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-vears after printing was introduced 
into England, in 1471, by Caxton, 
when the firft printing-houfe was e- 
refted in Weftminfter. AlfoanO- 
peratical Interlude, printed in 1658, 
and-performed in honour of Admi- 
ral Blake, during the Protectorate, 
entitled, “¢ The Courfe of Sir Fran- 
cis Drake, illuftrated with Mufical 
Sonnets and Scenical Decorations, 
as'aéted at theCockpit,Drury-lane.”” 
12. » Edinburgh. At feven:in 
‘the morning, the River Clyde, 
above the celebrated Fall of Corra, 
deferted its ufual courfe, leaving 
-its bed below, for four hours, al- 
moft entirely dry. The cotton- 
mills of New Lanerk were confe- 
quently ftopped; and at eleven 
o’clock, when the waters refumed 
their courfe, there was lefs at 
Mauldflie Ford, fome miles below, 
,than what the fmall rivers, the 
Moufs and Nethan, commonly af- 
ford. Although this is the fourth 
inftance of the fame kind in re- 
membrance, and the fecond fince 
the eftablifhment of the mills, the 
«caufe has not beenafcertained. It 
is, however, fuppofed that the wa- 
ters have found a {ubterraneous 
paflage betwen the Bonnyton and 
the Corra Linn, 
21. This night, at 11 o’clock, a 
cottage at Newton Ferrers, about 
eleven miles from Plymouth, in 
which flept an induftrious widow 
_(cottager) and her two children, 
was overwhelmed by the burfting 
of a very large field and orchard 
on a hill above the cottage, in 
Memblard-lane. It totally deftroy- 
ed the cottage anda barn, and fuf- 
_focated the widow and her two 
_children, who were found’ dead 
under a very great heap of earth, 
eim-trees, andcedar-trees. Alarge 
chafm jn the field above the eof- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1797+ 
{ave was found, out of which iffted 
a rivulet of water. The farmers 
imagine it was owing to the burft- 
ing of a fpring that this melan- 
choly accident happened. The bo- 
dies were dug out on Monday ; 
and Mr. Whitford, coroner for 
the fouthern diftrict of Devon, took 
an inquifition, and the jury returned 
a verdict, * Accidental Death.” 
23. The Emperorof Ruiha has con- 
ferred on Prince Repnin the. rank 
of General Field Marfhal. Baron 
Ungern, Prince Gallitzin, and M. 
Gudowitz and I{mailow, formerly 
Adjutants to the. late Peter III. 
have been appointed Generals. 
—Count Buxhoyden has_ been 
made Lieutenant- General and 
Colonel of a regiment. Prince 
Kurakin, Vice - Chancellor, has 
received the order of Saint An- 
drew ; and his Majefty has pre- 
fented him with the palace of 
Saint Marcoff, which coft 100,000 
rubles.—Prince Nicholas Gallitzin, 
and M. Terfky Raftaphine, Potem- 
kin, and Plefchtschejef, have late- 
ly been made Knights of the Or- 
der of Saint Ann. 7 
25. At the Quarter Seffions held 
at Bourn, for the diftrict of Kefte- 
ven, in the county of Lincoln, Jo- 
feph Tye, a blak{mith, was found 
guilty of ufing feveral feditious 
expreflions ; fuch as “* D n to 
the K—g :=the K—g is a rafcal, and 
all that belong tohim: his G-———t is 
a rafcally defpotic G t: K—gs 
are of no ufe, Fc. Se, 
His fentence was, that he fhould 
be heft in folitary confinement, without 
Jfecing ow freaking to any ferfon, except 
the perfon who takes him his vidtuals, for 
the frace of twelve months; and at 
the expiration of that time to enter 
into certain recognizances. 
We learn from papers publifhed 
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