The National Register.
London, England, 1815-12-03 00:00:00

780 • Tii E NATIONAL. REGISTER. DEC. 3.
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FLAN pitopoiED Fon 6 CARDING DWELLING. tiny, umbrella maker; 2. Phillips, ironmonger; 3. Hopkins, toy.
. HOUSES AGAINST FIRES. • slurp; .1. Norris, carpet warehouse; 5,• Hooley, hatter; 6. A Jew's
sale shop. Part of Hand-court, in the rear, was at one time on
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'Nothing is More arbitrary than the progress of civilization : flames. The dead body of a female, laid out for interment, was
It is confined by no law, and directed by no rule. Thus the removed from one of the houses when enveloped in flames, and
deposited in the watch-house.
dwellings of men have attained a considerable degree of per- 1
fection in their embellishments, whilst in point of security FIRE IN FEATHERSTONE-STREET. . 1
against conflagration they arc no farther advanced than they Wednesday morning, between twelve and one an alarming tire 1
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were, as far as we know, in the first age of the world. Such is was Iliseovered in a house at the farther end of I eatherstone-etreet,
I:anthill-row. Before the engines ceuld be procured the flames
the constant, the lamentable reflection of every thinking man spread rapidly to the adioining buildings, and seemed to threaten
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on the di eadful scenes of calamities that are daily occuring in destruction to the whole of the side of the street in which it oriel-.
tutted. When the fire assumed this [thinning appearance a loud I
this Metropolis by fires. Within the last ten dais not le,,s than
explosion was heaid, and several pieces of timber, tiles, &c. were
four souls have perished by what might be called an ordinary blown into the air'. It was found that a qaateity of gunpowder, 1
occurrence of those events ; and, without taking into account not less than a barrel, had been deposited in one of the houses. It t
belonged to the le est London Militia, but fortunately it-was placed 1
the peculiar sensation excited by the distressing loss of Mr.
at the fop of the house, and as gunpowder explodes epieards, little
St. Ace and his servant, it might not he too much to assert that a more damage was done titan a fee/ prance of glass &Am in the
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.this small portion of time, with regard. to the number that have windows of the neighbouring habitations. Four house? have been f
perished, would tint') a fair average of the mortality annually oc-
burnt to the ground, and several others damaged. It is said to ham e
commenced in a cooper's shop, in Consequence of some treglifflent t
casiuucd, in the Metropolis alone, 1w couflagrations. workman forgetting to extinguish the fire on Leaving les brimless L
Our e resent object is to seize as far as we can, upon the public for the! veniter, No lives have been lost, but one man was severely n
scorched. .1 guard of soldiers attended, and the utmost order pre- v
cedilla with tbo hope of establishing the importance of a sub-
?", edited ; though at the time when the fire was most alarming, two or v
jest with which ive Confess ourselves to have been always most three men were discovered in time habits of sailors, who were en- e
seriously impressed—Me neressi !I/ fin- some legichai:e enactmeet deasourine to convey away part of the furniture of the unfortu- P
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;,,, cou,ii,A. houses to ee h„lei so as to hv le,s inlica to destruction nate sufferers; they were apprehended and taken to the Police
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bee fire. Several plaits have been proposed to remedy this great EXPLOSION AT HOUNSLOW' HEATH. e,
and crying evil, but moue arc so ingenious or so well adapted On Monday afteennon, about four o'clock, the neighbourhood oe . S
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to fulfill the ohlect in question as Otte .we have lately read in Hounslow, and the country for some miles round, beyond Windsor
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onehe south, were. alarmed by a tremendous explosion
sof some
Tit. X. of the Pamphleteer. The instructive essay to which we ca
powder works on Hounslew Heath. They proved to be the pro,
allude, ater explaining in lively, though faithful terms, the tit
of John Butts, Esq. in the parish of Hanworth. By Ihia• t
facilities allbrded to ignition both by the materials and mode of accident two men employed in the manufactory were killed. An
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structure of our present habitations, proceeds to lay down the inquest was Accordingly held on
Tuesday, before George Hodgson, • gi
Este Coroner for Middlesex, when it appeared, on the evidence et
rules by which a house, . leant the mamfftetiering af the tricks, to Samuel Edwards, menaeer of tee e wusks, that one of the unfor- ,
the jiniAbing the last article off,rniturelbr its embeilislanent, may tonate men, James Tites-ey, übont 20 years of age, had been at York
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in a detached building, used for pressing the powder, about 404
Ise so erected as to be effectually defended against all accidents
yards from the mein tetablishment, and at the time of the explosion m;
ti ohm tire —We are sorry our limits will nut allow us to go into was alone in these premises, and had finished his daily employment. - 0
a detail of the merits of the phut suggested. To quote a particu- —ln this building were about fifteen barrels of gmtpewder. The
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br part would be to give a preference where all is excellett ;• and press was empty, and no machinery at all was moving. It was,
herethre coujectured that the fatal explosion must have been meet, ue
there ore, recommending it as we do, to the impartial perusal His body
slotted by some imprudent act of the unfortunate man.
ef all those who have time interest of their fellow-creatures or at was. carried more tb,ao fifty yards from the spot, and was found
least of their families and themselves at heart, we shall conclude heedfully mutilated. About fifty yards from this building was
another, called the hand-corning house, in which were five bartels. 1
with the hope and in the words of time ingenious author, that, of dust powder. This seas also exploded within a second of the pi,
Vif in this attempt he should have the goodfortune to gain bet former, try some burning timber, which might have fallen upon it;
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a siugee convert to the opiniou which he solicits, it is not inn- and the examinant supposes that
was the other sufferer, Wm. Ferris,
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was passiste close to the building, on his way to Hanworth, after
ible but that the example may draw forth another, and by his day's we'ork, The mangled parts ot: leis body were found übont
grecs others still, until fashion herself shall become the pa- forty yarets from the heed-corning house. Samuel Edwards de,
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posed, that there was no defect in the works.; and was clear that IP i
ironess of the new doctrine.''
none were in motion at flit time of the accident: No other witness sill
As a faithful corollary to these remarks, we have only to ad- was examined, and the jury immediately returned a verdict of l'Ll
yert to the distressi•te4 list of ewes, which in additiun to those Accidental Death.—A very considerable part of the establishment, her
yeticed in eve last, it is our painful duty to record. and the buildings of a neighbouring farm were very much injured, het
by the breaking of windows, tiled, tee. Large fragments of timber has
. were scattered about the neighboueing, tiekis. Alec dam Age is, hal
MORE DISTRESSING FIRES. estimated at about 1000 1.
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FIRE IN HOLBORN. ----- (11s1
Tuesday morning at one o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at m COMINERS' I NIVESTS. Me
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umbrella-maker's, in High Holborn, between Featherstomebuild, ' A Coroner's Inquest was on Monday taken b. fore George 'Wit-. to t
step and Brownlow-street. W.e are sorry to 4d, that in one hour son, Esq. on a, view of the remains of the laic Thomas Cartwright nth
six hones in front were entirely burnt to the ground. Two of the Slock, Esq. erect Saraht urrell, his cook maid, who perished in the eo I
houses were of wood and plaster, and of coerse greatly hastened fire at Kentish Town, en Friday morning. The only evidence of sub
the conflagration. 'ewe small back houses were also eonsumed. any mordent were the two follow ioe •
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The inhabitants had no telly eo, eaive any part of their "woods' but The coachman to the deceased, said, he and the gamer were viet
(with the exception of Me Nutting, the hteahrelke maker, alto lay their mastiet :espial two on keiday morning, and infoenrait
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missing, and supposed); to be burnt) no lives were lost. Several of mil,
there was sit fire in the house. Witness immediately came down,
the inhabitants who eseavedv were unable to save, even theie (,)% 11Sue
clothes. A female in one of the homes byrnt had been delivered and went into the dining parlotee, and there was a fire at the left. feed
¢, 'rung , hand side of the fire place, working towards the paititioe, which,
Of a child wily an hour before the fire bet .e divided out, but both were ivided the dining room from. he drawing room. It Woe nee Urea mid
a4fe/Y ITl4l"cdt 'the bombes burnt tk9" a"' 43 fag" ','-'l*. NAte 'in tisanes. They ran down to the ',Adieu, to get water and 02,‘ ilav
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