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that multiplied the risk. Was the grinding-house
alone to be insured, it would be material to know
whether it communicated with other places used as
stores, or for any other pUrpose. This grinding-
house did communicate, in all its stories, with the
other two, by means of iron doors. A description
of the buildings should have been given, and it was
not enough to say that they vtere warehouses, or
sugar-houses. The defendants, no doubt, would
have sent their survey6r, if a proper description of
the premises had been given: this, hoviEver, was not
usual, unless under peculiar circumstance;. With
respect to the cause of the fire, he felt a perfect con-
viction that it arose from the new process of using
oil, and that the plaintiffs knew this to be the-fact.
They did not pretend to account fin' the fire in any
other way, and neglected to examine a most im-
portant witness. Where was the man who lit the
tire? His Learned Friends brought forward a mill-
wright, who could not even say whether the machine
leaked or not. Mr. Scarlett, after alluding to the
evidence of the various other witnesses, concluded a
speech which occupied two hours in the delivery.
Samuel Willoughby was the first witness called for the de-
fence. He is a porter; recollects the fire; resides at No. 10,
within a hundred yards of the premises; he came out of his house
that morning about six minutes before four; on coming to the
corner of Holloway-street, the window flew out, with a large
body of fire ; there was no smoke, but a body of fire that would
have knocked down a horse ; is positive that there was no smoke;
saw no lights on the Boor immediately above; the morning was
wet; the first who came up was the watchman.
Cross-examined by the Souctroa-Gintaast.—He was beyond
Ile. Laws's bons the landlord of the Mulberry ; had no con-
aarsation with Mr. Laws on the subject ; said in his tap-room,
that he was at the corner of the building when the fire broke
etas; did not say that when he discovered the fire, he had not
yet got as far as Mr. Laws's home.
John Clayton is a watchman.—Was alarmed a little before
four o'clock, by a cry of " !" os the 10th of November;
observed a body of fire coming out of the window, and ascending
up the wall—(Here witness pointed out the same window as
the former witness).—Saw the private watchman belopging to
the sugar-house; his name is Wilson; and he was stn ding at
Laws's door when witness saw the fire break out ; Wilson lived
there for /102:1t: years, and is there still; witnesspeard no explo-
sion ; he saw the flame only out of one window at first ; in half
on hour after the flame began to lsaue from the other windows.
John Young, is clerk to Mr. Lockey, a surveyor; he (Mr.
Lockey) was employed to make a perspective drawing of_the
premises ; was there often enough to know the situation •f part
of the premises ; the grinding-house is in the centre ; the long
engar-hause was where the fire broke out ; the new sugar-house
is at the end, towards Mulberry-street ; believes there was a
eonanunicatiwn between the long sugar-house and the grineing-
heuse ; does not know that there was a communication between
the pew sugar-house and the gelnding-house.
Mr. Lockey ex.:rnined.—Was employed to make a drawing
of the premises; could not tell exactly how long the new sugar-
!muse was built; is certain it was built before October; the
grinding-house was not a sugar-house ; there were two stoves in
it ; there was a communication, by iron doors, between the
grindine-house and the lone-house, as also between the grinding
house cm! the new-house there were iron doors that commu-
nicated between the long-house and the new-house.
O. his cross-examination, witness &lid, he was not sent by the
Plitraix Company to see the premises for more than a year be-
fore the fire. Spate zoinmessir.oien passed between Ilr. Bishop
sr i himself respecting the new process. In conversation Air.
Bishop mentioned, that he had the intention of putting up stew
boiler, which witnesatinderstood to be fat oil; if be was then
surveying for the Picanix Company he should have thought it
right to :ornmenicate the circumstances; does sot recollect in-
sp.;ctiug the premises in 1518.
Re-examined by Mr. Scerterrr.—Mr. Bebop desired that
what he cow.rnanicated to witness respecting the boiler might be
made a secret.

.9:.er the fire, he asked Mr..Bisbop whether be kept it a se-
cret from the other partners as•weli as from the diem? Mt.
I;Sishop's answer was, that they knew it as well as himself; he
thought Mr. Salmis object was to keep the process a secret,
not the risk ; the risk never entered into his contemplation at
the time. _ _

Witiam Christopher is a bricklayer; recollects a boiler being
put up at Craven and Beaumont's, under Mr. Wilson's dime-
dons ' • the machine was used only 12 or 13 times ; it was never
used without the direction of Mr. Wilson; it happened only
twice that the oil was hezted to 210 before he (Mr. Wilson)
came • he used to raise it when be came to between 300 and
400 degrees ; while the pan sv.a discharging on one occasion
the pumping was stepped, and the oil roar to 450 degrees; at
the latter part of the day it rose to 300, when the pump was
stopped; the eff:ce of the heat when the oil was raised to 500
was, that the pips; upon some occasions, broke ; one day the oil
was at 410, the pan was cluagtd, ur.d while discharging, it rose
to 500; in abolt six minutes the pipe burst, and the oil mixed
with the sugar; Mr. Wilson then raked the fire out, and the
heat of the oil rose to 600; this, witness thought, arose from the
stopping of the pumping; the oil came out at the top and bottom
of the boiler.

Samuel Wilkinson is foreman to Messrs. Taylor and Marti-
neau; received orders to make eiperiments on oil ; there was
between 10 and 30 gallons Used; the vessel represented that in
the model, three feet long, fifteen inches wide, and fifteen inches
deep, made of wrought iron; Mr. Taylor wished to know whe-
ther common oil mixed with that which had been used would
produce an inflammable vapour at a low temperature; from 100
to iSo, vapour rose with a good deal of noise in the boiler; wit-
ness applied a light to the top of the tube issuing fromthe boiler;
there was no appearance of a flame until they came to a tempe-
rature of 230 degrees; it then took fire in sudden gusts ; there
was a noise like fat frying in the boiler at a temperature of 303.
Witness recePecel Orders to make a new experiment; the for-
mer boiler was perfectly" clean and charged with 33 gallons of
new whale Q/1; the experiment was continued for twelve days;
ft was heated about eleven hours each day, and suffered to cool
during the night ; 507 was the highest degree to which it was
heated; the highest degree of heat on the first day was 380;
there was no inflammable vapour; the tube was four felt above
the boiler; the heat on the second day was 375, the vapour was
then slightly inflammable; on the third day the beat was 39°.;
it was not then inflammable; on the fccrth day the tempera-
ture was 380; the lowest temperature at which it wash:flam-
mable was 33k1; at 360, on envying a light it took fire; on the
fourth thy Witness tried the difference between raising the fire
gradually and suddenly; at 380, with a slaw fire, the vapour
was scarcely inflammable; on the sixth day, the highest tempe-
rature was 3uo ; it was inflammable from 345 to 365; the va-
pour burned in the boiler on applying a light; on the seventh
day, twelve gallons were taken out ; at 335 it was slightly in-
damnable; on die eighth day be carried it to 500; when, at
that temperature, the vapour took fire seven inches and a half
shove the orifice of the tube, and spread itself without any noise;
at very high temperatures the vapour was not inflammable, but
the reason was hs not bring raised by a sharp fire; on the ninth
day, the vapour took fire at 490, and at the end of 'a worm at-
tached to the boiler continued burning for twenty minutes, the
dame being six inches in length ; iu fifteen minutes, with a mid-
dring fire, be raised it 145 degrees from a degree of 500; it
was inflammable at 345 ; on the tenth day, it was as inflam-
mable at Z,60 as it was at 500 on the same day; on the eleventh
day, it was inflammable at 510 ; this was the lowest ; on the
twelfth day, also, it was inflammable at 310; there was another
experiment commenced on the Bth of March, and continued t 3
days at a temperature of 560; the beat never exceeded 365; the
quantity of oil used was 24 gallons.
On his cross-examination by Mr. Serjestat Taber, the witness
adhered to his farmer statements, and no point of any import-
ance was brought out.
Alexander Smith was employed to watch an experiment Oa
oil ; it commenced on the Bth of March; their. was lighted at
six in the morning, and continued till sin in the fusing; belied
orders to carry the heat no higher than its; did sot *seine
how high the thermometer was enduing ~ be severe te imp it
between 350 and 560; it otglit hive pt asbw isSoiS ; tt never
went above 365.
On his cross•examinatlss, vitamin said be was never warstifrg:
en a process of the kind before, bit *NNW mai cauu
directed to it during the twenty-three dtiya-
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