Star.
London, England, 1820-02-18 00:00:00

• POLICE.

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Bo*-sTittraT.—Yesterday, Michael. P7oed,, Patrick
Murphy, and Wild, were brought to the Office,
and underwent an examination; charged with rob-
bing the burying-ground of the Parish of St. Cle-
ment Danes, in ortugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
of a.number of dead-bodies.—Joseph Crouch stated,
that on Monday morning last, about two o'clock, he
saw all the prisoners enter the burying-ground in
Portugal-street,
_Lincoln's-inn-fields, by a wicket
I gate, and afterwards he watched them, having no
doubt what their object was, when he saw a large
sack thrown over the walli which he had no doubt
contained two bodies, and they brought out a small
sack through the wicket gate, which he had no
doubt contained one body. Both the sacks were put
into a hackney-coach, Which was waiting, and drove
away by the prisoner Wood, whom he knew to be a
hackney coachman ; the prisoners, Wild and Mur-
phy, rode in the coach with the sacks. He followed
the coach to St. Thomas's Hospital, in the Borough,
where the sacks were taken in. On the following
day he gave information to the Parish Officers of St.
'Clement Danes,. of what he had seen, when an exa-
mination of the burying-ground took place; it was ai-
certained that the bodies of three old people, which
had been interred on the Sunday, had been stolen, one
of them 82 years of age, the youngest was 72 ; they
were two women and a man. Only the bodies were
taken, the coffins and shrouds remain. A number
of other bodies, it WAS ascertained, had been stolen,
particularly in what was called the poor vault.—
Application was made at Union Hall Police Office,
for a warrant to search St. Thomas's Hospital for
the stolen bodies, which was granted, and the grave-
digger and his assistant were taken into custody on '
suspicion of being concerned with the robbers. The
three bodies were not found at the Hospital, but
several surgeons were found, with aprons and dresses
-for dissecting a number of bodies, all with •the
heads cut off.-3lr. Gurney, the Rector of the• Parish,
attended, and complained of not having received
proper assistance at Union Hall Police 'Clifice.—The
Vestry Clerk and Sexton of- the Parish also attended.
—The prisoners denied the charge, set up an alibi,
and recriminated upon the w itress Crouch, whom
they charged with having brought forward the ac-
cusation against them from spite cr disappointment,
he being a resurrection man, or body snatcher, as
they are termed ; that he had been such from a child,
and they had no doubt but that be had gone to St.
Clement Danes burying-ground for the purpose of
robbing it, but finding that the ground had been
worked, and the coffins empty,lie was angry because
somebody had been there before him.-2 The prison-
ers were ordered to had bail, or be committed. The
grave-digger and his assistant were discharged.
MARLBOROUGU-STREET.-A youth named GOllet
was charged with stealing a quantity of silver spoons,
the property of-Mr. Nicholson, architect, of London-
street, Tottenham-court road. The prisoner, who
is fifteen years of age, arid an apprentice to a hair-
dresser in Tottenham-court-road, dressed and shaved
the prosecutor for several weeks; and on Tuesday last,
he waited in the kitchen until "the children were
ready to have their hair cut. After he had left the
house, the servant misled three silver spoons, which
were left in a saucepan to wash, and on Mrs. Nichol-
son examining her plate, she missed three others,
which had been stolen at another time. The prisoner,
on being closely pressed, confessed having stolen the
six spoons, and he pointed out one to his master
which he bad concealed between the wainscot and
the wall in the wash-house ; the others, he said, he
had given to another youth named Stephenson,
whose face Mr.PARItANT recognised as an old ac-
quaintance. 'Stephenson denied that Collet bad given
him spoons to dispose cf, and much roguish recii-
mination came out between them. But it turned out 1
that the former had offered to pay for the spoons if
he were let go,. and he was remanded. Collet was,
fully committed for trial.

Aboutlsix o'clock, yesterday morningb a ire broke
out at the dwelling-house of Mr. Arkison, dyer, in
James's-street, Paddington ; it originated in the dry
ing-toom, on the second floor, and had destroyed the'
greater part of the room, together with a quantity
of clothes which were hung up to dry, before it was
discovered, but the house was preserved from being
consumed by the prompt exertions of the firemen,
and a plentiful supply of water.
About eleven o'clock, on the night of Wednesday
tennight, a destsuctive fire was discovered in the
paper-mill -of Buubum, near Aberdeen, which hid
already extended .through all the lower part of the,
building, the names, at the same time communicatp
ing to the drying-rooms above, where, from the coral
bustible nature of the materials, the whole was ass.,
mediately in a state of conflagration; so that, before
the arriv4l of the fire-engines, from the printfield in
the neighbourhood, the roof had fallen in a .such
being the rapid progress of the devonring element,
that in less than an hour from its being discovered, the
mill, with the materials, and entire contents, was re-
duced to a heap of smoking ruins—the walls alone
being left standing.
Friday morning, about one o clock, an alarming
fire broke out in a public-house, in Sandport-street,
Leith, which raged with great violence for some
time, and consumed the.house in which it began.
DoNDEE,Tuesday senaiglit, about three o'clock
in the morning, a destructisee fire broke out in the
premises of Mr. JAMES PATERSON, in the village of
Lochee. The property is composed of two ranges
of buildings, which lately formed one of the most
'extensive sail-cloth manufactories in Scotland, and
two dwelling-houses, one of which and a great part
of the manufactory were consumed to ashes. The
circumstances attending this event are of a very sus-
picious character. The flames were observed to break
out at once at three different places, se distant from
each other as to render impossible any belief of ac-
cidental _communication, and with such force' as to
terrify the'spectators. The fire was completely got
under about ten A. M. 'but was not entirely extin-
guished at floe P. m. and the ruins presented a fright-
ful appearance. Some articles which had bees saved
from the conflagration were placed in the dwelling-
house, to which the flames had not reached; and
next night, this
,house was also discovered in flames:
one of the leathern pipes of the fire-engine had been
cut, with the purpose, it "
supposed, of rendering
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', it unfit for usc.

WONDERFUL EFFECTS OP 4 INIARICANrc

The following extract of a letter from St. Martin's
is strikingly descriptive of the ct3olati .cni occasioned
by the late hurricane in the West Indies, wherein
that island peculiarly suffered:
" St. Martin's, 15tb October, 1819.

"MY DEAR SIR-I should have written to you be.
fore this date, and given you a faint detail of the
disasters this colony has met with, from o, e of the
most tremendous gales that i believe ever happened
on the face of the globe, which took place on the 21st
ult. but my mind was in such a state, that I could.
not put pen to paper till now. From long experience,
and having seen many gales, I amap
sie re
pretty
egoond.
judge of their presages ; and I saw plainly,
ing before, that one was bfewing, and therefore made
preparation, in the best manner I could, for its re:
ception—but all in vain. At day-light the fellow.:
ing morning, it blew hard from the North, and ton=
untied increasing till nine o clock, at which time It
was as severe as ever I had seen ; but by ta*lvs-,
and from that till eleven at night, it was a perfect
tornado—nothing could stand it. The gusts of
wind and torrents of rain came in all directions;
' and, when they came in contact with each other,
the whole country around me could be compared.
to nothing but the ocean in its Most agitated state:
1 had, fortunately, come out with ray family to my
country-house rather earlier this year than custo-
mary, and we were there only ten days when the gale
happened : had we been in town, every one of us
must have been 'buried in the ruins of my town-
house, the upper stories of which were levelled with
the ground, and the deitruction was so general arid
complete, that I don't think it was possible for a rat-
to have escaped. The force and weight of stone that
fell on the floors, tho'ugh supported by pitch-pine
beams of fourteen inches square, broke through them,
carrying furniture, and every thing that was on them,
to the stores below. •It was, perhaps, the very best
private building in any of the islands, standing on a
base of sixty feet square ; and had we been in it at
the time of the gale, my confidence in its stability
was such, that I never should have thought of quitting
it—comequently we must all hare perished.
" The houses of my two daughtei-s stood it out,
though both damaged; and there are now in the
whole town, which is about a mile in length, and
consisting of two streets, not more than twenty-five
houses standing. The town of Marigot, in the French
part of the island, suffered equally; but a fishing-
town in the Dutch parts of above a hundred houses,
is totally annihilated: the sea broke over it illy) a
pond a-back ; and there is now a channel of seven feet
deep through the middle of it. The nurntser of lives
lost is above 100, and as many more dreadfully
maimed and bruised. At day-break the following
morning, the prospect of the country around me was
dismal in the extreme: every tree and shrub, and
every field of canes, that were the preceding day in
most-luxuriant bloom, levelled with the earth ; the
whole face of nature seemed as if fire had passed over
it ; and out of fifteen sugar-works and fourteen &oda
ling-houses, that were within my view, only tvits of
the latter were left standing—one of which Was my
own, though, during the severity of the gusts, it trem-
bled as if in the severest earthquake; and the roaring
of the tempest was such, that we could not hear each
other speak ; and it was with the .greatest difficulty
that myself and seven able Negroes could secure tls
doors and windows from being burst open ; but, by
these exertions, the house did not sustain the smallest
injury.
There were, previous to the gale, sixty- sugar-
works on the island ; out of which only seven now
remain—all the rest reduced to heaps of ruins. Our
Government required, from each inhabitant, an es&
mate of his losses; and, in order to give you a beam.-
idea of our suffering, I send you a copy of mine.—
(The estimate alluded to, amounts to neatly ESO,OOO
currency.)—Many of the small houses in town, of
front 12 to 16 feet square, were carried a mile from
their situations, some of them 200 feet up the face of
the hills. A small sloop of 10 tons burthen, that was
'repairing on the beach, was taken bodily up, mid
carried thrOugh the roof of a large tavern near her;
and lodged on the top of a billiard-table, where slim
now lies very little injured. My kitchen, stable, and
other out-houses, were carried the Lord knows where;
for I have never seen a vestige of them, except one of
the doors. One of ray mill horses was killed, but my.
saddle horses broke Loose and saved themselves." •

LENT ASSIZES—OXFORD CIRCUIT.
➢efore.Mr. Justice HOLROYD and Mr. Jastfee Ilatmarasou4
Essaanzaz—Monday, February 28, at Reading.
oam:trauma—Wednesday, March 1, at Oxford.
Woomuirsasuzaz—Saturday, March 4, at Worcester.
Cat or Wozcsarzs—Same day, at the City of Worcester.
_Searroansunse—Thursday, March 0, at Stafford.
Snaorsotax—VVednesday, March 15, at Shrewsbury.
HasutioansnrozMonday, March 10, at Hereford.
Motrateurmsutur—Saturday, March 25, at Monmouth.
Gaouersreasutar—Wednesday, March 29, at Gloucester.
Crrr or Gusucirzza—Same day, at.the City of Gioucesters
CHESTER SPRING CIRCUIT, 1820.
CUAILLZ4WARZETI,Esq. and &OM Ex.Maassau., Serjeant-at,Law.
Morroostasrantaz--Saturday, March 18, at Pool.

Thonnozautais—Friday, March 24, at Ilia Ida
Fttatstuas--Thursday, March 30, at Mold.
CEssauts—Wednesday, April 5, at the Castle of Chesser.

BIRTH.

Saturday, at Albury Vicarage; iierm, the Lady of the Rev.
John Hammond, of a son.

MARRIED.
At Rathkeale, County of Limerick, W. B. Odell Moulton,
Esq. 80th Regiment, to Marianne Margaret Vause► only daugh-
ter of the Bev. J. Vauae, late of Limerick.

DIED.
On the 28th of January last, at Springfield, near Fames, N.B.
Neil Currie, Esq. formerly Surgeon of the 78th liniment, much
regretted by aU.wbo knew him.
On Tuesday night, the 15th, g Woolwich, at-the house of
her son-in-law, Captain Stewart, Royal Artillery. Mrs. Baker,
relict of the late Captain Hugh Cossart Baker, 27th Grenadiqrss
Jan. 13, in the 82d year of his age, Mr. Jobn Thomson, Park!'
Schoolmaster, MuthiL He was much esteemed for his social
and 'affectionate manners ; was an excellent classical scholar, aid
upwards of 66 years a public teacher of youth.
May 28, at Lodiana, Nepaul country, John Balfour, Esqs
Surgeon in the service of the Honourable East India Company.
In the West Indies, aged 24, Philip Henry Mortimer, Esq.
Surgeon, son of Philip Mortimer, Esq. late of Waterton',
M Margaritta; Henri Blennerhasssett, Esq. son of Captaini
Thomas Blennerhassett, formerly of the Kerry Militia,
At Trinidad, Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson, of the Aida
Army. Hs bad lately joined the South American Patriots,

HIGH-WATER at LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Diming • • 27 minutes after ,5
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