Star.
London, England, 1829-05-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Dublin 1--Waterford 2—Swedenl—
Assam TIM Dar—Dublin
ambush 1— 1— ranee I—Holland 1.
The ruling States, Snow, from Bangor to New York, struck on
the Mutt Rocks, near the Skerries. on Friday, and went down.
)lentos.,
_Mar 44.—Arrived the Kingston, Sale, from Jamaica.
DO NAT ft.....AITIVed the Bootie, from Oporto.
Dim, up 23.. Wind N.R.—Artived the Huotly, from
bemuses; and Mediae. Mordaunt, frost India. Arrived from
London the Resolute fee Halifax; Regalia, Hamilton,
.
for Quebec t and Speculation, for se. Awk.m.
filar IC—Arrived the Eveine, from Alexandria Ganges.
Nelson, from Baltimore ; Charles. Milne, from Tobago; Atlas,
mop, frees Oporto; and Ponsonby, Coniston, from Naha.
Cowes, Slav 24.—Arrived the Perseverance, Scarlett, from Rio
Javelin. Mount. Woolaston, from Havannah ; Weyland, Can,
from Vintiola.
Da amsoorrat, MAT 4L—Arrived the Patin, from Mean.
bah; Clarence, from Messina.
NAT S.—Arrived the Confidence, Woe-
y. from Leghorn ;New Eagle, from Stern Leone.
Femmes'' Mae !!.—Wind variables—Arrived
,lames, from Bahia.
Slav 11.1.—Wind S. to &W.—Arrived the Cape Breton, ---,
from Palermo. Sailed the Sandwich packet, for Lisbon; Countess
tit Chichester packet, for Jamaica, Ike. sad Opossum packet, for
the Leeward Islands.
PIIMIANCE, MAT ft—Arrived the Cameron, Tood, from Ber-
bice ; Henrietta, Williams, from Surinam; George Augustus.
from Buenos Ayres; Hermann, —, from St. Domingo;
Olastie,Sindy, from Trieste • New Times, front Catalonia.
Lavearoox, Slav!!.—Arrived the Collins, Smart, from Battle-
dore; Cognac packet, from Pernambuco; Helena, Cos, from Ft-
gueira ; Atalanta, Scott, front Bahia ; /leery Grattan, from New
Orleans; Unicorn, Maxwell, from Savannah; Zoete, Little, from
Cephalonia; James, iti•Guines. from Lisbon; Brothers, James,
and Fanny. Cowen, from ditto.
Porranuovst, MAT !S.—Wind W N. W.—Arrived the Egrinton
transport, from Corfu—sailed the 6th of March, Malta the 14th,
end Gibraltar she Sth. lastest g spoke on the 15th, in lat. 45.50. N.
long. El. 17. the Scalesby Castle, from London for China. Passed
by, the Ganges. Lloyd, from Calcutta—wiled ltd December, pad
Madras the 16th January. Spoke, on the 14th April, the Admiral
Benbow, of Liverpool. Crawford, front London to Madras and
Calcutta, in lat. 7.40. N. long. 25.40. W. She had been boarded
on tie 11th, in lat. 13. N. long. 26. 45. W. by a schooner under
French colours, with 55 men, Spaniards and Portuguese, and
having *large gun on a swivel; treated the crew and pawengers in
a molt barbarous manner ; killed the steward, one seaman, and
Lieut. Stirling. of the 3d Buffs; wounded Captain Crawford den-
serenely in eight places, the chief mate and one seaman slightly;
to k sway muskets, sitip's colours, navigation books. all the live
stock, Bte but none of the cargo. The Ganges supplied her with
some live stock and other necessaries; also sent a Medical Gen-
tleman on board, who examined Captain Crawford's wounds, and
considered him out of danger. Passed by, the Hutchinson, for
Demerara. Sailed the Norfolk, Greig, for New South Wales;
and Neptune, for Madras.
PROM Till HAIIP3HIIII TELEGRAPH. HAT 23.
Thursday tre Brisk,. 10, Commander T. Smiths and
yesterday the Philoniel, 10, Commander Hawes, arrived
at Spithead from the Mediterranean. The latter vessel
sailed hum Malta on the 13th ult. By these vessels
we learn that Count Heyden, with the Russian aqua.
dron, is progressively extending his blockade of the
Alussulman's dominions, ostensibly to prevent supplies
of provisions reaching Constantinople, and to cut off
communication between Egypt and Candi.. The latter
seriously Hines our cotton trade from the Nile, and the
former is a considerable annoy ante to our Levant %lade.
The Russians have very vet ently declared the whole of
the coast between the Gulf of Saros and the Gulf n f
Contessa to be included in the Dardanelles blockade.
This comprehends all the sea side of Rumelia ; and
Admiral Ricurd, consequently, had sent away some
lonian vessels laden with rice, bound to Enos. Info?.
relation had arrived at Sniyrna of the Russian Black Sea
squadron having landed 5,000 troops at Siziboli, a tows
and fortress on the south point of the Gulf of Bourgm.
The town they had destroyed; the fortress still re.
malted in their possession, as well as two small islands
which secure the anchorage; and the fleet had proceeded
tri Varna and Odessa for additional traps. The Greets
also were pushing forward very successfully. Admiral
Maul's having taken .the Castle of Leparoo. end'
..46enerni Church the fortress of Vonitza, in the-Gulf of
. Arta.. On thepthei hand, it was ufficially known that
the Porte was making extraordinary efforts to meet the
exigencies of the approaching campaign, and there is
no probability of the renewal of hostilities being avoided.
. It is expected the Sultan will proceed to Adrianopl.r.
previously 'Wring the fortresses, and acquainting him-
self with the nature of his resources at the Dardanelles.
Though the public are seduced to feed on bad bread
and scanty supplies, abundance of every thing is re-
served for the troops, which has greatly added to their
lumbers. They are now receiving from every side the
necessary supplies of corn; so that in a very 'host time
the object of the blockade of the Dardanelles will be
entirely defeated, if we except the distress it occasioned
amongst the Christian population. The Turkish fleet
had gone up near the mouth of theffisphor us, coosotine
of five ships of the line, tour frigates, and four or five
small vessels; rind to inctease this force, 1.100 seams
had lmely reached Constantinople from Alexandria.
When thePhilomel left Malta there was one Russian lire'
of b. t le strip and two frigates refitting in great haste to
join the main body of their squads on in the Arciapel
*there was r.o: much familiarity observed between the
squadron.. Theßussians were in constant di cad of Sit P.
Males,ittio receiving orders to raise all their blockade..
Sir Pulteney hiniseU was about to quit Malta, no a short cruise,
with the Asia, hpattiate, Windsor Castle, and Wellesley. The Re-
venge was at Naples, in attendance upon our Ambassador; and
the Ocean was at Smyrna. The Philomel landed at Marseilles
Lord Edward Russell, lion Cul. Bathurst, lion. A. W. Ashley
Cooper, M.P. and Captain W. B. Hamilton. Col. Fitsclarence
sad the Oaken of the 7th Fowlers-a had made the garrison very
gay by a splendid fate, given on the presentation to the regiment
of a new pair of colours. emblazoned with records of all its heroic
achievements. The Brisk is conic into harbour to be paid of/.
, The Pallas, 41, Capt.. Fitsciarence, arrived on Wednesday from
Plymouth. She will take out Lord Dalhousie, the Commander.in.
Chief of the Forces in India, who will be ready to embark by the
end of June.

the Aletdes,

At. Szisbead—Briton, Galatea, Pallas, Hormel, Procris. and
Plumper. In the Harbour—Victory, Melville, Athol, Herald,
Favourite, and Brisk.
The Amty transport, lieutenant C. M. Chapman, agent, sailed
so-day with deuiehmeots of the sSth and Szi Regiments, for the
Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius. She will call at Plymouth, to
embark also detachments of the Stith sod !DA Regiments.
The Joseph Green transport, Lieut. J. A. Robinson, agent, sailed
yesterday with detachments of the 524,1115 t, and the Rifle Brigade,
fur Halifax. She will touch at Plymouth, and (or the same dyed-
station will embark a detachment of the Pith Regiment.
. The ship Norfolk, with 900 male convicts on board, sailed this
morning for New South Wales.
111.711 THU DKVONPOIIT TZLISORAPIIt MAT 23.
The Irish squadron, under Rear Admiral Sir Charles Paget, 'on
board the Pesti, with the Pylides, Orestes, Nimrod, and Dispatch,
have proceeded on a cruise of observation.
Commander the Hon. Wm, Wellesley, of the Wasp, 111, 11 pro-
moted to the rack of Captain.
Lieut. R. Meow& (1$21) is appointed to command the Opossum
(19) packet.
Midshipmen who passed their examination for Lieutenants prior
to 1827 are now, we hear, eligible for Admiralty appolutnsents.
It is currently d, that after the term of the present Com-
mander in Chief at Jamaica expires the Windward and Leeward
Islands will he separate commands. A Flag facer will have the
Jame aica. and a Commodore the Barbados" station.
A fang of ellipiteepers from the Ordinary at this port proceeded
to Milford yesterday, for the purpose of bringing the Lightning, a
new is gun sloop, from thence to this port. The Hamease, Dock
Yard lighter, will. atter leaving the above men at Milford, proceed
sa !Ave:pool with laziretto moorings, Ste.

A sleet noml•er of applications have been filed with
the nobs of the Peace for the county of Dublin, and also for the
county Meath, from penes& intending to register their freeholds.
pursuant to the tOth of his present Majesty. They are most .Eto
sod 410 freeholds. The number of makes fur Wicklow are 671.
For Kildare only 79.

INQUEST ON THE SUFFERERS AT THELATE

FIRE.

An loque.t on the bodies of five of the sufferer io
the late calamitous fire that took plgce on Thursday
night was held on Saturday at St. Geotge's workhouse.
The Jury having been sworn, proceeded to tike a view
of the remains which had been dug out of the ruins, and
which presented the usual melancholy appearance.

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On their return several witnesses were examined. and
from their testimony it appeared. that the fife was first
discovered about ten minutes before midnight. at
which time ti.e flame was perceived through the shop
Shutt rs of the house, which belonged to a furniture
broker, of the name of Pick. The names of the in-
mates of the house were—Mr. and Mrs. Pick, and a
child that Mrs. Pick had had by a former marriage, of
the name of Mary Ann Clinch; Mrs. Gregory and her
infer t, about three months old, and her sister, whose
name was Eliza Robbenet. There was also the errand
boy, of the name of John Field, all of whom are sup-
posed to have been burned, although the bodies of the
list five only have as yet been discovered. A man of
the name it Cook, who is the private watchman of St.
George's Market, was among the first on the spot after
the fire broke out. A woman told him of it out of a
window in the merket.'and he immediately ran to the,
horse; just as be got there he found two or three per-
sons eagerly engaged in breaking down the shop
shutters, in the hope of being able to save the furni-
ture; but finding that he could be of little use there,
he act rou:id to the back of the premises, and as-
sisted by two or three young men, he silo seeded in
detaching a platform from the premises, by which the
fire was pre vented from extending itself to some work-
shops. This witness appeared to think that the re-
gular watchman of the beat had been very remiss, for
although his watch•box was not above half a dozen
yards from Mr. Pick's house. he did not make his ap-
pearance fur ten minutes after the fire was discovered.
Those who were engaged in removing the shutters of
the shop soon succeeded in their attempt ; but though
this was the means of saving a little of the furniture,
the Coroner strongly deprecated the course pursued, as
it was necessarily the means of admitting a strong
draught of air to the flames, and adding a vigour to
the fire which before was wanting. In his opinion.
had every thing been kept closed, and the inmates
th 'roughly alarmed, they might have contrived to
make their escape; but as soon as the under part of
the house was once thrown open to the air, the stair-
caw acted as if it were a chimney, and the whole of the
fire and the smoke issued up it with such violence as
effectually to prevent any escape that way. Shortly
alter the first alarm of fire was given, a woman wi h
an infant in her arms was seen standing at the second
floor window, as if for help; but no sooner were the
shutters removed than the smoke mounted upwards in
such volumes that she was no longer able to retain her
situation. The next door neighbour, Mr. Sewed. find
ing that all hope of escape that way was lost, ascended
to the trap door at the roof of his own house, to see it
any assistance could be rendered them. He had not
been many minutes there before Mr. Pick made his
appearance from the trap door of his house, with no
other garment on than bissahirt,and with some difficulty
was assisted into Mr. Smeed's parlour. All the witnesses
a ho saw the unfottunate man agreed in describing him
to have been in an almost distracted state, and so highly
agitated that he appeared quite unable to understand,
what he was about.
The e facts having appeared in evidence, Mr. Pick
was called upon by the Coroner to state what he knew
of the melancholy transactions. Mr. Pick, in obedience
to this call, stated, that he had spent a portion of the
evening previous to the fire at the Princess of Wales, a
public-house near his own residence, and that at a
quarter before eleven he 'owned home. He and his
wit.- had a broiled mackerel for supper, which was
cooked and eaten in the back parlour, and then, having
taked out the fire, they re lied to test—probably about
20 minutes past 11. He could hardly tII whether he
had been asleep or not, when he was roused by the
cry of " fire," un which he threw up the s indow,
and saw that the persons beneath had succeeded
in removing one of the shutters; on this he roused
his wife and the lodgers in the nest room, and they
endeay. wed to make their escape down stairs, but
miter descending a stair or two, they found the pro.
gress that way was impracticable; the witness then be-
came so confounded with alarm and agitation. that
he could scarcely tell what subsequently took place;
as far as he remembered, he got a chair from his
bedroom, and by that means made his escape through
the II ip-inne and down the nest house, as described
by Mr. Smeed. He bad no doubt if the shutters of
IMe shop had not been so suddenly removed, they
might all have been able to make theo escape, fur
they had only to descend about eight or tea steps to
get to the platform which led to his workshoo ; the
smoke, however, was so overpowering, that, as he had
stated b tore, they were obliged to return..atter having
descending a stair or two. He did not know whether
the house was insured, bet he had insured his fur-
niture and goods in the Hand-in-Hand Assurances
Offices for SOUL

The father of Mrs. Pick appeared to think that there
was souse co f psis u about the time that elapsed between
Mr. Pick's return home and she breaking nut of she fire.
Mr. Pick had told him on the morning alter the fire,
that he did not worn home till a groaner after eleven.
and he cet tainly thought that bons a quarter after eleven
till ten mina es to twelve (the hou. at which all agreed
the fire ass first di.envered) was a very ►hort time lot a
mackerel to be cooked and eaten, a pot of beer to be
drunk, Mr. and Mrs. Pick to go to bed and be asleep,
especially as the fire must have been smouldering ter
some time bef ire it was discovered.

Mr. Pick denied that he bad said that it was a quarter
after 11 that he returned home; it was a quarter before
11, and be could bring a witness to rove it; neither
had he said that he had been sleep; be had told the
Coroner that he could not be sure on that point, as be
had been roused so abruptly, and so alarmed and con-
fused since.

A tradesn.an, and relative of Mr. Pick,who had spent
the evening with him at the Princess of Wales, stated
that he lat Mr. Pick at his own door at a quarter be.
tore 11 ; Mr. Pick was quite sober at the time, and both
he and another, who was with them, drank out of the
pot of gent before Mr. Pick carried it in-doors for his
supper.
In answer to a question trans the Coroner, Mr. Pick
said that he could not form the least idea bow the fire
originated.
The CORONER said that the whole of the evidence
having been gone through, it did not appear that there
was the slight. st ground for insinuating that the fire
was other than accidental; and the Jury, after some
deliberation, returned a verdict accordingly..

CHARLES Knisies benefit the other evening netted
upwuda et 6001.—• just Teemed ter the =mien of great talons.;
LAS: Bald to have reeetved, tactual presents,oesrly 1,5004!
At tbe Kiug's Theatre 'Reprises of admission are, of come, were
then double the Eletiopentan Hosars,espettany on basalt *lnn