Star.
London, England, 1825-11-07 00:00:00

DREADFUL FIRE IN CANADA.

MONTREAL, sIiPTEMBER to.
()le of the most extensive and destructiie fires with
which this City was ever afflicted, broke out about one
o'clock on Wednesday morning, in the Quebec Suhurb.
It commenced in a stable belonging to a man named
Dumains, a cooper. residing in Campeau-street. As
woo as the fire became visible, the bells from the dif-
ferevit Churches sounded the alarm, and the citizens
toured in crowds to the spot, but in consevence of the
wet of water, and a shameful degree of inactivity on
part of the spectators, the flames spread with in.
cm's: kJ prober to the surrounding buildings, which
being principally composed of wood, and the weather
di, were speedily enveloped in one burning mass
C loiel M.Grigor, a number of Officers, non commis-
n d Officers, and all the effective nien of the 70th
Resin ent off duty, arrived. and no words can do jos-
tice to the alacrity w,th which every man if this tine
corer c.'mmenced. and per-evered to the end, in Ten-
rleong what service they were capable of. Every one,
horn the it veteran Commander to the youthful drum-
-11:ea, o as ardently employed in arresting the progress cf
The flames, and saving what property could be hastily
matched from the &miring element, which raged
with dreadful fury,shedding for miles rrund a brilliant
liglit,roducing a spectacle awfully grand, and im-
parting to the minds of distant observers feelings at
once of a synapathetic and dreadful character.
N.ithing could exceed the distress which appeared in
every daection during the time the fire was at its
height; fathers in a stave of anxiety bordering on
llem, see king fot their infant children, and handing
them to their distracted mothers, who sought with "their
helpless offspring an hospi able as, lum, far from the
scene where their effects were buried beneath the fallen
Toots ot their former dwellings,but compat atively happy
in saving what was more infinitely dear to them.
The subjoined list gives the names of all those whom
we could ascertain whose premises were destroyed by
the fire, hut the destruction of furniture and other pro-
perty, independent of the buildings, is immense, as in
removing articles from the houses, too hole care was
observed in keeping them u hole, this is frequently the
Ca eon such occasions; we once in this ci,y,saw a large
pr looking glass thrown eut of a two story window to
rave it from the Limes, and broke in the fall int* a
hundred pie es I—The exact number of houses Itch-ilea
weary unable to find our, as the space on which they
stood is one vast misshapen chasm, where no line can
be traced to pi tint out the ground formerly occepiei by
aboil.ling, w ith the exception of some solitary stone
(Litanies which are at intervals seen pointirig their
blackened and scorched tops above the ruins of which
they once formed an useful appendage.

IN CA lIrtAU STRZET.

The wooden house,' of A. Domains, M. I.3foree, J. Daly, Pierre
1, Mr. Brown, J. M. Perrault, J. Buclunnan, and a tarp new
two storks high.

IN ST. NICHOLAS TOLENTIN STS PIT.

The wooden houses of Joseph Hay, James Spence (2), James
Grouis (2), Moses Hart, Fran. Desnutel, Nicholas Letivre St.
Amour, Joseph Latriutouille (2), J. Viger, Esq. A CuviUler, kg.
' Dr. Andrews, W. Peddle, Esq. (2).
IN AMHERST STILIZT.
In Nnro, a Snuff Nlanufactory with its contents, and one house
. two stories burnt ; Edward Pendergast,two wooden houses; Mrs.
Mclamhy, one; Joseph Parent, three wooden houses with his
Cooperage, burnt ; Francis Marteel, one.

IN SAINT MAI

d. X. Gravel, the fences and out-houses of one lot burnt ; L.
Martel, do. do. of two lots burnt, with one uncovered house and all
outbuildings and fences burnt ; Mrs. Noro, one stone dwelling-
house of two stories, greatly damaged, and all the out-hoses burnt ;
Cootie Skakcl. and Francois Cocbu, each one wooden house burnt ;
Jough Ray, three wooden houses burnt; William Peddle, Esq.
wooden house burnt ; B. Clam, an unfinished stone house,
considerably injured; A. Dumain, three wooden houses burnt.

Tie houses of Francis Chamberlain, D. Amiot, Mrs. Leclair,
1141, Gigot', and P. Tremule, burnt.
humming up tke abot e. we land the following abstract :
Houses Demolished . . . 4
. !louses Burnt . . . 42
• 'louses Injured . 3
Barns Burnt . • 2

Total —52
Eacliaise of out•bouses and fences. The number of persons burnt
amount to 369, an the ground which the flames ravaged ex-
tends to three acres in length by two in breadth.

An accident occurred in Portsmouth Harbour,

iursd4y, which had neatly deprived the naval service
one of its best and most esteemed Officers. The
lon. Admiral S r CHARLES PAGIT was on board his
,acht, the Emerald, proceeding out of the harbour, in-
'ding to go down to Cowes, when it was blowing
Plead, a gale. The yacht had slipped her moorings,
Ail was in the act of wearing, for which purpose the
peak hdlyards were let go; at this moment a coiled up
nye caused Sir CHARLES to slip, when the peak down-
haul caught him round the middle, and, before he could
:len it, the other part of the downhaul c sught the
masthead of -a fishing smack, which tightened the
fight round Sir CHAnlss, who was caught by it, carried
ter the bulwark of the yacht, and thrown into the
/atm As the vessel was forced along, he was severely
ruck in his chest, and the rope working downward, he
tell head foremost. The man at the helm let go the
Puller, to save him, by which the Emerald ran over the
igate•rigged boat the Victorine (belonging to Captain
NIMES IWOLIS, of the VICTORY). A skiff instantly
it off from the Victorine, and the man succeeded
. catching hold of Sir CifaaLss just as he had lost
sensation ; but the skiff was so small, the man could not
Ike him in ; he therefore held Sir CHARLES'S head out
ihe water till further assistance came from the Vic-
Jay, and some fishermen, who were near the spot,
'hen he was taken on board the VICTORY' and shortly
Iter brought on shot. to the house of Admiral $ r
'FORGE MARTIN, where every attention was shewn
:A! Sir CHARLES spit blood, in the course of the
reining ;111-1 ounces bf blood-were:taken from him,
sante whichlie hat been much better: • His knee-pan.is
Olt, which will probably cause his confinement for
some time.

NEW STREET FROM LINCOLN'S INN TO THE

STRAND.
Saturday, in pnrsuanceof public advertisement, a nu-
merosa and• respectable Meeting was holden at the
Crown and Anchor tavern, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the best mans by which an opening
might be obtained froinCarey-street in a line with Se, le-
.treet, Lincoln's-inn, to Pickett-place, in the Strand. The
Committee appointed at a former meeting hod met at 11
o'clock, in order to the arrangement of s •me prelimi-
nary matters, and at twelve the Meeting became pub-
lic. Specifications and ground plans, drawn by Mr.
Burton, were exhibited in the room, illustrative of
the proposed New-street, which is already baptised
4' Linculn's-inn place."—Sir JOHN PAUL, Bart. was
called to the Chair.

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the
Meeting, regretted that sem: more competent person
bad nit been chosen for the office; howearr, he should
feel himself deficient in regard to a taste for public im-
provement, if he did n't cheerfully render all the assist-
.

ance in his power to the accomplishment of an object,
which comprises utility and ornament to that part of
the Metropolis. That such a thing had been long
waived, was, he believed, a fact that would be disputed

by none; it would be the means of affording an easy
access from the great thoroughfare of Holborn to the
Strand, which at present was a matter of great diffi-
culty. Within his own memory he remembered when
Alderman Pickett suggested the propriety of making
an avenue here, that the City of London, wi;h great
liberality, gave up the ground on which two houses
might have been very advantageously erected, and
which was worth at least 2,000/. yet still it e way was
so intricate, that, at noon day, it puzzled even the best
geographers to trace their path through the mazy track,
and he would venture to say, that if a foreigner were to
inquire the way from Lincoln's-inn-fiel.!: to the
Crown a-d Anchor, it would be a hard mart, rto give
him anything like a plain direr ; indeed, what
Sterne had said of the town of Abingdon, might be
very al tly applied to this place—" it was bad by
day, and worse at night." But it was not merely
the obtaining of a great public convenience, or the
additional elegance that it would produce, that was
to be taken into account. This neighbourhood
had long been an absolute nuisance; those dilapidated
abodes of profligacy and human misery would
give place to an elegant range of buildings, and a
communication would thus be thrown open to Oxfoi B-
road, and the northern side of the City. The next point
to be considered was the means whereby this could be
best can it d into effect. In the interval that had elapsed
since the meeting at Green's Coffee-house. the Committee
then appointed had endeavoured to cbtain the most cot.
sect information as to the probable exeenses. Mr. Burton
who, as an architect, stood deservedly high in his pro-
fession, bad submitted plans which were very generally
approved of by those who had taken the trouble to es.
amine them. A sugrstien had been made by a Gentl♦
man living in the neighbourhood, that a row of houses
and shops would, in all likelihood, be a most productive
spr culation ; but on due consideration it seemed pro-
bable, from its contiguity to the Inns of Court, that a
range c f buildings for chambers would produce a better
rental, and be still more desirable. Independent of the in-
creasing demands by professional men, many other Gen.
'semen preferred chambers as a residence; he knew of one
house, formerly occupied by Mr. Serjeant Best, which
being let out as chambers, pi-educed 10501. per annum.
Another circumstance with respect to chambers was
worthy of consideration. It was well known that pro-
fessional men had often most valuable papers in their
custody, title deeds, &c. and in otdin..ry buildings they
were exeosed to im rs firm risk from the C.lsuAies of fire;
in the proposed Nadine, this inconvenience would be
rrovidd for, as it was intended to make the bowels
file-proof, or, at all events to have a strong room on
each flier, with stone staircase. There never, perhaps,
was any public improvement more callei for, and cer-
tainly none which mix ht be effected with so little da-
mage to individual inrere t. There was at present no
carriage-way to any one of the elevated edifice:—nn
great kcal advantage in the way of establishment, and,
it would be admitted, nothing uncommonly advan-
tageous in the situation. The space that would be
required was also very small, only 133 yards; and when
the extent of ground allotted to other public thorough.
fares, Regent-street for instance, was considered, this
could not be deemed an unnecessary waste.—The Chair-
man, in conclusion, observed, that as all projectors of
public schemes were liable to a certain share of obloquy,
he should have been sorry to take an active part
in this business, if he had not a fixed conviction
that it would be a s tfe and steady spetulation.—
Tiere was no stupendous work to be accomplished;
it was not proposed to cut a Canal from the Red
Sea to the Mediterranean, nor were they about to
build a bridge over the Ganges, but they were merely
endeavouring to remove a nest of despicable hovels,
which were a disgrace to the City, and to substitute in
their place a range of beautiful buildings, that would
become at once a benefit and aft ornament to the me-
tropolis. Specifications and ground plans had been
presented by Mr. Burton, whose skill, as an architect,
could not be questioned, and from that Gentleman's
calculations the probable expense was estimated at
210,0001. which would be divided into subscriptions of
1001. each. (The Chairman then begged leave to read the
minutes of the former meetings, held at Green's Hotel,
and the Resolutions which had been drawn up by the
Committee appointed at that time).
Mr. DAVID POLLOCK moved the first Resolution—
" That the most eligible mode of effecting the projected
opening, with reasonable advantage to the subscribers,
will be by the erection of chambers on each side of it."
The extreme difficulty of procuring accommodation in
a central situation, had the effect of excluding several
Gentlemen from the pale of the profession ; by the pro-
posed buildings, if converted into chambers, this incon-
venience would be conquered; the members of the bar
would then be congregated together, and it would
create in effect a fifth Inn of Court. The public would
be no less accommodated in the facility it would afford
of communication with Holborn and the northern parts
of the metropolis, hitherto almost wholly shut out from
the Strand. He trusted that the Gentlemen who nad
undertaken the business would not abandon it until it
was carried into complete effect.
Mr. Dam's seconded the minion, making a few remarks on
its general utility.
Mr. Jeanie moved the second Resolution," That the amount of
the preliminary expenses, with the sums required for making pur-
chases, and erecting the proposed buildings, had been estimated at
4110,000, and that the Chambers, when let, would, at a reasonable
computation; produce a net rental of X 14,000 per animist." With
the prospect of an income so well secured, and the great advantage
the Public would derive from the facility of intercourse it would
aCurd between the two leading throughfares -- Holborn and
the Strand—be (Mr. Jeremy) could not anticipate anything like a
, valid or reasonable objection to the proposal.

• •
' Mr. MINIM seconded the motion ; which passed unanimaslf.
The third Resolution was moved by Sir FRANCIS OAISIANRY, and
seconded hy,Mr. Mazareace, it related to an application to Parlia-
ment for power to raise the sum required, tohe 'rated. in rhe hands or
Trustees, as a Fund, to be called, " The Commissioners iiind t r
effecting a reitilated communication between Pickett-place, Strand;
and Carey.street; opposite Serle-street, Lincoln's Inn-fleids."
The Nauman on putting this Resolinien to the vote, observed,
that the word " Commilsioners" had been used preference to
any other term, because 'they were aniioui to do away the idea of
a Joint Stock Company altogether. • It was not to be supposed
that subscriptions were solicited this day for the purpose of taking
the concern into the market to-morrow. He bad before him an
.Act of Parliament for a
.similai piarpoie in the City of Glasgow,
and the Term " Commissioners" was employed there in precisely
the same way.
On the fourth Resolution being put, requiting " That three-
fourths of the capital should be paid up by Lady-day next, in coM-
plisse, with the Standing Orders of the House of Lords and that
the remaining Zgs on each individual share should not b:demandL
able until the Bill had gone through the House
Mr. Isaacson observed, that considerable difficulty might arise
here, if the Committee were to be tied up by this Resolution, as
the Attorney-General, with two other lawyers, had given as their
opinion that equity would restrain the trustees front proceeding
until ail the shares were paid up. The Resolution was then
amended, on the Learned Gentleman's suggestion, and passed. A de-
sultory discussion then took place relative to the propriety of placing
a barrier at the two extremes, similar to Southampton-street, so
as to prevent carts and Waggons from going through. Mr. Twining,
Mr. Mekepeace, Air. D. Pollock, and some other Gentlemen, spoke
generally to the right of way as public property, and it was argued
that no parity existed between this street or passage and South
ampton-street, which was the private property of the Duke of
Bedfotd. The Chairman said, that certain restrictions were pro-
posed, bid there was no doubt. when the 11111 came before 11".
liament, the public right would be protected. The live following
Gentlemen were then appointed provisional trustees, viz.—Sir J.
Paul, Bart. Sir F. Ommaney, Mr. Jeremy, Mr. Twining, and Mr.
Delmar, limited only to receive subscriptions, hut without power
to act.

Mr. Tvrnama seconded the Resolution for a vote of thmnits to
the Chairman ; the Chairman returned thusly', and the Alerting
dissolved.

SHIPWRECK OF THE OGLE CASTLE.

Tile Ogle Cas:le was a large Ks.t India free trader,
and it seems had been met in the Channtl, but refused
the offer of pilots to bring her safe into the River. The
following further poticulars are extracted from a
private letter, written by an eyewitness, on board a
Jamaica ship at the time :
"I was roused from my bed, at half-past six, to behold
a large and beautiful ship (supposed to he the Ogle
Castle. East India free trader), which had at that
moment, in endeavouring to retch the Downs from the
westward, struck on the Goodwin Sands, about the
western extremity. The vessel had no sooner ex-
perienced the shock, than her sails flapped loosely in
every direction, and in .a few minutes she inclined
forward, or, as the sailors call it, "on her beam ends."
Her head at this time faced the coast, her stern was
opposed to a tremendous surge, and to the violent gale.
la this situation, inclining forward, she continued lot
a period of twelve minutes, when, by the force of. the
waves and wind, her position was altered,. and her left
broadside became opposed to the westerly gale, while
her head faced towards the north, In this position she
lay for soipe time, without experiencing any consider.
able change; but at the termination of about twenty
Minutes from the period cf grounding, her forepat t
having previously lowered or sunk into the stand, she
inclined so much on her right side as to bring the masts
within ten or twelve feet of the water. In this situation
she continued for five or six minute s, when her masts
having come in contact with the waves, were all broken.
The hulk, disencumbered from the masts, again changed
position, and, as the head gradually turned to wind-
ward, the vessel righte.l. She struck at half-past six
in the morning, and before half-past seven she-was a
perfect wreck. I cannot accura•ely describe the scene
which took place on board, having been t4istairt about
three miles ; but I could perceive, with the assistance
of a good glass, that no sooner was the tnisfo- tune per.
ceived by the crew and passengers, than the ntm••st
consternation and confusion prevailed on deck. Per sons
were seen running in every direction. Some took to the
cross trees, whets to the rigging, while the bowsprit
and poop were crowded. The cross trees, rigging, and
bowsprit we►e soon deserted, and the poop s• emed tl.e
principal asylum, where they all flocked aer.und the
stump of the mizen-mast, to which some, I presume,
were lashed. One man clung to the broken extremity
of the mast, where he remained for more than an hour.
While in this perilous situation, from which Plum-
DINCE alone could save them, a boat hovered round in
all directions, evidently with a yew of all ►rding assist
ante; but, alas! she was unable to approach neate,
than one hundred yards. A second boat made her ;ap-
pearance, and in vain attempted to approach. Two
others made desperate efforts, and one, more deter-
mined than the rest, hovered to windward,-passing and
repassing within eighty or one hundred yards; but,
notwithstanding the determination which the brave cies.
evinced, they were unable to afford the necessary As-
sistance, so great was the surge, and violent the gale.
Several bolts carne up now, but to no purro.e ;
they were unable to approach on any. side. About
seven o'clock several tremendous waves washed over
her deck, and the crowd on her poop was considerably
diminished ; many, no doubt, having been washed of.
The boatmen continued their prai•eworthy exertions
with unremitting dexterity and courage until half-past
eleven oklock, when the severity of the gale obliged
them to forsake the pursuit, and make for the shore.
"A scene of a more lamentable nature than the fore-
going has rarely been witnessed. The unfortunate
sufferers, whose feelings may be more easily imagined
than described, must have had some hopes of safety for
period of nearly five hours ; for, having been sur-'
rounded during that time by boats of superior quality,
manned by persons of great courage and profound ex-
perience, a release from their perilous situation might
reasonably have been expected; but how great must
have been the disappointment, how awful the reflec-
tion, when, at the termination of that per i..d, the sur-
rounding elements, the violence of the gale, the dismal
nature of the surge and tremendous billows, caused the
sudden departure of the boats, and with them every
ray of hope? Good Gon ! how dismal the thought!
they were either doomed quietly to sink into a watery
grave, or to struggle against furious waves, until ex-
hausted nature, no longer able to exi-t or support itself
against the destructive element, gave way to its rage.
DEAL, NOVIIMIIII 6.
Same letters brought by the Ogle Castle, from Bombay, have
been picked up outside the Goodwin, by the Has cutter, of Dover.
It has been blowing strong from W.S. W. with thick weather until
noon; since which it has moderated.
MAIIGATI4 Nov. 6.—Ten bales of cotton, four boxes of nw silk,
two cases of bees' wax, a hogshead of Madeira wine, also part of s
box marked " Cuddy Stores, Ogle Castle, 6," have been picked
up, and landed hey. •

The greater part of Prince ESTER/I/Veil moveables
bate arrived in Paris: the baggage follows.

EWMARKET, iioGati I:

During yesterday those . obleinen and gentlemen who bad
unavoidably detaits,d, 104 their depiritircs, . His Price ilark2
• Pradon and Lord .Fitzrog left for F:tiston. Utak VIP.
✓ulant for his in ilemfyitishire Lord.l)untilth (or Met id:
dingnit‘'s scat ; his Uric, the Mike Portland fore Wclliec L Mr:
Payne for Stevens'ii Hine, liondoireit ; and manf other Ooss:
ilemen for Leicestershire, &c.. - . . .
.
His Royal Highness* l)ute of .Sussex pawed through istewit
market last night. in his road -AO Mr. Cokes seat, at likilitham,
There was a rand shooting party ie;tvrilay„ on that pail_ of rho
I)uke of Rutland's domain called the Janis, csinsisting of his Royal
Highness the Duke of 11.4 k, Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Gra.
barn, Lord Chatham; lion. Mr. Pierrefatiti Hon. Jr. Irby',
COlttel Upton; Mr. Greville,

THE COMET STEAM BOAT.
trims( Tltlt eciseow couarita. troirausea S.
Everything was in a state of preparation to r.i.e this unfortunzte
vessel, and the weather being mild and favourable, it Fmis troafi;
dently anticipated that she would have been got up yesterday. As
they were proceeding, however, to carry the necessary opetations.
into effect, about eleven o'clock, forettoon,,beigg then ebb tide, one
sit* the chains slipped so much, that the work was unavoidably
pended, and could not be resumed till the nest ebb tide, last night
about eleven o'clock, when it is eipected the Comet will be got up.
N. more bodies have been found at the date of our lateit account",
nor has any particulars of interest, regaiding any of the unfortunate
sufferers, transpired since Thursday.
AYE, Noiansta S. •
The Skerif-Substitute here was engaged yesterday in examinirs
the crew and passengers on board the Ayr, lb relatioi to the fatal
accident which occurred to the Comet.

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