The Sun.
London, England, 1808-02-05 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH., FEE. 4.

Last night, at half past seven, a youtil man of
the name of CPVCS was apprehended at POrtsMouth,
for' stabbing a number of women withiu the last.'.
wee' Ue W:l3 this morning taken to the Town
Hall, when two out of nine Of the women present,
wham he had so stabbed, swore to his persoii, and
he was fully corna:itled to take hi 4 trial at the next,
assizes at Wi:lchestcr. He ;tees no reason for such
coodusl. '

Yesterday evening, about h.tlf past nine 9:k;lock
a wonian was itablied by u man, at Gosport, tolgrio!s
was drzssed in a blue close coat, ansi of-gentiernah-
like appearance, %thence it'is-; evident that tbelibove
person who has beet) .apprc'ien(lol has .toot earn- •
milted the whole of the late atroities i 1 tlrit neigh.
bourhood: • •

B4TII, r En. a.

Yesterday came on tic Eleaion of a .Representa;
tive of this City in 'ParliaMent, the • room of our
former. highly respeaed Member, Jot PALMER,'
Esq. (who has, on account of state of health,
withdrawn -14)r a -time from public business) when
CIIARLES PALMLII, Esq. his son, Wai YirfatlirnOUSly
was proposed by Mr. Ai, erma n AN
DER EO'ST, and seeondett by Mr. Alderman lioaToNP.
After his eiettion had been dei,:lined, Major PALMER
addressed the Corp();etiott, with great feeling, rwarly
in the followinz terms
" GpiNTLE.:4Es..-7Proinl as I feel in being thus
ele&ed 'your- Representative, F assume not the
slightest mcrit to myself upon the occtsion,"but con-
sider it entirety, on your part, as an at of the purest
friendship to My father ; and believe tne in saying
no one can be more anxious than Myself for that
day 'when his health may enable him to resume the
station, which, for the present, you have so kindly
allowed use to occupy. I will not upon this occa-
sion attempt to express his feelings or my own, but
content Myself with assuring yen, that it is impos-
sibie for dna human heart to be more deeply im-
pressed with gratitude than mine for the'obligationS'
you have conferred. It is to you, I firmly believe,
that' at this moment I ,ate indebted for the ex-
istence of my father; you well know .the many,
many. years of fatigue and anxiety he has ex-
perienced, under winch, I am persuaded, he
would long ere this- have sunk, hadi:not, you,
by raising hint to this honourable trust, at once
- dispelled the gloom of disapnointthent, and open-
ed the brightest proipea to his hope.;.—You now
enhance that obligation by • perinitting him, in a
moment of sieknesi and e7Arerne debility, una;
ble to exert Itini,elf for the . rewaisk id that toil he
had so long evonntered in the service of the Public,,
thus eiretunstanced, to leave
,the task to me ; and I
cannot but flattermyself, that the diiinterested, the
noble example you have this day set, will tend to
animate the exertions of his friends in Parliament,
to procure for him that jusWe to which its own
Committee has declared loin entitled. I prosper
in the atreinpt, to you I 01311 chiefly attribute my
success; but whatever the event, believe me it wttl
be only with Litt; that I can lo'iu the recolleelion of
your kindness."

Sttoctuws Film—Yesterday spurning,. at half •
after six, a tire was discovered In. the house ot Miss
Piekman,' who kept a lace-shop! in Castle-etreet,
lAticester4ields. The iohatiitants being fast asleep,
of course did not hear the knocking-, which' was re-
'stinted for sortie time at the dour. At length a
pannel was burst in, and it was seen that the coun-
ter and shelves behind it were all in a blaze. Thi"
admission of air tanned the 'flame, and every part of
the house:was euiekly. on lire. There was but a
lath and plaster wall between that and the house of
Mr. Blewitt, who kept a conk-shop next door, and
the two Louses in a short time exhibited but one
body of ,'ire in the lower part of both. Miss Pick-
Man, her servant, a Gentleman who lodged' in the
house, and the niece of Miss Picknian, a tine young
girl, who 'acted as shopwonaan to her alint, were
wakened; but had In, time either to save any of the
property or to dress theinsels es. The lady of the
house went out Of the one pair of stairs front win-
dow on Jilts leads over the skip. By her hesitation es
to Which way she should.: turn, the Gentleman, who
followed her, had time to teeolleo that he had for-
got a little.box which contained something valtiable,
be returned to his apartment and brought it out. '
The servant maid followed ; she lowered herself
down by a lamp-irou into the street unhurt, whilst
Miss Piekinatt and ber lodeer, get into the window
of Mr. Ball, the musie-seller.The shopwotuan ran,
in a bewilderedeitate, up to the three pair of 'stairs
flogr; • Tile neighbeurs on the opposite side called
to her to go down to the first floor and get out on
the leads ; she appeared to have been Momentarily
deprived of 'her-reason, and, when some stupid pee-
Ole in the street, without taking the psecantion of
heldirig a blanket or any thing to receive her, told
her to leap out or she- Would be burned, she did so,
and was literally dashed to pieces. Mrs. PUWitt
Withber iot nit were for some time missing,,- but it
was afterwards found that they escaped safely
thrOugh a &unitary . window, over the top of the
house, into another that was not on tire. At. a-
(patter after tierce the Nvalls, of the two houses al,
ready mentioned fell to the ground, whiCh mate-.
riallY tended to subdue the Hones; and by 'nine
o'clock the -tire was almost extinguished. But by
that time the house of Mr. Ball, Musie-Seller, in
Castlestreet,. together with that of M. .I.i...ereot,
chemist and druggist, in Bear-ttreet, were entirely-
- 6/Jimmied, together with all their stock ies trade and
furniture.. The fire was at Q.LW time SO extremely
strong thate the houses on the opposite side of the
way would have cart Pub tire if the inhabitants bad
not been supplied with reservoirs of water within
themselves, from which theyleonstantly kept their
doors and :windowi' wet, Some Smell 'houses in
Cranbourn-alley were partially injured ; and the
firemen found it oecte-sary to continue plqing until
a late hoer last MO, to prevent the embers kindling
afresh.

CORN.-EXCLIANGE, FEL s.—To-day there are
some tee it itrik ;di of Wheat, which makes a mid-
Oiling supply, and ettittiouos nearly prices;
Baliq and Matt hkewise; Beans of the own sorts
Aro rirther dearer ; Rye and Rapeseed also ; the Oat
tr ido, fryr s.tinplei, (deli rather better price; in
;:0,k41- alteratiuti.