The National Register.
London, England, 1817-07-28 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

W. and T. Lomb. Leeds, cabinet-makers, Aug. W.
J. Inns and 11. Watkins, Bristol, chymists, Aug. 21.
J. Lane, T. Fraser, and T. Boylsou, Nicholas-la. merchant, Aug. 12.
T. Carlen and W. Wilson, Langbouni Chanib. coal-factors, Aug.lo.
J. and T. Bell, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants, Aug. W.
J. Stott, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, Sept. 9.
G. N. S. Chapman, Broughton Malkerb, Kent, dealer, Aug.
J. Whittle, Liverpool, tailor. Aug. 15.
W. Bragg, Whio:haven, grocer, Aug. 13.
J. Nobl.:, Caton, Lancaster, silk.manufacturer, Aug. 13.
1. Beak, Town-mills, Bath, miller, .dug. 16.
T. Ilinde,_ Liverpool, merchant, Aug. 1-9.
P. Isaac, Queen-street, Bloomsbury, wine-merchant, Aug. 1.9..
J. Harrison, Manchester, plumber, Aug. 18.
J. W. Hose, Bishop Tate-street, silk-mercer, Aug. 19.•

CERTIFICATES, AUGUST 12.
M. Ws.ltnn, Liverpool—D. Phillips, T. Wray. awl 11. Baker,
York, merchants—J. Smith, Rath, broker—H. Mackenzie, Bar-
tholoww-lane, hankcr—W. Adam, Narrow-wall, I.arobeth, tim-
ber-merchant—ll. IMP, Benh:ll, Suffolk, farmer—W. Holding,
Mark-lane, flour-factor—W. Robinson, Carlisle, mercer--D. Mit-
chell, Cullain..trect. tailor—J. Brown and A. Paterson, Fanners'
Hail, Old Broad-urea, merchants.

L4I INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
RANELADH GARDENS.

In tbis case, Sir S. Hominy applied for the appointment of
a receiver of the rents and profits arising from the ground on
which this place of former fashionable resort was situated,
and which was now open to the public. There was another
object in this, which wts, that the ground should be inclosed,
in order to he turned to better account, for the benefit of the
patties concerned.
Mr. Hart, on the other side, had no ohjectiett to the up-
pointntent of a cm-river; but the parties for whom he appeared
objected to the ground being used in any way but as pasture,
which it was at present.
The Lord Chancellor said, he would look at the bill and:
an;wer. it was strange to Into that any of the parties should
object to the improvement of the ground in question.
Mr. unit hoped his Lordship would find on examination,
that nothing of that kind could be imputed to his clients.
The Lord Chancchor—" If you or I had fourteen acres of
land situated where Ranelagh was, we should knoW how to
make more of it than tutting it in pasture land."
Sir A. Pigott moved, in the name of all the suitors of the
Court, that from and after thc 21d of August next, the books
.of the Acconutant Ciencral be closed till the Seal before the
text Michaeltnas Term ; that during the interval no money
be paid is or out of Court, and no order relating to elicit
money hc, on any account, nuttle• by that Court : provided.
however, that notice of this order be affixed in the several
offices and court-homes connected with the Court.
The Lord Chancellor—" Such a motionis very proper."—
Order made accordingly.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 21.

IMPORTANT CAUSE.
WARD AND OTHERS U. 60DHART AND °THAR!.

Mr. Sprinkle stated that this was an action on a Police of
insurance on house and property, destro:i ea by fire. The
plaintiffs were the assignees of a bankrapt named punkin.
and the defendants were the Phoenix File Office Company.
'lke Idia), upon which Vic prescut action was brunght was
for 35001
Mr. Gurney stated that the case to which he had now to
gall the atifention of the Jury was one of a most serious de
•ectiptiou. The great crum,tion which the Jury would have to
decide svas nothing 1041 titan whether the plaintitlii were en.
titled to recover, or whether the person who had effected the
policy of insurance had been guilty of a capital felony. Mi.
Gurney entered at length into a detail-of the circumstances.`
-ittlewliw; that estraw d wary transaction, whirl' mere after-
wards detailed in the vidcure. He 1111,!ei St ood the misfor•
tunes of this unfortunate gentleman were now to be made
ground of suspicion against ; but he was persuaded the
Jury would not consider a person whose house had once been
burnt down, and who had lost inapt. by that inisliirtnne, 417.
a per.un very likely to set tire to his house a seetnnt • tim,
without has lag any iuthicenient. The Learned Conan' then
proces ded to call his witnesses.
Mr. John Dunkin was then called.

Lo•
rd li.llesehorongit said, he ought to apprize Mr. Death
'that, as reit:tilt questions might be put to idol in tfn..,„,n.,
or his examination which might tend to criminate himself, he
leas mot boom] to such quesiiii,
'lke wit ni.-% thanked his Lordsiiip 1... r his caution, but lie
-sile.he..d to auswei e►ory question ia Inch might be put to
biw. . . . . . .

Lord Ellenhotongh repeated that the %Ones% was entitled
to hnoself of the caution which Intu oven gt,. en 'aim, it
•ite thunght tit to do so.
11a. Conte). then e .ntinued his examination o( Mr. Dan
ifn, t 1 itoess snceeeded hi, fatties, why rani, don bitsines.
and (bed iu June 1814. lit the ntwoli of May, 1513,,
1311 e was burnt duA it; be Witt. 4, that lime in• nredt
but lint near 40001. by ttie fires tbs. Itospie ami •hatatlyaiuingle
slut. S$ and a were Willll,bN pi -pert), •111i1 'reeholds. _Aft.,
the fire in Nt.ty 1315, Aiitneta re,ailt ht. hou.e No. 33. upon
which he ltd p.ll itpvedtda 014003.. and ueas 10001. Still le-
iitatitt,l due it. Otte of tiu- ai.iguees, Mr 01 oUtle,
LIS hrieklay r, and Mesas. Mooh..c.,tie bad sot {'eyed and ex-
ampled hr 11114. •
Witness herr, at the rni4(3:1:41 Seat-tett, the it (in-..

LTIONAL REGISTER.

dant's Counsel, executed a release of all his claim to bene.
fits from this action to his assignees.
Witness renewed business immediately efter the fire, and
in November effected an insurance in the Eagle for 10001. 00
stock. In January 1516 he insured in the Phernix for 35001.
and in February he effected a farther inswauce on hit stock
of 10001. iu the Eagle. In March and April he began to fly-
uish his house, and made an insurance of 3001. in the Eagle.
In May he made a further insurance of 10001. on furniture.—
In October 1815, he had insured his house, No.:i3, which was
then covered in, for 25001 He previously enquired of the
bricklayer and carpenter what the ha !ding was worth, and
they said 25001. and advised him to inotre, fbr fear of acci-
dents; he never added any thing to this insurance, though
lest before the fire happened, Mr. Ward advised hint to do so,
In March 1810% he insured No. 34 for 15001. which price Mr.
Spooner was, if he chose to become a purchaser of that house,
to pay for it. At the time of the fire, the furniture in the
house was worth 29901. On the day or Iwo previous to the
fire, witness had had a bed charged in his uploilster's bill at
2101. and °I/wept-naive worth between 3001. and 4001. Mrs.
Ounkin's clothes had also been brought into the home on the
Monday before the lire, which took place un the Wednesday.
He had rendered the different tradesmen's aceonnts to the
Offices as soon as possible after the fire. Witness ihal lasso
married about five weeks when the fire took place: he C 4111•
sidered his own wardrobe at the time to lie worth 2001. On
the day after his being married (May 28) he and his wife
went to France; they rebutted to London on the 15th of June,
and brought with than 131 Napoleons and Louis (1'1)1.3, which
nets, in the !loose at the time of the fire. On the 19th of
June Mrs. Dim kin well into Haninshire, in consequence of
a letter she received from her sister, intermit); her of her
fa her's death. On the morning of the 20th, witness was sit-
ting its his comoing-house, v.hen a Mr. Fairweather came iu ;
at this time his iron safe was open and some of the Napoleons
were visible, in coteseiplence of one of the papers in which
they were N rapt having burst. In the evenin.,o witness went
to his brother's at Pentonville about six o'clock, and returned
shout nine; the shop was shut ; one of the witness's men,
either Price or liazzle, let him in ; he went into his counting
house, locked up his books, and thcn went to his brothenin
Law's Mr. Lot kin's, who lives a few doors from him, and stop-
ped there till near elevea, when he retureed home. He was
let in by one of the maid servants. He vent up stairs to the
kitchen, which is no the first floor, took his boots off, had a
light, and went to bed. The maid servants were both at home
so was Haszle, who went up stairiserith witness to light his rush-
light ; and having done so he took away the candle, and shut
witness's MHO door, which was never locked. Soon after
itaess was in bed, he heard Pt ice come in and pass his door
up stairs. In the course of the night witness was awoke mid
found himself warm over his face. On putting op his hand
he found a pillow over his head, and a man desired he would
lie still. V ttness cannot say Whether he had then removed
the pillow or not; bat he felt a man lying across his stomach,
who desired he would continue still; as, Wins loather moved
nor wade a noise, lie should nut be hurt; but if he did the one
or the other, he would run him through, and at the same time
placed a sharp instrument on his breast, Which pricked hint;
and next morning there was a mark on his breast as of a prick
of a pin. Witness heard some other person in the room speak;
but Either from fear, or some other cause, witness did not
know what was said till they tied 11:s hands. Witness thought
there were two persons employed in doing this, bat he could
not swear to that fact. Ills hands svc.re tried across his breast.
After this was done, he .heard what he impposed to be his
own eloaths drop on the gromid, and a man, not the one who
held the witness, said, "1 have got it." Witness's clothes
were lying on a chair by Ins bed side, and the key of the iron
safe was in his waistcoat pocket. Witness could not guess
as to the time he was thus kept confined. He heard the sounn
oldie watchman go once up Shaftshary-piace, but could not
distinguish what hour he cried. After tht y said," I have got
it," a handkerchief, or something of that desetiption, was-put
over witness's ey es, and a rope was pat ranitd his neck.—
They tohl him to get up, and took him to the stair case, where
they tied him to the bannisters, and desired him to slat there
till he heard the door go. At this time he beard anothei voice
say," I took it fur v. bed, and by G—d its a light ;'• on which
they all went down -stairs. Previoos to Witill'6s.6 being taken
floes his bed, one of them asked if either of his men slept be-
low. Witness told them "No." As soon as he was left on
;lie stairs, he called out for assistence, and Price aud.flazzle
came to hint. %F mess cannot tell what he said-to them, he
was in so mach agitation. Witness thinks he ca,led nut hetore
the thieves could have got out of the house. He thinks three'
r four minutes elapsed before Price and Hassle came to
him. He was at that time tied to the bannisters by the rope
round his neck.

questions by his Lord,lrip.—Marl no idea they intended to
destroy hint; they sal, it he was silent they would not hurt
him; cannot tell why they prefrrred tying him to the Lanni,-
ter; rather than to the bed post; thinks the men were with
Min half tin hour; he was so frightened he did not make any
reo,tauce.

Mr, titrrnes; resumed—Witness did not know is hich it was,
hut after he Was untied one of them went to the window, :toil
coming hack amity, told kiwi the house was on lire. h f ',Hot%
eolliti have merle any body in Shaftesbury-platT hear much
sooner from his thainle'r than his stall •case. There is a
bark door leading from tile bark shop into Shaftesbury-place.
When Price and Harzle Caine to him they were without
clothes; the kitchen window...looked into Shaftsbitry-place;
rneSe windows had neither shutters nor fast( nings and wit-
s thinks a :eau might have gct in hr mounting on another
manes shonlilers. 41, nes.• Prier, told Hittite, no il'srove ring
the house was oil file, went and awoke the servants ;
they all escaped the trap by door on ilic.co•af, and in in the nap
door of Mr. Cavist•tton's house, next door; they escaped
th,ougli .1.11. Cot kerton's house into itse street, with nothing
un except thew nightclothes, Witness was so much agitati tI
toot hi knew not what 1.0111,0 eil tits he was taken if. Mr.
Fairweather's hanse; alit' afterwards to 111.. !tulles's. 11 stness
saw miieke come from Ids house, but did not see aliv ft. e.
Witness deetared on his oath lie had no knit wit d;4e onales et
how his home w•..% !Milt dawn. Soave of Iris ii,1113(1:10..
uhet saved and sold 1, Mr. Wlnstaidey. was a large
quantity of Comm prepared fur wicks, iu ihe coil AI room,
o hip h adjoined the comiting house ; they bad nu occasion to
Kit in,o the cotton roam to get the Napoh.o..s. Winiess's
keeping room was three storks from the comic"; house;
lite oien had no occasion, as he knew of, to conic to his rOO/11,
escept for the ket of the iron sale. Witness afterwards want
' twice before the L Mayor, and di shed inveatigatiott
hA this in consequence of rei.erss • Inisicg been spread le 1
hal to his elute aeier. One investigation took place iiotio.
the Low, '•lay or, the same day on %%Writ :11t. fill'
‘,„ the ; illl4 one before Mi* Alderman Cox,
si yr a. days afters% Witness, • with'," I 41 fie)
th
file delivered lip ail his imoks, ranters, and p„irers to the
Fac 23t1 they Npointul Mr.-Mixtoolcy ot'

JULY 28.

nosier-row, to go Over the accounts with him. After some
• days investigation they agreed on the stun, and Mr. Winstan-
lev told willies: if he applied at the Office, the following day
Le should receive the amount. He accordingly applied next
dav, having borrowed a H. note to purchase the stamp, but
on fining to the Office, they then refused to pay bin, and it
Notemher he' was made a bankrupt. At the time of the fire
his debts were 9,2611. 3s. 3d. against this sum 111` had to set
house No. 33, which had cost him 60001. No. 34, valued at
I 17001. his stork worth 33001. speaking in moderation, and his
furniture and clothes, fir which he bad delivered original
documents to the Office, fur upwards of 17311. and he had
many article: for which he had no documents. He conceived
he had at that time property to the amount of mote than
14,0001. leaving a surplus of 30001.. He had, the day before
the fire, laid in 5(1 casks of tallow, 30 of which he bought
Hanes and Co. 81)(1 20 of Wards and Co. ; they cost him MM.
and were brought into the house on thena-rningol We deesdav;
they were brought to him from the London Docks. On that
morning, if he had se desired, he could have sold them, Is tug
at the Docks, for 10001. ready money'. He bougist them a
week b.-fore, and his contract was to pay for the 20 casks at
fair months, and the 30 at six mew ha : between the haw of
the hre and the bankruptcy, witness's debts were increased
10221. by dishonoured bills ; but witness also added some.
thing to his debts trete een the time of the fire and the bank
ruptey, whiA was included in the 92001.
[The witness underwent a long and strict cross-examine.
tioo by Mr. Scarlett.]
William Price was shopman to the last witness inJune last;
had been in his, and his father's emplos ter seven years ; re-
collects the dog barking on the night of the 23th of June last.
This unusual circumstance occasioned them to search the
litatse. On the 20th of June witness went to bed about half
past eleven. About halt' past one he was awoke by the cries
of Mr. Dunkin calling out •' For Christ's sake came d. sail;
shall be intirdored."—Witness and Hazzle come down. anti
found him lyiag along the Boor, close to the hamsters, his
rists were tied round with a rope twisted several times, and
then tied with several knot,. Witness don't 'leak he could
have untied the knots himself; he was also fastened to alto
banister's by it rope round his neck. Witness said, " Good
'God! what is the matter i" He replied, " I have been ri..)-
ed by two men." Witness afterwards went and looked oat
at the front windows where he saw a black thick smoke
youth!! from the cellar window ; he came back and told Mr.
Dunkin the 111111 Se was 011 fire. Mr. Danish' ekelaimed,
" Good God ! is it suggested that they sheuid call
the maids; they accordingly did so, and escaped through Mr.
Cuckertorea house, Mr. Cockerton's family assisting them,
when they got into the sheet. Mr. Dunkin ap; cared like a
itiailnom, and made seleral attempts to get into the house.
Witness suggested escaping at the top of the house ; he was
afraid of encountering thie. es and fire too, if he went down
stairs ; witness lust about ltd. by thefo e ; did not see Mr.
Dunkin after he was taken to Mr. Fairweather's.
Crays-examined--Witness thinks the and of the rope was
tied to the banisters, but 1w did not untie it. Mr. Dunkin
was in extreme egitation ; saw no smoke or fire, or was
any smell of tire on the stairs. Whiles() thinks about five or
eight minutes might elapse between the time of liberating
Deakin and escaping by the roof; the kitchen and
counting honse windows were, to Lust of witness's kuow.
ledge, from what he saw on vetting into the street, shut down
as usual ; he saw 110 doer open ; he saw the plate which nas
fonnd in Mr. Coekertmes house next day, at the ;Litaion
House. The knots in the rope did not appear as it' they
could been tied or indict! by Dunkin himself.
W. llazzlc, shopman to Mr. Dunkin ar the time the fire
happened, corroborated the statement of the fernier wi:nr-s<,
as to the situation in which they found Ma-. Dunkin, Lomat
and blinilfolikd, and their subsequent escape over the rcof
to Corkertan's trap dour.
Maria Cornish etas in the service of Mr. Duukin at the
time of night at whivii her master came home on that nialit,
and went to hod. Witness slept -with her fellow servant,
Sophia Brow a and did not wake till Sophia brown awoke
her by exclah. •ag what is the matter; at this instant, wit-
-11(4,5 heard her master'.: voice, crying nut " 0 Lard ! 0
Lord!" and almost immediately they !Ward the two shopmen
down stairs. Soon after Price knocked at the door of
their roam, and desired them to come out, as the house was
on fire They escaped nth) nothing on but their eight
deaths.

Cro•s examined.—When Pike knocked at. their door, and
said the house was on fire, the W11111'55.6 fellow servant said, it
cannot be this house which is im lire. 4Viiness had said it
was her master who broke open Cuckerton's trap door ; but
she Ikel once recollected it mos not her master, but Fiastzle
who broke the door opc3. Sophia Brown put the plate in
a CiOFl tin her master's bed roam the night of the fire. Be-
lieved this plate was afterwards found in Cuekerton's home.*
When iu the street, Mr. Dunkin said to witness, twu men
lead peen in the house, used him very ill, taken wit his
biker away.
Sophia Brown recollected being disturheil by the cries of
her muster; she opened the window and looked out; at first
she thoeglit it was a very thick fuzzy mornit.g, but she aver.
wards discovered that what she took fur fug, was sinuke as-
cending from the lower part of the house.
(toss-examincil.—Witness put the plate into a cupboard
in her master's heel room; she inched it, .and.put the key
iuto a tab'e drawer ii't the same ream.
Pi Hiltlolll, a watchman in Ableisgate-street, was opposite
to Nli. Dunkin's house. WIIIIrJeti Olen:it/al was thilttli that
to two melt rii•e!neting evilh the watAmar, new Mr. Diinkin's
home; that watchman spruasz his tattle, and witness secut
over to the assistance of Ins companion but the two men es-
caped

Mi. Fairweather, a surgeon, in Altier.zete.:itrcet, Leon
iiitintatu will. %la. ; mils at his hootse o. the
steaming of the xt:th of June. .1\ ext otoriting V.itti 1 ex-
:twined his breast,aint Monti a mark O;))))) it as if matte wail*
so rte sharp initrument ; there were Iwo plitionurs at leaA,
they tie +.ontething more than poin•thres, he also cum-
platat d of much pain in the lotioni of has stomorii.
J. Serjeatit, CoosotHe at the 11 and at •Ablersgate, on
hi mitt., the alarm or rite on Ilse night in W11'1,1404, ran tail of
the w.ocii•litalw timei its Al r.llwekias 41/4 SAW /1114
8111.1111/1 TO enter it.
J. Alac.katuld got into the premises on LLe moraine of the
alien t ..1nn...1 Ike door 1,1 far r.lmt, but tiffinel•vii,
..itt: the key in it. A pm SOLI halm (I Bryant hail been th, re
idiot tile wittiow, and tool, sat Ponkoliii.e, its wit net-rt bc-
I.t vc,. Mr. It t44as . illy 4 eisiittitc heroic the wain. sr..
Ali Jtt.te.t, a.. ophoisteri r, assist c.l w lamina op ti
t.., %;r. hi. the tire; do; price of the bent
.tas 1111% Alan of LOW.
Alt.. • 4tt slit' Will, it, the country ettrudieg
(n•, 1., 11,.. t.t tne time the fire rook place:
her c10t... ~n to °I, I: .% sale of 1001. were .lestroyeti.
..Ltobtit proval Iltwt jtls father tlietl 1,946

Jinx it

sine thons.toil !moods, out of which four or five went twwit•
hrotimr. _ . -

'jr. Searlett then addressed the Jury, and observed that
his Learned friend had said, the Jury were now called on to
declare the guilt or innocence of Mr. Dunkin of a cap•lsl
intent 0. Ile denied that position. It Willa not necessary
that, to find a verdict for the defendants, the Jury should
find I)tinkin guilty. It was sufficient the Jury should
think 111 r. I)iinkin not ectirtiy innocent. Thr Jury would
have a very dith•rent issue to try, if the issttewere the (reshot,
of lift or death to Mr. Dunkin. This Lad been held ill a cas,
tried before the late Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who
in an action brought by the assigneess of a bankrupt, whose
Louise had 44.P0 burnt down in Sc g4te-streeir and who had
himself been tried and ucgoitty,l, on a charge cf argon, at
the Old Rally. The Lord Chief J ustice then told the Jury,
thus it was not necessary that they shotial unit a case of abso-
lute guilt against the bankrupt ; it was sufficient they should
the caw as equivocal, and that would be sufficient
to cantle the Fite Office to a verdict ; and in that case the
Lire Oilier did obtain- a verdict. Ili, Learned Friend had
wise contended,. that :15r. Dunkin hail no motive, as he was
in a most flourishing state of trade, and had a coi.siderable
excess of p. operty anus r lii, debts. lie (Mr. Scarlett I should
contend the very emstrary to Le the fact; that so far (ruin 11:S
bring flourishing, Ills atlhirs oiled h tve been embarrassed.
His father, in 1814, left him 40041.; by his fire in 181.1, he
lost 10001.; he then built a house which cost Into 60091., arid
another ti WA was estimated at 1,.',001.; he had in•en rt•hbed
of 5001. by an Irishiman ; and be hail, since Itilt 1, trade 20
trips ;n Fraiiee.emoLimoc, as he stated, business stud pf.•astire.
Learned Couust•l theta proceeded to eo 11111 l ent, as eon-
sidutable length, on the inipi ott.thility of the testimony giccn
lry ti,. Dankin ; and obsei veil, he should call es idruee to
priive it teas not impossible but that he might himsellhave
tied his own hands ; and further, lie should spew that lie
had vat Jed materially i i his account at diff'it•all times ; if he
should do this. the Jury would be bound to find iii sir verdict
for the defendants, w'.l6tnit lucking to what might be the eon-
queitees to any indivitli.rl oil a fultice day.
'l'. Robertson, a fireman, belonging to the London Tilsit-
ranee Otiice, foond some plate, which he now pi °deceit.. on
the morning after the ire. Whilst turning ;yrs the rubbish
he found the plate scattered on the third fluor of Mr. Cock-
ei tun's house.

Cross-examincd.—.The plate was found between six nod
seven o'clock iu the morning. Several men had been (MI
that pal t before the willies. picked the plate up.
S. Larkin lives at ?Jr. Cu.•kcrtun's, was alarmed on the
night in question by a noise in the street; heard Mr. Mink in's
voice rowing down frmn the roof, but but did not see him.
Heard hint say. t'oekcrton, Coekerton ! Are, file get up or
you will all be htient lie was at this time on the top of the
roof. A quarter of an hour after this alarm there was nothing
to be seen but !monitor hi the trout of time house.

Mr. Dawes had heard of Mr. Dunkin's hand; being tied,
and knew that it was impossible far a person to do it himself.
Lind Ellenhorongh observed it had been prove d that this
was possible. It was scarcely worth while to go to proof.
If, however, it was to he given it must be given de judo—
plr. Dawes here eahibited the mode in which it seas done.]
Mr. J. Harmer saw Mr. Dunkin in the King's Bunch Pri-
son on the lath of June, the Saturday after the tire. Wit-
ness then asked. him how he came by the Napoleons which
were taken from the safe. lie said he had :a) from a money
changer in the Valais Royal; the rest be had from Lieut. De
Cree, who is gone to Anie rieit—no number was Illent ioned.—
On another occassion Mr. Dunkin told witness the parties
(meaning the thieves) had been with him about five minutes,
when I heard the watchman go his round-1 think it was
half past tsetse. One man was sitting en me ; the other man
said," I have got it," and went down stairs.—Before this time
they had secured his hands and blindfolded him.
H. Harr:Amin, the person who got in at the fan light, stated,
that he found the (rout door locked, and the key withinside.
Witness Law ,%ir. Dunkin on the following Monday ; %Olen,
bekre Mr. Alderman Cox, Mr. Dunkin teen said, " If the
dog had hero loose, le might have torn you to pieces."
Mr. Mackay was at Mr. Dunkin's on the night of the fire ;
the back premixes towards Shaftesbury-place were abut awl
fast. . .

Mr. Gurney replied upon this evidence. which, he said,
did not at all attach to the plaintiti 't. case.
Lord Elleithorough summed up, anti the Jury, after retir-
ing (or a quarter of an hour, returned with a verdict for
the plaintiff—Damages 50241. ss. tici.--Costs 40.3.
The rise occupied the Court from half past fline in the
murnior till eight in the eveuiug. The Court was crowded
to excess throughout the day.