The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-08 00:00:00

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immediately ttputa the spot) that four houses adjoining were cote
suti;ed.
A tire brote out on Monday night at a grocer's, the corner of Holies
and Staub pe streets, near Cl ire Market. It was discovered aioint to
o'clock. and for a considerable time it raged with uncommon fury,. 1t
apa-eiiats and lofty house, and the immense volume of flame
which Must from its large windows below, and from the windows On
each m the two streets, of which it was 11;e corner, presented a
spectacle equally terrific and magnificent. Tiw tarried of numerous
*engine, happily arrested the calamity. Fur some time their exertions
}r ,d latle effee ; but before eleven o'clock the violence of the flames
considerably abated, and the successful exertions of the men belong-
hac to the enaines were complimented with the applause of the multi-
tilde. By twelve € k the fire was nearly extitigui!died. It appears
the fire broke ~ut in the shop, the master of which was Agent, his re-
sidence beim!, iiiChandos street. The alarm was first given to the
lodgers in the' house by the watchman, who perceived the flames from
witleatt. , Male ni Judie.; than one lodged in the house ; and though
the alarm was net given till the interior of the 4imp wa4 in a blaze,
and titiniuh there were several children in the families there tesident,
we have the satisfaction to hear that no lives were lost ; but not a frag-
ment of -furniture or wearing ,pparel was saved. The house was com-
pletely destroyed, and the adjoining ones daneteed.
A shocking accident occurred on Friday week at the fleeces
Canal, close to Chalk Farm. A few minutes before eleven o'clock,
as the workmen were preparing to fill some waggons, twelve men
who viVre lately taken on, not being aware of the danger they ran,
ventured tar) close in undermining the bank, at a depth of 25 feet,
When Ow bank fell in with a dreadfol crash, and completely buried
them ; of them were dug out alive, but four with their legs
and arms broke, and the other four tench bruised and cut ; six of the
eight are in such a state, that their recovery is not expected. After
a leneth of time, four more were dug up quite dead, and their bo-
dies removed to the Canteen for the Coroner's inquest. The other
eight %%WC carded on shutters to the hospital.
Two carmen had a casual boxing match on Saturday se'nnight, in
Oxfaid-street, and after ligleing more titan half no hour, one of them.
ficeat name we unders,ood to be Gilders, met his death by a fill on
the side of his head, which rupttired the vessels in the brain.
Friday se:might an inquest wag bell at the Swan public-honse, in
Wappiag, before J. W. Unwire E.q. Coroner, on the body of Jacob
Geer:;. who was fOund on Wednesday morning under a barge at
'Wapping Dock, with a wound on his forehead, and another (that
had the appearance of a stab) under the left eve. The deceased
was without a jacket or hat, and had nothing in his pockets but a
comb, a clasp knife, and a pipe tube. He was a native of Amster-
dam, about fifty years of age, and a seafaring man ; awl it appear-
leg by the evidence adduced that be recei.ted a considerable sum
of money in Doctors' Commons, on Saturday last, it is believed he
was robbed of the same, and afterwards murdered.—The Jury re-
turned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons un-
known. • •
An old man, who vends fruit from a barrow, in the neighbourhood
of Meard's-court, was charged with being accessary to a robbery,
attended by cherinus circumstances. An orphan child, about six
ye ira old, at nurse in Ward's court, was accustomed to expend a
halfpenny, for fruit, with the prisoner, on going to school. Two
or three days since the prisonur accosted her, and asked, ii she did
not want some fruit ? when the child replied she had no money, the
prisoner then advised her to go home and fetch some things whirls
lie would purchase, and the child, according to her own statement,
took the key from under the mat, opened the door of the apartments
of the Imlay, who was absent, and brought a silver watch, and five
silver spoons, which the prisoner bought of her far fourpenee.half-
penny. :the, at another time, took him other articles, tin* whirl the
prisoner gave her threehaff-pence ; and the robberies where at length
discovered ity the child's confession. In defence, the prisoner denied
any kuowkdge of what hail been attributed to him by the child.
Nu part of the property was traced, and as there was no corroboration
of the girl's te-timony, the prisatter was admitted to bail.
B trr at. OUT RIG E. —OO Sunday evening, as Alec. Bates, a
respectable woman, hying at Paddington, was• walking on Lisson-
peen with another female, and fdlowed by her sister, an interesting
laokinir girl, 15 years of age, a fellow, whose name turns out to be
Arefield, seized hold of the young sister, pulled up her garments
and brutally exposed her person. Mrs. Baca turned back to the
relict of her sister, when the ruffian struck her a blow on the face
which produced blood, and next attacked and beat her sister with
his fist, and ultimately the third femal, %demi he kicked. A war-
rant was procured, and the offender. was taken to this oil-tee, from.
whence he was committed in default of bail. No, provocation
whatever was given to the 4lefenlint who pleaded drunkenness as an
e 'tease.