2 
bury. He was taken to the work- 
house, and every means for his 
recovery were used without suc- 
cess. 
12th. At night, as Captain R. 
Kingsmill was coming to town on 
his entrance into Bond-street, his 
driver was reminded by a man on 
the pavement of the slippery state 
of the street, and advised to move 
cautiously. The post-boy attend- 
ing to the suggestion, Capt. Kings- 
mill was induced to quit his chaise 
and walk ; observing aloud, that by 
that means he could more effectual- 
ly guard the trunk behind. He 
perceived two or three men, appa- 
rently well dressed, dogging the 
carriage the whole way; but from 
his determined precaution nothing 
‘was attempted till he arrived at his 
door in Woodstock-street, when 
stopping to knock at the door, and 
turning instantly round again, he 
found his trunk gone, but which 
way. no one could tell. There be- 
ing an alley across the street, it for- 
tunately occurred that it might have 
been conveyed off that way to the 
next stand of coaches. <A servant, 
dispatched to the stand, seeing a 
coach drawing up, enquired if it 
hhad not taken*in atrunk? ‘The 
Doy standing with the horses an- 
swered, that the three gentlemen 
then in the coach had just put in a 
trunk, On the servant’s opening 
the door to seize the trunk, one of 
these gentlemen bolted out and 
knocked him down. Recovering, 
however, he seized his trunk a- 
gain, when the two others in their 
hurry got out on the other side, 
through the coach window. The 
cry of * stop thief?’ was given, but 
these audacious plunderers had the 
address to escape. 
14th. About half past one o’clock 
this morning, the inside of the Pan- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
theon in Oxford-street was disco- 
vered to be on fire by the patroles 
who were employed to watch the 
interior parts of it. It broke out 
in a new building adjoining the 
Pantheon, which had been erected 
for a scene-painter’s room. To 
this part of the building the patroles 
had no access, so that it is supposed 
the fire had been kindling some 
time before it was discovered. At 
length the fire burst in a flame 
through a door at the back of the 
stage, which communicating with 
the scenery, the whole was instant- 
ly ina blaze. ‘The servants who 
lived in the house had scarcely time 
to escape ; leaving behind them all 
their clothes and other effects. 
From the combustible materials of 
the scenery, the oil and paint, the 
fire had got to such a height before 
the engines could arrive, that all 
attempts to save the building were 
in vain. The whole edifice, from 
Oxford-street to Marlborough-street 
Gardens, and from Poland-street to 
Blenheim Mews, is a heap of ruins. 
Not an article of the rich wardrobe 
and costly furniture—the stage ma- 
chinery, nor a musical instrument, 
is saved. The Joss sustained is 
60,0001. of which only 15,0001. is 
insured, 10,000]. in the Westmin- 
ster, and five in the Phoenix fire- 
offices. The engines did not get 
into play until an hour and a halt 
after the fire was discovered; and 
from the situation of the building 
they could not be worked with any 
degree of efficacy. The fire conti- 
nued with great fury for ten hours, 
when the whole roof of the building 
having fallen in, it slackened, and 
Was pretty nearly subdued towards 
one o’clock in the afternoon. Very 
few of the adjoining buildings are 
damaged. 
1Gth. The Oid Bailey sessions 
ended, 
