tubes, valves, &c. and the engineer had determined upon trying the effect of the whole, on Wednesday morning. The fire was accordingly laid, and the engine put into play. At ten o'clock, Mr. Constadt expressed his fears that the boiler would be overheated, and the valves become overloaded with steam; when, in consequence, he and Mr. Hague went to inspect it more closely. Scarcely, however, had they reached the works, when a general explosion took place, carrying, in the awful crash, utter destruction to the concern, and closing in the heap of ruins, the bodies of more than twenty persons. By three o'clock in the afternoon nine of these unhappy beings were dragged from the ruins, dreadfully lacerated, and conveyed to the London hospital. Six of them are not expected to survive; and at a late 1 hour in the evening five dead bodies were also taken from the concern; among these was the son of Mr. Spear, one of the partners of the house. The remainder of the sufferers were workmen employed in the concern, many of whom have left large families. The building was 70 feet in height and 50 in depth, and the loss sustained by Mr. Constadt, independent of so many valuable lives, is estimated at 30,000 pounds. different floors of the building, the whole was shortly enveloped in flames. It would be impossible to describe the raging fury of the element-and notwithstanding the timely arrival of nearly 20 engines, which continued to play throughout the night, the building was totally demolished-the interior falling into a condensed heap of ashes upon the ruins of the first house, leaving only a few and tottering fragments of the walls. In this additional calamity, no further loss of human lives has been sustained. The adjoining houses and neighbourhood have escaped injury; and the effects of the liquid explosion of water, sugar, &c. from the boiler and pans, dashed upon the adjacent buildings, and suffused thickly upon the trees of Wellclose Square, are the only circumstances worth observation, beyond the destruction of the premises, the loss of so many lives, and the unfortunate injury of others. The account of the expense oftne Prince Regent's living (as given in the Lord Steward's Department) may amuse our readers; the following are the items of the quarter ending the 5th January last:Bread, Butter, Bacon, Cheese, and Vegetables Another sugar house, belonging Butcher, Poulterer, and to Mr. Constadt, has suffered. About 11 o'clock on Wednesday night, the ruins of the former place being so far removed as to permit an effusion of flame, the fire which had caught the work of the engine and boiler machinery, and which till then had been smothered, burst forth with irresistible fury. The timbers and other inflammable articles strewed about the ruins immediately caught fire, and communicating to the Fishmonger Fuel Turner and Brazier L.1,121 19 101 3,411 13 14 586 9 0 1,460 19 7 3,235 15 71 2,120 3 10 818 6 72 210 18 0 1,090 16 0 96 19 6 375 1 0 259 19 3 101 13 8 L.14,890 14 81 GRAND TRIPLE ALLIANCE, OR, "HOLY LEAGUE!" In the name of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity! Their majesties, the emperor of Austria, the king of Prussia, and the emperor of Russia, in consequence of the great events which have distinguished, in Europe, the course of the three last years, and especially of the blessings which it has pleased Divine Providence to shed upon those states, whose governments have placed their confidence and their hope in it alone, having acquired the thorough conviction, that it is necessary for ensuring their continuance, that the several powers, in their mutual relations, adopt the sublime truths which are pointed out to us by the eternal religion of the Saviour God: Declare solemnly that the present act has no other object than to show in the face of the universe, their unwavering determination to adopt for the only rule of their conduct, both in the administration of their respective states, and in their political relations with every other government, the precepts of this holy religion, the precepts of justice, of charity and of peace; which, far from being solely applicable to private life, ought, on the contrary, directly to influence the resolutions of princes, and to guide all their undertakings, as being the only means of giving stability to human institutions, and of remedying their imperfections. Their majesties have therefore agreed to the following articles: Art. 1. In conformity with the words of the Holy Scriptures, which command all men to regard one another as brethren, the three contracting monarchs will remain united by the bonds of a true and indissoluble fraternity, and consi dering each other as co-patriots, they will lend one another on every occasion, and in every place, assistance, aid, and support; and regarding their subjects and armies, as the fathers of their families, they will govern them in the spirit of fraternity with which they are animated, for the protection of religion, peace and justice. Art. 2. Therefore the only governing principle between the above mentioned governments and their subjects, shall be that of rendering reciprocal services; of tes tifying by an unalterable beneficence the mutual affection with which they ought to be animated; of considering all as only the members of one Christian nation, the three allied princes looking_upon themselves as delegated by Providence to govern three branches of the same family; to wit, Austria, Prussia, and Russia; confessing likewise that the Christian nation of which they and their people form a part have really no other sovereign than him to whom alone power belongs of right, because in him alone are found all the treasures of love, of science and of wisdom; that is to say, God, our Divine Saviour Jesus Christ, the word of life. Their majesties therefore recommend, with the most tender solicitude, to their people as the only means of enjoying that peace which springs from a good conscience and which alone is durable, to fortify themselves every day more and more in the principles and exercise of the duties which the Divine Saviour has pointed out to us. Art. 3. All powers which wish solemnly to profess the sacred principles which have dictated this act, and who shall acknowledge how important it is to the happiness of nations, too long disturbed, that these truths shall henceforth | twenty-seven years, underwent the exercise upon human destinies, all the influence which belongs to them, shall be received with as much readiness and affection, into this holy alliance. capital punishment on the gallows, to which he was sentenced by the court of this commandancy general of Marine on the 19th April of last year, (and which the supreme tribunal of the admiralty of Spain and the Indies confirmed) for the treacherous murder of the justice of peace, D. Francisco Rodriguez, and at half past three P M. his right hand was cut off and nailed to the hook which is without the gate of the rail of the royal arsenal. The aforesaid criminal Harra, being put into the chapel for spiritual preparation, manifested that he had a public and judicial declaration to make, in order to ease his conscience, and his petition being acceded to, he declared the day before the punishment, having previously taken an oath, that he had committed SEVENTEEN MURDERS-eight in this city, and nine out, explaining them all in the following manner: The first in the arches of the convent of our lady de Belen, committing it with a knife on a white man, whose name and surname he did not know, neither did he state the day nor the year; but he stated that it was after orisons, and through jealousy as to a woman: the second, on the wall of Paura, on F. Rodriguez, giving him two stabs with a knife, and being dead, he threw London, April, 1816.-Cherries made their first appearance this season on the 7th inst. in Covent-him into the sea over the said wall garden market; they were sold at two guineas and a half per pound. EXECUTION FOR MURDER. Havanna, April 24.-Don Jose Miguel Izquierdo, clerk of the admiralty in this station, &c. I certify that on the 19th inst. at half past seven o'clock, A. M. the galley slave of the royal arsenal, Jose Florentino Harra, aged -he did neither state the day, year nor hour; but that the cause was for having pursued him as a deserter from the arsenal, requiring of him a contribution: the third he perpetrated on the negro Julian Mendez, in the neighbourhood of Santa Cattalina, giving him a stab with a dagger about 4 o'clock in the evening; neither did he state the day, month, nor year, but that the cause was his having | stared at him: the fourth, in the walks of St. Jose, without the walls of this city, on a young native Spaniard, of whose name and surname he gave no account, neither of the day, month nor year, on account of some variance he had with him: the fifth he executed in the road which is before arriving at the settlement of Palaver, on a negrohe did not state his name, surname, day, month nor year; but the cause was, that he presumed he was following him, whom he watched a quarter of an hour the night after his decease happened: the sixth, in the field of Mars, on a mulatto, striking him with a club, neither did he state his name, the day nor month, but that it was in the evening, and because that playing pawpaw he had some difference with him: the seventh he executed in the district of Macha, on the negro, Crisostomo-he did not state his surname, the day, month nor year, but that the cause was his having pursued him with two others; and because at the ball there was in that town he broke the harp with which they were playing: the eighth was that which he committed on the person of the above mentioned commissary, D. Francisco Rodriguez, and for which he was judged and sentenced to undergo the punishment of the gallows; as has been stated: the ninth was in the city of Porto Rico, and he executed it on the boatswain of a vessel, and for which he was sentenced to ten years labour in this arsenal in 1810: the tenth he executed in Vera Cruz, on the serjeant of lancers, F. Alvarez, being a soldier in the same troop, giving him a stab in the quarters he did not state the day, month nor year: the eleventh in Mexico, on a commissary of the city, executing it on a Saturday, about four o'clock in the evening, in the month of April, without stating the year, neither the name of the person, but the cause being his having wished to arrest him as a deserter from the permanent regiment, in which he had enlisted: the twelfth, in Alicant, on Antonio Cortes, sailor on board a French privateer, in which they both sailed; he killed him with a stab, at about 3 o'clock in the evening, in the month of January, without recollecting the year; but the cause was having lent him a sash, and his having refused to return it to him, declaring that in this affair he was wounded by Cortes: the thirteenth, on the French consul of the city of Malaga, giving him three stabs in the castle de Alfaro: the fourteenth, on his excellency the senior marquis de la Solano, in Cadiz, having been the first who seized him, and gave him three mortal stabs: the fifteenth, he perpetrated on the commandant of the revenue, D. Jose Heredia, in the said Cadiz, in the time of the revolution which the French caused in Spain: and finally, he declared, that sailing from Tampico to Cadiz, in an American brig, he threw overboard one of the sailors with whom he had a quarrel in defence of the Spanish name, executing it one night during a storm, and two days afterwards he did the same to the mate, in performing which Rasaci Amenio, a native of the island of Leon, assisted him, because the said mate had suspicion of his having thrown him overboard: concluding that he did not specify the various affrays and blows which he had with others; because death not having ensued, he con sidered the relation of them as superfluous, although some persons had remained injured. On the same day he made his will; and notwithstanding that in the process of the trial, he declared that he was a native of Monte Video, he manifested in that, that he was of this city. I certify likewise, that on the same nineteenth day that justice was executed, he repeated his confession and the sacrament was administered to him before carrying him to the gallows: that being on it a few moments before expiating his crimes, among other things which he expressed and said, he confirmed in a loud and public voice, the foregoing declaration, which, by a decree passed in the proceedings of his trial, was ordered to be published in the government paper of this city; to the end that if there be any one charged with these murders, and if he should choose to make use of this information, he may, as far as he is able, use it in his favour; and that the requisite copies thereof be officially sent to their honours, the chiefs of the tribunals of provinces in which the said murders were committed, and especially to the supreme council of the admiralty, for their information, and to the government paper of this city. Jose Miguel Izquierdo. Havanna, April 20th, 1815. ROBBERY. Anne Maria Clements, an unfortunate female, was charged by an officer of the second West India regiment, with robbing him of 10. She was remanded till Monday. Mr. Fielding (after she was gone from the bar) said he remembered the above unfortunate creature a few years ago extreme ly beautiful, and that she had house superbly furnished, drove about in an elegant barouche and four, and is supposed to have squandered away at least 40,000%. of the gentleman's money who was then attached to her. She now exhibits a striking picture of the very lowest ebb of human wretchedness.-Lon. paper. BONAPARTE'S POLICE. London, May 29. Our readers will recollect the accusation brought by M. Fouche Borel, against one Perlet, of which we, some. weeks ago, gave an abstract, as illustrative of the horrible atrocities of Bonaparte's police. At an early period of the revolution, M. Borel had abandoned his country, had left a beloved wife, and an ample fortune, and had served the king of France confidentially in various parts of Europe, and for a long succession of years. He had himself undergone a severe imprisonment, and had sent his nephew, M. Vitel, on a dangerous mission to Paris, and had intrusted the secret, together with a large sum of money, to Perlet. This latter wretch, who had previously been dispatched by Fouche and Real, to England, to persuade the Royal Family to come to France, with a view to have them assassinated; finding that attempt unsuccessful, resolved at least to betray Vitel, and to pocket Borel's money under pretence of employing it for the unfortunate young man's release. Vitel perished, and Borel did not at that time suspect Perlet. We have before us a pamphlet, which he published in 1807, very shortly after his nephew's death, in which he speaks of its authors as unknown to him; but adds, "I am on my part resolutely determined not to spare them, but to oblige |