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families from the top to the bottom. 

 A large stack of chimneys belong- 

 ing to this house having lost its 

 former supportand protection, and 

 owing to the high winds, gave way 

 on Friday night about six o'clock, 

 and falling in upon the roof,brought 

 the whole down through all the 

 floors successively. A man named 

 Anderson, and his wife, in the 

 third floor, were carried down 

 with the ruins, and almost literally 

 crushed to pieces. About half an 

 hour afterwards they were dug 

 out of the ruins, but without any 

 signs of life. Their son, a boy 

 about twelve years of age, was 

 carried also down by the ruins, 

 but escaped nearly unhurt. The 

 father and mother were found in 

 each other's arms, and in a state 

 completely mangled ; the bodies 

 were conveyed to the Apple Tree, 

 a public house in the neighbour- 

 hood. The father was an old sol- 

 dier, who, in the field of battle, 

 had had many an hair-breadth 

 escape. A poor woman, who 

 lived in the cellar, with four chil- 

 dren, had just gone out about a 

 minute before the fatal accident, 

 with all her children, to a neigh- 

 bouring shop for a candle ; other- 

 wise they must have been crushed 

 to pieces, as the whole floors of the 

 house came down. It is supposed 

 that another man has lost his life, 

 but the body has not been found. 

 Very fortunately the different fa- 

 milies in the house were from 

 home at the time. 



11. The nineteen journeymen 

 printers of the Times-ofBce, con- 

 victedofaconspiracy,received sen- 

 tence ; Robert Hewlett and John 

 Gee, to be fined one shilling and 

 imprisoned two years in Newgate. 

 WilliamClifton,StephenBeckett, 

 and George Westray, to be fined 



one shilling, and imprisoned eigh- 

 teen months. 



Stephen HurleJ^ Henry Byrne, 

 and Thomas Woolley, to be fined 

 oneshilling, and imprisoned twelve 

 months. 



Roderic Paskin, Edward Kidd, 

 William Williams, Corbet Latham, 

 William Coy, James M'Cartney, 

 John JVI'Intosh, Nathaniel Collins, 

 Malcolm Craig, John Chapman, 

 and John Simpson, to be fined 

 one shilling, and imprisoned nine 

 months. 



Two of the prisoners begged 

 hard for some abatement of their 

 punishment. 



John Newbolt Hepburn, con- 

 victed of a detestable crime, plead- 

 ed his innocence in a speech pur- 

 posely composed : he alluded to 

 an anxious request which he had 

 made to the learned judge, before 

 whom he was tried, at the close 

 of Mann's evidence ; namely, that 

 the deposition of Mann, before 

 the magistrates at Bow-street, 

 might be read, in order to be con- 

 trasted with his testimony upon 

 the trial. With this request his 

 lordship was pleased to promise 

 compliance, but terminated his 

 charge to the jury without reading 

 those depositions. He now im- 

 plored of the court, that in report- 

 ing his conviction to his majesty 

 with the judge's notes of the evi- 

 dence on which it was founded, 

 the report might be accompanied 

 by the depositions of the witness 

 Mann before the magistrates: and, 

 from an examination of the con- 

 tradictory statements of that wit- 

 ness upon the charge against him, 

 he should look with humble but 

 confident hope to the mercy of his 

 sovereign. 



The recorder desired to have the 

 written statement which had been 



