Star.
London, England, 1805-01-02 00:00:00

POLICE, b'e.

Yeflerday, at Marlborough-hett, a yonnl man,
the fon of a r.::rl•ft.ltile merchant, was charged with
feereting Itinacif in the bottle of Mr. Warren, Mat-
qui-direct, Mary-la-bonne, with an evil intent. The
loin:tier was in the habit of vititing a female fervant
of the honle, and after Mr. Warren had retired to
fell on Monday night, he fulpeeted fomething im.
nper, and on going to the fcrvant's chamber, he
11),:ht1,1 her locked in the alms of her cLinsorato, whom
lodged in the watch hook. The Magi Orate was
almut to commit the pri:.oner as R rogue and vaga-
bond, hut, by the iliterpolition of the father, who
gay,: n lan:chtalde accramt of his fun's depravity, it
wax jurigt:d expedient that he !I:fluid &I've his King
aid Country_; and he was accordingly detained to
wake chn;cc of the at my or navy-

On Saturday few i ;hr. 'fAnne Woodroffe wag],
brought btfoie O. Oa AN/ HAM, Efq. Mayor of
Windfor, charged with having deferted her female
in:-ant of ;:ight years old. The babe was found a'
few nights since at a very late hour at night, lying
in a ditch in a field adjoining Windfor, deltitutc ..f
tne fmtlieti covering. It was found, whileAlivc. by
a telid, tit tof the town, of the name of Smith, who
gave immediate information to the Magiltrates. hut
the unnatural mother was not taken until Saturday
Tait, when the cont.:Med the charge againtt her, and
the was fully committed for trial at the next atTizes
fur the county.

On Thurfday laR the warelonfe of lkieffre. Wallic
and Co. taylnrs, &c. Threadneedle•lireet, was en•
tered into by means of a picklock or filic key, and
propfrty llelen thereout to nearly the stnount of
3001.

F. id ty night the houfe of Moore, of the
Prerogative Office, was ribbed by conic perfons un
known, of feveral valuable article..

A rerfon of the name of BoJi;ly, from Cuernfey,
was taken up at the Rcti Lion Tavern, Truro, a 1.:%%
day, ago, on a charge of having uttered treafonable
exprcifions.
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Frevs.—Vellerday afternoon a fire broke out in
Goiat-court, ,htwn, which excited c)nfider-
able alarm in the aci;:himurhood. As there were no

engines within I 'me di:lance of the ipot, the neigh.
bouts employed therniel ves in cat tying water hi pails
to throw upon the tire, in hope of hopping its pro-
grefs, tilt fuch rime as engines could be pi ocored.—
In this they were firceefsful ; the fire was cootined to
the ground-floor, where it ti, It appeared, and on the
arrival of the tire-engines, it was foon eatingoithed
withrut hating done ar,y event-lee iejury to the pre-
miles—but when the Firemen carved the apartments
a very (hocking fpeEtacle indented ittelf to their view
—a little girl was lying on the floor burnt to death.
It appeared that, the mother bad left the houfe only
a few minutes before the accident happened, and it
is fuppofed the child fet tire to its clothes.
As the firemen were returning home with their
ergines, about uneven o'clock. they were informed that
a flue bad jute broken out in Queen fireer, Cheaptide.
They reached the place in a few minutes, when they
f .und the Rabies of Mr. Barriam tie Taayras on fire.
It wa, firtt difcover• d by tome of the clerk., who
perceived an rinnfrial quantity of fmoke iffuing
virough the flooring of the warehnufe, immediately
over rtabtet,. at the h-ur of retiring from butinefs
for the evenin,t, and while in the at of &thing up
and fecnrii g the deems upon further examination
they found the halite in flames, which threatened
1 de:int.:hen to every part of that extenfive ware
boars and (no:triva:les. The di:nger now became
alarming, and recalculable mischief mull have tol-
' lowed, but for the almolt momentary attendance of
the fire.eugiaes, time of which were proceeding to
ailih at a tire v :1411 had broke .nit in the neighbr, ir-
hivd of Horiley down, and there alfo being as an--
pie Inpply of water, in about four hours the fire was
fulficiently or tinder, lo as to u.a vent further mif
cilia( to theic large concerns, c ,ntailling property to
a very confide:able amourir, ar,,! but for the
fingrilar and inliantatieces afihtance given, mull ine-
vitably have been detfroyed, tegeth:r with a large
portion of the a.ljacent buildings. Mutt fortunately
it was mutter night with the firemen of the 1t0y..l
Exchange Altiranee Company, the Sun, the Bri•
tith, and foine others, by which means they were
the better enabled to render timely and effeaual aid.
and, in a Ilion time, the greater number of the en-
gines in London were prefent.
When the flames had fufficiently fubfided, In
as to permit the (table door to be opened. a new
fpeaacle was dilcovered. Four of the mill horfes
and a goat were found flit:located, lying on the
ground : the hair of the poor animals was complete-
ly burned off, except that part which was covered by
the harnefs of two of them, and the (kin left entire ;
two of the honks were lying over each other, and the
goat acrofs both ; a great part of the rack, manger,
and time of the hay and (traw, were conlumed, but
one part efeaped w*hout any damage whatever. The
accident is fuppored to have originated from a can-
dle having been carelefsly left in a lanthorn, as the
latter was found much burned, and that part of the
Cable, whete it ufually hung, had been molt con-
firmed. It was at firft imagined that a great quan-
tity of the (*agars in the warehoufe had been cnnii
derably damaged ; lint we underhand only a final!
portion was injured by the water, and not by fire.—
Had the craiflagration taken place at a late hour of
the ni&lic, the confequences mutt have been dread-
ful.
Lath tight, between the hours of eight and nine
o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the work-
Illo? of Mr. BRODIE, a carpenter, in Swallow-they,
co. goer of Vizn-lane and Sackville-hreet. The (hop
being 'limited in the rear of the houfe, the fire was
not immediately difcovered. The flames continued
to rage with great fury for near an hour before water
could be procured—and as the workfhops contained
a quantity of light timber, great apprehenfions were
entertained for the adjoining premifes ; but, happily,
the engines played with filch effe&, as to completely
fibdue tloi tie in lets than an hour, when it was ex•
tit:palled with little more lots than the burning a part
of the rear of Mr. BRODIE'S houfe, and Mr. Fatima,
the baker's, adjoining. Some fire-engines, arrived a
few moments after the alarm was given. The St.
James's Volunteers, under the command of Major
Downs, pi-craved good order, and prevented much
depredation. We ate informed that the accident
happened through the negligence of ahoy, who was
left to attaid to a glue pot, which boiled over.