The National Register. — London, England, 1808-09-26 00:00:00

sEPTEMBEIt 26. MOW The Jury, upon the whole or rite fd'ence, - returned a ver-. diet, that the following persons, viz.—lt. Cadger. J. Illqbnes,. J. Hoot, %V. Janet, J. Evans, J.tCrabb, T. Mead, W. Wrig-1 g:.e,worth, J. Kilby, Thomas Janie!, Rushton, and another %na me unknown) in nil twelve personr, were kWed • Mentally_ by the failing of the Apollo - room, at Covent Garden heart% ' . . , Au Inquest was on Wednesday evening; held upon the bodies' o f John Sayers and John •Benumont, of thelAbeenix Office, the latter of whom dkd on Wednesday morning; and Robert !f ew er, a gliftier, bel (meal" In' Ite — Tfithit fF.' -- 117',i( 1 'dire bodies were at Bartholomew s Hospital—lnquests were also held at the-other herpitala and places to witieh.the other dead bodies were carried. The evitkisce Wag the bame as that ad- Coicod loefore the-Coroner of Wesminsier. The three men he.: tonging to the Plotetlis, who were bent to- St: ThollllUri pits{, are bra fair way of recovery. . . . Of the mangled 'persons sent to the h o spit a l s t h e f o it mc i ne ~ttiired in the cour-e of she day : Richard Bird , conichmaker; Sohn sa3ers. Engineer of the Phoenix engine; Mr. Harris, optician;•lt purer . , item, cuttentlo, mitt Pt member ofttle Steam,- Wiry Volunteer. Corps.; luta Mr. James au Attorney; build. wily nuked in town, from NVales, about a week ago, and. lodged at the house of Mr. Wati,ins, tailor, York-street, Covent-garden. Amongst those in a dangerous sate at the hos pitals, are Peter Fish, ft' puma of the Ylicenlx office. A man tiriouelkl icto the l.'iaiza Coffee-horse, with his aria burnt, was ia -ark ai. , ,tniv, that, mail with pain..lie.kore the flesh down to say wrist. he was sent to Ilartholomew's Hospital in a most iliplorahle state. The Carollers for London and Middlesex have sat on 17 killed at the late tire, viz.—twelve at Covent Garden, three at St. Bartholomew's TlOsOititT, and two at the Middle- Ito‘pital. Two persons are now in a dangerous state at Bartholomew's, and one at the Middlesex Hospital, amount ti in all to twenty. Others have been carried to their houses, but it is not Net known exactly how many lives have been lost. The men of the Phoenix ()aloe were the principal sufferers. On their arrival st ith their engine as the great door, Rader the Piazza, they were met by Mr. Kemble, who . had arrived at as early hour; they were humanely apprized by him, though greatly interested iu the.success of alert rxeftions, lif•the • ova( danger of eateriug at that door. lie told them that the rooms 4.1 the Shakspeare, immediately adjoining, were used ao uarelinitQe to the Theatre, and were filled with powder, oil, and of very inflammable matter ' and entreated them not to tan any risk. These brave : Real bold fellows answered—" %% here danger i,, these is our duty !" and rushed forward. Mr. .lidtibion, a comedian of inf e rior order, rushed iu along with them, am; snared their fate. • 01w itie,tati4ing the somber of unfortunate persons, whose • v. etc (ti:coyered awl dug from the rains on the morning of :',e tile, and those who were extricated alive, hut have since 1;1041, it is to he feared the total extent of the easualities have wit yet been even nearly ascertained ; and many bodies are still .iipposetl to remain buried under the ruinii, fur the extrication of which. at the instance of the friends of.the persons missing, a climber of lahoorers are constantly etnplo yea. trillay, the inatilated remains, or, Indeed, rather the skele tur.,, of two unfortanate person: %tore dug from the ruins, and taken to Covent Garden bone-house to be owned ; but the miwrable change they hove uodergone has so far destroyel all te..tig e of forgoer likeness, that it is almost impossible they can ite recognized by their friends. notoey in the Ticasitry . , as well as all the documents I.•Teeting the Theatre, were preserved by the alacrity of Mr. I tu , thes, whose infirmities were wholly lo4t in his zeal to save th e property. He loaded a iruity female servant with the money in two bags, and sent her, without any dress bit her %'ettivilat, to Mr. Boyce, a tax-gatherer, in York-street. On tier arrival at Mr. Boyces, however, and katsekitrg at the poor, the servant seeing such a figure at such an hour, refused. Umittante, supposing her a mad woman. The poor woman, 0113 extluded, and fearing to inform the passengers of the treaqtre, sat down upon the hags nt the steps of the door, alai there remained until the return of Mr. Hughes, who had ori ginally escorted he i r to the door. One of tho greatest losses, in respect to property, occasioned by the fatal even( at Coveut Garden Thentre, because it is of an icreparahle natare, is that of the manuscript music. • There uere original scores of Handel, Arne, and other celebrated composers, that were never printed, and of which there are no' copies extant. Team of 'Louie' as, i* rt . tg egt cem taPos pz le a r it • 141 g NitifiPtit REdISTEti. for the Theatre In• tfneeln i s-Mn-flehrs, and came as heir-looms to the Proprietors of the oviglent patent. Ilandel's celebrated °mai,- supposed to he worth 1000 gui- Was, and which tista swiebrated composer gave' by hie wilt to Price; Gerdes, Thetas*, eted was only heard in the Oratories, is completely destroyed. Anenevotbee t itseses, the Society which held their meetings at the top of the Theatre, called the ;Beef-stake Club, which has existed for many yearn, have .leet their. old stock of wines. worth At least 1500/. besides their sideboard nod table imple ments. 19 the Saloon a lows has been sustained to the amount of 2001. expended in wines, liquors, and refreshments, for the frequenters of the Theatre, not a silt* article of which was either saved or insured. All the performers hare shared in the calamity; and, according to the usage of the Theatre, their sa laries cease until their performances can be reamed Ly this catastrophe upwards of 200 other persons, with jheir families, consisting of artificers, door-keepersoind other inferior servants. employed about the Theatre, are thrown out of bread. The event may therefore he said to have spread distress through the neighkuurhomt. and consigned many industrious families to actual emit. We are happy to find that a subscription for the relief otthe sufferers has keen opened by Mr. Wright, and other res pectable Bankers. Nothing has yet been discovered that will account for the origin of the dreadful lire shish has produced -the destruction of Covent Carden Theatre ; but one eiecutnstneee might to hie melt tioned, as it may &aimd some clue to inquiry. It was observed by the performer , in she IA Ole Green-room, define the whole of the evening. that a remarkable degree of heat prevailed, in , sualuch that many of them were actually °Wird to quit Mil place. This peculiar heat was obviously not the effect of an)' unusual coneeterseof people in the room. and therefore the cause of it requires investigation. Respecting the insurance of the Theatre, we are enabled to state, that as to the Theatre itself there is an insurance of 25,000/. in the Sun ffice, one of 15,000/. in the Pheenit,nad toe l'ofbo9ol. each in the ltoyal Union and Exchange : besides these, there is an insurance in the Phreuis of 8,000!. on the Eihaks peare Tavern, and the theatrical property therein depositell4 These different sums make a total of 55.0617. 11 is, likewise, calculated that, iirlepentlent of the saving of the hooks, &c. ifte. and other matters, ti;e proportion of savings from the Shaks peure premise= amounts to near one-half of the 80001. thereat • tnsured. It appear: front the hest of information that can he obtained, that the Proprietot!. of Covent Garden Theatre must be Less to the amount of 70 or 80,000 pounds. THEXTRICAL CONFIAGRATIONS. Drury-Lane Theatre nas 1:?62; deil!royed by fire 16711 rebuilt 1611; pulled down 179 l; 'Huai 1791. Covent 6ardeii 'Fiteatr..t wu.s built 173:3; enlarged 1792; de stroyed bv tire 1t50:4. • Ilayinarket, opened 1704 ; burin .down 1180; the Inundation of a new one laid 1700. Pantheon, Oxfort!•street, opened ; converted to an Opera-housf- I 784; burnt down 1.797?. AFtley's Amphitheure, burnt down on the Duke of York's. bitth-night, 179.1; rebuilt, and burnt down a second time in 1603. {Loyal circus, destroyed by tire 1:305, and rebuilt 1806. Thursday afternoon, a fine little. boy, about five years nig., was accidentally struck down in Mackfriars-road, by our of live horses of Sir dames Mansfield's carriage. The coachman used the utmost exertions to pull up the horses ; but in spite of his efforts, they got so ftr forward that the fore wheel of the ear , riage passed over the poor child's breast, and killed him en the spur. The boy, with one of his play-fellows was crossing the road when the melancholy accident occurred. An Inquest hus been held on the body. The circumstance was proved. to be purely accidental, and the Jury found a verdict accordingly ; but the Court levied a tine of N. upon thehorscs, and 24 upon the wheels of the carriage. M A HMI). On Monday 19th kin. at Litchfield, ('hnrles Holl:ind 11astin ; •• 1 Esq. Major of the 6311 Regiment, tii Mary, vouoifeit Dafightvr of the late Lieut.-Geu. Gardiner, Command e r of the I•'orre4 iA Nova Scotia. DIED Yesterday morninK, Mr. Diekie, the stationer, who lila been so Wag conlitied hi the Fleet ?TIMM. .1. _ ~~• ,