Star.
London, England, 1818-11-12 00:00:00

DREADFUL FIRE.

Another calamitous fire happened on Tuesdaynight
last, about eight o'clock, at the house of Mr. George,
of No. 62, Ratcliffe-highway, butcher, which is di-
rectly opposite that of the late Mr. ionnor's, who
perished in the late conflagration with his son. Tues-
day night Mrs. George, as was her usual custom,
prepared the children to put them to bed, three of
whom she generally let sleep on the second floor, and
the youngest, an infant boy, slept in her own cham-
ber; at about seven o'clock Mrs. George put the
whole of them to bed, after which she went down
stairs, and had sat in the parlour upwards of an hour,
when an assistant boy came to her, and said to her,
" Mistress, I smell something like fire." She answer-
ed, "It could not be there, and told him it must
proceed from the ruins of the house of Mr. Bonnor.
The place, however, began to fill with smoke, and
smelt, very strong, which induced Mrs. George to
proceed up stairs ; on her arrival at the top of the
stairs, the flames came out of the door of the first
floor in a most furious manner ; her screams brought
assistance; some of the persons who came, on hear-
ing that children were asleep up stairs, proceeded thi
then, but after getting them out of bed, their passage
was stopped by the flames issuing up the stairs, when,
to save their lives, they were obliged to let the chil-
dren and themselves out of the back window.. The
poor child on the first floor perished in the flames,
although every thing was done to rescue him. A
family in one of the back apartments narrowly es-
taped with their lives. Several engines arrived in
about a quarter of an hour after the fire commenced,
and there being a plentiful supply of water, the
flames were soon subdued, but not before the whole
of the inside was burnt to the ground. The whole of
the furniture was destroyed. The inmates of the ad-
joining houses saved them from catching fire, by
throwing water on the walls, &c. previous to the ar-
rival of the engines. The fire commenced, it is sup-
posed, in consequence of the curtains of the bedstead
catching fire in the first-floor apartment, unperceived
by Mrs. George, when she put the unfortunate child
to bed. Yesterday morning, when the fire was put
out, the body of the child was found, and conveyed
to a house near at hand for a Coroner's Inquest.

DREADFUL. ACCIDENT BY FlREwoats.—The mes-
senger of an apothecary in Kentish Town, who was
employed to carry medicines about to the several pa-
tients of his master, had, on the sth of November,
purchased a quantity of squibs, two dozen of which
he had put into his breeches pocket. As he went
along, he let one of them off, but unfortunately some
of the sparks thereof coming in contact with the
touch-paper of those in his breeches pocket, almost
instantaneously set them in a blaze. The boy was
terrified, and did not put his hand into his pocket for
fear of burning it ; in vain did he call to the by-
standers, for they were equally terrified with himself.
Shortly, a tremendous explosion was heard, and the
spectators were shocked by the horrible sight of his
bowels gushing from his abdomen. The shrieks of
the boy roused the beholders at length to a sense ofl
charity, and he was shortly after carried to St. Tho-
mas's Hospital, where he now lingers with very slen-
der hopes of his recovery.

MURDER.—Thursday night last a shocking murder
was committed on Newmarket-heath, on the body of

a poor man, who travelled round the country as a
higler. He was on his return home, when he was
stopped by some villains, who, after dragging him
out of his cart, robbed him of all the money he had,
and blew his brains out with a pistol. The body,
when discovered, was lying on the mad, quite dead,
and the blood and brains strewed all around. The
villains effected their escape undiscovered.
On Sunday morning a man called at the house of
Mr. ROBINSON, surgeon, 59, Great Portland-street,
with a note, saying he was to wait for an answer,
and while the footman was gone up stairs with it to
his master's bed-room, the fellow took the opportu-
nity of decamping with three great coats, which were
hanging up in the hall, and got clear off.