The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-30 00:00:00

ALANING FIR&

About five o'clock yesterday evening, a ire broke
out in the warehouses of Wins. James, Wood,
James, and Co.. oil-merchants, in College:hill, Up.
per Thames.street. Information was imtbediately
sent to the different Fire. Offices, whose engines at.
tended as quick as possible, and instantly obtained a
good supply of water; they began to play with the
utmost activity, and about six o'clock, the Ames
were partially got tinder, and at seven the ire was
completely lubdoed. On enquiry, atnitst the con•
fusion which was created, we were informed that the
fire broke ant io the Counting.hoese, which is situ-
ated in the Mt, of tbs premises. which ace very ex.
tensive, when the porter was lighting the candles.—
Every mulcts was instantly used to remove several
barfcis of oil and combustible matter, which woeld,
had they caught fire, inevitably bate destroyed the
whole of the premises. This precautioas was attend.
ed with the desired effect, but the buck premises and
those adjoining, were completely destroyed ; the
front house, however, was but slightly injured.—
The warehouses, it is said, were insured for 70001.,
and the property therein contained was worth foot
times that eatn, the greater part of a hich, *e are told,
Is happily saved, the roof and rubbish hating fallen
in upon it. The whole of the inhabitants 'aped.
enced the greatest fear for the safety of their own
property, as when the, walls or the roof fell in, it
was attended with an awful encresse of the fivers
above the roofs of the !looses. We are happ) to
state that no serious accident happened to any of the
individuals engaged in the laudable act of preserving
the premises and the properly therein.

A ROBBER SOOT ! About one o'clock on Sohn..
day morning last. two villains entered the rack-hill of
Messrs. Paul Wathen and Co. at Woodchester, in
Gloucestershire, and whilst busily engaged in taking
a piece of superfine black cloth out of the racks, they
were discovered by a person employed to guard the
premises. The latter, who was armed, called out to
them to surrender," hen they immediately ran off ;upon
which the guard fired at the person carrying the
cloth, and it is supposed, wounded him severely, as
he eaclaimed, " Lord have mercy on me !" and •
great quantity of blood was afterwards found on the
spot, which was traced as far Woodchester. The,
robbers socceeded nevertheless in making their escape
for the present, as the guard, wise instantly went
after them, was thrown down by a cord which they
bad previously made fest across the rood, for the pur-
pose of intercepting soy person who might follow
them. A reward has been of for their appre-
hension.
The following instance of wanton depravity, de.
grading to the perpetrators, yid blorioes to the cha-
mfer of Englit.hosee, we hive received from re.
spectable authority t—A boat's crew, front a Green-
land ship belonging to Ihie port, landed on Four
Island Point last June, when a triater.homm was
built for the residence of a Daniels family; its Wm.
bitants at the time weresomedistiece from the plat*,
and the seamen plundered the house of all it contain-
ed; brought away a butt nearly fell of seat oil, two
spars, a gun, a crab end Capstan, aid a quantity of
wood ; and fioiiked the depredation by burning the
boZlding. The bodies of sews, &galena:, which
had tieen buried there, wort dog up; among them
was a carpenter, who died of board one of the ships
in Davis's Straits, and was baked on the Island, sth
June, 1816, and whose body was so perfect as to he
identified by t?.le Captain and ere* of the ship be be.
longed to, and who bad the body again decently In-
terred. The cotZn was broken to pieces, and the
shirt torn off witli brutal depravity !—(Hull Ad-
vertiser.).
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An excavation hasbaen mode in the Qr-y at South- I
stow cm, from the very violent format the Equinoc-
tial gales, to that extent, that it is supposed it will
cost 501. to repair it.
Cold has increased a little in price, foreign bars
ling at 41,-1s; 6d: per ovate ; bet-new Doubloons
SIP at 31. 19s. 6d. Slier in bars) is at ss. 41d. per