Star.
London, England, 1810-07-30 00:00:00

DREADFUL FIRE!

resferki timing a m ii.etienthlbs Rre brokti'
out in the **rehouse andlirineftirodue or Mr Go.-1
LETI, Salisbury-square. At :tiVeaty.minutes. after
four o'clock. Mr. Gmatrt.was awoke by a..violeit'
knocking at the street clOor, by a little'boy who had
Obfierved the smoke issuing froth the warehouse. Mr.
Guamrr opened the tern.paii- winild*,'mit waking to
dress himself; .on his 'being informed of the 'cal*.
Miry, he called out f! fire !" and alarmed his faMily,
which consisted of Mrs. Gitterr, his two sons, and
servants. They soon appeared at
.the street-dnor,'
nearly undressed ' • abeurtwelve persons were at that-
time collected in- the square; 'The flames burst out '
from the warehouse with prodigious velocity ; • at
twenty minutes.before Crlir two engines had arrived ;
the firemen havino perceived the flames as they
were returning fru:it a fire at Spital-fields, where
taws houses were burned'. One of the engines was sta-
tioned in Crown-court, and• the other in Water-
lane—they 'passed a hose • through a house .in -
ter-lane, but some time elapsed before any quan-
tity of avatar could be procured-other engines soon
tame pouring in 'heel all quarters. At five
o'clock the rod fell in with a tremendous crash,
and the flames communicated to two houses in
Crown-court ; • to Mr. Swan% printer, in Salisbury-
court; and at 'the back of Mr. G 'lLLerr's, to Mi.
GALL'S, the chemist'. and the late Gosport Bank in
Salisbury-it:n.=4c' The sight becathe now trimly aw-
ful ; . sheets of foliating paper were flying in the
air in all directions. large-sheets' of paper. in a blaze
ascended to a great height, and then took a course
with the wind towards. St. Paul's; same of them
were picked up in Finsbury-square. At half past
five, Alr. GILLETT'S warehouse and printing-office
were nearly consumed ; the-floors had fallen in ; the
noise was immense, from the falling pi the type and
printing materials The engines were now tolerably
well supplied with water : the furniture of the three
adjoining houses in Salisbury-square were thrown out
of the windoWs, and heaped in a pile in the middle
of the square. At six o'clock the fltmes burst ,
forth from the roof of the late Bank ; it being cover-
ed with tile, as the heat operated on them, the tiles
cracked, and many pieces were driven two and three
hundred yards; the heat became intense. At halt
past six the roof fell in, but was stoned on the attic 1,
floor. This gave the engines an opportunity of
playing with realer effect. The roofs of Mr.
Gia..-tr's and Mr. Gai.E's houses were now in flames,
and by seven they fell in. The- engines seemed to
have gut the committal of the tire, there being ten
playing on the three houses at once. Fleet-street ex-
hibited a mess distressing scene ; the inhabitants of
Salisbury and Clem n.courts being chit fly room-
keepers, they had brought their. little furniture into
the street. where they were piled
neseperate 10c.,. The
distress of the t, omen and their children is beyond
description- the Al ighted infants clinging to their
neeheis for that pretection they were so much them-
selves in need oft one poor family consisted of a
widow and two children, their whole furniture did
not appear to be worth £5, and on. it lay a coffin I.
containing the corpse of :t female infant which was to
have been interred yesterday : we are happy however
to state that their little dwellings escaped the contla-1
nation. By eight o'clock the lire was nearly got
under; at one time the whole of the pile of.buildingc
from the Square to Fleet-street was in imminent
danger, as the wind blew in that direction.
Too much credit cannot be given to the firemen of.
-the respective offices for th•ir exertions ; they dis-
played the greatest intrepidity ; one of them had
slot been more than half a minute before the roof of
Mr. Goa.err's house fell in,at the 'attic Wiadow,
giving drections to those conducting the engine a.
Mr. Goa.err and his sons were actively (-willed in
trying to preserve the property and furniture. Mr.
G. did not kayo his house until the roof had fallen
in. It was with the greatest difficulty he Could be
then prevailed on to retire, and assisted from his own
door to that of Mt. Pennies, his Opposite neighbour:'
he appeared quite overcome with trouble and fatigue;
the ouly covering he had. on was his great coat and
night-cap. His warehouse and printing-office areee-
tirely consumed. It is not more than three rats
since they were built, :cud we understand they cost
him 9,000 guim AS. The v::•-le of the printing uten-
sils, his extensive !toot: in trade, and the number of
Valuable bool:s, fini un:inished, belonging to
the booleielleie by whce... he was employed, have also
fallen victims te the destructive element. It is sup:
posed his wardieme contained property to an im-
mense. amount.lli:, dwelling-house has received
coeeiderable ;..jury, the roof and attics are burnt, and
the house is otherwise much injured.. The two ad-
joining houses have suffered equally. The furniturel
of the three must have been greatly deteriorated by,
the haste they were obliged to be removed w:th.—'
\i'e understand the buildings and furniture arc in-'
sured. Mr. SWAN'S dwelling house, in Salisbury-
court, is binned to the ground ; he was not insured,
although about four years ago he was completely
burned cut. His new minting-office has fortunately
escaped. The -Sipper part of two houses in Crown-
court arc consumed, and several others much injored.
Some of the oldest and most experienced firemen
have declared the; never knew so rapid a fire ; the
passages to the place where it is supposed to 'have
originated :lie very confined, and this may account
for its not haying been got under sooner.
• There was a great concourse of people from an
early itour in the morning until late in the evening.
csterday ; and we rejoice in stating, that no accident
took place. It is the general opinion that the fire
originated in the lower part of the warehouse, which
contained publications to a large amount belonging
to Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS.' They are insured, but
nothing near their value. We understand that there
had not been either a fire or a candle in the building.
since the printers left off working by candle-light, on.
March last; and thot Mr. Gua.err, accompanied by
his sons, saw that every thing Was secure before they
retired to bed on Saturday night. It was customary
to leave one of the windows in the lower wareroom
open during the night, for the purpose of drying the
sheets, which has led to the supposition, that some
incendiary had introduced through the open winsfOw
some combustible matter, which communicated to
the paper.
Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS'S monthly numbers
.Of The
Bible and Gregiapna, which were to 'be deliveredaan
the 1 sf Alignst, and were just kished, are amongst

his losses. In the hurty to get dut the property.- a 1
drawer was taken fears Mr. GR.LECT'Iri .sontaining,
plate of 7toflsftlerablei ktiount;: irliftE could not be
&Aced in any of the ielghhnift" last flight. A
fuyss with plc. was aknlaken airhY, lint he recover-
ed it again". Sir Rtcut tae appeared busily empinyed.
in the ndighbmnhond of the fire, picking tip the:partr
of the hooks which were only in part corisninnd.
This cal.rmitF must fall heavily on Mr. Giu.arr,
who met with a similar misfortune only four years
antecedent.

His books and seeompts are buried in the ruins,
and none of the artitles in trade were insured.

Liiv INTELLIGENCE

CARMARTHFSI CIRCUIT.
SAMUEL HEYWOOD Setjeant at Law, Chief ignite.
deem BALGUY, Esq, Sect:lnd/twice.
Carmarthen--hlonday, August v 7.
Hared rdweat—Saturday, September I.
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Cardigan—Friday, September 7.

PALACE COURT, JULY 28.

Au action was bmnght by a person of the name Of
Bevis, against one Day, for the recovery of XS 18s.
the expences of a male child pl iced in the mc of the
plaintiff. The defendant, who is the father; set up
a most dittaceful plea, that he was not married to
t'ic mother, and had not'aing to do with putting out
the child to nurse ; and the mother contended she was
not liable as not having received any thing from the
father to defray the expence of nursing. It appear-
ing, however, by the evidence, that the father and
mother continued tosteside together, the .1017 e, Mr.
Sericant MARSHALL, directed the Jnry to find for the
plamtiff--damages 43 18s. and costs.

COURT OP KING'S BENCH, JULY U.
GARNETT V. DUNKIN.
This was an actieri by which the plaintiff sought tr.
recover a compensation in damages from the de7'.2ii •
dant, for aa assault committed on the Flaietiil by the
defendant on the public Corn Exchange. apeeered,
that the plaintiff and defendant (bath of hom c gen-
tlemen of respectability engaged in the corn trade, and
alsoefficers of Volunteer Cavalry cirps, the dlendant
belonging to the Surrey Ycoma .•.y Cavalry, end the
plaintiff to the London Light I ,orse) had ..words
gether on the Corn Exchange, a certain c' in M:iy
Vast, relative to a proseention :c)mmenced 'lie de-
fendant against a serv:tat '" die plaintiff's but which
the defendant had aband--red. The de' !infant as-
igned as his reason i 4 I persisting in C'e prosece-;
tion, the respect he felt :• r the house of business of
which the plaintiff wr partnet ; and ..e
on the telex hand, all- :•;ed, that he had i,,tea anxicus
that the dcfenilant have procee.; Li the
mine of this alterca• : n, as the evidence I: rite plain-
tiff went to slew, defendant accost the plaintiff'
of asserting a false,- -od, and struck hi . on thefacer,
him ame contemptible felt v ; the plain-
tiff retorted the v..,.rds on the delete: ae, who then
took up a handful of wheat, and thre.: it in the plain-
t ff's face.
The evidence for.* deftindant r .as of a different
nature, and went to prove that the e•-•ginal insult, at
least so far as the lie was given, cana• from the plain-
tiff, The defendant, even after th • words •were fit st
used, called on the plaintiff to repe e. the insult, if he!
held to it, cantioning him, if he did repeat it, deal
he wn'tld chastiae him. The witness .for the defen-
dant, however, did not see the whole of the tr:m-
section ; 1)11,, from what he tiiid see ci it, be considered
the defendant as being the person aggrieved.
Lord ELLENDOROUtifI left the eircan:stances of ag-
gravation, or of alleviation, to be considered of by the
Jury. That an assault had been committed, so that
some damages must be given was not denied. The
question it r the consideration of the Jury was, did
the charge of falsehood originate on the part of the
defendant, or of the plaintiff? according to their
belief of the one or the other, they would give ag-
gravated or mitigated damages.—Verdict for the
plaintiff.—Damages a 650.
I'MVNALL V. NELSON.
This was an action to recover the amount of 48tl1.
barrels of turpentine ; but it was brought to try .a
question of custom at Liverpool. The plaintiff sold
to the deleadant the turpentine, under a seal ran.y that
it was two-thirds soft ; but on its being examined, it
was found that it was only proportioned ‘2Bi herr
soft to 50, and the defendant refused to accept • : it.
It appeared it was customary in Liverpool, that if it
exceeded one-half' soft, to sell it as two-thirds, and
the present action was brought to try the validity of
that custom.
Lord ELLENROROUGH observed, that it could not be
held in law that 2Si were the two-thirds of 50 ; if
they did, it was time to get a new arithmetic and a
new language.—Nontuit.
PARNTIIFR V. GAITWEL.
Mr. Paiute stated that this was an action brought
to recover seBo, under the following circumcances
The defendant was a proprietor of the London Insti-
tution for the Encouragement of Literature. It-was
incorporated by Act of Pailiainent. The defendant
wished to dispose of his shale, and employed a man
of the name of Savage, a clerk to the Institution, to
dispose•of it for him, and kit with him the usual
recommendation, as directed by the laws of th' In-
stitution, leaving a blank for the name of the. pur-
chaser. The plaintiff wishing to become a proprietor,
spoke to Mr. King, a friend of his, to look out for a
share for him ; he applied to Savaire, who filled up
the blank in the recommendation with the plaintiff's
name, and he paid him £BO. The form of the re-
commendation was, viz. " I having disposed of
my share in the Londina Institution for the Encou-
ragement of Literature, I beg leave to recalmmend
to be elected in my place' (Signed)
Directed to the Managers of the Institution.
Savage became a defaulter, and absconded from the,
service of the Institution, and the present action was,
brought i) recover from the defendant the £BO, paid
to Savage, at the plaintiff had never been elected.
Lord Emettsonounst could not. see that the recom-
mendation gave Savegean authority to sell, he was
only the common depository for both parties; for if
the. plaintiff Was never elected, which did' not depend
on the will of the de *Want, he *could nor be entitled
to receive the pnrclnis • money; he had no objection
to the facts beftiz pt:t in a_ case for the consideration,
of theother Judge ..—Verdlctforshe.defendant—Sub-
jeCt to a case. ' .

COURT OF COMMON PLIAI, JULY 29.
itIL Salt MVO. Jaciramil -Awn OrHaiti• Asstainlis or.
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G6OIMIC ROSS. A lIANIRI:PT. '
This was an action of troves,
brought by the Plain.
tiff, a Knight of the Swedlits Order of the Sword. and
a Lieutenant in the Na,,-y against the 11..reedatitst
, assignees' of his brother, George Ross, a bankrupt, •
for the recovery of £125, the price of a cerantity of
household furniture. purchased bT • Sir John Ross,
under an -extent from the Crown, issued against his
brother's goods ; which furniture had been dot:tined
by the assignees of George Ross, who :obit/lima to
;the. issuing of the extent; had become bankrupt.,...
The fact of the bill of sale having been executed by
the Sheriff to Sir John Rnss, was not atiernpted to he
disproved: the d Bove set 'up was, that the sale was
not a banal& transaction ; as, in poke of feet, xl r
goods•were paid for by a draft on the 11;erse of Brown.
Cobb, and Company, acid s:gne..! 4 *Jobe Rose,"
though it was, in reality, written by Mr. G. Mass,
who had lodged money. Of his Awe ist that bear4,..in
the name .of -his brother, and s mei,: by that means
to conceal h;s property from his credit:es.- ;ec Ca'ct
on the part of the plaintiff, therefere, rested on isis
ability to prove that the account opewd at the house
of Brown and Company, in hi. name, by his brother,
was, in fact, what it purported to be. For this pur-
pose, Thomas Winter; clerk to the bankrupt,' was
I called ; who proved that the draft given for the for.
niture, was signed by Sir John Ross, and that lie had
' taken money for him to the house of Brunet :mei Co.
before the issuing of the extent.
Charles Hunter, diek to Cohh and Co. was also
i examined ; be brought with him the ledger, and the
account of Sir John Ross was gone through, kern by
I item, jar'the purpose of discovering in what notes,
and by whom the daerent smut were paid in. By
this ex:unination it appeared, . that Sir Jolla Ross had
Nad an account with Brown anti Co. which closed
eirut twelve months ego, and was renewed in De-
cember last, so that, bothhefore and.after the tran-
saction in question. phintiff 11:41 a running account,
and a b:1110.2 at the leetse of Cobb and C-'.. Part of
the money, also, which bad bee:a paid in to the at-
enunt of Sir John Ross, seas proved to-have been in
paper, whichhe himself had received from his navy
agent. . .
Mr. Ross, the bankrupt, proved, that he was
empowered; by letter of Atte, fel. ta receive his b:o.
tiler's pay, end the rent of an mete which he had in
1 Piccadiil e : lime his baelertiptcy, be 'tad always. pia.
ccof his brollee's . money to hi.: account only ; they
! lied no mixed accoont, with the exception of three
1 sums,.witich were immtsdiltely withdr:iwn ; the' ma.
ney which paid fur (1);! tilrelittirc Was les brother's
!.the draft was timed by hints 145 reeve.. fir with
strewing his accotra from ;he Bank of l:ngland• was
became a clerk whom he hid discharged was in res.
sessinne'd a nymber of Week acceptances, which he
might fill to any erneitnt ; he also thneght his
money mere safe in his brother's name than-his.
When pressed by Mr. Scrje:int Sii Fib IC: re as to
what safety he :lauded to, he said, after mad, Jiifi.
culty, softy five: atia,-/un.-atr. He also deposed, that
his brother left him ;t number of blank acceptance',
so that be might draw fin alert sums lie pleased.
Ist, was contended, or. the other sir c, tb.t the-whole
story was ton gross to be believed ; for, at the vary
rime it was asserted st:cli numerous sums wereplaciug 11;
in the hands of Brown and Co. belonfr,in7, to .Sir J.
Ross, he had overdrawn his account with his ravy
Agent, and was actually subject to the paYmeut
of interest. aim the moaey so over :turn. The fact
was, as proved by the bankrupt's levers which hid
(fern read. that he d-rected his confidential clink,
the moment he discovered. that a docket was
struck against him, to withdraw his property from
the Sank of England, where his creditors would
tint it, and place it in other hands, under his bro.
tiler's name. The first reason he assignea forevith.
draWing his account from the Bank of England was
a very good one—for changing the battier, but . not
for changing the nano in which the bank account hall
been kept for many years. His second retina was
the true one—he wished to preserve his property from
allacbmne.
The Jury returned a verdict for the Plaintiff; £l2!.
The Trial lasted from ten o'clock iu the martiing
till near three. s . .

Bow-STREET.—C:o.-6-e Curtynt, a messenvr bAang.
ing to the Post`Oilice, WAS bruig7:t up on Smirday,
on a charge of having secreted a 'letter c'n a
..ClOO hank now. The cover of the letter was
on him, and some of the snfill notes he got in et:-
ch.-Inge f,..r the 4100 note. He was committed For
re-zsaminatinn. The prisoner had only been ens.
' •ed in the 011 ire about sit months. .
navid Owen was charged with violently anaultius
• and bca.ing his mother Calherine, of whom he was
' the child by a former hubhand, the wile of J. Swin-
lc7, of Leg-alley; Long-acre. The. prisoner havinte
twee to sea, the Sitting Magistrate sent him on board
tinder.

Satiir.lay, at Union F! ill, R. VaLreire, and T. and
L. e;.:a lizessly, underwent another eraminatir n suit a
cli..rge of having defrauded sever :1 trade-id:en to ele
:Imo.= of £lOO. S,2veril charges were su-
startiated ; but it being iniderszood that
evi wonld be prtidiice4l, they were rent:toiled to
ant •her heal ing.
. J‘htuoti was also examined for I, ving thrown
a g! iss ;mule out of the galiery tut Astl^v's into the
pit, 5y vr;tickalrouth had his lhtad much cut. Ti,e
prisi.ner was permitted to make ccn:pcnsation, and
disel-arged.
J. Kelly and Ann alias Ifusta, tele 6t at f 4-
mArble, and the latter for pkt g•ng artitles •
improlarly OtAined, were committed for trial.
A wealthy farmer, in the vicinity of Vol:. has
been cirnrnitted in the Cistic, on a cli.iNe of assault-
ing a Etarried female in his service, with intent to
violate her person. The proseent:ix was in the fa-
mily V.•y.
There is scarcely an lintel, tavern, inn, coffee, or
public-house, but subscriptions are r.iis:ng to advcn.
tare in'th~ present Lottery; sufficient time is allowed
for the easy accomplishment of those subscriptions, as
fie drawing does not begin until the 19th tit °emirs,
and it will be the only L'ittery drawn this yeAr.—..
HORNSBY and Co. beg leave to notice that the tickets
and sliAres are considerably cheaper, and the chance
)1 obrAining one of the live of A. 21, >is nh,r, I
able to the purchasers than uas ever known. 26, Cons.
bill, anti St. Margaret's Hill, Borough.

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third in **Tv e ;.their principal object appearel the
rizht, whine the Spaniards were posted, but they
were almost immediately checked by the steadiness of
he 'reception they there met with, and a few shot
being Bred_ from our battery ; the other column on
our left scarcely advanced, but fired at a distance ;
finding, probably, our preparations made with more
strength than they imagined, they faced about and
retired, leaving several killed and wounded.
The enemy's force appeared to c.nsist of between
seven and eight hundred men, and I have only to re-
gret that they did not advance neaffitr, for had they
done so, I ant convinced a most complete and entire
destruction of their whole force would have taken

IBrigadier General Porlier detached his sharpshoot-
i•ers tn harass the:r rear ; they succeeded in killing an
Iwounding several, and making some prisoners ; on
the whole conceive the loss of the French in the
f.three..several days, in killed, wounded, and prisoners,
amounts to about one hundred and fifty men.
The whole of the guns, Ikt. in Santona and La-
' redo are destroyed, consisting of twenty-two 24-poun-
: clers, and four 13-inch brass mortars.
On the Bth in the mornng, according to your di-
.