The Sun.
London, England, 1802-12-13 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON, PLEAS, 15,.c.

An A6tion was Firelight against the Hon. Mr.
Twislet6o, by a woman who had nursed the child

of 11;s wife; A curious question of law arose as to
the admissibility of the evidence of Mrs. Twisletoi,
who had been divorced.
.It was rejeled by Lord
AT.VANLEY.
•,
appeared that the Defendant had reason to sus.
pea that the child was not his, and on that ground
resisted its maintenance ; but as it was born within
nine months of the time Mrs. Twisleton had sepa.
rated, froin her husband, the Jury gave a tierdid for
the Plaintiff for sol.

CORDEN V. EMMERTON.

This was an AEtion: to recover 290% the amoun
of a debt the Plaintiff had trusted a Mr. Flail, tipa
the recommendationA4 the Defendant. I'he Plain.

tiff was a Corn-tnerOant, in Mark-lane, and I

given Mr. Hall erodit upon an assurance that he
was a responsible man; The fata turned out Other-
wise,• and the Plaintiff was unable to obtain his

money without 'resorting to the Defendant. The
case was made out, and the Plaintiff recovered 'a
verdict for the whole sum.

GUILDHALL; DEC. 11.

THE Commissioners again met under the Com-
mission, of Bankruptcy against Lathrop Murray,
claiming to 'be a-Baronet ; but nothing particular
transpired. The objed of the :Meeting was, that
the Petitioning Creditor might come forward in sup_
port of the debt upon which the Bankruptcy- was
founded ; 'but neither the Petitioning Creditor, nor
any one else, attended in support of the Commission;
it is probable, therefore, that, upon the report of
the Commissioners, the proceedings will be wholly
set aside.

AMERICA.

NEW-YOKK, NOV. 3.

ONE of the alarming fires that has ever bap_
pened in this City within our recolle&ion, broke out
lAt evening, between eight and nine o'clock, in a
stable in Bride-street, between Whitehall.and Broad_
streets, almost 'surrounded with wooden buildings.
The wind blowing fresh from the south _west, the
devouring element made its way through Bridge_
street into Stone-street, with uncontrolable fury ;
and in leis than an hour and a half the whole blddc;
consisting of about fifty buildings, mostly ClWellino-_
houses, were either burnt, pulled down, or'gui.gi.
Pieces of shingles, in ;tlight blaze, were ariicd in
every direction by the wind, frequently lodging on
the -roofs' of houses at 'the distance of half a mile
from the scene of conflagratio.), and threatened de..
stration to a great part of the City. We are nn_
able, at present, to state either the origin of the
fire, or the extent of the injury' individually or col-
leetively sustained. Amongst the sufferers, a list
of whom we were not able to procure last evening,
were Mr. A. CARROLL, Cal, Bois, Mr. PETER
-MESTER, Mr. JAMES CHEETHAM, Mr. RAYNTER
SUYDAM, and Mr. CAMME Y ER.

'GAMBLING. —A most .melancholy instance of
this propensity was witnessed last Thursday even-
ing. A Gentleman was brought to St. James's
Watch-house, apparently lifeless. On recovery, he
stated that he was a Surgeon in the Navy ; that he
had unfortunately been seduced to a certain house
in St. James's, where he lost or was robbed of 2701.
besides his watch ; that he was driven to the great-
est state of desperation, when he offered, in order
to gratify his wish of a chance for recovery of his
property, his title to an Estate of 3001. a-year ;
that all efforts having proved ineffeetual, he at last
,came to the deterinination of 'taking a dose of le u- ,
danum', in order to destroy a miserable existence ;
but that even with all his losses, he rejoiced to find
that he was still in the land of the living. The
remains of his for tune'consisted of two seven shil-
lingpieces, which had accidentally been left in his
coat. pocket.

A DARING Rosa ERY.OI) Monday afternomia
man with a knot on his shoulder, and habited like a
porter, with an apron, &c. found means to pass Un-
perceived through a glaSYStaircase-door, at the house
of Mr. Wright, in Castle-street, Finsbury-square,
• and going to the second story, had time to pack•up
a bed and,,bedding, which he brought down with
him into, the passage ; when hearing the maid ser-
vant coming up the kitchen stairs, he contrived to
get his burden just on the other side of the passage_
door, and then began with an artful enquiry whether
one Mr. Burly did not live there, he being, sent to
him from a broker in Moorfields with that bed.
During the conversation between the maid and the
r-)bber, Mr. Wright and a man-servant came out of
't
-he-parlour) and joining with her in telling the sup-
postsd porter that he had got a wrong direlion,
the Man, at his request, absolutely helped • the fel-
low, up'with his load, which he carried off without
interruption, the articles not being missed till a
Gentleman who slept in the house came home in the
evening, and when the surprise of the parties may
be-better conceived than expressed.
Mr. FENTON, jun. draper, of Cloth Fair, West
Smithfield, having frequently of late missed articles
out of his shop, in the evenings, resolved to
watch, and having on Thursday evening last provid-
ed himself with a horse-pistol, loaded with slugs,
he went into the shop of his opposite neighbour soon
after dark, and there watched till about six o'clock,
when'\five or six men assembled before his door,
and he saw. one of them go softly into the shop,
and return with a piece of swansdown cloth in
his•kind ; he immediately ran out and attempted to
seize him, but the man thrust the piece of cloth
into his face, and immediately ran off, as did hiS
companions, by different. routes ; he ran after the
man who had the cloth„up Cloth Fair; but finding
he could not. overtake him so as to secure him, he
discharged the pistol, ~aiming it at his breech; the
man, however, did not :fall or-stop, although-Mr.
Fenton was so near him that the .wadding of the
pistol lodged. in his coat behind, and was observed
on fire by many of the neighbours as he continued
running away—he, dropped the cloth, but himself
got clear.off.

DIED

On the 9th inst. at his .son's house, in Somthet-street,
Portman-square, John Simpson, Esq. of Launde Abbey,
Leicestershire.
Last week., at Warrington, Mr: Thomas Lowndes.