Star.
London, England, 1824-11-20 00:00:00

NAVAL liVl LLLIGEIvCE.

Arrived off Whitby, the Resolution, KILIILIT, from D. vie
Straits, with eight fish, 100 tuns.
The John lEschlin, —, from Gibraltar to Belfast, in attentri*
to get into Whitehaven on Wednesday, struck between the vitt'
and sunk.

The Active, from Newry, was driven on shore on Thurs-
day, at Liverpool, and filled with water.
FALMOrrii, Nov. 18.—Wind S.S.W.—Last ,night it blew a
heavy gale from S.W. to W. Put back, the Ocean, CANT, for re.
neriffe ; and the Atlas, //RAD, for Charleston. The outward hound
ride all well.

PLYMOUTH, Noy. 18.—Wind 3.5. W. blowing .hard.—A rrived the
Blessing, &MANOR, from Newfoundland, in i 6 days.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind N.F..—At three, P.M. the wind
got round to the N.E. with heavy rain, and thick weather. The
outward bound remain, all well. No art ivals or tailings.
DNA L, Nov. 19.—Wind E.S.F. moderate, with rain.—Fier, r. u.
The .whole of the outward-bound are getting under weigh. • Passed
through the I'rince Regent, Tavi.oft, for Tobago ; and the Barclay,
PERRIER, for Jamaica.

Livearoot., Nov. 18.— Wind W.—This morning, at nine o'clock,
it blew a very strong gale. A brig and a schooner are on 'ilhoie
in Bootle Bay ; two heats have also been washed up there—one has
" Ant, of Liverpool," and the other," Daniel, anortr.t.," on the
stern. The Mary Armrest' Whitehaven' sunk in the Rock Chan-
nel; crew saved. Arrived the Lallah Rookh, STEWART, from
Macau, in 47 days, and was driven on shore on the Mile House
Rocks; lidgrhve, FLEXING, from Rio Janeiro; and the Sisters,
Rama, from New York—sailed 22(1 ult.

THE REF. A. FLETCHER.

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Yesterday evening, at seven o'clock, a numerous and
highly respectable meeting of the friends of Mr. Fletcher
WAS held at the. Albion
.Chapel, in Moorfields. The
business of the meeting was opened with a short prayer,
after which Mr. F. addressed the meeting, and stated
that he regretted the proceedings in Chancery had not
yet terminated. He then lead to the meeting an aceoint
of them, as far as they had gone; and commented on
different parts of the statement as he proceeded,
He considered the highest compliment he could pay
was due to the Solicitor-General for the line of conduct
he had pursued, which well became the high legal
rank he held in society; and although he was Counsel
against him (Mr. F.) yet, it met his warmest approba-
tine. lie was determined not to snbmit to the sentence
so unjustly passed against him by the Synod, whose pro-
ceedings would disgrace the Government of Algiers;
in this coentry nothing like them had happened since
the termination of the Star Chamber. Not one of the
Counsel engaged against him had gone sd far as to
justify their proceedings, but prayed the Chancellor to
confirm their sentence, whether right or tlvrong. He
knew that in opposing their sentence be should be sup-
potted by his congregation, in whose good opinion be
was proud to say he herd'a high station. The meeting
of the Synod was held in the silent hour of midnight,—
a very appropriate time for their disgraceful proceedt
ings; but he trusted that retributive justice would ulti-
mately overtake them, and their conduct be viewed in
its proper light. He hoped his friends would attend
the Court of Chancery on Monday, when be had san-
guine expectations that the decision would be in his fa-
vour; but should that desirable event take place, he
hoped his fiends would abstain from any expression of
their feelings in Court. He concluded by thanking the
Meeting for the attention With which they heard him.
Mr. ADAM afterwards addressed the Meeting, and
called upon them to support their Pastor in his present
arduous struggle.
*The Meeting then adjourned till Monday next.

By the arrivals in town this morning we learn, that
in consequence of the late heavy rains, the roads in many places,for
a great ni,tance, are flooded above the fetlock joints of the horses.
At Newark, Notts, the river Trent has, within these few days,
risen a foot and a half.

By letters which have been recently received from
Scotland, we are concerned to hear that, in various parts of the
llighlands, the weather has been very wet and coM for the season;
snow and sleet have been unusually severe, and a great proportion
tit the crops have Iwo destroyed, or injured to such a degree as to
.env l'lW 10 w-h-touoded appreknsions of scarcity, and elect"
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'TO THE ROITOR OF THE STAR.
liesrsaacur, Not. 17, HA1.2.2.412 gliVl2l.
Mi MAR Sift—l sit down to write you a few hur-
kied lines, *containing further particulars than those
enumerated In the Sealyham Newspaper, of which I
have sent you a copy-. The scene, at half-past five this
morning, as Mentioned in that paper, was as awfully
grand and sublime as it was heart-rending and fright-
ful. At the hour of six, when the east angle of the Par-
liament-square, seven stories high, and with a line of
fourteen windows to the front, and above twenty to the
back, was in one mass of flame, I considered the whole
city gone: the south angle was burning too, but not to
the extent, at the same moment. At eight, A.P.I. the
massy thiclewalls.partly fell, with a tremendous crash:
only one artilleryman was injured—l fear mortally ;
another, and two of the Royals, sprung from the piazza
on which theystood directing the engine into the windows
of the south angle, and were safe. At 12, the fire raged
in the Cowgate; and the Lord Provost carried off the
engines, in defiance of the protests of the Lord Presi-
dent of the Court, Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Advocate,
and King's Remembrancer. These individuals instantly
set above one hundred men to work to pull down the
only remaining land adjoining, the Court of Session,
which is eleven stories to the hack. This has saved
these Courts. The newly fitted-up Jury Court and
Chambers in the east and south angle of the square are
gone, on which, it is said, 40,0601. have been eipended.
At'fbur, this afternoon, another wall give, way, and
only one of a party of men is saved. This man I have
lust conversed with : betells me there were about a
score, he thinks, with him, directing the three Naval-
yard engines. All these are buried. Three have been
got out ; but they are only the remains of men. Farther
I need not shock you by narrating. They had evidently
bean instantaneously launched into eternity. The
ruins cannot be approached to dig for the rest !
Melancholy to relate, the gable•of the east angle of the
I'arliament-square, which forms consequently a part oe
the south angle, and has long been known as the highest
house in the city (some calling it fifteen or sixteen stories
high, but In which I could never make more than
eleven or twelve, I think), stands solitary, thre aching
destruction to the numerous dwellings beneath. The
houses, of course, are deserted, and military stationed at
all the avenues, tq prevent access. Having procured
two kites, a Gentleman tried to fly one over the tops
of these ruins, from the top of the court, xvith a line at-
tached to the tail, in order to get up a cord; but the
rain destroyed his kites, and hiss efforts were unavail-
ing. Some seem to think this a netu 'fire, because it was
to windward of the other. It is true, those sparks blew
to the eastward, which ascended above the hopses in
Ilames; but this far I know, that all this morning I
worked at the engines to windward of the burning lands,
and frequently we had to stand for many minutes, and
work with our eyes shut, amidst a heavy fall of sparks,
as thick as any snow storm. The houses now burned
are not a hundred feet to windward of those on fire last
right, and *hen -sparks did not rise to the level of the
tops of the houses, they flew with raging and whirling
fury in all directions.
Our streets are covered with furniture, watched by
the most miserable creatures. If I said hundreds were
1), useless, in my last, I should say thousands now, were
the Lord Provost's foresight not so praiseworthy in pro-
curing Queensberry Barracks for the unfortunate.
There is no business done—our Court of Session ad-
journed—the King's Signet actually removed from the
Office to the Deputy Keeper's house—half the shop.
keepers with their shops empty, and others with their
goods ready packed. In fact, the loan cannot be said to
be tranquil, and few will lay down to sleep in security
in the Old Town to-night.
QUARTER PAST EIOHT.--Mhe fire is pretty well got
under, but the streets are so full of military that I can-
not get near : the wind is still very high. I forgot
to mention that an opening has bee.l made in the middle
of the street, from the Castle to' the High-street, to
carry down a stream of water.—At three o'clock, a
house in Carrubber's-close, a great way down the street,
took fire from the sparks, but it was soon got under.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.

FROM THE SCOTSMAN.
It is out melancholy duty -to record the most cola-
mitobs and destructive fire—we may rather say—series
of flees, ever witnessed in this city. It broke out about
ten o'clock on Monday evening, in a tenement at the
bead of the Old Assembly Close, High-street, and in
premises, as we are informed, occupied by Mr. Kirk-
wood the engraver.
The alarm having been speedily given by the Police,
the fire engines followed one after another to the spot.
From various obstacles, a considerable period elapsed
before they could be brought into action, and even then
ti:e fire, which appeared almost simultaneously in the
third story and the top story, was in too high a si-
tuation to admit of their operating with much effect.
Till 11 o'cloct nothing but smoke was seen in front ;
and appearances seemed to indicate that very ordinary
exertions would be sufficient to subdue the fire. About
eleven, fl Imes appeared in the windows of the third flat,
and spread with such rapidity, that. before twelve, it
blazed out in immense volumes.from all the windows,
and when the roof afterwards began to fall in, the
ouilding, with the exception of the ground flat, pre-
sented one most terrific mass of flame.—The deAruc-
vire element seized upon this tenement in the
first instance, but it was soon evident that it had com-
municated to the contiguous building on the west.
Unfortunately it spread by the upper stories, which the
engines could not effectually reach. About one, both
tenements wet e blazing almost from top to bottom. The
spectacle was awfully sublime. The night was cool,
with a low breeze from the south west; and the moon
and stars seen through the whirling clouds of fiery
flakes and sparks appeared of a pale blue colour. The
heat vests now so intense, that ff was not possible to ex-
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pose the face to it fot any inset of time from the win-
dcnsa of our printing-office, which is rifht opposite, and
at the distance of a hundred feet. fhe street at this'
time ptvsented a most extraordinary scene. Belok add
above the flaming buildings to some distance, the inha-
bitants had caught the alarm. Furniture, books, 'beds,
clothes, casks, drapery, were carried down the stains, or
thrown from the windows,and lay piled confusedly on the
street, from which they were carried, away to the Police
office court, the Parliament-square, Royal Exchangeakc.
—Mixed with these were the firemen with half a dozen

of engines, around whom a space was kept partially
cleared by the military. Behind this up and down was
seen one dense mass of heads as far as the eye could pene-
trate the murky gloom. The burning tenements, like
all those of an old date, had in them a very great pro-
portion of wood. This increased the blaze ; and the
showers of burning embers, flakes, and sparks, wafted
by the wind over the town. spread terror even among
those who lived at some distance. Twice there was a

new alarm of fire raised in other parts of the street, but
it proved in each case to be merely in the chimney.—
From the second tenement the flames now spread to a

third, still to the westward ; and from the third, about
two or three in the morning, to a fourth—namely, the
tenement next the Old Fishmarket Close, the first flat of,
which is the publishing office of the t dinburgh Courant.
Fortunately the thick and solid gable of the building
beyond this arrested the progress of the devouring ele-
ment in that direction. But long before this it had dif-
fused itself backward among the old tenements on the
two sides of Borthwick's Close.

The engines had been playing occasionally all this
time; but with extremely little effect ; the narrowness
of the closes and the height of the buildings were great
obstacles ; but it must be added there was a total want
of order, arrangement, and combination in wo►king
them.—Where they could be brought to bear upon the
flames, their power was great. In the front tenement
the fire had sunk so far by seven o'clock yester►las

morning as to be no longer alarming—having by that
time nearly exhausted its aliment, though some days
may elapse before the embers cease to burn. In the
back tenements it wat'nearly subdued by eleven o'clock.l
The four front tenements occupy a space of about 120
feet in length, and are in general six stories high.. The
buildings destroyed behind extend about as tar down
towards the Cowgate.
NVe have described the effects of the fire as they were
seen from our own office. From a greater distance we
are assured the effects were awfully grand. Looking
southwards from the head of Duke•stieet, the heavens

seemed on fire; and on getting to St. Andrew's-square,
though the site of the conflagration was more distinctly
seen, the apprehended effects were only rendered the
more tremendous. Abstracted from the sense of danger
to friends and neighbours, the broken masses of the old
town, its chimnies and spires, now thrown into shade,
now fiercely illuminated by the raging flames, and seen
through showers of living fire, presented a scene at once
wild, terrific, and sublime. A nearer approach changed
the feeling. Pity was excited by the condition of the
poor—men, women, and children, driven front their
houses, carrying in their hands some miserable remnant
of their furniture, but without a penny to obtain food,
or a house to shelter them. Wonder was often felt at
the daring hardihood of individuals who were seen
forcing their way into apartments enveloped in smoke
and flame. But the general effect of the whole scene
was of a sedative character—powerfully impressing the
mind with the idea that men were feeble beings, sported
with by elements over which they had no controul.
The engines remained in the street during Tuesday,
forenoon, to keep down the fire, which shewed a ten-
dency now and then to rise from the smoulder ing ashes,
and the wind, which had increased to a strong gale, still
scattered fiery showers. About 12 o'clock, a cry burst-
ing from the crowd in the street, announced that the
'spire of the Tron Church was set on fire by some of
these flying brands. The upper part being composed
entirely of wood, the flames socnmade their A ay through
it, while the lead covering was seen potfring down its
sides. In a short time it was completely enveloped in
flame, presenting a most singular spectacle. Its pillars
being undermined, the wooden part fell to the eastward,
with a great crash. Some fragments of the burnt
beams fell upon the roof of the Church, but they were
either removed or extinguished by the men placed there.
The body of the Church escaped with little injury, but
the carpentry of the spire was consumed to the bottom.
This second fire was nearly subdued by four o'clock,
and it was hoped that the conflagration had reached its
close. But at ten o'clock yesternight a new fire burst
out in the high old tenement at the south-east corner
of the Parliament-square, which reaches back towards
the Cowgate. It commenced on the top flat (from
what cause is unknown, for it is situated to windward
of the buildings previ usly burned, and had not the
smallest connection with them). By eleven, this huge
old pile, nine or ten stories in height, was blazing in
the upper flats ; and by three this morning, all its floors
and wood-work were burned down to the foundation.'
The strong wind has carried the burnt matter over the
buildings to the eastward, even in greater abundance
than on Monday. No one knows
,where the mischief
will terminate, and a general feeling of alarm has dif-
fused itself through the Old Town. The proprietors of
all the buildings of much value, have stationed men on
their roofs, to prevent any of the floating embers from
fixing on the wood-work. Sir William Forbes and
Co. have removed their books, and the Crown Officers
have been taking precautions for the safety of the Par-
liament House and Court of Exchequer.
One of the most pitiable scenes, rising out of the
present calamity, was exhibited at .the police.oifice on
Monday night and yesternigbt. The upper court was
filled with moveables of every possible description ; the
receiving room, lower court, &c. with every variety of
character. Women and children seeking shelter; the
wounded seeking help ; constables .seeking flambeaus;
the owners and occupiers of destroyed houses seeking
space and security for books, papers, and valuable pro-
perty; the curious and the officious; the destitute, the
criminal, the alarmed, the intoxicated, and the MOM
porarily deranged, were all congregated together. •
The number of persons who received bodily injuries
at the fire on Monday night was seventeen, of whom
three ate dangerdusly hurt. Last night a fireman and
a dragoon were seriously wounded, and carried to the
Infirmary. There are probably more suffeters,.of whom
we have not yet heard.
The member of poor families burned out and plunged
into the depths of misery and want issreat ; but it will
gratify the Public to know that the Lad Provost made
immediate application to the Officers of Goveinment,
and olgained the use of Queensberry House to afford
temporary shelter co those who have been thus deprived
of their homes. This was a- well judged and humane
act. Indeed the Lord Provost has beta eiceedingly

'active an.] anarodk 'an I has ekette.l Mtich
yond what the state of his health rendered prudent or
safe. The Dean of Guild and Magistrates have alsd
been most attentive, and all the subordinate function-
aries have shewn /ea': !kir. Cameroii Attended the
whaled Monday night to insure i supply at water. 'lie
Superintendant of Police,and we may add the stirgeon,ex-
erted themselves greatly. We are sorry we cannot extend
our praise to the engine department : the want of or-
ganization here ought to be made known: in Edinburgh,
hitherto, neither the Magistracy nor the Police have had
either engines or men for working them, of their own,
or disciplined by themselves. Engines were kept by
such Insurance Offices as chose to do so—and in such

manner, and with such men as they chose; and, in ac-
tion, the men, jealous of each other, were under no pro-
per subordination. Nor has anybody, as yet, been or-
ganized for working-the engines, and supplying them
with water. 'recently, however, a tieaty has been
formed with most of the Insurance-Offices for placing
their engines in the hands of the police, and subset ibing
a suns towards the expense of maintaining them. A
superintendent of fire engines had also been appointed,
but, unluckily, this fire broke out before it was possible
for him to have the engines transferred, put in order,
and men employed, taught, and organized. From the
terrible consequences which, it is now seen, may arise
from lite in Edinburgh, we must have these matters put
upon a proper footing, let the tax upon the inhabitants
generally be what it may. • .
Six, A.M.—The flames have now communicated to the
large range of tenements between John's Coffee house
and the inner angle of the square, so that the destruc-
tion of the whole of the east side of the squate is cer-
tain. Theme is every prospect that the tenements ad-
joining to the Exchequer Court will be saved.
ELEVEN, A M.— At eight o'clock the lands in the Par-
liament-square, fell down with a piodigiotis crash. Islo
material alteration, we believe, has since taken place,

the engines still continue to play at'
the places where
danger is apprehended, end it is to be hoped that, from
the measures that are taken, the ravages of the fit e may
at 1:45t be stopt. We hear that in the course of the morn-
ing two soldiers have been 'killed, and several persons
danger ously wounded. The city still continues in a state
of the deepest agitation and alarm.

PROM THE EDINBURGH WEEKLY JOURNAL, NOV. 17TH.
DESTRUCTION OF THE TRON CHURCH STEEPLE.

While the fire was raging in the "houses behind where
it originated, and exactly at a quarter before 12 o'clock,
the Steeple of the Tron Church was discovered to be on
fire. Cries were immediately raised on every side to
save the Church, and every nerve was strained to ac-

complish this object. Engines were dispatched, but
were not of powersufficient to make the least impression
on the increasing strength of the fire, for in a few mi-
nutes the whole of that part of the steeple, which was of
wood, was enveloped in flames; the danger from the
molten lead from the roofs prevented the firemen from
approaching near enough to render any assistance;
yet even at this juncture many persons ventured into
the Church to save property which had previously
been removed from the houses that were burning,
and deposited there as a place 'of security. In
three quarters of an. hour, the upper part of the
steeple fell to the ground with a dreadful crash. All
danger from the lead being now removed, several per-
sons got on the lower roof to prevent the fire from
communicating with the body of the church, and in
this situation, a mass of the flaming beams which com-
posed the frame-work of the steeple fell among them,
amid shrieks of terror from the spectators—fortunately
done were hurt. At this juncture, and after the church
had been in flames for a considerable time, the wind
blowing strong from the westward, a most powerful
engiii, belonging to the Board of Ordnance, arrived
from Leith, which being directed by Deacon T. Field,
slater, and assisted by other individuals, the fire was
not only confined to the steeple, but very soon got coin/
pletely under. We have no doubt that, but for this
powerful assistance, the whole of the church would
have fallen a prey to the flames.

ANOTHER CONFLAGRATION.
TUaSDAY NIGHT, PAST . TEN O'CLoOK.—Another
alarm has been made of fire having broke out in the iouth
range of buildings of the Parliament Close. This is
quite distinct from, and in no connection with, that of
this morning, being at a considerable distance from it
to windward. The flames have burst from two of the
windows at top of the east end, as if it were an explosion
of gunpowder, and which seemed to threaten with de-
struction all the surrounding property. The burning
has an appearance the most appalling, yet most magni-
ficent. Under these apartments the new Jury Court-
room is situated, and to the left of it, Mr. J. W.
Brougham's office, the extension of the Exchequer Cham-
bers, Sir William Forbes and. Co.'s Bank, and the.different
Courts;—they seem all- to be threatened with destruc-
tion. The engines which had got completely under the
fire of this morning, and which had, been removed, are
arriving, and the town is once morn summoned to be-
hold a further destruction of property ; for by the power
they can bring, they cannot arrest, for one instant, the
rapid progress of the all-devouring element.
WRUNIADAY MORNING, FOUR O'CLOCK.—The house
in the east range, adjoining the one on fire has caught,
and no effort can now stop its progress in that direction.
The buildings formerly noticed are in comparative
safety, the fire.engines having 'succeeded in stopping
the connexion there : but the extensive range on the
east side, occupied by Mr. Macfarlane, gunsmith, Mr.
Clark, Mr. Robertson, and Messrs. Bell and Bi adfute,
booksellers, the Water Company's apartments, and
numerous Lawyers' writing chambers, besides private
families, an extent of building altogether of nearly two
hundred feet of front, and towards the Cowgate the
height is unqtiestionably the greatest of any house in
Edinburgh, being eleven stories from the foundaiion,
are still in great danger.
Sasixt4 o'CLocK.—Since four o'clock the flames have
spread with frightful rapidity, and destroyed every part
of the east side of the square, and thus the five of this
morning has met with that of five months ago. There
is now a continued destruction of property, from the
Court-houses to the house below the Old Assembly
Close, which is situated fifty yards or more below the
Cross, with the single exception Of the house on the
upper side of the Old Fish-market Close, and which
has been repeatedly in great danger, as well as the
Police Office behind, And the Printing-offices of M.
Moir, Mr. Laurie, and Mr. Aitchison.
EIGHT o'CLocK, iloßNlzco.—The interior walls of
the south-east angle, formed by the two sides of the
square, have fallen upon the front walls, and precipi-
tated them into the square in front, and the dust arising
from this completely darkened the atmosphere. The
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ral killed and missing, for it Was in hoot
houses the engines were Worked. 'this had, hoiivrieri
*cboaked the fire in this part, and itt the others it.hgl rteil
liAbsted itself, having &stilled all within its its*
The sparks have ignited d wooden Witting between
Connit Close and the Covenant Close, and it is now id
full blay.e. Detachments of military ale parading
about ; and at this instant; half past eiilht, a strong body
of seamen and others, from Leith, with the Leith Ma.
giArates, have marched past, mail with hatchets, td
lend their a. trance.

The number of families who have been sufferers, can.
not be calculated at leis than three hundred. Four men,
two women, and two boys; were carried to the Infir+
mary in the course of yesterday:
A handbill has been posted by order of the Lord Prri-
vo,t and Magistrates, requesting the inhabitants, to have
the roofs of their houses examined, and to keep people
stationed upon thew, to prevmt danger from the sparks
which may have been lodged there.
RF-KINDLING OF THE FIRE IN FLRET-STREET.
Between seven and eight o'clock this morning, a fire
broke out in the lower part of the house of Richard
Carlile, the bookseller, at the corner of Bride's-passagt,
Fleet-street, adjoining the site of the late calamitous fire.
On the first alarm, the family were just up, and their
terror was sd great in consequence of the thick smoke
that issued up stairs. that they were fearful of venturing
down; and to escape the devouring element they got on
the roof of the house, but here their situation aiSpeared
more desperate, asthe house stood alone; the adjoining
house of Mr. Mattress, being burned, and no way
ap-
peared left to escape the devouring element. In a few
minutes several engines, which were all eady in the neigh-
bourhood in consequence of the hate fires, arrived,
and water being instantly procured, they commenced
playing, and in a few minutes the danget wss over, and
the inmates rescued from their perilous situation: some
e.caped by a ladder, at the second floor windows, and
the rest by venturing down stairs.; It appears that the
fire broke in from the ruins of Mr. Mattress's house, the
shell of which only remains, and communicating to the
back shop of Mr. Carlile, set the floor, counter, and
some books, pamphlets, &c. on fire. The back shop is
destroyed, with all the works of Paine, &c. The statue
which stood in the front shop is preserved, but much
injured. The furniture is greatly damaged by the de+
loge of water poured in by the engines. The damage
done from the fire is inconsiderable, but the water did a -
great deal. The engines, at l i o'clock this forenoon,
were playing on the ruins of the adjoining house, which
burned up afresh;
A SECOND FIRE.

This morning, at ten o'clock, a fire was discovered
breaking out in the upper part of a house, No. 3, King-
street, Drury-lase, chiefly occupied by labouring people,
who, as well as the inhabitants near it, were thrown into
the greatest consternation. By the speedy arrival of
an engine, and a good supply of water from a fire-plug
directly opposite, the flames were extinguished, bi the
roof was destroyed.

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