The New Hampshire Gazette

FIRE AT ALBANY.

[The city of Albany has experienced more losses by Fire, than any other in the United States, save Savannah. In addition to former calamities, painful to remember, we have this day to add one more distressing than before announced:

And we cannot forbear expressing our hope, that the liberal hand of charity will be extended, towards the federal, enlightened and liberal inhabitants of that unfortunate city.—Let us do unto others, as others have done unto us.]

ALBANY, Aug. 8.

ON Friday night last, a little before eleven o'clock, the inhabitants of this city were alarmed with the cry of Fire, which broke out in a stable belonging to the widow A. Bradr, in Montgomery-street, and which, notwithstanding the alacrity displayed by the citizens, to check its progress, was soon communicated to the adjacent buildings; the wind blew fresh from S. E. and great apprehensions were entertained for the fate of no inconsiderable part of the city; the misery and distress concomitant on this dreadful calamity can be more easily conceived than described.

Eighty-three dwelling-houses were burnt, and a number of others much injured—forty-nine store-houses and work-shops, and eighty stables were destroyed, a greater part by the flames—a few were taken down to obstruct the spreading of the terrible element.

It is said that nearly one thousand persons are driven from the friendly roofs which protected them previous to this distressing accident. The wine and oil of charity we trust will be administered, with a ready hand, to the necessitous.

The officers of the city, and the inhabitants in general, merit applause for their prompt and unremitted exertions on the melancholy occasion.

Gratitude and praise is due to our brethren of Troy, Lan singburgh, Bath, and the citizens in our vicinity in general, for their ready and active co-operation with the inhabitants of Albany to impede the ravages of the fire. So great were the exertions of the citizens of Troy, as we have been informed, that they appeared at the scene of distress at a very early period after the fire broke out.

We dare not attempt to mention the amount of property destroyed by this unfortunate accident, as no accurate calculation has yet been made, nor do we think it easy to ascertain it—we do not hesitate however to pronounce the loss greater than ever has been experienced in this city by fire.