Star.
London, England, 1802-03-23 00:00:00

PML ICE.

Bow-STREET.—On Friday evening La, a very
extraordinary cal: was :nought beim e
BOND, Elq• and Sir Witt ia!t PARSONS, at ;his
Office, at the inligaticn of the Weanti:ifl,:r Fire
Office. Mr. Brown, one of the Clet k. belongin
to that cflici, attended, and sated p:atieular.,
which were neat7y tliefe :—That a hon.,: ;o GI eat
l'ultncy•trcet, d,e building of •is Minted
in that ()lice, gad been oa tire in tiiir.rent parts
feven times in the courfe of three weeks; that mere'
was every realm' to believe it bad been wilfully
don:. ; that the four fira times the fires had bean
estinguithed without the neighbours knowle,h,c,
but the others, particularly the laa, xvhi.4l hrolt•
lout in three fepic.ate atoms at once, had fo much
alarmed the neighbotnhood, that Tome of the ad
joining inhabitants had ...finally moved away, fur
fear of being burnt in their beds, the fires always!
taking race in the night.
The landlord of the Houfe in queftion was exa-
mined. He listed, that the fira fire happened in
the front garret of his houfe; it was tint difzer
vexed by a mail wlro lodged in it, when he came
home late at night, and found the bed and :will- '
ture in flames,in confequence of which he removed
the next day; the damage done to the bed, &c.
amounted to upwards of 31. which he, the land
lord, recovered of the Britilh Fire Office, where
his goods-were infured; that the next fire happ.:ned
in the fame room, and the third in the back gar-
ret, both of which did more damage than the t-11;
but that he did not make any further application
to the Office for thee lotfes,alledgin,g for a reatim
that he was athamed to own that in many fires
bad taken place at his honk. He, however, ad-
mitted he had applied to them for the damage
done by the three lea fires. All the fires, he Paid,
feemed to have been communicated to the beds by
a chemical preparation, as on taking come of the
afhes to a chymia, he declared phofpliorus had
been ufed, and direeted him to open the windows,
when foon after the fire broke out in three separate
rooms at the fame time.

In the courfe of his whole evidence, he cndca-
voured to fix the guilt on a woman who lodged
in his houfe, but had gone away after the two
firlt fires : he and his prefent lodgers and fervants
were interrogated, but without laying any thing
fatisfaOory towards elucidating this fttange bull-
nefs. There cannot be a doubt but it muff have
been done on purpofe, as Mr. Brown declared,
that men had been fent to fit up in the haute for
feveral nights, and, during their Ray, nothing
happened.
The Magiftrates direded all the parties fhonld
11 attend on a future day for a further inveftigation.
A man was examined on the fame day, charged
with having defrauded feveral perfons of money
hy'pretending to give them notice of writs for debt
beug :Sued agaiatt them ; two charges of this
na-
ture being fubflantiated, he was fully committed
Ito take his trial for the frauds.

The Parifh Officers of Hampftead Norris lave
recently adopted the plan of paying their poor on
Saturdays intlead of Sunday, in order to prevent
the excufe made by (hop-keepers, &c. of their be-
ing obliged to retail their commodities to the poor
on the Sunday. And with a view to facilitate as
much as in their power the meafures for enforcing
the laws made for the due obfervation of the Sab-
bath.

During the outward-bound voyage of the Lord
Thurlow Indiaman, one of the paflengers, a cadet,
fell overboard and was drowned.

The body of Mr. Aby, who was drowned about
three weeks ago, was thrown afhore by the ft.a
near North Somercoats. a few days ago, and in.
terred with military honours.
The remains of a cabinet-maker at Plymouth,
who had been miffing fince November, was Come
days fince difetivered near Dartmouth forett. The
sorpfe was Co disfigured by the birds, infects, &c.
as to prefent a molt offenfive fpeet a cle.

A traveller, from fome mercantile houfe in Lon-
don, was taken ill about a fortnight ago, at Lynn ;
he went out of the inn where he lodged in the even.
ing, and his hat was found in the fubtu bs rest
morning. The moil diligent fearch has fiuce been
made for him, but in yam.

Friday fermi& in the afternoon, a boy about
two years and a half old, was run over by a poll-
chalk near Sidney-College, Cambridge, by which
he was fo much hurt, that he died in a few hours.
On Saturday tart a boy about ten years of
went fo near the machinery of a fcribbling mill, at
Woodhoufe Carr, near Leeds, as to be caught by
the hair of his head, and inflantaneoufly killed.
Saturday as a glazier was cleaning a two-pair
of (lairs window in Stanhope flreet, Clare-market,
the machine on which he flood gave way, and he
fell into the (tree, by which accident his head
was literally dafhcd to pieces.
Lail week two labouring men belonging to Pal-
ling, died from drinking to an excefs of fmuggled
gin, which had been landed at Wrexham, and was
afterwards feized by the Excite Officer at Ludham.

Lail week a grinder, in Loxley, was killed by
'the breaking of a (tone, which crufhed him in al
fhocking manner.
EN GLIC H STATE-LOTTERY...—Nilleteentil Day.
—Nos. 34,9 t 4, and 34,406, Prizes of soot.—Nos.
11,756, and 5036, prizes of sod.
The Stock Exchange, Lloyd's Coffee-houfe, and
the Lottery Offices, arc now thronged all day
long with enquities about the Loan, the Definitive
Treaty, and the State of the wheel. Two to one
was betted yefterday, that Mr. Newland will nn•
finance the Loan in three days ;—five to one that
the Treaty will arrive in the month of March; and
even betting, one of the four Prizes of zo,oool. or
one of the two Prizes of io,oool. will be drawn in
the courfe of this week, exclufivc of the zo,oool.
attached to the firft drawn Ticket, to-morrow
morning. What with Loans, Treaties, and Ca-
pital Prizes, at prefent the public mind is pretty
well occupied; however, they will loon be relieved
from the latter, as all the Capital Prizes will be
, drawn in a few days.