The Sun.
London, England, 1803-09-02 00:00:00

FIRE AT ASTLEY's AMPHITHEATRE.

A dreadful Fire bloke ou! between two and three
o'clock this !fuming at ASTI,Ey's Amphitheatre,
• near Wr.omiti,,tet i3t-Wge. It %vas not discovered.
till it had gained an alarming height that it
Was impossible to save any part of tl:e building,
hich was burnt to the ground in a very short •
thne.• What added to the misfortune, no water
Was to he procured for •a considerable period ; the
fl toes in the mean time extended to several adjoin.
ing•h uses, • ten or eleven of which wete also burnt,
and several others much damaged.
- The cause of the Fire is at present nnascertain.
ed-,;; but we lament to learn that Mrs. WOOD-
;the mother of Mrs. Ast LEY, who slept in
theinulding, was burnt to death. It was repotted
that the Horses were likewise burnt, but we have
since learnt that they were all sat ed. The flames
were so extremely rapid, however, that very little
lie'•dr• tobld be pr,served Iran their fury.
The flames were got under by eight or nine o'clock,
but the Engines continued to play briskly at twelve,
at which hour an immense crowd of people from all
parts of the Town were colleted on the spot.
it is a few days more than nine years since the
krvhitheatre was burnt to the ground before. •,
From there being so much wood about the building,
it was completely enveloped in flames in ten minutes
atter the Fire was first discovered, so as to
preclude all possibility of saving any part of it.
The Fire, it is believed, had nearly reached the
top of the. Building before it was at all diicovered.
A few of the Scenes were saved., but nothing else of
the smallest value.
A party of Guards attended to preserve Order:

TYRWHITT JONES, the. late Member for
Doobigh, is just returned for an Itish Borough,
Athbil,e, we believe, and he Will. take his seat as
soon as Parliament assembles.

of the resolution to begin with it at Drury-Lane.
It is said that some additions and alterations, suited
to the times, have been made by Mr. SHERIDAN.
Poaysct, is to represent Elvira.
The Author of The Maid of Bristol, takes his
rights tamirding to the old theatrical Plan, Mr.
Coa.iaaat'svith his usual liberality securing him a
certain sum. The piece is so much impictited since
the first representation, that it rises in attradion.
Literal copy of an Ailvertisement in a German
Newspaper. .--8/ Wanted : A Person who will
Ploy the Devil in the New Tragedy of The C444t
of Ziidetk. A person of down.east look, heavy
brows, and a deep guttural tone, will Meet with a
preference."
It being observed id a young Hibernian; that his
was a very singular name in England, he replied,
" It was, Sir, a very singular name when I ar.
rived here, but I hate contrived to render it
plural 1
The Author of the Ministerial Pamphlet against
Vlr. PITT, has furnished the world with a more
appropriate
epithet than has hitherto been applied
to the present Administration. They are indeed a
drivdling Administration, and whatever they may
think of their boasted produetion, it Is only in one
sense, and that a very indifferent one, a thing to
Brag of.
Covent. Garden Theatre is not to open With
Pizarro, as was originally intended; in consequence
A Notice was stuck tip on Wednesday at the
Post. Office, in Lombard-street; containing an in.
timation from the Dublin Post. Office, 44 That se.
veral Letters from Munster, which arrived on Sun.
day last, had been stolen out of the Sorting Office
by some person or persons unknown."
On Monday evening, a potter was sent from Mr.
13uker's, a gunsmith in Holborn, to a gentle.
man's house in Portland-place, with a valuable fowl:
ing piece, which he delivered to a female servant,
when soon after a man called at the house, told the
servant'a wrong gun had been delivered, and request.
cat to have it back again, and that he would bring
the other in a short time. The servant accordingly
monied the gun, and the man went away, but did
not return with any other. The next morning, in.
1.4 the transattlion was given at Bow.street
to t~lie Sitting Magistrate, who diretted proper means
to be taken for discovering the offender, and the gun
was found in pledge at a pawnbroker's- in the neigh.
b‘airhood of the Haymarket ; and on Wednesday,
the woman who pledged it, her husband, and two
other women, supposed to be implicated in the bu.
siness, were taken into custody, and the same even.
ing examined before Mr. GRAHAM, at Bow-street,
'when • Mr. Parker's gun was produced by the
Pawnbroker, who identified the woman that pawn.
ed it, and who, in her defence, said she received
t
0; a man fur that purose t another valuable
gun Was produced by the Officers, who stated, that
they found it in the apartments of one of the pri-
-B°"t'rst and which was claimed by Mr. Manton, a
gun"tnith in Dover.sareet who was defrauded of
two
guns
in
a similar *ay
it appeared in' July last, one of which
woman before had been pletiged by the husband of
the
, ed. They were therefore corn.
mulct' f'l. (linnet stated
examination ; the two other wo.
men were discharged.
tit A cause cf general importance was determined by
,Justices of Peace of the County of Haddington,
11Pon 11te 25th oft. A complaint bein brought
Johnat the instance of the Master, against Pax.
ton, emphied at the harvest, for refusing to
Workafter six o'clock in the evening, and leaving
the harvest rig, notwithstanding express orders to
the contrary, a little after that hour. It appeared
frOtnatituission of the Defender, that he had entered
it') a combination with the other persons employed
with him at the harvest, to leave off work at a cer-
tain hour, which they accordingly did for one even.
t''g ; but upon being challenged, they all continued
ti,, t work until 'nosed by the overseer, except John
1, mon- who left the harvest rig a second time, a
little after six. The Justices found that by the
t'sagz of the county, for time imp-tem:Ai:ill persons
enlPloyed in the harvest work, were bound to en-
ter at stin.iise, and continue till sun-set : that the
c°llkluttt of the said John Paxton was highly illegal
it"
t unwatr.auable, and therefore t'hiaell a small
besitici the expences of the process, committed
'n to Prison for a certain period, and until the fine
~,
ex • ,
acts laid.