The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-17 00:00:00

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: I. CRE We hare to record two of the Molt iiiiMilkl Isla.
mities that hive occurred is the Metropolis rvi years Jean R&M, a considerable rope-manufacierer' it
Barking, ha EaSea, was indicted for felonlowsly94.-
by, are. . .
wishing Audi Petirsciti, on the 24th day f Awl
On Friday alight, about nine tecloeli lb. neigh. 9 ..._...
•betarhood of Si.ifillields seal thrisin lute universal hiat• • .i. . 1
derable interest among the inhabitants of
This case lasted several hours, and elicited consi-
, terror by an OxPlosion iri the house of one Lichilesu,
14 (lissi-street, Bran n-aireet. This was almost in- the neigh.
i Smutty 'succeeded by anothir;iridone universal blaze hfmrhand of girkill• . .
i vies spread over the isholb rieighboUrheod. The un- Anne Pearson, he Poseratrix, stated, that she
she lived servant With tlit PriSoner. On the. 24th
hapPy Proprietrir caYrieth on the business or a hair. was of the age of l6 bilk Christmas. In March last
dresser, lint was more generally known as a mane-
day of March, her master: Ws 0 ife, Lind the sees
rant boy went out to
.ivi in lOnidon, but the Pd.
?sourer of fire.woiks. In his houie unfortinately
soner returned in shout half an hoer. • I
were deposited several barrels of gunpowder which
had expindisd: How the firii had . Commutiicated , .t was about
'clock ; be asked her' if the kettle tinned, and
Is not yet ascertained. rind Mr. Lichileau had but a sit o
told her to get the tea.things; the tiai sin person
few moments returned from• a walk with his wile'
with whom and his family he was jilat sitting down in thii house but themselves ; haring Phiceri the tea.
Owings; he denired her to go up stir! and kith hid
to supper whets the dreadful event took !dare. The
Fiecket-hook from his breeches pocLet ; she weal, hut
dill not find it ; she called down stairs to Vey it was not
effects in his house were truly heart-rending: it was ;
literally blown up from its foundation, and all iti in- .
there: he again called lip to In. k iato i is Wai;tenat
mates buried in the ruins. Thee ronaisted of six or
eight persons, namely, Mr. Lichiteau. hi* wife it'd ' I.i ,iii_ u
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si; silt duds it way trot there ; skit tad him so,
soil no estreil her to look into his jacket pocket,
sister, two other females, servant*, A Mr. Oldham,
and it is rearm
some
others. Inthe houses adjoin. it was not there; she Oren heeled hid comiog up
stairs and she having a Iluipteimi at his Intention, to
ing also inn either side, three or four more perished,
and a 'member of person* in the ntighbouthond were take improper liberties with her, shut the door and
loner' it ; he knocked at the door dud desired he* Ins
dreadfully hurt by pieces of glass, brick, timber,
riper, It ; 11111. r.•(,)%4.41, unless hr. *outage, down stairs;
Tied Abel articles falling upon then., or being forccd
he said if slits did not open the door he noted break
into the windows by the effects of the explosion.—
Hoge beams of timber were tossed into the air, ii:nral s,lidtgli_ahai the hell do )4"1 think I wart
others carried re; incredible distance over the with ..'`''' e 'l' i"e" "l*neti the door ;he immediate. i
I Sorrtinktii Buie; si
ly caught her round the waist, and threw her upon 1
to ,1 of the houses, while net less than tom•
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the bed ; she tot up obey antl reached the door, hat
too. to three hundred habitationn have b.eu shook occastniebliv .itsgrare "11l Ntn on .lo tank u aie • ,
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4, _d s. of i sp.ilictp s
he again caught her and accomplished ht., purpose t . ~ •.. * • ,s- •-. '• 1
and shattered to a mom frightfel deges.e. The annul Ilse Ili clock on F. ssisy 0,..,11.4 --Nik,twly, ~. is. ri
!mute of ale. Lir-listen u was 'WA, withal., two Ire then went d •fins stairs. and she follow ~t in about
two minutes; he walked about the room ,thi.tlii,g ; . ._
es po leg lii wife fur shill. Hi• nevi° ;its have: o .tv
doors of the hrowetv of 'Truman and Banbury, andk
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seen ie. me noosing in lair :ustr•St dia.:Os-4 tit4isiti n.s
she left the hou-e in lea than hill au bola, 3ii.l acct .
within tow doors of Browtiestreet, where there is atowering themselves, lint the neserst iirriblien wss
owo,;14 of three others, and sot. was the effect of to her mooier's ; on tier *ay sire meta you. g 16..11. sot A A 1
attend Mg h .oila tinsel iirytills•l9iir. •. Tine 1,9!' i '1;
Nis° asked her obit she was crying ati-ut ? Voe said i . . . ,
these dreadful renpinsloes. that It not only •consumed Tuber an. ..e I r, were Persons .4. eurel t,- e isoi
her onager had behaved rude to tier ; .the t•. 1.1 her g.,.0
nom t
of
salsa a.,
sing; - o
the two artj inine boluses. but nearly destroyed lour
11.141 , ...as hr. ut.ht Cm 1,.. o...iket in i riall9e4 1,14
beast I. toil' eilimily
mother the same, but did not then tell her tin. oh• 1,. `,r d
others. and Hared, es already described, some hurt_
.d•erls. form g ;toe f round the corners and npreeding it" friend "1" in .hums) nit"""l`, and ill'a "" eap.vad t the tie* s f her pre•t h tier whim I •Ilk
her the particulars, desirieg that s:ie isouiii tell her
. wide rfreWrortina dean the streets. The whole es- hitter roui.tl ler sh miderS, Whirl' W.le re.+o4l Nil
hihiting a terrible porter. of havork and destruction. ain't"' as she did not like to d'; it i"s if' Ins h. • h •
, a roc_ white lace sell. The pri, ese
for he.
evening, learn sae sent to her;, she ii sclos;..l the
Windows brbk..n. window frames smashed endthis in she first instance usseeighty gulitCas, boil .I dotal
whole to. kerniother, who nor site Monday), this .
r-xced is; doors krineked from the hinges, and eventy agreed on was fifty guineas, end a tolusilL li. com
helot( owed frOay, sent fee Mr. Desortneaux, the. guineas,.
end
niftily d;sciliserd arid shattered to piece.: ! Lit addi. upon which the purchaser was mounted. The Safi
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firm tat the toss of lives In the houses mensionek. a Da."„ae• and delivery being complete, the Lady with 164 new
"be was subjected to a very severe cress-ralimhla- lord and master mounted a handsome terric4 libich
child. slit; g oppruite to the linos.. whore the fire
v.quisene d.
was klthwt to the
eaplnsi
.n. At two Ann by the COMMON SIIRSILINT. She said she could •
was in waiting for them, and drove off seeMingly no
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. O'clock on %verdes the engines cotointeed to tilay rat get to ll* window ; she denied- hawing had any thing loath to ge. The purchaser in the prhilant case
spun Th"nin.,
w,,ito
at
each „use
uoote
ef the Toms conversation with a milkman on that UAW.
is a celebratied horse-dealer in town, and thosoiler i
mrevehed oloinla u hi, had fallen „„„, aiscoyere4.- way ,she knew a Mr. Smith, a Doctor, at Barking,
grazier of cattle residing about six tolled froth Lone
but she had newer applied to him fur any medicines, d • '.
al t dragged Girth hi a ',imitated state. Al slim on. 'the intention of these disguitine bargaina la,
or had ever spoken to him.
n'idork the :patsies tit Mn'.. Lit-Ml.Ba. her timer to deprive the husband of any right of pritsetutioei
and that of a female errant. hail been taken eels° nee Mother, Mr. Dusormeaos and Caroline
, for damages.
and deposited in the bone.room ef Spits' fields Chervil. •
• Sulker went celled, who confirmed her as to her ins- .
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The fire is said to Wive heels occasionss' by Mr. te ro altsclosu of the facts, except that -Mc. ' The lit week has passed over *about prodeting
LiCiilPan strikibic • liot, to busk foe some anemia 'mains said, that its onti„g the mode or aft, er that vault which wits looked for in cum.
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which two boys cane. to part-hose. A., itimeW will porpetradog, she had described it differently with sequence of our late successes. We douttt not. how.
ever. that this week will sla so: indeed, it' is pug.
"is day be held en the h.,4res discovered in the . sashect to c"ining her hands.
1 The primmer being called upon fur ma Aufenmut aunt with events, of which not the least nannientn•ts
is the Drawing of the Lottery—it take. place on
rat w.
A,,,,ha, Ire. 014,41 b &towline or to property. said he left it to his Counsel. They celled .It.
Wednesday, and as eve y Ticket then Dranvi oust
bat happil‘ NI. dspa,trut be sloe loft of human gas: maw to show a contradiction in parts of bar test-
• be a Prize, and may include the great Capitals of
soak Ow. at l&tartwoll ft hooky, slat in a range eft Time 'Forty Thousand Pounds, Thirty Thealaarl Puegial4,
buildings he, %seen II 0a• .1 coil Wharfs, at the tons. 1 Tis wheeTlll.lll4el girl said, that wheys she 4"
brought the waistcoat, she had another girl with her, Twenty Thousand Pounds, &c. we can easily is.
as though count fur the anxiety with which its Approach it n-
Mr.
ilCark-hill, Upper Shadwelt. The fire
amid that bhe came hi a laughing manner,
seemed to proceed from a storehouse belonging to a
Mr. Lynne, and was first discovered about half-past nothing had happened ; but the principal wit. girded.
CofteNEK'StSgvEsTs.—At eight o'clock on lr
twelve o'clock on Friday night. The flames
even-spead ness was Richard Baker Smith. who described
himself as a surgeon and apothecary, nom re- evening there was an Inquest held at the usedht
with furious rapidity, and its a few minutes t
tire of the buildings between the street and the river residing at Ilford, then at Barkieg. lie said the Mr. 11. Hodson, the Lord W.-Ilington's Arms, corner
were in a blaze. These chiefly being warehouses and girl came to his house about ten o'clock lit the night of Gower and Carmarthen-street, TotteeliaM Cot r'.
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filled with combustibles, such as wood, pitch, tar, of the Ist of April. Wiltil he opened the door, he road, before G. llono.ovi, Esq. Cormier of the
County of Middlesex, on the body of Mrs. 1105erell'
Oil, coals, sail cloth, and other inflammable goods, supposed she came about the venereal, and he asked
1 the fire at once became general and irresistibly ter- her if it was so. She said no ; but MOW young melt It a it
....atm-, a respectable widow lady who lived at NO.
bad been plajing tricks with her, and she wanted 22, Gneer.street. it appeared on eridersee that the
rible. The shops and houses in front of the street
soon caught the contagious element, and everitually some physic. A woman Was with her, wrapped in deceased was in the 60th year of her age and rilword
shored the fate of the rest. Unfortunately, the tide a red cloak. lie old her to come inthe morbitig• enjoyed atoms state of health ; that on I ;Limier
was at the moment upon an ebb, and no water being HP was sure it was her, as he knew her soil her evening she walked out as usual for the blitelit of tne
to he etwainid, the fire raged without resistance for family. Upon cross-eaamination he proved a mat air, and Wag taken suddenly ill in the strewsas she
nearly two hours, notwithstanding that several en. ignorant man, so much so. that he spelt dropsy, Wsll passing the shop of •iti.g.bon li. idford, in Car.
sloes had arrival. In this wide devastatimi, we re. dcepsee, arid fistula, feslerly. He iii4ist,d, lima- mirthen.street; 11111 she won't ieto the •Itop'atial re..
gret in state that no less than twetity-mie concerns ever, that he was a regular !ired medical mars, and quested I;ertnission to sit down, alp' ei.mpbeili,d of a
were
wholly
eedaeed to a heap
of
ashes. In
one had 200 venereal patients from B-rkiug iilltehe, and ram page in her client, and alep a (14 kitty in draqinic
bah,1.,.1 to her
of the premises, we understand that. some vats of produced a certificate, %inch, upon examination, her breath; ; a dhair 444 ini,o,,diro.,i,
beer horst, and in another a gnantiv of powder also proved to be a certificate written by himseif. ons w"lch she set (loots 81111 almost 111518,16 % aspired,
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exploded. These, however, only had the effect The girl was confronted with him, and M let so. s.,e %it; 11111.611 Pd and esesy o her ims,iltle nose err. taken
of hastening the work of destruction, by throw. 1 lemnly denied ever having spoke', to him. t- vv., o 0 atiim.ti is. but to no rffeet. Tile boast
ing down several walls, and smashing some win. He named also the mother's brotacr as his patient. wis alterwerds 0110,1.11 by Siirgeon Briolford and
He happened to be in Court, anddewed At ' lsel• II inn,ber 411.1 qua it as to. it 0,4111.111. 'bit sh • .ii ,I ..f
dims of the adjoining houses. We are happy to
state, that its this dreadful conflagration no life was . T "he witness said, " If not him, he had .ad his cite a sivis 11 • f ,1,.. ..10114101.-.". Verdict Mud by ihe PTI.
hest. -but it was said that Mr. Chandler, a hoot and under his care. tatbn of Gird
His Lordship expresned great indignation at tl.e ,40,.,{1,,. a n ing ..00
44, hed
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shoemaker, it, attempting to rescue some of his pro- 'he beds of n 1',..
it hi
of
thin witness. pert, from the Games was dreadfully burnt, and conduct male, appatottils ob.ott thirty. wie,ch nag picked op
this ',tensed...pc
conveyed to the hospital. The principal nuferers on ThP fnreman 4°f the Prisoner was Called to lirl'se ahi ..1191P boatmen 41 rhe riser i. i -• •
lion between the girl aud a milk;ea.: 1011 tree
this melattehttly occasion were Messrs. St. Barbe and can
Co. dealers in ma tine stores ; Mr. Hooper, slnpseller ; been ma considerabl; time its the eater ih ' i
day of the transaction, which she denied. 110 mini P" "i 4. T '1)"(1' oats all 'he at'lniarilice of harass;
marks of violence upon it, or any cirdimaPlarencewPwehincolt
Mr. Ward, block and mast-maker ; Mr. Stedman, 1 two other persons heard it, hut they were not preseic.
could teed to lead to discovery .r the deceased's
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evens who, in the confusion of his escape, The Noble and Lestiti'd Judie hasiog deisiled all
The Jury returned a verdict of-14ona
I. ft even his pocket-book. containing nearly 3001. !the evidence on both sides, the Jury, after a very n
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in Paok-notes ; Mr. Weigel. a litien-draper, gust Nis
deliberation, found the Prisoner—Guilly.
! Li; Lordship
111%111'0(f, 14 fr,,,e loss is estimated at from ato 70001.. sins immediately pronounced sentence of drowned.
Mr. Knight. a cooper; and Mr. Hill. a baker, not death upon him, and intimated that he would leave Cascerrsoo.—On Monday last ii Well-ron'eatad
itisirkeil. The proprietor of the King of Prussia ;hits to suffer the
penalty of the haw.—The prose. match at Cricket was played on Royston Heath for
publie.hoisse, and several others, besides the destroc,, i cocoon seas conducted by Mr. Garwood. tone hundred guineas a side, Isitineen II Gentlemen
I of the Cambridge, and II of the Biggleswade C.icket
lions of sin or eight private basses its Bell Wharf. 1 Clubs, which was won by the former, having Owen
street, in the rear of these buildings. The popula. ! Wicket. to go down ; the day being very fine, it is
tints of this quarter, and the closeness of tho ,ituu_
generally suppoied there were no less than 10,000
thin, rendered the scene awful and terrifying; no- persons present.
1 thing hut piercing screams and exclamations were
heard for a cort‘blerable time, little or no property
was cased its the genet-II wreck, and it is painful to
reflect, that may n.f Tile snlrPren were not insured.
The bee was got under before eight o'clock, but the
scene which its rat ages present are truly shocking and
indescribable.

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Iljs Lordship obseried; that It Was ** fvery right
Verdict."
airk Brsathatn, Sind 41; es.as eiteied ultb rite;
lating the person of liraisor. MarlonDart'tiP, a tem
male child? updei the age of ten years.
Mr. MAID slated the case on the .pert of th.P.Or••
.ecuticio. This case is very similaV to that, we hove
just reported. The unfortunate olf:ct.of tlrh brittat,
attack was little more.thiti sii Jeeps of aiteollirllag
the daughter of a person in indent eirreasettptere
Sheffield., at %thick place the Prisoner, who is a tailor;
also resided.
the child stated the revnlting eirrumatancei of the
case without hesitation, but she Refused to look to.
wards the bar, ne at the person of the Prisoner; and
though the Counsel and the Judge u-ed .'very roPaits
to induce her .to look about, awl state if she saw the
Iverson She had described by the name of Mark Bram.
ham, she obstinately refuted to sin it. The Prisoner
had, hooever, supplied tips. t would Otber *helms.*
heels a fatal tinism in the eshlei•te, by 0'4464. tni
, his elamination before the Mititl.tretee; that tie 44
!ittirfly committed the offence icriptita.4 .but that
it iiientirely owing tbe bunions of that Pro.
!serotris be denied, however, hat the to:teepee was
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I His LOriltilthi, in Ma ittleittLs to the Jury. ro#ll, if
It was pos.ioie to iselieve it to be truo . ci,litl
hart &lie whit woo otn.sted to her by the Pt6011?1, it
Iseult! net, in the wir, all the olfories,
Pie Joty trti-«I for einvat ten toirat..s.a dna
their roam, into Court, found the Pasioner-4011.g.

SATURDAY. JULY U.
11111001.1 BY V. WATTS.
This was an action of debt for tithes. The De-
fendant wished to impeach the Plaintiff's title to
show that he bad been simoniarally presented to the
living. Bat the Learned Judge held, that haying
made a composition with the Parson, and had V @keit
the tithes under that agreement, he could not ques.
lion his title.—Verdict for Plaintiff.
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The Assises ended this morning.

rifax...Ficit Ands Jot.tr 17.—''a,inie but little far *Wet
at !li.rkrt "oil . 4.. per whiner m• re • I. a .o: M•4o•si Wit email
be obtained.—Barley. Be.. ao, and 0rr..1.. desirti.—oli bite Ptak
Sh. cheaper.— to other anicies no ahrrat i..n.
Wheat i PARRA) 4..1 16 I Heat*
Ditto (Foreiga) . 44 To I (Ili ditto
fete . Sy ra ; Tick de. .. IS 32
II triev Se 31 I Old .
New ditto .i.'
Malt—
While
hos . 11,3 SI Fine data
111 Si i Poland do ....• .....46 59
New ditto ~.. . . ..... - 4- I Feed ditto IR 911
Ditto Bailees ft ft Fine Flour ..... ... eo t
Grey Peas • St ; Seconds - .... .... b. 5 69

In conscquyneps of the divpatrhes hem Quebec,
anted the last week in May, Government is in daily
expertotion of the arrival of the following Regiments
from Canals :-Ist, 3d, sth, 6'h. Bth, 9th, 13th,
16th. 59th, 415,, 49th, 57th, bSth, 81st, 82d, 88th,
891 h, 90th, anal 97th. With such an accession to
the milita►y force, under existing circumstances,
would it he justifi 'hie to deprive the country of the
labour of the Militia at the approachiag harvest ?

Iroitß. Jose 10.
George White, of Snainton, in the North Riding,
was charged with violating the person of Jane &don,
a female rhild under test years of age.
Mrs Rasa( stated the ease on the part of the pro.
secution. The Prisoner. who is fifty years of age, is
a day.labeurer, in the husbandry business, and was
then in the employ of Mr. Pratt, shrew', of tittain.
ton. Jane &natl. the unhappy victim of this brutal
attack, was the daughter of a wido the same vil.
lag., and ou of the tender of age sloven years.
The c•se against the Poisoner *as ma(ie out with
great degrees'', and the Jury, though they imbed
out of Cosqt. returned to their hos in about five
Slawt s. and found tag Pcianaer-i-Gailiji.

SMITIiPIII,I.II fiAltKler.—.lut.T 17.
T.. •tr.k t?... 4 .fritls 'err tfolle Ot
Beef 6 •• lA. I Head of (Attie lauds,'
tfut,on . 4- .d. to M. 64. lc mob . • . •••• leg
vent .• 5 4 • 61. 0 I 9Oce;. .... ~.••• *TAO
P Tit 5.. 4 • g. 04. ! Cftives 160
l•Aloh • ..tib. 6d. to 7.. 4 ....... • • • • •• SIP

The American prisoners, Win we recently released
if Dartmoor, in marching from that place, passed a
hotly of French prisoners, as they were conducted to
that depot. The Americana halted, and saluted the
Enoch with a shoat of '• Fin Emperor IN

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