The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-10-01 00:00:00

AWFUL EVENT.

The post of yesterday brought some details tf
mast calamitous occurrence that took place at Not-
tingham on Monday afternoon, and which, it is to lw
hoped, will operate ass powerful worniag to those
intrusted with the cate of removing gunpowder
from one place to another. The following parti-
culars only have been ascertaihied iy.the confusion
cad dismay occasioned by this event :
" NOTTINGHAM. SEPTEMBER 28.
Eight &Clock, p.st.
" I take up the pea in a slate of iiiittinnit dis-
tress not to be conceived, to give you hr rhia po.t
some account of a most disastrous explosion
has this afternoon thrown the whole place into
state of indescribableconfu,inn.
." The shock, which at first was conceived in 1-iu
an earthquake, in a few minutes filled the slyirr4
With a terrified multitude running is every dine*
tion. A thick smoke and strung smell of ow-
powder, with fragments of paper flying :Moot in
the air, quickly spread fresh alarm. Some rail to-
wards the Barracks, others to the Military Guard-
house, and many, as if bereaved of reason, rim

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about in wild &rosy withest towing whither or
for whet object. At length a ery became general
that an explosion of gunpowder bad completely de-
stroyed the Canal Company's warehouses, in our
neighbourhood, and that another explosion might
be momentarily expected. The distress now be.
came agonising : however. our fears iu this respect
were not verified, and I ventured to direct my
steps towards the scam of destruction. All the
adjoining streets Were strewed with glass, and the
roofs of the houses dreadfully shattered. The
greater port of the inhabitants bed fled to the ad-
joining but even here the destructive
effrcts of the exialosom were most distressing; for,
with numerals fragments of the reined edifices.
several Mangled bodies were found there, which
had been carried acmes the canal by the violence of
the concussion.
•• How this melancholy sear happened is at pre-
sent not well known. Various reports are in circu-
lation, but from all that I have, been able to learn.
I believe the following statement will be found
pretty correct :—A canal boat. with other merchan-
dise, had twenty-one barrels of gunpowder, weigh-
ing about 1 cwt. each, on board. The powder had
been just delivered at the warehouse. and the boat
was still lying under the arch-way over which the
warehouse is ball?. Seast,ijialls gunpowder had
esoyed through a crei4ejepnie of the barrels. in
eneglig. A man in who was beard to
sae he would have a=r own, took a hot
coal and set fire to the thin, which quickly coat-
ntuoiented with the barrels, and in a moment This
immense pile of buildings, four stories high. built
in the 111041 massive anioner, full of corn mod other
merchandise. became a mass of rains. The adjoin-
ing wharfs and buildings have suffered dreadfully.
1114 the destruction in glass has been great at a very
eonsidershle distance froin the focus of explosion.
Twelve bodies have already been found the wharf
itself they dare not yet inairchlato; all they venture
at present is, putting into sacks some of the corn,
which lies its great quantities upon the wharf.
Above one hundred soldiers are employed upon
this work. while others are keeping guard. The
engines are all drawn up in readiness for fear of
fire. In short, the whole whit is in a state of
easy and anxious suspense not easily to be conceived,
sod impossible to be described."

PANS. SEPTIIIII3II 7.
The King did oot go out yesterday. His Ma-
jesty traii.acted busioese with 31. Leine, Minister of
the Interior.
Toe following is an extract from a private letter,
dated Ant-l.s-Cliapells, Sept. 113 :
" It is said that the Prince de Metternich has
declined to sevensl persons, that the Congress will
not be formally occupied by any other question
than that relative to the evacuation of France. The
other subjects of diseu.sion noticed by several
Jouirnalists, will he treated of in familiar converse-
ti)))) but will not he discussed in a diplomatic and
rtilrmn manner. The numerous Counsellors
other parsons brought by the Prince de Met
to Frankfurt...ill OM proceed to Aix-is-e"
" P e Hirileisberg lies expressed '
far Caller his extreme displeasure •
tion rummitird by this writer. in p.
wo.lws for the division of Germany into two

•• The esir4 of the Allied Sovereigns will take
place with the greatest pomp. A double line of
soldiery, all newly clothed and equipped with the
greitrot care, will be drawn up from the village
of Nlehleis (about two leagues off) to the city.
Between these lines the King will proceed to meet
his august Allies, and accompany them to Aix-la-
Chapelle."
The new proceedings at Alb; are very far advanc-
ed, and will. it is thought, dissipate the clouds that
still rest upon the causes and circumstances of
Fualdes's assassination.