The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1831-12-21

P"i"@e' turhco pack again, and by the time O
'heir return 10 the square, the reflection on ths
opposite side of the Freom made il apparent
that, by their endeavors 10 protect both placcs
each had been sacrificed to the inry of the in
cendiarles
The infatuated rioters, M less intoxicated
with their successful career than with Iionor
pressed forward to the windows, and waved ,heir
handkei chiefs, cheering at the same time in
exuilation of the final accomplishment of their
designs on the Inflated building. However
many oil them paid the forfeit of their lives for
Their criminal temerity. From the rapid pro-
gress OF the flames, 1t is supposed that some
were cut from their ietrcat. and that thew Tins
met with an untimely end. The fire spread
with most surprising quickness, and in about
twenty minutes the root fell in, and, together
with the whole front, came down into the street
with tremendous crash
BY this sine the fire at tho Bishops P .loce
ragged throughout the whole pile of building.
winch IN short period, was reduced to ashes
Alter the destruction Of the Mansion House
The rioters conceived the phn of firing the ad.
joining houses, and by l2 a. night, the whole
mass. from the Mansion House to the middle
avenue, including the Custom House and all the
BACK buildings in Little King street, were one
immense mass of fire. Tle Custom House as
may readily he supposed, was a large building
ana the expcrtness Of the wreiches in ligh,inu
up mere, IL Is certain. proved the destruction of
many VINO were ranging the upper apartments.
nahy OF them were seen as they approached
'he windows to drop int the flames, and 9th
efs' among whom was a female, threw Them
selves in desperation from the windows. The
latter was carried to the nfrmary, where she
has since died. A small band, chiefly bows
VINO seemed to go about their work as il reGu
larly trained to the hesh employment. pro
ceeded TO extend the devouring element, pre.
cedlng Their operation by giving half an hours
notice to the inmates TO retire The windows
were afterwards smashed in, the furniture
thrown out and carried eff and the premises TO-
nIted with rapidity truly astonishing In this
manner they swept away one whole side of the
square, and then proceeded 10 another; com
nencing with the Excise Office, at the corner
To follow up the account at this time, three
O'Clock in the morning, would only be a repeti-
ton of the details at which our heart already
slckens. Unrestrained as were the flames thew
extended TO the houses of the parallel streets:
and as in this quarter Of the CITY are MANY of
the principal wine and spirit stores, the fury of
the devouln element can scarcely be conceiy.
ed.
Altogether there have been completely de.
stroyed AZ dwelling houses and warehouses.
exclusive of the Mansion House, Excise Office
Custom House, the four Toll Houses, the three
Prisons, and the Bishops Palace.
Alter the destruction of the Custom House
the remainder OF the mischief was owing TO the
want0n fury Of a truly insignificant number of
wretches, almost exclusively boys From the
time we have named, many of the rioters gave
themselves up wholly 10 drinking and revealing
in the scene al opnd them. We feel certain
that, if 80 men could have been collected. more
than one half the property could have been eff
fectually protected But the whole city SEEM
ed panic, struck, and few cared except for their
personal safety. On this night, at least, it may
truly be said, that the city was given up 10
plumber.
Morning dawned on such a scene as had new |
er before been witnessed i'll this place The |
flames, 1t is true, were subsidized, but the an.
pearance of Queen square appalling in the
extreme. Numerous buildings were reduced
heap of smoking ruins, and others were
momentariy falling in; while around, in vari-
ons parts, lay several rioters, in the last stage
of senseless intoxication, and with countenan.
ccs more resembling fiends than men Mean.
time the soldiers, who had been ordered out of
town, were remanded and the magistrates,
having re assembled, came at length to a de.
cIsion, called out the posse comitatuS.
The military were ordered TO clear the
streets-an order which was fulfilled to the let.
ter by party of troops. The soldiers were
shortly afterwards Withdrawn from their bloody
work, and the streets principally manned with
the inhabitants, armed with strong slaves, and,
with some trifling exceptions. no further coils.
ION with the military took place
Towards the evening, the flames in several
houses in the square bioke out afresh, and part
of the pavement in King street was forced up
by the heat arising frem some brandy which
was burning IN some vaults beneath, but the
engines being IN readiness, no further injury
occurred. And it is believed the energetic
measures adopted by the police will prevent
the recurrence of any further excuses
The number of killed and wounded, as far as
we have been able TO ascertain, is four men and
one woman; little boy who also was shot
through the bowels, is not expected to recover
htty-one other persons, including four women,
have also received INJURIES some Of them very
severe ones, principally sabre wounds few
in consequence of the parties leaping from the
burning h Buses. In this account we enumerate
the cases taken TO the public hospitals only
Many lives were lost in the flames, and several
persons who received injury having bsen taken
to their own homes, we have no means of &C.
curing the requisite information respecting
them.
London, Nor. 9. We grieve to state that in
the performance of this indispensable and pain
iui DUTY, the arms of our gallant soldiers &C.
casoned great loss of ives,-tbat between
400 and 500 of the rioters are calculated (hough
on no certain datG) 10 have been cut down by
the military, or to have otherwise persisted.
London, Noe. B. Our readers will be graft.
fed to learn that by accounts which left Bristol
at one o'clock yesterday all symptoms of dis.
turbances were ut an end and from The Rum-
Der of troops which had poured into the city,
as well as from the preparations made by all
classes OF men Of property, who had began to
associate Tor the main.ainance Of public order,
there was not the slightest chance that the
tranquility thus restored would undergofur ther
interruptions.
HOLLAND AND BELGIUM,
London, Moo 3. The result OF the discus.
sion in the Belgian Chamber Of Representa-
tives is just what we predicted it would be. The
twenty-iour articles of the Conference have
been accepted. Ninety nine Deputies wore
present, of whom fifty-nne voted for and th!r |
weight against the measures, giving majority
of twenty-one.
FRANCE.
Every thing appears to be going on well in
France. Tic Peerage question continues to
agitate the various partes into which the Peers,
Deputies, and tho public Of France in gener,
are divided. If calculation in that woll.in-
formed Journal lie Temps, be correct, no alter
native remains to Government IF they de,ire,
s@ they must, that, in one shape or Other the
law shall pass) but creation of one hundred
new Peers.
GREECE.
ASSASSINATION of Capo dIstrias. TIE fol.
lowing is an extract Of letter fr,op Napoli.
dated the 9th Oct giving detail Of the circum.
stances attending the death of Count Capo
was gong, according to custom, to attend the
Mt 10 Ghnrplt ~