The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-31 00:00:00

COAL TRADE.

A Coal-heaver, on behalf of himself and others,
preferred a complaint against Mr. Sant, a coal-mer-
chant in the Adelphi, for not paying them what
they were entitled to as demurrage, for having been
detained on board a Collier, in the River, the cargo
of which was consigned to him. It was stated,
that he Coal-heavers were liable to be punished, if,
after going ort board a ship to deliver a cargo, they
,quitted it without performing their engagement;
but it was the duty of the merchant to take care to
send his lighters. It was inferred that the mer-
chant frequently delayed sending his lighters,. with
a view of keeping up the market ; but in that case
the coal-heavers contended they had a right to be
paid for the time they were delayed.
Mr. Sant maintained, on the contrary, they had
no right to demurrage ; or that if they had, the
Master of the Ship, and not the Merchant, ought
to pay it : it was a demand he certainly should
resist.

The LORD MAYOR said, if Mt. Sant conceived
he could resist the demand on legal grounds, he had
no objection to affording him the opportunity. He
shduld therefore give directions to the City Comp-
troller to take such steps as might be necessary to
ascertain the rights of the parties.

A fire brvkc out yesterday afternoon, at the
Dowager Lady PEMBROKE'S, Cavendish - square,
which has completely destroyed the house. This
unfortunate circumstance was occasioned by the
carelessness of a servant, in placing some linen too
near a fire in the attic story. The devouring ele-
ment raged fox upwards of three hours. The chief
part of the ,Furniture was saved, and happily no
lives were lost. Lady PEMBROKE was not in town,
but was expelled. at the very moment when this
melancholy event took place. A very numerous
concourse was attraded by the sight, which, though
very distressing, was most awfully magnificent.
The Marybone Volunteers- attended with zealous
promptitude, and were highly serviceable in pre-
venting any augmentation of mischief, from the
designs of those who are always ready to prey on
MistOrtune.

, .
MELANCHOLY EVENT.—Yesterday afternoon as
Mr. Cnam E as, of Craven-street, was going down
Southampton-street in a gig, the horse suddenly•
took fright, and ran with the utmost speed across the
Strand, into the gate-way opposite, Mr: CHAN.-
B ERS and his man, who was with him in the car.
riage, were .both thrown out ; the former was
severely braised, and the servant had one of his
legs broken.
A few days since, a hand-bill of one of the pre-
tended Fortune-tellers was sent to a Magistrate
for Middlesex it was headed with large letters,
Mrs. D. Mantua-maker and Astrologer."—lt
then stated, that she bought and sold all sorts of,
Ladies' wearing apparel, and answered all lawlul
questions gratis, in every thing that Ladies desired to
know, both by sea and land, and assured those who
would favour her with their commands, that she
would give s.atisfaaion—lt wAsx;quested that those
who favoured her by calling, would only inquire
for the Mantua-maker. The Magistrate sent the
bill to the Public-Office, Bow-street, when the
Magistrate employed a woman to go as diredled
the bill, to No. 2, Gilbert-street, Bloomsbury,
under pretence of hating her fortune told, When
she got an interview of the learned Lady,. she told
her she was married, that her husband was abroad,
that she had not heard from him for such a length
of time that she was afraid he was• dead. She
wished to -know what was become of him, as she,
was in great distress about.his. fate , upon this all:
learned Lady pretended to make some calculations,-
and told her that her husband was alive and well, and
would return to England in a few months ; but he
would die in a short time after his return ; that she
would have another offer in marriage, which she
advised her to accept, as she might depend she
would have no more children : the woman then
told her she was engaged in a law-suit, and wishedr
to know the event. The Lady pretending to fore-
. know the decision of a Jury, she, in her great wis.
dom, informed her, it would be decided in her fa.
your. For all this. important information the
Woman paid two shillings. On this an information
was grounded, and Sayers and Townsend went with
a warrant and took her into custody. They found
in the room two young Ladies, genteelly dressed,
who the Officers likewise took into custody, and on
an investigation before the Magistrate, the young
Ladies turned out to be daughters of a very respea.
able Gentleman who resides a few miles from Lon.
don. They confessed 'that they came to London
for the express purpose of consulting Mrs. D.
—One of them is twenty-two years of age, and
lately married, and she confessed that her errand
was to know if her husband was true tr,
The other, about seventeen, wished to know if
she was to have a good husband, and if it would be
soon. The Magistrate, after giving them a suit-
able admonition for their folly and credulity, ad-
vised one to go home to her husband, and the other
to go and attend to the good counsel of her parents,
instead of listening to the deceiving folly of Mrs. D.
This they both with shame and contrition pro-
mised to do.—Mrs. D. was committed to the House
of Correaion as a rogue and vagabond. The wo-
man who went for the purpose of informing, is not a
married woman, nor has she a law-suit depending.
Yesterday a seafaring man, lately returned from
sea, was attacked by a stout. fellow at the corner of ."
the King's Mews Gate, by an 010 trick of pretend-
ing to have India or China goods to dispose of
':cheap, they. being smuggled, and the man wag'
forced into a public house, the corner of the
Mews, by three men, when a waistcoat was pro-
duced by one of them, who asserted it came trout:
China ; but Jack having been at China, asserted;
it never was made there. At length a dispute
arose, and the Police Officers were sent for, who
took them to Bow-street. On examining the waist;
coat-piece, it proved to be a :Jpitalfieltis manufac,
tore. They were all committed as idle and disov
,derly persons, not being able to give a satisfaCtorY
account of themselves.

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