The National Register.
London, England, 1816-06-03 00:00:00

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R. Donald andi S. Tulle were charged. the forester wirh stool-
ing, and the ler with receiving, tour pair of soldiers, three
locks, and other articles, the property of Ai ever,. '9411e1'3, Of
New BMW. itryvt. ft appeared, Donald had. for the last two
years,herm in the employ of the prosecutors, who,having lalely
missed various articles, were led to suspect him; and on his
heifer charged with it, he confessed the whole transaction, and
stated, that about five months sluice, he went to sell seine books
at an old iron slurp in Gee's court, Osthrd-street, kept by
Talk, who told him nut be afraid to bri.tg, things to him at
any time, as he would always purchase them of him ; in con-
sequeiwe of which, he had been induced to rob his employers
ever since. Tulk gave him very little money for them, and
was constantly desiring him to bring more ; that he fretinently
left things with his wife when he was not at home, and recil red
money from hint at anoth .1. time : upon which the Officer
searched Tidk's house, and found various articles, and atop-
cotes for eight locks, which had been pledged by his wire,
which were sworn to by the prosecutors as part of Mei,
property that had been stolen. Tbey were both fully cunt-
milted.

Several of the seamen implicated in the. late riots at Shields,
came to the Court of King's Bench on Monday la,t, and plead-
ed guilty to an indictment against them. They arra all suf-
fered to goat large upon their reeognizances.

DESTRUCTIVE TIRES.

Saturday morning early, a tire broke tint in the workshop of
Messrs. Irwin and Keep, coachanakers, in Mary•le-ht une-street,
adjoining the back premises of Sir It. Russell, who bad a large
company at a ball and supper at the cline. As soon Its the event
was ascertained, the company consistent; of about in Noblemen
anti Gentlemen most laudably joined their t fl'orts in working
the engiees, &c. while the ladies entered the carriages without
regard to to nership or any thing else. On the flames extentlin4
to Sir H. tiussell's stables, the gentlemen conveyed his most
valuable property to the bonze of a friend opposite. We regret
to state, that the whole of the premises of Messrs. lrwiu and
Keep were destroyed. and a valuable stock consumed. Eight
new carriages were destroyed, finished, as also IR which were
building. The turpentine, varnish, .tic. adding greatly to the
conflagration. Als w carriages and a small part of the house-
hold fermi itre were saved. The workshops behind, Mr. Nixon's,
the brush-maker, and Mr. Masons, the ironmonger, in At aryle-
ininne-street, and several other houses are damaged. Messrs.
Irwin anti Keep had two houses in the same street, over
the coach warehouses, one of them, which is attached to homes
in tVirtionle-street, is entirely destroyed. A piece of the tim-
ber fell upon a man, and lie was taken lip senseless, carried to
the hospital, and is stated to be since dead.—The lire was
urea. al by a kettle of varnish boiling over.
About three o'clock on Wednesday morning, a fire broke
ant at the Plough Inn, Clapham, which spread itself from the
taproom upwards with such rapiditn as scarcely to give time
for the escape of the initiates. Two or three gentlemen, who
had taken up their abode at the ion for the night, narrowly
escaped. One of them, in bed up two pair of stairs, finding
his retreat cut off by the staircase being on fire, called for
assistance from his bedroom window, and fortunately a I Oder
was brought hint, and he was saved from destruction. A Mr.
I. was placed in a still more perilous situation ; he slept in the
one pair, and in the contnsion which look place the people of
the house forgot to awake him. At length he was roused by
the crackling noise of the tire underneath his teed, which heat
first supposed to be rain violently driven against the windows;
but immediately being annoyed by the smoke, he rushed out of
the room with part of his clothes in his hand, and was just in
time to save his life. The family allow the same time were
apprised of their daager ; and as the landlord had eight or nine
children, it required great exertion and considtrable risk to
preserve We lives of all, in which, however, he fortunately
succeeded. The fire, being aided by the spirits, raged with
elicit fury as to resistevcry efiort to get it under, until the whole
premises were consumed. What adds to the calamity is, the
innkeeper in the hurry of business had omitted to renew the
insurance of his property as usual, and is therefore left in a
destitute situation, with a wife and a numerous family. Se-
veral adjoining, buildings would probably have shared the same
fate, had it nut been for a prompt anti ample supply of water.