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the premises on the evening of the 9th, till about nine o'clock. 

 The last witness was with him some time in the engine-liouse, 

 when he was engaged in packing the piston. When he went away, 

 no one, to his knowledge, wns left behind but the watchman; and 

 all appeared to him to be safe and right. He returned a few 

 minutes aftei three o'clock the next morning, and went to the 

 engine-house to get the engine ready. The fire had been lighted 

 as usual, before he came. He, however, proceeded to make it 

 up, and found nothing wrong at that moment. In about twenty 

 minutes after he went through the mill-room to the long-house, 

 which was on the warehouse floor, and, standing on the steps 

 which led down to the fill-house, he called to know if they were 

 ready below. He received for answer, that they were not quite 

 ready; and in consequence of this he went away, but returned 

 in the space often minutes and inquired again. " Understanding 

 now that they wcukl be ready immediately, he prepared to start 

 his engine, which stood in a yard by itself,'and set it to work. In 

 a very few mir.utes he heard an alarm of fire, and he went again 

 through the mill-room, and perceived, by a door opening to the 

 left, that the fire was on the warehouse floor. There was a good 

 deal of smoke, and he saw no hole in the floor through which 

 the fire could have found its way. There were various hogs- 

 lieads, as well as straw and paper, lying about. The iron doors 

 were fast, and the premises were burnt down in about three 

 hours. 



Cross-examined. — There was no fire remaining when he left 

 the premises the night before. The steam-engine was used for 

 the mill as well as for the oil-pump. The engine had been put 

 on several times before he heard the alarm of fire. There was 

 no great body of fire when he first perceived it in the warehouse. 



Christian Lampc was employed in the warehouse. It was 

 there that hogsheads were emptied on the floor, for the purpose 

 of being refined. On the Sth of November several hogsheads were 

 packed, and on the following day six or seven were emptied. 

 This liad perhaps increased the quantity of straw and paper 

 usually lying about. One pan had been charged by him with 

 the sugar tiius emptied from the hogsheads. The candles some- 

 times used in tlic warehouse were blown out, and left either on 

 the floor or on the hogsheads till the next morning ; there was 

 no particular place for depositing them. The hogsheads were 

 sometimes left with sugar adhering to their insides, but were 

 finally scraped and steamed. A gas-light was used in the ware- 

 house. 



Henry Wylling, another workman on the same premises, con- 

 firmed the evidence of the preceding witnesses in all its essenthd 

 points. He came about four o'clock on the day of the fire ; and 



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