The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-24 00:00:00

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. POLICE.
FIRE...4T 1110SCOM 1 41 Thig wlinderfal coofiogintion caused all the for-
--smo--- laifications of the Toe ti-wall to fall, and. all the ". --em—
The late tenfiagratiun is not the first by which ordnaoce that were upon it to burst. The walls were
Farringdon ssitbin, present
("ItiILORALT.—The Sentlenten of the Inenest for the Ward of
.M. Beoxast) a-Woman of theetinallporeofthi.,,alliit,tii4ii,gonaAhlteinaniamilr,
that city has been vieited. We extinct the following made of brick, according to the • ancient way of
a shol at No. 41, Mintkivell-street, for the tale of'
bread ;:nd
curious narrative from a pamphlets publielled Brier : building, without either fortifications or ditches.—
the file of London, nhich happened in September Many that had saved themselves among them, were, 80ltn Id. fotog in her shop exposed to vile, a quentity of
t:66, and whieb our Readers will find in the liar- nevertheless, roaSted, so fierce and vehement was the Y
seiezfelnuTillieVrt, cielivreihn7ottew 1 nv'eehrUulaancd nine''d"
Ma ,;trace and of the
leion Miscr`Clary, vol. ili• P. `=B3l edition 171.3. tire ; among them netny -Italians and Walloons of : half (pastern loaves,
- : a deficiency of PI °team.
ap•aereelyn:wwaweneiugeereel
aiipiopth quay
tear pertieteustucecouf
h sun
In this eamphlet. the writer, after describing the my acquaintance; while the fire lasted, we thought ;
fire of London by 1'2,000 houses, and property, filet a million of caminns had been thundering to
The woman alleged that she bad no knowledge of, cr privi.ty
estimated attoerther at 7,335,0001. were destroyed, gather, and our thoughts were upon nothing but death,
ixtet. trayetndealer 3 shop,
' to, she Offenee. !She did not hake the bread, nor was she in 'a
gives the following Act gout of a plague and a fire in thinking the fire would
©seallat some days, because of the condition to
_kno,w that it was deficient in weight, as she did nut
11114' had any occasion tor weights, sell-
Aleseow : great circumference of th tle and suburbs ; but all , d and biscuits. The bread now seized on had
" MoscoW, the chief city of all the-countries of ,this was done in less then for hours time, at the end ;been'
„;,,,plies to her by a Mr. Briggs, a baker, redding No.
the Emperor of Ituesia, is a very'great city, but not of which, the noise growing less, we were curious to lfri, cohlen-Leue, and on hint, she submitted, the love ought to
well compacted ; it bath, in compass, with the know, whether the Tartarians, of whom we stood in !
i The Worthy Alderman (Sir M. MAX %II) mid, as the baker
; did not live within the jurisdiction of the City Magistrates, he
Suburbs, well inhabited, and as full of people as the no leas fear than of the lire, were entered—they are
town, about three German leagues and a half, which a warlike people, though they eat nothing but roots, could onlyl look to the person in whose possession, expiaed far
mnketh about fourteen English miles; the compass and such other like substance, •and drink only w ater. •
sups ttoiewillil;tecettl:eatil.ihboettiovifati2tnd. Wurren
:Elite :lilt
co u grl
cat
_to:lit the
inoha rd -
exposed, in consequence poor
of the high price ol; !wend, art..ilieltlilf
of the town, within the walls is about three English 'The greatest Lords imOngst them feed upon flesh,
miles ; the streets and pathways are of grant trees, baked between a horse and the saddle, wherein every
ti there were
of life, he iv ae filled ss t indignation, in mean.,
set close together, and some boards by the houses , risieth dusts',rsema ; neverthetess they are very . calaLmilitie.s.wertLinheandwoni"!tth'n„Vdatlylinmkagaf ;tlfirgiaellilychale"..rt
side; and it i so dirty in rainy wtather, Chet
it : strong, and inured to all hardships, as also one baker to one-half the full cetera, and, on reeection. he was
sillerillml
is impossible to go through the city, otherwise ate their hotees, oho are wonderfully swift, and eoshtturlxdtiellite sou I iirfdot:rde
th:rwr an resotl:aertd :lot indict it to
than on horseback ; according to the -custom of will travel further, in one day, eating nothing hut pay, in the present insetance,r the' full therefore, that
amouenl7,asnygri
the country, where horses are of small value, mid of grass, than our's would do in three, upon costs, to 51. which, there naslittle doubt, she Would be enabled
served
deoverfniin the baker with whom she dealt, and olio de-
little expetice. never being shod for any journey what.. ' oats ; therefore, 'the Tarearians come so easily from being made an example of.
ever, unless it be during the ice. The houses are !60 far, to invade the Russians. They have also that „
iiI)W4STREFT.— /k young man in the. employ of a relicceilil e
but one story high, or two at the most, all builtl craft,' that they only come in the summer, for the silversmith, in the Struid, was eeamined before Mr. 1311:•411',:tt
with wood, set up at the top of one another ; ; coliveniericy of their horses : their country is tempe- thi.•Otticei on Thuretay bg, charged with defraudine his 'ern_
there are, ill the ci:y, suburbs, tied castles, about ; rate, from whence they come about the latter end ri purchased Ph
e d at asiiiinistr`..r"viihat lir
the in value to MI. 24. li'trLanateistlleurt.nt, austahriat tinie ago,
tire thousand live hundred churches, built, for the ' of Februarys that they spay lee in Russia about
I'f mornings sink, Lie 'lls.lller.
most pact, like.chapels, most of them with gorat ; beginning of Jane, and go back again into their own who
t was a confideutial servant, was sent to receive the money,
Ir °A Pe`tre • 1.1 P
trees set one upon another. Thegreat Duke's lodge I country at the end of it, lest they should be over- :Zug' ,ASI• rOa his him
he nolilisli7irveerd et"hatt:nttli"einw.i„rhtlaveljrnirnit
lug is also built of woOde which he thinketh whol- I takn by the winter in Russia ; which if it should connection with Mr. Coitus had taught him the value of money,
ascolaurtroo.fra/fsluv•alisicctriet, tetelidadbdedtzteitlrofieheldtforrom dile:olas
tdis-
somas than stone; the castle is pretty well fortified i failleut they would he all starved, because of the
with walls and broad ditches ;it occupieth as much great deserts uninhabited, containing above three pawed over, until cire nuts-Mixes occurred which raise:dinsausreir-
roum as all the rest of the city—on one side of it hundred German leagues, and, therefore, void of don ; the Prisoner tea; apprehended and taken before a Magis-
trittz s•rialemn Swirdfc'il Burdetta earactrtittd
he
ed
apardodauizeda hisaa Banker'.
disc
dwell the Sins, on the other the A ptisins,who are the all relief, as well for themselves as for their horses,
Treasurer's of the greatDake,in whose hands, as soon there being then no grass upon the ground, which whatever, on the contrary, he laid paid even the odd .eann. ell.
.lei oneconee, you melt put in all your merchandises. constraineth them to make such a journey, which is . The Prisoner was fully committed for trial.
Urnov-nser..- About a fortnight ago the Norwich Expedi4,
Being dePartedirom Nerva, althut the 10th of July, above- twelve hundred German leagues, in four or `
brow;. don was robbed in its was from Norwich to London of a anall
1570, we came, on the beginning of August, to five months time, with all their army, which con- : paper parcel, ceniaining Norwich aod Ipswich Bank-
Moscow, where I found • the great Duke and his sisteth commonly of about one httsdred and fifty notes amounting to upwards of 50001. As soon as information
rCtillinghottre was sent to Norwichao &t-
-akers, buoy in seeking out Omit thirty persons, thousand, or two bemired thousand horses, as good as : 733 received i" tors
who fell all wider the sword of the common hang- can be ; having forall wenpons, a jack of mail, a dart, • aratown o'or te?rldracavenituirniennewke7iyth tanmia"nsionnrceinis'tagewrheofigrrmederi°
man, etcept'One, %Vile Wall cast alive in boiling water; and bow and arrows ; they know nothing of what i helmeted to the coach, either as coachman or horse-dresser. Ist;
i Prisou,'r underwent a long. private examination before Mr.
and this, because they had taken bribes : most of belongeth to guns, having in all their country bat NAME, and was remanded tor further eamination.
them were great Lords, and fainiliars with the great two cities wherein the Emperor keepeth his Court, I m est.—Rebore Roberts, ti ho had been reietmiled
3)uke ; others were merchants' of Novogorod, with without any villages or houses, but are contented to .
fromrida AT;onVe
flitch; irntlar,
the charged on suspicion
ing of foicirgentery Isles
:area
on
their wires, children, and familiess accused of tree- live under tents, which they remove to and fro, as Fyrged, evidence wit be sud 'to
son in behalf of the King of Poland. Few days they see occasion. i hint.
I A person of the name of RickerelN„ a clerk in the employ-
after, a horrid plague invaded the town of Moscow, " But to come again to our misery, after we had ment of Mesas. Roberts, Curtis, and Co. charged with eieber-
and the places about it, with such violence, that in hearkened awhile, we heard some Russians running zlingttvlairious su.msdof inuircicy,. thi:
trial.
rty of his employers,
four month' there died above two hundred and fifty to and fro, through the smoke, who were talking of ; waLe„:"'enc,"7„nrittees Cork, two tesviolisb7s,"the one only 11, aril the
thousand people ; and it was particularly observed, walling the gates, to prevent the coming of rho Tar- I other only seven.yeare fag'. were cheered with foreine 3 dr:iit
that in eight days, that is from the 10th to the 18th tarians, who were expected, when the fire went out. i for al. on the house of essi. Fry and Co. in Mildred's-court,
ud
of August, there died teeo thousand seven hundred I, and my interpret( r, being come out of the maga, ,
el.ehotnasitry,
itar?‘.oitrotnig
thetntnetb,P(tta dptsildtenfand nst:trt4:r3ingollythne saXiii-
and three priests ; and this plague (lid continue so :
7,10 e, found the ashes so hot, that we durst scarcelon Wednesday last, the check was presented^ for payment at
fiercely, that, in the end of it, every one wondered tread ePoti them • but necessity compelling us, we I Fry'sebienking-irse, liy thedynneer boy.! was at once dis:
when he shet any body of his acquaintance. This ran towards the chief gate, where we found twenty- f:,"tlie to
ottillce aurtoirtfiter.w"asancatechised
Brown,
tahned Officer,
,e a who Ming
nc, „a t
.extreorditiary misery was (allowed the year after, on five or thirty men escaped from the fire, with whom, ; confeased that he had received it from his ',tether, ,he said,
the 15th of May, by a strange ruin and contiagra- in a feW hours, we did wall that gate, anti the rest,
•i rlirlopeefoarthei-Ttri„n tth we • street.iert t e (I.llP.iettrieandsaraciansnuneinedialtiorocsav;
(i,idnye
lion; the occasion was, that the Emperor of the Tar- and kept a strict watch all that night with some guns ' It did not appear in what manner they obtained use Week
{Arians being discontented that the Russians did apt that had been preserved from the tire ; in the morn- check, which had been titled up, nor did it turn out how they
pay him some menial tribute; and beeriest besides, jag, learned that Jolly and Co. kept cash at Cry's boo e. The elder
seeing that the place was not defensible with so Prisoner said, he had been directed to write the check by an-
that the great. Duke, by his tyranny and massacres, few people.as we were, we sought the means to get ' other boy, but who that boy was did not appear. , -
has so depopulated the country,, that be shout,' find i into the restie, whose entry was then inaccessible : , -The Loao Meteor. °trend theelder boy the option of being
no great resistance that way, did summon him to pay I the Governor was very glad to hear of our intention, lent to sea, oto take his trial; hi;saasidrheenidid.oode sot wish to go
ato
the said tribute ; but the great Duke returned no- !and cried to us, that we should be very welcome . nex,ta. cried very much be a until i
thiug in answer but spiteful and repreechfel words ; ;
i but it was a most difficult thing to come in, because
wherefore the Tartariati came out of his country, llt appeared, that their mother is a poor washer-woman, red-
ding at Mile-end.
; the bridges were all burnt, so that we were fain to i -
about the end of February, followed with ite army I get over the wall; having, instead of ladders, . . MARLIIOROUOVIATRIRST.OOI/k, the eederant. Vere-street pub-
about
of one hundred thousand horse, who, within rho liatati, who was sentenced to two years' imptiernwmietr
hltrnotwitftie
some high fir-trees thrown from the castle to us pillory, for detestable praefices, was
ref t
space of two months and a half, did ride about five : wherein instead of rounds to vet they had
t up, be a trAaegralina, !nth
hundred German leagues ; which make two thou-an assault, uncle, nthrge following cireitin:
stances :—The rrosecutor was at work* the house of Mr. 5--, 1
; made some notehes' with a hatchet, to keep us i a gentleman I. Ake neighbourhood of North. Awney-street, I
land English nudes : when they were come about ;from eliding l—we got up them with much ado ; : when, Cook knocked at the deor, and the Prosecutor answered
two days journey from the frontiers of the Duke, hel
; for, besides the evident inconvenience of those : It• in the absence of the servinst. -Cotik Mired that his name
resolved to meet them, and to give them battle ; but ;rough ladders we did carry about us the sum of ; IRMA brakes to Mr. S. and that he had just come out of New- !
he lost it with a prodigious slaughter of his men. The .
I four thousand' th 1 '
a ers,besides some jewels, which gore. Mr. S. was confined to his bed, add be desired the door
;to be Shut against the Defendant. which wits done. Cook bee.,
Duke, knowing that the Tartarlan would seek him i
I was a great hindrance to us to climb along those high labusive, and, in the mpst dlsgueting. lenguage,
Out, ran away as fast as he could ; he was only trees , and charged tie Prosecutor, as well as Mr. S. with having been
that which did double came vei
le our fear, was, that . part of the vile gang who formerly frequented his house in Vere-
within nine leagues of Moscow, when the Tartarians
.we saw. before our eyes some of our company, that I street.
Came and encompassed . the town, thinking. he was ; had nothing 'hut their bodies to save, yet tumble The Prosecutor., who swore htmself to have lately returned
tame
within. They set afire all the villages round about i d •' from abroad, denied any knowledge of Cook or his auociates.
own from the middle of those high trees into thel He followed the Defendauts into the street. and, pullinicitr his
It ; and seeing that the oar' would prove too todi. Bite:,, full of burht batiks, so that. we could not tread! hat for better Sdentity,• insisted on their retracting what they had
ed. Th
elm for them, resolved to burn that great city, or at . but upon dead corpses, whose heaps were so thick I allege woman commenced an assault, and aided by the
least, the suburbs of it : for this purpose, having 'every were,violeuce of Cook, the Prosecutor gut roughly handled.—The
that 'we could not avoid to tread upon defence was, that Cook went to tho'honee to get some money
pieced their troops round about it, they set fire on ; climb 119 • and that I due to rim; a°4l, on
them, as if it had been a hill tobeing ordered to find hwil, it was stated.
all sidee, so that it seemed a burning globe; then „Neil did .
augmen ourtrouble was, that in treading
t ''' • that
befo ;before
euc a scene wonid be presented at the Sessions as was never
did rise so fierce and violent a wind, that it drove the . disclosed, Cook gave his address.. 47, Upper Ratlihoae-
-1 upon them their arms and legs broke like glass; the place; and the bail were, Cook, Long-lane, Bermondsey, and
rafters and long trees from the suburbs into the city;
poor limbs of these creatures being calcined, by the arKeimie, Castle-street, Oxford-street.
the conflagration was so RUd(101), that nobody had vehement heat of the fire, and our feet sinking into Cook was also charged at Queen-square Office,
.on Wedoes-
hTia,
ins ass:
time to save himself, but in that place where lie was those miserable bodies, the blood and the filth did sdianyn'rels'it it‘netttn:isaactiLe.titirotielii•cesiefiturundaie:tii
l'ilsdtsr enifr`tl,l.7;
nen.. :The persons that were burnt in this fire, were squirt is our faces, which begot such a stench all the brethren to the Megistracy, at the time of their conviction, and.
Mont 9,00,0q0; which did happen, because the the langnage of the former now le, that the whole will be ea-
town over, that-it was impossible to subsist in it.
~ D posed in a pamphlet.
houses are all *of wood, and the streets paved with
Die twenty-fifth of May, in the evening, as we
treat. fir.trees, set close together, !phial being oily ,
expected, in great perplexity, what the Tartarians
and resinous; made- the iticendy 'inexpressible —so
would attempt agaiisstus who were about four bun-
that in four *hours time, the city and suburbs were . . . $
deed in the castle—the Tartarians whim wetted sa-
'wholly consumed. I and a young man of Rochelle,
luted with our Suns, and killed '
. some of them that
that was my interpreter, were in the middle, of the w
ere coming too near one of the castle gates, began
lire, in a magazine vaulted• With stone, and extraor- ,
if to go back the same way that they came in, with so i
• dinarily strong, whose wall was three feet and aha ..
. . much speed, that the next morning all that torrent
thick; and bad no air but on two sides ; one wherein
was drained up, for which having given God thanks I
seas the coming in and going out, which was a long' .
and set our business in order, as well as the present .
alley, in which there were three iron gates, distant
Ca . w ,
laty would permit, we went away from that de-
about six feet from each other; on the other side . ,
mi
t place"
there was a window or grate, fenced with three iron Is'-e
flutters, distant half a foot one from another : we i
The great Duke was John Bnsilides, the famous Tyrant.
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'Shut them inwardly; as well as possibly we could : ,
nevertheless, there came in so much smoke,. that it
was more than sufficient to chock us, had it not
been for some beer that was there, with which
we 'refreshed ourselves now and then. Many Lords.
and Gentlemen were stided in the caves, where they
had-retired, became their houses being made of grey{
trees, when they fell, they crushed down all that
'was underneath;' others being consumed to ashee;
stopped all the passages of going and coming out, so
that for want of aiethey all perished: the poor eou et ry
people that had saved themselves in the city,with their
cattle, from threescore miles round about; seeing the
kOnflagroion, ran all into the market-place, which is
isot paved with woodes the rest ; nevertheless, they
were all roasted there, in such sort, that the tallest
man %pouted bat a child, so much had the fire con-
trecteri their limbs ; and this was by reason of the.
great houses that weretound about it. A thing snore
hideous and frightful than any tan Imagine, in many
places ofthe said market, the bodies were piled, one
. upon another, to the height itiattif a pikerwhith put
me in a wonderful admiration; being not able to ap-
prehend, nor understand, how it• was possible they
etteald be so heaped together.

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.1+ letter from New Orleans, dated August 12, says, i
" On yeduesday night . last, about ten o'clock, a
isle Umnneticea, eCeasithraily necompenied with visio '
and hail, end. hich 'continued with a most dreadful
violence for upwards of four hours. As we have ne- .
vet:. witnessed any thing to equal it, neither do we be-
lieve
the imagination can picture to itself a scene i
more truly awful and dietressing than that which its i
• consequences present. The market-house, a large 1
i and solid building, entirely demolished ; its brick cos- I
lumns, of two feet diameter, swept down as -though j
their weighty construction presented no obstacle
whatever to the overwhelming element. The roof
Major-General Smarr is appointed Lieutenant- ! carried off from-the church of the convent, the fence
Governor of Fort William, in the room of Lieut.- :, surrounding which, as also the trees in the garden,
Gen. Ikt‘Dosm.o. many whereof are remarkably large, levelled to the
ground. The tin covering of the theatres, neiled 'on
Last week a poor man having nearly fevered the in such a minner, as wouldcertainlybare resisted
trunk of a large growing tree, he ascended for the :
any ordinary force, twisted and torn of as though i t
purpose of fixing a reps to pull it in a particular • were mere paper. A great part of the brick 'wall
direction ; while in the act of fastening the rope the surrounding the garrison beat down. It would be
tree fell, and so crushed the unfortunate man that he impossible to particularise all the damage that has
died the nest-morning, amidst the lamentations of . been done; we believe, howbver, we may assert, that
his wife and children.
i there is not a building in the city- or fauxbourgs, but
' FATAL Aceiovre.—Mendey week, a lad at' Haile- 1 what has been more or less injured. But the scene
1 bury farm, 'who was driving the kine to the milking. ; presented to us on visitine the shore who shall
1 yard, was overthrown and gored by a bull in the tempt to . describe ?covere Thbed
lev
ithel almost
en entirety de-
- '
field. An elderly man went to his assistance :in drstroya=the beach wgm yes
ifew minutes some workmen perceived an uproar in ' Bela, merchandite;trunks, &c.and here and there the
the herd (which always happens when any of them . viaail% Oen a mangled corpse. All the shipping
are fighting), ran to them, and found the man ex., below town high •and dry in thew oods. All the
piring under the feet of the enraged apimal. It ii river carft, barges„rnerket-boats, &c. entirely crush-
supposed that he-Was killed by being trampled upon,- ed to atoms. As Wei w.e have heard from the coun-
Iu the boll's horns were not above four ladies long, try, the ravages have been terrible—the planters'
and ite bad tut appearance of having been gored ; but dwellings, sugar-houses, Ice. demolished ; and we
his jaw bone was broken, and he was math bruised, hese.reason tolear that nearly the whole crop of
about the chest. The ball has since been shot. sugar will t
he • . ,Is ~

IVEST.IIINSTEIi SESSIONS, Ocr. 23.

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Patrick 11laheny and Edward Callaghan, were
indicted for stealing a quantity of bricks, 'due 51,
the property of Mr. Samuel Mare. It op:mired
from the evidence adduced, that the two P•is4,lers
were, about two o'clock in the morning, d tes col in
leaving the building carrying on by the Prosecstar,
each carrying a basket full of bricks; and
was recognised as hating formerly worked for thi
Proemtor. En their defence Ma it nf said, he [AAA
the bricks up in the street, and ettlaghati ne:i4
havipg any concern in the transaction. The J.,ry
found both Prisoners G-ailty. Callaghan was evil.%
tenced to 1.1 days imprisonment, and, as the CH At:
M.% N (M r. W.vrsum) said there was but too much rt.lit
sots to fear that Alahotty,who had been in the ern/A(4
I Of Mr. Mare, had seduced his companion to assiii
him in the robbery, he was sentenced to one mouth's
confinement.

Eliz(thce: WRI indicted for stealinz %
goattliiy of lace, the property Of Mr. Durham, led
cretary to the Vaccine Institution, Golden.quare.
Mr. Durham stated, that the Prisoner had heal
three weeks in his service, during which time he
missed sundry artichq, but particularly a silver table
spoon,'with the stealing of which he taxed the rris
soner.. She, however, positively denied any know.
ledge of it; and Mr. Durham, in Cousequneire,
locked up all his silver-plate, excepting a silver tea
spoon,...in. a mustar&pot, which had disappoared th%
next morning. lie then discharged the Primer;
but, previous to her leaving, he searched her trunk,
and found the lace in question, Which she hid takru
from a rap bolonging to Mrs. Durham. The Jury
found the Pt isoner Guilty, when the Prosecutor said
he had but an insulf.clent character with her, as s
was very much addicted to drunkenness, but he be-
lieved that to he her only fault, and therefore to.
commended her to a lenient punishment.

The Cnainot.tx commented at some length on the
evil consequences of inttrtication, es k prep,* the
mind of all persons who indulged in it for a,,y
crime, by the commission of which they could it,.
dulge that propensity. He should, however, on ac.
count 'Of the Prisoner's youth (about 20), give iler
an opportunity of refraining, by koCping her from
therusaof spirits by a mouth's confinement.