Star.
London, England, 1816-06-29 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDER.

In consequence of the alteration in the Cap Estab.
lishment fur the Infantry, his Royai Highaess the
ittk;ENT ilaS been pleased to approve of the
following Regulations, viz. •
On' the Ca;b: of the Officers of the Line, the !stages or
devices are to be placed, or inserted ou the 1.1-tie above the
Number of the Rigiment, which must nor, however be in.
creased in size, in consequence of this addition. Theinscrip•
lion. which regiments are allowed to u*, as commemorative of
the actions in which they itAs;e been etigs;.-.1, Are to he eapressed
no a narrow plate, sshich is to be placed ea a sealed loop under
tht cuckAde.

*..1 be Caps of the Non•contini. •:ourd Offi:ers and Privates of
the Live are to be without an). Moire; device, or ht.criptiun. •
•• fife Officers, Non contutisNioi.ed Officets, an,l i mutes of
Light Infantry Corps, and Companies of the gift! Ergatic, are
to wear a suia,l liogie Hunt only, in the front of their Cars, with
the number of the Regiment tut the cockade, in the case of
Light infantry Corps and Companies, and with the. Nuntber oP
the Battalion in the rase of Rifle

' Tuesday, at two o'clock, being a still sultry d ly,
a most furious whirlwind passed oter the nursery-
rgtound of Mr—liestixason; in the Edgetvar:-road,
which jilted seven lights from the green-houses, and
carried them to the height of the highest elm-trees;
each in the lights weigh ifty or sixty pounds at least.
At the same time, two garden-mats were carried to
At! immense height, so that the eye cud not distin-
guisu luu. Two of the 'lights came in contact while
at the gteatest height, with a tremendous crash.
Isc4Notaittes.—Last Sunday afternoon the village
lof Bere in Dorsetshire, and the neighbouring country,
were thrown into a state of great alarm by several fires
breakirg cut in the village at the same time, and m
du::bk v.as entertained but they were intovidnally
caused by some incendiary. A large wheat-stack, a
malt-house, two barns, and three houses, were all in
flames; and the suspicion was, that it was intended
to burn down the whole village. The gentlemen of
the district took the alarm, and were on the alert, not
only to extinguish the fires, but to discover the incen-
Idiary ; and bishop, the Bow-street officer, being at
Wareham, which is seven miles distant, with a view
1 to discover the robber or robbers who bloke open the
house of Mr. THOMAS, and stole a considerable sum,
was sent for to Bere. He arrived immediately, and
i set about endeavouring to extinguish the fires, in
which he was materially assisted by a man of the
!name of Purdue, who, horn his language and con-
duct, Bishop suspected was concerned in the crime :
his suspicions proved correct, tor, upon an intestiga-
don as to the commencement of the fires, Porches
was takeu into custody, and being examined before. a
Magistrate, the evidence was sufficient to commit
him to Dorchester prison on a charge of wilfully set-
ting fire to the wheat-stack. A man of the name of
Hewitt was admitted an evidence against Porches.
The principal pan of the property set fire to belonged'
to a Gentleman of the name of Buzau.

Swan Brady has been committed to Bury gaolo
charged on suspicion of having wilfully and mali-
ciouslr set fire to a building belonging to John Shel•
ton, of Clare, on the 14th iustant.

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_ . •
OW THE DEATH Or MRS. VALPY:

each heart, and Clouded every eye,
AM Meeting friends turn half away to sigh.;
For, She is gone, before whose soft 'control •
Sadness an4soiroW fled tie troubled soul; ••
For, She is,gone, whose cheering smiles had poirer
To spied on Pleasure's wing the social hour i
Long shall her thotight with friendly greeting blend;
For, She is gone; who was of all the Friend !
Such were her charms as RAPHAEL lured to trace;
Repeat, improve in each Mai:lama's face;
The broad fair forchead;the full modest eye, _
Cool cheeks, but of fSe damask rose's Aye, .
And coral Bpi that breathed of Pie try !
• Such, but more lovely; for, sertmely bright,.
Her sunny spirit shone wit's living light;
Far, far, beyond the narrow bounds of art,
Her's was the very beauty of the heart.
• Beauty that mur be !Died. The weeping child,
Hoine.sick and sad, has gaged on her and smiled;
Has beard her voice, and in its gentle sound,
Another home, another mother found !
And as she seem'il the was. From day to day,
Wisdom and Virtue mark'd her peaceful way.
Large was her circle; bat the cheerful breast
Spread wide ar.ow•4 l.er happiri2s. an•l rest.
She bad sweet %I/finis and plea:ant Ioo:c• fur all;
And pre:iovs kie;itie-s at th.• •ne-riter'.: Tilt ;
. Char:ry,—quick to give an' slow to hiame ;
' And, linering s•ili in that frame,
The fairest, the most fle.:fne charm• of you'd,
Bloom of the mind, Sim:alicity and Truth !

So knit she Friendship% lovely Itr:o•. How well
She fill'd tacit (cadent.- name no Vol'? 93,1 rot.
That latt, brat praise lit., in Lig.
And floating don Childien'a r);ter•iny, eye,
Embalming with fond tears her memory!
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&man Heust, June 19, 1816. liAkY mrsszi.t. peurrotto.

LAW LVTE LI,IGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE !8.

In i case respecting a questi,in of Bankruptcy, the
Court decided that .B...signees, under certain circuos.
stances, might, with the consent of the Creditors, lend
the property of the Bsnkrupt previous. to making a
dividend of tle estate ; this power being given to
them under the Act of the sth George 11.
•
neNN v. O'KEEFE.

This was a NV: it of Error from the Court of Com-
mon Pleas; in order to set aside the judgment of t'iat
Court. The simple question was, whether the hol-
dn of a bill of exclringe, who has presented it for
acceptance, and ontitttd to give notice of the refusal'
to accept to the drawer, can, by indorsement after
scads to another person, make the drawer liable to
that other person ? or in other words, whether the ne '
glect to give notice to the drawer by the holder of a
bill, of refusal to accept by the drawee, does not clis-
.eharge the drawer from his liability ? The Cornmon
Pleas held that the drawer was liable.
Mr. GIFFORD was heard at considerable lingt't in
support of the ‘irrit of Error.
Mr. TINDAL. on the other side, was stopped by
The Court, who, alter on elaborate judgment, af-
firmed the decision of the Coto t of Common Picas.

COURT OF COMMON PIZAS, JUNE 28.
_ _ HARDY V. GLASSINGTON.

. Mr Serjeant BEST 1114 day spewed cause agAinst,
It tu!.; obtained by Mr. Serjcant COPLEY, why judg-
ment.should not be Arrested in this caie, which V; AS
'an Action against the defendant, as proprietor and
printer of the ALrning Herald Newspaper, to recover
damages for injury sustained by the publication of a
malicious libel concerniag the Lady of the plaintiff,
Sir Thonlas Hardy, and the Marquis of Abercorn.
The motion for an arrest of jud_mlent was founded
on various dciects in the pleadings, which, it had
been contended, must be JAW to the record.

Mr. Scrjemit liEsr answered these objections, and
submitted that the libellous matter suilictently •ap,
peared on the face• of the record without any inucn-
do; only rule with respect to *Hal was, that it
could not be employed to exttnd tl:e meaning of the
words charged to he lib:lions. T..e case of the King
against Home contained all which any person could
wish to know upon the subject. That was the case
of a criminal information filed by the Attomey-Ge-
rural against Mr. aim*, for libellotis expressions
used at a special meeting of the Constitutional So-
ciety. Mr.. Horne was convicted of haviiig said,
that the Americans killed at Lexington, in the colo.
ny of Massachusetts, had been murdered by the Kigg'i
troops, merely because they were faithful to the cha-
racter of Englishmen, and•prJferred death to slave, y.
It was afterwards aunvediin arrest of judgment, that
the information was imperfect, inasmuch as it did not
state that any rebellion .had existed in the colony, or
that the King's troops had been employed in quelling
it and Lord Mansfield, in pronouncing the judg-
inent of the Court against the motion, declared, that
the offence was charged with sufficient certainty, and
that the words 46 King's troops" could mean only
troops in the service of his Majesty. It was sufficient
it the sense of the libellous words contained in the
same count, although published at different times,
'was too clear to be mistaken, or if their connexion
and common tendency were matter of necessary in-
ference. The same doctrine was laid • down by
Lord Chief Justice de Grey, in giving the opinion
of the Twelve Judges to the Houses of Lords.
With respect to Barham's case, which was to he
found in Lord Coke, it had no application to this
question : there the Plaintiff was charged in the re-
cord with burning down a barn ; but what alone ren•
dered the act of burning down a barn criminal in the
eye of the law, was its contiguity to a dwelling-house,
or its being full of corn. Such an act as this was
felony ; but, unless accompanied by the circum-
stances which constituted the felony, there could be
no libel in imputing it. The libel in question was
contained in a succession of paragraphs, some of
which conveyed the poison, and others gave it a di-
rection; but all of which, taken together,. distinctly
pointed,to Lady Hardy and the Marquis. of Aber-
corn. The libel itself was in these words—" An
elopement is said to have recently taken place, the
enormity of which is likely to throw every other into
temporary oblivion ;" and then appeared paragraph
alter paragraph explaining in different modes, but so
as to leave no doubt with respect to the persons de-
scribed as parties to this elopement. is the case of

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•
Thorley and X.ord Kerry it was wa down, that the
words thargeel as libellous need not he 51.14:11 AT would •
necessary ;to suppottno tudiulment it was enough
that they had it tendency totwit* the enfertanate ob-
ject of the libelle'r% malignity into hatred, infamy, r
contempt. Could any mac doubt, then. that the pre-
sent libel was so calculated, as h affected the character
of Lady Hardy, when it described the offence which
it intputed, not as one of those ordinary crimes of which
the world nc.v heard too often and ton mitch, bat as
a degree of guilt, the enormity of whiCh was likely
to 'attract universal attention, and catire the town to
forget every other instance of similar criminality.?—
No language could have been employed, the evident
import of which was mere directly to bring the cha--
racter of this Lady into infamy and couttnkat, or
bring the Übe: within the rule t.) which he had just
adverted. • It had been observed, on the other side, •
that an elopement did not necessarily imply an adul-
terous intereOnrse ; burl() prove that this was involved
by construction of law in the elopement of a married
woman, he shr•uld refer. to the authority of the Spiri-
tual courts, in which it was always so understood;
avid in Jacob's Law Dictionary, in the article under
the head Elopement, the elopement of a married
woman was deGned to be the voluntary leaving of
her husband to live with another in adultery, Which
by the statute of 2 West. subjected li-v to the loss of
dower. To decide that all the parti of a libellous
publication must be ~ecually libellous, in order to
make out a ground of action, or that all the parts
might not Le set forth in the record as referring to
and explaining each other, would be to grant a sweep-
ing.license to the conductors of periodical pnblica•
tions, because then they would only hair* to divide
the libel, to state its substance one day, and the par-
ties against whom. it was ilreeted on the nett; in
order to enjoy perfect impunity.
" The CHIEF JUSTICE expressed Lis concurrence
this, because, other wise, it might he published on one
occasion, that a pa,ticular crime was committed by
a person who had lost a joint of his tittle finger, and
on a following day observed that there was but one
person in the country who had lost a joint of his little
h alter.
Mr. Serjeant BKsr then cited several other eases to
prove the sufficiency of th:• pleadings in this case, and
submitted that on these grounds he was entitled to the
judgment of the Court. .
Mr. Serjeant COPLEY, on the other side, in support
of the mutton in arrest of judgnient, contended that
it was a clear principle of law, that where words are
spoken or written at different times, some of which
are actionable and others not, and a verdict is taken
es for entire damages, the judgment cannot be sus.
tained. In addititm to these objections, he urged
there was also no averment to t!it.ru that Sir Thomas
and Lady Hardy were married at the time of the
publication, ..nd this alone, he apprehended, was fatal
to the record.

Mr. Serjeant 13as+ replied, and the Court took time
to consider their judgment.
INSOLVENT DEETORS' COURT.
LECTION 110. SA V 111.LX. •
Time defendant was brought up, after having heft
previously remanded to insert some duplicate* which
she had omitted in het schedule. The piamtiff at
that tune opposed her, and being queui':ned as to her
Ito:l4nm, she said that the had never had any.—
B:ing asked whether site had not had some sheets and
..
some table linen she sail they were her sister's, who .
it appeared was, like herself, a person hf no pmpesty,
hut living entirely on her means. 13,n- Lc:: was all •
her fortune. Being asked whether `.i.e had not the
linen marked with her ov.n i!anse ? si,e saidshe could
not tell whose name it WAS marked with.
There being no evidence to contradict her, Mr.
gerjeant ItushlNcrrom would have discharged her;
but it appeared that she was possessed of some dupli.
rates which she had not insetted in her schedule, and
time was given to aumeud the schedule. Upon her
being brought up for that purpose,
Mt. PRINCC Sairrit ,aatect to the Court that he was
now prepared to skew, Oat on her former ezamioa.
tints, die had sworn that ti,e ar:ers were her sister's ;
that 'he had since procnted evilence by which he
wouh,kprove where she bought die lincu in August
List ;-lie would also produce the person who marked

►t with her name, 46 Ann Saville."' and also the launw
dress who washed- it in October; he therefore sub-
witted, that the Court, tot its own divity, and for
the sake of justice, would not permit her. to be dir.
charged and to take the oath.
Mr. Serjeant RUNIUNGTON said% that the. case lutv.
ing been heard before, and the defendant reasanded
foe a special purpose, 1:e could not now inquire far-
ther into it. If the plaintiff chose hereafter, an ap.
placation might be made to the Court to vacate the
discharge, it it was obtained by fraud; but he was
s.tislied that the duplicates were nut omitted frau-
dulently. 'Hie prisorkr must now be &charged.—
Ihe plaintiff might indict her also fur perjury.
Sirrif said, he ptopased it only to preserve
the consistency and dignity of the Court, which, he
thought, was insulted by a person committing what,
it his evidence proved correct, was a palpable per.
jury. He suggested, that it this would avced the
discharge, it would be batter to take the evidence
now, and prevent the discharge. He should now re.
commend his Clients to prosecute the defendant; and
if they did not, they would be wanting in respect for
justice and for the Court.
The defendant being a very pretty woman, and
surrounded by others of the most fascinating of the
fair sex, there was a general plaudit upon the decision
of the Learned Serjeant.
A Mr. Pigeon got up 'and addressed the Courts
claiming protection for himself and Mrs. Lectiont
who, he said, had been insulted in the Court.
• Mr. Serjeant RUSNINCTON said he would commit
anyone who disturbed the Cbtirtan insulted the parties.

Ttiesday morning last, the Becconbill Telegraph,
near Osprioge, accidentally caught tile, and was
burnt down, notwithstanding every exertiun was
dude to save it.
Yesterday morninglbetween ten and eleven eclo.-,k,
a middle-aged man, rather corpulent, was discovered
under the bridge of the Regent's Canal, at Hamp.
stead. Read, the Officer, passing at the time, as.
listed in taking the•deceased out ; he was very de-
cently dressed in black, had no money in liEs pockets,
nor any papers by whiCh he could be traced, or to
whom he belonged ; his (shirt was marked E. M.—.
He was taken to the sign of the Mother Redcap., Cam.
den-town, to be OVinClij and for Coroner's

V

WirLAIVE THEatTRE..
•
This Theatre closed a successful season last night s
when an Address, of which the following is the stsb-
trance, was delivered by Mr. RAZ, the stage manager,
.a Gentleman of whom it is.but justice to say, that
he promotes the interests of the Theatre, by a con•
duct and demeanour calculated to conciliate the good
- will of those who are connected with it.
Lsdies and Gentlemen—The performances of this evening
will terminate a season, throughout which it has been our study
•so cultivate and promote the Legiutnate Drama—(Loadeolease)
• find for the flattering approbation with which you have honoured
• our-efforts, we beg leave to offer our gtattful ackitowledrments:
(ApplatAte.) The successful revivals of ancient authors have been
nunteroas, t may venture to say, beyond precedent. Anton' the
novelties presented to you, which, with very few exceptions, has
one. yuur'apprribation, one less laxly appeared, the off,priug of
eha;eitter kluddom—(Applatabe)—upon which your approbation
esv.otted a success, which will, we bope, animate and encou-
rage the effutts of contemporary genius, until the highest tragic
booours shall not excludvely belong to oar forefathers.
Ladies and Gtnt.emen, is the cheering retrospect of the past-1
krill not detain you by a detailed anticipation of the future. The
tints that may elapse before we meet again shall be employed in
preparation fur your entertainment, and we shall meet again with
the SSW determination to support legitimate taste, native genius,
and the national drama. We venture to hope for the renewal of
Tutu- kindness and protection. The Performers, Ladles and Gen-
tlemen, beg to offer their sincere thanks fur the liberal protection
and patronage with which you bare honoured thent—a coutinu-
ance of which it will be our study to merit, and our greatest pride
to obtain. We respectfully bid you farewell."
"Nis Artiress was received with the greatest pos-
sible applutse throughout.

SIF'ORTING INTELLIGENCE.

STAMFORD RACES, WwNIIDAT,JUNS 26.
The Noblemen and Gentlemen's Plate of £5O by three-year-
olds Colts carrying est. Sib. Allies, Sit. that. never won £5O
in plate, match, sweepstakes, or subscription, Ouse round to
• a hat. The best ut three beats.
Marquis of Exeter's b. c. by Cervantes • . 1 1
Mr. hawses br. f. by Golumpus • 4 2'
Lord Grosvenor's b. c. Labrador - • S 3
A Gold Cup of 100 gs value, by Subscribers of lOgs each, p. p. this
surplus to be paid to the winner in specie. Three-year-olds
carrying Est. four-year-oLls, 7st. 71b. five-year-olds, Sit. 71b.
six-year olds, Sit. and aged, 9st. Sib. One Four mile beat.
Mares and galling, allowed sib. •
Sir IL Nelthorpe's b. g. Everlasting, 4 yes old •
Hon. G. Watson's Seagrove, 4 yrs old • - 2
Mr. Chowortb's b. an. Miss Appleton. 5 yrs old • 3
A Match for segs. Once round and the distaace.
Dr. Willis's ch. tar. by Antelope, aged, 9st. • I
General Grosvenor's gr. g. 8011 Mot, 4 yrs old, list. - 2

We congratulate the Public on the Stone Bottle
-Bill being thrown out of the House of Lords, in
consequence of an interview that Mr. R. Tuatme,
• 'Blacking Manufacturer, London-road, and several
respecteble Potties, had Rid, the Cibteentoa of the
Facsanuen otethe subject. In consequence of which
the Public may still be supplied with small Bottles
of Tutucett's Blacking, as usual.
Thee gang of swindlers recently detected in com-
mitting depredations on the merchants and bankers
its this country, have, it is believed, extended their
naisehievousprectices abroad. Thursday a number of
frandulent bills were received from Italy and Spain,
drawn u,pon merchants, &c. in this country, with the
name et Count Narboone attached to them. It is to
be feared that value has been procured for them
abroad by the swindlers. One house had presented
t.), acceptance bills of this fraudulent kind to .the
amount of about ,118,000.
A Meeting was on Thursday convened at the New
Lnisdon Tavern, Cheapside, to take into considera-
tion the propriety of opening a subscription for the
."' purpose of rebuilding the Gelman Protestant Church
of St. Peter, at Copenhagen, the Parsonages, the
' School, and Alrns houses, which were all destroyed
during the bombardment, in 1807, of the Danish ca.
pit al by the brittsli fleet. Mr. Wreeenkouce, in the
Chair, having stated tlic• object of the Meeting, read
a letter vohich he had received from. Lord GAMBIER,
explessieg his deep concern at his inability to attend
the Meeting. His Lordship could not find lan-
Rune to express the grief lie left in having been
. compelled, in the discharge of his duty to his coun-
try, to act at the bombardineut of Copenhagen ;
but tie was now most ready to comer forward to
discharge a mote pleasant task, by relieving the
disere.ses of those who had been thus injured; and,
under these peculiar circumstances, he left it in the
hand* of the Meeting to subscribe, in his owtr name,
such a sum as they might think proper. The expense
of erecting the cnurch and the buildings connected
with it, according to a statement made by a Gentle-
man from :he Danish capital, would be about £6500,
of wi.ich 42250 had already been rained in Denmark,
and more titan isquo therefore remained to be col.
lected in this country. It was recommended by Mr.
BAEINGTOH and Mr. BUTTERWORTH, that as the
people of Eeglaud were themselves in much distress,
the contributions should be small. Resolutions were
subsequently agreed to term a Committee to receive
subscriptions; books accordingly were opened, and
the name of Lord Gaustett was put down for the
sara of 10 guineas.
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A Court of Common Council was held on Thurs.
day at Guildhall. The Gaol Committee-presented a
Report, recommending the sum of £lO,OOO to be
borrowed from the Bank of England, towards the ne-
cssary repairs and alterations in the Prisons in the
City, which was agreed to. A Petition was present.
ed from JOHN Stager, Esq. nominated, on the Veh
of May, to the office of Sheriff, praying to be es=
eused, on account of ill health and his advanced age.
The LORD MAYOR directed to be laid before the Court
the answer of William Mountford, Esq. the Sheriff
Elect, « that he should not attend the Court of Al-
dermen to give bond to take upon him that office'
nor should be take any measures ta respect thereof,
as he was advised, from his being a Dirreakr, that he
vas not liable to serve the same," which was read.
Bill. presented a Memorial in respect to the
Silver Column about to be voted to cam's*-
, the brilliant services of the I)uke of Welling-
The worthy Sheriff stated the history of this
which originated with a respectable Gentle-
merchant of the City, and wln:b was intended
dlustrate the military career of the great General.
object in presenting the Memorial yes to obtain
assistance of this Court in airi of the. Subscription
nompleting this Column. A meeting having
place a few days since at the Mansion House,
',unlace prepared a Memorial, which he now
id, stating all the circumstance& He pro-
tit call upon the Court for a vote of .4WD to
Subscription. After some observations from
Members. 410 VOW Was deferred.

POLICE.
!IRE iN ALDEILSGATE-STREET.
Kuniole-Hoofs—Yesterday, the LORD Mi6roa
having summoned the attendance. of Mr. Dunkin.
his servants) the patroles, constables, watchmen, and'
several others acquainted with the circumstances of-
the fire on Thursday morning last, an investigation
took place. and lasted to a late hour, in order to
ascertain the causes, and to discover, if possible, some
clue to the detection of the incendiaries. An immense
crowd was assembled, and among others there were
a number of Gentlemen from the differek Fire
Offices.
Mr. Dunkin was first called. He gave a detailed
account of the manner in which the two persons, as
has been already stated, entered his bed-room and
subsequently ill-treated him. From the present ac-
count, however, it appeared that the parties had
blind-folded him by tying two handkerchiefs around
.his eyes previous to dragging him from his bed.—
They also made an incision in his breast with a knife,
and would have proceeded to further violence if one
of the party had not cried out—" don't harm him,
for he is the friend of an Irishman." His wrists also
were much marked with the cord used in tying him.
He could not account for such an outrage, as he had
never done an injury to any individual.
Messrs. Thompson and Jones, tw• Gentlemen re-
turning from the Theatre on the night of the fire,
stated, that they passed the premises; they perceived
a smoke, but did not, at the moment, apprehend any
thing dangerous. One of them went towards Saint
Martin's-le-grand, and the other went up a court at
the back of Mr. Dunkin's house: they were soon,
however, recalled by the alarm of a' fire" from the
watchmen ; but they did not previously hear the
slightest alarm from the house of Mr. Dunkin, nor
did they see any persons about : the night was ex-
ceedingly wet.
—Deane, a watchman, was in his box near Mr.
Dunkin's. He did not observe, for some time previ-
ous to the fire, any suspicious persons about, nor did
he hear the slightest alarm of fire proceed from the
house of Mr. Dunkin. Somebody (whom he thought
to be Peter Harold, another watchman) desired him
to spring his rattle. He did so, and immediately
perceived a smoke issue from the cellar of Mr. Dun-
kin. Peter Harold, another watchman, saw the last
witness in conversation with two other persons about
half-past one o'clock, and heard the rattles spring.—
He went to the spot, and saw a smoke issue from the
lower back part of Mr. Dunkin's house. He had
been on the beat previously, but heard no alarm, nor
did he see any suspicious characters or other persons
about. There was no thoroughfare
.up Shaftesbury.
place, nor was there any ladder or other articles seen
about there. J. Herbert, a patrole, in passing Mr.
Dunkin's, observed nothing particular, nor did he
hear an alarm. After he had gone some distance,
he heard a rattle spring, and returned towards the
house, from whence a smoke issued. He•was the
third person who reached the spot, and assisted is
knocking at theldnaes and shutters of the place, and
calling out loudly. A man got in at the fan-light
over the door, which he opened, and Mr. Dunkin
ran into the street in his shirt, crying, " Good GOD,
they tied me hand and foot, hencovered and robbed
me." Mr. Dunkin then fainted, fell down, and was
carried to the Doctor's. When witness and others
entered the house by the front door, there was agreat
deal of smoke, but they did not perceive any flame.
Mr. Dunkin soon after came running back naked,
and wished to enter the house, but he would nct
suffer it. No flames appeared in the front until a
considerable time after Mr. Dunkin rushed into the
street.—The constable of the night stated, that he
assisted in breaking the fan-light. When he entered
the house, there was no flame apparent. He saw
Mr. Dunkin naked in the street previous to the burst.
ing out of the fire, and picked up two handkerchiefs
nearly opposite the door. Price and another servant,
in consequence of the alarm of their master, came
down stairs and released him. Price, in coming
down, saw the bed-room door open, and a rushlight
was burning : could not say whether the closet-door
was open ; nor did he see any plate. W. Taylor,
street-keeper, assisted Mr. Dunkin in taking five
books front the iron chest. Mr. Dunkin said to wit-
ness, ‘i he did not know what he had done that lie
should have been served so."—Mr. Fairbrother lives
opposite Mr. Dunkin. He heard the springing of
rattles, and having'look:d out of the window, he
twice heard the cry of murder proceed from the
house of Mr. Dunkin. He immediately went into
the street, and soon after Mr. Dunkin ran out.—
Witness had heard the knocking before this.—Price
the servant to Mr. Dunkin, was recalled, and stated
that he had not heard the rattles spring ; nor did be
distinguish any knocking at the door.—T. Kobinson,
a fireman, had examined the ruins. On the third,
staircase of Mr. Cockerton's house he found a quan-
tity of plate : some was perfect, the remainder was
injured by the fire; the former belonged to Mr.
Cockerton, the latter to Mr. Dunkin. A party wall
which stood between the two houses remained firm;
and how the plate of Mr. Dunkin was conveyed to
the adjoining premises could not be conceived. Mr.
Cockerton deposed, that he saw his plate in his closet
the night before.
Here the Loan MAYOR observed, that the case
• rued involved in more mystery than ever, and
wished to know if Mr. Dunkin could throw any light
upon the circumstance I—Mr. Dunkin answered in
the negative.
Sophia Brown had the care of Mr. Dunkin's plate,
she usually locked it up in his closet; it was not used
on the day before the fire, nor did the see ie. Witness
heard a noise in the street before the servants came
to alarm her in her bed-room ; she slept on the floor
over Mr. Dunkin ; she and her fellow-servant escap-
ed over the leads, and saw the flames proceed from
the rear of the house in Shaftesbury-place. •
Another female domestic deposed to being alarmed
when the servants came to her room ; she instantly
thought her master was murdered, as he had said in
her hearing, that the dog had barked the night befores
The other servants, however, did not hear the dog
bark, and though it was stationed about the cellar
and passages, it escaped the conflagration. The
person who entered the fan-light, and subsequently
opened Mr. Dunkin% door, was called, but did not
appear. This the Loan MAyou regretted, as, his
evidence would be material to chew how the door
was fattened. The LORD MAYOR, having now heard
all the evidence that could be adduced, wished to

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The Loan MAYOR then held a Consultation with se-
veral persons belonging to die Fire o:Eees (particu•
laxly the Agent of the Phcenix, where Mr. Dunkin
is mostly insured), who retired to deliberate, an 3 who
are to make known their determinatipe of jo.ning
Mr. Dunkin in his offer of rewards The LORD
MAYOR added, that he would write to the Secretary
of State upon the occasion, and, independent of a
reward, would endeavour to procure a pardon for the
accomplices in this nefarious outrage. Here the in-
vestigation closed.
Bow-seitzer.--Thursday evening a man of the
name of Minas Falseof was deslected in offering a
counterfeit Ss. Bank of England token to the gallery
money.taker of Sadler's Wells Theatre, who dispu-
ted its being a good one, when Falstaff assured him
that it was good, that he was a poor man, and had no
more money. Vaughan, belonging to• this Office,
who was in attendance, disputed his statement, de.
tained him, and searched him, when he found a good
shilling, some halfpence, and several other counter.
feit tokens similar to that attempted to be uttered by
the prisoner. Yesterday he underwent an examine-
don at this Office, when Mr. Westbrook, the Solici-
tor to the Bank, attended. The prisoner was fully
committed for trial.—There are, we understand, no
less than fifty prosecutions for similar effences, at the
ensuing Sessions, and the manufacturer of this de-
scription of base coin is in custody. MOM GOGAtill
was committed for a similar offence, near Tower-hill.
MARLBOROLIOH-STREET.--ishn Roberts, who sten&
charged with stabbing John Hall, groom to Lerd
Rivers, was yesterday re-examined. The wounded
man appeared in person, but he seemed at times to
be very unwell. His evidence differs, in many in-
stances, from that which was stated by other wit-
nesses on a former occasion ; and we give the promi-
nent parts of it from the infortnint's details. The
prisoner met him near Stanhope-gate, when riding
behind his Lordship, and he made a stop ins if to
seize the horse's head. Informant checked his horse
to prevent it, when the prisoner struck the horse with
his left hand, and assailed informant with the other.
Hall believed he struck the prisoner with an ash
plant, but not until he was first assattlted. The pri-
soner got hold of the horse's bridle, and plunged a
dagger, (produced, about 12 inches in length) into
informant's right side.—Mr. Kitchen, a surgeon, be-
lieved, from the appearance of the wound, which was
on the right side, about tour inches deep, against the
third or fourth sib, that it was inflicted with the in-
strument produced. The prisoner went on most in-
coherently. lie called himself prince of this island,
said a judicial bench had nothing to do with such
nonsense, and that he should be tried by Counsel ;
that he was a descendant of Julius Cw.er, Augustus,
&c. &c. that the Secretary of State ought to have
been there, etc. He was fully committed for tr;al.
The prisoner was closely ironed o.i the hands to pre.
vent his doing mischief. His looks were frantic in
the extreme.

Al.. Blum, baker, of Bury-street, St. James's, ap-
peared to a summons for refusing to pay the sum of
30s. charged by the Itcyal Exchange Insurance Com-
pany, for the attendance of their engine during the
time his chimney was on fire ; the CAM being proved,
he WAS ordered to pay it, besides ten shillings to the
turncnck.

Querx-sooanE.--Yesterday john Wells, a con-
stable of Sc. Pancras parish, summoned before the
Magistrates of this Office An Trtfte, a livery-stable
keeper, in the said parish, for refusing to receive four
horses belonging to the Life Guards, which the com-
plainant, as constable, had billeted on him, and which
the defendant had sent back, with a declaration that
he would not make any provision for them.—The de-1
fendant, in defence of his conduct, alleged, that his
premises were such as did not come within the mean-
ing of the Mutiny Act, on the authority of which the
horses were sent to him. lie said, lie bad let out
his whole yard to different persons for various pur-
poses, except one six-stall stable, which he kept in his
own possession for the accommodation ti his own
horses, being a hackney-coachman, and not a livery.
stable keeper. On beihg asked by the Magistrate it
he never let out any part of his own stable (as he
called it) for a single horse or more, to stand at livery
for one night ? he acknowledged lie had sometimes
done so. This, he was informed, rendered him liable
to the operation of the Mutiny Act, and the clause
that specified it was read to him. He them objected
that the constable had sent him more horses than
came to his share, or than he had ever had sent to him
before ; but the constable repelled this charge, by
skewing that he had only four livery stable keepers
within his district—that on the present occasion 15
hones had been sent to him for billets, of which he
had sent lour to the defendant and two others, and
three to the-fourth, whose premises were the smallest.
It was also declared by a Quarter Master of the Life
Guards, that he had known the defendant to have had
six horses billeted on him.

Wednesday a female chilJ, three years, old, was
burnt to death, in Chapel-street, Finsbury-square,
while its mother was gone out to market.
MUIIIDUR AT LIVERPooL--Filtther particulars, from
the Liverpool Giourier of the 26th instant
I! A barbarous murder and robbery was perpetrated on Satur-
day night, near Vauxhall Bridge, in the vichdty of this town. A
person who was returning home from tile country, saw the flash
and beard the report of a pistol; but, imagining it to proceed
from some person anie.ing himself, it did net greatly arrest hit
attention, and he continued walking down the side.of the Canal.
But be had not walked far, ere he perceived two men bending
over the body of a third, which was stretched on the earth. On
nearer approach, lie inquired what they were abet'. ? Instantly
one of them, oppprently an athletic man, seized him by the
legs, and precipitated him into the Carat. He etruggled
some moments in i the water, and when he bad just re-
gained the bank, the villain beat him on the head with
what he supposed the butt end of a pistol. Concluding him to
be entirely disabled, he returned to his associa.e, and, it is sup-
posed, completed the robbery. In the precipitation of retreat,
they left a pistol, which was found lying near the body. Mean-
time the mart got out of the Canal, and, with all celerity, pro-
ceeded to the nearest house to give the alarm. A party of men
Immediately proceeded to the scene of the murder: they found
the man shill extended on the ground, insensible and weltering
in his blood. They conveyed him to the Infirm:ley; but just as
they reached It the unfortunate man expired. On Monday, a
Coroner's Inquest was held on the body, but adjourned to yester-
'day, for want of information, when they further adjourned to
this day. Two men have been taken into custody upon suspicion,
.and have been remanded for examination. The murdered man
pis unknown, but is supposed to have come from the country to
proceed to America. We hope the Vigilance of our ()bike either
has been or will be successful in wresting the monsters who per-
petrated this bortlide mordet:'

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