The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-01-01
.UNPRECEDENTED FIRE.

which tley made their descent.
GJPRECEDENTED FIRE.
Estrdet Of q letter from the Editor ofthe
Nezpburyfort Herald. TO the Editors Of
the Boston Palladium, dated Hamilton,
". Il. Dee. %, 1913.
Z" have just returned from Portsmouth
which Exhibits a melancholy scene from the
ravages Of drea dful fire last night, which
dehes all adequate description.-I have
time, while the stage stops, 10 say, that "a
bout two hundred and fifty buildings. some
compute II at three hundred, were burnt.--
i swept off every building in Buck street &
Daniel street, as far as Water street; Court
street, SIS far as Brick Market ore third of
Broad street. as far as Mark Blunt's the
stores on the Pier, Langdon's wharf. ].
Sheafe's AND r. Shapleigh's wharves, Dris-
Goes wharf NORTH side of Pitts street,
Atkinson street as far as Gsdde's Inn,
Washington street, from Stephen Virgins
store to the widow Chase's all Ark lane
Shefe. street both sides; all Penhailow street
west side of Rosemary lane, &c. Those
particulars are indefinite, but will give
some idea Of the extent Of this great calami-
ty."
ksSrrcsE oJ7rterscr from Mr.. Charles Pierce,
to the Editor Gfthe Centinei. dated Ports-
mouth. Dec. %. 5 II. M.
" Language Wouid fail to describe the me-
lanchoy scene before me. This. devoted
town is again in rufus But am so fatieued
Know pot how to attempt any description
The last great fire was but miniature TO
the present. AT half past 7, last evening,
some iiicendiary set fire to a barn, belonging
to the estate of the late Col Moses Wood
ward, and the wind being fresh at S. w the
flames spread with unexampled rapidty,
and swept all before them, burning every
house, store, and other buildings on both
sides or Buck street, to the end of the Pier !;
all on the South side Of Daniel street, from
Ark lane to the end of I.angdon's wharf -
also:aFiOost every building on the North side
OF Pit st. quite TO the waters edge; all the
buildings and stores on Langdun's " hart =
IN the fier ; on Jacob Shcafe's wharf on
Reuben Shapleisht and Driscoe's wharyes;;
and on Long wharf.
Many houses in Court street, viz. DAME,
Webster. Esq's. joshua Haven s occupied by
his brother Thomas !; very large BRICK
house and store jus. bolt BY Messrs. S. &
w Hale and Thomas Sbeaffe. Occupied by
Miss Elizabeth Hale, Heyton r. freeman,
ard John o.. NJ. Remick also the largt.
Fl her House, occupied by DIR. ]. Dwight
widow ADAMS house Geo Wentworth's
house and store the Union Bank large
house belonging TO the estate Of the,late John
.Gcenleaf.
large house in Broad stree, belonging
to the heirs OF the late Col. Wood ward also
! large houee belonging to the estate Of The
late Colonel Supply Clap, and occupied by.
the widow Furness Il nv nber Of buildings
at the >. corner of Broad ST. called Mocha
mes Row, aud occupied By Judkins AMI,
oenter, cabinet makers; George !. Ger,
I4sh, Saddler Sam Beck, painter Abn ar
Gre anlCaf, brass founder; and Samuel =,
ker's w. / goods and grocery store. All.tss
houses anu buildings in Buck st in, whi-h
was { ol, James Sneafe's. Jacob STeafG's
lchn Davenp0rt's large and spacious I'm
where all TIE stages from East and West
stop. The large store at the bottom of
Buc6 street, said TO be Fire. proof and near
iy full of w. ]. Goods and Ship Gland kry
occupied by Jacob Gutter and others, nom
which scarcely any thing was saved-thk N i
Hotel and almostevery thing and st{re in
Water Stiset,to Loag wharf Time. fails
me at preseE to enumerate all the houses
and stores which have been destroyed Nv
mouse ard store, being brick, with fri nroof
suffers, has, by the blessing Of headEn and
the help Of Kind friends, been preserved. al
'hnugh in eminent danger.
] is impossible TO estimate ~ oyssnn,
what amount of property in buildings and
so IS destroyed. From present appear
arces, should think there is f'pm : 10
hundred houses, stores, stables, Barns and
o her out buildings. From what nave been
ID e TO lcsrn, bvlieve there can be bit IN
Tie dou6t but il is the act Of some Ease in
cendi.ry."
A gentleman in last nights stage informs
that the Custom house and Loan Office were