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KcNrmr . D A \ -B SEVENTY were preserved from the general conflagration . The distress of the miserable inhabitants exceeded all description . In the surrounding fields were deposited the few goods , consisting chiefly of bedding , they were able to save . Stepney Church was opened for their reception , and above a thousand people were obliged lo remain all night in the fields , watching the remnant of their property ; children crying for their lost parents , " and parents lamenting the fate of their children , added to the horrors of a scene not equalled
during the present century . From the great distress the above fire occasioned to a great number of poor families , Government humanely ordered 120 tents to be immediately pitched for their accommodation in Stepney Fields , till they could be more comfortably provided for . They have since been provided with lodgings . The loss sustained is immense ; the warehouses of Mr . Whiting alone contained sugars to the amount of upwards of 40 , 000 ! . . which were entirely destroyed . .
The East India Company is said to have lost 20 , 000 bags of salt-petre . During the fire it ran towards the Thames , and had the appearance of cream-coloured Java ; and when it had reached the water , flew up with a prodigious force , in the form of ah immense column . Several particles of the salt-petre were carried 1 > y the explosion as far as Lo -v Layton , a distance of near six miles . So powerful was the . smoke and heat , that it ivas not possible to endure it within a mile to leeward . During the time of the . salt-petre burning , the smoke presented a striking and awful spectacleforming avast arch as white as snowand
extend-, , ing near five miles . The sum collected for the sufferers by this fire , exceeded 15 , 000 ! . The quantity of copper collected at and near the ruins ,- from the poorer description -of people , who flocked there to see the dreadful devastation which a few hours occasioned , was weighed out of curiosity , and at an early day amounted to more than a ton and a half . The collection made on the ruins in one day , the Sunday after the fire happened , was as follows : Gold , 5 6 I . 14 s . Silver , 301 I . 3 s . 7 < j . 16 Total 13 lod
Copper , 479 I . s . , S 37 I . s . . July 31 . Between nine and ten in the evening , a . remarkable meteor , or Shooting star , was seen at Rlackheath , near Greenwich . The body was round and of a red colour , carrying a t . iil behind it about a yard long , and tapering to the end , and moved nearly level at the altitude of 30 deg . from North-West to North by West in a quarter of a minute . From the size of a star of the second magnitude , it grew gradually to double the size Of the planet Jupiter . It enlightened ihe sky around about it to some distance . The tail threw out sparks , ivhich were left behind it and soon went out . At length ihe whole disappeared instantaneously .
August 7 . A thunder storm , one of the most awful and tremendous that lias happened within the recollection even of those who have had an opportunity of witnessing the rage of the elements in all climes , took place in London : The lightning attracted , as it is believed , by an iron weather-cock , struck thereof of the Examiner's-Office iu the Rolls-yard , Chancery-lane , and made a hole large enough for a man lo creep through , shattering a great many tiles , bricks , & c . niid . just afterwards a ball of fire fell near ihe lodge in the same yard , which felled two persons for a moment without hurting them , and rising again made its
course through one of the windows , which w ; is open , of the Crown-Office in Chancery , and it is apprehended must have passed out of one of ihe back windows cf that office which was also open . From the clouds of smoke that immediately issued and con ' tinued for several minutes , it was feared the oflice was on fire ; but opening the door , it was happily discovered to have received little or no injury . On examination it was found that the nails aud iron work , which the lightning met with in its passage , had been melted , and partly vitrified by the intense heat . In Falcon-street , Aklevsg . ite-sireet , a razor in a barber ' s hand was literally melted , and dropped inslantaneouslj- from the handle . The man fell to the ground , but received no injury .
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Home News.
KcNrmr . D A \ -B SEVENTY were preserved from the general conflagration . The distress of the miserable inhabitants exceeded all description . In the surrounding fields were deposited the few goods , consisting chiefly of bedding , they were able to save . Stepney Church was opened for their reception , and above a thousand people were obliged lo remain all night in the fields , watching the remnant of their property ; children crying for their lost parents , " and parents lamenting the fate of their children , added to the horrors of a scene not equalled
during the present century . From the great distress the above fire occasioned to a great number of poor families , Government humanely ordered 120 tents to be immediately pitched for their accommodation in Stepney Fields , till they could be more comfortably provided for . They have since been provided with lodgings . The loss sustained is immense ; the warehouses of Mr . Whiting alone contained sugars to the amount of upwards of 40 , 000 ! . . which were entirely destroyed . .
The East India Company is said to have lost 20 , 000 bags of salt-petre . During the fire it ran towards the Thames , and had the appearance of cream-coloured Java ; and when it had reached the water , flew up with a prodigious force , in the form of ah immense column . Several particles of the salt-petre were carried 1 > y the explosion as far as Lo -v Layton , a distance of near six miles . So powerful was the . smoke and heat , that it ivas not possible to endure it within a mile to leeward . During the time of the . salt-petre burning , the smoke presented a striking and awful spectacleforming avast arch as white as snowand
extend-, , ing near five miles . The sum collected for the sufferers by this fire , exceeded 15 , 000 ! . The quantity of copper collected at and near the ruins ,- from the poorer description -of people , who flocked there to see the dreadful devastation which a few hours occasioned , was weighed out of curiosity , and at an early day amounted to more than a ton and a half . The collection made on the ruins in one day , the Sunday after the fire happened , was as follows : Gold , 5 6 I . 14 s . Silver , 301 I . 3 s . 7 < j . 16 Total 13 lod
Copper , 479 I . s . , S 37 I . s . . July 31 . Between nine and ten in the evening , a . remarkable meteor , or Shooting star , was seen at Rlackheath , near Greenwich . The body was round and of a red colour , carrying a t . iil behind it about a yard long , and tapering to the end , and moved nearly level at the altitude of 30 deg . from North-West to North by West in a quarter of a minute . From the size of a star of the second magnitude , it grew gradually to double the size Of the planet Jupiter . It enlightened ihe sky around about it to some distance . The tail threw out sparks , ivhich were left behind it and soon went out . At length ihe whole disappeared instantaneously .
August 7 . A thunder storm , one of the most awful and tremendous that lias happened within the recollection even of those who have had an opportunity of witnessing the rage of the elements in all climes , took place in London : The lightning attracted , as it is believed , by an iron weather-cock , struck thereof of the Examiner's-Office iu the Rolls-yard , Chancery-lane , and made a hole large enough for a man lo creep through , shattering a great many tiles , bricks , & c . niid . just afterwards a ball of fire fell near ihe lodge in the same yard , which felled two persons for a moment without hurting them , and rising again made its
course through one of the windows , which w ; is open , of the Crown-Office in Chancery , and it is apprehended must have passed out of one of ihe back windows cf that office which was also open . From the clouds of smoke that immediately issued and con ' tinued for several minutes , it was feared the oflice was on fire ; but opening the door , it was happily discovered to have received little or no injury . On examination it was found that the nails aud iron work , which the lightning met with in its passage , had been melted , and partly vitrified by the intense heat . In Falcon-street , Aklevsg . ite-sireet , a razor in a barber ' s hand was literally melted , and dropped inslantaneouslj- from the handle . The man fell to the ground , but received no injury .