Star.
London, England, 1826-08-24 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Stirling and a respectable
Jury sarembled together at the sign of the Three Kings,
in Clerkenwell-close, to inquire touching the death of
William Parker, aged 63 years, and Susannah Elisa-
beth 'Hasson, aged 8 years, eh° lost their lives at the
fire .on Saturday night last.
Jane Blakeman, a child, just turned 13 years of age,
deposed, that she lived as an articled servant with Mr.
and Mrs. Parker, in Wilmington-square; the went to
'bed about eleven o'clock on Saturday night ; before she
went to bed she shut the shutters in the front kitchen,
and put down the candle whilst she did so, on the iron-
ing kroaid; she did not perceive any sparks fly from the
candle at the tine. About ten o'clock, Mr. Parker, her
master, coi.ked some giblets for Mts..Parker's supper,
and atter he had done, and they were taken op stairs,
she pot the fire out in the back kitchen, by throwing
nearly a quart cf water upon it; she locked the door
of the front kitchen after she bad shut the shutters, and
no person went into it after, to her knowledge. After
she went up to her bed room her mistress called to her,
and asked if she had fastened tip the house safe. She
aeon to her bed room door, and answered I. Yes." She
was awoke in the night by a noise, and thought it was
thieves in the neat house, as they had been there some
time back ; she get up and went down stairs; and soon
after she got down to the kitchen stairs; some person
dragged her out of the house; she left all the children
up stairs, and eid not know until she came down that
the house was on fire: When she went up to bed, she
left Mr. and Mrs. Parker at supper. The front kitchen
was boarded, and had not had any fire in it for some
tinse.eit was used as a dining and dressing room for the
young ladies, and a store room for their linen. The
back kitchen, where the tire was that cooked the giblets,
was a stone floor, and a high fender was before the
grate ; and she was sure the fire was out before she left
rt to go to bed. When she was taken out of the house,
she was going to return, but was prevented. The eldest,
Miss Emily Parker, was the neat that was got out of
the house, and the others were got out after her. The
above was the only evidence that had reference to the
unfortunate origin of the fire. The other witnesses only
detailed circumstances already stated in the account c.f
the fir*. The veediCt of the Jury was—" Accidentally
bJrnt to death."

The Etoik contains a further portion of the Firman,
giving an official, and apparently a faithful, account of
the causes which led to . the suppression of the Janis-
saries, as well as of. tht -Manner in which that measure
Tad been accomplisto; its far as it related to the capital.
One curious circumstance is mentioned in this Mani-
festo (if so we may call it), and it is mentioned with
becoming indignation. Among those, we are told, who
were arrested and executed, 41 wretches" were discovered
who had marked on one arm the si sign of the 75 orta,
and the Cross of the Christian.." We can imagine the
pious horror which every true and faithful Mussulman
must have felt at this discovery.
ACCIDNIT AT Pram/tat FAlL—Yesterday,
Tuck, misting at Camberwell, while playing incauti-
ously with a leopard at one of the shows, had his wrist
seized by the animal, and but for the exertions of the
keepers, who thrust a shovel into the animal's mouth,
would have lost his hand. It was, however, much la-
related, and it is feared must be amputated.
Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in the workshop
of 'Mr. Abbott, a carpenter, residing at No. 17, Hollen-
street, Wardour-street, Oxford-street. The house was
destroyed, but the fire was fortunately prevented frens
speaJing.

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LORD CHAO SO. , :ma MR. BURNIUT.

The Ryon of the Corn*goners appointed en **-
quire into the charges made against the C.lonlal Go-
vernment of the Cape of
_Good Hope, by Mr. Bishop
Burnett, has been printed, and we subjoio an abstract.
Mr. Burnett's principal grounds of complaint were—
lit. Certain acts of alleged injustice and Illegality In the decisions
of two Members of a Commission of Circuit, who Ind tried seve-
ral cases wherein be was plaintiff and defendant in 11123.
ed. The severity and oppression of his opponents, and the con-
duct of the 3equestrator in inserting his insolvency iu the Game
prematurely.
Ed. The partial and Irregular system of purchase of green crops
by the Commissariat, and its refusal to pay for certain quautities
taken from him chic. Barnett).
And lastly. His unjust banishment from the Colony.
Mote tecently also, Mr. Burnett has complained of
the conduct of the Commissariat, in respect to a farm,.
called 5 mrerset Farm, and also of the refusal of the
Authorities to allow him (t!r. Burnett) rations in the
same way as other settlers.
In answer to the labt ground of complaint, the Com-
missioners state, that Mr. Bnrnett hAti ssithdrawn from
his engagements as a settler before he left England,
and, therefore, was not entitled to rations. It appears,
however, that he did receive r.itions to the amount of
720 dollars, for which sum !,e is still indebted to Go-
vernment.

In 1820, Mr. Burnett obtained a lease from Mr. Hart
of a farm near Graham's Town, and a grant of Go-
vernment land. His object in leasing Doom Valley
was to raise green crops far the cavalry stationed in
Graham's Town. He made several erections and im-
provements, estimated at 20.000 dollar . A dispute
arose between him and Mr. Hart about the fen', which
Mr. Burnett insisted was one hundred dollars per
annum, while Mr. H. alleged it was three hundred dol-
lars. The case was ultimately decided against Mr.
Burnett, who when called on for payment, made oath
that he had assigned the whole of his protest), to
Messrs. Ebden and Eaten, on which the Sequel
trator declared him insolvent by an advertisement
in the Gazette. It does not appear, though it has been
so asserted, that the Commissioners of Circuit, whose
province it was, gave any opinion respecting this act of
the Sequestrator. Mr. Burnett was finally ejected, in
virtue of this declared insolvency, by the judgment of
the. Court. Several other actions took place between
Mr. Burnett and Mr. Hart; in one of which Mr. B. it is
said, took occasion, in defending himself, to read a most
virulent libel again: t ti e Government, without, however,
being challenged on account of it. Wi-en ejected from
his farm, Mr. Burnett was only allowed 1,300 dollars,
instead of 20,000; but the Commissioners gate, that
part of the improvements were injudiciously made, and
part destroyed, before Mrs Hart recovered possession,
and they think 1,300 dollars a fair remuneration.
The attempt to connect these law proceedings, and al-
leged irregularities in the Commissioners of Circuit with
the Officers of Government, arose out of the refusal of
Government to pay Mr. B. a claim of 1,280 dollars for
green crop cut en Mr. B.'s farm. Colonel Somerset did
-not think that more than 280 dollars were due. It at,.
pears that the forage was cut before the limits of Mr.
B.'s allotment had been accurately laid down. It is one
of the. complaints of Mr. Burnett, in his Petition to the
House of Commons, that rosterior toApril, 1821, twenty-
three stivers were pail by Government for rations pro-
cured from Somerset Farm, while he should have been
glad to furnish them at ten stivers. In answer to this
it is stated, that several previous contracts had been
abandoned, which had been entered into at a higher rate
than ten stivers, and that the only one subsequently
,made was mueh higher. The Somerset-farm Contract
terminated finally in September, 1824. The sum saved
to Government by the establishment from 1816 to 1824,
amounted to 442,000 dollars.

The libel for which Mr. Burnett was banished from
the Cape was, it is well known, in the shape of a Me-
morial against the Commissi,ners of Circuit, in which
he taxed them with "gross ignorance of duty, injustice,
oppression, and corruption." The Memorial was sent
to the Governor. Tne prosecution was grounded on
the Dutch law, and, as subsidiary to it, the Roman law,
which the public prosecutor and the Court &elated to
be the law of the Colony. The Commissioners are of
opinion, on reference to precedent, that no doubt can be
entertained of the authority upon which the prosecu-
tion was funded. T.,e Fiscal stated, however, that be
had not found any case precisely in point, and that it
was on an application of the general principles of the
Roman-Dutch law that the sentence proceeded.
It does not appear that the slightest expectation has
ever been held out to the English settlers, that they
would be placed under different laws from the rest of
the Colony. After the trial, Mr. Burnett was suspected
to be the author of an infamous libel on the Governor,
of which two copies were placrrded in Cape Town, but
no proof of this was obtained ; certain writings, how-
ever, reflecting on Lord Charles Somerset, being found
in Mr. Burnett's possession, be was considered to be
abusing the liberty allowed him, of going at large alter
the appeal had been finally decideit against him. He
was, in consequence, ordered to be arrested, but escaped
to England.

Dutch Papers to the 83d contain advices from Bata-
via of the 10th April, but nothing of any general interest.
Warcu AND CLOCK-MAXXIL? PZNINION
Tuesday, the Subscribers to this excellent Institution
held their ninth anniversary at Highbury Barn Tavern;
Mr. Sheriff Kelly in the Chair. The Company con-
sisted of nearly 180 persons connected with the business
carried on in the parishes of Clerken well and St. Luke's.
M inday Mr. MAW'S/1M took his leave of the Bir-
mingham audience, in the character of Hamlet. It
being understood that in a few days this actor would
cross the Atlantic, the house was crowded in every part.
DNA TX ay FIGHTING.. —A man of the name of Marten
was killed in a pugilistic combat with another named
Conygham, in Mr. Mason's fields at Watford, on Tues-
day. The fight lasted one hour and h half, and death
was a casual consequence.
A desperate engagen.ent lately took place upon Mn.
Robert Mat king's farm, at Newport, between the fe-
male gleaners of that parish and those of Waddington,
originating in a dispute as to which piny that parecu-
lar field belonged. After making a number of black
eyes still blacker, bloody noses, and a good deal of
scratching, the Newport ladies came off victorious.
GRONINGEN, Aug.l7.—The Board of Health at this
place has published a long statement respecting the
fevers prevalent here, declaring that the reports that
have spread in other places respecting the nature of the
disease are entirely incorrect ; that the fevers ate the
usual de-caption of bilious fevers, which have often j
afflicted this and other provinces in former years, but
that they are not in she slightest degree contagious, sot
are more persons seized than on fo:mer occasions.

. BRIGHTON, Amur M.
His Royal Higbee's the Doke of Tort eimehmes handy toasted
in health. His only medical attesdants remain, Sr M. J. Tierney,
and else surgeon Mr. 111'0r:rot.
The weather today has been lewdly. Our whole world of
fashion has been is the rides; Mr. Canning was on honeback.
The Right Hem. the Speaker left es this Mornhig, but returns on
Friday. Lord Lisburne left us ea Sunday, but returns to the New
Steyne Hotel tomorrow,—cram welch house. Lord and Lady
Charles Somerset and family, and Lord and Lady Barnard, set off
for town this morning. The gaff of °knell, sad the Hon. Mr.
Anseo, left the Royal York Hotel. in the Southampton steam
packet, this miscuing ; Mr Godfrey Webster is yet remaining at the
said inn; the Baronets yacht Is riding at anchor of the town. The
Russian Ambassador, Count Lieven, and the Countess, ate ex-
peered to retort' to tbe Royal York Hotel this evening.
Mrs. Canning, and a gay assemblage of tea. IP** interest and
brilliance to the Pomp-room, at the German Spa, this morning,
and drank the mineral waters. It is pleasing to report, that the
health of Mrs. Canning la much improved since taking the above
waters, and that the most satisfactory results are acknowledge
in other quarters.