The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-24 00:00:00

FIRE.

A Are hmke oat yeaterilay morning shoat two o'clock, at
the house of Mr. Cook, Init.premer, Prnier's.street, Drury-
lane, which raged fur a short time with considerable fiery,
but by the speedy arrival of the curiae', and * plentiful
supply of water, its alarming pro:ma was stopped,
ere it bad commnnicated to any of the aqiiiiiine houses.
The trout and some of the rafters of Mr. Cook's house se.
main nearly entire. Mr. Cook jiimpc.l out of the two pair
of stairs window, and fall on the lainp.iimo, by whirls he
unfortunately brake nne of his antis. NO 111 kr, weri.lent
happened. The engines continued to play upon the I.utok.
lag ruins Ulla late hour.

A mmt sliabolieal attempt at assassination was made at
Pontesbury, war this town, on Treylay :—JaA* DINIIII9, a
pauper of that parish, having solicited perMAsson to quit the
poochonse, the Parish Offirers gave him, st Isis departure,
tin. for his sustenance until he procured employment. In
the armee, however, of a few days, he returned, and ■pptied
sneressitely to the three Rectors of Ininteshure for re.admii-
slow into the boas,: with which ?vireo they severally refused
complying; assigning as the reasssn of their refusal, that he
bad "efficient money to support him until Monday next,
when the Committee would inset, win's, proper husine•s it
was to decide upon his case. His last application was made
In the Rev. John Wilde, when be iscrw-leil in staying near
the dame sir the house where Mr. Wilde was then standing ;
and gradually approaching It, with bi. hind between hd.
cost and waistcoat —ivestantly drew thence a knife, and
phingid it into Mr. Wildea side. The 1131111er mode sin at.
tempt to escape ; and was soon afterwards committed to the
tiniest!, gaol, " for stistibiv with on intent to hill," by the
Rey. Cbarks P••ters. We rejoice to aid, that, ntstnills.
standing the infliction of a deep wound, Mr. Wilde is doing
as well as ears be expected--(SAreresbary Chronicle )

On Wednesday, on the occasion of the depos.t-
ing or the remains of the late Right lion. Gt OttOß
Ea►l or SANDWICH, in the I:mily vault of Biro.
well, Northamptonshire, the 11liryor null Aldermen
of Huntingdon, and others 'rho i•hed to !my the
(leer-seed last tribute of mournful respect, assem-
bled at Nlolesworth, a village seven miles from
Barnwell, until the hearse arrived on its way from
London. The procession then took pLice in the
following order :—Norsemen—the plumed hear...,
drawn by six horses—two mouriiin., coaches—ET.
post chaises-14 other carriage•. Ills 1.0111.1i0
died at Albano, near Rome, nu the 31st of May,
in the 45th year of his age.

The cotton spineling, which for a good many
months has been comparatively fist, I.a+ acquired ass
uncommon activity within these few wet k. its Gies-
guw. About six months slot k ad* yam formerly on
hand is slow bought up, principally by English noel-
chants. This celerity of demand in the Gle_tow
market is attrildited to the general " etrikt” in
Manchester amosigst the cotton. rpi ~,, ere. Cotton
spi 0000 era in Glasgow, who aoe sternly stool active, ate
making (roan 3/. 100. to 4/. in.. a fortoight. but
they have to pay a small suns fur their piecers'
wages.
A letter from St. John's (N. B ), dated June 9.3,
frays—" On Friday last Cooptam R. Barr, of Ilse
brig Bar ?Wit. with E. Toner, a pir.seligre io that
*melt charged with the murder of 11. DOUGLAS.
mate of the ship Lord Goardner, underwent a twig
examination before his Worship the M•YOlt. mat
several Magistrates. From the depositions of J.
SUGDETI. trite of the brig, and J. SMAI.I.IIOIII*, a
pasaenger, it appears, that on ‘Vellitestlay night last,
about ter', a dispute *roar between the IhOseilgrrs shoal
crews of the übuve vesowle, the former from Dublin,
and die latter from Londonderry, both I)ing at the
Breakwater in the Lower Cove. which toigiosatrsl
in sense iesulting lastgusge, throogis drunkenness,
given by the crew of the brig to that of the ship;
frron growls they proceeded to throw stones. awl
each party alternately drove the other ass board
their respective vessels, it, which contests. several
oss both sides were much bruised with stones and
handspikes. The cahoot windows of both vessels
were broke in ; the officers were obliged to extin-
guish their lights to prevent being aimed at ; suit
to take shelter in order to serene themselves from
tote attack of these infutiate wretches. At the
height of the conflict the Captain of the brig asked
for • gun which lie atilt ball—float some
person took it on deck and fired it olf— the
content* of which lodged in the breast of dlr.
K. DOUGLAS, mate of the ship Lord Gardner,
who had previously received a severe contustuts
(rout a stone, and woos, at that instant, standing
near the ship's tafferel, calling to his mess to desist
quarrelling, and to come on board ; the wound
proved mortal, and this unfortutiate young man
expired about three hours after—he was s 11,4' ire of
Ayr, its Scotland. The evidence at sit on to say,
that the gen war laid-d a secood and third time,
the last of which is stated to leave beets discharged
by Captain Barr, its so oblique direction across the
Breakwater, to prevent, as is said, its doing further
mischief.—The Prisoners stew fully committed to
take their trial at the ensuilog Scteluus."