The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-09-11 00:00:00

FRAUDULENT REGISTER OFFICE.

Thoreau Tres!ar, oho kept a ft. yister Office for hiring of
terwants on Chaltentrell Freer, was Wool's' up "Is the cos-
-tody of Won. Road, jou. for a record exansinatioe, Owed
Ay Elizibeth Moffat with onl4wfully, know iogly, and by
t>♦ler yietenees obtaining of her 3s. her money, with Intent to
chest and defiant' her of the same.

It appeared from the stet. merit of the Coal!)laisaat, as
istaresisog looking &soak, that also had paid the Priasswer
3s. to procure her a allotting ;Abel be had scot her so a M.
'Sittge irk, Maaur•place, Walworih, sad upuls her sashimi
•ppliestiun there she learned that Mrs &Myrick had never
tweet in want of • aervant, our had are givers instructions to
uh• Prisons r vu pruiride het one.

Tbree viber chary it of a eiatiise mature were preferred
agraisrst the vibe was reasaaded *ill Friday sex,
An liff. Sedg IT ick aad the ushers were entered to alteud.

A very singular sud lamentable instance of sod-
as-Li death occurred at Brighton on Monday. Mr.
SPRoI.C, a ristlenian of fortune, arrived Oil Sunday
last, a. d put up at the Gloucester Haiti, to the
landlord of which inn he was well known as an old
vustonier. o,s Monday morning he went to &Inhu-
med's, on the west cliff, and ordered a shower bath,
'fits) a Inch he placed himself ; when he was ready,
she bath war, in the usual manner, discharged
upon him. when, shockiug to relate, he fell in-
•asontly dead. Every medical assistance will
• immediately called in, and the most skilful
tiviumeist adopted to restore euspended vintner.
von. but aithout dire,. His death is sup-
• posed to have been produced by the shock being
tiosi severe fur a triune already much debilitated, or
Itues oproploky. The bath was nut unusually
'charged, bat was precisely as the deceased had used
it befure. Ilte Coroner was on the spot, and
Jury •ssa imp% diotely eurnissowed, who returned a
yes (het —MO* the wieiterieA 4.4 The body
wati talierso4lotitrattuved to a piniate beam for in-
tetthept. -;


ANOTHER CALAMITOUS FIRE.
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Yeeterdly neentied, shame tee mi•••••bi'to••••• 6.eillick,
s Are broke out is the lower put of the premiers sf Mr.
Myers, soviet., procilviamsfeeterer, loser wt. Primers
street BM, ItiebaliMA street, St.' Amino, Bobo. A. Moil
was gives toy perspire who nhoweved OM and ...k. isms-
ist themigh the shop wisdom', ml *ire secidestelly
kzet
passing. At. Ibis time, all pewee' Ihe home molt
buried is ekes. A meet soon pretested its if Wirth do.
Iles descripikie: toed shoals of Are; MAOr of smithers,
with childrew it their boom., elmeit iii ef Ilmtlil, I
soismbers of sees, wanes, sad ' . ag out of
their houses and slots Me skiellil IM IMMIri at •
distaste from the devastatimg• Midteill; I esieslows ef
almost every house in the meigblisoirtilii filled with the
imhshiissits, mixiiiiisly inquiries, ." Am we safer' others
rensiving their property tutu St. Atom's -ellareh-yarel, sot
piecing their i t helpless babes ea beds iii the .pee
sir. The bootee of Mr. Myers bed berm very emosider- '
ably before be we soy of the lodge's were scopostamed
with their danger. Old Mr. Myer., hie wife, a, son, mod
daughter, got est at • side dour (the emisuee so the pre-
seism occupied by Mr. Myers, joie. is the music sod violie
betimes.). Mr. Myers was mooch burst, having &egged
owe of his toss out of a mom en the Arm Aver, *hes veer-
loped in Awes; the sem was also setecbed. A lodger se
Mr. Myers was ishoerved at Dee of the wisdom', emilleg
is the most sgonostmg rommer fur essistaure! his eperloweet
was Ailed with woke; be struck his head in • state of des.
pair, and lespeoftleitrogb the wieduo ; Ow common fewer
had bees opidid, end be fell egotist the timber miller
which had bees mimed round the cavity; be was takes up
apparently ti hfehnis corpse. Mr. Myers, his son, sod Me
firmer man, Shit wis s lodger, were earned to Al idiestreiho
Jabot i tee, of /he. are mot expected to survive. A=g 1
k Ni.? Mr; Myers is believed to have bunt( so Y
he slept ko il room 'et the back of she bower, aid old Mr.
Myers ovoid not perinea to it in cosespiesee of the
Mentes rubbing up the stair.esse. A lodger sod tore laird
children are misortl, and it is believed that they have sloe
fell victims to die ferry of the leases. Four houses ire,
completely destroyed.Vuturiesately, no water could tkr
obtained to supply the regimes sill hell' se bow Mkreollite'
Are bed begss to rage, or the power of the Mslied IMillike
soon have been slopped ; sad the chief engine. wen MAIM ti
lire is Greercherib loner, in the City, sod it was pee* tilt;
o'clock before the smolt, enemies could be brought M Oki
with effect. The Grit Amor of Mr. Alyeres house web ie.
espied by a Gestlenosa who was a dealer is pietist* t reed
the stock of picture., some of which were very valosbiti....
chiefly by old messes.—sure costively destroyed. The ps.
rill officer* streto'd Ss. Awe's Church, end received the
goods of the isoloilittants is the aisle soil vestiy. The dis-
tress of the families whom whole property is destroyed,
was truly hears-rsailing ; and they were sot issued to owe.
tenth petof I ler value. By right o'clock the dames were
gut smiler. The homer of Mr. Stork, She perste Sarater,
was destroyed. A house at the beck broke out is I vies at
a little if,,, eight, which was sous put out. The thieves
were very busy' is cousevresee of the sant of police officers;
'Ouch deliciescy was supplied by a d torhinest of foot
guard., which strived very opportunely, sod were of great
service. By site o'clock the Are was eumpktely ratio.
gu is& d.

DREADFUL FIR;
IN GRACECHURCH SUMO'.
[FURTUIR PARTICULARS.]

At about • quarter before two o'clock on Sunday meirainiet
a .yeiweig moan, porter in the employ of Messrs. Southall aced
Remit k, the umbrella-makers, jumped ems of bed, sad ran
hetet the Good roues on the second Sour, in which lay two
other piling men, both of whom he having awoke, told them
be feared tine* es were in the house, as be had leeen alarmed
by • iferllMlldWie 1112.11, just before. One of the peones seen
weal duos owe pair if stairs, sad lea looking Ihruwih the
bark window tutu VI hoe Hart-coart, he them fouled into be
estirely in I I.me of Ire ; he instantly ran up stairs Si. the
attic slaty and roused the three female servants, oho, is •
slate of nudity, escaped at the top of the house, an I drop-
ping &eft ode boost to the utter, were at last taken into the
house of M Low and Pevrtress, the stationers, h way of
the trap•dmir; the young men narrow', escaped at the street.
dour. Mr. Female,' and his family were luckily at their house
at Clapham at the time of the conflagration. &greedy • se-
cond had elapsed after the servants left alien the whole was
enveloped is flames, and eummuuicating fast to the boost
of Mr. Rimed's, the rheesewitinger, which in • fi w murnests
after became a prey to the conflagration. At this mamma
the parish engine arrived, but not possessing Barmiest
strength mad power to reach the names, which had 'allied
such a tremendous ascendancy, its services were hut of
leak ur no utility. Luckily the engine beluugiug to the
Lonelna Insurauce arrived, and was soon sal so work, and
played with surprising activity. It ass at this period
that the three aufetriunate ast• Josh. Rancid and Wil-
liams Perkins, both helosegtog to Ate London, and Andrew
Jackems, • tarot ock, belonging to the New River Company,
went into the ',remises of 31r. Riant to r. more route cheese,
and instantly the upp. r part of the building fell in with •
tremetoluus crash, soil Pierkium and Jackson were buried in
the ruins, Mound bad his skull dreadfully fractured, and his
thigh brakes : he was taken on • shutter to St. Thomas's
Hospital, when kr row lies is eseruciatiag agonies Tito
busies of Perkins and Jai keou were not dug out of the
ruble yesterday aftertioun, as it was thought dangerous to
attempt to dig oil arcane*, of a huge stack of chile-
tie's, which still remain tottering over the spot when it
la supported the unfortunate men lay Perkins has left •
wife sod three children, Jacksou a wife and two children, la
bewail their loss. The tool. le tootles& to Jackaus, which he
had in his h rod whew the roof fell, have been found ameagst
the ruins. The devouring element Spread its ravages with
slurring rapidity towards the loam. of Messrs. Pee/tress and
Law, slinleask stationers, which soon fell a victim to the
flames, wed buroe.l with greet fury backwards. Mr. sad
Mrs. Pewtreas and family escaped ow their eight-clothes, and
look refuge in the bulimia Mr Carrot lwrs opposite. The fire
had now caught the Quakers* termitic-house, Which, together
with the valuable sail tXielilliVe binary, and essay aacient
records, vine complete b reduced so a-lies. The roof of the
desks ollices oaf Aleuts Mast, roma and Compete', the
bankers, sulliered materially, mid the greatest fears arse
entertained at oar period for the safety of that extensive
ediAce, but happily it ercaped the devastation.
The peceostess if Mews. Smaller. Aiwooll, sad Co. the
bankers, have bees materially ilijoicd, the whole of the
windows in dm humor are demolished. Tie back of the pre-
mises of Messrs. Bull and Co. the lioen-drapers, received
considerable damage, and the devastation would have been
more extensive, bad it nut been for she extreordioary primp-
*dude of the darerrol afeelleN, whose exemplary conduct de..
serves the greatest praise. The earnage-road is Gracreltarele
street is srndr.ed impassible by the heaps of rubbish that
have fall's, and mot an atom of the walls is standing. Tlie
*hole are reduced to rains.
We are informed that Mears. Southall and Fumiek are in-
sured to the augured of 16,000/. in the Eagle, Mains, sad
Royal Exchange. Mr. Maul is insured to she aneomit of
3,004.1. in the Hand-in Hasid, nod imperial. M
Pewtress and Low, I,SOO/. iu the Phoenix, and SOO/. iu lbr
HaseLia-Hasd, and the Quakers Meeting hueiee is slats ha-
mmed its the Imperial. No cause can be yet assigned how
it iorigioaled, nor is whose preludes's it commenced.

Au alarming fire brake out on Saturday night,
in the huu•e in Vl'yodhuus•place, liryasolune.
ignore, lively iiiliabited by Mrs. Cuttstisit, and
her beautiful isircea, the &Ulises lienti.Toe. The
family load Irk wen some days ugo. The CMOSIIC of
the tire is out known, it wee subdued b.fore it
could setend to the bunt bf the Lurie. Ti.e gouda's
iu the rear wire all dratioytd.
A woman lively lust lirr life in a mutest sigh
eon e Katateal6cfus at Poole, its Denaesohue. The
Coroner's Jolty, fatter an investigatios •htt.'lt lawir4l
,right dap, returned at verdset of Willed llheriler
,egaitist the Supervisor mid owe of the Eecisesiseti, lui
poiticipalso wad soother Eat:lemma as au acceserry.

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