Gazette Of The United States

ALTONA, June 13.

The dreadful fire in Copenhagen was not got under before Saturday last, the 27th inst. between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The number of buildings consumed by that great conflagration, amounts to 1333, and the number of families who have lost their habitations, to 3000. Among the former are, besides many merchants houses, the town-hall, the hospital for orphans, the latin school, a convent, two apothecary shops, 24 brew-houses, five sugar-houses, 200 gill-distilleries, the admiralty and the principal magazine of naval stores. Forty three streets lay in ashes, and about 18,000 people, who have lost their homes, live under tents in the Philosophical Grove, and other public places. The Danish government takes the utmost care to provide the indigent with bread and beer, and his majesty has appointed a committee to enquire into the cause of the fire, which is not yet known.

Yesterday a report was current on the exchange at Hamburg, that at the very same time when the fire broke out at Copenhagen, a conflagration equally dreadful had taken place at Carlscroon, in Sweden. But as the Swedish letters of the 6th inst. which arrived last night, do not make the least mention of such an event, it is undoubtedly the foul fiction of the same miscreants, who charge the courts of St. James and Petersburg with the fire at Copenhagen.