Star.
London, England, 1807-05-26 00:00:00

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fUITHIga ni TKO DaiT aUCI7;eiX Of
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About twelve. o'clock; on Friday, a fire broke lit
in.a bakehntsfe; in the teheen of Chudieigh; in lie," •n-;
(hire, which raged With increaiingleary, and sit lengthe
cnmmunicated to a honfe; containing twn bAtrels
gunpowder, which belonged to a perfon.en,ployed,irs
blowing up the rocks, which loon tr ok fie,
.410 hies
up with a tertible eiplofion. The %Sind hug veer
high, trod many houfes on each fide the ilreet
vered with thatch, the whole town became a general
conflagiatinc. Only one fire engine could be found
in the town, and that was form after burned. Eieter
is the neaten place from which any adlilance could
be ptncured, and that being ten miles dillant, there
was nothing to flop the progrefs of the fi•mes. The
market houfe, and all the hotifts, excepting about
feven, at the extreme ends of the town, were con.
fumed. Fortunately no lives were 101 l ; the church
being a little to windward of the flames, was faced,
and prr.ved an afylum for the diflreffed inhabitants,
whole fituition mein be truly deplorable. At three
o'clock, on Saturday morning, when the mail coach,
with difficulty, pallid through the town, fever at
houfes continued burning, and many pigs and horfes
lay dead in the flreet. Mr. Welton, a refpettable
inn-keeper, it is reported, has loft all his properly,
which, in cafh and notes, to a large amount, toge-
ther with his books, he entrulied to a female servant
to take care of, but in her fright the carried them to
a place the cannot no.v recollea, and they are molt
probably destroyed.
Eirree, Mat 23.—Yefterday morning, about
eleven o'clock, a tremendous firebroke ,tit (at a
baker's), which, in four hours, deitroyed 2::0 hooks,
leaving only 53 tlanding, at Chudleigh, near us. I
never law fo melancholy a fcene ; as I went into the
town from hence, over Short Half Down, the houfes
on each fide of the fireet, including the Market houfe,
up to the Church, were all down ; every public-
houfe (except the (mall Plymouth Inn, the b ick of
which is all burnt) are down. Mr. Welton, of the
ClitFord's arms, has 101 l a •an quantity ,‘f c 'in, his
wine, fpilits, furniture, one chaife, and all his bar-
nefs, but he Caved his horfes; as has Mr. Kole, of
the King's arms. An ironmonger, wh,. hAd a quan-
tity of gun powder, bad his float hi,w9 up, by 'he
flock of which feveral other totle, wet e thrown
down. I faw tome pigs lying in the areet, burnt to
death ; no other lives were 1,11.

The devaftation that the devouring element lias
effeeted, is beyond all power of defcripiion ; rhere is
no refemblance of what the town was before; the
fpeCtaele is affeCting and dilt►elling to the utm tt 'de-
gree. N oohing is left but a few detached !mules at
the entrance of the town. The whole body of the
place prefents to the eye nothing bolt cl iinnies and
walls. that appear like ancient !trios. Tent, and v.t-
rious necelfativ have been going all day from this city,
for the accomodation of the fufferers. Sever.l troops
of the military have alto marched to render their
affillance. The road was impaffable, and the Mer-
cury Rage-coach made a circuit of two miles in conie-
s:pence. The Right Worfhipful ,he Mayor of fart' r
has called the inhabitants this evening to confider of
the molt effeEtual means of affording rtiief.

FATAL DUEL.—A few days ago a to-ding torit
place near Limerick, between H. G. BAILEY, Etq.
and an Officer of the Navy, in which the latter was
that on the Spot through the heart, and inflantly died.
A perfon has been taken into cuttody at Itochetter,
on fufpicion of having thrown the bottle from the
gallery upon the Rage of the Rochelter theatre. by
which Mr. Loaf: of the Guards was faverely wound-
ed, as mentioned in the STAP. a few days ago.
MARLIInIOUGH STREET.—Yeflerday Patrick Ets-
right was brought to the bar, charged with the wil-
ful murder of Henry O'Brien, at the fair of Kane.
kaderry, in the county of Limerick, in Ireland, on
the t9th of December, I /los.
The profecutnr, Charles O'Brien, brother of the
defeated, (wore moll pnfitively that he was preterit
with the deceafed on the morning of the 19;:r of
December, 1805, at the door of a tent in the fair,
where the deceafed was in the ad of paying ors rney
for cattle which he had bought that morning, wo it
the prifoner at the bar (truck the deceafed one yin.
lent blow with a Scythe on the head, from front to
poll, by which the hat and (cull of the deceafed were
cut. That the deceafed died of the wound at four
o'clock in the afternoon of the fame day; that at
the time of the Stroke, the prifoner wa; acc .mpsni d
by a party of about forty perfont, all armed wi;fl
fcythes and fwords ; that it was not poffible then to
apprehend the prifoner, or his accomplices, In great
was the conflernation, while every cne was running
away for Gray ; that bills of• intfielment had been
fcund againll all the parties, in the county of Li-
merick, at the Spring Affixes, in 1806, when they
all, except the prifoner, came in, and Itond their
trial, but were acquitted, in confequence, he believed,
of the prifoner having abfconded, who was the prin-
cipal, and who was not difcnvered until a few days
ago, when the profecutnr found him out in London,
and procured his apprehenfion. The profecuitir d:•
poled, that he himfelf had been only fevers weeks in
England, during which lime he laboured f his living.
The prifoner, in his defence, Rated, that it was pro.
poled that two parties Should fight a battle at the
fair, and that his party had likewife one of them kil.
led in the affray.
But the Magiarate obferved, that where murder
had been committed, and charged agyinfl the pril
ner, who had abfconded, he muff go before a Jury,
and ordered him to be fully committed for trial.

The prifoner was attended by a great number of
people, and fome momentary apprenedi in of dillur•-
bance about the door of the office WAS cutest:ail:red as
the prifoner was condlitted away.
Ann Pet (wore exammatinns again() a Colonel
Digby, who lodges at the hook of a Mrs. Hughes,
King-freer, corner of Mau lircet, fur feizing, and
♦intently beating and dragging her ab lit his I..dgiog,
and putting her in fear and danger tfher life, from
which the was relieved by a WOMAN uo hea,isg her
cry out" Murder I" The faits appe tred to be, that
Mrs. Yeti is a wafter woman. Hy ng at No. so,
Meard's-court, and had a bill for wa,hing due to her
from the Colonel, which the ezpeett.d or bt sin, iLicr
a menace, or attempt to take back .h • made up liner.
She had not actually taken them away, a d, there-
fore, the admit was admitted to have beta cons.
witted.