The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-05 00:00:00

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE--LOSS OF LIFE.

Last night, between
broke out on the premises of Mr. Arbuthnot, a baker, re"
siding:in Brici(-1,, Stratford, which threatened the de-
struction of a whole eleven and twelve o'clock, a fire
range of buildings, but from the exer-
dons of the firemen and the inhabitants, was
soon got un
der, after consuming the house of Mr. Arbuthnot and his
next door neighbour. W.
regret to add, that Mr. Ar-
buethnot n
th had the misfortune to lose a nephew, a lad who
slpt ie att.
It is imagined that the fire originated from a candle
being taken into the cellar, which contained shavings, and
which, from some accident, became ignited.
The firemen are now digging among thins, i
hope of finding the remains of the unfortunate rue
youth.n the

to OIPPORD.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
I ROBERT Lord GIFFORD, of St. Leonard's, in
the County of Devon, was a native of Exeter.
His father was a respectable tradesman, carrying
on the grocery business in that city, and died,
leaving a large family
behind him. The subject
of the present memoir, being then very young, the
brother of Lord GIFFORD carried on the business
after the death of his father, and thus was enabled
to protect and educate his brothers and sisters.
The education of Lord GIFFORD, was begun at the
Grammar School of Exeter, under the learned but un-
fortunate Dr. HA LLORAN, and from his earliest youth
the law seems to have engaged the chief attention of
his mind ; so much so, indeed, that even whilst yet a
schoolboy it was his habit, when the Judges in the
course of their circuit came to Exeter, to take his scat
in the Cdurt, and remain there till the close of the
day's business, and so during the continuance of the
Assizes. Having finished his education, he en-
tered on his legal career by being articled to an
attorney of his native city, and whilst in this
comparatively adverse station, used to complain of
the neglect he experienced from his kinsman
and relation, the late Sir VICARY GIBBS. In
the year 1800 he came to London, and was at that
time admitted a member of the Middle Temple, and
studied in the office of Mr. SYKES, the present Soli-
citor of the Stamp Office, who was then practising as a
Special Pleader. At this time his age was 21. On
the 12th February, 1808, he was called to the bar.
From this time Sir VICARY Glass began to notice
him, and it was to the patronage and steady affection
of this great Lawyer, that Lord GIFFORD owed his
first elevation in the legirl world; and his own abilities
afterwards enabled him to advance his fortunes so far
that he became successively Solicitor and Attorney-
General, a Peer of the Realm, Lord Chief Jus-
tice of the Common Pleas, and finally Mas-
ter of the Rolls, in which elevated station he
has just closed his mortal career. On the Bth
of May, 1817, he was appointed Solicitor-General,
and in that capacity, on the 16th of May following,
was elected Master of the Bench of the Society of
which he was a Member. In consequence of his ap-
pointment to the office of Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, he was made a Sergeant on the 6th June,
1824, and from thence was almost immediately advanced
to be Master of the Rolls, in consequence of the
death of the late Sir THOMAS PLUMER, whom he
succeeded, so that Lord GIFFORD has not held his
office much above two years. Four and twenty years
have served to raise this gentleman to the highest
honours of his profession, and his career, though
short, seems to have been one of unexampled splen-
dour. Lord GIFFoRD was only forty-seven years old
when he died, and it seldom falls to the lot
of any man to go through the important offices that he
has done in the short period of twenty-four years. A
contemporary has asserted that Mr. GIFFORD was,
within 15 years an Attorney's clerk and Solicitor-
General of England, which certainly was not the case,
although it seems, that between 17 and 18 years only
elapsed between these two periods. Lord GIF-
FORD, as a lawyer, was never very highly esteemed, a
circumstance which may be in a great measure attri-
buted to his comparative youth when appointed to the
office of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas;
but his perceptions were quick, and he displayed great
skill in stating the facts of a case, and drawing them
out to his hearers so clearly and plainly, that the facts
were easily understood however complicated they might
be. This faculty he exercised with great effect on the
occasion of the trial of the late Qualm.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
FROM LLOYD'S—(This DAY.)
DIAL, SETT. 4.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River, the George Home, from Bengal; Resolution, Parker, from
the Isle of France ; and Mariana, Gardner, from the South Seas.
roar/mourn, San. 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Rowland,
Walker ; Bremen, Naper, cutter, from a cruise. His Majesty's
ships Philomel and Shamrock came into harbour from Spithead.
MAaaArx, Sin. 4.—A large sloop was seen from hence to be
on fire this morning off the Reeulvers, but the boats sent out 'nave
not returned. She is reported to have on board a general cargo,
and they have been obliged to put her on shore and scuttle her,
to extinguish the fire.—P.S. She is stated to be the Exeter
Packet of Exeter.

Ltvaavoot, Stir. S.—Arrived the Barton, Nalding, from
Barbadoca

The Thetford, from Hull to Rotterdam, was on shore at Has-
borough on Sunday, and it was feared would be wrecked ; crew
saved.

The Herald, Muir, from Sunderland, struck on Skerringhain
Shoal on Sunday morning, and sunk ; crew saved.
The Harliston, Gulliver, from the South Seas, has been Ilm-
,-demned at the Mauritius as unseaworthy.
The following notice is stuck up at the North and South Ame-
rican Coffee-house :

A passenger has landed from the Silas, Richards, (the packet
ship, of the Bth August, from New York) at Holyhead, 3d inst.
The letter•bag has not reached X.ondon.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

DREADFUL CIRCUMITANCL—Yesterday evening, an
inquisition was taken at the George., near Ilford, on the
body of a fine youth, named Samuel Benson, aged fifteen
years.

Henry John, a butcher, deposed that the deceased was
his apprentice; on Saturday evening, last he sent him to
Ham, on horseback, on business; about ten o'clock
the same night, the animal returned without its
rider, witness became very much alarrqed. Under this
impression, he started off to the place where he sent the
deceased; he had not however proceeded above a mile
betone he was made acquainted with the fate of the de-
ceased, who had been conveyed from the middle of the
road, in a state of insensibility, about an hour before, end
taken to this house.

CORONER•-•—Wila the deceased in the habit of riding ?
Witness--Yes, Sir, he was.
Juror---Have you any reason to suppose that he had
been drinking ?
Witness-1 have not yet ascertained that; the hut was
not fond of drink.

Juror--Is your hope a quiet animal, or otherwise ?
Witness—He is a very quiet beast. •
Isaac Storey stated, that on the night in question, be-
tween nine and ten o'clock, he was passing along the road
between Ilford and Ham, when he saw the deceased ride
by on horseback ; when nearly out of sight, he heard the
horse plunge, and the deceased cry out ; witness instantly
ran to the spot.; the horse had gone on, and the deceased
was lying in the road ; he was quite insensible, and bleed-
ing from the head ; witness, without loss of time, removed
him on to the path-way, and another person coming up, they
conveyed him to this house; witness afterwards ran for a
doctor. Verdict.-" Accidental Death," with a deodand
of 20s. on the horse.

Baron de Solomon Rothschild, and his son, Baron
de A.nselm Rothschild, also. Baron de James Roths-
schild, have arrived at Dover, and are expected in
town this afternoon. They are come to be present
at the nuptials of the daughter of N.M. Itothschild,
Esq., with the Baron de Auselm.
Yesterday James Dale, a porter in the employ of
Mews. S. and T. %Item of Wilson-street, Moorfields, absconded
with a considerable lam, which he had beta mei ring in the city.
A strict but at plot an unsuccasiful search is made fsr him.