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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



the sliock, and the Iiouse con'sidei- 

 abiy damaged. 



7th. Bri^hto7i. The ten^)cst tills 

 evening wus the mo.;!, tremendous 

 that has bce:i k^ r .vn hovr- fr r some 

 years. The «•: • upon 



the Steyne, whiu-.i; tiic win.l was so 

 violent as to take av-ay several p.irls 

 of the adjoicing hoa.ses. The most 

 distressing event that occuned, 

 took, place -dbout three in tlic n.s.r- 

 ning ; a ship was driven near halfa 

 league from the town; she fired 

 signals of distress, and rhoisted out 

 the lights J the fishermen crowded 

 to the sea-side, nr.d, finding every 

 relief impracticable, they soon af- 

 terwards became melancholy wit 

 nesses of the sliip's sinking; and- 

 Tvhat renders the tale more lament- 

 able, is, that we have not since 

 heard of a singleiife being saved. 



A boat, with eight people on 

 board, was upset at fciandgate, when 

 three of the passengelS were unfor- 

 tunately drov>ned. 



Har'wtch. Inured as the inhabi- 

 tants of a s:::-port loww are to the 

 ' distresses incident to toir.pestiions 

 weather^, yt the calainit;. s 



of a dreSdful storm, ct tw l i.. > i.u.irs 

 duration, have been so great as to 

 amazeeven thotc most familiar with 

 such uuliappyisccnes. T!)e tcni est 

 eo;iunenced about eight o'cl.- 

 ', Sundsiy evening, and, by er^ ii 

 o'clock on the next morniig, riitre 

 were .thirty-five vessels v.' reeked 

 withiij' twenty miles of Harv.-fch 

 harbour. At one o'clock en Mon- 

 day, tiic crew of the Ucr^toration, 

 captain "Walker, a fine new ship in 

 the Norway trade, and the i^eople 

 from a Noith Shields collier, in 

 three boats, witV the utmost peril 

 and dilficulty, made the harbour. 

 They had been in their boats.from 

 eleven o'clock the night before, and 



w^hen they at length happily reach- 

 td the shore, were reduced, by fa- 

 tigue and the inclemency of the 

 weatiier, to the greatest weakness. 

 Captain Walker reports, that in the 

 morning of Monday he saw upwards 

 of seventy sail ot vessels making 

 signals of distress. The wrecks of 

 several yessels are plainly to be seen 

 from the town, and many livi s must 

 inevitably have been lost. A boat, 

 v.ith four men and two women, in 

 attem.pting to cross at Landguard. 

 lort, on Monday, was driven out to 

 sea, where the unhappy people 

 must doubtless have all perishjd. 



18th. This evening a dreadful fiie 

 broke out in a stack of warehouses 

 near Joiners hall. Upper Thames- 

 streef, containing cotton, coffee, in- 

 digo, and other goods, which burnt 

 with great iuij, and resisted every 

 efTort of the firemen and enprines ; 

 but, as with the assistance of a num- 

 ber of others they succeeded in tiicir 

 exertions to save Mr. Bell's su<rar- 

 house, in whiclt an immense quan- 

 tity of sugars were Under process, 

 and which, being distant onlya few 

 feet, caught fire several times, its 

 farther progress was happily stop- 

 ped, after destroying only the ware- 

 houses where it began, and their 

 valuable contents. 



19th. Robert Watt convicted of 

 high treason, was executed at the 

 west eiul of the Luckenbootiis, at 

 Edi. ::rsuanttohissentence. 



Abou. jiasttwoo'ciockjthetwo 



kuiior.magisUates, and the reverend 

 principal Baird, walked from the 

 council-chamber to the Castlehill, 

 preceded by the city constables and 

 town oftia-rs, tlie city guard form- 

 ing a hollow square. When they *■ 

 rt?achcd the Water house (the limits, 

 of the burgh), they were met by the 

 procession from the Castle, in the 



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