141 ARC 14 S. _Frans the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, narch 3. CROWN-OFFICE, March 3. mF,MBF,n,y , tltMed to serve in this present PARLIAMENT. Bortml:di 00 - eq. Alinires.—Williau Tierney Ilubsets, Irk in the room of Joueph Ilalsvy, Esq. do leased. RANICRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. VENAimecAl. Grecnwi..h. nuer.PhanL BAN liltUrrs. eVRMF. Ind T. Bri;lttan, ha ndrapers,Mamh 7. 17, April 14, at Guitdhal Alts. tilurtlilloti and Co. Ilread•4treet. Covect.i. t. B. llitet-str.xt. Shuredrtoh,uiturm , Starch 7, 17, April 14. at Att. NLr, Lindsay, St. 'fhoaras's-street, South work. BAT Gretlaril. Wyk, manufacturer, March 27,23, April 11, at Halifax. Att. Mr. Beckett, Noble-street. Ml:net:at .1. Graystonely, Lancashire. litue-hurler, March 18. 19, April 14. at Preston. Atts. Hurd and Co. Tenspl RIDI.LII J. Worecaer, dealer. March I:3, t. 14. at Worces ter. Att. Mr. Becke. Krcaties-huildirgs, (ll:weary-Line. 11.!nu2s 11. Liverpool. joiner, March 17, 13, April 14, at Liver plot Aus. Blackstock anti Co. Ttanr... Kt Nd J. Swanton. Norfolk, •farmer, March 5, 26, April 14, at Swenam. Att. .Mr. Barber. Fetter-lane. Buys W. Snodlaral, 4(enl, miller, March 7, 17, April 14. at tildhall. Att. Mr. Constable, Syrtmad's fen. At,..E NI M. Gate, York, dealer, .March 17.1 x, April 11. at Ley. burn. Mtg. Willis and Co. Wartifortkourt. StrY; • Ell LA VII S. A. Barnaidswitk. York, cormticalers. March 24. 23, April 14, at Skipton. A is. snicker and 1, r. I:ureic...l's Inn. 'f.seacurt W. l'lyototith. victualler, Nlarch 1.2. 13, April 11, at l'lymouth. Arts. Dark and Co. Charcery.lane. S tN oEus 11. SutfEad, law-stationer, Nrarch to, 11, April 14, atStaf ford. Atta. Bishop and Cu. l'okenhouse-yard. DIVIDFNUS. • I.acy, ship-builder. Nliech 21. F...lame•, Bristol. timber-men:Mint, Nlarcli Sg. V. Jackson, Wash-upon-Hearne, York. grocer, March 1.7. .1. Ilettcr, Rochester-row, orickmaker, Mir•la 51. J. Whit AVAIII. M. llowartl.and J. Haddock, Cateator.-street, banks ers, March 21. J. Matthews, chapkrefocr, April 4. .1. Griffin. Little ffytler.street. milliner, March 21. T. Jenkins, Judil•street, mariner, March 14. A. Hawses', Bath, wheel chair•inalcer, Martrh 1. ('sake. at 1 fr. Prince. Col.numt.strxt, merchants, Nlarcls 23. .1. Gay. G Suffilk, dealer., Nlarch 24. Morley, Liverpool, draper, Nlarclip. J. Warrt;rt. Limt:house. cooper, April 14. „I. Brown, Glainfor.l.briggs. Lincoln, mercer. March 23. J. Penn. Chepstow, Monmoeth, merchant, April 10. .1. Nailer, Oxford, tobacconist, March 28. CI.:II.TIFICATEE—'MArtmi 17. P. Shorunan. shcilkeepro—S. Carl, jun. tier ~Wiltshire, fartner.-11. Stanley, . Lower 'fliamr.e.street, iromnonger.—W. lives. King's-mews-gate, Ca.tk-itreet. Leicester-ficitls, liatl.-draper. —J. Pri.:o, Clitaw, I:tam:shire, farmer. POLICE. HATTON-CARDEN, FED. 24. • William Al!croft appeared at this office upon an informa tion, which contained two counts : the first. charging him with liating.dyl4l, fahrientett, and mannfactoredslee, ash, and other to imitate tea; and the second, charging him with having in possession 4111C114eaire5 for 6101 1/11r03.1011, • contrary to the Act passed iu the 17th of George 111. hi the first stage of the proceedings, Mr. Adolphus for tlat dtfen dant, insisteddm the production of the intor►ner, which was endeavoured to be resisted by Ma. Rolland, for the prosecution; bat at Parish, un Excise officer, was produced. It ap peared from the evidence, that a large (timidity of %shot s-eined to be sloe unit a-li leaves had been ti►and by the Ex. rise offir.rs in the 'noise of a poor man named Rim,les, iii Tenter-row, which they took to be itttewlril for mixing with tea in onhi to ilefi and the Public, This they seiatiletogr• !her with . drying screens, and other apparatus for im puting ilienleaves for 115 e. By some mean', or other it was ascertained that similar leaves. in a prepared state, had been conveyed to a 'ionic in Seward-street, where the defendant had asked leave to deposit some empty casks. When these casks were inspected, they were found to contain such leaves as those foetid at•ltliodes's house ; hat there being no proof that Allereft hadauy knowledge of their contents, and there Aleing all informality in t e information, the defendant was acquitted.— The process observed in waking the-stuff, very • frequently imposed upon the poor, is as follows :—A qudoity Of ash leaves Aire placed upon a copper,where they remain for some time ; they are then put on a plate and placed over the lire, where they get a crisp appearance. The leaves are not Poisonous, for it wasobserved, that 9-10ths of the teindealers , . .in the metropolis use thentin a greater or less degree. The . 2,11 tree Itowtver is known to be destructivelo all plants set in their neighbuttrhood. J %MRS RIP STREET. . - J. Rowlandson was chargcd uith forging a bill for 101. 31r. Boston, of Spencer-place, GoswelLitreet, said, Wt. Au ?lest the prisoner Caine to him, and pretended he was a• coun irytuaa, and after some conversation, Mr. !Lani lie had some Yorkshire cloth to sell. The prisoner am ecil eo purchase it :or Es. per yard, prodaced a bill for io. I. drawn upon-- Ailkinson, reAding near Leeds. , ^'lse hill was endorsed with seveial names, and the iirisottere name was last. It Was mad:: pay*lle at the house of Lloyds and Co. in Lotlibur.. When it became due, 111r.11..rreseuted !t p4miait, but was told no such .parson kept an account there. 11e met the prkoher accidentally in Sun - street, on SatuAday peek, and had iiiiitlak.2o into custody.—lL!nanded.. fly the ei¢h winds and tides of the last Olive . er fonri days, a great pint of tl►. banks of the lower tows :at Southead ha* been washed into the sea, eacitiug among the inhaltitanis: %thus , : houses ore dose to the spot, serious alarms far their saf. ty. • • A National Fete is to be celebrated shortly on the ninth, :n Switzerland, at which all, or nearly all Ow Cantouipare to as4ist. The object is Somewhat singular—the re-appearance within a few weeks, of a small island in the Lake of *alien. staiit,which Lad soult.beneath the water:: inure than a century ago. . . Friday week a* Sir G. Smart, vas returning-front Drary• line Theatre 4 .:.bont 12 o'clock. to his house in greatilinrtlaml street, he was attacked by two robbers near Newport 111.irkt:t, one oc them kno..ked him down ; a gentleman Coining up lit the time, the %Mains ran off and escaped. Sir George re:ei yeti slime bruises frelli being knocked dowri c but lost no property. 'Air. Cramer, the celebrated Leader, was kcucked down in 4 similar manlier a few nights since. A further respite durnig pleariire was on Monday received !or the two boys, Spicer and whose ease has lately at . t:altvil so much lilts:x.l4w. THENATIONAL RE6ISTER. INQUEST OV THE . PERSONS DESTROY EI) BY THE LATE run: IN THh STRANEL On Tuesday night an Inquest was held at the Cannon, in Hunger ford -street, lam the mutilated remains of Emma wife of Mr. Wlwater, a grocer. at whose house the conflagration commenced, and J. Stur geon tiadr apprentice, who lust theic lives in the llatnes ; and also on J. 'faker, the shopman who died in cons-muenc: ef jumping front the window. The Jury, afta hcing imp:menet. went to St. Martin's Workhouse to view the ob'ects of their impeties. which exhibited a most horrid apiwara ir he vest;;es of Alra W. and the appren tice which No been rescued from the btktuing ruins, were placed in irte 'shell, being so disfigured a , not to be alistinguished. The twins of 'esker, were in a shell close by. and also exhibited u shock. ing . sp.:chide. his scull heirg dreadfully fractured, mid his hands and part of his head scorched. J. NCWIII4II% a constable, proved finding the remains in thc manner already described —Mr. Gray a shoemaker, of the Strand., stoed, that about sis o'clock on Sunday morning he saw a smoke issuing from Mrs; W. horse. lie crossed the street, and asked the,ratchn.an if it was a tire ; when he answered " Yes, Nlaster ;," and walk's' cooly on..—Juryman, if the alarm had been given ten nuinws sooner. probably, the lire; of the deceased might have beer , avid.-Coroner, " At whtli. time did the lire break cut ?"—Mr. Gray. " I , s ot up about six 'ft:Lick...ad on missing the street Paw the Haines barstin.c from Mr. W.'s window. I saw but few people in the twect. Mr. llavie., of the Strand, was there. I heard him give no alarm; I went home myself t o at.trm my family. I can: not tell the watchman'.; name: he walked towards Temple Bar with out taking any notice."—One of the Juryman said, he lived near Charirg Cross, and heard a man going for the engine.: F, !ore six n'clork.—Another Juryman said, " I ion sorry to say the landlord of this house suffers the watchmen to meet at his house betkre they go off duty. There are hi watchmen in the patLh, who ungkt have assist ed.' --J. Bin. a whose box w;.; at the door of Mr. Ash man, whose house was burnt, said, h,^ left the beat a tew minutes before six. After crying the nour and putting up his box he wcut home ; the fire had not commenced then.—W. Rubin:am, a coasts-. ble, said. the order in the watchmen was, not to leave their beat till the clock strikes six. W 'mess part with Nettleton. a con stable, about twenty minutes patt six ; there was no appearance of firs at that time.—.l. Net detnn stated. that on Laving the watA-house. whero he had acted a.. Ni4ht (unstable, he met a boy running with a child in his arms, who .aid that all llewitt's court was on tire. Ile re turned to the watch-house for his staff, and reached the spot about seem minutes past six ; there was then about fifty persons present. It was the duty of the lieadles to eauplain of any neglect in the watchmen. lie had heen threaten's' to be reported to the Vesay for saying that the parish engine was out of order. W. Parry. foreman. to the Hope (Mice, said, the engines were waiting an hour for water. The parish er.gine svas sent for; but the person who had the key could nut be found for some time; ;aid when it was brought it would tot act, being sofmtell out of order.—A Parishioner said, a shmt time ago lie paid 75 guineas for its reliairc.—Parry said. he would keep it in re pair for 51. a year —Mr. Allen said, ahead Si x o'clock he saw from his window two persons in their shirts, trying to lay - hold the parapet wall, one ofahom missed his hold, and fell from thr.window on the pavement, the other rewhed the top of the house, and saved his the person who fell was 'faolt.er. It was about five minutes after the the watchman had cried the hour of six; shortly after the flames issuer from the third floor window s and priamled downwards.—A Gentleman stated, that it was 'Mr. \Viteater's requeit, founded on the advice of hie Physician. that ko might not to called upon to give evidence, as such a pracceairg woul;.1 probably prove Leal to him. Mr. W. informed him that the porter who Neaps'. was much burnt about the knees; that he had at the time about 3001. in ,:ash, besides NHS to a large amount. which Aver!. not insured. Previous to his VSraill by the window, he sought for Mrs. W. but could not find her. and with much difficulty saved his life. The Coroner, in summing up, regretted that they could not iiscertain the cause of the fire. and eel . pressed a hope that in fe:ture the watch would be better regulated.-4 The Jury then returned a, verdict at Accidental Peath by a fall for .1. Taiker ; and Accidentally Burnt tp Death fur Mrs. Waeater 4741.1 Sturgeon. A great numbeeof females in the "..ik.inity of the Strandd remain is consequence of the fright ocea.ioned by the late calamitous fire iu that place. In the case of Mr,. Jackson, the wife of Mr. Jackson. bookbinder. in Villiers street, it has ',roves! fatal. She was among the first persons attracted to the spot, and had se, n the unfor tunate Mr. Wheatcr traversing her room in a state of distraction, with her child in her arms, the moment before she threw it from the window, and was herself shot tly after enveloped in flames. Mrs. J. re turned lionni in a stateof great agitation, and so continued during the day ;Intl was 4 little composed when she retired to rest at night ; she WAS however soon after seized with epilepsy, and espired at three o'clock on Alonday morning. On Wednesday a young man went to the warehouse of Messrs. lonviore, catpet manufacturers. in Illackfriurs-road, and stated that was the servant of Colonel Walker of Charlotte-street, .urrcy Road; that his master wanted two carpets, for which he !coal pay on delivery. and requested that the porter might accompany him, and bring change fur u -tol. note. Toe porter accordingly accom , roiled him with carpets to the value of W 4 Is. and change as re ; quired. When they arrived at the house , he r eq u e sted th e porter to follow him into the drawing-room, where he was told melt down while he took the change to the Colonel. who was in bed in an adjoin ing room, which the formes did, and waited for a conaiderable time. —At length he became alarmed; and on inquiry of the persons in the house, he was informed that there was no such pmsoas lived there as f;o1. Walker. Mr. Butler, who keeps the house, sail that the young man came to him about an hour hefine, and reprisented himself as the servant of ('ol. Walker, and engaged a suit of apart ments for his master, and said that he should go immediately and purchase some carpets for the back rooms.. EXTRZSIE CASE uF Miscuv.—.A ease of deep misery oc curred near Knareshorough last week, which evinces, in a striking manner. Siee distress of the times. As M.lllo.Womoi were returning from llocrow gate, they discovered a wean ap• parently dead. Assistance was procured, and lie was re. moved to the George Inn; where the vital spaik was pre served, though nut, without severe suffering to this unknown unfortunate. Ile had the appeasuns:e or a distressed geode, man ' • and, on being searched, the whole of hie, property, ex. etpt his clothes which covered him, was found to consist of a' eurnip and a few horse beans, tocether • with an- empty vial, 'tilde!' had contained laudanum. Out his case being known he .was visited by some gentlemen of the town, who solicite4 him to state the cause of .hia distress. this answer was, that he had formerly been a fanner in North Britain, and had failed ; in consequence of which, he had attempted to support his family as a nsanutlicaurer of table-linen, but had been pursue I by misfortune tura in This engagement. Struck with the • situation of a wiftsand four infant children, he went to 14m, d o n iu search of oreployment. There his wishes were again foiled ; and he sold his extra clothes to defray his passage to Hull. Thence he travelled without food. to York, and in. tended to proceed to Leeds, but mistook the ruad aud got to Knaresborongh. A shamed to beg, aucl unable to b ea m u p ;An y longer, he took a quantity of loulaniun, and laid himself 411. M to die, whew he was that rescue:l from the grave, On his re covery, lie was very grateful for the .I;indiless he had re. velvet!, and thankful for the interposition of an all-wise Pro. videher, by which he had been so miraculously preserved. — He now expressed a fervent wish once more to join his family; iii consequence of which, a snbseripsion was set un font, nod in the course of a few hours, above 10 guineas Wcrs collected. .Hi s paw is concealed, foraibvioua reovoos. EFFECTS OF THE LiLvenic.Lu. Between half-past ten and eleven o'clock on Wednesday night as acciuent•vi a luau calamitous nature uccuried at the house of Lady llayc. of le, Somerset street. The servants consisting of the cock, the fuotinam housemaid, lady's maids and chairwu,nau , halt just set down to supper, when the uuur bell suddenly rune. '1 fie toutinan ruse, fur the purpose of opening it. but had only proceetted a short di s tance along the passage, wren lie was alarmed by r loud tremen dous crash, resembling tout of a falling of a house. lie instantly ran back, but a as unable to proceed lather than to the end of the passage, far where the kitetien stood but a moment before, was now erne maps of ruins. It we', discovaied that Mary Magnate, the tank. Slaty Ihnell, the housemaid, and Smith, the laundress, Were no were to be tuuud, a:.d as they had been left as supper, the greatest fears had been cue: maned fur tneir safety Adel wine nine ate body of Mary Stannic, was taken out with the head all dashed to atoms, and the body dreadfully mangled ; she was quite dead. The other births were alto dug out. tin examination of the bodies of Sundt and Oinch, some signs of lice were apparent, although they were most diengetously bruised. Smith inul her thigh broken, and ass burned about theshoulder. Slaty Ihneli was burins' much worse. hut bad no !nub fruetured, tiutm Witten it is con j ectured, that they fell on, or near the grate, in which there was then a large tire. lu explain the eireannstances that IA to this shucking catastrophe, it wad us proper to observe that the latcheu or Lady tray e was in the yard, at the buck of the dwelling house, and in the rear of this again, stood Cranial buildings. A wall had been raised to the height of «bout sixty feet or upwards, for the purpose of preventing theft, and blocking up the communication between Culinal-beultlings and the houses in Sotneesi.-street. In the course of the night the wind shifted in a nurtnern direction, and blew Jong Calail-buildings lull against the wall, which at length fell in, and by its weight burr down the roof of the kitchen part of the leads fell against die wall, and was placed in that situation that any person under it, although unable to cyan. eau: them adve.i, might respire. Thi was the situation in which the housemaid and the laundress were, but having fallen at the fire -side. were exposed to the most horrid torture !ruin the heat until their semen, and even all animation lett them The lsrge_ hicin whiett bupported the kitchen and went across the nail, was foinul broken in two ; ait.l as the body of ilie cook was found near the spot, it is sop fused that it must have fallen on her, and caused instant death. ..--vlorkmen were einploeed the whole of Thursday, in clearing the ruins. The unfortunate women ate not expected to recover. They still lie at Lady Ilaye's house. Between ten and eleven o'clock, on Wednesday night, during the storm, a stack of chimneys front the adjoining house was blown down upon tha t of Mr. Mortice, of South -street. Finsbury-square, and drove in the roof of a room in which three of his infant children lay. .stoat providentially . some friends were spending the evening wide Mr. Morrice, who immediately dew to the adjoining apartment It would be (lithe :sit to describe the scene that ensued, ur the feetingsof the gentlemen (mostly relatives of the children> as they rescued thent one by one from the ruins, aid delivered them without injury to the anxious mother, who was waiting, in agony, the result of the active exertions of their friends. it is most certain, that had any person been standing in the loom at the time, they must have been kilted, or had . the bests been in any other part of it than where they stood the children must have perished. Mr. 11Wkettsun of Broad-street. .st. James's, was dangerously wounded on returning home through Wardour-strect, about 12 o'clock. Parted* a stark of chimneys were blown down, and a part upon his head and shoulders, which struck him to the ground. lie was conveyed hate in a senseless state. Several chinuiey sta.rks were blown ott the houses in Denmark court, in the Strand, talent winch carne (limn with such max as to break through the window rails ut an area on the opposite side and smashed the whole of the windows. Two houses. in Peter'sline, Cow-crosg, which were condemned. but in one of which a poor family resided, the other was utur.aiu,pied, we.e blown down as low as the tint *air, the enure of the runt's, tic. being blown into the lane, fortunately no penult was passing at the time, and tie inmates escaped unhurt. Another ohl house in Frug well.court, Charter Ilouse.donc,was blown down ; it was unoccupied, except by a poor old. woman. who resided in Inc cellar, and who was ottenvards dug out alive, being hearty suffocated from the dust, but receiving no other injury. The roof of the principal pun of nag.. nigge %V ells Tavern was also blown off, and all the garden fenecr and paling along (7hureit-row, St Yancras, were blown dow.i. The streets in various parts of Clerkenwell were strewed with tales and garden pots. About ten o'clock, two houses in Prior-place, East -street, Kent road, cause d owti , w i t h a ternienduas crash. The houses wire not finished, - - I; p wards of two cwt. of lead was blown front the roof of Surgeons' Bah, Lingoln's lnu-lieWs. Three hou.ses, alinostiinished near the turnpike -gate in the New cut, near %% aterloo-bridge, tell about eight o'clock Kith a tremendous crash, occasioned by the gale. Sow - of the ca . :seinen - is of St. Bride's church, Fleet.street, were blown in, and a chimney blown down of a house contiguous, and the roof much injured. Three post-cludses . were blown over on Winchester Downs, and one of the drivers was much bruiss4—aill the pa.ssodigers escaped without any inj!try . . On the Bath road, near Vevizes, several large trees were torn up. by the roots, and had fallenaeross the road, so that it was impossible for any carriage to pass. On the' tow of Broadway-hid, Worcestershire, when the flail• ciach arrived there,, the wind and snow were so tremendous, that it became imposing(' for the coachman to force the horses on, the con sequence was, tuey became ungovernable, insomuch they turned cowyletely round, and the coach was blown over. Happily no serio.ei injury a u sustained either by coachman, guard, or passes. garai On Friday an inquisition wastakenat the Three Compass es , South Poi titian Mews, on the body of Mary Marentie, servant to Lady Hayes, who met her &nab by the falling in of thu rout of the kitchen during the, hurricane on Wednesday even. 'f Is c !surly presented.,. most dreadful spectacle, antLa protitsieit of blood had HOMO from the Lockport of the head. The case was so. apparent that only one wetness was called, and the Jury returned a verdict of—Accidental Death. Estimated b:,xitencrs Of the following Civil Establishments. for the year tell, as reported to the I louse of Commons :—,Sierra Leone, 1 . 3,4603..,- Nova Scotia, 13.4101.—New South Wales,. tie. 60.51.-14- pee Canada, tuowol —New il;unswick, 60571. !W.—Newfound-. land, s,4S3l.—Prinee ,Edward's Island. .3,7l:Cll.—Bahama islands, the ° ta n : l B after 'ee d rie dn ' tut " : 3,20 H„ o.4.— Cape lireten..4lool.—lmunnwe, thTA he rm o y fli o c t i . . L e., , in :r. of li) F'ranc e. tin the year the Usual stoppages from and men on account of Provisions, and the expveces Arforage tur A tunery hoots, r!s the wine are to be supplied in kind by the govertwicot of trance, amoun ts to 107,9511. is. 14. • The unturuhA Debt itt ,chequer Rill. outstanding on the Sth of January last autumnal to sltax'9,4ooL of which only ten,nuokaux provided for. A shunt time since an elderly lady, o f t h e Same of Style . died m Church -strect,ll , indsor—Sli e was uf penurious babas, and lett a eonaithq . able property. Some of the clothes which she wo:•e were given to het. nurse, a pour. woman of very re specta ot, t claracter; among these were a pair of old stays, which the deceased . had wenn tilt her last moments. 'Am nurse, in cutleavounng to repair them, found Bank notes Ict the automat of 1101 Secreted in the lining. With exemplary honesty she immediately took back the same to the eacc.utog of the ilt.ccaica.