Star.
London, England, 1814-02-22 00:00:00

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POL.Z.CE.


Mattstow enitimg,io was yetterday
charged on suspicion of setting fire to his house.-1.
King depased, that he ?was ti tenant in the house 'of
the prisoner; at No. 19, Peter-stew., Sun-street, Blih-
opsgate. Having received. information which led
him to suspect the prisoner intendedto set fire to his
house, he, as well es.other lodgers, sat up the whole
of Saturday and Sanday night. llonJay morn-
ing, about three o'clock, he was alarmed by a smell
of fire, and opened his door for tlx purpose of alarm-
*mg the other lodgers, when the prisoner, who occu-
pied the next room, also opened his door, and seeing.
him, cried out—" Help, for GOD'S, sake, I am all on
fire " Witness went into his room, and found the
bed-clothes in fl.emes ; they were, however, extin-
guished, without much damage.—G. Kibbard, a.
ftiend of. King's, who sat op with him, confirmed the
above statement.—W. Shepherd lodged in the first
Moor front room of the prisoner's hours; he had been
informed of the prisoner's intention to bunt the pre-
mises,_ and had pibpared a tackle to lOwer his wife
aind children from the window. About three o'clock
'art Monday tnornipg, his wife said, 44 The deed is
done ; I smell the smoke." He ran down stairs, al-
most naked. The prisoner came out 'of his room, and.
cried out, 44 Help me, am all on fire." Witness
*aid* " I know you are, you old rogue ;" and im-,
,Mettiately dragged him out. He was trying to put
•out the iiatnes ; but witness believed he had no wish
to do so. There was an oilman living next door,
who, in addition to other combustibles, had some gun- •
powder on his premises, and by his desire the prisoner
was given in charge, to a watchman.-4-Jane, wife of
the above witness, had' been told by a woman who
WAS intimate with the prisoner, that he had abused
her very.much on the preceding Surtday evening for
coming home with him, saying, " If you had not
come home, I should have been a rich man to-mar-
row." She returned, How to ?" when he an-
swered, -" No matter ; it would have been better for
both irion had stoppe away." She then said,'" 1
juscl better go back ; • when he rejoined, Do; and
,take the best of your clothes with yoti." A thought,
hosimver, then struck her that he intended to the
house on fire, and she refused toga. Witness infor-
med her fellow-lodgers of these suspiciOns. Jane Side-
bottom
.lived in Blue Anchor-alley, Bunhill-row. ;
she had been housekeeper with the prisoner, and- was
still in habits of acquaintance with him. List Sunday
week lie dined at her longings, and she went home
with him to his house at nighteby consent,cf her hus-
baud. 'She then stated the conversation detailed b;
tuklormers Licitness, adding, that aftei atlii;ing her to
take the best of her clotlis.Witli her, he would not let
her go, as it was so late ; and, on pressing blts for
an explanation, he said he should keep the secret in
his owls breast, for if he divulged it they le-

_ .migc hang
hirn, The prisoner got his• bi:*si by a little go, in the
lottery way. He never told her that he -.vould set his
house on tire, but she had great suspicion that such
was his intention. On Saturday evening she went
borne with bini, and, taking. advantage of his absence
from the:Morn, she put some water in the tinder-box,.
to prevent his geping a light. Shedid-not come to
him on Sunday evening. Mrs. King, wife of the first
witness, heard the conversation between • the prisoner
and the la st witness, orsundity night week, and stated,
that the prisoner :CUM home at a quarter before
three, and at a quarter past three she smelt-the, smoke.
She understood the prisoner was Insured, but did not
believe his property to be worth five pounds.- The
prisoner, in his defence, said the fire was the pore
effect of ac ; that he came home on Sunday
night at half-past ten o'o'clock, and; haying lighted
a fire, he smoked his pipe, and went to bed.—Mr.
Wilson, one of the Directors of the Plicenix 1; ire.pflicet'
said, the prisoner had effected an insurance pt their
Office for £l5(. He was then remanded tiatrid2y.

'' Yesterday se'nnight, the prisoners confined in the
•old jail of Glasgow were removed. under en escort of
town iiffieers an;d soldiers, to she nowlail, the debtors,
ittnounting to 14, in coaches, and the felons, amount-
to 18, handcuffed, and on foot.
' ' SifG-F. Hui. has obtained a conditional order for
an information against 'Alderman W. LACKEY? for
abusive language, addressed to him on the Bench' at
the late". Sessions of Derry.
• Yesterday morning, the toady of the young man
was• got out, who was unforttmately drowned in,
+Om Canal in St James's Park, on Sunday. He proved
to be THOMAS H,amtunx, a herald-painter. The body
was taken to the Siattling.house by St. James's Palace,
L *hese the Coroner's Jury sat in the afternoon, and,
bronght. in a verdict 48: ;preyed, in attempting to save
iht: lives- f others." . • •
Wednesday. se'nnight, two young men were rashly
tinuising thenuelves-hy sailing on a large piece of
ice in -aleriver, at liaddingtoni and getting into deep
water; Where their pbles were too short to reach the
Arnow, they.wer4 carried doWn 14 shot current. la
Ale aUtsid stratOnZ-This ree.-ert. wtttch-ther floated
liirted int:, two, with one of them on each. piece.—
Otat of the pieces luckily floated td the river hank,
but thnAgbCr was oarried along and hurried over the
damigini oi Girumer-mills ; and the young man was
phsnged: hitothe river, in a prodigious current, where
'it was imagined almost, impossible that he should
escape 4eath. In a little time,liowever. he appeared
above.water, and was got on shore, in a state at stu-
por. from which, however, he soon recovered.
Sunday sennight, at Holburn Grange, a ewe be.
longing to Mt. Thompson, of Feham Hill, was dogdUt...of the snow- alive, after having been there 24
days, and is now likely to do well..
.• In the .night of Sunday se'nnight, the Rood in the
Tweed. carried off a sow and ten pigs belonging, to a
poor man at Coldstream. Much' timber anc.: other
articles were also washed astray in the same neigh.
bourhood, and much damage was done to the milts.
Monday se'nnight the remains of Mrs.:Wino:lT,
late Prioress of the Nunnery at Laitherne, were in.
terred in Mawgan church : on !yhicli occasion a iNgt..
cession of the Nuns of that institution took place, in
the following order.:

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