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•ne of them heating so as to take 

 lire. 



21st. This night, about 7, a large 

 warehouse in Lower Sparling-street, 

 Liverpool, was discovered to be on 

 lire. The upper rooms being filled 

 wiOi cotton, corn, &c. the llames 

 raged M'ith unabated violence fur 

 several hours, until the whole build- 

 ing was destroyed ; and nearly all 

 the property, estimated at 30,0CX)1. 

 At four o'clock this morning 

 a fire broke out at the Talbot-inn, 

 Borough. It was occasioned by the 

 carelessness of a waggoner, who left 

 his lanthorn in his waggon, %vhich 

 ■was loaded with slop goods, linens, 

 sugars, and a great variety of arti- 

 cles. A spark from the lanthorn 

 communicated to the straw, and the 

 waggon was instantly in a blaze. It 

 was entirely consumed. Two wag- 

 gons, which stood near it, were 

 much damaged. 



About 10 this night, a fire broke 

 out at Mrs. Robinette's, haber- 

 dasher. West-street, Soho, which 

 entirely consumed the same, toge- 

 ther with the roofs of two adjoining 

 houses. Considerable apprehension 

 was entertained for the timber-yard 

 opposite, and much confusion oc- 

 curred among a number of poor fa- 

 'miles near the spot. It is not known 

 bow the conllagration commenced ; 

 the family was from home, and, by 

 the time the doors were burst open, 

 the house was enveloped in flames. 

 The damage is estimated at 4,0001. 

 Richard Harding was tried on a 

 capital charge for forging the ace of 

 spades on cards. It was proved 

 that the prisoner had the plates in 

 his possession for stamping the card, 

 and that he had been seen working 

 them. After a very long trial, the 

 jury returned a verdict of — Guilty. 

 This evening, as Mr. Isaac 



Blight, a reputable ship-broker, of 

 Greenland-dock, near Deptford, 

 was sitting in his parlour, a person 

 suddenly opened the door, and fired 

 a pistol at him, the ball from which 

 entered the abdomen, and, passing 

 through his body, the back of the 

 chair in Mhich he sat, and the 

 wainscot behind him, lodged in the 

 V, all. Mr. fJ. died of the wound in 

 tlio afternoon of the next day. He 

 was perfectly sensible to the last 

 moment of his life, but could give 

 no account whatever of the person 

 of the man who fired the pistol, nor 

 of the motive, having no malice 

 against any man, nor supposing that 

 any man entertained any malice 

 against him. Mr. B. had recently 

 returned from Margate, where he 

 left his wife and family ; and was 

 informed by a Mr. Patch, whom he 

 had very lately admitted to a share 

 in his business, and who acted for 

 him in his absence, that, on the 

 19th, as he was sitting in that part 

 of the room in which Mr. B. usually 

 sat, a shot was fired into the apart- 

 ment, and a ball passed through the 

 window-shutter, which, from the 

 place where it entered the shutter, 

 must have passed very close to him. 

 He therefore advised Mr. B. to be 

 upon his guard ; but the latter, un- 

 conscious of having given offence to 

 any man, made light of it, and con- 

 sidered it as an accidental shot from 

 some ship or boat on the river, Mr, 

 B.'s house being situated close to 

 the water-side. Both the balls were 

 extracted, and, being of the same 

 size, it is presumed were fired from 

 the same pistol, which has not yet 

 been found, after the most minute 

 search ; but the ramrod of a pistol 

 was found sticking about two inches 

 in the soil in the privy, which ap- 

 peared dry and hard, contrary to 

 E e 3 what 



