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and amazement which enchained all their faculties; their 

 whole property swept away in a few minutes, and in the 

 place where their once beautiful gardens and flourishing 

 orchards stood, nought now appeared but a vast expanse of 

 water ! About thirty-two persons, it is calculated, have 

 lost their lives by this awful and calamitous event, and cat- 

 tle and property to a considerable amount destroyed. A 

 great degree of alarm continues to pervade the whole island, 

 as on the east side an orifice has been discovered, resem- 

 bling the crater of a volcano, and out of which flames oc- 

 casionally burst through. Hitherto they have been unac- 

 companied by any ejection of volcanic matter. " 



On Wednesday, October the 3d, the Society for Relief 

 of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, in London and 

 its Vicinity, held their Half-yearly General Court at the 

 usual Place of Meeting — the Graves Inn Coffee-House, 

 Holborn ; at which time their Annual Election of Officers 

 and Directors took place, and the following were the ar- 

 rangements made for the ensuing Year, viz. 



PATRON, 



t His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, 



PRESIDENT, 



James Ware, Esq. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS, 



TRUSTEES, 



Right Hon. Marquis Townshend, President of the Society 

 of Antiquaries ; 



Right 



