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The buildings, (which cost 12,000l. 

 were ven'lare^e and extensive, being 

 SevKii stories in h.-igbt, ani weretii- 

 tiieiy consumed, as the fire com- 

 menced in iiearlv the attic stbry, 

 whereby there wa. noipossibi: '.y of 

 saving it. Fonun;ifelv, it wd* a very 

 calm morning; of- the greater part 

 of the loxV'T end of the town mnst 

 inevitably have been destroyed. The 

 fire was not extinguished ilie next 

 evening. 



14th. This day (Sunday) SsffrCn- 

 Walden church was n.bbed of 

 about thirty prayer-books; the thief 

 made choice of all the most valua- 

 ble. 



16th. A fire broke ont at Win- 

 canton, Somersetshire, which burned 

 about eight houses in the fr nt of 

 the street, ar.d some tenements be- 

 liind. It is supposed to have been 

 occasioned bv a sack of lime beii^j 

 put against a faggot pile. 



18th. The roof of part of Battle- 

 Abbey, in Sussex, which has bei^n 

 Used for some time as a towi-h.ill. 

 Was by the violence of the wind and 

 rain driven in, one part of that noble 

 building totally destroyed, aid tlie 

 inhabitants of the town thrown into 

 a dreadful consternation. 



ipth. About 9 o'clock this night, 

 as the Stourbridge waggon was go- 

 ing from Oxford to Woodstock, it 

 was overturned in passing King's 

 bridge, across the Oxford cimal, in 

 the parish of Woolvercott, by which 

 accident two men were killed on the 

 spot, and a boy so much hurt tliat his 

 life is despaired of. 



23th. The chap 1 of the new 

 house of correction tor the county of 

 Middlesex was opened fordivine ser- 

 vice this day with great solemnity. 

 Mr. Maiiiwaring, the chairman of 

 the sessions, and a great number of 

 magistrates, and uther respectable 

 genikmen, attendedou the occasion. 



Nearly seventy plrisoners werfe pre- 

 sent, who were thoroughly cleansed 

 and new clothed, and made a very 

 decent appearance j and their beha- 

 viour was extremely proper and se- 

 rious. The service was pei-formed 

 by two reterend magistrates for the 

 countVi at the request of the <~ourt. 

 The prayers were read by Df: Ga- 

 briel ; and a sermon, suited to the; 

 alfecting sittiation of the prisoners^ 

 was preached by t)r. Glasses from 

 JMiitthew, XXV. 26, " I was in pri- 

 son, and ye came unto mfr." The 

 prisoners were fed, oh their return 

 from the chapel, -v^itli a mess of good 

 broth ; one only excepted, who, fof 

 misbchaviout' within the prison, was 

 in close confinement, on the ordinary 

 pi iSoH allowance. 



2pth. A melancholy accident hap- 

 pened at Stradishall, in Stiftblk, where 

 a cliimney-sweepei 's boy, named 

 •John Brewster, between thirteen 

 and fourteen ycai s of age, stuck fast 

 in the tunnel of a chimney j and^ 

 although every endeavour was used 

 to extricate him, it proved fruitless, 

 till too late, as he was suffocated ; 

 and a'l the means tised to restore 

 him, proved ineffectual. 



I'he privy council was convfned^ 

 for the examination of a plot .said to 

 have been entered into by some in- 

 sign'ficant young men for the pur- 

 pose of taking away the life of our 

 gracious soverL-ign, while at the 

 theatre, by means of an air gun. 



At the close of thesessions, eleven 

 unfortunate men, capitally convicted 

 at the Old Bailey, were brought up 

 to receive sentence of death : they 

 are, Anthony Purchan and Richard 

 Warbeck, for being concerned in 

 the late crimping riois ; Thomas Bi- 

 gott and Thomas Sturt, also rioters ; 

 Henry Cramer, an old man, nearly 

 cifjhty, forpersonaling and receiving 

 seamen's wages ; Samuel Rov 1, a 



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