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fire ; he tame to his reatket's the said, "Oh mo-
ther, what will become of me ! mercy on me, where
shall I run to! where shall I hide thyself! the mill
is on fire! My master knows, and will send us all
to York Castle!" His mother said, how was it set
on fit.e. Tommy ! He said with a candle, and with
tow and tallow; when we came to drinking, we
should have blown it out, and it was not done ; and
when I came back, the mill was on fire, owing to
the tow and tallow.
Upon her cross examination, she said, there was
nobody present but her and the mother, who is not
here.—" I believe the prisoner is innocent, and the
boys too, it was acrae.aal. It was a fortnight and
a day after that I heard The prisoner was commit-
ted. I live near Mr. Ramsbotham's, but never
told him ; there is a large dog at his house, and I
durst not go." '
Thomas Petty knows Thomas Bramfit : had some
conversation with him on the Sunday after the tire ;
asked him to tell the how the fire happened? He
said I will. "We had a candle, and they set us
again to clean the axle-tree; we were to have some
drink when we had done, and we were in a hurry to
get it done ; there was a greasy packsheet, and we
set fire to the tow about the axle-tree, which blazed
so fast as to set the packsheet a fire ; they then went
for some water, but when they came back, it blazed
so fast, they were frightened ; and ran to their
mothers." _

Upon his cross-examination, he said that he told
this conversation to his dame that night.
John Roper was cad, A again, and swore that after
the boys had left the Thomas Bramfit
came to the kitchen for the drinkings, and stayed
there half an hour talking with him, till the house-
ke, per came down stairs to draw them.
Elizabeth Marsden knows Bramfit, and met him
running across the fields when the mills were on
file, but nothing passed. She immediately went to
the mill, and found the fire in the engine-house, and
no where else.

131trtholomew Rudd, Esq. one of the Grand Jury,
said, that upon the examination of evidence before
them, one of the Smiths confessed to them that he
had denied that there had been a candle at all when
he firA heard himself accused.

John Barker said, that he first saw the fins in the
gine-house only, and that the prisoner used every
possible endeavour to extinguish it.
Here the Prisoner closed his defence.

The Le.&rned Judge then summed up the evi-
dence. The Jury brought inn verdiet of Is% •t

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.,*

FALMOUTH, £VG. 6.

Sailed this evening the following packets
The Teleethee44 Capt. Dodd, with the Mail of the
fI st ult. tor Lisbon ; (utva Char43e, Mudge, ditto,
of the Ist inst. for New York and Halifat ; the
Chet/do:NW, Blight, ditto, ditto, for Jamaica ; also,
the Rebecca, Ninnis, for London ; and Atbiun, Hook,
for Liverpool.
Arrived the American brig UNirsr, Capt. Taylor,
from St. Andrew, landed 40,000 dollars for a house
in London ; also the American brig Sala's, Captain
Bryant, twenty.four days from Norfolk, Virginia.
Remain in Carrick-roads, ilis Majesty's ship Reit-
ger, Capt. Coote, with the outwaid bound trade for
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Cillatl4.—Wind
N.N.W. •

P ASSEN 0 ER S.
Per TowNSENa--.Geneal Sobas!,,na (;onaola, Mr. N gnash.
Mn. Pcnbruke, Aire Myers. Mi. Grosser, and Mi 34 Kumar.
Per QC LIN CR A 'Loss's—Mrs. Small and family.

EASTERN DISTRICT.

The following General Orders have been lately
issued in the Eastern Distria

" The circumstances of the movements having rendered it
expedient to call away a very considerable pan of the force that
has been hitherto allotted to the service of the Eastern District,
Lieut. General SirJanies Craig has thought it his ditty to sub-
mit to the consideration of !Its Royal Illehoess the Coin-
mender its Chief • new disposition of that which remains,
which Do: Royal Ilighness has been gracious!y pleased to ap-
prove, and to direst hins to carry into immediate effect. The
leading feature of that lisp oition is the weernbling, in the
most corral situation, as large a corps of troops, as a itemise, y
attention to some other circumstances would admit ef, and
huldiog it in constant readiness to move at the nr•t signal to
any point that may he threatened by the enemy. For
this purpose Major General 110111011 and Major• General
Fitzroy's brigade, tug•ther with that of Light Brigadier.
General Paget, hut which, with e‘s addition of the Id
Lancashire Militia, will be put melee the command of
Major-General Campbell, will be brought tog..e., immediately ;
and principally with a view of being kept in that ciii:tant state
of readiurws for mos in„;, which,undar the prelim circuiustanc es.
t. •43 essentially and absolutely necrevary. Curiss thus formed
sill be encamped, trots ithshinding the ground of eneamp-
mein will be at a very short distance from ha.racks
that are capable of containi•ig in or Man ore half
of them. Tire Lieutenant General is ile.ituus of making tills
observation to the officers of those brigades, in the hope of im-
pressing on them the extreme imponance that as attached to
the circumstance of b4tig :Ode to move at the ell-.nest possible
nutee. With this view they are brought together, and with
this view they will IN: encamped; but they must b. ve:.sibl e
that these stops will avail but little, without a considerable re-
duction in the subsequent arraugemeats baggag consistent
with the soden that have been en rep eatediy given on the sub-
ject. To these mileis the Licuttuain.Genural hods himself ob-
liged once mote to call the attention of Gene al Officas com-
manding hrigades, as well as of °Nicer( eniiiiii..nding regi-
ments; and he is under the painful necessity (Wadding, that he
finds himself impelled by duty, and a szeseof the high irnponanee
of the objett, to declare his tiros intention of adupti,.e every
means that may appear Whim the most likely to enforce them
All superfleuus b. gage, therefore, is to h. sent away imam-
diately to the dip ell• a ipointed for thee:steal brigades. Routes
will he furnith.d, arid to those regiments who, horn haring
come into tlr &wet since the arningerut •it of Inc depots ton%
place, may not have any alaigned to then., new ones wi'd ler
pointed out, on application to the An -riot Quarter Master.
General. The Lieutenant• General c: peas that nothing shail
Ise encamped except the very ht baggage which nay by sent
away with the men's pecks, end that which otivrem are to sake
with theta in the event of marching to met the enemy. It
will be necessary that their portinii.of baggage be kept colt-
staidly separate and arrang,l, so that no deiay may recur in
the moment whet, they are to be emphned ai.cerding to their
deferent allotments. Frequent experiments will be made to
ascertain how far this is atteoded to, by striking the teats, amid
marching a ceroklerable distance. The Lieurnaut [lateral
desires, that the abject may be fully explained to the non-
ce enisioionot officen and private men. He requests they may
be mailesensible, shut, from every appearance, they OW 03 the
eve of marcluog to • mese an e atnay, who, after Often, months
deliberation, seem at last determined no make their leog.threat-
'mid ',nick. Fortin, reason they must themselves be det,rou•
of being in eminent reedmina ; arid superfluous baggage sill
be an ...pull •ra,. Assent, whrtheri{ them or lo ttwir
officers. The order is 11.. t M-whir 0.411111 P., to ale ilpfla4e. that
are to encamp, but i• Ually addressed to the remataisig o ,tta
lions in the diarist; whnclta eh/sough aliened to particular see-
Vitt, oust be no* WA. to be 4404 Veil µ a atlemmat's
notice.*