The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-01 00:00:00

CAUTION TO LAMPLIGHTERS.

UmioN-HALL—Frederick Butewood,l a ltim))
lighter, was.--charged by the contractors for
log the Kennington-rtiat4 -with • neglecting to
do his work.—Mr. George-Morris, a contrac-
tor, stated, that the prisoner was engaged by the
contractors at twenty-one shillings per week to
clean and light seven score lamps daily. Corn.
plaints had been made that the,iamps were badly,
lighted, and sometimes not at All ; and on Mon-
day night •he took a walk ,up the Kennington-
romi, anti found only one-third of the lomps trim-
med ; he vent in search of the prisoner, and
found him, drunk as a' beast, in a public-house.

The Magistrate thought proper, he said, to make
an exainple of the prisoner, and hoped it would
operate as a warning to other lamplighters, and
teach them that the streets and roads were not to
be left in darkness at their will and .pleasure.—
The prisoner was committed for 14 days to hard
labour.

CoNvicis.—Wednesday night another batch of
cnnvicts were sent off from Newgate to the
!has. • They exhibited the general depraved le-
vity which characterizes desperate beings on such
occasions.

FIRE ANDI)EATH BY FRIGHT.—About half-past
two o'clock on Wednesday morning last a fire
broke out in the house of Captain BRIGGS, of his
.Majesty's ship Queen Charlotte, at Portsmouth..
It was occasioned by the nurse of-Mrs. Briggs,
who had lately lain-in, having fallen asleep on the
sofa, on which she had been accustomed to sleep,
in the same room with Mrs. IL, and bad placed
her candle in such a position as to set fire to the
sofa, which communicated to the bed, which was
nearly consumed ; fortunately, however, Mrs.
Briggs awoke, and discovered herself surrounded
by flames, and the infant's clothes nearly con-
sumed, though happily the child was untouched.
Alarm was immediately given, and Capt. Briggs,
who slept in an adjoining room, carried her
down stairs, and had her and the child conveyed
in a sedan chair to the Port Admiral's (Sir George
CaDlbell's) house, where she is doing well, hay-
ing received no other injury than that of her arms
being scorched. The nurse ,was severely burnt.
BY the exertions of the Royal Marines and the
21st 'regiment, the flames were subdued in the
room in which they first
,broke-out by five o'clock.
A Mr. Darley, who formerly kept•the Blue Post
I Inn, in Portsmouth, from which he retired some
years 'since, was on a visit, for the benefit of his
health, and was lodging at a yonse adjoining
capt. Briggs, when be fell front a chair in which
he had been placed till a Chaise should arrive to
coney, him away, -and died from excessive fright.

MACBETH'S CASTLE.

A Letter from Dunsinane,• in. Scotland, states
as follows :

" On the 19th ult.. as the servants belonging to
the West Maini 'of Dunsinane House were em-
ployed in carrying away stones -from the excava-
tion made among the ruins that point out the site
MACBETH'S Castle here, part of, the ground
they stood on suddenly gave way and slink dowu
about six feet, discovering a regularly-builtsvatar,
about
,six feet long and four feet wide.' None of
the men being injured, curiosity induced them to
clear out ihe subterranean recess, when they dis-'
covered among the ruins a large stone, weighing
about 500 lbs. which is pronounced to be of the
meteoric or semi-metallia kind. This stone must
have lain here during the long series of ages since
MACBETH'S reigp. Beside it were also found two
round tablets, of a composition resembling bronze,
On one olabese, two lines are engraved, which af
Gentleman has thus deciphered—' The sconce (or•
shadow) of Kingdom come, until sylphs' in air
carry me again to Bethel." These plates exhibit
the figures.of targets for the arms. From time
immemorial, it has been believed among us. here,
that unseen hands brought JACOB'S pillow from
Bethel,' and dropped it on the site where the pa-
lace of Scoon now stands, A strong belief is also
entertained by many in this part of the country,'
thlt it was only a representation of ibis JACOB'S.
pillow that EDWARD sent to, Westminster, the sa-
'cred stone ,not having been, found by him. The
curious here, aware of such traditions, anti who
have. viewed these venerable remains of antiquity,
agree that MACBETH may, or rather must, have
deposited the stone in question at the bottom of
his castle, on, the hill of Donsinane (from the
trouble of the tithes'), where it has been found by
the workmen. This curious.stone has been ship-
ped, for London for the inspection of the seientitiC
amateur, in order to discover its real quality.'"