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recovery ; and, about a twelvemonth 
ago, his daughter, an infant, was 
scalded to death. 
In White horse-street, Ratcliffe, 
at a very advanced age, and the old- 
est in the Greenland trade, having 
been 50 years in it, capt. R. Wa- 
terhouse ; who, in his life-time, fre- 
quently said that he had survived 
every commander in the trade twice 
over. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Ist. T. M. Roche was indicted, 
in Dublin, for high treason. LEvi- 
dence had been previously gone into, 
with a view to establish the fact of 
insurrection on the night of the 23d 
of July, viz. the testimonies of Mr. 
Wilson, and lieut. Brady, of the 
21st regiment, who identified the pri- 
soner as bearing a pike on that night. 
He further deposed, that he took the 
prisoner in the act of holding a pike, 
with both hands, across his breast, 
the iron part downwards. On con- 
veying him, with 13 prisoners, from 
James’s-street barrack to the Old 
Man’s hospital, the prisoner there 
threw himself on his knees before 
gen. Fox, pleaded his age and dis- 
tressed family, and protested the pike 
: had been forced on him by the insur- 
gents in Thomas-street. In the pre- 
vious part of the witness’s testimony, 
he proved that the prisoner, when 
Seized on, made an hideous noise, 
grappled his pike, and offered a con- 
Siderable resistance.—Several wit- 
nesses were called to his character ; 
but none of them could say any 
thing in favour of his loyalty.—Ser- 
jeant Rice proved the discovery of 
8000 copies of the traitorous pro- 
elamation. Afteran animated speech, 
from Mr. M‘Nally, in favour of the 
427 
prisoner, Justice Finnucane recapi- 
tulated the evidence, and the jury, in 
a few minutes, returned a verdict of 
guilty.—Kirwan was also tried, and 
found guilty. 
2d. J. Byrne was this day tried 
on the same charges as the former 
prisoners, and, alter a similar rou- 
tine of evidence, was found guilty. 
He was seized with a pike on his 
shoulder, by two soldiers of the 21st. 
About half past two this morning, 
a dreadful fire broke out at Astley’s 
amphitheatre, in consequence of the 
negligence of some of the persons 
whose duty it was to see the lights 
carefully extinguished. The acci- 
dent originated in the repositories of 
the machinery and combustibles for 
the fire-works; and the immense 
quantity of inflammable materials 
caused the flames to rage with such 
incredible fury, that every effort to 
preserve the building was useless. — 
Consternation pervaded all the inha- 
bitants of the adjoining houses, called 
Amphitheatre-row, the back parts of 
which almost touch the theatre: the 
wretched inhabitants were seen run- 
ning to and fro, nearly naked, throw- 
ing their goods out of the windows, 
and increasing the horror of thescene 
by screams and shrieks. The same 
scene of misery and distress Occurred 
in Pheenix-street, which runs paral- 
lel with Amphitheatre-row. In the 
latter the destruction proved fatal, 
nearly 20 houses having been con. 
sumed in that street alone; and the 
inhabitants being all poor, and chiefly 
industrious mechanics, their distress 
may be more easily conceived than 
described. The most melancholy 
part of the accident is the loss of 
Mis. Woodham.* The tote] number 
of houses destroyed is nearly 40. A 
number of wretches plundered the 
unfortunate sufferers, previous to 
the 
* Vide deaths for this month. 
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