Star.
London, England, 1814-10-20 00:00:00

RRIGADE GENERAL ORDER.

" Camp IDdeltowo, North America, August 30,1314.
" Major-General Brisbane having received instructions to ad-
vance with the troops under his command into the territory of
the United States, mails himself of the opportniky of request-
ing that Commanding Officers will use every exertion to main-
tain the strivest discipline in the troops under his command; and
lie holds them responsible, that in every instance where a com-
plaint is made to him of any injury sustained by the inhabitants,
that he will see them redressed, and whatever damage is done is
instantly to be paid for, and charged against those concerned;
and where this caneor be ascertained, ,o the corps in general, so
' that unofending people may not be the sufferers.
" In taking the necessary precaution apinst individuals who
may so far jtarget what Is due to themselves and to their country,
as t.• comnlit acts of plunder or violence, the Major-General is
at the same time fully convinced, that almost the whole of the
troops are determined that their conduct shall not bring disgrace
on the British name ; he therefore calls upon them to discover
those who may be guilty of an act of plunder or oppression, who
may be brought to the punishment they merit; and the soldiers
must soon find that such a tine of conduct will add much to their
comforts ; for the inhabitants of the country, finding they are
properly treated and protected, will bring every article requisite
into the camp; for those who remain quiet in their houses are
not iu the smallest degree to be molested, nor their property
taken from them, without their full consent, and its being paid
for ; as it is not against such persons that Groat Britain makes
war, bu. against the Government, whose folly and ambition have
brought the miseries of war into their country, and the army and
individuals, in support of such a Government.
" The Major-General commanding has requested the Magis-
trates of the country to explain to the people his object and de-
termination on entering the American territory; and he trusts
that the conduct of the soldieri will be such as to reflect no shade
of dishonour on their country.
_ _ _

" By command of Majar.General Brisbane,
(Signed) " JAI. CAlthic Li., Major of Brigade."

GLIE.RNSET.

Thursday, the '6th instant, the 4th Garrison Bat-
talion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel LAW.
RBNCE, was inspected in the New Ground by his Ex.
cellency Lieutenant General Sir JOHN DOYLE, accom.
panied by his numerous suite. The battalion ar-
rayed, in all the gorgeous pomp of war, received his
Excellency with those military honours due to the
distinguished rank which he holds.
When it is considered that the soldiers of this corps
have been, and are employed, in different parts of
the Island, adding to its beauty, by forming roads,
we cannot but be struck with astonishment at
the accuracy and precision with which they per-
formed their evolutions. The file firing and the ra-
pidity with which the formation of the square was
executed, were two prominent features worthy of the
highest panegyric in the MAOCtuvres of the day.
' His Excellency, who so well knows how to appre-
ciate the merits of those who have the good fortune
to be placed under his command, in a speech, in
which the irresistible fire of the veteran soldier, and
the elocprent language of the senator, were eminently
displayed, complimented the corps on its fine military
appearance. And truly it may be said, that no Chief
of a Battalion more justly Merited the meed of praise
conveyed to him in the applauding terms, with which
his Excellency addressed the Commanding Officer of
the corps, than on the present occasion. But while
the bosom throbbed with delight at the splendid spec-
tacle, while every heart beat in unison, with the mel-
low notes of a most charming band, while the. specta.
tors received new life from this view of military
pageantry,the tear of generous sympirthygushed spon-
taneously to the eye, on beholding, neatly attired at
the expense of the corps, four hundred and eighty-
four children. It was an appeal from the heart, the
eye could not withstand. A scene so grateful to litt.
manity, could not fail to excite the warmest approba-
tion of all who witnessed it. How blest a circum-
stance is it for diose soldiers who serve under a Com-
manding Officer, anxious to render the cares of a mi-
litary life more light, in assiduously attending to the
wants of their forlorn offspring. But when these
living, though perishable emblems of benevolence,
shall fade away, the force of memory will supply a
monument, more lasting than adamant, to eternize
the name of LAWRENCE.

Wednesday se'nnight the Magistrates and princi-
pal inhabitants of Perth gave an elegant entertain.
ment to Lord LYNDOCK, on his return to his native
county, after his late arduous services on the Conti.
nent. Ail the principal inhabitants of Perthshire were
present.
The amiable Countess of GROSVENOR, we regret to
learn, continues alarmingly indisposed at Eaton-house,
near Chester.

The Duke of DEVONSHIRE is arrived at Edinburgh,
from his seat in Ireland. His Grace is expected to
visit Earl and Countess GREY, at their seat, Howick
Castle, Northumberland, in his way to his seat, Chats-
worth, Derbyshire.
DUEL.--A meeting took place on the 12th instant,
at Ballinamore, between WILLIAM T. D'Ancy, Esq.
and JOSEPH BINOHAMI Esq. After exchanging two
shots each, at the short space of eight yards, both the
combatants escaped unhurt.
PARLIAMENT HOUSES.—Preparations are making
in both Houses of Parliament for the opening of
the Session next month. In the Lord:, the seats and
woolsack% have been newly repaired and covered, be-
13w the Bar, &c. new matted, the anti•rooms white-
washed ; and arrangements are in contemplation for
the Inner ventilation of the House. In the Common:
similar ,Terationshave taken place, all the seats in the
hod y of the House, as well as in the Galleries, having
been new matted, the Committee Rooms white-
washed, &c. The celebrated 64 Smoking Room," one
of the anti•toons for the use of the Members, has un-
dergone considerable alterations ; windows having
been made at the end of it, so as to throw additional
light into the passages leading directly into the House,
and the passages themselves, before meagrely illumi-
ned with one or two candles, have been otherwise
much improved. The accommodation for strangers
remains as heretofore. _ _

A profound coffeehouse politician assures us, Mr.
MADISON may get from England a pease, but not the
whole of his demands. _

Mrs. DENIM the there and, of PLATOFF, has written
home, in great spirits, to a friend at the Opera-house,
that she has the ball entirely at her own toot, no such
person having ever existed as the celebrated Miss
Pccrorr, so long a favourite toast at all our con-
vivial parties.
Mrs. Joanna Sous/welt was to have been delivered
yesterday, but the old lady had nothing for her paint!
The sun, it seems, according to some of our modern
Philosophers, is no “fire-work"—at least, does not
come within the meaning of the nainguichins Act of
William and Mary 1

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ;I H. MEUX and Vs

BREWHOUSE.

CORONER'S INQUEST.
Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, an Inquest
was held at St. Giles's• Workhouse, on view of the
bodies of the following unfortunate parsons, who pe-
rished by the bunting of the vat : -
l.
Eleanor Cooper, 14 years.of age, servant to Mr. Hawes,
the Tavistock Arms, Great Russell-street. •
2. Mary Mulvey, a married woman, aged 30 years.
3. Thomas Murry, aged S years, son of Mary Mulvey, by z
former husband.
4. throats Banfield, aged 4 years and 4 months.
5. Bit:ah Batea, aged S years and 5 months.
6. Ann Saville, aged 60 years.
7. Elizabeth Smith, a married woman, aged 27 years.
S. Catherine Butler, a widow, aged 65 years.

After the Jury were impannelled and sworn they
proceeded to the Dead-house,• to take a view cf five
of the bodies than were deposited there ; they then
went to take a view ni the place where the accident
happened, and of the other three bodies that were
taken home by their friends. On retinning to their
Jury-room, the first witness examined was
Mr. George Crick, who, after being sworn, deposed
as follows ;44 ['reside at No. '215, Tottenham Court
R,

.toad, and am store-house clerk to Messrs. Henry
Meux and Co. I have been 17 years in the cap tcity
of store-house clerk; eleven years at the premises in
Liquorpond-street, and six years, on the 10th March
next, on those where the accident occurred. I have
been connected with the brew-house in this neigh-
bourhood ever since the present firm came into it.—
The accident happened on Monday evening, at half
past five o'clock. I was on a plat-form about thirty
feet from-the vat when it burst. I heard the crush,
as it went off, and immediately ran to the store-house,
where the vat was situated. I found myself up to the
knees in beer. The vat which had given way had
been full of beer within four inches. It contained
3,555 barrels. We do not like to fill the vats too full
for fear of accidents. The four inches would have
contained from SO to 40 barrels more. The first
object I saw in the store-house was my brother ; one
of the men had just pulled him out from among the
butts. There were many butts in the store-house—it
was a racking place, where much beer was racked
out for the trade. Another man, who had been
working by my brother's side, was brought out in
the same situation—they are both in a dangerous
way. Ido not suppose my brother will get over it.
Both of therh were taken to the hospital. We then
examined the place as well as we could. The whole
vat. we found, had given way, as completely as if
a quart pot had been turned up on the table. On thei
side next Russell-street, it blew down a brick wall,'
belonging to the brewhouse, which was 22 inches
broad in the strongest part. The wall, I believe, was
25 feet high—that is, about three feet higher than the
vat. It caused,dreadful devastation on the premises ; it
knocked four butts over, and staved several the pres-
sure was so excessive. The houses next Russell-street
and New-street were much damaged, but I do not
know the persons who were buried in the ruins. The
body of Anne Saville was found on our premises.-1
We discovered her about an hour and a half after the I
accident—she was then quite dead. We then endea-
voured
to take care of the beer—to save as much of it
as we could. None of us could go to see the acci-
dent which had happened outwardly, because we had
too much to do on our own premises. We were em-
ployed in saving what beer we could. There were
7,000 barrels in two vats on the premises. Of these,
3,555 barrels were lost at once : and the shock was
so dreadful as to break off the cock of the adjoining
vat ; of the contents of the latter we saved about 800
barrels. This vat was of the satire size, within nine
barrels, as that which gave way. I cannot account
for the accident. The vat which gave way had been
built about ten years, and it has been full of beer for
two-thirds of the time, during which 1 have been on
the premises. It was built on uprights cr pillar's of
oak. The foundation did not give way. When the
wreck is cleared, the bottom of the vat will be found
perfectly level ; neither did the vat touch the wall.
It stood full tight inches from it. 'We can account
for the accident in no other manner, but by the hoops
giving way—by the rivets bursting. An hour before
the accident, a hoop was started ; hoops frequently
burst—two or three times a year—but such a circum-
stance does, not produce any idea of danger. If I
conceived there was danger on Monday evening, nei-
ther I nor my brother would have remained near the
vat. I spoke to Mr. Young, one of the partners in
the brewhouse, about a hoop flying off. He is him-
self a vat-builder, and he said that no harm what-
ever would ensue. The vat had formerly been more
full—and the beer which was in it, when it gave way,
had been brewed between -nine and ten months. It
was an old beer vat. If it had been a new beer vat,
I should not have wondered so much, because the
fermentation of the liquor might produce such an
effect. The new beer vats are covered—but in such
a manner that the cover will give way. and thus pre%
vent the bursting of the vat. I was on the top oldie
vat when the hoop flew off. I stated the circumstance
to Mr. Young—who told me to write to his father,
that it might be mended. Soon a'ter I had w retell
the note, the accident took place. There was an
opening at the top of the vat—a flap—which wads,
have given way had the action of the liquor been up;
wards. We sometimes stop down a vat, *hen the
beer has gone through the process of fermentation;
The hoop we discovered off, an hour befOre the irs4l
burst, was about three feet from the bottom. In 0,
lower part of the premises, in a place the work Men
call "the regions below," there is a cell capable.of
holding '2,100 barrels ; the pipe communicating with
this place was broken, and the beer was destroyed.
Between eight and nine thousand barrels of porter
have been lost."
The CORONER wished to know how much one of
the hoops on the vat would weigh ?—Mr. Crick.
About 7 cwt.
The Coemma—Mr. Mainwaring informed me. en
the Bench, this morning, that there is a hoop in the
brewery in Liquorpond-street, that weighs a ton !
Mr. Crick. In that brewery there are :even hoops on
a vat, each of which weighs three ton:! The vat to
which they are attached will contain 18,000 barrels ;
it is twenty-one yards in diameter, at top.
Richard Hawes deposed, that he live;! at No. '22,
Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, the Tavistock-
Arms Public-house; about half-past five o'clock on
Monday evening, witness was in his tap-noel, µleers
he heard the crash ; the back part of his houst Wls

beaten in, and every thins in his cellar destrr.7e.l
the cellar and tap-room filled with beer, so tt..it ,
was pouring across the street into the areas on .the
opposite side; the deceased Eleanor Cooper, his ser.
vant, was in thie yard washing pots 4t the time the
accident happened ; she was buried under the ruins,
from whence she was dug out about twenty minutes
past eight o'clock ; she WAS found standing by the
water butt.
Mr. Ogle, a §urgeon, attended to render mulicai
assistance, but she was quite dead.
John Commis,: deposed, that he was a brickl
and lived in Pratt's.place. Carnien-town ; be.ng the
owner of some houses in Mlw.street, where de-prin-
cipal part of the persons who were l )4, reshled, he
attended on the spot all day 4,1 'Tuesday, to render
all the assistance in his power to the sufferers ; Eli-
zabeth Smith, a bricklayer's wife, was the first body
found, *bola twin o°;lock, in the ruins of a first.
floor ; Sarah Bates, a
.child, was discovered in alriut
an hour after, in the ruins of No. 3, New-street ; Ca-
therine Butler, a widow, Mary Mulvey, and her son.
' Thomas Murry, a boy three years of age. werq found
about leer o'tincl: on Tuesday evening ; Hannah
Banfield, a girl about four years and a half old, with
her mother, and al:oller child, v....re at tea on Cm
first fluor, tl:e two foi niter %%ere was!led by the flood
into the ruins, the dead body ot Haanalt lianlield was
found in the I:tins tenet half past six ; the mother
was carried to the Middlesex Hospital, e.4‘ ne she lie;
is a dangerous state, and the ltq mentioned child was
found nearly suffocated on a bed is the room.
The evidence having been gone through, the Co,
RONER observed, there could be no doubt that the ac.
cident described had occa:.ioned the de.t:ll3 ot thou
unfit vitiate persons. In some cases,in that of murder,
for instance, a more minute detail might be Pecesssry.
but here it was evident that the loss of all these lives
had been•produced by the same cause, of which they
were sufficiently cognizant.
A Juryman enquired of the father of Sarah B ties,
whether he observed any person employed ablut the
brewery active in removh.g the ruins ?—lie ans xered,
he had not to his knowledge.
The Juryman expressed his surprise, that, where so
many workmen were employed, none of them had
been desired to exert themselves iu the manner to
which lie alluded.

The CORONER thought such reflntions as tlt:se
might be spared. If people would look at the situ :.
tion of the neighbourhood, where all was terror and
apprehension, it would cease to be a matter of var•
prise, that exertions were not made at the momeat.
The worthy Gentleman ought not to cast reflections,
without foundation. All that can be said of the ha.
s;ness is, that it is a most unfurtuaate and lamentablo
event.

'Ole Juryman declared he meant not to cast any
reflection ; still he could nut help entertaining his mi.
ginal opinion.
Mr. Crick observed, that, when the accident hap-
pened, it was not possible for the prrsons in the brew.
house, in consequence of the confusion of the moment,
to leave the place. They knew not whether a number
of their own people were not overwhelmed by the
butts : and it was with the greatest ditilzulcy they
could prevent. the populace twin bunting into the
premises.
The Jury then re'urned their verdict, that t:!e
ceaed had met with their deathi, " easually, atclJr4.
tag, and by mitfortutu."

Sittings appointed in Middlesex and Landon. be.
the ltiAlit Hon. EDWARD L ird
Lo:d Chiei Justice, &c. in and ain:r Michaele:4s
Tenn, 1514.: