The National Register.
London, England, 1815-12-03 00:00:00

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their return they could not get into the room fur fire. Mr. Slack
then went to the door, and called out " Watch!" and " Fire !" and
told them fur God's sake to run up stairs, and save the family
Ruth witness and the gardener then went up stairs for the family
and brought tin m down, when they missed the infant Idlest awl
the cook. Mr. Slack then called for a light, and went into the,
house. Want ss did not see his master after that. Ladders were
then applied to the windows, and witness ascended and burst open
the shutters, and heard his master calling out for twlp* butt could
not enter for the fire. The child was then sitting on the stairs,
about seven steps up. He then eame down. and followed Lewis
Weber into the house. In coming out the flour gave way, and
Weber fell hi up to his knees; tartness pulled him, wAtti the child,
ut by the shoulders, and supposes that he himself,enust have been
sanding on one of the joists. The body which ‘441 supposed to
I), Mr. Aiack's., was found not three inches from whence witness
tonceivcs he fell, after hanging on the bannisters; he must have
been a corpse then.
A. Robins -a, Esq. deposed, that he lived next door but one to
Vie alartneel on Friday morning by the cry of!
fire! On hi.: getting up, •he found Mr. Slack, with the female
part of the fiimily, and some of the children at his dour. lie took
them in, and after he had rendered every assistance, went to the
Louse. It was then three quarters of an hour after the fire com-
menced. There was not even a heat in the kitchen. The parlour
was in flames. He had an opportunity of examining, and is con-
vinced that the fire Al az canard by one of the rafters of the dining
room floor, going into the kitchen Chimnies. At first half a dozen
pails of watermight have extinguished the fire ; but certainly not I
then. He had to take out part of the clock and several other
things. It was afterwards that he saw the child on the stairs. He
could plainly distinguish the screams of the cook, and heard Mr.
Stack cry out, " Where is my child t" He saw the ladders raised
to the windows. The flames burst out of the back windows, after
the shuttters were broken open. He tried to get in at the back part
of the house, and in the mean time the child was rescued by Weber.
Witness•brought his garden engine, but without effect. livery
assistance that could possibly be atorded by the neighbours was
given with the greatest alacrity and promptitude.
The jury returned a verdict—
" That Saran Burrell came by her death accidentally and cala-
mitously by fire;
" That Thomas Cartwrignt Slack, Esq. came to his death h like
manner, and in an endeavour to rescue his infant child Eliza from
the fire." _ _

The only reinains that are found of the unfortunate deceased
iire, the headless trunk of Mr. Slack, and the spinal bone of his
unfortunate servant.
Acitrctiurunr.
tIONTEILY REPORT FOR NOVEMBER.

The new sown wheats never had a finer season than the
present for planting throughout the several districts, where the
(1611 system is observed to be considerably extending its be-
neficial effeCts-. The continuing depression of the corn market
operates so severely on the landed interest, that scarce a parish
in any county bin. is suffering under calamitous and increasing
i rations, the whole of which are justly ascribed to the last years'
superfluous importation of foreign grain. What aggravates the
psessurst of this calamity is, that people under the present ex-
t“rtionate prices of bread and flour, arc defrauded of the be-
nefit which was the pretext for' this ruinous importation. The
togistrates of an extensive division in the county of Essex
have assembled and entered into some judicious resolutions,
vith a view to counteract the arts of those who, within their
district, thus prey upon the op pr essed. Su just and laudable a
measure, it may be hoped, will be generally adopted.—Owing
to the extreme dryness of the weather, dung-carting and most
other branches of winter agriculture, are already completed,
so that there will be but little work left for laboureks to du ; the
subsistence of their families must therefore, under the distresses
of such times, become extremely difficult satisfactorily to pro-
vo'e for. The turnip counties were materially benefited by the
mild rains in the beginning of the month ; the latter sown
Swedes, being set by the drought, still afford a prospect of much
feed. The graziers of Romney Marsh, and the Fens of Lincoln
and Cambvidgeshire eamplain much of tie want of water.
Hay. though the crop was generally good, is rising in pr ice,
from the nee ess•tv of so early an application to the stacks ter
fodder of cattle, from the shurtuess of gra s Iced. Smithfield