Star.
London, England, 1820-10-16 00:00:00

DREADFUL FIRE.

•
Wednesday night, a dreadful fire broke out in
North-street, York, by which the corn-mill of Messrs.
L. and J. SIMPSON, in which it originated, was con-
sumed, and property to the amount of seven or £BOOO
was destroyed ; to aggravate this calamity, the gable
end of the building, which had been suffered to stand
when the mill was reduced to ruins, fell with a dread-
ful crash about noon on Thursday, and buried a num-
ber of persons in the ruins. A youth, the son of Mr.
WALKER, plumber and glazier, was killed upon the
spot ; and a fine girl, the daughter of Mr. DAI,Tott
butcher, had her skull so dreadfully fractured, that she
died soon after: from 15 to 20 other persons have
been hurt, some of them dangerously, but the above
are the only persons to whom this melancholy acci-
dent has yet proved fatal.

The Address to her MAJESTY. from Southampton
finally closed on Saturday evening with 3,000 signa-
tures. The deputation proceed to Brandenburgh
House on Wednesday next.
The folloiving is her MAJESTY'S gracious Answer
to the Address from the Inhabitants of Croydon :

" I have been much gratified by the loyal and affectionate
Address from the Inhabitants of the Parish of Croydon, in the

County of Surrey.
" It is not possible for the dint sight of man to penetrate fat
into the dark immensity of the moral world; but still there is
light enough upon the confines of that awful vast, to teach us a
few simple but salutary truths. Our limited experience and con-
fined observation are sufficient to prove that evil is often one of
the means of good, and that the seeds of misfortune
,often throw
up a harvest of happiness. My life will furnish numerous in-
stances of a moral retribution; and will, at the same timeorove
that there is more native strength in unprotected innocence, than

in the most systematic falsehood or the best fabricated perjury !
" In the conspiracy against me in 1806, there was no want of
well-contrived circumstantial particulars, which were formed
into a very plausible story ; nor did the tale want the support of
witnesses who had no scrupulosity about an oath; but the whole
fabric was no sooner touched by the wand of truth than it dis-

solved into empty air. The present conspiracy, in like manner,
is demonstrated to have been the deliberate contrivance of false..
hood and malevolence.

Where a country has been long governed for the benefit of
a few, it is not surprising that the people should be clamorous
for such an extension of political rights as may enable them
t check that corrupt influence which, while it lasts will
mare or less paralyze the moral energies of those within the
sphere of its agency, and finally sap the very vitals of the
Constitution. All political institutions, like the material
fabrics of man, are composed of perishable elements. They con-
tain in themselves the principles of decay, of which the agency,
unless scrupulously watched and carefully retarded, is never
But how few Governments ever see the necessity of early refor-
mation ! Hence they delay reform till it is too late—or too late
to be beneficial They either never intend a remedy, or they
procrastinate the application till it is applied in vain."
' Mr. EVERY, a respectable brewer, in the Borough,
was robbed on Thudday evening of a geld watch
and seals, facing St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, by
a slender youth, about seventeen years of age, dressed
in a blue coat, who ran against him, pulled his watch
out of his pocket, ran up Union-court, and escaped.
About seven o'clock on Wednesday 'evening, as
Mr. THOMAS BURN, of Kirby-street, Hatton-garden,
sv?s walking along Searle-street, Lincoln's-Inn-fields,
he was hustled by a large gang of thieves, and rob-
bed of his gold watch, chain, and seals.
Friday, as F. Kinnair, a drayman, was driving
along Red Lion-street, Borough, the wheels'became
entangled in those of a coal-waggon, and on his en-
deavouring to disengage them, the horses backed
suddenly, when he was jammed between the dray and
a house, and killed. Verdict, Accidental Death.
Mr. Woon, a respectable clerk in the employ of
Mr. Gossacit, of Hull, was going from Newark to
Retford in the night of Friday se'nnight, on the box
of the Ilighflyer coach, when the horses taking fright
at some cattle lying on the road, the sudden motion
threw him from the box, and produced so severea con-
cussion on the brain as to prove fatal on Wednesday.
A few evenings since, a canvass parcel, containing
two bars of gold, weighing 1994 ounces, value L7OOO,
was stolen from one of the Dover coaches, on its way
from London to Dover.

Saturday morning, a most daring robbery and burglary was
perpetrated at the house of Mrs. Willis, jeweller and silversmith,
Bishopsgate-street Without, the particulars of which are of a very
singular nature : Mrs. Willis, who is a widow lady, slept on the
second floor, and retired to rest about twelve o'clock on Friday
night, leaving the house securely fastened; Miss Caroline Willis,
about 20 years of age, slept in a bureau bedstead in the shop,.
Between three and four o'clock ea Saturday morning she was
awoke by a noise, and on her raising herself in bed, to ascertain
from whence it proceeded, she perceiied two fellows standing
behind the counter, one of them held a dark lantern in his hand,
whilst thi other was filling a large bag with plate, trinkets, and
other valuables, which he was taking from the indow. The
villains then forced open a drawer, filled with plate, which by
some accident they let fall ; one of them exclaimed. " By J—e
we are discovered !" and instantly made towards the door, which
kids into Catharine Wheel-alley, taking with them the bag, con-
taining their valuable plunder. Miss Willis instantly jumped out
of bed, and seized one of the robbers by the skirt of the coat,
but he forced himself from her hold, and both ran off. Miss
Willis instantly shut the street door •' and in her night clothes,
without either shoes or stockings, pursued the vitiates, crying
aloud, " Stop thief ! Murder!" &c. through different courts and
alleys, into Spitzl-square, where she lost all trace of them. The
shutting of the door alarmed Mrs. Willis and the shopman, who
ran down stairs in a state of nudity. Mrs. Willis flew towards
her daughter's bed, and on finding that she was gone, and her
dress left behind, she fainted away. A light was procured, when
the robbery was discovered, and Miss Willis was supposed to
have been murdered and carried off by the ruffians. Several per-
sons went in pursuit of them. In about ten minutes after, Misa
Willis returned in a state of exhaustion; to the amazement of her
mother, to whom she relatesl the circumstance and the cause of
her absence. The'pioperty stolen is estimated at /1000.
HUNTINO.-Mr. Mytton's Fox-bounds meet to-morrow, at
Lower Heath; on Thursday, at Prestos Springs; on Saturday,
at Boreatton House; 'on Tuesday, at Lizard; on Thursday, at
Chillington ;on Saturday, at Ran-100 WOod; and on Monday,
at Chillington.-.-Mr. King Sampson's Sussex Fox-hounds com-
menced hunting, for the season last week, ss ken they =ken-
nelled three, one of which broke cover, and made a fine burst.
The Buxton Harriers and Stockport Hounds now hunt the
country round Derby in high style. There are fine fields for
Sportsmen.
Boxsue.—A fight took place, early on Sunday se'nnight, in a
field at the top of Park-row, between two young men of Leeds,
named Steyran and ItAbinson, in which the former was ea much
hurt, that he was taken up in a state of insensibiEty, and clicd
on his way home !—They had been drinking together the pre-
ceding evening, and Steyran was quite Intoxicated. Before he
left the public-house, he had repeatedly challenged any one to
fight him for five shillings; and it was not till ailed much pro-
vocation that Robinsonoke survivor, accepted the Offer.
Coax Exenasma, (kroaat 16.—The supply of Wheat was
rather large this morning front Essex and Kt nt, yet the best runs
from those Counties met ready sale at an advance of from Is, to
2s. per quarter on the prices of last Monday, but the trade was
not ditarer thanon Friday. Fine ganef is full Is. per quarters
and the inferior qualities full 2s. per quarter cheaper, the supply
/toeing much larger than the demand. Oats are Is. per quarter
lower, and heavy sale at that abatement. New Beans are also
Is. per quarter cheaper. In other artickano alteration.
SMITHFIZLD 111AIMIZT, Our. 16.—Beef,'s4s. Od. to 4s. 10d. pet
stone of Bibs. ; Mutton, 4s Od. to Ss. Od. Veal, Ss. Od. to 6s. Od.
Pork, Ss.od. to 66.0 d. Lamb, Os.od. to Os.o4L—Cattle at Market
Beasts, 29.10 ; Calves, t". 00; Sheep and Labs, 19,000 ; Pippin°.
Hay, 3/.los. to It. 43. Clover, St Os. to fIL Os. buew,..lL
to IL 14s.