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London, England, 1813-10-30 00:00:00

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ttlort might r.ot to 110 *pot tri of at tieing ttai
prothietiott •of Jr. -Woi(itotatt ttlotte. 14 • wtts
the Report Of a Committee of %riga' te' Was a.
-Mentlivri

Si,:e J. .BrtAvtt sni4 the worthy tlentleman
Waitionan) was the only MAO who gave the City
the etidenee contAned in theTteport, and there-
lute he hail a right to consider it 113, his
conduct in giving siich e*ltletiee, 'ainl hringing
forward his Report, VOIS nnwarrantable, Ile
stated it broadly., it was altogether unwatrant.
able.

AlderfbanWoop, hi defence-of the Coin,
mittee, stated it to be the practice of Contiliittees
to take minutes of conversation ftoni the Remetii-
brancer. This he supposed to have been done in
the present instance, but he objected to the Re-
port, because it, in no way tended to forward that
which was the object of the Court: If the
amendment were removed, be would move as tan
amendment, that the subjeevihotild be referred
to the Committee of Gfteral purposes to frame a
Petition in order to obtain an Act.of' Parliament
to remedy the evils restiking from-Mock Auc-
tions, founded on the memorials cif the 6th May,
Mr. D.!Aris said, if the Autendment at present
before the Court were witkdrawn,.be would with
great pleasure, second the Arnerdinent to .be pro-
posed by the Worthy Alderman (Mr. Alderman
Wood).

After snme further conversation, Mr. Whrrit-
mt.?: replied, and maintained no •fact that'he had
stated could: be disproved. He however ctinsent-
ed, with the pciiiiission of the Court, to „withdraw
his motion. This was agreed to, and be then
moved that the Committee for General Purposes
should be instructed to take the most' active
measures for getting an Act passed, early in the
ileict, Session of Parliament, to
.remedy the evils
resulting from Mock Auctions to the public aad
the fair trader. • This Motion, after a short, dis 7
cussion, was carried, and the Court broke'itp.

OLD 13A 1 LLY

ARSON.

Yesterday Mary Har(ison was indicted for wil-
fully and maliciously setting fire to a house in
High-street, in Shadwell, which was in. the pos•
session of Jane Bloomfield, with intent to defraud
the proprietor, and also the Eagle Insurance
Company.
Sarah Taylor, servant to Mrs. Bloomfield, tie-
posed, that on the 20th of September, thepri•
soner lodged at Mrs. Bloomfield's; house, No. 108;
that she occupied the first floor, had the use of
the kitchen, and the general
:range of the house,
except the shop and back'-parlour, which were..in
the care of the,tvitness, who managed the busi-
ness of a batter for her mistress. The door from
the shop into the parlour was only for her use.—
Mrs. ITarrisoo had a side-door to go in and nut
into a passage. There was a hole in the cieling
of the parlour from the room above, made by is
man's stet in dancing : she bad.stulfed this hole
with a petticoat ou the night in question : about
eight o'clock she locked the prim, and took the
key with her to Mrs: -Bloomfield. She recollected, •
that about seven weeks before the fire a consider-
able quantity of straw had been.brought into the
11.)h e, and was pelt Into the cellar about three
weeks before the tire, she helped to remove some
of it into the back-kitchen. When. she saw the •
parlour the morning after the tire, the petticoat.
had been pushed from the hole down to, the floor,
and there were two or three small bundles of
straw lying about the room, which were not there
the preceding evening.
John Stevenson, a watchman,- :swore,..that, as
he was going past the house in quotion, on the
night of the fire, about five minutes before two
o'clock, he beard a child crying, and. saw Mrs.
Harrison undressed, except her shifr, come down
out of the side-door, and go :down. the passage ;
be supposed she was going for a light on account
of the; cries of the child,. He went, on, but before:

he bad gone away 50 yards, he heard the cry of
fire, and returned; this was about tell, minutes
after he first saw Mrs. Harrison. She was now
standing on the leads over the front door, and
appeared as if she mould jump down : site gave
the child to a fireman, and was banded down a
ladder.

Mary Near I,ivett in the passage where the fire
happened :.just before.two o'clock, ,Mrs. Mani-
son came and requested a light, as her child was
ill: she brought no candle with her, and witness
gave her a candle.. In about ten minutes witness
saw a light -in the . hack kitchen of Mrs. Bloom.
field : it-blazed as if the house was on fire.
Sweasey, fireman to the Atlas Itisnr=
once Office, said, he was Walking by the house a
few, minutes past two o'clock J he smelt live,' but
walked on' fire or rix yards, when finding the smell
become fahster, he returned; and saw Mrs. tlarri-
son and her child at, the window, as described by
the last witness ; she -dropped the child into his
arms, and was going to jump herself, but helold
her to wait for a ladder, as he saw there was no
immediate danger ; lie put her in a piece 'of safe-
ty, end returned to the house. There were eve-
rat people there, who had broke in ; there %VAS 110
fire 11.) the shop, hat there was a bole burnt in the
middle of the floor of the back-parlour, about eight
inches by four, and near it a small bindle of
straw, which was burning. There was a hole in
the ceiling above, nearly over this. Ile Went tip
stairs some time afterwards, but observed nothing
particular.. The stairs of the kitchen Were 'blitz-
ing, but there was nu smell of any enialinkble
'matter, such as pitch or brimstone:. The fire ap-
peared, to bare,been kindled upon the stairs ; there
was a,suffocatingsmoke, as if from straw.

John Proctor observed in the parlour some straw
rolled up in a pocket-handlicrchtef.-
IV. Drummond, the oflice,keeper of the 'Shad%
well Police, saw the premises within an hour 'af-
ter the fire; he examined them, and saw the holes
in the parlour before mentioned, and also a hand-
kerchief full of straw and sticks, and a paper with
the same materials lying on the hearth : np stairs,
in the vacuity between the ceiling and the floor.
'nig, there was some straw, .corresrtnnding with
the straw in the parlour.
Patrick, a constable, taw ,the rooms at ten
o'clock in tl*o morning ; there as loose straw
se;ttoliti abiutt the tdom upstairs, and some straw
Aicking.to the ha, us if straw bad been forced
tinotioh th knit. 111 efill‘ZeilllPllPN nF wt..,