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ounty and benevolence were as 
con{picuous in the hour of diftrefs, 
as his fortitude was apparent in the 
moment of danger. 
d Between four and five 
23% o'clock in~ the morning, 2 
violent ftorm. blew from the fouth- 
weit, attended with fucceflive flafhes 
of lightning, and continued rolls 
of loud thunder, fucceeded by heavy 
fhowers of hail and rain. Part of 
the copper roofing of the new 
ftone buildinss in Lincoln’s-inn was 
blown over the Six Clerks’ office 
into Chancery-lane, and fome part 
of it over the roofs of the op- 
pofite houfes in the lane, into a 
yard, and part pafled througha gar- 
ret window of one of thofe houfes, 
inhabited by Mr. White; fo that 
it muft have been raifed near a 
hundred feet into the air, Thir- 
teen trees were blown down in 
Lincoln’s-inn gardens. A maid- 
fervant of counfellor Graham’s was 
killed in her bed,, by the falling 
of a ftack of chimnies, at his cham- 
bers on the fouth fide of Lincoln’s- 
inn New-fquare: his man-fervant 
fortunately efcaped, by quitting his 
bed-on the firft alarm. Several trees 
were blown down in Moorfields. 
Many houfes were unroofed, and 
others fuffered confiderably. 
The high piles of wood in moft of 
the timber-yards round the metro- 
polis were blown down. 
At Walthamftow, a large harn, 
feveral flacks of chimnies, and fe- 
veral trees were blown down. 
At Windfor, the ftorm was very 
dreadful; the fentinels on guard 
upon the terrace defcribe the air to 
have been fo Juminous, that they 
could for a minute fee at very 
eat diftances ; and inftantly after it 
cao dark fn the extreme, with a 
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{mell refembling the frefh difcharge 
of cannon. 
The drivers on the road from Sa- - 
lifbury, and the paflengers, corro- 
borate the teftimony, that the light- 
ning was rather like a ftream of 
fluid from a glafs-houfe furnace ; 
and the horfes were fo generally 
terrified, that with difficulty they 
got on. 
At Purfleet and Erith, which are 
on the oppofite fides of the river, a 
few miles above Gravefend, the in- 
habitants were in one continued 
alarm the greater part of the night, 
for fear of the gunpowder maga- 
zine taking fire by the continued | 
lightning. 
At Harrow-on-the-Hill and St. 
Alban’s, beth elevated fituations, 
the electrical fhock was very fenfi- 
bly felt, but no mifchief done; 
though at the latter the fire was 
feen to play through and about the 
abbey fteeple in a fingular manner. 
Asa proof that the ferm was 
as wide and extenfive as awefully 
dreadful, at Springfield near Col- 
chefter, the hail-ftones were very 
heavy, the lightning continual, and, 
with the thunder, refembled the be- 
fieging of a fortrefs by the moft 
formidable enemy. 
At the Nore, a floop, that caft 
anchor during the tempelt, had her 
fails torn frorn the mafts, but na- 
body hurt. 
The fteeple of Beckenham church 
in Kent, a fpire built of thingles, 
was fired, and a part deftroyed. 
The fhingles of the {pire of Hor- 
fham church, in Suffex, were fet on 
fire, but were extinguifhed ~by the 
rain. 
A hovel belonging to Mr. Grant, 
of Towcefter, was blown down by 
the violence of the wind, by which 
[P 3} accident, 
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