The National Register. — London, England, 1815-11-19 00:00:00

750 THE NATIONAL. REGISTER. Great praise ig due to tie rrsons engaged in clearing away the rubbish. several hundreds of whom were labouring with the most i ni irr;.ti , .;a l )lc industry at a late hour last night. About six o'ch , ck the voice of a nian, c,illing for bzlo, was heard in the under floor of the bnilding, but it is feared be vroull perish befote the ruins which covered him were removed. The personal escape of Messrs. Constadt and is Ora truly miraculous. FURTIIF.R PARTICULARS. Another sogar-lionse, Ire ion to Mr. f.'on.tailt, atlioinin" , the concert which has b-en de,troyed by explotion, has snffered. ~ t hont eleven nil Wednesday ni7l:t, the rains of the former Ware heing so far removed as to peanut an effusion of flame, the lire which had caught the works of the engine and boiler machinery an" which till then had been , mothered, horst f i rth with irresistille fury. The timbers and other inflammable articles strewed about the reins, int inediatelv caught fire. and communicating to the diffeteut floors of th e b u ilding, the w h o le was shortly enveloped in flames. It would be impossible to d. , :rlil)o the raging limy of the element ; and not withstanding the timely at ival of nearly twenty engines, which con tinued to play thiont:hout the night, the buibliog was totally demo lished; 11,e interior fed hint into a eontlensed heap of ashes npon the ruins of the first house, leaving only a few and tottering fragments of the walls. In this additional calamity, we are happy to state that no lives have been either lost or any person injured, though tt may easily he imagined the increased distress and misfortune it must have heaped upon the proprietor. The adjoining honks and n eighbourhood, we are enabled to say. have escaped injuly, and effects of the liquid ex p!o'ion of water. snuar. &e. from the boiler and pm:. ilasLed upon the atfacent buildno:s, and suffused thickly upon the trees in Well close square. ate the only eireunktances worth observation, beyond the destineti.:o of the premises, the loss of so many lives, and the II unfortonate injury of others. TO the catalogue of suffere rs recorded above, we regret it is not in our to make a terinetion ; we leatn, on the contrary, that six human beings pernbed in the dreadful casnalty. It has now been ascertained that twenty-toe persons were employed in the concern at the time ; nine of the• , :e were taken from thence in a lacerated state, six have been recognizo4 as having escaped, and six • consequently are conel nded as havin g been suffocated. The bodies of three only have been di•covered ; the two that were Rupposed to have been Rot out of the ruins on IVednesdav night were not found, in consequence of the immense heap of rubbish to be removed, and the still more awful interruption of . the fire. It appears a'so, bide the extraordinary escape of Mr. Constadt, :pH Mr. Hague the Eoi;itirer, who were actually beneath the ma chinery at the moment of the explosion, that Mr. Spears, of Broad- • street, and father of the voting gentleman wh p erish, was the g in few yards of th e en g ine , on the lower floo o r, bearing x. plosion ran towards a wiudow, from which he was shortly dragged by a gentleman in the neighbourhood. Thursday afternoon an Inquisition was taken at the Star, in Well sticet, Wellelose•sqoare, by Mr. Lush, the Coroner for the Tower Hamlet:, on view of the bodies of K.P. Laitig, William Blight, and Mr. Arthur Chetves Spears, who lost their lives by the dreadful ex plosion at Mr. Constad sm , ar-house, on Wednesday m.orning. Peter Leroy deposed, that he and 20 other men were employed in the sugar - home , namel y .lo Frenchmen, 6 Germans, and 4lt is. Mr. Spears and Mr. Hague, the engineer, called there on Wednes day morning and saw the boiler, &c.; about ten o'clock Mr. Collins, the deputy engineer, desired the fire to be kept in ; one of the Irklt men put on softie coals, and instantly Robert Laieg, one of the de ceased men, put on more. Witness perceiving the thermometer at 46, cant iooed them about the consequence of keeping such a large fire. Robert then put more weight on the valves, and soon after the explosion took place. Vines providentially escaped, as well as Mr. Spears and Mr. Hague, who were in the adjoining part of the building, and instantly that part of the premises was levelled with the gr •ttitd. A sleds: to Mr. Spears denoted. that Mr. C. was a Frenchman ; Vim he in,ented a mashie , ' for clarifying sugar, with which an ex: rerint..nt was to he tai, d noder the direction of Mr. thane. Mr. R. Spears, the deeras,.l, was hi% master's son. lie was about 14 year- •f :iges and w gen •rally htpt 'here to take an acconut of the vci •of sogars -en. to be nootufaccored by his father, who had no o.her comuction with the concern. On hearing the explosion wit 41t Wellt to stek fur him, but could not find him till about four NOV. 19. • o'clock, when he was taken nit, not quite dead, but shockingly mu. tilatcd, and was instantly removedto a surgeon's, but he expired soon after. Alexander Dickenson deposed. that he is a mill•wright by trade, and on hearing the explosion cair' to seek for two of his •hopmates, it ho were at work at the sugar-house: be se ocliell until lint four o'clock. when he thund the bodies of Laing and close together under the roit.s, he got them out, but they were quite dead Jury having very maturely considered the evidence produced , respecting the sad calamity, were of opinion the accident was occa. sinned by the obstiopcy 01 Laing. who suffered for his imprudence, and, under the direction of the Coroner, returned their verdict.— Accidental Death. The ruins of Mr. Constades concerns still isne forth make and flame, and surh is the immense heap of rubbish, that, notwithstand ing the exertions of nearly 100 persons, it has not hem] sufficiently rvolove , l as to explore that part of the building er e sse t h e bodies of the three persons miss in g are su pp osed to he burid Among others who assisted in clearing the ruins, was Mr. Constadt himselr, dressed as a labourer, and furnished with a pick axe and shovel.— His case has excited the most lively commi.eration for his misfor tune, and every assistance has been afforded him by the neigh bourhood. Hi 3 logs cannot he compute=d under 40. 0 001. as inde pendently of the two warehouses, with ell the machinery, &c, there was also an immense quantity of sugars. The individuals who had been conveyed to the London Hospital, from the divot of the explosion, arc ; we understand, iu a fair way of recovery. POLICE. UNION HALL. Thomas Parkins was brought op by May the officer, Or stealing a ereat coat the property of William Packer. This he it appeared, was a travelli n g fishmonger, and in going Friday mornirg, he stopped at the house of a customer, it Road, and left his horse and cart at the door, whilst he we !noise to spew some of his fish. At this instant, a gentler Blumsom, who was passing, observed the prisoner and at lurking about the cart ; he suspected their intention and wa. watch them, and immediately on the prosecutor" entering tl saw the prisoner snatch the great coat out of the cart, an. with it into an adjoining stable-yard. Air. 'unison' informer secutor of what he had seen, who followed the prisoner and concealed in a cat t-slied, with the coat in his possessir.n. At sent for, and he was taken into custody. The prisoner in said, he had no intention of stealing the coat ; he only too! joke and meant to return it. He was fully committed for It ATROCIOUS ASSAULT. —Yesterday Wm. Dooley was c assaulting 3. Smithers, in Hounsditch, on Friday last. It a the complainant went into the work-shop in which .the prisoi ployed, and was joking 'Aid' the men for some time, when forced his hand between the blades of a pair of shears, an his fingers off. The prisoner said, be merely did it " of Idtk !" He was fully committed. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Sarah Ivey, a woman 70 years of age, was ci taking illegal insurance in the Lottery. The witnesses, w' mon informers. swore to having done the first 500 with tl at the rate of 3d. for a guinea, the first day of drawing. fenced to one month's imprisonment. BOW-STREET. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Soon after the conch Opera of The Siege of Belgr ide at Drury-lane Theatr' day night, the audience were thrown into the greatest and frightful state of agitation, particularly the female safety of a young man, although his conduct outraged rum, by getting from the upper circle of the boxes, iron rails and spikes, which till then were considered and for which purpose they were put up. He passed into the top of the cornice, over one of the private ho' stage, which was not considered foot-hold, or soffit.' fo support the weight of a man. He then became ~tteution of the whole audience ; he sat down by the F . :lumbers vociferated " Turn him out !" &c. every Oi. atre expecting every moment to see him precipitated loin, and from that tremendous height he must be dash lie changed his position horn bitting by the side, nffidently the bodies 1. g dt Ann himself, lo rl shovel.— his misfor- th e neigh- I. inde- tinery, individuals the effect .ecovcry. barged with e prosecutor, is rounds an in Clapham iesit into the email named another man as induced to the huu"e' lie nd run m ed the pro- d tonwl h i nt k o fficer was 3 his d e f e nce )k it out °I. a trial. charged with g lino p cint pe ielner R e was r pa ei syo t en it cn ) r.t out of a bit of convicted fn oho were colt' r ihe defendant - She n as aen'• lusion of the re, on Inas- consterilati" e part, for t h e aged all deco; passed am- id impass able. .mhe .d from " boxes over the tie e obj ect of and bat at tilit d e: e el dt i l, It; a n d atom'. e e st ron g t g r r ia e i oi