Star.
London, England, 1821-09-13 00:00:00

ANOTHER CALAMITOUS FIRE.

EDINBURGH' SEPT. IO.—A dreadful fire broke out
this morning, a little after twelve o'clock, in a large
five story house in the Cowgate, immediately oppo-
site to the foot of the Parliament-stairs. The tire
originated in an apartment on the second floor, and,
burning with great fierceness, soon communicated to
the floors above, and the one immediately below.—
About half an hour after, the stair, a wooden one,
was enveloped in flames ; but previous to this, all the
inhabitants, except one family in the third floor,
escaped to the street, many of them half naked. The
' family which remained, consisted of a man named
Bannerman, his wife, and three children. Bannerman
himself leapt over the window, with a child in his
arms, and escaped with some slight hurts; but his
wife was less fortunate; after dropping a child from
the window, she leaped over herself with another in
her arms. They were all three taken up alive, and
the poor woman, who was also far advanced in preg-
nancy, was carried to the Infirmary with one of the
children, where they soon after expired. The other
was taken into a neighbouring house, and survived
but a few minutes.

Bannerman was lately a serjeant in the ;Ist Regi-
ment, and his wife was a native of Portugal. The
man in whose house the fire originated also lies in
the Infirmary, with his thigh severely burned. Two
of the firemen were also considerably hurt by the
falling of the burning rafters.
The fire-engines were soon brought to the spot,
but their efficiency was much impeded by the want
of water. llaving at length got access to Mr. Camp-
bell's brewery, a plentiful supply was obtained ; but
the rage of the flames defied the exertions of the fire-
men; and, in a few hours, the tenement in which the
fire broke out, and the one immediately adjoining to
the westward, which was separated only by a thin
partition, were reduced to smoking walls, except the
shops on the ground floor, which escaped the fire,
but suffered much from the water, and the destruc-
tion necessarily occasioned by the confusion of re-
moving the stock and furniture. The three upper
flats were divided into small apartments, and occu-
pied by numerous poor families, who have lost every
thing they possessed.

AsstzEs.

C.IIII.TSI.F.

RICHT or ANTGLING.—NEAVE, BA RT. V. GRATTAN!.

Mr. SCA nterr said, the real plaintiff was Henry
Howard, Esq. of Corby Castle. The question was,
whether the customary tenants of the manor of We-
therall had a right of fishing by the rod on a certain
extent of one side of the river Eden ? Mr. I toward
had all the fishings of the Eden in that part from the
Dean and Chapter of Carlisle, but his good nature in
giving leave to all his neighbour,: to angle had
brought this claim of right against him. The value
of it to the customary tenants was nothing. It would
only make them idle and useless. Dr. I.linson de-
scribed an angler, g• A rod and line with a man at
one end, and a fish at the other."

Mr. Justice Ifoutos,u.—No, a worm at the other.
Mr. BROUGHAM.--Aye, to be sure—happy is he
that has a &h!

An old coachman of Mr. Howard's gave evidence
of a notice, published in the church lard twenty years
ago, repeating every line and letter of Whet vas
the salmon brood," &c.

Mr. SCARLETT.—You need not give every word
unless you like.

Witness.—Shall I begin again ? " Whereas, the
salmon brood," &c. _

Mr. BROUGHAM.—Did you bear a sermon that
day ?—Yes.
Come, then, give us as much of the sermon ?—No,
I don't remember anything about it.
Now happens that now ?—Well, because I saw the
notice afterwards, and I never saw the sermon.
_ _

I wish I had as good a memory.—Well, I was al-
ways remarkable for a good memory.
But you did not give us Gan save the King as a
part of it ?—No, there was no King belonging to it.
So there was no King but Henry Howard ?—There
needed not a better man.

Evidence w•as given of the boys in a school having
leave to angle.
Mr. LITTLEDALE.-But they were not customary
tenants?

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Mr. ALDERSON.—They were tenants of the rod.
Witnesses for the plaintiff were called till two
o'clock, when it was agreed that the customary te-
nants should be suffered to angle, provided they ad-
hered to the regulations of Mr. Howard, but without
prejudicing the right of either party.

WESTMORELAND.
SLATER V REISBECK.

This was an action for slander, and the parties
were two rival surgeons in Appleby.
Richard Bateman deposed, I live in Appleby. On
the Bth of January last I was in company with the
defendant in the King's Head Inn. Mr. Reisbeck said
of Mr. Slater, " Dr. Slater is a liar, a thief, and a
scoundrel, and the biggest rascal upon earth, for he
has told me, he had had connexion with most of the
married women in Appleby, anti with Mrs. Cony
among the rest, for anything that 1 know." J. Atkir.-
son, of the Old Brewhouse, was present ; Mr. Atkin-
son, the attorney ; Mr. Herd, the landlord ; and Mr.
W. Rushton, were also present.
Cross-examined.—There had been previous conver-
sation. It was a subject of another nature which led
to this. There had been something said respecting
Mr. Slater. There had been a suit in the Spit itual
Court respecting Mr. Reisbeck's daughter. Mr. Slater
was the man who was the foundation of the action.

Was the suit against you ?—Yes. The ground of
action was, that I said that there had been improper
intercourse between Mr. Slater and Mr. Reisbeck's
daughter. I dare say she was then seventeen. The
subject of conversation was the improper connexion
with the daughter of Mr. Reisbeck. I suppose that
must have been ground of resentment and passion to
thefather. I had said so. I had told that to Mr. Reis-
beck before. I did not then say from whom I heard it.
But you shall now : had you not heard it from
Mr. Slater ?—No, I had not. I named it to him; I
cannot say what feelings it excited in his mind.
You have heat d him boast of his success among the
Ladies ?—Never to my recollection. I am married.
Did you find fault yourself ?—For what?
For his attention to Mrs. Bateman ?—I had never
any cause.
No, no, you had not; but Mr. S!arer always be-
haved well to her ?—I don't know that he was ever
otherwise than civil. _

Too civil, perhaps ?—I don't know that he was.
But you heard ?—No.
He is rather too much that way ?—I don't pretend
to judge.
But you don't pretend to say that he was not so?
—No.
R. Blencarn met with Dr. Reisbeck in his own
house in December or January last. He asked me
if 1 heard anything concerning my friend ; I said—
" What friend ?" lie said, Mr. Slater; that Mrs.
Cotty had been in France bearing a child to him.
He said he believed it to be true, as it came from the
Knobs of the town. lie said he must leave the town
now. I saw Mr. Reisbeck a gay bit afterwards at
my house; he then said of Mr. Slater he was a ras-
cal, a scoundrel, a Bewcastler (Bewcastle is in York-
shire), and wished that we would not employ him at
our house. He said, if he could find the bastard
child, it would help him on his trial very much. He'
said the first time he saw Mr. Heeles in the Castle,
he would ask him about his sister, Mrs. Cotty. He
said that Mr. Slater had said, that he had had connec-
tion with all the women in Appleby but two or three.
By Mr. Justice BAYLEY.—Before Mr. Reisbeck
had said this, I heard a report of Mr. Reisbeck's
daughter and Mr. Slater having had connection to-
gether. She was not with child; Mr. Slater is mar-
ried ; the girl is about 14., or 15, or 16, I don't know
how old.

J. Richardson, Clerk to Messrs. Heeles and Co.
said, he was acquainted with Mr. Slater for seven or
eight years. Mr. Slater is a married man, and has a
wife and children. On the 21,th of March, Mr. Slater
asked Mr. Iteisbeck, in my presence, if he (Mr. Sla-
ter) had ever said a single word to him of Mrs. Cotty
or any other woman in town ? Mr. Itcisbeck said he
never had, and that he would sign any paper to set
aside the report. Next morning Mr. Slater and I
went to him and then he would not sign it: he said
he would have nothing to do with it. Mr. Hecles
in the Castle is one of the Magistrates ; Mr. Rcisbeck
said to me that the report did not come from Mr.
'Slater himself, but from a certain woman in the town,

whom he did not name, as he was going to breakfast
with her.

The Ilev. J. Nlilno•.—l am Vicar of Appleby, and
a Magistrate. I remember Mr. lleisb.•ck coming be-
fore me to make a Jepc•.ition. I mote that def•osi-
tion. The sab•,taacr of it Was given by Mr. Heisbeck.
It was about the 24d or 2:ld harsh. I stated then
that the Mat;isziates were to meet on Saturday, the
21th, and desiied him to come then. I then thought
it was hot api oper subject Inr an oath. In the first
conversation he said he was willing to make that de-
p•osition. On Saturday he wished that his arm might
be cut off if he ever heard Mr. Slater use any such
language respecting Mrs. Cotty or any other Lady.
I have employed Mr. Slatersince.
"1'1;e deposition of William lleisbeck before us.—
I, William Reisbeck, swear that I never in my life
heard Mr. Slater make any reflection on Mrs. Cotty,
and that the reports in Appleby are wholly without
foundation."

James Fothergill.-1. recollect Mr. Reisbeck say-
ing of Mr. Slitter in June last, that the first time he
saw Mr. Ilceles he would ask where that bastard
child was which Mr. Slitter had with Mrs. Cotty?
Ali s. Moses is a mart led Lady in Appleby. Mr.
Slater had :atendcd their family about five years.—
She did riot continue to employ him. She ceased in
February or March, front the unpleasant reports re-
spectity, him, the reports of the nature of the cause
of the action. They were reports which Mr. Slater
himself was said to have circulated.

By the Court.—She had never heard anything im-
proper respecting Miss Reisbeck. She believed Mr.
Reisbeck had but one daughter. The reports re-
hued to the married persons in town.
Richard Bateman re-called.—l did tell Mr. Reis-
beck respecting his daughter, vt ith intent he should
believe it. It was not generally known. There was
much irritation; a quarrel between Mr. Reisbeck
and me, and I threw this in his teeth. I was not the
founder of the story.—Damages, £5O for the plaintiff.

IMPORTANT CASE.—The following case, which is
both novel and important, will be tried before the
Judges at Glasgow, at the ensuing Circuit. In the
`lad year of the reign of King George 11. a statute
was passed, which prohibits the sending of artificers
out of the kingdom, and also the exportation of uten-
sils used in any of the manufactures of Great Br itain
or Ireland. This statute declares, " that any person
who shall be convicted of having persuaded any
workman or artificer of or in any of the manufac-
tures of Great Britain or Ireland to leave the king-
dom, and go into any foreign country not within the
dominions of the Crown, shall forfeit the sum of five
hundred pounds, and be imprisoned in the common
jail for the space of twelve calendar months, without
bail or mainprize, and until such forfeiture be paid."
Some time since Messrs. Robert Thomson and Son,
manufacturers, Hutcheson Town, Gorbals, invented
and established a manufacture of a particular kind
of carpets, composed of cotton warp and woollen
weft. These carpets formerly bad a great sale in
the United States of America. Robert Lee, residing
at Southcroft, parish of Rutherglen, is charged with
having, contrary to the above statute, persuaded and
engaged James Mitchell, carpet-weaver, to leave the
employment of Robert Thomson and Son, and to go
to the United States of America ; and also with
lhaving obtained and attempted to send with him a
machine similar to the carpet-looms of Robert Thom-
son and Son. Mitchell sailed from Greenock for
New York on the 25th of September, 1820. On his
arrival in that town he entered the service of John
and Nicholas Haight, and instructed them to esta-
blish a manufactory of carpets precisely similar to
those manufactured by Robert Thomson and Son.
Messrs. Haight having procured a patent from the
American Government, as the inventors of this de-
scription of carpets, the sale of those of Robert Thom-
son and Son, and all the carpets of the same descrip-
tion, was consequently interdicted in the State of
New York, to the serious loss of Robert Thomson
and Son, and to the injury of the trade and manu-
factures of this kingdom. It. Lee was apprehended
on the above charge, but was bailed.
A singular event has occurred at St. Claude (Jura);
an individual, pursued by the gendarmerie, escaped
his pursuers, and took refuge, in a state of nud!ty, at
the house of a Cure, some distance from St. Claude.
To account for his appearing in this plight, and
making so precipitate an entrance, he announced
himself as the Grand Vicar of the Bishop, who was
immediately to take possession of the Bishopric of St.
Claude ; and stated that lie bad been attacked by rob-
bers in an adjacent wood, who had taken from him
all his property, together with his apparel, and that
it was a miracle he had escaped with life. Conducted
by his host to the house of another Cure, he repeated
the same tale; his new host received him with the
greatest kindness, and with the respect due to his sup-
posed rank in the hierarchy, offering him the best ap-
parel, a gold watch, and 25 louis (all the venerable
pastor possessed), which the pretended Grand Vicar
very readily accepted. They then set out for St.
Claude, where having learnt the residence of the Cure,
they proceeded thither; the Cure was absent, and a
messenger was sent to inform him that the Grand
Vicar wished to see him : the pastor hastened home,
but in consequence of his age and infirmities, had no
sooner reached his house, than he found himself so
much indisposed that he was obliged to retire to his
bed. The pretended Grand Vicar expressed a desire
to remain alone with him for a few minutes, and his
companion retired. The pretended Grand Vicar then
produced a brace of pistols, demanded the Cure's
keys, and having possessed himself of all his valuable
property, succeeded in making his escape.
The city of Saltzburg, the native place of HAYDN,
has lately paid a just tribute of respect to the ashes
of that celebrated Composer. The mortal remains
of the author of the Creation bad reposed almost for-
gotten for fifteen years in the cemetery of St. Peter.—
. The Rector, Wsaircaun, his friend, and the Com-
poser HACKER, his scholar, opened a subscription to
raise him a monument. On the 9th of August, the
, anniversary of his death, this monument, which had
been placed is: the Church of St. Peter, was conse-
crated by a solemn requiem, the music of which was
i the last unfinished work of the illustrious dead in
whose honour it was now played. A multitude of his
fellow-citizens and friends attended this ceremony,
which acquired additional interest by the presence of
his widow.