The National Register. — London, England, 1818-03-02 00:00:00

CALAMITOUS FIRE. Yesterday morning, a few minutes before six o'clock, an alarm of fire was given at the house of Mr ;Inciter (late Mr.Cuire), grneer,46o, Strand, corner of Hewit's-court, nearly opposite Hungertord-street. Shouts of " Fire !" became so generalfrum one end of the Strand to the other, that in a few minutes after the first alarm a sight of the most heart rending de scription took place :—men awl women were seen rushing out of doors in their night clothes, and children a,:tually in a state of nudity. At the house of hlr. ;neater, a sight more drealfia wan witnessed ; at the Clint window, second flooreeas observed Mrs.Wheater, with a child in her arm ; she leaned out of the window, Itolding the child by its dillies for a considerable time, endeavouring to excite the arention of persons under neath to catch the child. She dropped the infant, and it tell open the beads of the crowd ; at the moment she hewed the child, a Maze and volume of smoke rashed through the window where lkles.Wheater stood; am was not afterwards seen. and therefore must have ti n a v'et tn to ti.e fames. The child was only a few months was sucking at her breast. In about . minute Mier the child dropred from the window, one o 'the shopmen of Mr. %neater, whose name is Tasker, was seen at the win low of the third floor, which was completely enveloped in fire and smoke, seeing no hopes of relief from his perilous situation, he threw himself wit of the window ; he fell upon his head, which was cut open, his limbs were broken, and instantly expired; the body was curried to St. Alartirfs workhouse. Be fore it was curried from the ground, another of Mr. kncater s shopmcn, named Lloyd, fell u'ton the pavement ; he had thrown himself out of the third floor hark window, his fall was broke by his dropping upon r. projection, hut he was injured to dreadfully, that no it pea are entertained of his recovery He was carried to toe shop of Mr. Watts, chemist, in the neighbourhood, who ordered the man to be taken to Westmins:er In frmary (as he could render him no service), which was accordingly done. At the back of the house, Mr. Wheater was nearly insensible, on the ground. lie had thrown himself through a track window at the t'p of the stairs on the landing of the first finer. He • as injured very inneh by the fall ; his inquiries after his wife and child were truly distressing. His child was shown to hint ; his little feet were burnt, and his bead cut, though not dangerously. A neighbour bad the child to suckle it. A great 'limber of fire men resided in fluno,erford- Street, awl they were very promptly on the pren:•. s ; but no water could be got fir three quarters of an hour ; awl the flames were commindeating with the greatest rapidity to the houses of Mr. Ashman, pawnbroker, hl r Buckingham, brush-maker, and Mr. Peiwley, car ver, g ilder, mid o,lnm-frame-maker. The firemen were naming from p'ug to p'ug, and no water could b.: got, while the thieves were busily employed in plen dering the premises. and carrying off the property. Very few•of the parish cinistables had arrived, and one of them sent to the I lorse Guards, requesting some soldiers keep the mob from the buildings. In about a qteniter o an hour afterwards, part of a etnny....ny of the g i.,ruls arrived, and were placed' at the disposal of the , ciao authority. Property to a great anemia has been carried away by the thieves. The family of Mr. Ash m ad list time to escape from tit:. house lietitre it was in a veoeral conflagratien fro n the velar to the garret. that of the female servants wes actually drug pia out of the house by a enlist:Oak (Neetleton); she had vole her night clothes on, and wished to put oilier clothes upon tier: but if SIC hal reinained a militia longer, she must have beer destroyed. Mr. Ashman had a number of guns in his house, se veral of which were hauled, awl were heard to go oil. Two men were vb.-creed car. - ying off several gums fi om the ; readois ; they were pursued by a constable along Pirud iv, bet effected their escape. Two other persons were s tooped by an °Kier of MAL, trough-street I'o lice, with u quantity of stolen property . The house:: of Mr. kk heater, Mr. Ashman, Mr. Il e( ineliam, and Mr. !Malty, were: entirely dcstroi ed by hell' past eight o'clock in the mating, and nil the ppo-ty (except a few trifling things which were car ried into 5:. hlartio's church yard)wits destriead. The crieines were not supplied vvitli water until .aiveu n i rh „.2, Tbo Cemes continoed their ravage' chiefly at tite houses in Hewitt's court, et the back of the aii.mt• houses which were chiefly ritieupied .by poor persons which were Is fort' nine o'clort coinpletely gutted. The pm occupants loud but very little time to get out of dwellings, and therefore could mice but eery dish o their property. The children w-re carried into St. church yard, and wraFped in blankets their sorrel having been consumed. The eNtent of this awful and melancholy disaster is a t o yet hieiwn; the following is already ascertained : —Mrs. Wheuter was burnt to death A shopman, nnuwd mer g e-me-shared the fate. Another they tame mimed Tinker, was killed in leaping from the third floor window, and another, named Lloyd, is so inime,a by thr.eaiug Lean a a indow, that he is not expecte.; to live. Mr. Wlitaa4r is in a daivaous.itate, antidud c.t v iv 110, re,o- TFtr NATIONAL REGSgTER. vet from the injuries it has received. No other person is missing. The value at' the property destroyed is incalculable. There is no positive proof how the fire commenced : but it is generally stated to have been caused in the following manner :—On every Saturday, the flue for the purpose of warming St. Martin's church is lighted, and on lust Saturday night it was noticed by the inhabitants of Church-court, and Hewitt's-court, that the chimney of the church emitted large sparks of fire, some of which were carried into the air a consider able distance 'Jain they were extinguished, and some fell on the tops of the houses in an ignited state. Mr. Wheater's statement is as follows:—He awoke yesterday morning about six o'clock, aid found his cham ber fill of smoke; he awoke his wife, end told her to get up or she would be burnt to death. Ho leaped out of bed, and ran up stairs to alarm his ahopmen ; he Jan down stairs again, and could not see his with and child for the thick smoke that filled the place ; he sup posed that she had run dawn stairs ; he attempted to go after her, but was prevented by the flumes issuing up the stairs ; he ran back and got to a window at the top of' the !audio place, when he could go no further. He forced the wita .. ow out of his arms, and put his bead through to get air, as he was almost suffocated : as soon as be had recovered himself a little, he found the flames l.ad reached dis legs, whic'. began to hunt; he hid time only to recommend himself to the protection of his Maker, and threw himself through the window frame. At I i o'clock yesterday morning the body of Mrs.• Wheater was got out of the ruins, a dreadful spectacle. The body of the shopman wit:Astro a short time after wards behind a chimney, between two half burnt pieces of timber, where it was suspended in the view of the spectators, a most appalling sight, and was got out in the course of the day. OLD BAILEY. Friday. the Segsimis ended, sentence of transportation was tweed upon thirty (nut. for stern year, ;—ten, for fourteen yearb;—.eyes, for the term of their nature, lives. Several others rexeivoll sentLnee of imprisonment for different pe. • •-onte were ordered to be publicly and others privately whipped, awl the Judgment of live Kos wspitiA. Tim Recorder then roceed.L.i to pass s•ntenee of Death upon the following perwts. capitally convicted during the Sessions—R. Clac ton, C. D. ['ring:l!, J. Ram, G. Nlattliewi, T. Coates, :11. and .1. Gos4ip. fiir rit •sling in a dwelling house to th • val..e. of 40a. and upwards—lt. Itidtop, M. K•efe, W. Dickies, and J. Dogherty, for burglars —.l. Milky, for sheep st-aling—and J. Ward and liar. riot Skelton, fur forgery. rae S23)10114 than adjourned w the his of April. The followin.: letter At a 4 timid in the pocket of the Mur derer Ilaiteli, after his death, addressed to the mother of Mary N1611;1114 and was productd uu the tommst. • Newgate. Feb. 19. " Dr.tit M.tn.‘74--As thne is drawing ni▪ i to my dii,solution it it nothing but proper mat I should make smne disclo,ure of this most untortunam piece of Inisitalq. Perhaps it may prove some consolation to yoursa. and I an persuaded that I will save you and your family k vast deal td . trouble. Therefore Ido request. tl.ist for your oomiort, yon will not appear youtself, neither the utility of any .inc of your troubling yourselves to come at all; because if I am hronght up fir tiled, vi:tivh I do not think I shell, but be that os it mays niv detatitinAtion is to plead guilty. because I cannot. nor wi',l for I well koow I haverleludeil men in regard to knowledge. : , ring the per.on who 1111 l itted thti mime. let!am very well cr , e ,tared that ! tantah dec,ivr that Owl. whose omniscient eye is every ,vliere at nice. Therefore for the set itfitetion of yon and the allevia tion of toy own mind. I now come wit'i it determination to Jisause to you how and in whin way this tvan‘letion W:l_4 accomplished, arid now tone; it had been in contemplation; for believe ma. Madan:. it in:ended to be done by the instrument that did do it. but. on 4.;roi.m •.1 my being to poor, that I was unable to acetan;:lish try t., !arsine a pair ut pi, toll ; and then for both of us unhappy 'whi;,s to tall at e. eh others tide. Hitt frinrtrateil in that design. I was tlet:rmirail, if i :le, to do it in :mealier way, in which way I thank Cod I did with • • • • • • (Ilere several sentences were rerdmied illcgthie by the le:ter being stained with the blood of the des:v.o4,4i etre poor unfortunate, and happy, in an instant as it Were, :aid was only sorry that I hail not time to full with Ile?. Oh. my dear and beloved a it's ! would to :oil we 1%41 both ti i etether, and with the Mille instritwent. Ilia it is not ton :ate to do it 1.:4w; far it has ne 41 been out of my ressessien snav t awiul might ; n:ith...r shall it tehore I die; for I an: tlstrrni rail tact h. a Thetyce - e, when you revene I - . hail, I hi !w, he pat all tint! and eeptienee. I have INA With I:le 1:1.-t who has hail the imptalewc to amuse tile w e.,,Lni:;l4 my hvoida in my tAlow-creatures blood; bat e., be fhig :a ; I pray 'or ia, that I may da it eff.:4.tallv ;for I am ivy:ions to die and he with the dear otsject 01 my toal ; tor I ani stilt perAsadttl fiat I tory° that unb.rtioleti pletura•e of ET.lOy. init bee company in a far huperior way that ever it could be done in this traa*itiiry world ; and a. for what inun does with this body, a mere lump of tile day. it i• of no conseiptence ro ore ; therefore men may do with it a: they pkar.e. So Gott Altnig:ov bliss )ou. arid oM railtaintinwol your untortuaott: ta,uily, is tot: praver of a h,d m ay •• W. 11.114C11." The ports arc now open Cir the importation of fo reign wheat, barley, and oats, for six weeks, from all the Trim, bet wee J o eland anti Spain ; anti for three months from other ports. The slate dress in which Joseph finonaperte appeared a s S o v e r, of Spain, at his first levee, is at this time exposed for rale in tl'e window of an obi clothes shop at the iet st end of the town. The coat is of the finest blue cloth, most sorerbly embroidered in gold, down all the seams, cuffs, collar, and Reacts, with na l l eave s and acorns, and it is said onAinallv to have cost be t mceil two anti three hundred r .ands, The rumours ol• l'uris.Atill assign the assassination of the Dlike of Wellington to a foreign hand. Lord kin nsinl, it appel7s, has arrived at eatris with the Wimp ant who enabled hi•; !..stiship to tivrize Sir 6. Murray of the existence of the conspiracy, u•l:ich is nott• r.11:4oxl to have . becn set on toot in favour of a certain tOrel6r. iutcrclit. • MARCH I OFFICE OF 0RD.V4117 . 1:, Ifith Feb. D ais. -•- --- THE Principal ()freers of his likes Ordnanoe do hereby give notice, that proposals will be received at their office in Pull Mall, on or before Wednesday, the 11th dry of March next, from such Persons as may be nilling to under tak: Me Sapphd of Colours, Bottl.l, and other Articles, fur sert*e of this Department, for a l'er iod or three Years, dettrmsnabk after the Expiration of the first Year, upfrn Notice I f three Months, at the Opt'on ofeither Party. Samples and Speiiniens of the Articles may be viewed sco-t application at the Principal Store Keeper's Office in the Tower, and fiirthcr Particulars, together with the 7'erna and Conditions if the Contract, may be known at the Secretary's (lice, in Pau Mail aforesaid, any day between the hours of ten and four o'clock, where the proposals must be delivered sealed up and endorsed " Pro. pawls for Co:ours, &c." but no l'roposal can be admitted after to,e. said lith March, at tavive o'c.'ock at loon of the same day, neither will any Tenikr be noticed yaks. Me Party nutkin,; it, or an Agent in ha &hat/Vial attend. - - - By 0-1. r of the Roar'. R. If. CREW. Scc-C.z BIRTHS. la Montague square, the lady of A. Gosling, L.L.D. of a dau.—. In Upper GrosvLasr•.t:ect, the lady of P. Methuen. Esq. M.P. of a son. MARRIED. At Norfolk..l. Patteson. of ti.e AltJdle Temple. Esq. Fellow of the Kim's College. Cambridge' to Elizabeth , third dau. of G. Lae, Esq. of Norfolk .— At Pant. T. F. Hill, Esq. to Lucy F. Lcirts, grand dau. to Sir 11. Guriug, BATE DIED. In Baker -street. Portman-aqua.:. lady Impey. relict of Sir r. !ro pey, K nt. late Lord Chief Jiixtire of the Ss.preine Court of Judicature at Calcutta.—At Exeter. the Itor. A. Rhono. !4!. A. Fellow of Wor e( :ter College.—Capt. W. Atlamoon, of the lion. Ea. 4 India Com pany's Service.—Qt a typhus fever, Mr. J. Fitmin, of )lots, aged 42, and on the following morning. Alia Grange. aged 27. They were to have been married, every pieprzation having been made the that purl ass.—At Jamaica, :Alexander, son of a SI. Grant, EN. of 4ruualy. MEI:ANCtIOLY DEATH. —The Carlisle Journal says, " An Thursday week a pour man, of the name of . Thornton, lite. tally died for s%atit, at Data both., near this city ! 11 appears that he was a cotton-spinner by trade, and formerly worked at the New Mid in Carlisle; hot has beets nit of employ ever since that place stopped. He hail then applied to the parish officers, who grantee' Idiom pas., with which he has traversed Iltron4b Laucashire atel pal t of Vol ksloite, ;to seas ch of woi k but • mug disappointed no this, he *galls retoinwil to Carlisle about a fortnight ago; during w bleb time he has lived in the greatest misery, suiraisttug.entortly upon the cloudy of hos poor neighbours. and foecisently lying exposed to the incle . - oneocoestof the night. On the Wednesday eventii.g loowas fant a il in the street in a dying state try some humane persons, w ho. kindly priteured bun lodgings; but nature was too far ea bawled, and expired on the following day." LOADON .11.4RKETS. CORN.EXC HANCE. ritiDAY,rum 27. Our market has been heartily supplied with Grain since Sfors'iy& There were a tew frtsh arrivals of thus this morning, which Feld on much the guinc turns ; but there is but little !in tre , t of our buyers are %ailing for further supphez..—!.: Lari Ly. betas, and Pease. we have no alteration to nuti:L. MONDAY. AiAllrn. 2. There was hut a small supply of Engrch Wheat this un Etaex. Kent ar.d, Bntiulk, wlich eaumal the thse samplta to be taker. alr h;,- the millers at Litt Monday's prices Lut u.e irocr.it and ordinarr sarrples remain on herd for ward of ysnd Malt a liensy sale. at a small decline in flair prize a. Lail:ng l'ssw were &lout Ys. perquarrer dearet, beir.h• fly at rather cheayer ; Nett. B.lms.—The Oat trade was little variation. Rapeseed little doing. s. s. t: pert 52 a al Fin.- tiit*.u (.6 a 9% Itvc Tin.! llarky a 5S Malt bo a 76 r. S. Witit , ruam 48 a 57 (;ley rrait 4b a 4M Pears 44 a 55 Tickc Outs . B3 a 30 1. 1. Petuvl Oaot i 3 a PIA:. ft . ditto 01 a 52 Firm Plfiur 75 a All Sucorul iitto ' s o a ; 1:‘,.• StAA:;I. .34 'RICE OF BREAD. T!'e highest price of the he-,t Wheaten Iltml throughout Om ae rnpuli.. is statNl to b.: ttL the L 11:iit:r. sell the Q.lartern id. to sd. lo.ver. AVELA(.I4 PRICES OF C 010; AJ:T}R.. — IN AND WALES FUR TUE WEEX ENDING FLE.gI. Wheat I Rye klauley I O I uu livans Pete AS 2 SO 8 143 10 0i 11 3/ 19 I 5'4 I Paler: 0 Iv :+IE AT, AloNnAv. ti ARCH. fM II'II I'l K LU. XEArI;ATI: AND LEA9ENUALL, •.d.4 d. I Brod* qt . ("att . ( a 3 4 fi' •flo .4 0 ti 4 (Reacts, abvu ' 2 llT: ', _ Slic.vp ll2OO Calves 24:1 Pi,;‘ ( arCage B. d. !%, t 3 0 a t 'Mutton-4 0 a 9 X 4 a ti POrk -. 5 a 6 11 o 0 8 6 . ~ TN a :; 4 Lamb... o a 0 0 HAY AND STRAW rElt I.OAT). X. N. d. .0 a. d. Aver. £. . . Day.— ... 3 0 0 a 5 3 0_ 4 2 6 SMITIMELD Clover 400ati10 0_ 5 5 t t (Shaw 1160a210 0— q 3 thy 3 irt Oa 6 0 4 14 0 ST. JAMES'S (lover 0 0 0a 0 0 cr _ 0 0 0 ( Straw 2 8 0 a 2 17 0 2 II t Hay 4 10 0 3 14 0 5 4 0 WIIITECTI elnmir GOO a 7 0 —6to u (Street 2 8 0a 2 14 0— 2 It 0 AVERAGE i'llICI; 01 , Si:C.:R, Computeflfroni the itet.urns va.:k Feb. 25, le 495. 344. per cot. ate/wive of the fluty of ('ustont, paid or paatile therein. oi. ialpottation thetoof into Great Britain—(Saturdv's Gc:rtt. PRICK M. SetkAS. Bank Stock... per Cent.lteduced 3 rer Cent. CO . 1 41r? Cent. 3 per Cent. Nary In , us Stock Ditto Hondo ti per Cent.) O7 pr Excl.equrr hillr. 411. pes Day l6 IS A' Consols tur roi LottgAnclitier 2ti 13-15 ;:~;~t~ I.oxPoN :—t'rinted and viali,b4d 11.10. No. IrS FLLET•STRI:ET. hostweco P. I 111 Futer 1.3f1e, and forwardro Into el.t l ',usury by all boul.4‘llx:‘, abd ..66 I oaribe. I I