The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-04 00:00:00

814.111NG.11,1M, SEPT. 2.

• 'Lim 'night, between eighs and nine o'clock; an
acciAent • Oceasioned one of the Most Melancholy
ar I 'shocking.eatasteophes that 'for a long
rime fießr4 of.—The upper floor of an old' •hoNe
on 'Snow-hill,• in this town, oecunied by a poor
man of the name Of Pardoe," suddenly fell; alid.
-drove all the fi3or:beldw into the cellar, irr
in its ruins tire ''wife',' five 'children, mud ,a youth
about 16 years "of age. People were iintnediatery
employed in ,making an entrance into the cellar
from the street, by taking•up the- pavenient; and in
about an -hoer 'and an hail got out, the, woman and
-yotingest childiLbOth very dangercitisly bruised ; the
youngman.was- also taken-out alive; but title four
other 'children, 'one' boy and three girls, we're 'all
crushed to death; 'and their
,bodies •exhibited tile
-most mitilated acid ni'angled speetacies'imaginable;
When the-accident. Was 'kriiii'n; every assistance was
immediately given.; ..the Volunteers and Constablds
kept.gotti order,and the street &Lear, and the best
Surgical assistance was at hand to hop the sufferers
as soon-as they wiete liberated,

The Junior BANNISTER has been playing with
great success. at Weymouth ; and his comic exer-
tions have been gratified- by the attention and ap-
probation of the•RoY AL FAM I t. Y.
Mrs. JORDAT, we understand, is to play a few
nights it Brighton Theatre.
STEPHEN ,KEMBI,E. has recently, purchased the
Theatre at Scarborough in which he has had
tolerable season. It is a pretty little Theatre, and
is• Usually graced by a more genteel'audience than
generally atteods Provincial Theatres.
The price demanded of 1-10LNIAN for the Dublin
Thtatre is, it is said, no less than zB,oool. !!!
This is an enormous sum .fora species of property
:that inust be all4ays precarious, as it depends in a
great degree upon the' talents which support it, and,
what is still more uncertain, public taste ; inde-
pendently of the 'variety of rival entertainments
.which ziav lessen the attraetion of dramatic ainuse, -
runts. However, HoLmAN has sense enough to
know what he is about, and would hard!y parti_
cipate in embarking, so great a capital without a
reasonable prospect} of success.

STORACE and BRA li-myt..havt 'arrived in towh;
and 'seem :o be still so to ia unison with each
other, that if is not- probable Mts. Ell I,II4GTON
will be suirered' to.;take-priirt 'with theni in a trio,
and certainly not with Ba.AHA-4 in a duct..

The following circumstance lately took place on
the Margate road.'---A I3arrister, having taken -up
his quarters at an Inn, with the Landlord of which
he Was acquainted, was consulted by the host what
he should.do in the case of a Jnan who had brought
an anion 'against him, though he had in return a
deMand upon his Creditor. The E irrister desired
time'" o consider of it, as lie said lovas a nice case,
and he would gi; ,! his opinion, in the morning.—
When day broke he movnted his horse, and without
troubling the Landlord for a bill, left dip
,following
solution lam of opinion thlt the, best thing
you can do is to follow my example., make a SETi`
OFF."

• ,
.Thursday August was married at 0-ttev
St. IVlirv,` in the .Co-unty of 31von, EDMUND
BACON, Esq. eldest:. son of -Sir ti ND BACON,
43art. sot' Raveningliam, in the connty of Norfolk,
to Miss _13.3c0N,_ divughter of, DAssit-Wpoo, BACON,
Esq. olOttey St., Mary. -
'Last • night, about eight O'clock; three womert
went, into the shop of 'Mrs. Fitzpatrick,, in Cran.
:.)ournAlley, to pttrehaSe a bonAef, when'One of them,
nenperceived by-the otherct wo, took the opportunity,
while Mrs. Fitzpatrick's back was. turned, to steal
a:Very handsome laced cloak., When they had left
the shq, the woman.told the others what- side had n•
chine, and said she would pledge it, and give them ,
part of the tanrcy. ['he other women thing more
honest than their accptaintancei immedia cly,btought •
her blek t.-) the silbp; and r -.1-..,red the ci. ak to Mrs..
Frtzpatrck, who, Navin:; teen,. et-A her property,
very nnfortunat -1r for thkr goo 4) suffered tlt
woman to go at large;

Mr. ERSKINE said, this was an A6ion on.a Po•
licy by the owners of the ship. Emily, insured,lrtitti
London to the South Seas, on a fishing voyage,
with liberty' to touch at' any ports and places, as
well on :this as on the other side of Cape Horn; and
to take on board such goods ,as .she should. make
prize of. The only question for the. consideration
of the Jury was, Whether she was sea-worthy at
the inception_ of the voyage, and in proof of the
-affirrnative, it' was not immaterial to state, that but
of 3o Underwriters, only .thc Defendant and ay.
'ther'had rellised to pay the sums-they had insured.
The vessel was French,built, and had been purchased
by the Plaintiffs in the year 1796, for near aoool.'
and, previous to the voyage. insured, underwent a
:complete repair in Mr. Barnard's dock-yard, wider
the immediate inspeffion of Mr.. Tucker, the .super-
„intendant of the shipping, of the, East India Com-
pany ; and, the sum expended. in such repair amount-
ed to 12001.; she afterwards set out on one of the
most perilous and disastrous voyages possible. to be
undertaken;- she /sailed in. September, 1797, and.
there Was no coloUr for ,her being deemed otherwise
than seaworthy, till February, r. 798, when she made
-Statem Land, and Island near Terra del Fuego, hay.
ing sprung aleak in, a tremendous gale of Wind:t she
afterwards proceeded to the main land. of Patagonia,
where she had to contend wiih seas'and teOpests,. in.
_comparison with which, the most violent of our
Northern hemisphere were perfet calms and gentle
_zephyrs ; for twenty days she beat up against a lee
shore,, and, instead of running into port, which she
Was unable to do without: the risk of certain de-
struClion, she was" obliged, to do that which was
sufficient to pull the strongest ship
.to Owes ; she
was compelled to make. the. open sea, with all,the sail
she Could crowd, to avoid the dangers of a lee-shore
the violence of the wind was such, that she biid two
mainsails 'split ; the consequence of such a press of
canvas was-, that the ship was very much strained :
she afterwards went to the Gallapagos Islands, situ;
ated near the Equator, where, having previously
engaged a Spanish ship for three hours, she found it
impossible to proteed.on her voyage without being
hove down, in order to discover and repair the
damage she had sustained ; she was drawn on land,
and immediately bilged, and became totally unser-
viceable ; she was broke up, and it appeared that
all her timbers were sound; though some of. the iron
bolts had been corroded by the copper sheathing.
It was now to be contended, that these 'iron bolts
ought to have been replaced by new ones when the
ship seas repaired, and that, in consequence of such

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