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London, England, 1818-10-03 00:00:00

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FURTIIER PARTICULARS RECEIVED THIS MOANiletia I
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Monday last, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the toeni ol 1
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Nottingham was thrown into the greatest degree of consternat ( ' e I
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tion and alarm, by one of the most tremendous shocks that rat
ever felt in an inland town, except what may have been felt by .
the blowing up of a powder magazine, or powder millet -About ! it, ~ ,
three o'clock in the afternoon, this dreadful explosion cauied, in •
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the South and West parts of the town, the whole of the &Ms 1
bitants to leave their houses in' the greatest consternation, ad I
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,:very one feared the evil was in his own house, or his neigh- .
bour's ; but in a fete minutes the place of destruction was ma, l.
nifened by an itntnense vceurre of smoke coming up Grey-friar's- • .
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gate and across Nielsolas' Chticch-yard, preceded by an almost
1 stifFor,t Mg sutpliure-ous anal. It was by many conjectured, that '
the military magazine •Ited exploded, but the real place 01, the '
mischief seas 60011 discovered. As people bream to move from
the middle of the town, t'se most anzioes beaks and distressing
appearances were ev..ry where n.anifest,as windows wefe braken
even in the 31ariet-place, sheer I.lr. Parker, teilor, bad oscura,
anent blown out. The reef; of the houses in the immediate - •
neighboulhood were Much injured, and the winerows arenihnest I
totally destroys ..1. All the evindegrs and roofs of Mr. Thomas lir
Atherstone's vet-nisei and dye-houses, are much iniesols The t i
Cotton Mill, in Broad Marsh, has its windows Much broken; t 1• ; 3t
and whole rows of hones in Canal are -street, without a single i
pane 6f glass. Ti,e windows of the Castle were Mlle; injured ;
also those of Daniel ar.d Samuel Freeth, Esqrs. on Standand-
hill. At the Infirreary, many windows and the bider of tl e
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~ 1.. -.•,) , \ steam-engine were broker. The windows of John :aliott,Ee 4
next his garden, arc also much broken; as Well u numerous in- • 0
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.. / , • stances in every direction, in the streets leading therefrom. On ,•
Drury-hill, the i Met wat• so violent, that a razor and a thread . •
paper were.bluwn into the window of an upper room, occueitd ktii . ..
by a widow woman, whilst another of her windows was blown , 1
out of the robin. Near that place, the shop of Mr, Ilutlin, sae-
goon, sustained inch a shock as to throw down and break nes .7
of his bottles.
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" But the most to be deplored, is the destruction on the scot, ' i
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—mangled bodies, destroyed buildings, and dispersed proper,/
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wheFT! the Canal Company'a Warehouses stood, which were cepa Jf
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ble of containinimany thousand quarters of corn, several hue-
dr. ds of which had been received that days A principal corn-
nicrchaut, had brat till one o'cloch,'seperintesiding the delivery •
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of a large qt. intity, and was returning again to hi. business, be:
wa, accident illy Met in the street by a Gentleman, who detained
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him, by which foitunate circumstance s
ance his life was caved,
n Mr. l'eubert, h booleke•epe r, was jun sent on e.a errand in f ..
time to escape the death that must have befelletf,hirri ; Mr. Pin: t 1
was on the wharf only about SO yards front the building when ' ,i °
it blew up, and had at that moment dispateleed two of his mew
to another part of th'e Wharf to remove a earl, which was. de'
. strayed, and both.rnen Were kilg.el; one of Mr. Ifooton's wag-' • . .
Bons was loadieg, when part of the building was thrown on'it,.
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aed crushed it to ',let-es, killing the waggoner, and the slelt.
horse. A young boy, son of Mr. Howells, who vas fishire in'
the canal, was killed by it, breaking several of his limbs; a nems; . .
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(Wm. Fttrker,)'was hauling a boat on the opposite side of :he I
canal, was blown into the nu adows; three men that were in i
the boat under the warchoese, were killed, and Mr. Hall, atone- • I i.
, mason, was blown into one of them, where be was nearly kill. 1, I 4
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but was extricated by Mr. Pyatt just in time to save hi. life b,.
fore the boat filled; he it so much hurt, that his life •b des 1 - 11,
spired Of.
The groundionr of the Warehouse was of stone, and such 'e. .
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Iv was the power of the •explosion, that a tarn portion Of the - 1
pavement was driven sit or seven feet into the std id earth. •
I This melancholy affair hnppenci by a mac natetil Ausyco. ..
who was employed in or tf. he boats ; observing a portion lef, ,
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gunpowder to %are leaked il-ont a cask, 21 of viSich wet* NA; 1
delivering, he said he would have a flash end event to eefe iteg
cinder from a boat which lay neat, whialt, as soon as. It we s . .
. placed npon the train, causedtbe wtcie to explode, mad by wlftch
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h thrown the distauce of 126 yards &cuts
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cundition, and by which the-building:, end se'reral vessels hays . .
. been destroyed, and have become one beep of ruins. M. Bowel'sl . r
house, on the Wharf, was mutt &Luttrell, and every pare a
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abet broken. In Mr. Wilkesea bovse every pane of elan wag
broken, and the roof much injured; the carpets, certairn, and
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all the drapery, were torn to ribbons, and thr-fureJtere broken. -
Mr. Pyatt's house, in Canalestreet, is much damaged ; ar.d the
mob of nearly all the Warehouses on she Canal are dreadfully . .
shattered. Miss Barnad.all's house fa much injured ; the deer* ' I
torn eff, and every pane of glass broken. There are numberlers ' instances in the etrffil of furniture, and goods of great weight, / ;
having been thrown down with ever/ appearance of an earth.
quake 1 the shock was so tremendous as to be beard many rode.
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distance from Nottingham.
I ' The loss must be very need and sets present calculation at I,
defiance, as a great quantity of goods a every description, whieb i
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were in course of delivery, enniprisdng paper, whalebone, oil, oil
of vitriol, wool, cheese, and many thousand.
quarters of corn. ; ..
with a great quantity of almost every descripeon of property, i 4 ; • )
are thereby destroyed. •
poly ten of the victims of this catastrophe have yet been
found. Several are misting; ar d this day (Thursda; ) they ire
letting off the water, to discover any bodies that may he in the '
' canal, and also in hopes of finding sonic of the valuablereerehan. 1 I .. • ,
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dizo, ivhich it is thought may- have been thrown iato it Ly this.
. • • concussion.
The Coronet's Jury are now sitting over eight bodies at Cm
Navigation Inn: William Stevenson is dead at the Infirmary, e, 1
. , .. . and with Mr. Dowel's Son, make a total of the lows of ten lives .
by this melancholy cAtartrtyile. Thomas Baker (who has left . r
a wife and five children), John Scale, Joseph Musson (the un- . .
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fortunate author of the whole), J•ibli Sheppard, William Parker,
William Norman, ilenjaniin Nlheatley, and anothrr. •
it I. Thursday, Ur. Ws tOtiT, Coroner for the County
of Nottingham, held an Inquest on the body of ---.
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Timms, who. was. fOund (lit Monday in the Trent, and t
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is supposed to have been murdered and thrown over I.
the Treat Bridge. Two men are in custody on Fos. ' • I
pinion of having cornmittc-cl the murder, one of C.e ; t : i
men having attempted to pledge Timms'..i watch has
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led'to his apprehension. . it
Thursday morning, Thomas Cockburn,. who, is r
August last, was found guilty of stealing a writing..
desk and 1:15, from the window of a gentleman at
Walworth, and was sentenced to transportation for.
life, effected his escape from the arsenal at Woolwich.
Last night twenty .five male convicts, nineteen of ?)
whom were convicted last Sessions of having forged •
notes in their possession, were removed from New.
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gate to the Retribution hulk at Sheerness, prepares-•
tory to being transperted to New South Wales.— 1•1
Thomas Boot, sentenced to .seven years' trartsporta- .
tion, has, we understand, been tried above 20 times . i '.)l •
both in town and country. •
I t. The celebrated Abiltham Thornton has arrived in 1
' i‘ ! Liverpool, for the purpose of emigrating to the A
United States.
Thursday se'nnight, an aged pauper, cf the named
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Benjamin Royds, of Beeston, who eked out his patith
pittance by begging, was found in the road between t i • .
Armley and Bromley, in the neighbourhood of Leeds,
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in the agonies of death, and before he could be re. ..--
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inored f. 7 br...ithed hit last. ' -
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