The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-16 00:00:00

MI • \ C CALAMITOUS FIRES. At about two o'clock on Sunday morning a fire was dis covered in the back part of Inc premises of Messrs. Southall and Fossick, umbrella manufacturers, whose house is situated at the front of White-har iourt, Grace church-street. Before any fire engines had arrived the flames had communicated to the premises of Mr. Ryan, t to ch eesemonger, and iot the arrival of the first engine, belonging to the London Insurance Company, the fire made its appearance at the front of both houses. The fire had advanced teo far in the house of Mr. Fossick to attempt to rescue any considerable part of the orowny ; bin the firemen having with difficulty roused Nsr. Ryan, th.y proceeded with the greatest vigour and alacrity to remove as much as they could of Ina stock. The fire engines began to come in rapidly, and there being a plentiful supply of water, they immediately commenced playing upon the premises, but as the flames spread chiefly at the back part of them, they had great difficulty in operating t frout the court. The firemen in the front of the buildings had suc ceeded in removing a considerable portion of the stock of Mr. Ryan, the citron:lon g er, when those inside the premises were called off, as it was considered they could no longer exert themselves with safety. Two, however, r.innained within longer than the rest, and the house had ls!en on fire about half an hour, when dreadful to relate, i - . fell in with a .0051 horrid crash. One of the adven turous firemen was at the time in the houee, and must without doubt have been crushed to pieces in the moment. The other, who had remained behind, just got out of the building, but a considerable portion of the ruins fell upon him, and lie was removed in so mutilated a state •tat we are informed he died shortly aiter.—The body of the other unfortunate man still remains buried under a pile of ruins, front whch he cannot be yet extricated, 35 the si of is overhung by a frightful stack of chimneys, which are momentarily expected to fall. During the occurrence of these melancholy circumstances in front, ate fire spread with a degieee of they behind that defied the united energy of the firemen. The extensive premises of Messrs. Lowe and Pewte- Tess, stationers, were on fire, and their entire stock in a blaze. The Quakers' meeting-home took fire, and was ni ruins in a tew minutes; and in it, we are informed, were consumed an extensive library, and other property el importance to a numerous class 01 the Society of . Friends, beside much property belonging to the person who has the care of the establishment. Front the resist less progress of the flames, the banking houses of Messrs. Spooner and Attwood, and Messrs. Mastcrinan, were in great danger; and indeed at one time their destruction appeared inevitable. The firemen however performed wonders. The house of Messrs. Nlasterinan was three limes OH fire, but was each time bilbdued by astonishing exertion. On the fate of the hteise of Messrs. Master- Mall and Cu., it was considered depended that of the whole neighbourhood, as adjoining are the premises of Air. Allen the chymist. From this connection the event of the exertions to save the house of Messrs. Masterman was watched with intense anxiety by the inhabitants of the contiguous houses, who were preparing their goods for removal.— The firemen, by directing constant streams of water upon the house of Astons. Spooner and Cu. succeeded in pre serving it from material injury. At about four o'clock' the houses which we have men tioned as being in flames fell in succrastvel, when the f were enabled io direct the i, efforts for the pre. serration of the surrounding property with success, and after that lime the flames made no further progress.— The house of Mr. Ryan the cheese-monger, in the ruins of which the uuforuuate firemen perished, was very old and dilapidated, which accounts for its' having fallen in in so short a time, although but partially consumed. It cannot at present be ascertained where, or in u hat manner the fire originated, but is considered to have pre ceeded from the back premises of Messrs. Fossick, the umbrella makers. The property consumed was but par tially insured, and see are informed that the house of tslr. Ryan was not insured at all. It may be supposed that tile thieves, who generally assemble en masse on such occasions, were upon the alert. But the city police were equally prompt, and proceeded to remove as many of the thieves as they could lay hold of front the scene to places of security. Many, however, had begun the work of plunder, and divided upon the spot the cheeses which were saved from the fire ; but the property was taken from them by the ufbeers who guarded the ave nues; and we have not heard• that any considerable Aeoperty was stolen Irma the inhabitants, who were !employed in removing their property to places of safety, • nor that any other lives were lost than wine of the two unfortunate men we have 'petitioned, and who, we un derstand, did beloni s to the London Insurance Company On Monday morning, abont 10 minutes before five **clock, a fire broke out, supposed in the lower part of the premises of Mr. ftlyerr, sen. a pmcil manufacturer, corner of Princes street, and Richniondsstrect, St. Ann's Soho. An alarm w.s given by persons who observed the fi.e and smoke issuitrg through the shop windows, as they *ere accidentally : posing. At this time, all verve's in the. house *bre l buried its sleep. A scene soon presented itself,9which defies description! loud shouts of tilt —shriek self potqers, withoebildren at their bosoms, almost in a state o( puclity—numbets of men, women, and children, minting out of their houses and along the streets, to seek a itrelie: at a distance from the devastating element-the windows re Winne etery house in the neighbourhood the ioliat.itanis, 'viciously requiring. I. Areeyie sate"—others retunviie_ th tr roperty into St. Ann. church-yard, .ind placing th •ir mnocent and helpless 'babes on'ireds, in the °pelt air. house of Mr. Niyene hail burnt eery consider. ably before he or any of theiliallgtis were 4(lu:timed *tat their danger. ad Mr. Meyers, ilia a son a:.d d .ughter, , ! ,ot out at a side door (ear co:ranee to the line intinencettpied by Mr. Slyen, tan. in the music and vtelkti busihafefr l!ele. Myers was much burnt, bating tlra3ged one of hia arias out of a room oa the first floor, THE NATIONAL REGISTER • when enveloped in flames; the son was also scorched.— A lodger at Mr. Myers's was observed at one of the win dows, calling in the most agonizing manner for assist. ance ; his apartment was filled with smoke, he struck his head in a state of despe;r, and leaped through the window ; the common sewer had been opened, and he fell against the timber railing which had been erected round the cavity ; he was taken up apparently a lifeless corpse. Mr. Myers, a son, and a young man who was a I..dger, were carried to Middlesex Hospital, two of them are not expected to survive. Another son of Mr. Myers is believed to have been burnt to death—he slept in a room at the back of the house, and old Mr. Myers could not penetrate to it in consequence of the flames rushing up the stair case. A lodger and two infant children are missed, and it is believed that they have also fell victims to the fury of the flames. Four houses are completely destroyed. The ft ist floor tip Mr. Nlyer's house was oc cupied by a gentleman who was a dealer in paintings ; and the stock of pictures, some of which were very va t . loable—chiefly by old masters—were destroyed. The pails') officers opened St. Ann's church, and received the gocds of the inhabitants in the aisle and vestry.— The distress of the family whose whole property is de stroyed, was truly heart-rend in_; and they were not in sured to one tenth part of the value. By eight o'clock the flames were got under. The house of Mr. Stock, the peruke maker, was destroyed. A house at the back broke out in flames a little alter eight, which was soon put out. The thieves were very busy, in consequence of the want of police officers ; which ° deficiency was sup plied by a detachment of Foot-Guards, which arrived very opportunely, and were of great service.—By nine o'clock the tire was completely extinguished. The pre mises destroyed consisted originally, we believe, of one house, afterwards divided into three or lour, without party walls, so that the flames communicated with ra pidity througliont the whole. Unfortunately opposite the place there are immense excavations, in Prince's street, where new sewers are erecting, which prevented the engines from getting before the house, which were obliged to play from the end of King-street, nearly oppo site the fire. Wednesday morning at half-past eleven o'clock the firemen and labourers employed digging in the ruins of Mr. Myer house, discovered the body of Mr. Alters, jun. whose remains bore a most horrid spectacle.— He is 22 years of age. His body was carried to the Three Crowns, Richmond-strecet for a coroners inquest. INQUESTS ON TAE SUFFERERS AT THE FIRES IM GRACECHURCH STVFF.T, AN 1) PRINGE . B sTarET, On Wednesday evening. at a quarter past seven o'clock, inquisitions were taken. at the George nod Vulture Tavern. George•yard, Lombard.street, before Thomas Shelton, Lsq. Coroner, for London and Bouthwaik, OL) view of the bodies of Hope Perkins, Abraham Jacks to, and another man unknown. who perished in toe follow in; melancholy at:otter : After the gentlemen of the jut y, n•hncntnptis:dsixteen of the must respecta'ile inhabitants of the ward, were sworn and imptinelled, they proceeded witb the Coroner to vien the hodir, of the unfortunate ►oaercrs, who were placed in shell. in 4vihntlows church. where they exhibited a most heart rending sileetncle. The Col r ::nd Jury basing resumed their statimis, the following w ne. - ses nerc en'led and euvoivied _ Samuel Bursiln, of Three Kings-coutt, Lombard-street, foreman to the London Insurance office. stated, that Ile 11/.6 at the engine lw& in Bihiiiyhott •street, between the hours of two and Once o'clock on. Sunday mot mit;, a hen an alarm of" Fire" was given. He then a,yin into the street.and saw an ember of fire in the air in the die etion of Gracechurch street. He called the deceased Perkins to get out t lieenglne, and when they arrived is Graccciturch-street they found Mr. Rynn's biiu•e on tire. Mr. Ryan we, in a great state of agitation, and said he was imured in the " London !usu. ranee office I" they went up in the first floor, and found that, and tile greater part of the premises in flames. Perkins icult dow it the cluck, and cant th..%n stairs with it. iVitness took loon a weigloy box, which be imagined contained caLh, and took it out nt the window ; but when he came to the nor , e of Mr. Collins, where he intended to deposit It, the lid came oil, and he discovered It only contained brown sugar. On hia return the house had become a prey to the devouring element. that any further attempts to save it would he intlieetuul ; he cutisequeolly went to play upon the house of Mr. Bull, which was insured in their tillice. The body of PC1k1111111; 6111111 i on W'ctireiultty morning, under the writing deck at the house of Mr. Ryan. The body of Jackson was discovered also, in the Willi of the came house. Jackson was a tut neock belonging to the London Fire Office. Another fireman assisted in taking down tunic china and a looking-glass at Mr. Ryan's hoit,e. He saw Perkins co ing down aith a lookitu .glacsl he afterwards rwurned up stairs, and found the stairs.: , c Ithaca the dinme.vram all on tire, as aka the kitchen ; not wing any of his seM wants, he tame out as peecipitate as he could, nod iu a ilia/Wer of an hour afterwards the roof and walls fell in, and be wrs told two of his fellow scream, Were buried in the ruins.-- cannot say accurately in which house the lire broke out, as they were nearly al on tire at tie saw. moment. Here It was obset wed. by several o 1 the Jut , that the bolters had been in a very dilapidated state, ual had been built since the memorable Ore of London, at which time it tsr; au inn, culled •• the White Heil." _ _ Mr. Ilya...slid, he heard an Huron of tire In the street ; Ire then op e ned Ulu WelgitAL. but perceives' uu lire; he alarmed the family ; his ashrams brought done their boxect he col his boo's from the coyotin-house, and his each-host, but still caw no appearance of firer he looked towards Mr. ticks, ant dour, but still saw no tire; he then returned up stair, tool found the w bole Wove iu flame., and the heat Cr, w Ostrom that he tit . obliged to rrtn•at a. Just us pc.- •ibl-. There was on es idenee to chm how the turner ck ur the other Innis cone to be there, nor could their deaths he se. counted fur otherwise thou fruits the circumstance of their bodies he int found in the lain. of Mr. (Lys: W.. 111)1411e, where it is conjectured they st.nt to render a.ostuce, or to save 'some g of the property. The Jury eapresstd themselves taliclied, end returned their That toe di:ethics' plutons tame to their deaths by accident." A it inquest hr.; alio been held upon the body of Benlamlo Myers, aged fl, 'ldea sou of Mr. M}ers, peocll-mauutactu• rel., who lost his life In the late fire in Soho, on Monday morning. The body was nearly consumed. Verdict—A cidentally burnt to death. In the course of the evening was stated that there are still four bodies under the rain.—.a Mr. Barnet and his child,and a Mrs. Pole and her daughter, who were lodgers In Mr. Myers's house... One of the J uroia stated that near 2001. had been subscribed towards the relief of the fifteen families who had been burnt nut and all their prone' ty destroyed by the lamentable accident. nyamtD. At St. Martin's In the Fields, Peter Adams, esq. solicitor, of Angel court, Throgmorton street, to Eliz Meth, only (laughter of the Int, .1. Roake, esq. At St. George's, Hanover squats:, Win. Money, erg. of il4l.oVet street, Hanover squat c, to Jallle, ouly slaughter of I homas Faue, esq. at Lincoln's Inn. Al Onbtrevell, E. L. Ogle, eq. to Elisabeth, eldest daughter of the late J. M. Woodyear, esq. of the island of St. Christopher. A: Winkfield, Berk., Mr. W. Hauls. of Aylesbury, B ucks,to Miss Smith, or the Rectory, WittlEeld. At Hackney, T. Kingsbury, eel. of Leadenhall street, to Martha, daughter ut the late .1. luck, esq. of Clayton. Mr. J. It. ['lacy, of Laurence Potintney lane, to Caroline, eldest dangitter of E. (-Lenin, esq. ut Newcastle place, Clei kenwell. At Abiuger, Surrey, J. Campbell, esq. of Lincoln's inn, barrister at law, to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James Scerlett, esq. fur Veterbot J. Brown, esq. of Wintanton, Somerset, to Miss Baker, of the same place. On board his MO sty's ship Andromache, at Valparaiso, Mr. lhos. J. tanner, it-N• At Graiiite place, near Aberdeen, %V. Dogeid, eay. late of Baltimore, North America. Mr. F. Le (irk, of Long acre, in the 73! year of Ma age. Mr. George Crane, of liathbone place, aged t 4.1. At his cottage, Walcot place, Lambeth, Jane, the wife of Mr. R. 11111, solicitor, of Chancery lane. Al his residence, Langley, Bucks, aged 70, Mr. R. Gwillim, many )ears of Fleet mar ket, London, auctioneer. At his house, Camberwell grove, aged G 7, Edw. Griffin, esi. many years sezretary to the Son Fire Office. Mrs. Dick, of East Clid, Brighton, aged &I. At Harwich, alters' lung and painful illness, in the '29th year of In., age. Elizabeth, wife of W. G.G ray, esy. hop merchant, of Carmarthen, South Wales._ At Springfield lodge, Camberwell, the residence of her son In taw, iallll4 Alargaretia, widow of the late Col. Chalmers, aged 80. Uu saturday last, at his house lu Mtn Waugh 'trent, a;ed 72, the Der. Thomas Exon. At the house of his father, Peckham, Surrey, John, the youngest son, of it. J. Williamson, of lintolpb lane, aged 19. At his house in Queen's tow. Walwortb, in the hill, year of his it:si E. Athens, en. H. Jones, tag. of Sunbury common, aged 67. At Hampstead, Mrs. Chipchase, of Dentinck street, Manchester square, aged 83. :ES OF GR filer Measure , 1 MONDAY. 14 Y. Gt; a 73 Gi a b 4 I :;0 a $3 4 8 a 36 66 a 63 39 a 29 21 a 29 $.4 u 26 31 a S* 93 u 39 $6 a 40 29 a Ea 2111. a 314 lIN FUR TII If Eight ilushe lIE 1V ECK/ 1/6UNESU. FRIDAY• G. 3 . 58 a 75 MI a 77 4,6 u /o 5 Gti a Oa 30 a 33 I 21 a 31 74 a 34 Y 9 a 86 a Gs 56 n cs 19 a ti 19 is 24 a 26 23 a 21 32 a 3d 33 a 81 34 u 38 1 83 a 40 83 a 39 1 SG a 40 SU a 40 37 u 41 29 a 32 20 a • 294 a 314 391. a all. Virtpi • At ale!Heaton, Montgomeryshire, 344. W. l'nh, of a eon. The lady of the Rev. 11. Jones, Vicarage house, Pradford, Wilts, 61 a daughter. lu the island of St. Christopher, the lady of the late C. 11. Mills, esq.of a ion. qt lloiseheath lodge, Cambridgeshire, the lady of S. Batson, tag. 01 a lon. _ On the 4th of July last, at Malta, the lady of P. Ross, esq. of a son, which survived a few hours only. I I.e lady of I. Roberts, esq. of Wimp*le street, of a son. In Ilatton garden, the lady of John Sims, M.D. of a daughter. IL on Do n liaartirts ==l2 • CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, SEPT. la. Our market continues to be very thinly supplied with ft. ill samples at' Wheat from the coasts of Essex, Kent, and Suffolk; and owing to the continued unfavourable state of tho weather,aii advance of es. pet qe. iron' Wednesday's prices (making As. per qr. dearer tbrn on Monday) was demanded, but very to tries were effected, anti the consulters (of whom there were but few at market) did not seem inc"ned to purchase at those high prie.,, Barley, Oats, Beans, Peas, and indeed every article of Grain, may be said to be rather deter than on Wednesday; but Op , a being vety few buyers at m. , iket, it ails not expected that ti above advanced p.m-a would remain until the efo,ie of the up. x. ket. A few sfeuples of Pie 1i lest WhitkVheat have been sold this week from 925, to 9Gs. per qr., but e general ptices did not exceed Wis.—Accounts (i ons several part of the country st that on Monday last kOC;l1f; it line harvest day) a considerable quantity of Wheat was horsed by the farmers: in this case we may shuttle exps•ct some samples of new Wheat at market, which .xill have tile effect of preventing a much higher rise, and soso reducing the p.fees below their present Ado. The the average prices of Groin up to last Satorday--Wheat GS, 34. •••iliarley 9d.•••Oats tat. td.—Bye 325. 0d....8e4ini *as. dd. —end Peas ;its. 44. per qr. CURRENT PRIG Per W iacisei Red Wheat W Site Rye Brant:, or Kuck) Wheat Earley •••• ••• Nak Malt Feed Oat. Brew or liPeln ad do New Tick Beano Old ditto Ne.v Pigeon ditto Boiling Pease Grey Yeas Rapeseed per last AVE.KAGE PRICK OF CORN, Per Quarter, of the Tw ohs Maritime Dietricts m ENGLAND and WALES, 1.4 tt e Week eudiug September Bth, euracte.lfrum Sat vide; Gazette. L t d e 5; lIJ I ..... Nl Rye •• • • 216 SOJ I (ult.." Ilia lel Peaks 9os BROWN Olt MUSCOVADO SUOMI. Average Mechem the Returns made In the Wet k en d•lt4 Wednesday last l 3llt. 5111. per ewt. exclusive al tint% Pk ICE Per Sack of V FLOUR. ltaulAcis, ur 20110. - Mut J. s. z. Monday. h. fine Englibh Flour 60 • 6.; Atuaricau Flour ... 40 a 4it Seconds ditto .... au a 4 .S Banal of 14 en:. BitrAU. Is. Cid. the fa liartern Loar. COAL dlAlt&r•r, S&PT. 14. .64 1 / 4 at 11 hate. :',7,lps ova Prlce. 24 Newcastle 2 Sunderland 3 ,801 to 30% tiA LoN DON t riint:tl and Ptailiiited by the Noptietar, 301 i N T WltiC s at the Office, IG, Flea Strad, wkera all Leiters to the Editor, 6:c. (port paid) must be addreeied. (46.