The Voice Of Freedom

ANOTHER THIRD OF QUEBEC DESTROYED!

Our thanks are due to Capt. Lathrop for a copy of the Quebec Gazette, containing the account of another fire which occurred on Saturday the 28th of June.—
Whitchall Dem.

This fire has destroyed nearly the whole of St. John and part of St. Lewis Suburbs, from St. John's Gate and the north-west angle of the walls, along the brow of the Coteau St. Genevieve, nearly to the Tower, No. 4, and up to a couple of Streets below St. Lewis Road. A number of houses in the scattered streets near Tower No. 3, have escaped, and a few near the Cote d' Abraham, and three or four in the vast extent destroyed.

It was only about 8 o'clock on Sunday morning that the flames were exhausted towards the Tower No. 4, by there being nothing more to burn, and by blowing up a number of houses north of the St. Lewis road.

A meeting of the General Committee of Relief appointed by the citizens after the fire of the 28th May, met at one o'clock Sunday, and ordered distributions of provisions, &c., to the destitute. All public buildings were thrown open to the sufferers, and tents were pitched west of the Citadel, but many persons remained with their effects along the walls of the town and in the fields. Numbers were sent for by their relations, friends and acquaintances, in the surrounding parishes.

The scene of desolation, distress and affliction, and the extent of the calamity was nearly as great as after the former conflagration; the value of the property destroyed probably greater. The population of St. John Suburbs was about ten thousand, and the population of St. Roch had mostly found refuge in St. John Suburb.