The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-03 00:00:00

POLICE.

GUILDHALL, JOVE 2.—A woman named Hester
,Queozy, , servant at a late house of ill-fame, No. 18,
in Gutter-lane, Cheapside, was brought up for
examination, charged on suspicion of being the
person who set fire to the premises ; conse-
quence of which not only the house was burnt, to
the ground, to the .danger and alarm of the whole
neighbourhod, but one, if not two lives were
lost.

The charge was brought by a Mr. Lane, who
resides in Gutter-lane, and the circumstances were
as follow :

About one yesterday morning the neighbour-
hoOd was alarmed by the cry of " Fire," and im-
mediately afterwards.,it was found that the flames
had spread through the whole house, and every
thing from the cellar to the garret was in a blaze.
Two unfortunate persons, the one named Watson,
who had been. rider, for a commercial house in the
city, and the other a woman of the town, named
Story, both of whom had taken their lo.dgings
for the night on the second floor, roused froth
their slumbers by the flames which enveloped
them, jumped, in -a state of nakedness, from the
window of their apartment into the street.; Story
was killed on the spot, and Watson was carried
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, so desperately
hurt, as to leave no hopes of lib recovery. Ilia-
mediattly:after this unfortanate occurrence, the
prisoner, who was known to have been a servant
in the hoUse, was observed in the
,street with a
bundle of apparel in her hand, which she said had
belonged to the persons who escaped from the
window', and that. she was going to, carry them to
the Hospital. She alsii said that the house had
been set on fire by aivoman of thetown, -whose
name she knew—whom she had seen before—who
was, . in the course of the evening, twice intro-
duced to a room on the first floor, and who, the
second' time, set fire to the apartment, and ran
away. She discovered the fire shortly afterwards,
and found the whole house in flames.

The prisoner in her defence stated,, that she
found the cloaths in the street, after the parties
had jumped from the window, and supposing them
to have been thrown out, she picked them up,
to carry them to the owners, then taken to the
Hospital.
No appearance of dirt, however, was on the
garments, although the street into which -she
stated they were thrown was deeply covered -.kith
mud, after a day of -heavy rain, and they must
have unavoidably been trampled on by the crowd
assembled.

The Magistrates conceiving there was no posi-
tive evidence to bring home to the prisoner the
charge of arson, ordered the prisoner to be dis-
missed.

CORN-EXCHANGE, JUNE 3.—This day the Mar-
ket has not many fresh arrivals of Wheat, but the
quantities on hand fully adequate to the demand ;
sates again at little fluctuation ; Barley, in short
supply, in request for'the Western counties, and
somewhat higher; Fifie Malt rather so ; . Peas and
Beans of each sort nearly at last prices. The
supplies of Oats are but inconsiderable, and this
article also quoted at rather higher prices ; Flour
in. good supply, mostly from the North country,
and continues at the late quotation.

Wheat - - 865..1105. 128 s. Tick 13eans - - 665.
Fine ditto - - 1335. 138 s. Ditto (old) - 735. 745.
Rye - - - 455. 505.,555.
Barley - - -60 s. 675. Poland ditto - 565. sss.
Malt - - - -88 s. 955. Pototoe ditto - - 595. 60s.
White•Pease (boil.) 80$. 85s. Rape Seed - 761: 801.
Grey ditto - - -70 s. 765. Fine Flour - -105 s. 110$
Beaus. - - . - 718. 761. Seconds - —100 s, 1.94.

PjEI,I*AIIIEN7;.

'MUSE QF LORDS-Tvr-iDAY, JUNE 2.

A meeting took place soon after two o'clock,
and after forwarding several Bills, their Lordships
resolved into a Committee on the
ORDERS IN COUNCIL,
and proceeded forthwith '0 the examination of
witnesses. •

Gladstaines, of Liverpool, was thd .first
examined, and at very great length 3 when,..abont
qwirter.after five o'clock the:House resinneeand
The PerceVal Annuity 'Bill was brought up
from the Commons, by Mr.' W. -fitzgerald, ac-
coMpanied by a great number-of Members. Ttiis
Bill was forthivith read first time, .and on the
motion of the Earl of LrvEaPool., Ordered to be
read a second tithe to-morrow.

On the motion of Earl STANHOPE, the Order for
going into a CoMmittee on the 'Tenants' and Pea-
santry Bill, this day, was discharged ; his Lord-
ship observing, that a subject of such great and
peculiar importance was not *fit forAiscussion dur-
ing the present unsettled state' of things, which,
however, he thought would sewn have an end.
He proposed fixing. the Committee for Monday
next, and that the Lords be summoned for that
day, which was ordered accordingly.