The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-26 00:00:00

DREADFUL FIRE.

DESTRUC'TION OF CASTLE FORBES!
(Front the Dublin Correspondent of Saturday) of
We regret to state, that a great porti°.,"..ncg
e
Castle Forbes, in the county of Longford, the ancient teslell'o
of the Earl of Granard, w,s destroyed on Thursday
ntop.v.
by fire. Our Correspondent informs us, that the fire Pt 7.8%,
nated in the kitchen chimney, and at three o'clock, Nvitheu,„ of
alarm having been given communicated to the beel4.6eio7
Lord Forbes. His Lordsl;ip must inevitably have Per;.,,%in,
were it not that a spaniel, which invariably slept in his '
fortunately awoke him, before the flames had reached llisii7pnt
but not before a great portion of the furniture in the aPart
had been destroyed. The fire was princially confined to
the
valuable library, paintings, and family plate,
ancient part of the Castle ; and we are glad to learn dist
LONGFORD,OCT.
ACCOUXT. ~orning,
OCT. 20.—Before six o'dock this tie
nearly the entire of that ancient and magnificent building,
Forbes, the residence of Lord Viscount Forbes, f°,inea
county, was reduced to ashes. It is not precisely nscerions
how the calamity originated • but it was discovered bY means
r 1
of a favourite night; which his 'Lordship generally keeps Liv.
s lvs
leeping room at
by pulling the clothes offhis bed, and making the most Plopea
cries. When his Lordship stepped out of bed he was envhconse-
in smoke ;he gave the alarm, and by the'exertions of _and
hold. and the neighbouring people the whole of the furniture
Wo
the library (which is one of the most valuable in Ireland/
saved. or 11°
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN -•-
VICINITY. WIC the
" Thursday morning, between two and three o'ee „own
have been sa'w•
wind blowing very. strong at N.W. the funnel of th "sleyerfil
chimney, which, it is now supposed, must have been for of die
days on fire unobserved, burst at the very top story
Z fie
house into the room where Lord Forbes was fast asleep;e mot
flames forced in with such violence and rapidity that ity of*
have b?en inevitably burnt in his bed, had not the saga,e next
favourite spaniel clog of the poodle kind, that lay in t" rota
room to his Lordship, and of which the door was fortn_onli-
open, jumped upon him, and by exertions the most e:(L."ljorti
nary awoke him ! The story is miraculous, but tale •
Oyler to
Forbes had the presence of mind first to fire a shot in Fgos-
arouse and alarm toe servants; then to remove 251 b!,• opere.
powder, and afterwards secure a large chest of faninlot -
&c. Much of the smaller furniture has been save t"va paint'
larger, with a great many valuable bookS, pictures, ore,
inks, of which there was a rare and magnificent collectld
vfori,es
I fear, destroyed. I was there yesterday morning• iier! caule
hi
was cool and manly. I was, I confess, so affected that,
k 11
hardly speak to him. He seemed sensible of it, and :nvu_rid re-
most cordially by the hand. Of that noble
spectable old building, or rather pile, which gallandf be
against the Irish in the Rebtllion of 1641, nothing rei're irre'
the walls. It was of great magnitudethe fury of the vet
sistible. It was little more than 12 o'clock when 1 s%ittitie
had it not been for the various occupations of the.llAej for
venerable,held out
around, it-would have appeared to have been uninn,..o"tve
half a century. The loss must be immense, and ine%j, an°
spects irreparable. We are all here exceedingly distr
so indeed is every individual in the country.-
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