CHRONICLE, 
eclock, a fire was discovered in 
the long range of auction-rooms, 
manufactories, and ware-houses, 
between Frith-street and Dean- 
street, Soho. On the first alarm, 
the manufactory of Jackson and 
Moser, furnishing ironmongers, and 
the work-shops of Jameson and. 
Willis, coach-makers, appeared to 
be in flames. 
The drums of the St. James’s and 
royal Westminster volunteers im- 
mediately beat to arms, and detach- 
ments of these valuable corps has- 
tened with the most commendable 
alacrity to lend their assistance in 
subduing the flames, and in protect- 
ing the property of those persons 
who were sullering from this cala- 
mity. It was nearly two hours, how- 
ever, before water could be pro- 
cured in suilicient quantities to sup- 
_ ply the engines, now collected from. 
every corner of the town. In the 
mean time, the flames were raging 
with uncontrollable fury. 
Adjoining to the buildings already 
on fire, were the large furniture 
repositories of Messrs. Hemmings 
and. Westwood, extending from 
Frith to Dean-street; the school- 
room of the Frith-street academy ; 
a large auction-room in the rear of 
Compton-street; and the back 
ware-houses, full of goods, belong- 
ing to Mr. Bond, furnishing iron- 
monger, also of Compton-street ; 
all of which soon formed one ge- 
 neral mass of conflagration. From 
these premises, the flames were ra- 
pidly communicated to the dwel- 
ling-house of Mr. Kam, upholsterer, 
_in Compton-street, and to the po- 
tatoe warehouse adjoining, both of 
which houses, together with the 
back part of Mr. Reid’s, the gro- 
cer, were consumed. At this time, 
the wind changing from due north 
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to near south-west, the flames ayoid- 
ing, as if by miracle, the corner 
house in Compton-street, commu- 
nicated to the west side of Frith- 
street, where the following houses 
were consumed in regular progres- 
sion, one after another :. the house 
No. 39, gutted. The house of Mr. 
Stort, No. 40, a complete ruin. 
The following houses are levelled 
with the ground: the house of Mr. 
Hogard, attorney ; the Frith-street 
academy, front and rear; the house 
and premises of Messrs. Hemmings 
and Westwoed, auctioneers; the 
house and extensive work-shops of 
Messrs. Jameson and Willis, coach- 
makers : the house and work-shop 
of Mr. Lucas, a taylor; the dwel- 
ling-house of Mr. Moser ; and the 
dwelling-house, offices, and exten- 
sive manufactory of Messrs. Jack- 
son and Moser. It was in their 
premises that this destructive cala- 
mity is supposed to have originated ; 
and it was with the destruction of 
their dwelling-house, within three 
doors of Queen-street, that the pro- 
gress of the flames was arrested, and 
an end put to the conflagration 
which threatened. with desolation 
the whole of the neighbourhood. 
About ten o’clock in the morning, 
the front of one of the houses in 
Compton-street fell in with a terri- 
ble crash. Several friends who had 
come to enquire for Mr. Reid, the 
clothier, at No. 9, were in immi- 
nent danger, the parapet from the 
. falling house opposite, drove.in his 
shop door, just as his friends, see- 
ing their danger, were running into 
the back parlour for shelter. 
Besides the above-stated, the back 
parts of all the houses in Dean-street, 
and the whole fronts of the east side 
of Frith-street, have received consi- 
derable injury. Indeed the latter 
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