Star.
London, England, 1829-04-29 00:00:00

• FIRE RI ABBEY.

In our Paper of yesterday we gave ao account of an
attempt in destroy that .venerable and beautiful ,truc•
vor, Westminster Abbey. by fire. Vie have obtained
from Oilfesent- sources the following addstiotsal parts-
, culars:—
It was about a quarter past ten on Monday night,
when an alarm was given that use ~,tenor of West min.
Istes Abbey was un fife. .41..M'atio.ley, of the flytt.e
C, ninon', is said to !Lore been the first person who
.obrved an tit:usual 'light in the N.,ith Trausept;
thongh Blackbu•n, a watchnials, as.erts that' be was the
first to notice is, and that he and Stisithianother watch-
man. al •raled the neighbourhood immediately. •
The investsgatii.n which has taken place. has proved
beyond all douht that the event did not originatein et-
esJent. The spot where the fire broke out was so situ
ate. that itwas impossible any accidental circumstai.ce
Isaac set it on fire, as the following description of
the , lace • ill clearly shol.
. .The north-eist transept ss about twenty feet from the
ropt,to which there is abroad place known by the name
otAlie. Nunnery .—s place nut in the habit of being
eidt.:d by urangess, but used for the purpose of keep-
tng,olsilumber In, and at the present time neatly filled,
svolissorne scenery employed in the Westminster plays.
Tras was•the .pot fixed upon by the sacrilegious wretch
*no perpetrated the horrid dee.l, tticonimence his di;
biihcal design, and but for a prompt discovery of the
lire before it had caught the dry wood and other phlo-
gisfic mate: nils contiguous theteto,i4' tenet able ple—
ase noble lane, wheinrest the bones of massy. of the must
illustilous personagesihis country ever produced, would
ire this have been consumed -to ashes. • •
The watchman who first saw the flamesproceeded to
a public•house, the Coath and Horses, in Lille Dean-
street, and alarmed Mt.' Billington, thelandfoid, who
101 niediatelf ran the. house of Mr.. Caster, the Clerk
of the Wanks,- in Dseit's.yard, and informed him that
the interior of the Abbey was in flames. It was thought
advisable to proceedlo the house of Dr. Ireland, toe
Dean of this /Obey; and, though the Doctor was fro*
home, his family rendered every assistance is their
power. An entrance was gained into the Abbey
through the Dean's • house, by Mr. Carter, Mr.
Walmtley, Mr. Oiler, and others. The se ten o'clock
bell-was rang," which alarmed the neighbourhood, and
!he Abbey was soon sits sounded by an immense number
persons. A messenger was dispatched to Bow.street,
tot the Assistance of the police.. A request as also
made at the Hosse Guards for the assistance of the mi.
liter y, and it is elinostunnecessary to say that the utmost
promptitude was displayed by the heads of the civil
and militai y depaitments, to render the necessary aid in
pstraordinas y emergency. Sir 8. Birnie and the
police officers were, immediately' on the spot, and a
cotupany of soldiers very soon made their appearance,
Andpraivesitestthe sacred edifice from being entered by
the mob. We have said that the Dean of Westminster
swas-inthe. country, but every assistance watafforded
honk his house, which is situated in the Cloisters,,and a
supply of water was hit-dished by means of buckets.
Mr. Carter succeeded in opaline the door leading to the vanities
et the edike, and ascended the stairs proximate to the fire. It wa-.I


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them doestreshiod that the streets had aught en•-; and had (Mu ea
the boards, whit* were in a bloat, sod fast common eating with the
ME, Every awoke was used to quench the lames, which tor
setae dose,
_threatened destruction to the builduts. Toe engines
MOO arrived s the [roves, however, were touttor to bring their
leathern pipes to operate with effect. They with muck difficulty •
prevented the further spread of the conflagration, by itsrrying
01 water to the spot. and by their indefatigable exertions,
anteceded id tearing down the screen and thus extinet.i.bing the Are.
George Rose, Esq. Mr. Phillips (late Clerk of the Works), and
several other Gentlemen who thronged to the sane, were most
active in their esertions to subdue the devaluing element, in which
they happily succeeded. Had the alarm been giveu • half an hour
later, the rout of the Abbey must have been entitely burnt, and
probably the greater part of the building.
Mr. Waitaki. of the House of Comment, was passing along
Westminster-bridge, sod Observed a light in one of the windows of
the nonhaeast transept of the Abbey. So-tsunami an eppearstice
Mirk him with astunislinsent, and made him conclude that a Are
bad broken set in the venerable building. He proceeded forthwith
with some friends to Poet's Cotner -sod rang the Abbey bell. He
soon procured admittance, and, attended by .petkons belonging
to the Abbey, hastened to the valet frum whence the Are
proceeded. Engines were immediately sent for, and in
the meantime Mr. Walmsley and those with kin ascended to
the place from whence the Ire issued. They discovered a can% A."
screen, which divides the transept, in wiles. The wood tell. n •
firms the hese ot the screen was entirely cunsented, the flo.n burnt
through. and the Ire had burnt away neatly three inc:ses in depth •
of the large beam which tupports the floor. . •
MI. Hillingion and Mr. Walmsley, in their endeavours to save
the building, nearly 'sainted their lives. In tbeir" hurry di gain
the plate where the Ire broke out, they bad .reschol :be upper
soakings • and hie, Billington, not being aware there was no guard
beim hint, stepped his foot ever, and narrowly escaped being pre- •
elpitated en the loot; a distance of nearly.4llo beet.
The building having been;saved, the greatest anxiety was mania
teloaa, ano every memo were adopted to dioneer the cause 0' the
lire: That it meld not be, by accident was evident at sites—the • • ••
height aid nentoteness of the 'place—the deface!' y of acceso—die
infrequenc'y of persons *visiting it—and, &tote all. the pendia
Aeneas atbil'epot fix the porpoise of deoroying the buil dog by
fire, showed that it must have been the work al •some itscrodi ry
well acquainted with the interior of the Abbey. and with this place
in particular. After a minute search the marks of footsteps were
.discovered frnm the place to [leery the Sevensh's Chloe', and a
door was found open, tbrough which the iiimituirry must 6..ve
made hit escape.
The alarm which the Ire created was very great. Several din.
tingutalted person. hastened to the spot. Mr Peel seas atitutist
' the number; and Dr. Godson, one of the .Prebends, Was most
Native (tom the commencement. •
Early yesterday morning. the Magistrates' of Queen square
PANdoolliso to the. Abbey, and with the assistance of
she ybYkea srs and Gentlemen connected with the Abbey,
they inapect be place. It • was discovered that a dam near
Phst's Cormier. leading' into the Abbey, had been opened appa•
mostly with-picklock keys, and tie prima of loot.teps were also
legibly traced in a passage leading in Poet's Coma, which had
been recently. made. The spies of the dines must have been fed of
Winans from the mots. Alter the Alagistrete. completed
Side time. at the Abbey, they directed that several 111 the Preben.
isisti the workmen, and others vivisected with the building, .auuid
spar before them at (,baeen square Pollee-office, that a "gens
haquiry 'devoid be gone into.
•• INVESTIGATION AT QURRN.SQII ARE OFFICE.
Yesterday &lineman. at four o'clock., after the mamal businees of
ibe Office bad been disposed of, an investigation took place before
Miners. White Gregor'', and Marriott, she Nigi.tiatts at this
!lice,Dr. Csten, Mr. Allen. and Mr. Edward, Lorre of the
Prebendaries of the Cathedral. to inquire into the mysterious en-
cemstances attending the late attempted emigration of West-
minster Abbey. Dr. !Maud. the Dean of Weoindisrer, who was
in the country, had been sent for, but be did out arrive in time to
attend the examination. •

number of watchmen employed about the beffiling were in at-
tendance the whole of the day, to be reamined. Mr. Ilellicomb,
the Sacrist ; Mr. Carter, the Clerk of the Winki, and several other
Gentlemen, were alestresent, and also the Shined Irons the dif-
ferent Gees. Two Jtabans, .who ante employed in modelling
part of the building, Mere also directed to attend.
Mr. Ceetlngbam, the architect, exhibited drawings to the Magis-
trates, explaining the intricacy of the different pa.-ages of the edi-
fice, principally_ those abets' the balding econoected with Poei's
Corner, which he explained, an from 'the Oros it %eax fully believed
that the pray wateattesuited.to **troy the edifice was well ac-
quainted with eke interior.. .0d with the various ways.sed. p.u„).-,es
by which an escape copisl he:effected atter the tire 1...44 ~ten ,
• Mr. Holtkomb and Mr. Carter-detailed to the IlaAnntates the
hour* at which the workmen were &donned to the Motor, -.1;„„
bum nine o'clock In tire mottling until six o'clock in the eV;,. p ,
when all the gates were made securely tiwr..ausl the keys s.de.y de-
posited with the proper penes!. • •
The two halloo neadeSert and a labourer, who were the obly
•persons employed to that part
.of the building where the tar oc-
cutriql, were next •clOsely 'examined, but nothing ritaterit+.4ras
elicited to criminate any one. A number of winktorn weir %Nis
(mandated, who had been lot a erinaiderable, time employed abut
the Abbey, but on the day of the fire it was proved they were en-
gaged at a bowie in the !Artie Clusters.
It appeared, bleu, that a..y person who h,l got accesetn the Abbey
would hod no dilbcultritt piektug the locks in King Henry. tote
Seventh's Chapel. from their altrpk .entistruction ai.d de•r. titre
state. It is supposed they are upward. to tau hundr.al year
old, and, from their appearance, they seem to have been picked,
particularly the loch of the dour where it is supposed the entretce
was gained. Ordieshave 'since been given tor new locks to be put
on the dour of both aisles of Henry the Seventh's Chapel.
Mr. Carter stated, in reply to some questions by the atagistritee,
that the men who wale employed niodellhig were not permitted
en say occasion 10 have the use tK fire or caddie.
It having been stated, in the cowrie of tie:, xeutinat lon. that foot-
marks were peseetirabits in the pastage, near a 4.«, r wit, re it 1. or.
rased the incendligis must bore entered, the .tact, (wilts indented
with rough bob•nailseitsrmarlis of iron-sland shoe., the dimes tit mow
et the workmen were inspected, but did aloe exhibit similar marks.
: One of the witnesses depo-ed to limbo" a wee of h-ati, nearly •
hula hundred weight, near the doer at Poet's Corner, Mbk at
sopposed. bad been taken from some park of the Abbey.l .
• Mr. Coctinehant..the architect' of Watrrloo.ro.d, being engaged
to erect 2 new College at the• Oxford University, had tet Abed
leave from the Authorities of the Cathedral rut his men to thole
Omer east, from.tai-cutious and tare mouldings and enthicam.io
Ityr-slip Chapel, part of King Henry the fireenth's Chap. I. to
which ids men bad been employed saline time; and iiMP in : • sing
Models of different devises io Wesnuinwei.hall for the sent: w ia.
After the examination had concluded, the witnesses were -11
dismissed by the Magistrates; but it la and. retold :tombs:risotto' y
Will take place during:dm wee*.

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• Anati.-41. ' *1
Jonathan Mardi liar mot stony fot*lelitint this city, by
order of Ins
.lidassornoto in* Criminal Asylum, Lupton; -
there to awaiahls ,144/nrres farther '

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The Marquis ames*Camn has received imnerative
OFllerg to rut ere Steel' with the Pelee QUX.II• .0011111 PriciestLta
has kit this coautry, for Frame, whore he will ItiOe'lls iprivate
iodividag.
Thur%day the Jiuke and Duchess of ATUOLL arrived
at Duakeld House. buil Loaded.
Madame CAToLo writes Oa for three perfOrriances
at the Cork Theatre. 'kW three or four slap each tilibt. Nit
Kern bad SOL s.aight for his hiteutigageowpt tbrit%
Mr Hyarr. *ho.has-Innie heel, uhvi 14 united the
Doke of Nearoues *ember fur Honham; last sight vacated Ida
seat for the plat's. .11b said that dna hi to make way tor Lord
Somme. or some Cithaik Member.
We regret to 014 General Sir HillitY FAME is
danterously 11l of Wet, at the Royal Hotel. St. Jausees.eireet.
The burplus fueuill,4ool.) 4 the figitlanit Yegyromoy.
Caviar, has been gluelike the &ainfordsod Rutland hammy. •
A Waitron LOAM; lISSOCIATID ST MS. N. M. AOTN-
pcintsou bemoom.—The 1141flearly Divides* so the it Leas
falling due On Farrar, • else let of May, will be' raid du that sod
every succeediog day 101kedays 4pm:opted). betemt Abe hours of
Teo and Two. by Mfr. N. M. Rovstacsui." Nett mot% St,
Switliites.lane. The Midead Wartime, with si her Upervot iw "
putsserical order, must heists three days previous for egaairusdoo.
Piloted forme to be perviously called for., 7• • . .

COR*II7LCH A NOE; N a int. Liam
Our market was emesdloilt• dell this merni
sales have Befit 'greeted; a few
fl ivemn of ,1103 W
Ismholibriki
obtained bleedaja price.. • asibmos le ulna!
state, bat sot lower. Oats swage paassies. J. •
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~ • sruessamewiilime .—ram -411-- • .
Wheat le Railkb 01'4 1,01
-► .. 0 ode ii ." . 400
bb • ---- Oates . . -• . ; IPSO
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• - Peablips- "•
ISO ' it 4)04
alliff, lesibb . . 1,030 ..,, . . O3O
Irib
, COAL MARKET—T ?aw r gatoies. :__ _.' 4.
la 000.0pleliCe of the late *Apterous wv4Oati Eat a alligipajirw '
AO eas at market toolay. Tbe total of arrivals aeries Ste wad;
is enil:11:1 ships. Mr better tort of Coat were in gobJ drpmwd;
Wallsend Coals . • :..Sill WM CJ. S4s. 04 •
Other sects . . 465. Od. Sge. Od.
1 Sidra at Market 44.

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Ciosion as that which the Master of the lif.ollibad (Ira,

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• *lcor of a Mr. Cuthbert. a Gentleman who had resided
. for
many years in .India. 'gaunt the defendant, the
/*rector of a. Mr. Hollings, late resident at Calcutta,
' and who had been employed, as Mr. Cinhbert's agent,
to meover, a slim of 30 0001. That aum was the pro,
• duce of certain cargoes of indigo and cotton which bad
• been remitted to England by Mr. Bolling!, to the
tare of Mesas. Porcher, Redhead, and Co. who bad'
been directed by him to invest the cash which they
should realise by its.sale in the porchaseof a sues of
• 50.0001; in the name if Mr. Cuthbert. Mr. Cuthbert
comet-4n/ afterwards embaiked on his voyage to Ear
land; the ship in which be sailed was, however. wrecked,
and every person on board perished. Mr. Hollings was
;dui since dead, so that of positive evidence; from the
only quarters in which it would be wholly free from
.colestion or doubt, there Was now none. The executor
.ot •Mr..Hollings resisted' the payment on the ground
that. the rum claimed was in fact Mr. Hollings's, and
sought•to ezrlahrthe circumstance of his having di:
tected 'an investment in Mt.Cuthlrert's name. by stating
that it was a loan from that Gentleman to Mr. Hollings.
. This, then, was the. question at isiee,.-and4betrath could
only be ascertained by means of the ledersrivhith had
passed between the parties. Hii Lordship then went
• thtough a series of correspoodence relininigto the trans.
• 'Cciiont between Mr. Cuthbert and Mr. Hollings, the
revolt of which was. that belled come to the same con-

'was cleanly of opinion-Irbis Mr. Hollings's own
stistement. that he hid no interest in the subi, 6.4 it be-
longed entirely to Mr. Cuthbert, as whose agent alone
Ale+ ad been employed.
••• Mr..•Hoatis said, the Master of the Rolls had er-
• . coesrisusly allowed a larger uses for interest than was du
.hc; Loan CHA NCELLOR said, he had considered that
• Mint also, and. was of opinion that the Master of the
• Ri/lis was quite right, and that his judgment ought not
disturbed. His Lordship said, he bid received
Rittet.firiiiisonie OF the parties,•stating that the,
.1i10.4.be ruinous. to them, if the judgment were con-
:- •!iirmed.* He hoped.that such a abuse would not be re-
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.. /*aced. • •kle one could doubt that it was highly repre-
. ....liensiblet and after the labour and attention which had
• been bestowed on the case at the bar and by his Lord-
' *hips if. was quite to necessary.--*The appeal was
• 'l),hseti With vim.

. IN RE MITCHELL.
LORDSHIP said, that after considering this matter
• very profoundly. he thought he could not .grant the
• Commatino 'of Lunacy which had Weft applied foi. He
bad bawd the matter in private, at the requeit of the
per irs, which he thought they had been quite right in
making. and the same reasons which had induced him
*, to foim this opinion, prevented hint from stating the
,a giound• on which hebad come to his present conclusion.
1$ RE ca.sativr.

In this minter also his LORDSHIP said he bid deter
-mined not to grant the commission. An affidavit bad
, b4en *made* by a MedicalVentleman. which -was °won-
tr adic.ed on !heather side, respecting the state of M
Silent's !match, horn which hit. Latdship was induced to
• • !te4eve that the irritation atterieleipt upon such a pin.
• reeding would of nece•sny have te very prejudicial effect
' :on him; and as competent care was takeout his person
. and his property, he had no 'reason for adopting any
other measnte at present.
CHATSIZI,D v. iliaTaaS.
• • His LoItDOVP said he had intr-ud,d to give judgment.
. wsltas malt-•t , but Was prevented by not having been
. ate to see MAstvr Stephen, who was nut of town, and
Isom whom his Lordship *anted some information.
nattver V. MAUDSLAT. .
Mr. Holum nuwed to :dissolve an injunction which
• • -the plaintiff. Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, had obtained
in this cause The plaintiff had purchased-at the Aura
tion Mart two post obit bonds for. L6o6l,and 7001. ere.
• anted by Richard Leigh, payable on the death of his
father Thomas Leigh. After the pdrchase, and when
there,was a considerable arrear of interest doe on the
bonds, the Mess's. Leigh entered into certain deeds, by
which the son, who was tenant in tail, was to receive
an annuity of %OM. per annum, -and the entailed
estates were conveyed to trustees, to laise the annuity,
and a (smiler sum of 5,0001. with, a power of applying
• the annuity for the maintenance a the wife and family
of Mr. Leigh, jen. Mr. Harvey disputed the validity,
of this conveyance, and had obtained an injunction as
restrain the trustees (tom applying the money, on the
gipund that the conveyance.being voluntary, was fraa-
dulent against creditors, of whom,'by reason of his pm.
•-•Chise,..he was one.
• • Mr. PRISTOR, Mr. TINKER, and Mr. KSIOHT, were
heird on the same side with .Mr. {loans; but the case
vels'rint concluded when the Court rose.
• ..COURT OF RING'S sown, Warrp,ana. Aram 2s.
Adjourned &Mewl Hlsi Priv', in 34141;11e4eir.after Hilary Tern,
before 9'a **taunt arl4 COMMIIII Juries.

•• • • THIS &IVO V. WILLIAM *MOWN&
This waists indictment tor. wiltel and corrupt perjury.
The defendant was for snarly a banker at Bristol. In
Jape last, a cause rit •el Carpenter v. Jones end tuber."
, • aline on tet..ttialln rigs Court, and on that occasion the
&fend-ant eanisernewind velentarile as a witness on the
part of the plaintiff, fur the purpose of impeaching the
.*: character of aisitness of the name of Staffoid, who
• bad been examined oo bib& ref the defendants. On
thit -occasion. the present defendant, Brain, in bib
cross-claarhittatton, sworeAst be bed bad no comneutii•
cation with the plaintiff Carpenter on the subject of
.the action. This was the statement en which the all.
• Posed perjury was assigned. To prove its fal,rhood, a
person of the name of Phillips was called. He stated
.- 'that he bad been subpenised-as a witness in the cause of
• 41 Carpenter v. Jones, and that the evening before the
• trial Iss was at the Mara Tavern, in blitraeotat. Vseet-•
• *WHOP corapany,with the plaisstiffeapester,blr
I son bin artovaityvand the resent defersdent Browne;
that there arta setenverratinn en the subject of the cause,
sod partleiderly respecting Mr. Staffed, who had bees
'Made a defendant jointly with Ir. Jones and enticing
laws; that Browse remained at Use tamw shoat as
inert and that on his leasing witness said to him—H I
. ispasse.:oo AO see yes at Westminster to-morrow 7'
.• tositriride Bowline replied. ge Certainly," and then took
_ • tds *venue, • The witness palms stated, that a day
rtriskSt ;be ilk' the defeadaat BrOWEse called sibs
Mitre taunts, and in averse ef conversation with
him,. the -witness expressed his surprise that Browweitad
Sttlars• that Mr, etOraftl Was nut a person to be bre.
s-104ed .
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, `fit Stafford
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that the witness then asked Browne whether
have vein apaimit.filtafford's character itmok
eitcoovatioor Jit *afford haring gent.dowaiti
t ad a *item against hinr,ind that4towces
:Imitation, replied that he should sot. Two
witnesses, one of whom was the tOpteatice of Mr.
- were called to corroborate this testimony.
gave a somewhat different account of what
Oct at-the Mitre Tavern the evening before the
trial. The waiter u the Mitre Tavern arid another
witness were ceded to speak' to some minor points; but,
there being no other witness to negative the allegation
on which the perjury was assigned,
Lord TNNTRIDRIf told the Jury that they must acquit
the defendant. There was a good deal of seipicion
attached to the case, and indeed the fact sworn to by
',the defendant had been distinctly negatived by the wit.
'nets Phillips; but to convict a party of the crime of
,perjury, there must be at least two witnesses to prove
that what he had sworn was false.
-The deferidatit Was then acquitted.

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,matteistatt •st. RASKIN.
filistrntoiditti gave judgment in this ease, which was Carpenter,
an appeal from a dbcision pronounced by the of -butl'ej IF
-' the Roll.. 'T.e bill was filed by the plaintiff, as thveitt- t°° Pii"
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