Star.
London, England, 1825-11-09 00:00:00

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near, the smoke having been so great all day that Mx*
.could see where the flays were until they came down
upon them. Many people have lost their lives ; whole
families have been burnt to ashes round their dwellings.
The Chatham side of the river has escaped the destruc-
tion; but the Newcastle side is entirely destroyed, with
the exception of a house here and there in low situations,
so that the fire passed over t'em.
Mr. and Mrs. Rob,on have taken passage in the
same ship they came out in (which happens to be the
ship I.une, for Liverpool), to lay a statement of our losses
and misery before our agents. The Governments of
these two provinces will surely take into consideration
our deplorable condition. Last night I bad to take try
thin tomratch a store with provisions which had been
threatened by t'le hungry poor to ise broken open. The
Magistrates and others are doing the best they can to
feed them for the present; but they are so many that it
cannot last long wittiout something else being done:
numbers have expired with cold and hungers and many
poor sick people, In%erescued from the fever, have
perished from the effects of fatigue, ter having escaped
use fire.
" Goo only knows what is to loco*, of this place,
for the only article of export we have tir depend upon
is, I fear, completely destroyed—for it stems even now
as though the whole country is in flames. The smoke
is so great that, in truth, the place seems buried in ruins
and suffocation ; it has, indeed, a most awful appearance.
II You may publish the particulars of the above, if
you think proper, so that the distres,es of the poor and
miserable may be taken into consideration. GOD bless
you all, and preserve you from the like calamity."
FROM ?Hi HALISAI JOURNAL, OCT. 17.
Amidst the confusion and distress, the inevitable con-
sequences of the dreadful dispensation of Paevruznca
which has just befallen our devoted Colony, it is altoge-
ther impossible to calculate or describe its destructive ef-
fects; but to awaken the sympathy of those who,under the
protection of ALMIGHTY GOD, have escaped the awful
calamity, it will be sufficient thus briefly to state, that
mote than one hundred miles of the shores of Miramichi
are laid waste, independent of the north-west branch,
the Battibog and the Nappan settlements. From one
to two blushed people have perished within immediate
observation, and thrice that number are miserably burnt
or other% ise wounded ; and at least two thousand of
our tellow-creatures are left destitute of subsistence, and
thrown at present on the humanity of the province of
New Brunswick.

The number of lives that have been lost in the woods,
among the lumbering parties, cannot be ascertained for
some time to come, for it is feared that few are left to
tell the tale.

It is not in the power of language to describe the un-
paralleled scene of devastation which the parish of New-
castle at this moment presents ; out of upwards of 250
houses and stores, 14 of the least considerable only re-
main. The court-house, gaol, church, and barracks;
Messrs. Gilmore, Rankin, and Co.'s; and Messrs. Wm.
Abrams and Co.'s establishments are reduced to ashes.

The loss of property is incalculable, for the fire,
borne on the wings of a hurricane, rushed upon the in-
habitants with such inconceivable rapidity, that the pre-
aervation of their lives could be their only care.

The ships Concord and Canada, and brig Jane, were
burnt to the water's edge, and many others took fire,
but by great exertions were saved. Two vessels on the
stocks belonging to Wm. Abrams and Co. were en-
tirely consumed.
About 800 of the sufferers are already in Chatham,
and numbers of men, women, and children, are hourly
pouring in, and throwing themselves upon the bounty
of its inhabitants. _

A Gentleman arrived in town yesterday from Ilifiramichi, which
place he left on Thursday: he states generally that the fire con-
tinued to rage near the scene of the recent conflagration, and that
from the lumbermen who had come in, accounts had been received
of the loss of several lives. One instance he mentions where, of a
party of sixteen persons, but three of them had escaped.