CHRONICLE. 
this country, and will carry down 
his name with distinguished .repu- 
tation to posterity. 
At Dishley, in the county of 
Leicester, Mr. Robert Bakewell, of 
whom a longer account shall be 
given in a future part of this vo- 
Jume. 
On the dreary hills be- 
twixt Festiniog and Yspytty 
in Denbighshire, on his return on 
foot from the former place, where 
he had been upon business, Mr. 
Richard Powell, master of Yspytty 
schcol. His body was found on 
the following Wednesday after- 
noon, a considerable distance from 
the road ; and it is supposed that 
night coming on, he being near- 
sighted, unfortunately missed his 
way, and through fatigue had lain 
down, when death overtoook him, 
and put a period to his existence. 
His death will be severely felt by 
his aged mother, whom he had for 
Many years past maintained out of 
the small pittance acquired by ho- 
rgth. 
nest industry. We may say of him, - 
without the least tin&ture of flat- 
tery, that he was one of the great- 
est geniuses Wales had produced in 
the present century. As a Welch 
grammarian he was equal to most; 
and as a poetical writer, his “ Four 
Seasons’? (for which he gained the 
Gwyneddigion’s annual medal in 
1793, although contested for by 
eleven able candidates) will be a 
Jasting monument of his poetic 
skill. 
NOVEMBER. 
Mr. Ald. Curtis, the new 
9+ Jord mayor, was sworn into 
office at the Exchequer, Westmin- 
ster-hall, before the lord chief ba- 
Al 
ron. The day being uncommonly 
fine, the show was very brilliant 
both by water and land. ‘The tide 
serving early, the lord-mayor and 
his company returned to Blackfri- 
ars-bridge before three o’clock. 
The memory of man does not 
recolleét so violent a hurricane as 
that which was suffered on Friday 
morning, the 6th inst. Its' con. 
tinuance was happily short. It bee 
gan about half past one, and had 
totally subsided before four o’clock. 
‘The squall came from the north- 
west, and was not accompanied by 
rain or hail. ‘Its ravages were 
dreadful beyond description ; trees 
were torn up by.the roots, stacks 
of chimnies blown down in every 
corner of the metropolis, houses 
totally uncovered,. and a number 
of buildings entirely demolished, 
The following are a few of the 
particulars. 
A house in Mead’s-row, Lambeth, 
was blown down, and a lady, who 
slept in the first floor (and who was 
to have been married that day), bu 
ried in the ruins; two of the ser. 
vants were very much hurt. A 
child in the same row was also kill- 
ed, by the falling of a stack of 
chimnies. 
A house in another part of Lam. 
beth was unroofed, by which an 
old woman lost her life. In St. 
George’s Fields, a young woman 
was killed, and another dreadfully 
maimed, by the falling of a house. 
A house in New Road, Fitzroy. 
square, and another in Conduit. 
street, were completely destroyed. 
A brew-house belonging to Mr. 
Huskisson, in the New Cut leading 
to Westminster-bridge, another in 
St. John’s-square, and the orchestra 
in the Apollo-gardens, are entire 
heaps of ruins. 
The 
