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sudden changed its course; its 
new course was followed, and it 
was perceived that it flowed into a 
deep gulph of the mountain.” At 
the same time it was perceived that 
in several places near the village 
the earth sunk, and that the steeple 
tottered. The inhabitants imme- 
diately carried away their effects. 
In a few hours the ground, on 
which the village was situated, gave 
way towards the lake, and at the 
same moment a part of the moun- 
tain fell and covered the village, 
not a vestige of which remains. 
Letters received by the 
Irish mail on Friday, state 
the unpleasant intelligence, that the 
tosth and 114th British Fencible 
regiments, which have since the 
3d inst. marched into Cork, hav- 
ing again been ordered to be draft- 
ed into other regiments, the men, 
headed by the serjeant-major, as 
their generalissimo, dismissed them- 
selves on the parade, and continued 
(according to military interpreta- 
tion) in a mutinous state for some 
time, nevertheless, asserting, they 
were ready to obey their ofkcers, 
and proceed as aregiment to where- 
ever they were ordered. ‘The fel- 
lowing is the manner of their be- 
ing subdued by General Massey, 
commanding the district. Upon the 
mutineers forming a hollow square, 
he ordered seversi bodies to march 
round to the ditierent avenues of 
the parade, by which means he 
completely blocked them up. He 
then gave the signal for the cannon 
to advance, and he mutineers were 
made to ground their arms, which 
were taken up and sent off. Gene- 
ral Massey then harangued them on 
the folly and rashness of their con- 
du&. They were then marched 
prisoners to the barracks, and thus 
oth. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
ended an affair that gave infinite 
uneasiness, and threatened the 
most scrious consequences, P 
r7th A quarterly general court 
* was held at the India-house, 
when after the last minutes had 
been read, the chairman, sir Ste- 
phen Lushington, stated, that the 
opinions of the attorney and solici- 
tor general, relative to the legality 
of carrying the resolutions of the 
general court respecting Mr. Hast- 
ings into execution, had been ré- 
ecived, and should, with the 
other opinions of counsel, be printed 
for the use of the proprietors, pre- 
vious to the mecting to be held in 
Oftober, After a desultory: conver- 
sation, inwhich Maj. Scott, Messrs. 
Grant, Jackson, Thornton, Hench. 
man, and the chairman, severally 
offered their sentiments, it was 
agreed, that some correspondence 
between the chairman and Mr. Pitt 
should form a pat of the printed 
papers. if 
Yesterday afternoon, a- 
18th. YY 
bout two o’clock, a+ fire 
broke out in the cupola. of the’ 
church of St. Paul’s Covent-garden, 
which communicated to the roof, 
and in two hours consumed the 
whole inside of that very beautiful 
building. ‘lhe fire was occasioned 
by the carelessness of some work- 
men who were repairing a part of 
the lead-work about the cupola. 
The whole top was in a few mi- 
nutes in flames, and in a short time 
falling in, nothing but the bare 
walls were left standing. 
The communion-plate was saved ; 
but every other arti¢le pertain. 
ing to the edi fice, | including the 
valuable and celebrated organ, the 
clock, &c. &c. was devoured by 
the unconquerable fury of te de- 
structive element. 
The 
