Star.
London, England, 1820-11-01 00:00:00

DISSOLUTIONS OF 'PARTNERSHIP&

&epben and Galleniore! New tondon.street, skip-brokers.
Stroud and Hazell, Newbury, druggists, Warner and (land-
ler, Bristsd, chemists. - .

A Court of Aldermen was'yesterday held at Guild-
hall, for the general dispatch of public business.—
Mr. LITTLETON.THOMAS Powts, who recently pur-
chased the Office of one of the four Fruit-meters,
was admitted and sworn into the said Office,—islr.,
NATHAN SoLimon surfendered the Office of one of
'the Jew Brokers, and Mr. AARON Asn G ca. nsm
was admitted in his roorn.—A presentment of sun-
dry non-freemen carrying on their respective trades
in the Parish of-St. Andrew, Holborn, in the Ward
of Farringdon Without, was made, and referred to
the Chamberlain. Sundry Brokers were aik.m4a and
sworn, and several Coal-Undertakers w6te licensed.
COmmissioners to sit hi the Court of Requests far
November were appointed.
The venerable mansion of the Marquis of Beet-
INGHAM, Wootton-house, Buckinghamshire, was al-
most entirely destroyed by fire in' the -morning tf
Mondaylast ; and nothing left remaining but the
bare wails. The flames bor forth from one of the
attics, about two o'clocki in. the morning; And, be-
fore any effectual assistance could be rendered, the
whole interior of the hoUse was 'educed. to a heap CE
ashes ; including the library,. the. pictures, am) almost
the whole of the furniture. Lord and Lady TEMPLE
were residing there, and their infant daughter was
at one time in the utmost danger of falling a prey to
the flames; but his Lordship's fornign valet rushed
through the fire, and brought the child away with-
out injury. Lady TEMPLE and her attendants were
removed to Stowe ; and an express was sent off :t
seven o'clock to the Noble Marquis in town. Lord
TEMPLE was expected in town list nigh;. The fire
was first discovered by Captains Jeftvis and GRACT,
who happened to be on a visit to his Lordship.
Monday evening, Mr. MERRYWEATHEE, of the
Mint, Borongfi, whilst walking in Westminster-road.
was attacked by four men, one knelt on him, thrust
a pocket-handkerchief over his mouth, and in that
position held him till they rifled his pockets of four
Cl notes, a small sum in silver, and a gold watch,
chain, and seals. The ruffians were pursued into
Friar-street, but escaped with their booty.--Some
short time afterwards, a Gentleman, named Gm-
cunisx, residing in Fishmonger-street, Borough-
Market, was hustled by a similar party, as he was
crossing the road near the Obelisk, and lobbed of his
watch and hat,
A few weeks ago, a respectable inhabitant 9f Bir-
mingham having gone to church with his whole fa•
mily, leaving his house locked up, found, on his re,
turn, that it had been opened in his absence, and rob.
bed of plate, cash, &c. to a considerable amount;
and he also found written by the thief, in large chalk
letters upon one of his dining tables, this laconic ad-
monition-4, Watch as well as pray r• • .
AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN Ditamu.-,,,Monday
afternoon; WI CHRISTOPHER SPLIT; Esq. a Russias
merchant, and who had been Colonel of the St.
George's Volunteers, was coming the Stratford
stage from his country seat at Stratford.green, to his
town residence in Spitalfields, he was s,cized with a
violent fit of sneezing and coughing the co:ich
:iris going along the Mile-end-rod, which caused the
rupture of g blood-vessel, and he. died almost i m me-
dia:A:ly after he had, been taken into a surgeon's shop,
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