Star.
London, England, 1826-01-30 00:00:00

COURT OF
Tlig ZING v. MARL

JAS. 25.

In this case an information had been filed against the
defendant, Mr..Deare, calling upon him to produce the
Isciok. upon which certain accounts were fouaded, which
had passed the office of the Secretary at War, some 24,
years ago. In the year 1823, the War Office sent a
notice to the defendant, that his accounts (tithe Lanark
arid Dumbarton Cavalry, and other regiments, while
he was an Army Agent, had not proved satisfactory,
and required him to furnish a fresh statement. 'this
the defendant complied with ; and, upon re-examini-
tion of his books, found- out that there wasa balance of
500& due to the Crown, which be paid. The officer,
however, not satisfied with this, then demanded the
ledgers, and out of the refusal to grant them arose the
present proceedings.' The case was new brought before
the Court upon the conriderationsof a Bill of t xceptions;
and Mr. John Williams argued at great length, and
with considerable .power, upon the.extreme.hardship of
compelling the production of items of account after
such a hipse of time, when all recollection must he al-
most extinguished, and when it innst int al possl..e to
produce the vouchers which the War Office never failed
to require on such occasions. He was proceeding to
go further with the merits, when •
The Crum Ha soy expressed himself doubtful of its being agree..
Ole to the practice af.the Court to:hear. objections to the merits II
the present state of the ph-Weeding,.
:Nit, Parrs Wes contenidiafg thatishe Court had: permitted melt a
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course, when
Mr. Warr. for the Crows, consented to waive k 5 ddb to
objecdon.—The Court then orders& air. Williams to ouitlittr'bliP.
argument= Friday nest.

sided in a small house by herself in Chalk-street, Edin-
iburgh, was found dead in her bed on Monday atter-
moon. She had been at Chapel on-the evening betine,
in her ordinary health.
Nlcanday evening, a boy, about three years qld,
re-
siJing in kose-staeet, E.ditsburgh, in the temporary
Liabietice nt his parents, having -,et fire to his night
"clothes, with
.a candle. was. so, shoc,kingly buined that
;he died neati move ng. .
. . • (Monday, a shocking accideut •occurred at Loelnin
A few days since Job and John Case, brothers, of distillery. While a fine young man, about twenty five
Chilfrome, Dorset, were discovered lyinzin the road Iran, of iv, ernvoyed About the nutchin,iyll
meat their horse in a,state of inseissibilittficoro.intOxiCa• hnill vtlieer, pro of, the :hgts caught il'olat.4 a
teen, with two casks of spirits near them, Date of:which, over:frock. which he wow, and threw him. *Ai;
was partly emptied af. its contents. Both of the men isuch violence AsaiAbt a joist above,. the( he wai killed
died shortly after.- in au, instant. .

AVALANCHE AND. INUNDATIONS. 1 r
• •
The following detailfitibeAsaaarferhich happened
in the valley of Caiiil; •OO:tOr'4lla4ay Van. 6), have
I been" transmitted by an iiiti.veittiesip—ji An immense
avalanche of snow detacheriliself like a thunderbolt, at
two o'clock in the afterticern,- from the summit of the
mountain which overlooks 'the village of Porta, and
dragged. with it the greater Oil of ..a wood which was
ist its passage. Several h.:uses were overthrown by the
pressure of the air, and others crushed -.under the weight
fan enormous quantity of snow, trees, and rocks. Part
of the inhabitants had time to fly On hearing the.first
noise made by the breaking away of the avalanche. When
the noise of the tempest had ceased, the fugitives began
to look upon thesitoati n :n which they found then;
selves placed, to see if there was any comfort left for
them, and-their first regard% sce.e, turned to their.habi.
Unions; but the village Arf Porta offered no longer airy.
thing but a spectacle of horror •and desolation. The
inhabitants who had not had time to escapefrcirry,tig
danger remained buried in the tuinkof she houses, and
Ithe first care was taken to relea,e them. One young
man perished in the ruins: • "His mother, covered with
I bruises, 'had the misery to see her two other ions
wounded, and one with a broken* thigh. Many cattle
and sheep have perished. We expect soon to discover
other misfortunes. Terror was at its height. Ti;e the.t; e
of this fatal event is a poor isolated spot, lost in the
I farthest mountains of the Eastern Pyrenees, and is now
a land of mourning, of tears, and of despair."
Great inundations have happened, in the unfortunate
and now truly miserable Venetian States, and the Pa..
duan, Vicentian, Trevigian, Bassarian, &c. &c. in con.
sequence of the breaking of the different dikes of the
rivers and the torrents of the mountains, as well as the
great overflow from two months of continued rains;
nothing is seen but immense masses of marble p4laces,
tops of houses of different villages, sheep, oxen, horses,
and a quantity of dead human bodies floating on the
once Airy land: Tlx River Piave burst from its ancient
banks in twenty-three places, as far as the mountains of
Narvesa, and destroyed the country round, for . nearly
20,000 acres, a distance of more than four miles. The
Lakes of Venice have received the great flood of the
rivers in such qnantities, that all that part of the
Adriatic has become like frish water, and has no longer
the smallest taste of the briny ocean. At Venice it has
ruined all the wells, and the property of more than
2,000 individuals has suffered.
Accounts from the Grisons say, that on the Bth of
December several -carriers were surprised by an ava-
lanche on Mount Al ulia, but extricated themselves.
On the 22d, a great mass of snow fell from the same
.Mountain, and buried under it the post from Engadin,
with 17 persons, and 15 loaded 'sledges. Some of
them were able to make their way out, and extricated
the others.