The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-03 00:00:00

FIRE IN LONG ISLAND.

New York papers arrived this morning to the 25th
of August. The New York Gazette ..f the 22d of
that month, contains the following account of the fire,
which was stated yesterday to have taken place at
New York, but whi .11 now appears to have been iu
1l Long Island, and, though extensively destructive, not
of the magnitude reported:—Abort eight o'clock,
last evening, a fire broke nut at the treat depot of
naval stores, opposite the Coffee-house Slip, on Long
Island. In a few minutes, several stores erd sheds,
tilled with naval stores, &c. were in a vivid blaze.
hel' illumination was sublimely grand, and, on the
city side, attracted an asseniblaxe of thousands of
spectators, who filled our wharfs and stores on the
river side ; and hundreds were seen on the hills, in
:he rear of the flames. Ihe wind was very light,
from the S.S.W., and the flames received but little
aid, which was not derived from ihecombostibility
of several thousand barrels of naval stores, which,
like the lava of Mount Vesasius, spread a most bet--
resting sheet of tire over an extensive wharf to the
river, and presented a most splendid blase to the sur-
face of the paler. The storms were principally owned
by Mr. Henry IVarning. and were rented bt t_lerattlf
Waite and Merry, who bad in storage the property of
numerous individuate.

Since the above was in type, we learn the rre:rrty
destroyed includes 'Thomas Armstrong's porter home
ar.d the yard, M Vandever's porter-house, J. Tut-
tle's dweiling-house, and the stores of Warning. It
is supposed that the buildings contained aiiont 140!1
hales of cbtton, and 12,000 barrels of r•.atal stores.
The naval stores may be estimated at about thou.
sand dollars, and the cotton at about 56 thorsand dol-
lars; making a loss, incliding the buildings, of about
100,000 dollars. brick Store of Is.ssrs. Warn-
ing anal Illentbaly. Nil of cotton, it the only building
which was not laid in ashes. It is net known haw
the tire originated, but presumed to be the work of an
incendiary.

fly these papers we learn, that the fever still conti-
nued at New York, and one ease having sppeared ont
of the bounds of what is called the infected district,
had increased the alarm in the winds of tho inha-
bitants.

NORTII-WEST-DISCOVERY-EXPF,DITION. BY

LAM), UNDEIL LIEUT. FRAMMIN:

MONTREAL. Ac). U.—Through the politeness of
a gentleman, who has just arrived in this city fro,:.
a distant post in the North-west territory, we have
received intelligence that the expedition which was
fitted out by direction of the Adinir.tlty in the summer
of l Sl9, nyder the orders of Lieut. Franklin, was on
its return to Hudson's Bay. The expedition advanced
as near to the Copper Aline River in the following
year as the approaching winter would permit ; and in
the spring of the last year baring embarked in
canoes, which they bad carried over land with
them, they descended that river until it discharged,
itself into the Hyperborean or Frozen Ocean.—
The Expedition then proceeded in the execution
of its ulterior object; namely to explore the coast
of the Pular Sea from the mouth of the Copper Mire
River, round to Hudson's Bay. This, however, it
would appear from the information we have been able
to collect, it could no further effect than by surveying
a few huodred wiles of the coast, to the northward and
eastward ; the winter having set in towards the en! of
August, with such severity that it obliged the party to
retool n.

Several deaths had occurred, among whom Mr.
Wood, nine Canadians, and one of the Csquitrous.
is stated that hum the o6ervations made in the ex•
peditiun, the mouth of the Copper Mine River differs
Icy several degrees of latitude (row that laid dcm n by
!kerne.

We have this morning received Paris papers to the
Ist instant. They hare brought intelligence from
Madrid of as late a date as the ;9th ult. All was
tranquil in that capital, where the proclamation lately
issued by the King, and the exertions of the Ministers
io place the army on an effective footio;, and to sob-
due the insurrection, had created much satisfaction
Notwithstanding the contradictory statements which
have appeared is papers under Ultra influence, It war
still confidently asserted at Madrid, ,not only that as-