Star.
London, England, 1821-08-03 00:00:00

FIR ES.

Apthorpe Hall, near it le 11 Beth, was re-
duced to a skeleton on Tuesday by tire ; nothing but
the walls are standing. It broke out in the laundry,
where the servants had incautiously left a horse full
of linen to dry, and such was the rapidity of the
flames, that not a vestige of furniture was saved, the
inmates scarcely having time to escape. Attached to
the buildings were stables and a coach-house, which
were also destroyed. Mrs. ADAMSON, the present
occupier of the house, was in London when the file
happened.
Another fire happened yesterday morning early, at
the house of Mr. BENINOBOHOUGH, Talbot-place,
Regent's Park, which destroyed the interior. It was
occasioned by some .bed-curtains being accidentally
set on fire.
Thursday se'nnight, the soap-house belonging td
Messrs. A. CLAPHAM and Co. at the Ouseburn, cur
Newcastle, was discovered to be on fire, and in a few
minutes the flames burst forth, with great fury, and
threatened serious consequences. By the prompt a:=
sistaoce of the workmen from the neighbouring ma.
nufactories, and the most vigorous exertions, the fire
was in a short time overcome.
Wednesday, a fire broke out in the house of MT.
WILSON, a carpenter, of Seven Star-alley, Ratcliff-
' highway. It originated in an apartment on the
ground-floor, in consequence of the s'.3-vant's having
placed a gridiron, which had been jut taken off the
fire, among some shavings in a cupboard, by %%hie's
they became ignited, and before the flames could.
-be extinguished the premises were nearly gutted,
and the greater part of the furniture and stock in
trade destroyed.
Saturday evening, about ten o'clock, as a woman,
named Esther Knight, seho resided at Crowan Church.
town, in Cornwall, was taking leave of a person who
had accompanied her from market, she said, that
from the appearance of the atmosphere, she feared
there was a fire in the direction of her ton % house,
which was at some distance. Becoming a aimed,
she called her daughter, who had gone to red, and
who arose and followed her mother ItAlf dues ea.~
The daughter pas.,ed the old woman, and on coming
to her brother's house, found it was on lire. The
owner of the house and his wife had gone to Helstoa
market, from which they had not returned, leaving
two children at home, who were with difficulty re..
cued from the flames ; a few articles of furuiture only
were saved. After some time, the young woman,
who had been called out of bed, was returning home
to put on the remainder of her clothes, wheu she
stumbled over a person who •had fallen across the
road ; and making an alarm, this person mu taken
up, and proved to be her mother, who had dropped
dead from the fright before she could reach her son's
house. Every means were tried to restore animation,
but in vain. The poor girl was so alarmed at this
second shock, that she was seized with hrteric fits,
and now lies in a very precarious state. The fire was
occasioned by one of the children placing a candle
so as to communicate to the thatch with which the
house was covered.

INouesys.—Tuesday last, an Inquest was held at I
Moor Mills, near Hereford, on the body of Master
Edward Halford, eleven years of age, son aad heir
of the late Edward Halford, Esq. of Herefordshire.
The deceased went to dine the preceding Sunday
with a Gentleman, and was missed at dinner-time:
on Monday the body was discovered in the mill-pond,
where, as adjudged by the Jury, he had fallen in
by accident.
Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Rising San,
in High-street, St. Mary-la-bonne, on the body of
Mary Morgan, who died in consequence of taking
oxalic acid in mistake for Epsom salts. Sarah Green-
slade stated, that she lived next door to the deceased.
On the morning of her death she shewed her the re-
mains of what she had been taking, and asked her if
she thought it was salts ? She looked at it, and told
her she thought it was. Soon after she returned, and
said she was very bad. She then said she had taken
the salts from her husband's trunk. A Doctor was
sent for, but she died before his arrival. Mr. Potter,
Surgeon, saw the paper containing the remainder of
the powder, which was oxalic acid. He opened the
body, and the appearance was such as plainly indi-
cated that her death arose from the cause above
stated.—Verdict accordingly.—The deceased was a
very respectable woman, and has left a large family
to deplore her untimely fate. •
COFFEE SHOPS.—Yesterday bills were issued from
die Police Offices, in order to be distributed to vari-
ous proprietors of shops, or rooms, for the sale of, or
under the pretence of selling, ready-made Coffee,
with a copy of the 18th Section of the Act of Parlia-
ment passed in the late Session, intituled An Act
for the more effectual administration of the Office-ci
a Justice of the Peace in and near the Metropolis,'
dtc. which requires that shops. or rooms of the above
description, shall not be kept open after eleven o'clock
at night, during any part of the year, nor opened
before the hour of four in the morning, between
Lady-day and Michaelmas; or before six in the
morning, between Michaelmas and Lady-day; and
if shut up with persons inside during those homy,
except persons dwelling therein, the owners will be
fined £lO on conviction ; and, in default of payment,
sent to hard labour for three months.

DIED.
July 21, at Bervie, aged 80, Mr. Alexander Thom, mud*
turer. Ile was not only the first who introduced the an d
spinning flax, by machinery, into Scotland, but erected the irs
Scotch spinning-mill on the water of Bervie. He was ama d
general knowledge in most scientific subjects; esteemed for ea
integrity and attention to busineu.
At Fort William, lately, Mr. Donald Kennedy, at a /If/
advanced age. He was the person who set fire to the PO
brewhouse, when the Pretender was besieging Fort Wiilink
July 2.3, at Scasyde Cottage, near Aberdour, Mrs. MOO
widow of Robert Aloubray, of Cockairny, M.D.
July 11, at his house near Dublin, John Knox, Eel. WS
Major in the Sligo Militia.
July ;50, in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, Eleanor Saab, lb%
infant daughter of Henry Brougham, Esq.

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