The Sun.
London, England, 1816-10-30 00:00:00

TtIE FIRE AT BEIV6Iit.cAsTLE. •

The following "Atter contminS :4 more particular
and correct aevoont of this Calamity
!clown movhray, mooday, Oct.
Belvoir Castle, the princely tesidence of the
Doke of Ittitland, for ages the oroasitent and
boast of Leicestershire, and on which for the last
seventeen years, his present Cirace has devoted
his ithmense revenues, Itis,.taste and attention, to
render it a maniionworthy his illustrious House,-
vvas visited, by is most desteuitive tire tin the morn-
ing 'of Sittnrtlay, the 2fith-Oet. which fire broke
out about half-past 3. The whole of what was
ternicil the old building,' comp' ising three-fourths
of the entire edifice, is completely dest toyed no-
thing but the walls tire left standing. The new
sttueture,'Ocept the grand entrance stair'-case and
new picture gallery, is preserved. This last-
panted apartntent was not completed, and a work-
Shop' had &en ettablished in an adjoining-room,
,where it is supposed sufficient care had not been
taken to _extinguish the embers in the grate, a
spark front which communicating with a barrel of
;inflammable materials, quickly enveloped the
Intim in flames, which firticeeded with frightful
rapidity to the staircase, 'entrance-hall and gal-
lerr, which were speedily t tid its ruins ; it next
00endttl to the ,part occupied by the domestics,
wholiad the greatest cifficolty in escaping from

the devotwing 'element.
" Their Graces of Rutland were dt their lest,
Cheveley Park ; bin the infant .Marquis.6l Gran-
by, with the fonr-Latlies MattnerS, -were iu the
Castle. These illustrious perstSnages even: re-
ninved to a place of 'safety iinmediately on the
alarm being given,• through 'the exertions of Sir
J. Thornton.
" Unfortunately, no engines were at ban-it, and
it was a very ebrislikVAlC' tinfe before any. iti-
rivetl.-TllO.- fir I c,ltnn,Htbe :,,segt- of Lord
Brownlow, who personally attended, and directed
its application ; and the Melton Nino/bray engine,
tinder the' superintendence of Mr. :Bright, the
agent fur the County Fire Office (woo heard
of the fire accidentally) ; together •w;t11 the
firanthatn, engines, were of the ,most 'essen-
tial. service, and by their 'intweariedcy.ertions
prese.rved 'the new cdifice,..which contains the
state apartment', front destruction.. So near
an approach .had. the fire once blade to this part
of the Castle, that the. filmes blast into the Re-
gent's Gallery, Which is one hundred-and seventy
feet long, and, is, filled with the choicest predite,
'inns of art. Great was the eagerness of the te-
nantry to preserve the farniture, and all altention
tts to its sate removal was disregarded ; pictures;
cabinets, ttitues,' velvet hangings, and tapestry,
with every desctiption of costly and magnificent
decorations, were tiirotvir Mit oi the teintlotes, and
scattered on the. lawn. .-lly i I o'clock the 'fire
was got tinder, but the engineers will be long em-
plc Yed iti extiogoislting the flee $t I 1 retnattling,jit
the smoking ruins.
Tile whole of the ~plate iY sae,cd ; we .wish
the sane (mild by ojiscA•ved tl4.l)ipurfs---,-tnithy
inestimable nnea,are destcoyed.„ Aniatents
with regret, that the etlebrat4.. pu:ture (.1
tire Naiirii
.7, by Sir 'J, Reynol.!l Uor ‘vhich his
Grace, lately refused:lets, 'thousand ._,Ktniteas), is
c0„,1„1,01.4..tr0m the few Historical, or Scrily prat
pieces this great IN:lo,4ter executed, the fusf,.4 in c.
parnlite.--The:insurances, the. Castle ainontit to
3.33000 f. ; but the Noss, at a nonlci MC, compota-
eannot beless..tinitt as nothing
was *MANI, in the part which is tlestroycd. The
cavalry. commanded .by Sir K, Byron; here in
attendance the whole of Sunday, to prevent the
admission of improper persons. fl is Grace ar-
rived et the castle abuot:tticven o'clock onSatur-
day evening. and dildityeti a Ategtee of litaniess
and greatness: of wititt on 11'014 occasion
tidy astonishing. Happily no lives Were