The National Register.
London, England, 1811-03-24 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.
DREADFUL
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Noittnen, Mallen 19.—0 n Sueiday morning last, about one
o'clock, the inhabitants around the market place, in this city,
were awoke by an alarm, of fire, and the preniisea of Messrs.
Culley, grocers, were discovered to be in flames, raging with
the utmost fury. It is evident that the fire had long been kind-
ling in the large warehouses, amidst the moot combustible ma-
terials large casks. and reservoirs of oil, hogsheads of treacle
and sugar, numerous chests of tea, &c. all contributing tp in-
crea e! the power of the smothered and colditeM fLsmes, which
soon burst into the air, forming a elqatd. of fire aeceeding an.
immense height, illuminating the whole city. Full an hoar
elapsed before even the city engines could begin to play with
any effeer, and then they wore in such bad repair that a great
part of the water was lost through the pipes. It was very certain
there coull not be any chance of saving those premises whence
the fire originated, and therefore the adjoining dwelling-house
of Messrs. Culley, on the one side, and Mr. Freeman, cabinet-
maker, on the other side, with the Pope's Head Inn, also ad-
joining, and the premises of Messrs. Weston, bankers, uniting
with Mr. Culley S house, and ranging against the burping ware-
houses, became the peculiar objects of attention. The alarm of
tire. soon. reached the barracks, and all the corps of artillery,
with their engine, hastened to the spot, and by the extraordi-
nary itaertions of those who worked it„ some check was put to
the aeparently wide devastating flames. Mr. Culley's dwelling-
Lowe was preserved, with the loss of the warehouses and all
their contents, the counting-room tied a part of the shop, with
the chambers over the warehouse: (in one of which Mr. Benja-
min Olney slept, who fortunately escaped, the room being filled
with smoke when he awoke). Mr. Weston's premises sustained
but trivial injury ; and, beyond all expectation, the Pope's Head
Inn escaped with only little damage, every part of the furniture
bating been removed. Less fortunate was Mr. Freeman ; his
house was newly erected, a capital brick building three stories
Wail, with a parapet well ; it was filled with the most elegant
furniture, in value etuounting to some thousand pounds, and of
such a nature (beds standing for sale, large mahogany tables,
sideboards, Ecc.) that it could not be moved with the required
celatity. Mr. i.retenan a, first bad hoped that his walls could
withstand the fire, fur the flames ascended straight in the air,
and there eves uo wind. However, after an hour and a half had
elapsed, it evidently became necessary to remove the property.
The roof of his dwelling-house began to burn, the upper rooms
were in flames, 4nd all was confusion. The. fire spread so rae
pidly, that there was only time to throw out of the windows the
more purteble and lighter articles, and those were greatly de-
maged het the fall, and subjected to the plunder w licit, alas! too
often accompaniea such an event. The roof of the house and
the ueper, rooms were-consumed, Nit tile large quantity of un-
wrought stuff iothe lower apartments gave increasing power to
the destructive element. Mr. Freeman's shop was the only
part resew', and about six o'clack the flames were subdued.—
In the meatory of man there has not been such a fire in Nor-
wieb, and the loises are calculated to amount from eight to ten
thuusatapeunds; but we hear that Messrs. Culley were insured
at the Albion (Alice ior 50001. and Mr. Freeman for 16001. in
the Lqpitettle ()dice of Norwich. The Norwich Volunteers,
since the accident, have kept guard around the demolished pre-
nii.eee and some perseus are sent to prison, being detected in
villainously plundering at sue;i a moment of distress.

At Niarlburough•street Police Office, on Friday, a young man
otgenteel appeari.nce, recently :Jerk at n jeweller's at the west
end or the towns, was charged with forgery, and uttering a
checque for 961. at. the Banking-house of gird, and Co. in
Bond-street. The prisoner was apprehended at his lodgings
in,Pukeney-street,yestetday, and the forged instrument had the
iiigiature of the p isoner's makter, whose service he had left
six weeks, and who kept money in the Banking-house. The
'prisoner was not identified Lis the person to whom the money
Was paid, -hat the hand-writing much resembling that or the
accused, - and. other cirzems:ances of suspicw,i, induced the
Alagistrate to.commit him fir fin.ther examination..

Tuesday morning, the stables helooging to the Marchioness
Wellesley, situated iit South Atalley-street, Grosvenor-square,
fell &wit with a tremendous crash, by the foundation of the
building giving way. Tit-! kitcLen also a Jjoining the premises
gave way in the samernanner, and the servants narrowly escaped
with their lives.

Edited by E. ROC
the Newsmt i;, the
per 54:4 terp,

US the
cruel treatment s ___ poor .Jlig(d to endure
in being conveyed from one place to another. 'l'4e blow so
enraged him, that he ran after one of the Cadets some digtance,
who, finding the animal gain upon him, threw himself fiat upon
the ground, which cpmpletely prevented the bull from goring .
him. Dikappointed of his revenge, he immediately ran after
another Cadet, of the name of Rogers, and coming up to him
before he was aware of the animal,.he gored the poor youth in
the lower part of the back, and drove his horn nearly through
the;body, tossing him at the same time some height above the
ground. Tile animal, after this, laid himself down close tie •
poor Rogue, and the other Catlet immediately ran for assistre
ance. A gun was soon procured, and the animal killed by
firing twice at him. Rogers was then conveyed to the Cadet .
Hospital, with very little hopes of life. He continued in gteg
agony till the next day, when he expired. •
A most horrid attempt was made by a man who resides near
Dock Head on Friday last to poison his wife and Three chil-
dren. He took a leg of mutton home and ordered it to be roasted
for dinner. His wife accordingly roasted it, and gotit ready by
the lime he appointed. He did- not come home to dinner, and •
the wife and children made their dinners from some provisions
that were in the house, and did not cut the leg of mutton. The
husband did not arrive at home till supper time, and In ade an
excuse for not coming to dinner. She offered him some of the
kg of mutton for his supper, but he declined it, saying, be had
brought home some fish for supper which. he wished .to have •
fried; and his wife fryed them with the dripping produced
from the roasting of the leg of mutton ; and he ate heartily of
the fish. In the night he was taken extremely ill, and has con-
tinned in the most excruciating torture ever since. He inquired
how the fish bad been cooked, and being informed that none of
his family had partaken of the mutton, he acknowledged his
guilt, by saying the deadly al td diabolical scheme he bad laid of
poisoning the whole of them had fallen upon himself-Aaving
laid the leg of muttou in a quantity of arsenic fora considerable
time; and also to have rubbed it into the meat.—The me:et-ebbs
wretch is languishing in the greatest torture of body and mind.

MARRIED.
On Saturday the i(th lust. at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Capt.
Cook on, of the t;C•th Regiment,lo Mary Anne, second'
(laughter of David Stephenson, ksq. of that town.

DIED.

In the 70th year of his age, the Rev. William Piggott, rector
of Edr loud and Chetwynd, Salop.

..dgm
The Rev: Fdward Fvxna, Vicar of Aettws, and,. rector oi.
Llanddullas, Denbighshire.
Lately, at Meriden, after a few days illness, Mr. Addison
Ashburn, relative of the Author of the Spectator.; his cheerful
manuers endeared him to a large circle of acquaintauce.
On Wednesday, 27th Feb. in the 108th year of his age, John
Cov% ie, beilman at Criniond, Scotland. In his youth he fought
the battles of his country by sea and and, and was discharged
as worn out in the rear 1739; but again took in 3 arms in the mo.
Riorable year of Culloden. As he advanced in life, a consider-
able variation Vt".S observed in the use which he hat-of his fa-
culties. For some time he. was under the necessity of using
spectacles, again, and particularly during the last few years of
his life, he c,ould.read the smallest print without them. When
he its above 70, having secured himself the affections of a
woman who had some money, he thought himself too old, or
too rich for being bellman. Another was appointed, who kept
the office twenty-five years, at whose death John applied to be
reinstated. He discharged the duties of his office till within ten
days of his death ; and in the exercise of it, he recovered the use
of all his faculties, which had become much impaired during the
reriod of his inactivity. I-le Mid two daughters (twins) by his
last wife.

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FFENCEB. , Lately., auspice of the Cadets were playing at the. back of
the Cadet Narracks, at Woolwich,: one of them t,truck a bull
that hadthe day before been driven from Smithfield market, on
L. its way to Chatham, and was possibly rendered furious by the
cruel treatment which these poor animals are ohligtd to endure