Star.
London, England, 1801-04-25 00:00:00

Eleven to; on Mr. Watfon's c.

A Privy Council was yefterday hcl,l at White-
hall, for the purpofe of exam: ain7, the perlcns takc
into cuftody for feditions practice;.
Yefterday, about three o'clock in the morning,
a fire broke out in .t two pair of flairs room, to
Oriel College, Oxford, and continued two or three
hours, during which time it eleftroyed the ,room
where it firft appeared, ..end the one bcjow, bt.t
was at length happily est:at:Ailed. The Gcrtle-
man, to whom tile room belongal, was forced to
kap from the window of his bed-room ; and re-
ceived tome confiderable bruifes, and a flight
fraaure in one of the fmal: bones of his wrifl.
No tat ther damage was fuilahted.
Yeiterdav afternoon, about half after three
o'clock, a tire broke out is the principal work-Ihop
of Medi s. i;!it ati.l Co. cabinet-makers, in Os-
ford-ftreet, which in a (hot_; time communicated to
the roof of the dwelling-houle adjoining.—Froin
the confined fitnation of the premifes, having no
other entrance into the ftreet but through a narrow
pat age, little hopes were entertained of flopping
the progrefa of the flames. In confcquencc of thele
appearances, every hand was employed in remov-
ing the furniture into the fireet, Which was done
before the engines arrived, and water being im-
mediately procured, the fire was got under, after
deftroying a part only of the premifes.
On Saturday the nth foon after four
o'clock in the afternoon, the parifh church of
Shultock, in Warwickihire, was !!ruck hy light-
ning, which came with a violent florm of hail and
fnow. The lightning fell on the top of the Teeple,
one of the walls cf which it has crufhed, and forc-
ed out tome large tones ; it then pafrec.l through
the roof into the body of the church, broke the
Frcateft part of the glafs in the windows, went out
in a wefterly dire bon, and at the diftance of a
mile and a half from the church, !hipped the bark
from a large elm in 'a field adjoining the dwelling
honfe of E. Croxall, Efq.
Thnifday evening Elisabeth Burridge otherwife
Bee, was brought in cullody by To..sliCend, to
Bow-ftreet, who apprehended her the fame even-
ing at her lodgings, in Stanhope.ftreet, for fortune-
telling.—Townfend produced a pair of old globes,
a (late, with tome hieroglyphics ruddy drawn
upon it, and a number of papers, ferass led full of
ftrange words and incoherent nonfenfe : together
with two packs of dirty cards, the whole appara-
tus of the art.—A woman proved paying the pri.
(hoer is. 6d. to have her fortune told, and gave a
very whimfical account of her interview with the
foreerets, and of the events that were to befall her.
—The 'cafe bcing clearly made oar, Mr. Foto,
without pretending to the crafty fcienee, under-
took to determine her prefent deltiny, which was,
that the fhould be committed to the honfe of cm--
teFtion, as a rogue and vagabond, until the nest
feffion.

Elizabeth Watts and Sarah Rolerts were charged
with a fimilar offence, at their lolgings, in Cray's-
inn-lane, which being eftablithed, th:y wire both
adjudged rogues and vagabonds, and cymmitled
to the fame prifon.
Efizabeth litverald and 70/-: were
brought in the cuilody ofCro!:er, one ref the patrok,
for uttering a bad half-guinea at a chandler'; fhcp,
in Tottenham court-road. Croker produced fume
other counterfeit money which he found on lynch-
ing the prifoners, who were therefore committed
for trial.

Yeilerday twn perfons were crnriacd. on two
informations each, for felling ilraw ihort ofweight,
and of bad quality in the mink rf the truir,:s
and were adjudged to forfeit one Chilling ea trots
fo defeaire, together with coils.
Thurfday
.7‘,An WAS fully committed
by the LORD :Aroma, charged wit forging a draft
tur 4.001. upon Mr. Lttri-mcc, 11..mk:;r at 0: alit-
ham. The Dow.flreet Ofticcas Lid been is fcarch
of him for tome time.

Yellerday two men, of the name of ;Min, bro-
thers, apprehended about three steaks Line in
lioliday-ya,td, Creed-lane, Ludgate-flreet, were
examined, at the Manlion-houfe, n f,:it:e•on of
robbing the Ryc and Haikings M !Yr.ing
the,bag containing country bank itrtzs to a I.tryte
amount, fume of which wise found oi, their is r.
fons when apprehended.—The Mail Uri er f‘itire
to his being flopped in th Light; hot c0i.:!.1 not
pofitively Ave:lr to the perfor., :4 the pliti•imrs.
They both denied the ch a they v 1.,,w.
ever fully committed for tie.a.
Yellerday a man of thc name of P.,...64-1 was
examined at G161.111:ill, vpreli.ndel thc, pa-
tmks of St. ::1, hr.:, with a fl..k un his back.
which they fulp.:.f.c.l to contain OA goods, but
which, on beiw, opened in the watch-houfe, con-
tained the cot f i young w ,t,rar, that appa-
rently had beta dead about lout t. d.irs. &ins
called on for hi, .I.4cnee, tr: raid that he had re.
ceived the Pack firma granze man to carry to
Smithfield, where he was to receive a Stilling for
his labour, but what precife place be was to leave
it at he could ao‘ tell.—He was committed for re.
examinatioct.