CHRONICLE. 
the flames, that before the ravages 
could be prevented, they commu- 
nicated to the houses in Shaftes- 
bury-place, part of which was also 
demolished. Happily no lives 
were lost. 
Sutherlandshire.—On the 23rd 
of May aninquest, or precognition, 
was held in the above county, and 
closed on the evening of the 25th 
following, before John M‘Ked, 
ésq. ‘sheriff-substitute of the 
county of Sutherland, in North 
Britain, by order of the Marquis 
and Marchioness of Stafford, and 
of the King’s advocate, who at- 
tended the May Circuit at Inver- 
ness, to investigate certain charges 
brought against Peter Sellars, an 
under factor on the Sutherland 
estate by certain tenants of the 
parish of Far, in the vale and 
district of Strathnaver, of certain 
cruelties exercised by the said 
Sellarin May or June, 1814, when 
hetook possession of a large sheep 
farm in the said district, from 
which the complainants had been 
thenremoved ; on which occasion 
several lives were charged to have 
been lost, by burning and pulling 
down the said houses about the 
people’sheads. Thetenants prov- 
ed their cases to its fullest extent 
on the most distinct evidence. 
Three lives werelost ; one woman, 
old and bedridden, by her house 
being set on fire; and two men: 
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one woman whose house was pull-. 
ed down, and being far advanced 
in pregnancy, miscarried from ter- 
ror; and a man, aged 90 and up- 
wards, whose house was pulled 
down, had an arm fractured, while 
in bed, by the falling roof. The 
sheriff was so affected by the de-~ 
tail, that he fainted in court, over= 
powered byhis feelings, Sellar, will, 
of course stand committed to take 
his trial at the assizes to be hol-« 
den at Inverness in September 
next. 
By recentaccounts from Suther- 
landshire, it appears that the emi- 
grationsto North Americaare very 
considerable indeed. Three hun< 
dred families and upwards go this 
season from the districts of Farand 
Edrachilis to Picton, under the 
agency of a man named Logan. 
23.—Thefirst stone ofthe South- 
wark Bridge was laid by Admiral 
Lord Viscount Keith, K. B. ate. 
tended by sir John Jackson, bart. 
M. P. Chairman, and the rest of 
the Committee of Management. 
The stone was laid precisely at 
12 o'clock; the company after-- 
wards repaired to the temporary 
bridge erected on the works, 
where was a cold collation. The 
following is a copy of the inscrip- 
tion on: the plate affixed to the 
stone, and also enclosed with the 
different coins deposited beneath 
It :— 
INSCRIPTION. 
~ On the Twenty-third of day May, M.DCCC.XV. 
Being the Fjfty-fifth Year of the Reign of his Majesty 
GEORGE III. lar» 
And in the Regency of his Royal Highness 
GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES, 
The Right Honourable Admiral Lord Viscount Kerra, K. B. 
attended by Sir Jonn Jackson, Bart. M. P. Chairman, 
and other Members of the committee of - 
Management, a! 
