Star.
London, England, 1826-04-10 00:00:00

FIRE IN CANTON,

. [The following is a translation, by the Rev. Dr. Morrison, of a
Proclamation by the Foe Yuen of Canton, issued on occasion of
the great fire in 1822. The Foo Yuen is Governor of the city,
and the second mandarin of rank, being next to the Viceroy.]
CUING, a Member of the Military Board at Pekin, a
Censor belonging to the Board of Genet al Inspection, a
Te-tuck of Canton Province, and Superintendant of the'
(kaki Tax, etc. hereby issues, a general Proclamation
with the uosostearoestness, on a most important subject.
On the 18th and 19th days of the Bth moon of „this
yikr, in consequence of a fire occasioned by a shopman,
when a mad wind blew, and the fire became furious, it
was impossible for man's strength to produce any effect
is arresting the progress of the flames they spread and
consumed shops and houses and !tongs to a number that
exceeded two thousand four hundred, and maimed and
wounded into to the amount of several times ten, and
destroyed the property of merchants and foreigners to
the value of several hundreds of thousands of tens of
thousands. The flowing gaity and glory of Canton
was, all at once, consumed like the gaudy insect that
rushes into the burning flames—such an event has not
taken place for several hundred Yeats,
You, Gentlemen, Merchants, and poor natives and
foreigners, who have suffered this heaven-sent calamity,
ore not the only persons whose hearts ate grieved and
wounded. I, the Foo Yuen, since pay ears heard it and
my eyes saw it, have not for a moment ceased to feel
bodily pain anJ mental anguish, on account of it. But
the proverb says--"Of every think and every filled
cup there are none that are not previously fixed by fate."
This judgment of fire was, no doubt, occasioned by the
influences of the numerical destiny of the Pearl River
(which runs past' the city and,subutb4. But I de.ire
that you all, Gentlemen, Merchants, poor natives, and
foreigners, will every one submit to a righteous destiny.
.Do not sorrow, grieve, lament, and sigh. You must
sot repine at Heaven, nor criminate man, and so in vain
' add to your trouble and vexation. But it is incumbent
on you to receive the warning from heaven above.
Repeot of you sins, examine yourselves, and always,
preserve impressed on your minds the four words—
heaved, placipks, good heart—and really acting ac-
cording to these, you will nut be ashamed before thi
discerning gods, and, no doubt, the high Heaven will
silently assist you. And how do you know, but that
the residue left by the fiery flames shall re-arise in piles
of gold, and heaps of gems, and tidies and honours?
Yoo that have the power, are hereby commanded to
hasten and re-build on the original site and foundation,
which you must net overstep to encroach on your neigh-
hours; for if you do, so great an offence will be prose-
cuted and punished without mercy.
As to the poor, who have beets burnt our, and have
no dwelling, I have directed the local Magistrates to
hasten and draw out a list of the names, and give gain
and exercise compassion. As to those criminals who
h we availed themselves of the fire to rob and plundtr,
many have been taken, and will be severely punished;
and a new search has been commenced for those not )et
seized, so that not one of them may escape the net. I
have also provided an additional numb. r of officers and
troops to patrol the streets night and day. But if here;
after any should act as incendiaries or robbers, it is
allowed to country Gentlemen, Scholars, Merchants,'
and poor natives, to constables and watchmen, to j in
the military forces to seize the culprits; to prcreut them
before the Magistrates, and if the charges be pioved,
trey w ill on the spot be immediately cudgelled to death.
As to the foreigners, who have iu barks passed over
sets several times ten thousand miles in width, to come
to our celestial empire to trade—in one morning their
goods have been consumed by fire, and they have no
settled pl ,ce whereupon to roost or rest--a case indeed
much to be pitiesi—l hereby command all the Hong
Merchants to set as is safe fur the foreigners, and settle theta in
tranquil situations, that nom a theirs way be destitute of a place to
I;vv ro. Let all the Military thicitrar etiontry Gentlemen, Mer-
C 1124.41, pour natives, and foreigners whom this may concern, yield
obed.ence thereto. Ds not oppose a;psdiad Podassaturn.
TA AN KwAuts
id Year, wit hum, } Nov. 14, 1822.

The town of Wolverhampton having experienced
mush inconvenience from the want of oilver currency,
application was made to the Lords of the Treasury, who
immediately transmitted B,OOW. with an assurance rat
bicker sxtfirlies shall be seat.

• PLD BAILEY. Am* 8.

Clans Hakkens, a Dutchman, was Wed by a Jury
consisting of half Eugli,hmen and half Foreigners, for
stealing. in the dwelling-house of Mr. John George
Fearn, eighty gold rings, value 1001. , and other pro-
perty. T-e prisoner, about six o'clock on the evening
of the 16th of March, entered the shop of the prosecu-
tor, who is a jewella in Cornhill, and risked the shop-
man to shew him some mourning rings ; he had several
on his fingers, and asked to look ac others, as they were
too small. The shopman was in the act of reaching
ever the tray of rings, when the prisoner snatched up
the first tray that had beenshewn to him, containing
rings, value 1201. and ran out of the shop. He was
pursued down Pope's Head Alley, along Lombard-
street, and was secured at bottom of Sher borne-
lane ; but be had nothing in his possession at the time
he was stopped. The tray was picked up in the street,
and also about one-fifth of the rings. The shopman
spike with confidence as t the identity of the prisoner.
The oisoner, in his defence, said, that he never was
in the shop. Witnesses were called to character, and
no man could receive a better. It also appeared that
he was in the employment of Walton and Co. sugar-
bakers, up to the sight of the robbery; that he was
courting a daughter of a respectable trade man, and was
on the point of marriage.
The Recommit summed up the case; and said, if the Jury could
entertain a doubt of his being the person who committed the capi-
tal felony, they would pronounce a verdict is his favour. Verdict--
Guilty but recommended to mercy on account of his former cha-
racter. The Recorder seriously admoMbhed him to prepare

fur the worst.
John Chick and George Burke stood indicted for as-
saulting Mr. Thomas Wardle, a silk mercer, on the
King's highway, the 7th of March last, and stealing
from his person a gold watch, with appendages, valued
at upwards of twenty guineas. The Jury consulted
together about twenty minutes, when they acquitted
Burke and found Chick Guilty—Deatk.
Catherine Clarke alias Pitt, was indicted far violently
assaulting hoe Stanley on the King's highway, and
taking fromler person a muff and tippet, and Bs.6d.
in money. The prosecutri: stated, that she had dis-
charged a hackney coach that she had been riding in,
in St. John's street, between ten and eleven rclock on
Monday evening last. The prisoner followed her for
some distance, as she was- going towards her home in
the City-road. When in Wilderness-row the prisoner
knocked her cloven And took the articles charged in the
indictment from her.

The prisoner in her defence said that the prosecutrix was an
unfortunate woman like herself; they were en intimate terms with
each other, and had been drinking gin until they had because
"elewaited."
The prowess& was recalled, and indignantly repelled the accu-
sation, and called the constable and watchman to contradict the so-
u rtien. Verdict, Gatiley—Droth.
Mr. Serjeant A RABIN observed, that she had greatly
aggravated the offence by the insinuation she had made
against an innocent woman. That she was evidently
a most abandoned character, and that it was,not for-
gotten that she had a narrow escape from forfeiting her
life about six years since on a charge of murder, for
throwing a man out of a, window in Charles-street,
Drury-lane.
Jareph Lock and Jaen Sea were indicted foe a burglary in the
dwelling house of John Froggittoud stealing two coats, and sundry
articles of trifling value. The case was eleariy proved, and the
Jury found the prisoner Gad*

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, APRIL S..

.
Mr. ADOLPHUS moved the judgment of the Court
on John Iluomphrey, who on Friday pleaded Guilty to
an indictment, charging him with publishing certain
books, of an obscene and immoral tendency. He was
sentenced to two months imprisonment.
Thomas Parton and Elixakdk Berkeley stood indicted
for maliciously administering eight grains of tartar
emetic to Nathaniel Cross,a private in the Guards, with
intent to do him bodily injury.
The prosecutor,it may be remembered, was billetted
at the Bunch of Grapes public-house, in Bow-street, and
was sitting by the fire in the tap room, when the pri-
soners, out of joke, as it should seem (for being srtangers
they could not be supposed to bear him any individual
malice), prevailed on him to drink a glass of ale, into
which they had introduced a powerful dose of tartar
emetic. It was proved, that the male prisoner had
asked a person to go and fetch him some, who had re-
fused, and the poison was eventually procured by the
woman; who, not being able to get the quantity she
wanted at the first chemist's, went to two others, pur,
chasing some of each, and thus making a dose which
had very nigh proved fatal to the man, who, from its
consequences, remained in a state of insensibility during
the whole of that night and the following day.
Verdict—Giiilts. Sentenced each of them to six months'
imprkonment.
William Savage, a man well-known in the Prise-ring, stood in-
dicted for assaulting his own daughter-in-law, as luteresting young
girl, thineeo years old, with Intent to commit a rape. •
The tale told by like girl, corroborated as it was by the evidence
et the lodgers in the house' who heard the child's screams, and by
the surgeon, who had examined her person, left no doubt of his
guilt; and the Courtofter remarking on the enormity of his coo-
-1 duct, sentenced him to six months' imprisonment, and hard labour.

INQUSST OW. THS K IWO ON TIM BSCIOARS.—Friday, an
Inquest was held at the Rose and Bell public-house,
Ilankside, Southwark, on the body of a little, diminu-
tive, and deformed mast, named Andrew Weston, who
had been denominated King of the Beggars by some
persons, in consequence of bis having been a mendicant
Aeon the streets of the metropolis, particularly in the
neighbourhood of Blackfriars, for the last twenty years.
—The deceased was a remarkably little man, and
travelled along the streets in a small wheeled carriage,
which he impelled along by the use of crutches. He
drank usually to excess, and it appeared from the evi-
dence of a surgeon that he died of apoplexy, and not
from his being parried home (as was stated) head down-
wards, when intoxicated. The " Resurcectiouists" were
on the M look out" for his body, and it was stated that
the surgeons were exceedingly anxious to get it for alla-
tomic.l purposes. When alive, he was about two feet
fo.ir niche, in height, and was thirty-thee inches round
the body, twenty-seven inches round the hea.4, and
thirteen inches from the chin to the crown. From the
heel to the knee-joint, he measured sixteen inches, ten
from the knee-joint to the hip-bone, and seven inches and
a quarter round the wrist; be was double jointed,
and possessed considerable strength, particularly in the
hand. Several anecdotes of " LittleAodrew's" amours,
disappointments, &c. were related by some of the Juror s ;
who finally remelted a verdict—Died of Apoplexy.—
The day after the Inquest sat on the body, it was con-
veyed to St. Saviour, burial round, and interred in
grave dug fourteen feet in depth from the surface, over
which were placed thrib other coffins, in order it; secure
it against tt.e resurrection men, who- were anxious to
have the corpse to dispose of.

•
POLICE INTELLIGENCE. •
MANSION HOUSE.
• -41.1111rday,gale, who was a few days ago charged with
ImviMEMolen a watch and seal, the property of Mr, Wright, of the
NAOMI public-house, was this day brought up fur further era.
mismtloo. When the former evidence was read over, a pawn
braes stated that the prisoner bad pawned the watch.at his house
on the day It was taken from the Dolphin public-house.
- Heaketh and Martin, tha officers, took care to lay their hands
upon everything that was likely to give an insight into the former,
life of the priaoner, and they laid before the Lord Mayor a great
number of papers, which fully explained the nature of the trade
in which be had been extensively engaged with other persons.
The Loan Mayo& asked, whether there were any other persons
who had anything to say against the pawner ?
Mt. Lake, an attorney, stated, that he had been dining at a
public-house where the prisoner was also dining in February lase.
After dinner, having occasion tor some snuff, he handed his snuff
boa, which was of silver, to the waiter (perhaps through the pri-
soner), mitt it filled, giving sixpence to him 'at the same time.,
The waiter, upon returning, held over the box towards him, but
the prisoner, being closer to the waiter, took it, and immediately
decamped with it. From that day to the present witness never
beheld him.
_ _

The prisoner's solicitor said, he could prove, with respect to the
first case, that his client had returned to the Dolphin. public-house
the day after he had taken' the watch, which, although it was
pawned, had really been merely taken in a lark. And as fur the
second, hAhought an action in trover was the mode of recovery.
The Loan Maros said, it appeared to him that a downright
felony dad been committed in each case, and that if actions in
trover were the only course to be resorted to in such cases, there
would be an infinite number of them every day, and all the thieves
in London would be the defendants.

His Lordship then said, that coupling the circumstances of the
two eases, with the fact of the detecting of so abominable vsystern
of swindling as it was evident the prisoner bad been engaged iti.
it was impossible not to believe that he was quite serious In appro.
priatiug both the watch and the snuff-box to his own purposes.
He (the Loa. Mavoc) had seen, upon looking over the pliers,
that a regular system had been acted upon, fur the purpose of im-
posing Oil the public to an enormous extent. The prisoner had
received instructions, with which it appeared he bad complied to
the letter, from other persons who seemed to have a greater com-
mand of money and address. He had taken a counting-house,
given it the appearance of great business, obtained referehces, and
it was evident from the bill book, that bills to the amount of
ael 0,000 had been drawn by the confederates of the prisoner, and
that several of them had been negociated. He regretted to per.
ceive that some of those bills, amounting to £BOO or £l,OOO had
been passed off upon a respectable merchant. As such proceedings
were of the most destructive nature, he should consult the City
Solicitor upon the subject of prosecuting the whole gang for a con-
spiracy. In the mean time, however, he should fully commit the
prisoner upon the two charges of felony.
Nightingale was then fully committed to prison.
The Justice Room was crowded to excess during the examination.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

CA 1111MIDGIC, Arau. 7.

The subject of the Seatonian Prize Poem for the present year is
The Tressßents:Sion.
filaments' Paurs--The subjects for the present year are, for the
Sums BACKILLORI—" Quales fuerunt atitiporuni Philosopho-
rnm de anlml intinortalitate opiniones. et ex quanam origine ductz
711111DLR BACHILORS.."." Quibusnam przcipue artibus recentiores
intiquos ersuperunt 2"
The following gentlemen of Trinity College were yesterday
morning elected Scholars of that Society ;
Cankrein, Cbarlesworth, Tate, Robson, De Morgan, Chatfield,
Cooper, Walford, Talbot, P. South, Dobbs Wordsworth,
Fawcett, Perry, Fltzherbrt, Platt. Westminster Scholars; Ross,
Bailey, Wood.
The following Gentlemen of this University were ordained by!
the Bishop of Bath and Wells, on Baster Sunday :

Mucous—Frederick Vernon Lockwood, B.A. Julius. Hare,
B.A. and Richard She shanks, M A. ofTrinity College; William
F. Chilean, William W. Robinson, William Tiptaft, Borges Lam-
bert, end C. E. Band, B.A. of St. John's College; George Rank-
ing, S.C.L: and F.L. D'Arville, RA. of Christ College; Edward
Patteson, B.A. Queen's College; Charles Paul, B.A. Calla; College;
John Phillips, RA, Sidney Sussex College..
Patens—Charles Lloyd: B.M. Trinity College; William F.
Holt, late Fellow of King • College; Thos. Phillipps, B.A. Jesus
College; 0. E. Ranken, B.A. Corpus Christi College; Bidlake
Bray, B.A. Emmanuel College.