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I ATE FIRE 1N ALDEttItIANBURY.
INVESTIGATION BEFORE THE CORONER.
Yesterday, at noon, a jury of the inhabitants of the ward of
Cripplegate Within were empanelled before Mr. W. Payne, the
City Coroner, at the school-house, Philip-lane, Alderman-
bury, to inquire into the cause of the late fire on the premises
of Nlessrs. Bradbury and Co., Manchester-warehousemen, of
Aldermanbury.
The investigation, from its novelty, excited considerable
in'erest, several of the Common Council of the ward, together
with the Civic authorities, being present.
The CORONER, on taking his seat, said he would take the
liberty of stating, as the present was rather a novel pro-
ceeding, why he had called them together. Latterly the
number of tires in London had considerably increased, and
when they took into consideration that nothing was so fear-
ful as fire, they would be of opinion with him that when
they !sad the power to inquire into th' causes of such fires,
nothing could be more important to the public at large than
that the cause should be closely investigated. The ancient
authorities showed that in olden times it was the practice of
the coroner to inquire into all burnings within his district, and
that power still belonging to the coroner, although fallen into
dinuetude, he thought they would be of opinion with him that
it was most important that it should again be brought into
force. In " Horne's Mirror of Justice " the duties of the
coroner were clearly laid down. and among those ditties the
coroner was to inquire of all burnings, whether they were
calm dby felony or mischance. If they were of opinion that
they had been set on Bre with a felonious intent, then it was
their duty to inquire and ascertain who the party was who
was guilty of that felony. It was clear, therefore, in the
olden time, that part of the coroner's duty was to • inquire
into all burnings ; and he need not say how necessary it was
to revive it at the present time. No one had the power to
inquire into the cause of a fire—not even amagistrate,
unless a party was in cus'ody charged with causing it. The
persons living in the neighbourhood of a fire were always
most anxious to know how it occurred, and he thought the
public would think that he had done no more than his duty in
causing a jury to he summound to inquire into the circum-
stances of the late fire, who also might, by any suggestion
thrown out, prevent, in a great measure, fires being so nume•
roux. He had directed a number of persons to be summoned
to give evidence as to the cause of the recent fire in Alderman-
bury, so that they might come to a proper verdict, whether it
was sieved by accident or otherwise.
As everything connected with this novel and most important
proceeding must be of interest, the following is the form of
oath administered to the jury You shall well and truly in-
quire, on behalf of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, how a
certain house and premises, in Aldermanbury, were lately
burned, and a true verdict give according to the evidence ; so
help you God."
Asher Cousins, a packer in the service of Messrs. Bradbury,
Grea ores, and Beall, proved discovering the fire, about twenty
minutes before eight o'clock on Monday night, in the cellar
under the packing-room. The smoke was coming up through
an iron grating; and on his going into the cellar, which was
usvd for keeping boxes and papers in, he saw a pile of paper
on tire. He tried to put the fire out, but was unable. No
obe was in the cellar when he went down. The witness at
great length explained the relative positions of various gas-
lights on the premises ; and stated that it was usual to light
them by means of wax tapers, and not paper.
Several witnesses, employed by the firm, whose evidence
went to show that the fire originated beneath the grating in
the packing room, and immediately underneath a gas-light in
, that room, but no one could tell who lit that gas-light en the
evening of the fire, having been examined,
Mr. Braidwooa said, having heard the evidence, he was of
opinion that the fire originated from a light dropping through
the grating amongst the paper in the cellar.
Mr. Beall, one of the partners, said he recollected that about
half an hour be'ore the fire occurred, he lit one of the gas-
lights with a piece of paper, which he threw upon the floor and
planed his foot upon.
After a most patient investigation into all the circumstances
of the case, the jury returned a verdict " That the fire was
caused by accident."
The jury returned a vote of thanks to Mr. Braidwood and
the men under his direction, for their laudable exertions on the
night of the fire in stopping the progress of the flames.

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY.—Several of
the papers have announced the death in Holland, on the 10th
inst., of the person called the Duc de Normandie, and who
pretended to be the Dauphin, son of Louis the Sixteenth.'
11,1. Hebert, ex-Director-General des Poster of the Army of
Italy, writes en this subject to some of our Paris Contempora-
ries :—" If the Duke de Normandie be the same person that I
saw in Rome, in May, 1810, in arrest and undergoing an inter-
cabinet of General Radet, General of Gen-
er s really the son of Louis the Sixteenth. I de-
psi 'on from that of General Radet, who interro-
er, and read the documents of which he was
`the imayer. er .1 Radet tent this pretender to Paris.
Vinant'4l444 error of Rome, was necessarily acquainted
161M-o.4;firese., the trace of it must be found in his papers,
ils.!akthoO' by Galena Racist."
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