The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1772-1775, 1773-02-11

demand for the expectation of all forts Of l.
r;h proyiGons, particularly butter, tevcFai
thouland barrels Of which are now ihiPplng
for Holland and Hamburger.
Il is reported, that the court Of LIibdn
hath lately made Tome extraordinary concei'
fi,ns in favour OF the Bii,ilh commerce, the
particulars of which have not yet tTaniPired.
LONDON, Novsmbtr IS.
Extrat7 efa later from Glitter, N'vfm-
brio.
Con Thurday night laf, the 9Th Infant,
the inhabitants of this city were thrown into
The utmoft conformation by an instantaneous
lhock, (uppofed at fiji to have been occaiio-
ned by the violence of an earthquake, as the
houies in every quarter of the town were
hook to their foundations. Vait mItitudes
over. whelmed with furprife, Immediately
rnfhed into the ffreets and lanes, not know
ing where to Az for fafeiy, fearful OF cenie
quences which the imagination depicted as IS,
big with every danger and diitret. 1t was
not long, however, before the real caule was
Known; and fc:ue of fnch complicated
nliefy prefented n(clf that can hardly be ex
ccejed BY any infance recorded in hifory
The preceding day quantity Of gunPowdef'
upwards of eight hundred pounds weight,
rad been dspoiited in warehouie in Wa'ef-
gate areel, uader building, known BY the
name of Eaton's room, in which one Will
ans, the MATER OF puppet ihow, had tor
Come time pail exhibited his. performances
The company which thele idle amulemen'S
had drawn together on the fatal evening was
very great (may luch another evening never
be known any where land in the midtt OF their
meriment, The powder, by what accident IS
not known, took FIRE, and in moment mott
of the unhappy people were buried under a
prodigious heap of ruins fome were thrown
ip,o ne ghbouring courts, (corched and con-
tufcd, and few, but very few, had the
good fortune to clcape with no other hurt
that flight burn, or fmdll icratch. ne
numoers III I Aocked from all parts to view
me p ace, where deifruCtlon had 70 iuddeny
f.,,en upon the heads ofmany of their fellow
citizens. food amazed at the d,'p'sy OF 10
much horror bur the groans and thneks
u The yet alive mIierable f4ffereTs, loon a
waked their humanity. Every hand%then
.ent willing a1iaance vaft heaps # Hone
nd timber were Immediately removedI and
the bodies that had any remains OF iife-tn
hem, as faif as they were RATED from the
ruins, were either carefully conveyed to
their friends in the different parts of the city,
to thar noble, that truly oenefcent eta
oihment, the general nhtmary, where ths
OPTICIANS andiurgeons, unlnAuenced by any
other motive than The public good, have 10
argry contributed, by their knowledge and
alTiduity in their feveral departments, to pro-
mote the deGgn of 70 excellent charity,
Aood ready to afford every poiiblc relief TO
the mierabe object, that were Prelen'ed to
them. Il is impolibe 10 come at the know
edge Of the exact number of thofe who
(harej in this lEocking Calamity; the account
on which we can mott depend is, thar the
killed. and thole lince dead, amount TO az;
and .hole that were much burnt, had con-
tuiions, or broken limbs, to 80, mott of
which are likely to recover. Williams
him(eif, his Wife, and three or four of the
fame family, are of the number of the dead.
Several FRONTING youths are alike loft to
their parents and the community, but how
many heads OF families have fallen undiitIn.
guiihed we muit leave to the pryng eye, and
the relieving hand of charity to find oUr and
we doubt not but her benign Iraueuce once
exerted, will quickly penetrate the mott re-
tlred recelss OF the .wietched, and wipe away
the tears of the mourning widow, and the
vseDinp orphan."