Star.
London, England, 1808-09-24 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S MST.

GRAVESEND, Sr pr. 23.—Passed by the Golden Grove, Pearce,
from St. Vhieent's; Edward, L)we, from Jamaica; Supply,
Browr, front Quebec; Three Sisters, Harty, and L.•rd Duncan,
Lune, from Limerick; lunge Jan, Poo, from Oporto. Comet,
I'atern, and Margaeet, Buttencss, from Gibraltar.—Sailed t'.e
Mary Ann, \V ku, for Li,bon ; Margaret, Key, and thellnion,
Bedwell, for Ma!ra ; Atlas, Fisher, for Heligoland; Pomona,
Mvtiaught, and the Rtrekers, Ir.:land, for Barbadoes ; Mary
Ann, M'Grath, and Queen, Farmer, ,t.tr Hayti.

CONVENT!O EPIGRANIMATICA.

Still Kerrei.'s b.lttle we must rue,
Curse some times him—sometimes Ste HUGII,
And pal,ied wish the luckless hard,
tigti'd to either that comtraila :

But ah! appointment far more :•intplc—
Another Ht.:cu! Sir H... D '

THR LATE r .EADFCL FIRF..---Yesterday evenin an
inquisition was taken before 'l'. St+Euros, Esq. one
of the Coroners for the Borough of Southwark, and
a respectable Jury, on the bodies of two firemen be-
longing to the Phoenix Office, and who were amongst
the unfortunate victims of the late fire at Covent Gar-
den Theatre, the one named Fish, who was an En-
gineer, and the other named Phisket, of the same
office. The evidence as to the cause of death to these _
unfortunate men, was much the same as that already
before the public. Fish was the man who rejected
the admonition of the Playhouse Carpenter, to beware
of the danger, and back out the engine lest the roof
should fall, and paid with his life the forfeit of his te-
merity. Both the deceased were brought from the
scene of their misfortune dreadfully bruised and burnt.
Every attention was paid to-them. They continued
sensible, but in great agony to the last. The one
died on Thursday night, and the other yesterday
morning. The Jury, of course, found a verdict of
accidental death.

Another inquest was held before the same Coroner,
on the body of William Evans, a boy between five and
six years old, killed by the carriage of Sir James
Mansfield, (erroneously stated to be that of Earl
Mansfield) in Blackfriars-road, on Thursday evening.
The circumstance was proved to be purely-accidental,.
and the Jury found a verdict accordingly_but the
Court levied a fine of 31. upon the horses, an! '2l.
upon the wheels of the carriage.
Stevens, engineer to the Phoenix Fire-Offic,,
one of the sufferers at• the fire at Covent.garden, di d
yesterday morning in St. Thomas's Hospital.
It still remains a matter of uncertainty as to the
exact number of unfortunate persons who have lost
their lives by the combustion of Covent-garden The-
atre. There are a, great number of labourers constantly
employed in digging up the ruins in search of dead
bodies. The pursuit has not proved vain, for the
mutilated remains of two persons were yesterday se-
parated from the rubbish, and carried to the Bone-
house of St. Paul's, Covent-garden. The bodies affoi d
no clue to the friends or relations of those poor people
who may have missed their husbands, brothers, sons
or lovers, in order that they may be claimed, so com-
pletely has the fire destroyed every vestige of their
clothes as well as the flesh from their limbs. Several
persons, since the fire has happened, have intimated
to the Churchwardens and Overseers of St. Paul's
Parish, that they have missed their friends singe the
night of the fire ; and, in consequence of this infor-
mation, strict search has been ordered to be made
amongst the ruins, to ascertain if there are still any
more to be added to the catalogue of those who have
fallen a victims in the general calamity.
Thursday the firemen. and others in Bow-street
were employed during the day in polling down the
tottering ruins of the Theatre, which threatened de-
struction to the passengers. A ponderous pile of
brickwork, and a lofty stack of chimnies, descended
about one o'clock with a tremendous crash. Two of
the Doric pillars which supported the portico were
thrown down by the falling ruins, but the rest sus-
tained the shock. The spectators kept at a proper
distance, and it does not appear that any accident oc-
curred during this• dangerous operation.
The Coroners for London and Middlesex have sat
on 17 bodies, killed at the late fire, viz. twelve at Co-
vent Garden; three at St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
and two at the Middlesex Hospital. The Corontr
for Surrey has also sat on the bodies of two sufferers
who died in St. Thomas's Hospital. Two persons
are now in a dangerous state at St. Bartholomew's,.
and Ane at the Middlesex Hospital, amounting in all
to twenty-one. Others have been carriedmatnoyithive,,r,
houses, but it is not yet known exactly how
have been lost.