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

sEPTEMBEIt 26.

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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
%name unknown) in nil twelvepersonr, were kWed
• Mentally_ by the failing of the Apollo- room, at Covent Garden
heart% ' . . ,
Au Inquest was on Wednesday evening; held upon the bodies'
of John Sayers and John •Benumont, of thelAbeenix Office, the
latter of whom dkd on Wednesday morning; and Robert
!fewer, 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 hospitals the foitmcine
~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 inferior 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..tige 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
the 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 heir 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
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