Star.
London, England, 1814-08-24 00:00:00

INQUESTS.

Yesterday evening an Inquest was held in the
Board-room of St. Giles's Work-house, on the re-
mains-of the bodies of two of the victims who perished
in the fire in King-street, last Sunday morning. The
only witness exatitined w...s W. Nash, fishmonger, of
35, Titchficld street, who had been acquainted with
two of the parties, B. Stephenson and his wife, about
eight years. The man was a tailor by trade, 45 years
of age, his wife 55 years old. Witacss is married to
their daughter : they occupied the second floor. at
Mr. Watkins's. Witn,,ss was called out of bed be-
tween one and two o'clock on Sunday morning by
some woman, who informed him that the house his
father and mother lodged in was on fire. He hastened
to the spot, and found the house in one entire blaze ;
he enquired for Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson, and was in-
formed that they were out safe, and witness did not
know any thing to the contrary until about twelve
'o'clock the same clay,'when he was told that both
they and Mary Ann Catherine. a girl 15 years of
age, servant to Mr. Watkins, perished in the flames.
The bodies found, he had every reason to suppose to
be those of Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson, nn account Of
the remains of the collar of a shirt found on one, and
five silver spoons and a pair of spectacles in the hand
of the other, which were known to be Mrs. Stephen-
son's. How the fire originated witness could not
telL Verdict—Accidental Death.
These was a second Inquest on the body of J. Co..
mers, when J. Barber said, that the deceased was a
cabinet-maker, and lodged in the witness's house, No.
6, King•street, next door but one to where the fire'
happened ; that yesterday, about one o'clock, as he
came into the passage, he stopped to speak of the
fire, and dropped down and suddenly expired. Ver-
dict—Died by the Visitation of GOD.

The following are departures and arrivals to and
from France, at the Yro k Hotel, Dover :
The Prince.a of Condo, Lord Newbottle, Viscount Valetort,
Earl of Pembroke, Major Cox and Lady, Mr. Duckmaster and
Lady, Mr. F. l'ereeval and i.ady, Mr. Wilde, Lady Mary Ha-
milton, Lady Heneage,.F. 0 Breen, Erg. T. Taylor, EM. Lady
Murphy, Major-General V anlcteur, Lleut.-GeneralMontressor,
Mr. Watson and family, Captain Chamberlayne and Lady, Hon.
H. Bouverie, M. Curran, Madame La Ferte, Madame Mon-
tagne, Countess de la Chartres, le Compt Delano Count de is
C.ltannorey, and Lord Elgin.

The Incorporation of Hammermen of 'Dumfries,
in consequence of the low price of grain and cattle,
have reduced the rent of their lands nearly one-third
to the present occupiers.

Tuesday morning one Gregory, a maker, and
hawker of straw shoe-mats, of Stoke-lane, near Shep.
ton-Mallet, so beat his daughter (a girl of about 16)
by a former w.fe, with a twisted rope, that she fainted
beneath the violence of the blows, and expired. Front
repeated ill-usage, it appears, that the unfortunate
creature had quitted the house of her unnatural father,
and found refuge at a neighlrourinW farmhouse,
from whence be forced her away, beating her most
part of the road—which violence he continued when
arrived home, till it ended in her death. Alarmed,
the father ran two miles for medical aid ; which,
however, came too late to afford her any assistance,
and he was immediately secured.—Coroner's verdict
—Alm:laughter.
Supday afternoon, a lad, sf the.name of Smith,
amusing himself in the house of Mr. Lintot, in Sheet-
street; Windsor, with a loaded fowling-piece, in his
playful threats, shot the daughter of Mr. Limos,
about nine years of age, as she sat in her mother's
lap. The contents of the gun lodged in her left arm,
and the wound was so serious, that the arm was
obliged to be amputated.
Saturday morning a little boy, named Dotbin, re-
siding at Battle-bridge, fell into a large tub of boiling
water, and wa; scalded to death.
The same morning a young girl was run over in
Compton-street, Soho, by a hackney-coach ' • when
the wheels passed over her head, and literally dashed
out her brains.

Friday morning, whilst a bricklayer was repairing
a house in Leicester.square, the platform on which
he stood gave way, by which lie was precipitated into
the street, and killed on the spot.
The body of Mr. Coons, Organist to Westminster
Abbey, was found in the Thames yederday morning,
near Vauxhall, and conveyed to his house in Palace.
Yard.

Bow-sramer.—Yesterday Mathis!, We* and Max.
AU, the three boys who were detected in robbing
Mr. Solomon's shop, in Pall Mall, of two rings of the
value of 020, which were proved to have been sold to
a woman who keeps a chandler's shop near. Seven-
Dials, for 16s. underwent a second examination.—
The woman, for whose appearance an undertaking
had been given, did not attend. Webb having con-
fessed a number of robberies in which they were con-
cerned, Mrs. Topics, the wile of an apothecary, at-
tended to substantiate one of them, and stated, that
her. house had been robbed of a silver cream jeg, and
she recollected the prisoners being in the house for
soMe trifling excuse on the same day. It turned out,
however, that Mrs. Topics must have been mistaken
in the person of Madden, as'it was only on Friday
se'nnight that he was liberated from the House of
Correction for another felony, and the robbery of
Mrs. Toples's house was prior to that. The prisoners
were committed for further examination.

Mari Jones was charged with divers robberies. It
appeared the prisoner offered a variety of articles for
sate at a shop in Grub-street, which she was not able
to give a satisfactory account how she came by, when
Dickons, the constable, was sent for, who traced the
property to have been stolen from a house in'Crown-
street, St. Giles's, the roams on the second floor of
which had been entered, by means of a false key. On
searching her apartments a great quantity of wearing
apparel, table linen, &c. with a variety of marks,
Were found. She is supposed to have been an old
practitioner in entering rooms by false keys, particu-
larly while families are out on Sunday evenings. She
WAS remanded.
Guti.infact..—G. Lam was charged on suspicion
of stealing the body of a female from a church-yard,
as yet undiscovered. The prisoner was stopped in
Fleet-street yesterday morning, about three o'clock,
.by a watchman, with a basket on his shoulder, which,
on examination, was found to contain an elderly
female, that had evidently been long dead. He was
ken to the watch-house, and the body was deposited
in the bone-house. The prisoner, in his defence, said,
he had been employed to convey the body, which was
a particular case, from a Surgeon of 900. Jiml4l tq
that of another. He was remanded.