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a floating iight, to be placed near 
the Goodwin-sands, about one mile 
N. E. from the North sand head, 
between the North and South Fore- 
lands; on which vessel three dis- 
tin& lights are exhibited, to dis- 
tinguish them from the North and 
South Foreland lights, and which 
will be constantly attended, and 
kept burning from sun-setting to 
sun-rising, for the benefit of navi- 
gation ; a large bell is also fixed on 
board, which will be rung in hazy 
or thick weather, to warn ships of 
the danger as they approach the 
said sand, when the lights may not 
be seen. 
This day William Curtis, 
esq. was elected lord-mayor 
of London, for the year ensuing. 
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OCTOBER. 
As the remains of the right 
18te hon. Edward Henry John 
Spencer, late his majesty’s ambas- 
sador to the court of Berlin, and 
second son to his grace the duke of 
Marlborough, who died July 3, 
were passing through Aylesbury, 
after a procession of five days from 
Yarmouth, where they had halted, 
the hearse broke down in the mid- 
dle of the town, and the coffin, 
which had been shaken in the 
rough roads on the Coniinent, fell 
out, and bursting open, presented 
the body, a shocking spectacle ; 
the stench of which annoyed the 
town for a considerabie time. As 
soon as it could be deposited in an- 
other .cofin, it was privately in- 
terred in a temporary vault under 
the chancel at Ardiey, in the coun. 
ty of Oxford, near Burcester. 
A robbery was this day 
7th- committed in the house of 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1705. 
Mr. Ardesoif, of Hampstead, to a 
considérable amount; the circum. 
stances of which have gained the 
interest and attention of many per- 
sons. It appears that Mr. Ardesoif 
is an o!d gentleman of considerable 
property, and not long discharged 
one Joseph Bodkin from his service 
as butler. The man was saucy, and 
vowed vengeance. Soon after, 
some drawers were plundered and 
set ‘on fire, by means of a hole in 
the back of a closet; and furniture, 
money, and many articles, were 
stolen. By means of a young wo. ° 
man, of the name of Ann Hales, 
to whom it appears that Bodkin 
pretended passionate love, though 
he had been many years married, 
many of the articles have been 
found; and he was yesterday com. 
mitted from the Public Office, in 
Bow-street, for trial, and the young 
woman bound over to appear as an 
evidence. They both appeared 
very much agitated, and the wo. 
man fainted several times. She 
was bailed by two gentlemen, with 
whom she formerly lived as ser- 
vant. 
Anextraordinary circum. 
stance occurred in Bridge- 
street, Black-friars. A bullock 
worried by the dogs, ran into the 
aperture made in the arch, which 
covers the large drain from Fleet- 
market to the Jhames, under 
Bridge-street. The animal dropt 
into the drain, and was carried by 
the current of water down to the 
Thames, where it was laid hold of. 
The bullock lost one of its eyes in 
the fall, but came out alive. 
Dublix. Some time in the . 
course of last month, the ap- 
pearanccs of a gold mine were dis- 
covered in the mountains of the 
county of Wicklow. ear iF 
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r2th. 
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