The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-15 00:00:00

Awn witness tint On min. Isatiieg taw
in the two pair, sad bad *Let est of the door when
the two bosses feels. There Won no erlohior—:be
houses came down suddenly.. This was owing to tire
stacks of chimnies the party wall, which had beee,
held with iron clamps. Oe the plate'of the rootbiling
removed they bulged out, and occasioned the widest.
The houses bad bees sold in different lots by order of
Sir Thomas Farquhar. There was no lot muter ap•
pointed to seethe houses properly taken down. There
was no fault attributable to any person. Such *made.*
often happened knitting down old buildings. Time.
was so truth in the report that the bottom part of the
houses were taken down first.
Several of the Jury hers remarked, that it was bigly
proper that some competent person should be employed
to superintend the taking down of old buildings, to
prevent the injudicious proceedings of workmen.
The witness, in continuation, said that it was the
business of the Auctioneer's porters to prevent the
houses from being improperly undermined. Every
exertion was made to relieve the men who were buried
in the ruins. Witness left work at seven o'clock. The
deceased had not been then found.
W. Griffin, of Bridgewater-gardens, deposed that
he ens a dealer in old building materials. Bought
some of the tiles of the bum in question, sod one lot
of wood work. The deceased, Brian?, asked saltness
for a job, and he engaged him to take oS the files
that be had purchased: • Witness was on the house as
the time of the accident, sills his sem and two lads.
Sent the deceased and the last witness to load a cart ;
after they had drtne so be saw them come into the
house again; he saw no more of them ; bat observing
the doors giving way, be endeavoured to save himself
by the rope, bat he fell on the pavement and hurt his
shoulder. Nissan, and the two lads who were friend-
less orphans under his protection, were buried is the
ruins. Two of the lads were dreadfully injured, the
other not so much.
George Owen, a constable of St. James's, proved
that he was called en duty on Friday, to the ruins in
St. James's-street, at twelve o'clock, and remained
there till seven ; during that time he saw two people
dug out of the ruins alive, and carried to the hospital.
He returned to the ruins at ten, and remained on defy
tilt six on Saturday morning. At three o'clock on
Saturday morning, saw the body•of Briant taken oist•—
it was lifeless—was conveyed to the workhouse.
T. Oliver knew the deceased Wyatt ; was working
with him in the frown in St. James's-street. Wit-
ness was in the top mous under the rafters; he hod
just entered the room when the house fell. As he
went up he saw Wyatt in the second Sao,. Witness
was buried in the ruins ; he was dug out and was con-
siderably bruised. Had not seen Wyatt since.
Wm. Griffin, on being recalled, said that orders had
been given not to touch the brickwork till it was rues-
mired. If the chimnies had been first lowered to
the roof, he thought the accident might have ism
avoided. The auctioneers always appointed men to
superintend the proper taking down of houses. There
were such men employed on the present occasion. The,
houses were in a very decayed stale. It was usual to
lower the chimnies in taking houses down, to prevent
accidents,
liti Sttry ti Verdict

Last week, some convicts digging in Sheerness
Dock yard, discovered something of a strange appear-
ance about the depth of 20 feet, and on carefully clear-
ing stray around it, found it to he the body of a Mikil,
lying on his back, with his clothes on ; when touched
with a spade it fell to dust ; three-pence farthing was
found close by it of the coin of George 11., which is
supposed to have fallen front one of-his pockets. That
part of the yard where the man was found, has, with-
in a few years, been raised several feet, which of course
considerably reduces the depth front the nriginal sur-
face. and as much of the yard is oracle-ground, where
there were formerly moats and ditches, it is probable
he may have fallen into a moat and have been drowned.
Tuesday last was committed to the county gaol at
Maidstone, by the Magistrates at Margate. John Ram-
say, alias Buffington, and Thomas Hay Webster, both
of Canterbury, charged on the oaths of Washington
Carr and others, of being concerned in the late
smuggling affray at Marsh Bay, in Thane*. Ramsay
was committed as a principal, and Webster as an ac-
cessary, for assisting and concealing , the offenders ,
Several persons, of whom better conduct might have
been expected, are said to have contributed to the con-,
.oealment of some of the smugglers, and that their
names have been forwarded to Government.
A CAUTION TO THOSE ACCUSTOMED TO PAWN.....
SW mode of robbery has within these few weeks been
practised by a set of villains, whose plan is to loiter;
about the pawn-brokers' shops, and whenever they see
any person enter with their property to p'eige, they
follow and conceal theinselves in one of the private
bowl, near the individual pledging, tsliereby. they are
enabled to he sr the mama of the person to whont-thattl
articles belong, and also the amount they are please&
for. The villains, in a few days sfterwartl, repair to
the pawn-hroker's, and stating they have had the mis-
fortune to lose the duplicate, request an affidavit, which
is immediately given them, and they proceed to a po-'
Ike-office, and swearing the property pledged to be 1
theirs', they return to the pawn-brokers and redeem the
articles.
Weaxuen.—The chilly mornings weltaveexperie need
this week, have announced our approach towards win-
ter, but not with that agreeable interval of fair and set-
tied weather, which is the usual character of an English
October. An old observer. is reported in the newspaiset
to have remarked that is the course of 50 years lielcad
found in this month, on ao average, 2$ days fds apt,
of3l. We know not what foundation there may be fOt this
remark; butthis we know, and think much More extra-
ordinary, that out of 137 months, (froM the'beglnaiu%
of the year 1782, till June 1793,)•the Rer.44lo:lYllitevo
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Selborne, observed only one month without rain. I
that was an October, in the year 17. The equinoc . I
gales have encroached upon-the present month, and OW
aucount received this week of their effects upon the west
awl coast have been very disastrotta. 'The quantity of
On faUen this week is only ,15 'of an inch.
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