The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-04 00:00:00

THE BTATF.SWAN.

MR. •TWIGHI.
SUFFOLK COUNTY SESSIONS, BURT ST. EplecieD's,

DREADFUL CONFLAGILATION I.V Nord

SCOTIA.

(NT. t&
ST. JOHN'S (Saw Hausswica), SEPT. t6.-.—SiPitY
Were T. 8. Goner, Esq. W. P.. soda/tutu Deed of Ma-
Mk last we have received corroborating accounts of
esti-atm
Considerable interest Wilk excited at these /tendons an extensive and calamitous fire, which has spread it.
ranges fur nearly one hundred wiles in extent over
by the trial of Mr, Francis Twight, a farmer, fur re-
prating in open church, at Wisepsteaa, In the must fertile proportion of the North and Western
(after the blessing implored for the King), "'Lb mluitY I parts of Nova Scotia, from the neighbourhood
" and 41°41 i of ' Yarmouth to the county of Annapolis. . The fire
bless the Queen too"). For this exclamation be was I continued burning for the space of three days, and
summoned by the Rev. Vicar of the Parish, Mr. Imago,
before the Magistrates, and convict' in the penalty I such was its intensity that the very potatoes were
s!
burnt in the earth ; houses, barns, fences, fields of
of 101., which refusing to pay he was committed
to prison until the ensuing sessions, or find bail, , „,,,its.
1 grain, stock of all kinds, whole villages and settle-
which he declined, though pressed PO to do not (wily by fell a prey to the devouring element, and not
the most respectable inhabitants of the parish, whu ,
a vestige of vegetation or herbage remaine--several
lives are also lost. From among several statements
offered to become bail, hut by the Magistrates them-
we select the following, as containing a simple, but
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selves. A Jury, after several challenges, was sworn ; affecting representation of the awful scene ; and if
the Clerk read over the indictment, containing no less whet this writer relates of the distress which hap-
than N counts, which charged that " the defendant pen •si to this family, and his immediate neighbours
Twight, on the 17th of September last, in the Par" I within his observation, what must have been the gene-
church of Whepstead, willingly, and of purpose, ma- rat c.ilamity ? '1 he space of country said to be laid
liciously and contemptuously, did interrupt and din- waste, we have travelled, and the greatest space be-
turb the congregation there assembled." When the tween the extremes without a house, is between Yar-
defendant was asked in common form whether he ' mouth and Salmon :liver, 17 miles—the settlement at
pleaded guilty or not guilty, no little consternation i mi,„tag.„ alone contains several thousand souls,
pervaded the Court and auditors to hear him reply i
(hilts% Mr. Cooper, one of his Counsel, immediately [EXTRACT Or A LETTER room Na. JOHN WErmose, TO
arose, and said that the defendant certainly laboured tits sox IN TRIP CITY.]
ander a misapprehension, and Twight added, he said "On returning from Yana ,uth, we ran under our
the words, but pleaded to them as " no crime." bare poles for li. riles river, hoping the tide was up--
Mr. STOHR4 thin addressed the Jury :—After a ewe in a few moments were in the breakers, and without
very anxious attention to this case, and a firm peesoa striking, anchored safe----found the whole shore in
sion in nor own mind, from the finding of the (;rand lamas eastward, landed near Porter's, and folloneil the
Jury, as to its result. I yield myself reluctantly to shore all round Black Point, the wind blowing, a bur-
the wishes of my client, nho has felt it his duty not rieane—the 'lames out-run us, an immense fire behind
to have permitted in Isis church that which would not Prank Davao's, which threatened destruction to every
Lave b..eit permitted in another—an attempt to din. thing; we reached the road behind this lire; got house
turb a Christian congregation. lie 64 felt fur the safe, took tea, thinking ourselves site ; went to assist
infaination of the detitsdant, and is satirfied with the the French who netc moving, young Frank's house in
punishment he has received, hating thought proper . flames, soil others not to be seen fur the smoke; we
to lie 'lt a gaol ever since the 47th Srptcwher last, staid perhaps twenty minutes; returned, met one of
which he trusts a-ill in an example to him and to all the children crying, " Clarice's house is on tire," we
others. I say, continued the learned goals-man, run our best, met women and children flying before
that Inv client, impelled I,v this I liristlan spirit iif the tempest f the will, barn, and house, with twenty
charity, wishes to tot: nu end to this ease, and to 1,-as r :acres of land in a blaze; trees falling is. all directions ;
it at this stage of the procwilings, liv not pr•alming we got to the house through forty rods of a:tuost solid
any eridenre. If toy learned friends rhoose to accept ire; threw trunks, Sr. into the well; I took a bed.
this ofrer, I shall sit myself down *lint if it be not ac- tied a wcollett blanket round it and escaped for my
cepted, I shall discharge me duty as a realousadvorate life, the tire flying on me like a heavy shower
in prowwuting this ease, and I have no doubt as to its of hail I I fell under the Iwil, gut breath and
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result.

ran, fell again, nearly un•lted with beat and eullb•

A pause here ensued. No answer was made by the : rated with smoke; I rose lance more and fell
defendant's counsel ;am hen the i•i airman said, "Ai again ; saw my boys a-bead barefoot, could
so evidence is brought forward, the jure must find an ' not enter the tire ; tl.ey met me *nil we got the bed
acquittal;" and they instantly returned a vett:act of, Isle through ; Mr. Clark came up with a hook in Isis
Not (Utility. The I Is:airman observed, a• you ought II hand, nothing more %areal, all burned in the well,
to feel very much olsligtoll u hen Twight said loudly, fences and fields of potatoes swept clean. My fields,
" I do not feel so at all ;" or, " Ido not thank you fur though nut munch horned, are all laid open to the
it;" (we could not exactly catch the enpression.) mercy of cattle anal hog., ;at sun-set found my house
Deneral applause upon hearing the verat;et il iiiii e,o. anal uncle Nathaniel's crowded with women and
ately laned, when the Chairman, with grearwarmtli, children, who left their all and tied before the fiery
desired the constables to take the o,letaders into cus. tempest from the neighbourhood of Dearer River.
tody, anal, if they would not do their duty, be woad,' Wednesday morning, seven o'clock, a fins rain that
do his, by apprehending the first man guilty of an" des‘ned the fire ; heard the settlement at Deaver
behaviour. A court of justice should not be a scene Hirer oaf% a',l in ashes ; Mr. Saunders, Clark, and
of such disgraceful conduct. myself went to their assistance; found but three
[A correaponalent observes, that the friends of bon sea standing for six miles in length. Thomas
Twight are sorry the case was nut proceeded In, as Tirsk lIAI lost his house, new grist. and SAW Mill, two
they firmly relied on a triaimplial acquittal ; for it was barns full of grain, hay, &c. ; a Yoke of oxen, one
with great MIL ulty the Grand Jury could final a bill. horse, two or three rows, several hogs, all their furni-
'Fbe result 113 A gis en great satisfaction tam every friend tore ; anal a Lttle buy, four years old, burnt in the
of civil anal religious liberty in this neighbourhood ; ho use, having crept into a cradle, and was left unper-
for the conalnct of the Vicar, in instituting these pro. raised, together with a trusty dog, which lay by his
ceeslioga, is condemned by all parties. A subscrip• ride- has lust ell: a cow, two begs, furniture,
tion is set OR foot, confining it to the sum of Is. each, clothla c. The word at sun-set was to escape for
to defray the repences of the trial, and the subscrip- their Una- Daniel took up his child, anal bid his
titans flow in freely. The defendant only laughed at I erl Aglow him anal my brother Hanna ; others cried,
the prod', red mercy, and intends, it is sail, ia.stliciag 1" -11 way shall we fly ":" Answer. "To the
proceedino against the Reverend Vicar.] L ;" souse reached it; others were cut off anal
drove up the road for a mile or more before an open-
Tog LANDED I NTSREST.---.1 general Meeting of hag was found to the sea shore. husbands and wires
the Members of all the Farming Sueieties in the , were parted by the tire and amnoke, and did nut umeet
again anti' the next day. Daniel took his wife (very
County of Cork, was to have been held at the House
of the Cork Institution, yesterday, the 3d Nos-. to sick) u:, his back to time edge of the Lake, and waded
take into consideration i
out smile roods to a bog, which sunk with them, but
t-s e depresued state of the
Agricultural Interest of the
he found old stuff and raised it, so that his wife sat
Culinary, algal the pro.'
priety of petitioning Parliament fair its relief, sad of in the water until umetti"g* lia""ft lost them ' 1
adopting such other measures as may seem best calcu-
he waded up to his neck, anal there stood twelve
lated to attain that object. 1 hours, the fire often streaming In his face, when
ed to sink under, then rise andg
The following is the arrangement which is to take he was ebb
take breath. I fou;sil him on Wedneaday, and
place in the tithes of the Clerk of the House of Cum- I
patent , took him home with me ; he had eat nothing for 26
mons, in consequence of the expiration of the
„lir, has so krig ' hours. It was a inelaneholy scene to see fesees swept
of the late Mr. Hasten ;---Mr. Dyson,
I away, fields of grain, potatoes, anti turnips, all burnt up,
anal so ably filled the respective others of Clerk-As-1
groreuaetanrattaiumberorsadoi fsa.:ialett le,
.slumeireap, arnsotinlalougear,elysihnigundienatichaf.
sistant anal Deputy Clerk, retires on the same allow-
ance that the Clerk would be entitled to nudist similar . tie which were not too much pleunt, others lookialarg up
circumstances. Mr. Ley succeeds to the ogre of i their stork. I saw two large hangs lying together alive,
Clerk, and Mr. Hickman to that 4.f Clerk Assistant. ; launit so as not to walk, and we are not alone. I bare
beard from Varmon:ll, Cluebouge, that much da-
The appointment of Second Clerk Assistant tests with I just
the Clerk. _ . i usage is done, many houses, barsisvinille.ikc.-bornt ; and
also through i the Frenela Settlement above Montegan. a
In the year ISIS, the following number of ergs ;
hem
t....... greL4rantoar
enhwroinsue.;t,hbatri:s,
inruite.,lst:shit:.oliasree daersetreleilin; the
were sold and delivered, the produce of 1;
January, six and a half dozen ; February, 15 &sent' one Negro burnt; so flatlets hay lost, it is supposed that
March, 24 and a half dozen ; April, 26 dozen ; May, half the stock cannot lee winiered. People from Var-
-27 dozen ; June, 2 dozen ; July, 12 sad a half mouth, on hearing our distress, cause up with ox and
dozes ; August, 15 dozen ; September, 13 desea : . horse, carts, chairs and horses, to remove the sufferers,
October, five dozen; November, three dozen; Do.. and I believe there were not two cart loath. of furniture
i saved out of sixteen houses, from John Clark's to H. •
crasher, three and a half dozen.
Corning'a, seven miles; Daniel has uothing left but a
Acemoax-rs.—A few days ago a serious explosion of
shirt and trowsers, whicilist lialeribradhaonh,shis
se wife anal child
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about 211 n. of gunpowder took place in a hense occupied , nothing but what 'was o
for
by Wm. Cotton, in Harker's-court, St. fieorge's-rued, Y loath on her stocking feet, thee la' andatiheardt oat
ofher;
but where Airy will go, or whet he will do this winter I
Manchester. lie had, during the early part of the .
know nut—lielms Huth' to eat or wear.
in constinenee oft
morning, been preparing some fire-work.. hut had re- '
"Saturday, 16th. Newshas Jest arrived,
tired to rest in the second story,
thatas far
which he escaped the danger: the explosion, however, I
as Annapolis, 7
lOU miles above this, is mosilyin ashes,
man lives lost, grain and hay mostly destroyed. How
we lament to state, forced oust the gable end of time ,
we are to live through the winter, I kmow not.—
house, and blew his wife and three children a very con_l
nut vet come here, perhaps he has follow-
siderahle diatance. One of the children wag killed ; . Dathiel lira
the other two, with the mother, were considerably
ed his wife to Vermouth, or he may be trying tai save
hurt, bat are likely to be restored to health. How the'i I
his
of his potatoes, lice, I shall finish this
sod
go
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strident happened it could not be ascertained. ire of him ;we are all employed (that is we anti
Tar AlllllAr IN DOTSIt-flTNlXT.—Thanday night, at „„ two bus Nin a • .
seven o'clock, an Inquisition was taken at the &Ter i ". 'wo., iyi.s' L rying lo use* what Hal* crop I had
Castle publie-house, Dover street, St. fieswge'rfielda,; left. guy "calmest is nearly lost."
before TtIOSISRS Shelton. Pay, OS the betty of Usti Ann
Elverson, who, as we stioa4, was killed in a wage with
the prisoner, Mary, Ann Roberts. The Jury, Otte bear.
it! critlanao at considerable:length, feinted a verdiet—
" f kat the deceased came Se her death by the loarasiely
o( ,a loooo.vespoi, caused hi great exertion avid viologa
.passion."—The mintier was discharged • from prison
yasterslay. . .

Wei* tcasstis ELacrion.--(Secoad day.) Wed-
aesday, Ott. 31.—At ths elsop•ttke pull ois this day
the numbers wends/Wed to be--
For Mr. Lao*
-11444,/ 111;iihr. 3011 W. .....