The Sun.
London, England, 1816-06-28 00:00:00

FIRE IN ALDERSGATE-STRCIST.

11litistoti-Hoost.—Yesterday T. Connelly and
7'. Dixon were charged on suspicion of having set
fire to the premises of Mr. Dun n , tallow-eh:antler,
in Aldersgate-St r;!et, oil Wednesday night, when
the whole of the dwelline, furniture, &c. were'de-
stroyed, together with the uppto part of the house
of Cockerton and Son, oilmen, adjoining. These
two houses, with another on the north side of
Mr. Dunkin's; it may be remembered, were also
destroyed last year by tire, and had just been re-
built.
Mr. Dunkin deposed, that on Wednesday night,
about hell-past 12 o'clock, two men entered his
hed.rootts, and having drawn aside his curtain,
• one of them seized hold of him, turd, showing a
knile, threatened " to do for him." it he made
the slightest noise. They then asked him for the
keys of his desk, money-chest, &a. He saitl he
did Mit remember where he had placed them; and
finding that he was not willing to satisfy them,
they dragged him from his bed,- and brought him to
the landing-place of the stairs. Here one of them
proceeded to tic his neck, hinds, and arms, to the
banister's, while the other fastened two hand-
kerchiefs about his eyes. One of theta then
proceeded to search for the keys, and soon af-
ter.cAlled oot to his companion, who had remain-
ed with witness, that he had got them. The
parties then informed him, that they would soon
leave the house, but that if he attempted to call
out previous to their closing the street-door after
them, they would have his life. They then left
him, when, after remaining a short time, Ire heard
the door shut, an(t instantly called for help. One
Or two persons, who slept at the top of the house,
immediately came to his assistance, and lie was
released from his situation. During the whok of
the courage, lie never distingoished the faces of
either of the persons, not even in his room, where
he usually burnt a rushlight. He thought, how-
ever, from their voices, that the one was an Irish-
man, and the other an Etiglishmar Connelly
was an Irishman, and one of his day porters, who
had lived in'his service some years. Suspicion fell
upon him ; and Harrison, the officer, having gone
to his lodgings, in Cow-cross, he found Dixon
On Englishman). Connelly was apprehended at
the floe, but nothing of a suspicious nature was
found either at their lodgings err on their persons.
A porter and two of tfie Itervants of Mr. Dun-
kin. deposed to the alarm given by the latter, and
the state in which they found•hitn. After releas-
ing hint from his situation, they opened the win-
dows which looked into the street, and discovered
a awoke, its if trout a fire, issulog from the cellar.
They instantly give an alarm; but the night being
wet, it was 601111 e time before assistance was pro-
cured : and notwithstauding every subsequent
exertion of the togines nod inhabitants; the fire
continued to burn until the whole of the interior
wart destroyed, including every article of fund-
tore, &c. am! leaving merely the walls stant4ing.
The iron chest which were deposited the bookt
snooty, Ste.. MIS fnlind to have been opened,
and a quantity of Bank-notes, and four hundred
gold Napoleons, were stolen- therefrom. A
bag containing a considerable suns in silver was
afilebvt
4et
mtit)t)tfthiiriteisteti.i;ii)c)itiso
levlo%tv,reierne
saved.t nl
llsul
it liei,D.Hila iregici:Ogittil:tet!leinZtinikrmess.,
having communicated, to the house of Cockerton
and Son, next door, where some conibostibles
were deposited, an explosion took place, and the
top "min* rootsytlof flit ti %yete itltttonviitiutittittiin ttlhiee
Neatly t wila lttttt r,

it , Ttc iicix4..S hot iatnpletelt
stAtitied till five
Alter thoiOughlY. is.VVeStignting the cases thti ,
vtto Nritvoi.was ofilnion that 'there was not
Olghte.st evitle'nee o`f attached
the 'prisonera, 'and or4iiil them to fiediicliarged.
FUlt+l-IER PART. IttAAAS
.statenient in some of the EV,enitt Papas of yesr
ttrday,6ai " i, gang of, Irislithen
into the house of Mr. Dunkin," is a krtiis mtsre
presentation. How the two per'
son's ascribed
have entered the chaiiber 'Of M. Dunkin got lot!
the !anise haS not been disctivered, as nd Lioleno
of a particular descriptlOn Manifeit 'tipon
lock's or bars of the doors fritint or back. Mr.
Dunkin was but 14tvly returned from Paris,
about a week "since L i.l stocked Ms' Celli! with
'quantity of hew tallow. Durinf the liat fortnigll
he had als'O tail in several articles doe* furni'.
ture. Mr. Dunkin untterstand, was ensure&
to the amount of shove 5,0001. .
The LORD MAVtia visited the premises
day eveifigN, and made 'several inquiries;
.but TO •
did not understand that any new tlitcovatt.taa
placb as t 6 the origin of the fire.

itiolt4np-§iitErt.
tiiAßGit a Bt6Alt Wheld"
brought before JOH N GI iFOßiii Est ttnd eltsffline"''
on a charge Of felonioutly ritternorrying
formerills w& was still !Vying. -
vF
Esther WhOtion deposed, that on' the, igt
April, 23 yeari ago, she had 14,en by ban,l'
to the prisoner in the parish church Of St.
Cripplegate, and lived happy alterwr';ls i" .1
n
kosiderable time; the prisoner, bruntty
Ilft her, nod she could not 113CCIRIIH big bite lair
a few weeks-back, whin she was intormetitliat-
was married to another woman. °titre sougi't °lib"
obtained an interview, when he candidly ackttee
ledged the fact, and that he had a young 6"14417
whom he was bound to maintain :. having tioethir
resource, she was compelled to take,out q
.vVirfrOF
for his apprehension ; and now, on the owning.,
tion, his second wife set up her claim, stating Of
she had been married to him Pa
in the lish OWL.
of Stepney in 1811, and WhOSC 1.1147
she mentioned, nessed the ceremony; Mi'
bOll, it WKS recollected, had been OA. preititt,::
'the first marriage.
Air. Gil:For said, as to the fact of .therfr,
there existed no doubt, but he thought the,,gN
deuce of the person mentioned of the liighelOr
parlance : the prisoner, therefore, must be P.; •
mantled until the woman. shotdd be brough-log.
ward ou a future day to give her eridencc.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday the hachney-coachtnan who innri'
mooed the &art of Westmeath, in consecpientt;
his refitsin,g to pay him his legal fare, stlei:nkuthe
this office by order of the Magistrate, it being Ti
(14y appointed by him to give his decision an
t
case. Mr. COLiaUIioUNI, the Sitting moghl,r;lei
rL. btil
said, that lie had considered the case. a"; 01
opinion was, that as the Act of Parliailiellt
the option of charging either for time or distoacti
and the law would sup )ices that no man vi
act against his own interest, he most theretdipir,
adjudge that his Lordship bbotad pay the.c"c
man, together with the costs.

Monday the 20th Regiment of 1,1:411( 1311186,.111i
quartered at Hounslow Liarratks, had a
tielti-day on the Heath, and the tljrY helliors
markably fine a great concourse of "PeC"fr
were 'assembled on the occasion. When tilf Ott
giment came to the charge, John Blake, a"co
youug tellow, a private, was unfortnnatelyttot"%.
from his horse, which, falling on him, Oka PY"
on the spot.
Wednesday, a female alit,!, three years of agt;!
belonging to a labourer of the name of I'll
living in Chapel-street, Grub-street, being td
alone in the room whilst her nunlier was gone 414
market, set her clothes on fire, and was so dreg
fully burred, that she expired in less than tatetPi
minutes after.
BIS/MILEY POACH Last week T. )iftd:,:
gun, D. Long, J. Jenkins, J. Roach, T. C,°l'i7e;
J. Reeves, W. Penny, J. Burley, and IL tira-.
the nine remaining poachers, whoiail been °t r'
tally convicted at the last Gloucester Xssizel'of
" being present at, and of aiding and assisting
the Wilful Murder of W. Ingram, near I.Wkellard':
but whose sentence of death had been, Oa 11,1,e„,e
mane recommendation of the Jury and the uiit
color, commuted for transportation for life,
removed from the County Prison, for che
of being immediately sent to New South
Thus ends the melancholy tale, which apPoror
have excited more than ordinary, interest,
only in the immediate scene of the transact.
but also throughout the kingdom at lap.

L"dtyleosdiaLyi,etuhteeniahatih.citutsiot.nealtcloliisilboui
BIRTHS. or' Jot
of a 6011.
the
he jla
Of the 25th inst. at the Burns, near Bedford, i- ii
Mrs. Pell, of a daughter. ' As
Ott the glith lost. at his home in Portland-plaices
of Robert Latig, Esq. of a, son- '
- . .
IkIARRIED. v,' A 406
PtiFfGatPettgaitulart:
Oa the 2&th inst. at West Wycombe, F. Wage, --,:fjor-'
Columb, Corawati, to Anna 11iiriii youngest daughltr• .
,k
Hicks, Esq. of Monier-hill, Buelil. it the
4`r''
The same day, at lghthatu, Captain S. P-Nes",.ll)fig s'''"
Foot, to Letitia, widow of the late Cut. loots, --6
ee
30,_,
court Lodge, Kent. bn lt.t'
On '!'needs,, at Brawn-tandover, Hants, Mr. -- ow
ley fowler, of Aylesbury, 'lucks, to Elizabeth Ker""',
daughter of john 'nt Coutplin Esq. of liro'Wo(-Candovel'• soib#
On Wednesday, at St. Mary's, Islingto Oa`..n. •311'1'":of fit
Esq. of Ilielnanswortit, firms, to bliss Princes
Mutat 11, Devon.
• .
ot
fitf.D. tn., Cara•iiii
On the 7th iitst. in the 26th year a her age, .•. 0 ol-
strati), daughter' of Mr. Smith, whose eihilities as ii, pot'
hare etninentli contributed to bring the province
of
!Cape...painting in water culottes to its present state 17c00.
'teat!. Miss Smith had acquired great shill in lli sq. lO
music, under the instrnetiotis of Cramer and Greetlyiarsr.
had herself become a Sert successfol teacher of' tli:111;erC
forte ; but tier morshplafilles, amiable UMW, a, ail V 10;
lieral merits' of her character eicilvd the rettArd anal,
•euttifo
knew her, and will render het *sensory dear w bey r
~
,tio;
and triendi. OOP '
Oti the Hilt instant, at Shift" hear Buff/Ad, Os
Johnson, Esq. age* at purl. ' .

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buitiyings and poldisfic.l by It'. :t. SOU reo. fertli
4d Ai
at thc Aitiz-Orysca. No. 112. Strand t 1).:40
as nit, Odom Ltticti (post-paidji-Stc. Oat hs