The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-18 00:00:00

FIRE.

We have often had oeca to notice the many instances
of the dreadful effects of this element, and the folio. jog
we record for the caution of !weals and others, havinc the
charge of children:—On Thursday, the 311 instant, whit*
the servant and a washerwoman had roue to the cellar,

a few paces from die kitchen, of 111r.-11. D. Bill, grUfer;
Poplar-lane, Leith, to get water, one of lei. toms. a
fine promising boy, about three years and a half old, who
was accustomed to rise early, was in the kitchen, about
six o'clock in the soloing, and although a small stick hail
been takes, several times from him, and hid, he again got bold
of it, which he had put into the fire, and touching ha night-
clothes act them is a blaze. Ou. feeling the ellecis, he
screamed out, when his lather leapt out of bed, and taught
him iu bus arms, while the flames were nearly at his should-
ers. The father, whose hands and other parts of his body
wi,'re scorched, consoled himself with the pleasing idea, that
he had saved his boy from being burnt to death. The boy
continued, as was supposed, to du well, and endured the
pain arising from his thigh anti left side being' burnt, with
great patience until Monday morning. when the iIIaSIMMA_
lion whirls bad taken place proved fatal, and he died about
ten o'clock of that forenoon, leaving his parents to lament
his untimely fate.

The new two I nd Batik note, which was re-
ported to he of such beautiful rogritving and hue
texture as to put it out of the power of any person
to imitate, has been laid before the Bank engraver,
who has taken so complete a copy, that it was found
impossible to discover the difference ; consequently
tits plan lime been libtindoned by the Directues.
The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, upon inspect-
ing the Architect's end Surveyor's estimate of the
expenses of the repairs of Northumberland House,
which his Grace wished to have done, found, to his
surprise, their estimmte mmonntcd to the *um of
80,000 L Gls Grace, in consequeoce, declined hav-
Mg them dune, and signified his intention of polling
down the whole of the house and re-building 11.
Their estimate of the repairs necessary to he done
to Sion House, they calculated at 20,000/. which
his Grace consented to.

An aliturai biog,raplocal sketch of Capt. Ross,
of the /saftella tilsrllvery chip, liar lately apoefir.d,
in which it is 'glom:fitly or in do:sourly stated that
he war born of Semi parrsit% iu itenfrew,hire. mat
received a very 1111.e.10r rdurrtion. Capt. !WV; in
of a very respectable family sit Galloway. Ili%
father, the Rev. ANDR EW ROSS, war itmoster of
the p4ri*li of Inch, rod proprietor of the e, iiie of
Biltatrrocii, iu linkholon. A Mother of Captuni
Ross, Nlnjot-Griorral AN ORM Ross, a dirtiii-
ginshe'd officer, died some years ago, alien 111 Com-
mand at A licasit.—( dinGuegA Paper. I
The weather (luring the fart two or three days
has been *o revere, as to make Ur reC.llleet that ‘‘e
ale far aftvaoved in the wintry loofah of December.
A strii,,K proof, however, of its previous hiller% wan
on %,‘ olilleltdaly exhibited OH Werintifistri-1ni11g....
where a rollutr WWI ails ststtiling oiih r cou•idri-
ublr
(lUntary of hawthorn n, kill bloom, tool w.. 3
alining slips of it at 6.1, a-pirce to the vii lUUr has
bengerV.

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