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Newgate to Charles-street, Hatton- 
garden, where a gallows was erect- 
ed, attended by the Sheriffs, &c. 
He was turned off amidst a very 
numerous crowd of spectators, Af- 
ter hanging the usual time, his body 
was cut down, and taken to Sur- 
geons Hall for dissection. The 
route taken by the Sheriffs with the 
prisoner, was through Smithfield, 
Chick-lane, and up Saffron-hill, 
and from Hatton-wall down Hat- 
ton-garden to the end of Charles- 
street. 
5th. His Majesty in the usual 
state gave his royal assent to the 
Duke and Duchess of York’s an- 
nuity bill, to the 400,0001. surplus 
bill, and to several road and inclo- 
sure bills. 
12th. Birmingham. The inhabi- 
tants of Bromsgrove, in Worcester- 
shire, were alarmed aad distressed, 
beyond description, by one of the 
most sudden and violent inunda- 
tions ever known. Between three 
and four o’clock, during astorm, ac- 
‘companied with loud and continued 
claps of thunder, and the most vivid 
lightning, a water-spout fell upon 
that part of the Lickey which is 
nearest the town. The pouring 
down of the cataract was heard at 
a great distance, and the body of wa- 
ter, taking a direction towards 
Bromsgrove, soon swept away eve- 
ry thing before it, Jaid down the 
hedges, washed quantities of grain 
from barnsand malt-houses, destroy- 
ed tan-yards, and, so strong was 
the current, that it floated through 
the towna waggon loaded withskins. 
The inhabitants of the place had 
no time to take the necessary pre- 
cautions: almost in an instant the 
cellars and. under-kitchens were 
filled to the top, and every thing in 
them overturned. Ina few minutes 
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the water entered at the parlour- 
windows, covered the counters of 
shops, and in the principal street 
it rose and continued upwards of 
five feet perpendicular from the 
pavement. The horses in some of 
the inn-stables stood up to their 
tails in water. This tremendous 
fall of water happened near the ele- 
venth mile-stone, on the edge of the 
Lickey. It has beat the ground 
there (which is chiefly gravel) into 
small pits. At Bromsgrove, and 
the upper part of the Lickey, no- 
thing more than acommon fall of 
rain was experienced, 
The same day a_ very violent 
storm of thunder, lightning, hail, 
and rain, fell between Gravesend 
and Chatham. It lasted nearly an 
hour and a half. The torrent of 
rain overflowed the roads, and ren- 
dered them for some hours nearly 
impassible ; and the thunder and 
flashes of lightning were the most 
awful and tremendous ever known. 
The storm extended only about 
two miles. During the thunder- 
storm, a ball of fire fell upon the 
chimney of a house at Acomb, 
near the city of York, occupied by 
Henry Clarke, Esq. set fire to the 
same, and passed down into the 
kitchen, carrying with it an amaz- 
ing quantity of soot; threw a ser- 
vant-man from his seat, and several 
plates from the rack; struck a wo- 
man-servant with ,great force, and 
nearly deprived her of the use of 
her right side. It then made its 
way into a parlour where Mrs. 
Clarke and three of her children 
were, burnt the door and wainscot- 
ting in avery extraordinary man- 
ner; andthe room seemed at the 
moment to be filled with sparks 
of vivid fire. . It then forced itself, 
by the bell-wire, through a passage, 
which 
