The Sun.
London, England, 1814-08-30 00:00:00

EX-PARTE LEITH IN THE MATTER OF LEITH.

The Lox o CHANCELLOR gave judgment on this
petition. It was presented by. John Leith, the
next of kin of the lunatic, complaining that the
master, Mr. Simeon, to whom the cause had been
referred, had left town without acting on his Lord-
ship's order to make arragements respecting the
estates of the lunatic in the West Indies, and
praying that his Lordship «•ould make a fresh
order relative to the property'of the lunatic, which
by the care and attention of the petitioner, amount-
ed to a large yearly income.. , The petition con►-
plaiued of the want of due returns front .the man-
ager's of the estates ; ..that the lunatic had. been
confined at Fisher-honse, I.ilingtou,. hut ,subse-
yiently in a private house under the• order of the
Court.

The LORD CIIANCELLOR observed, that the de-
lay complained of was.caused by the phitioner,
in not following the business up in the Master's
office ; and also, that ;the former order gave him
ail the benefit which lie now prayed for, inasmuch
as Mr. Shneon, on receiving a letter from him in
the country, would make his report under the for-
mer direction, and with more effect than he could
under any bew order. He thought the present pe-
tition wholly unnecessary, and
.would take that op-
rtnnity of disclaiming against what some news-,
rapers had attributed to him, in his Judgment in the
case of Limbrey, who was confined in Fisher-house,
that he, his Lordship, thought it was unfit and
improper, he having merely stated what he would
theii repeat—that if the circumstances of the par-
ties could afford it, private confinement was • far.
preferable to any such place. Having no mate-
rials before him, and having no opinion, either
then or before, that Fisher-house was not as well
conducted as any house of the description in the
kingdom, he had merely said this much to correct
tie mis-statement. Under every consideration of
tire present petition, he considered it was his duty
to refuse the prayer of it : he would, however,
write to the Master on the subject. Petition dis-
missed. " •

Mr. SADLER and Miss ThomrsoN, it is stated,
trill ascend at Doncaster Races, in the magnifi-
cent car of the balloon prepared for that occasion.
We mentioned some time past the liberal be-
tines! Of Nlr: KINLocu, who died on his hone
passage from the East Indies, and left the rever-
sion of his property to invalided soldiers and
sailors of the Scottish nation, nutlet the manage-
ttiviit of the Scottish Hospital, in Crane-:eourt.—
We have now to regret that the Managers of that
Institution have declined the trust ; WC do not
know from what prudential reasons.

hi the year 1790,. Joanna Southcoit was
,em-
ployed as a work woman at an upholsterer's shop
in Exeter. • The shopkeeper being h Methodist,
his shop was frequently: Ministers'.of
the same persuasioni and Joanna Sont4cott,
sessing what they termed a:serious turn of mind,
did nor pass unnoitcecL She irad frequent dis-
cussions in the .81101) with these Ministers, and
was regarded as a prodigy.

The dreadful fire which burst forth so suddenly
on Sunday evening, and whic has made a most
tremendous chasm on "Bank-si still continues
at intervals to blaze but from among the rains,
and to require the operation of the two floating
engines moored in front of the site where the va-
rious warehouses that have been consumed stood
but two days ago. Unfortunately, when t!,e fire
was first discovered in the mustard-mills of Messrs.
Lingard and Jones, it was nearly low water,: and
one of the floating engines, which was moored
.below London-bridge, could not be worked-
up against the tide, and it was near nine
o'clock before it could be brought into ac-
tion, though it Was only-a minute and an half
after it came in.front of the fire before it began
to pour forth its showers, at the rate of a ton
per minute. The extensive. premises of Messrs.
Li s
,ard and Jones were the first which were
demolished. The fire, in a few minutes after it
got to a considerable bead on these warehouses,
was seen to extend its horrific approach both
ways,- and continued to spread each way
with_ equal fury till it readied the flour ware -
houses of MeSsrs. Thell and Steele, which, fortu-
nately, being a new and very substhntial erection,
with a very thick party-wall, prevented the flames
from extending themselves further eastward, and
saved not only those warehouses, which were
full of flour, belonging; to that Company, but a
great many others bet Ween them and London
bridge, which, had they caught fire, must hate
inevitably shared the same fate. Mr. Hammock's
corn warehouses, in which were immense plan-
tities of various kinds of grain, and a large por-.
tion of fine old beans, and those of Mr. Resden,
which adjoined them, we are sorry to be informed,
were all burnt to the ground. Messrs. Clark and
Myers's hop-warehouses, and thoSe of Mr. Evans
(in the • same lime), followed next. - Messrs.
Ball and Jones's iron-foundry, Mr. Ayres's corn
warehouses, part of the premises belonging to,
an eminent dyer, and a great 'deal of stabling
belonging to Thell and Steel, were totally con-
stuned„Several of the wazehouses near the riverside
appear still to containavolcano of fire within them,
as their walls are not consumed within three or
four feet of the foundation ; and we should not be
surprised if it should be some days before the en-
gines can cease from their labours, which are'now
playing upon this burning and thickly, smoking
pile of ruins, and cn the desolated walls still re-
maining of the adjoining houses.
On viewing the extensive scene of devastation'
which this frightful chasm presents, it is a.source
of the highest consolation to learn, that, after the
most minute inquiries, we could not find any one
who had heard of a single life being lost„or even
that any material accident had occurred to any-one
who endeavoured to assist the Sufferers.