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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



ihc rising of the tide, was got off 

 without receiving damage. On 

 Monday morning, tiieir majesties, 

 prince Ernest, and the princesses, 

 went on board the Niger frigate, 

 and sailed for Southampton, where 

 they landed in the afternoon, and 

 immediately proceeded in carriages 

 for Windsor. 



Died. 24th. At his apartments 

 in Westminster, Charles Pigoti, esq. 

 ai t'lor of " Thi". Jockey Club," in 

 two parts ; " '.f'he Female Jockey 

 Club;'' "Strictures upon Burke ;'' 

 ^'Treachery no Crime;'' and many 

 other well-k.-io\vn publications. His 

 -remains were intf-rred in the family 

 vault at Chetwynd, Shropshire. 



JULY. 



2d. About four o'clock in the 

 afternoon, the earl of Waldegra\e, 

 a youth about ten years of age, was 

 unfortunately drowned as he was 

 bathing; in the Thames, near a field 

 called the Brocas, in the parish of 

 Eton. His lord; hip was educating 

 at Eton school, and f?:oiug out with 

 two of his companions, the latter 

 were induced, from :h>.'. best of the 

 season, to bathe, but desired his 

 lordship, as thewater was deep, and 

 lie not an expert swimmer, net to 

 venture in ; lord Waldegrave, how- 

 ever, jumped into the river, and was 

 never perceived to rise; it is suppo- 

 sed he got entangled among ihc 

 weeds. The body was not found 

 till Monday morning, and wa,'. taken 

 up close by the place where he 

 sunk. 



^th. Therewas? violent stormof 

 thunderand lightning at Maiden, in 

 Essex, which moved in a north-east 

 direction. Thclightning, which was 

 awluUy spltiidid, set fire to a barn. 



upon the fai-m called Mountains, 

 near Tiptree-heath, and intirely de- 

 strrtyed it. 



At Hereford^, the same afternoon, 

 there was a very heavy f»ll of rain, 

 attended by thunder and lightning. 

 At Goodrich, in that county, was 

 the most dreadful storm ever expe- 

 rienced bv theoldest inhabitant; the 

 rain fell in such torrents, and was 

 accompanied with such thunder and 

 lightning, as to occasion a general 

 alarm. Three sheep, beloufdng to a 

 farmer i-. the parish, were killed by 

 the lightning, which shivered in 

 pieces a large elm that grew near 

 the church, and killed several small 

 birds that had taken refuge in the 

 tiee at the commencement of the 

 storm. Considerabledaroagehasbeen 

 done at various other places, parti- 

 cularly at Shrewsbury, and through- 

 out the county of Salop, where the 

 storm fell vvith awful violence. In 

 the nei£,hbourhoodof Ludlow, afar- 

 mer had three hor»es killed by the 

 lightning : numbers of sheep suffer* 

 ed a similar fate. 



In the neighbourhood of Salisbu- 

 ry there was much thunder and 

 lightning, attended with very heavy 

 storms of rain. Great damage was 

 done by the lightning, at many 

 places ; and at Albourne, in that 

 county, a violent storm of hail fell, 

 which was very destructive, parti- 

 cularly to all the glass that was op- 

 posed to its direction. Some of the 

 stones measured five inches round. 

 The parish church of Beenhanis 

 inValence, Berks, of which a well- 

 known writer, Mr.Slackhouse, was 

 many years vicar, wasconsumedby 

 ligiitning. 



At Northill, Bedford, a largetree 

 was shivered in a mostextr.iordinary 

 manner by the lightning, between 

 six and seven o'clock on Monday 



morning. 



