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The house of sir John Sinclair, at 
Whitehall, is very much injured: 
the upper part fell into the street. 
The dwelling-house of a poor man 
at Somers’-town, by trade a bow 
and arrow maker, was swept away, 
and all his little property destroyed. 
The brick wall at the south end 
of the Opera-house was blown 
down, and talling into the adjoining 
court, did considerable damage to 
the houses. At Limehouse bridge 
a pile of deal boards was thrown 
down and carried by the force of 
the wind to the distance of an hun. 
dred yards, 
Several dweilings in Cornhill, 
Moorfields, the Borough, Shadwell, 
Wapping, &c, &c. also received 
very material injury. 
Several large trees in St. James’s 
and Hyde parks, were blown down, 
and great numbers torn up by the 
roots in other places. e 
' At Twickenham, also, several 
trees, which stood before the house 
of lord Dysart, were blown down. 
“In St. °James’s park, and at 
Knightsbridge, similar accidents 
happened. In Greenwich park se- 
yeral trees fell a sacrifice. The ef- 
feG&s of this hurricane at sea, we 
fear, ‘have been of the most melan- 
choly nature. In the river several 
tier of ships started from their 
moorings, and received much in- 
jury. 
' An immense torrent of rain pre. 
ceded the srorm. 
In the late high winds, several 
of che colliers, and other vessels, 
were driven from their anchors in 
the Downs, on the coast of France, 
where two or three of them went 
ashore; two or three others were 
so fortunate as to reach Calais har- 
bour, by which their crews escaped 
perishing. : 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
In the Temple, many chambers 
were unroofed. A brick wall and 
handsome paling, with which the 
Bedford fields had been lately in- 
tersected, and the upper part- of 
one of the new houses building on 
the same scite, were totally demo-~ 
lished. ‘The paling seems to have 
been blown about the fields in 
sheets, 
The king and queen, who were 
at Buckingham-house, arose from 
their beds, as did many hundreds 
of families; for the storm of wind 
was of that continuance, weight, 
and pressure, that scarcely any fa- 
bric seemed to be capable of bear- - 
ing its force. 
Many of the largest and most beau- 
tiful trees in the walks of King’s, 
St. John’s, and Queen’s colleges, 
Cambridge, were torn up by the 
roots. St. John’s bridge has also 
been considerably damaged. 
At Brompton, Chatham, and Ro- 
chester, the effets of the storm 
were severely felt. The church of 
St. Margaret’s, at the latter place, 
was much injured. The vestry- 
room chimney was blown down, 
and much of the tiling-blown off. 
At Norwich, one of the largest 
treés in Chapel-field was actually 
snapt in twain during the tremen- 
dous storm, and five others very 
much damaged. The demolition 
of chimnies, and the unroofing of 
houses, were very general through- 
out that city. Also in the neigh. 
bourhood of Reading, a windmill 
on Bishop’s-hill was totally demo- 
lished. The mail coach going to 
Ipswich was several times actually 
blown out of the road, and the 
‘ guard obliged to dismount to lead 
the horses. 
Great damage was done at St: 
Alban’s; also to the buildings and 
walls 
