupied a
space of about 120 feet in length, and are in general six stories
high. The buildings destroyed behind extend about as fat down
towards the Cowgate.

TrESD•Y.
The engines remained in the street during Tuesday forenoon, to
keep down the fire, which aliened a tendency now and then to rise
front the smouldering ashes, and the wind, which hail increased to
a strong gale, still scattered fiery showers. About 12 o'clock a cry
bursting from the crowd in the street, announced that the spire of
the Trun Church was set on tire by. some of those flying brands.
The upper part being composed entirely of wood, the flames soon
made their way through it, while the lead covering was seen pouring
down its sides. In a short time it was completely enveloped in
flame, and presented a most singular spectacle. Its pillars being
undermined, the wooden part tell to the eastward, with a great
crash. Seine fragments of the burnt beams fell upon the roof of
the church, but they were either removed or extinguished by the
men placed there. The body of the church escaped without little
injury, but the carpentry of the spire was consumed to the bottom.
The second fire had nearly subsided by four o'clock, and it was
hoped that the conflagration had reached its close ; but about 10
o'clock anew fire broke out in the high old tenement at the south-east
corner of the Parlianient-square, which reaches back towards the
Cowgate. ft commenced on the top flat (from what cause is un.
known, for it is situated to windward of the buildings previously
burned, and had not the smallest connection with them.) By
eleven, this huge old pile, nine or ten stories in height, was blaring
in the upper flats ; and by three in the morning, all its floors and
wooden work were burnt down to the foundation. The strong
wind carried the burnt matter over the buildings to the eastward,
even in greater abundance than on Monday. No one knows where
the mischief will terminate, and a general feeling of alarm hss
diffused itself through the old town. The proprietors of all the
buildings of much value have stationed men on their roofs, to pre-
vent an of the floating embers front lisisg on the wooden work.
sir William Forbes and Co. (the bankers) have removed their
books, and the Crown officers have been taking precautions for the
seety of the Parliament House and the Court of Exchesitisi.
One of the most pitiable scenes, arising out of the present cala-
mity, was exhibited at the police office on Monday night and yester-
night. The upper court was tilled with moveables of every pox-
sible description ; the receiving room, lower court. Ac. with every
variety of character. %Women and children seeking abc!!er ; the
wounded seeking help; constables seeking flambeaus; the owners
and occupiers of destroyed houses seeking apace and security for
books, papers, and valuable property ; the curious and the olli..ious;
the destitute, the criminal, the alarmed, the hitosicated, and the
temporarily deranged, were all congregated together.
The number of persons who receivesd bodily injuries at the fire
on Monday night was seventeen, of whom three aredangerously
hurt. Last night a fireman and a dragoon were seriously wounded,
and carried to the Infirmary. There are probably more sufferers,
of whom we have not heard.

The number of poor families burned out and plunged into the
depths of misery and want is great ; but it will gratify the public to
know that the land Provost made immediate application to the of.
beers of government, and obtained the use of t,inecnsberry Rouen

to afford temporary shelter to those who have beat thus digstaael,
their houies.

We are sorry that we cannot extend our praise to the brmansioss
department ; but the cause of the want of organization here ought
to be known. lo Edinburgh, hitherts, neither the maesbacy ant
the police have had either engines or men for working thew of
their own, or disciplined by themselves. Engines were kept by
such Insurance °Hires as chose to do so, and in suck otaisber
and with such men as they chose; and in action. the men, jr*ies
of cite!! other, Wit under no proper sabardina:iont no: has any
plan as yet been organized for working the engines. and sieppollift
them with water. Recently, however, a treaty has, been Wrinegfi
with most of the Insurance Offices Ibr placing their engiret in tin
bands of the police, and subscribing a sitm towards tho expease of
maintaining them. A Superintendent of G-e
-engines has also beet'
appointed, hut, ui,luckily, this fire broke out before it 11a3 pcomblo
for him to have the engines transferred, put in older, and men to-
played, taught, and organized. From the terrible consequences
which. it is now seen, may arise from fire in Edinburgh, we mit.
I have these matters put on a proper fooling, let tke tax upcn tha
habitants be what it may.

WEDNVIDAY.
The flames have new communicated to the large noire e( lone.
menta bunt en John's Coffee-11mile and the inner angle tbs
square, so th-a the destruction of the whole of the east aide if en
square is certain. There is every prospect that the tenements
joining to Mr Eachequer Court will be saved.
Ekren n..n.—,lt tone o'clock the lands in the Parliament-miners
fell dorm alai a prodigious crash. No material altetation,, aro be
here, has since taken place. The engines CAI continua en play as
the piaci' where danger d. apprehended; and it i. to be hotedt
that, front the measures that are taken, the ravages of the Lae way
at Liu be stopped. We bear that, in the court* of the incrnbig
two soldiers have been killed, and several persons dangerously
wounded. The city still cuntinnts in a state of Via deepest ave.
don and slum.

In addition to the preceding intelligence from the Seoccicura, wet
have been favoured by a gentleman with the tullowirT extract of a
private letter, dated Ildinburgh, half-past three o'clock on Wodaam.
day afternoon

The tiro is raging ten times worse than ever. The Parlies
ment-square caught fire at ten o'clock last night, and before seven
this morning was levelled with the ground, not one stone left tippet
another. sir Wm. Forbes and Co.'s banking.house,, and the Fars
lisment House, are in great danger; every thing is removed out ui
them. When Mr. J. W. Ilrougham's wine-vaults t ink fire tin
blaze was terrific (they are in Parliament-square). Showers of tiro
passed down the High-street about eight this morning, setting fire
to earruber's.close, a good way below the North-bridge, en the
opposite side of the street. It it still burning, but not making
great pingress; plenty of water pouring upon it.
" The tire has now readied lialf way down the High.street en
the tide where it began. The wind is an high, that it is impossible
to say when it may be got under, or where it may stop. Besides
the town engines, the Leith, I)alkeith, and Hopetoun House ones
arrived about an hour agn. I understand the Glasgow ones
arrived about an hour ago. All business is at a stand, every one
doing his utmost to save the city from destruction. When the
fourteen story land (house) in the Parliament.square fell, the scelits
was Inns; awful ; several of the cavalry were nearly buried, with,
their horses ; none however were severely hurt ; screed foot aol.
diers were rani.d to the Infirmary in a lifeless state. From 200 to
2MI families are now houseiess. The fire is raging in so many
places that tiny don't know where to work the engines first. The
Duke of lloccieuch's engine, with sin horses, with a party of ye,
men at full speed, have just rut our window. Such a scene !
dreadful, awful ! we ourselves are in considerable alum a a
men have orders to be in their houses, so that they niay be got :t
wanted. This moment my attention has been called to us four
dead bodies carried to the Infirmary."

Extract of another letter, dated Edinburgh, Nov. 17, half-past
seven, P. M. :....

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" l sit down to write you a few hurried lines, containing Eunice
particulars than those enumerated in the &Wends newspaper. of
which I have sent you a copy. The scene, at half-past live this
morning, as mentioned in that paper, was as as fully grind and
sublime as it was heart-rending anti frightful. At the hour of six,
when the east angle of the Parliament-square, seven stories high,
and with a ►ine of fourteen windows to the front, and above twenty
to the back, was in one mass of flame, I considered the v.dinle cite
gone : the south angle was burning too, but not to the extent, as
the same moment.

" At eight, a.m. the massy thick walls partly fell, with a tre.
mendous crash : only one artilleryman was injured—l fear mor-
tally; another, and two of the Royals sprung from the piste* on
which they stood directing the engine into the windows of the south
anglo and were safe.
" At twelve, the fire raged in the Cowgate, and the Lord Pro.
void carried off the engines, in defiance of the protrut. of the Lord
President of the Court, Lord eillf.tiCo Clerk. land Advocate, and
King's Remembrancer. These individuals instantly set above of o
hundred men to work to pull down the only remaining land ad.
joining the Court of Session, which is elevin stories to the back.
This has saved these Courts. The newly fitkd-up Jury Court and
Chambers in the east and south angle of the square are gone, on
which, It is said, 40,0041/. have been expended.
" At four this afternoon another wall gave way, and only one of
a party of men is saved. This man I have just conversed with : he
tells me there were about a score, he thinks, with him, directing the
three Naval-yard engines. All these arc buried. Three have -been.
got out; but they are only the remains of torn. Farther I need
not shock you by narrating. They had evidently been instantane-
ously launched into eternity. The ruins cannot be approached t)
dig for the rest !—Melancholy to relate, the gable of the cast utry?ui
of the Parliament-square, which forms consequently a part it
south angle, and has long been known as the highest house in the
city (some calling it fifteen or sixteen stories high, but in which I
could never make more than eleven or twelve), I think stands soli-
tary, threatening destruction to the numerous dwelling. beniestn.
The houses, of course, are deserted, and military stational at all
the avenues, to prevent access. Having procured two kites, a gees
tleman tried to fly one over these coitus, from the top 01 the court.
with a line attached to the tail, in order to get up a cord, but the
rain destroyed his kites, and his abets were unavailing. Some
seem to think this a new fire, because it was to windward of the
other. It is true those sparks blew to the eastward which ascend-
ed above the houses in fllme.; but this far I know, that all tbit
morning I worked at the engines to windward of the burning lands.
and frequently we had to stand to many minutes and work with
nor eyes shut, amidst a heavy fall of sparks, a. thick as sty snow.
storm. The houses now burned are not a hundred feet to windward
of those on fire last night, and when sparks did not rise to the levet
of the top of the houses, they flew whit raging and whirling :try ira
all directions.

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Our streets are covered with furniture, watched by the most
miserable creatures. If I Raid hundreds were houseless in my lust.
I should say thousands now, were the Lord Pmvost's foresight not
so praiseworthy in procuring Queensberry Ilarracks for the unkt-
tunate.

•' There is no hi:cinema done—our l'iiiirt of Stnaion adjourned—
the King's Signet actually removed Iron' the Mike to the D•pu:v
lieeper'v house—half the shop-keepers with their shops empty, and
others with their gnodv ready packed. In fact, the town cannot be
said to be tranquil, and few will lie down to sleep in security se
the Old Town to.night.
" " _

" (UARTEIt PAST Etottr.—The fire is pretty well got under,
thehnt streets are so full of military th3t I cannot get nerr. : the
wind is still very high. I forgot in mention that an openin, has
been made in the middle of the street, from the Castle to the High-
street, to carry down a stream of water. At three o'clock, ah. use
in Carruber's-cloae, a great way down the street, took tire troni
the sparks, but it was soon got under."

We are happy to find, front the Cakdonian 3frreur or
Thursday, that the fears which the receding letter is calculated
e' rites, hare rot been realized. The fire in Uarruhcr's-elose wialt
pit under on IVedneaday aflernoon ; and from that time, up to the
publication of the paper, nothing of importance had occurred.
Two persons arc known to have lost ther Pres; three others are sic
dargerausly hurt that they are not er.pected to recover; and
Nis have received severe injuries by the falling of wills, :s.e. IS
appear, that genie suspicions are entertained that the lire wbt
broke out in Parliament-square, on Tuesday right, was the we:ic
of art incendiary ; and a woman is now in custody on the charirt.

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AfFETINGS OF CREDITORS
•T 22222 U PT!. COURT, 11AC)14)111ALL-sTIEVT,

TO-MORROW.

THIIILD MCETINGP.
Davis, S. Great Surrey-street, Blac I. mars-road, dealer in drugs
Eveleigh, F. & S. Union-street, southwatk. hat-nianutac.turers
Belling, E. fledford-dreet, Bedford-row. painter - -
I I yslop, J. Ipswich, grocer - - - - -
Martindale, B. jun. Bedford-place, Illoolusbury-square.
money-scrivener - - .
Metcalf, F. Friday-street, u holesale lion-draper - -

SECOND NZETIBOS.
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Siren, E. Princes-street, Soho, whalebone-merchant
I 'nog, J. Austin Friars-passage, merchant . - •
Johnsione, T. 0. Wear Quecm.street, Lincoln's Inn.ti
dealer in n.nsie - •
Johnstone. P. J übilee-place, Commercial-road, Illitlailest s
linen-draper
Lee. P. C. and Ballard, W. Ilammersmith, linen-draper •

FIRST IitETINLS.
Oantner, C. Mile-End-road, merchant - - -
Sell, J. George-street, Tower-hill, cheesemonger - -
tiolonto t, M. Great Prescott-street, thoodmau'a-fsekts, hard-
- - -

DIVIDENDS. - - -
Rath, W. Copenhagen-house, Islington, victualer • -
Bummer, J. W. New London-street, numbs tt
Hooper, J. Tooley-strect, Southwark, chemist - -
Longhorn, 11. and Braibbford, W. Iltil•klershuce, Inetzhat-5
Lea. W. and J. F. Paternoster.row, ribbon-inanufacturt -
Minott, S. and Crease, 0. Philpot-late, merchants . -
Nelson, W. Jewin.crescent, Aldertgatirstrett. brewer
Robinson, D. Wapping, ship-chandler -
*allainat W. Cork-street, Burlin;ton-gardcts, talk I

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3 pee I 'eat. (..n, '444 96
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pas Crilt. Iteinced 1014 1
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%par, jail 11)121) 21
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1.1. Mr. Se.er n 11 t F.11..t. t'lll/4.1.1, Mit fintltlsmol.
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RW►YA/.. CitVENT-GARDEN.
'rile Leaning, Mt IN DA V. N.... Bt, will be performed
g. FAIA I. MAIM At.lt
Wren. Mr. Kernble; tlarl..s. Mr. It, ',net.. .Per..y, Mr. I:eoper.
hatolle. We. Shanan.
After whleb.
THE MILIAN Alt4lt ittti AWN.
Grindoff, Mr. York"; Carl, Mt. lhanetwr.l I...ttsCr. Mr. Cooper.
Mr+. Vining: Marine. Mr. ►.nett.
I".nsorr..w, per ► roleehuts. And (*buries the Secood.

THEATRE ROY. 11„ EN91:1SII OPER.4 HOUSE,

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Pltsll IVIs:1.1,"1 Ilk LAST NIIIIIT.
It s reeperifolly mitred, that Is, eonee.pseneo of the Immense
porpfhom lesedier rVellilig. and this •r sossofory of alMileallohe
Ise one shore performance .4 the "Trip to Anse•leas" Mr. Mathews
has been prevailed oss to postleme hie slepartose.....l to repast that
celebrated Vessionsiornesst *1 Isla Lyman', berme! which "sectaries; It mill
les imposashl• to delay Me lowlier

WI. II %rimy's A'r
P.ls StiesMA Y. No, ??, with I •••••• nn
hstiwirr, tilasiners, founded oil viiCosi• and Adv.n
t3r6m during his ikte
Two To AMEIIII

111. BRITISH rPICSS conia.rneed Imhll•hing on Saturday men-
inn at five clack.

LONDON, MONDAY. NOVO:1111MR tea, JIC

Last night we received the Paris Papers, morning and
evening, of Friday. The kiolie relates some further con-
firmations of the defeat and th 'unction of the Turkish
fb.et ; and it states, o* the authority of a private letter, that
the CAPSTAN PACIIA has been beheaded in the presence of
the Sul TAN, in the inner court of the Seraglio. This is
the customary fate of all the unsuccessful warriors of the
forte. The late CA PI T• N PAC Il• is the fourth who
Eas perished because he could not vanquish the Greeks.
pleasure I' 11 A 11113 escaped the vi,itation of his Sove-
reign's anger, by falling among the sinill, at the last pas-
sire of the Straits of Thermopyhe. The if.mileur of Fri-
day contains no official article, nor any recent news worth
extracting. The nn! des Debuts, for want of more im-
portant matter, is filled with the Report of the Council of
Health fur the City of l'aris, sharing the last year ; and
the Coarfifefifsail gives a long history of the Jesuits,
which we may perhaps, to-morrow, lay before our
readers: it is of Pone interest at this moment, when re-
ligious controversy engages so notch of the public
attention. The extracts we have riven from the private cor-
respondenre of the I %.sirrier Fra•fori4, describe the more
of public instruction to be followed in future in Spain.
F PDI SAN II is eisileasouriog to mi., an army of 300,000
olen for his defence, now that his French guards arc about
to be withdrawn. The corps of 2.0411) men, who were to
be embarked at Comma fur the Havanna!), have inn-
Oiled and desert d. Thus is it that the 'loins of bigotry
and ilespotihni 'ankh.
It was not I ;mend BAI tnort. Enos who was admitted to
an audience by the I/As ruts, but NlOllll 11.11. The same
olorreatious are applicable to each. Thc Na. object
call hardly be mistaken.
Lord tin.% NV I 1.1. hail a private audience of the King of
FRANCE 1111 W1:11111141ay. His public reception canton
take place until after the full moor !! itt of the Court has
expired. Ills MAJ I are ttmtinuCs his gracious career to-
wards all parties. The Duchess Dt.e•zi ais confined, and
the KING in among the number of those who have made
inquiries after her health.
FRE NUN N as, Nov. 19.—Tire per rents. opened
at 101 f. Vic., It sisk Stock 1.90;7f. Gls. ; Neapolst.tot fr per Cents.
Falconer's certificates, 119 a ; Reuses d'Espagtor, 111{.; Royal Spa-
nish I.oan, 13.23. bm; Larisange London, one month, 25f.;
three ditto, 24i. Arles_roar, ,bdhrnaigrr, N.... 19.

The Brumls Papers of Saturday reached our office last
night, toget her with others from Amsterdam and lamburgh
their most interesting contents will be found in another
column. The efforts of the British Governtnent for the
suppression of the Slave Trade, have, it appears, been sue-
ce,sfully directed with respect to Sweden and the Nether-
lands. At Stockholm a convention has been signed, by
whic7i the pnwectiim of the Swedish flag will be withdrawn
from this odious traffic, and the Stater-1:mml of the Ne-
therland, are considering the ;inject of a law submitted by
them to the Kona, according to which the guilty parties
will be pueisheil with hard labour for fifteen years, a
tine of 10,000 florins, anal the confiscation of the vessel.
Measures are alsa in contemplation for the melioration of
the condition of the Negroes in the Dutch ramie".
"flie floods are slowly subsiding, lint great damage has re-
stated front them. The rumour of a worms, on the afl'sira
of the Greeks is repeated. It is stated that the Austrian
Cabinet has been occupioil for sonic time with the consi-
deration of a plan proposed by the Court of St. Peters-
burgh for the pacification of Greece. The question of
pacification of this territory has tom, settled by the Greeks
themselves. The only question that remains to be decided
is the mode and shape of their admission as an independent
Power, to • recognised political existence. We hope, fur
the sake of humanity, that the Allied Sovereigns may lw
disposed to 11104..iiii ion in their reimisitions upon these
Rallant and noble people.

The opinion we gave on Saturday respecting the Irish
Catholic Association. his !Well confirmed by the proceed-
ings of those etilirlst.i. -1 le •islatora on IVednestlay last.
The Tuition of Mr. M.l N N salary as Agent, was
then to have been further considered, but all objection was
rather unexpectedly nised to his appointment by a fanatic
whose sentiments were worthy ft' the best days of the holy
liniu:s.tion. Mr. M'lfossi t o. has et tted the sin of
motility; a Protestant wife, and has sutli•red a female
a 1.1141 to ic haptiscd its a Protestant church. 'rl►e Finance
'outwit tt a ha•l propose.'. to reduce his allowance to :it Pa per
ammo,. bet the Catholic biro who dessounced him, in-
sisted list virs.c.a of this halt-he►ei should not he
accept' at any rate. .1 stormy and violent scene
ensued, unit it was finally determined to adjourn the
qutitiuts for a week. To balance, as it were, the mischief
which the hiss exalted itiembers seemed to apprehend from
this I'l.l3'lolEs display of orthodoxy, Mr. ()Touts est after-
wards brought finnand a ridiculous Orange document, on

which he purposes to found a motion not touch less ridi-
culous. It 11l d now he clear, we think, that either this
Association will be dissolved by its intemperate conduct,
or that it will fall into the management of a set of blind
and violent bigots, who will utterly disgrace the cause they
afbct t' advocate, aml disappoint, for another generation,
the hopes of their more intelligent and respectable associates.
Anothi r such exhibition as !last of Wednesday must con-
wince every rational Catholic of the egregious ahsurility of
looking to such a body to produce any but injurious effects
as to their expectations of relief from the Legislature.

We are much gratified to learn that the Recorder's Re-
port will nut be laid before his MAJESTY till ‘Vtllneaday
next, as the interval will affiard more time for deliberation
on the case of Mr. Fa UNT LEROY, and for the developeniens
of those mat-merits which have induced the creditors of the
house of Mans,' and Co. to petition his M to res-
pite his sentence, that he may assist in unraveling the
complicated concerns of the bankruptcy, and thus putting
it out of the power of Messrs. MARSH, STRACILY, and
GRAHAM to avail themselves of the want of Mr. FAUNS'.
I it aov's evidence to substantiate certain facts which it has
become of the utmost importance to ascertain, and without
which evidence a considerable portion of that property
which should go to the creditors, may, circuitously, anal by
subterfoge, leave been conveyed into channels, through
which it may hereafter secretly find its way to the part-
ners, without the possibility of such fraudulent transfer
being plainly, clearly, and completely brought home to the
parties, either NT whom or to whom such transfer may
have been made. The assignees, it is clear, will not have
the means, without such assistance, of discharging their
duty to the creditors, because, without it, they will be
unable to discover either to what extent Messrs.
MARSH, STRACRY, and GaaHAM are implicated in the
transaction■ charged (Missive& on Mr. Fawn-realms ;
if, as is alleged, the whole practical management of
the money concerns of the banking home was conducted
by lion, he alone can strip them of that confusion
anal paid( xity, in which it would be the interest of the
no riving- partners, in the event of Mr. neuters-sewer
death, to keep them involved, because whatever charges
were made against them, anal which it would require his
evidence to lamppost, would then fall to the ground. The
transactions which even Me last leg days have disclosed show
the extreme importance of Mr. FAUN TYE nor's being exa-
mined, for the purpose of enabling the assignees to arrive
at a knowledge of the purposes to which sums of money to
a great extent, beyond Muse connected with the charges
against Mr. FAUNTLEROY, hare been applied. Enough
has already been discovered to show that Messrs. MA rem,
Srnacty, and t;aanAM, were not those easy, innocent,
confiding victims which they have insinuated themselves to
be', anal which the Times Journal would feign have lead
the public believe that they were. Mr. FAENTLIROY.II ex-
amination as to all the transactions of the firtn can alone
insure justice to the creditors. No form of procreelieg
conducted without it can either detect the frauds which
harp been, or defeat those which 'nay be, practised.
Before we conclude, we would say a word on the prece-
dents which base ht-ell referred to, to prove that the crime
of forgery has he•n in some instances pardoned. It is ex-
t-eniely natural, in a case like the present, and in behalf
of an individual who has excited so much of the public
sympathy, to refer to cases to which the mercy of the
Crown has been extended, in reply to any objection that
might arise from the present being supposed to he excluded
by its nature front any such intercession. Fur ourselves,
we are not inclined to lay so much stress as some might to
disposed to do on the weight of precedent on such an occa-
sion. We would rest the claim of Mr. FaesTeeeov's
case to the merciful consideration of the Crown, on those
grounds on which alone it ought to rest, anal by which, we
feel assured, it will alone be governed, via. its owe peculiar
eircumstaners--thc previous character of the ofrender—the
'notices by which lie was actuated—anal those points aria-
big out qt. the jiwts of the ease which apply to it reclusively.
As far as the unfortunate Mr. FAVNTLEROT is himself
concerned, these are the essential circumstances to be con-
templated, because it is such circumstances which create a
precedent even when they find Nose. Where precedents do
mist, they arise out of the facts and considerations con-
nected with each particular case, anal which therefore can-
not govern other cases. Mir precedents, therefore, would
not weigh with a mind so reflective as Mr. !Per 's, as in-
ducing his earnest recommendation of any particular case
to the Royal mercy, either to connate the punishment or
to respite the sentence. But if, es iii the unhappy case of
Mr. Far wr a RIOT, its peculiar circumstances furnish just
grounds of appealing to the., merciful exercise. thus ,tsar, of
the Royal prerogative, the support which leis known disposi-
tion would prompt
justice as well as of humanity.
With regard to the petition of the creditors, that is urged
on separate grounds ; and highly honourable as such a pe-
tition is to Mr. Far syresuoy, it rests ou considerations
which, ureetit as they are, are totally distinct (roan those
on e•hich Me pahlic appeal on his behalf is made. The in-
terposition of the Royal prerogative is there prayed for, on
the ground of the very peculiar predicament in which the
all'airs of the firm of Nl,lllllll NISI cu. at present stand, and
the immense loss that they are collectively exposed to sus-
Wet, if the assignees are deprived, by the death of Mr.
r•I'STI V Rots. of all access to that information which is in-
dispensable to the just and true diselostite and discovery of
every thing connected with the partnership rOIIiSTII6, which
no doubt will be found studiously intricate and mysterious,
anJ which information can be attained through no other
channel than that of his peruntal examination, and the dis-
closures to which that examination will lead. All !tenons
conversant with accounts know how easy it is finally to
perplex names, satins, and elates, in a manner best cal-
culates' to elude inquiry and defeat investigation, in tine
event of their undergoing, fur public purposes, a public
examination.

We hare still thus notch, not only as doubting the jus..
lice, hut as obviating the necessity, of resorting to prrre-
dent, in support of those }petitions to the Throne, which
arise, both on the part of the public and of the creditors,
from the peculiar circumatanc. s of :1 cute in itself sinprere-
skated, sod which sustain their prayer to their Soy stIEIGN
on much higher 21111 weightier g Is.

BAN RI mo.—We stated lately that the royal bank had
reduced the rate of interest on d; posits from three to two
per cent. This week the bank of Scotland, the British
linen company, the Commercial bank, Messrs. Kinnear and
SOns, Itaiewey, Boners. and Co.. and Sir William Foibes
and Co., have followed the example to a certain extent, by
notifying, that after the Slit of December, they will allow
only lieu and n ',qt• per cent. The first and last of the
houses named add, that for sums those :Looot the interest
will only lie two per cent. We undershird the banks in
Kalinburg,li are at present loaded with money, fer whit h
they cannot find any advantageous investment. We know
that a person, 'wetly well informed as to the state of the
money business hen., catiniatta the amount of unemployeil
capital at the banks at more than jive millions sterline—rt
sum p..rhaps exceeding considerably the entire capital of
Scotland at the Union. The funds yield at present scarcely
more than three per cent. with the chance of a heavy loss
in withdrawing the investment when it may Is' wanwd.
land is selling at such a price, that estates newly purchased
yield only from two to two and a half per cent. Never
W:l3 'he capitalist so touch at a loss how to turn his
money to account, and live decently on the produce.—
Sc,•tsmax.

THE BRITISH PRESS.