130 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Sept. 



formed the rites of hospitality to 

 the gentlemen who had, in so 

 patriotic a manner, left their 

 accustomary pursuits, and has- 

 tened to rescue them from the 

 danger with which they were 

 threatened by a body of men 

 labouring under erroneous, but 

 strongly excited impressions. 



" On Saturday morning, order 

 being perfectly restored, the 

 proper authorities again respect- 

 ed, and the 6 dragoons increased 

 to a sergeant's guard by a detach- 

 ment which had arrived to sup- 

 port the magistracy, the gentle- 

 men of the yeomanry corps pre- 

 pared to march homewards, when, 

 immediately before they left the 

 town, a testimonial of the esti- 

 mation in which their valuable 

 services were held, was hastily 

 drawn up on the spur of the 

 occasion, and signed by as many 

 of the principal inhabitants of 

 Burnley and its vicinity as were 

 immediately on the spot." 



On Thursday afternoon last, 

 the 23rd, about four o'clock, an 

 alarming fire broke out in Hex- 

 ham-abbey, the seat of T. R. 

 Beaumont, Esq. The fire raged 

 with the greatest fury, and spread 

 with great rapidity through the 

 front and north wing of the build- 

 ing. About 7 o'clock, the roofs 

 of those parts fell in with a tre- 

 mendous crash, and by our latest 

 accounts, they are literally burnt 

 to the ground; and though the 

 flames , were still raging, yet it 

 was hoped that the great and 

 praise-worthy exertions of the 

 populace had succeeded in pre- 

 venting their further progress, 

 and that the remaining parts of 

 the building would be saved. 

 About 8 o'clock, an express 



arrived in this town, requesting 

 the assistance of the engines 

 belonging to the Newcastle Fire- 

 office, which were consequently 

 despatched with the greatest 

 expedition. The fire broke out 

 in a part which had lately been 

 added to the house, and was, 

 indeed, but just finished; and we 

 understand it originated in the 

 flues, which had been lighted for 

 the first time, for the purpose of 

 trying their effect. That part of 

 the building which has been con- 

 sumed formed the principal part 

 of the house, and being nearly 

 all the modern built part of it, 

 was of course that which was 

 most in use, and the most elegant 

 in its furniture and decorations, 

 the greatest part of which, we 

 are sorry to add, has been also 

 consumed, and as is generally the 

 case in calamities of this nature, 

 that which has been saved from 

 the fire is so much damaged as 

 to be of comparatively little 

 value. The family were from 

 home at the time. Since writing 

 the above, we have learnt that 

 the engines arrived at Hexham 

 between one and two o'clock, 

 when the ruins were still in 

 flames, but a plentiful supply of 

 water being at hand, the engines 

 were immediately set to work, 

 and soon succeeded in extin- 

 guishing them. Fortunately the 

 night was very calm ; had it been 

 otherwise, the consequences 

 would have been most dreadful. 

 — Newcastle Chronicle. 



Bank-notes. — Wexford, Sept. 

 24. — The Governors and Com- 

 pany of the Bank of Ireland have 

 judiciously despatched agents 

 through the kingdom, for the 

 purpose of distributing fac-similes 



of 



