The National Register. — London, England, 1814-02-13 00:00:00

l'ltE NATIONAL REGISTER. FEB. 1. .~~. BURNING OF 'UTE CUSTOM 'MUSE. We have the melancholy task oirecording. a heavy calamity which , occurred yesterday moll:log, aid which has occasioned the greatest conswernition and contosion. About six in the morning a most dreadthi tire burst ont from the west wine of the . Custom-honsc. and, within a very short time, ragedAvilli inconceivable fury. MI our readers know how narrow That»es-street is in t h at part where the Custom-Roust stands. The flames soon caught the house g oppo rite, filled with sugar mid rum. The rum blew up With a tremend• t j ut 4 explosion about hilt' past nine o'clock: The roofs were blown Of and scattered to a considerable distance ; the houses near were materially injured ; and the windows broken in every house in Evst Cheap and frr a quarter or a mile round. The ponds on the wharf are nearly al! destroyed. Suveral lives aic said to have beeu lost and snore calamitous eonseqoences are apprehended. The city is in the greatest anxiety and alarm on lieeount of there being an im mense titlitotity ofAtippiou in the River just untie polio of sailing: For the first time almost, those brave and useful body of men, tlne firemen were daunted. They dared not approach sufficiently to-or to play oti part of . the Wilding, because there arc 18 barrels of gunpowder laying there, the explosion of which is apprehended. FURTH ER PA IMCVLA RS. The fire commenced in the appall went of Anis Kelly, the Home ecuer, but supposed to be occupied by her brother, who sleeps in the house. Upon the tin,t alarm of fire, he hurried tip to his sister Miss Kelly, ard she was itr such a senseless state from the fright, that her brother, with !teat difficulty, got her out of the house without any clothine. Kelly" himself was carried away in e. blanket, revs. Inuch scorched, nod' they were both carried away to the Rev. Mr. Whi oo "Paw<l. Hill. Col. Kelly bad just teen titling himself out for the West Indies, and hag lost all his property. r "Many of Ns books and papers would have been saved bat for the constant alarm of the :!xplosion of the gunpowder he innoniz to the port. About twenty minutes before ten the explosion took place (about. two It:arils anti a halt), which <•.rried mans , buckets as far as ILl liu2state : only one Mall hurt io the Lead by the explosion. A m0r0.. ,. .•t the books a;:t1 ppperi *natelnil front de-truelion, the first wvie tt u beloirjint: to lw office. they being con veyed out of the windows (I that otfire luta lizliter: co the quay. 111 the Land Surveyors' (Mkt-, a few hooks ako were s; t d. the Sretet.%ry's (Iti'ee, Icing adjoitlint: to the tion , ekeeper'4 Office, it i< supposed thit no papers are saved. atilt eft.etpiciitly that uta.ty important papers Itelcn:fin!: to tit:. Court !loud ()Hire are entirely dcstrayed. lii the Lew , 11:70ni, ;he hootz.q pod Yeme of the papers (if the Collectors f.l!:ward were saved, but those of the Collectors jnw.ird are de;trrvett, Upon Rome or the (;ont n l . ksiOT!erc astcroblin7,, they immediately returned to thc !souse of their Seere:ary on Tower-hill, and they are vow deliberating tur or/lip:vim! as. a Oare for trant , aeting business, the King's Arms. opposPe Holl cf.d Coffee-bonse. The tide was running bkb, and n any anoi! , are sayud by lighters near the wharf, It is suppoieil the loss to Government will be immense, the bonds !wing all deoroyvd. whnie Cuctoln.hon , :e is now down except the front wall. Two houses at c burnt down opposite, and twelve more partially. . l ti) During the suspense of exertion to stop the plogrrs.stellie fl.tiates, the warehouses in Globe yard, On the oppa,ite stile of Thanies-street t took fire, and were s Jon int'ulved in the devouring : and while we ore writing this account tipwards of ten botse; crc bernine tl. the ground without the hope of it t , eiiige of them twine saved. ThePac ifier' have, however, venittred again tb, approach the foe, and the in: pines are playing ; but the report u(. theta Lettie still more eutwou tic? to explode prevents the exertions of many that would oiler wise bte y usefully employed. • Tucice oclor.k.—Sitice writing the abore, we l v ve a report from a Person who has , t.ett -the fire, 1. :;40:11,.tt boat on ; the rep irt of the entire of the Cii,tem htise being de,troyetl, adds, that it lifts not extended to env of the large ware looe•es which ley towards tower•hill ; nor 1145 it extended to the wlinris or cranes on the Custom-house Quay. MrY-past Twelre.—The fire in the warelintises rippoite the Cnstom house is considerably got ender, and the engines appear to prevett the further pmgress of the flames. We hear that two lives have been lost, and th.it several accide:,ts were occasioned by the explosion. The fire is reported to have broke nut iu the Housekeeper's room. Nine o'Cloek, Snteirday.Erening.—At this hoar, the fire, thongis in general got under, was raging on the side of the street facitig4lM Customhouse, having come in contact with a cellar, helon!! ttg to a public-house, which contained a quantity of spirits. The East India-house Voluntteri were still stationed at the varions avenues leading to the original scene of conflagration; and the• Tower lets' were in readiness. to render their assist:Awe, if required, during the night. It IA not expected, indeed, that this dreadtal foe cal he.completely extinguished in less than a fortnight from this time ! Very eonfiderable damage has, of course, been doge ; so that the demands upon different Fire-Offices will prove heavy. IVithout the least warning, this conflaLration broke out, in Hi blaze, at six o'clock this morning ; and, besides the accidents urea. 'ioned by the explosion, Iwo females, inhabiting the Hamar/ices apartments, have perished ! It:numeral)lt: accidents have certa:iq happened. • It is understood that the Custom Hume itself is insured, at the Simile: Office, to the amount of 100,0001. In order that pnislie business might not he ‘shells stopped, the- Commercial Hal!, in Mincing-latie, has been engaged, pro ionport, for the purpose of carrying on the, important cope. rns of the tom . I iottFc. We have jest been informed, that the two telltales who le.ve pe rished, weie the servants, and not the Miss Kell's as reported. Ti's mother of cite of the unfortunate girls wa:: hur...t to death s:onic yea:* sioce ; aiia the mother of the housekeeper met her death in a t milar manner. ANoTiir,it AccouNr. Soon after six 0.0.,ek this runrnin• this vaQt pile of lmiltling WAS di•cnverrd to he on tire• ; hut flow this most real accident happened is not yet a‘ccrtainell, no s • i~ it possible at this moment to trace tire progress of the fire from that hour to the present (clew's' o'clock) ; but we ran •11111 tip a cow , i(lt-rahle part of this tremendostA fire, by saying', th the Custom holm% in •I'harncs•strect, together with all it• content., including books and papers of every desetiptinn, is entirely consumed. • Alyost eight o'cloek, the lire macle such rapid progi•e?", that all al!esopts to save the building were entirely given up, mid- the exer linos of the firemen and others employed were directed to the ware- Itonseg and t.diter hnilditms nn the opposite side of the street. when a report was eirettliitecl that rsiany barrels of gnnpnwde•r were depo "Act{ in the vaults or the 001 mi house, and that, .consecptently, an eKnlacion %ono he expected. _ _ This rep. at had the effect or saviolf many lives, for all, as by en. cirmtment. withdrew room the flamer, and only a few were after wards iwinced to approach, and those more from cnriosity than real assistance. At Aron, half past nine, the report which had been ell.. cniate.l was confirmed nut to have been an idle one. The explo- Fi4)ll wa% tremendous. It was ditttiortly telt on the Royal Excbunee, and by Geoth•own who have (-note to London by the Whit ecltapel wp are infurwed, k aa feLt four intins-In•thirt-direetion. ~, r 4).; MISS LA VINI2I ROBINSON. It is with deep re -Jet we find that the fenin'e %ao repre4c4ltml licrgrit• to the Mngio tee at Thatchon to he the ahave voung !adv. tams oat to he ;IA iinpc!Aor ; the ontortonate object of z.obeittolce , h:tvin2 b..en found drowned on :11on:!ay 1a.:1, near M.tocht , tc,.. Upon this melancholy subject we have received the 1 . 0!:0-.;i::g letter :-- _ _ MINCIIFSTaP, 7 The body of the iinfortimate Miss it:li)inson mots l,si:wk by a person of the time of Ji:his Goodier, a shop-Levi:cr.:l! F.e;•:... at tivven o'clock this morning, at a plitee called Mode Weil, two miles on the old river front the New Bailey ltrid:te. II" went to the mill early this morning to get some wheat ground, 4'4 looking into the dam of the mill he discovered AOMetilie2 iv'', which appeared to him at tit !it not to lie a IlOWt ver. Willi ti,,. assistance of another man, it was taken mit • and on exoninestin7 , proved to be the imfortunate person. She hail 1104 t one s;i 9 e ;our her bonnet ; two surgeons arid Nalin are gone this afterno.n /.) I X amine her body ; she will he bronL'at home this escriiiitr. :i:1(1 .Coroner's inquest will sit at ten o'clock in the :et the s%• , r Inn. .1 feel for the late of this person as flinch -I"' 11 " 1 DO Own !tistor.. it itinq lie sonic consolation in licr I!, at 'i•er body has been discovered. Holt ovd, tslin•ie eioldrict have impelled the nnfortMinte voting Inilv to tiir ram i'..*Oir• Von, reshrinc: in the sainc-sif yet (iii.il Lf f...risee:l,::ll.l .t i no•l have married tier 011 the followini %-% a a Vt'r complished annahl.• so:i, nineteen years of a;e, • i • 4 ,~ t I A