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eleven o’clock. As the three Mr. 
Taylors, two of whom are clerks in 
the office for foreign affairs, the 
other aid-de-camp to the Duke of 
York, were coming to town from 
Richmond in a fmail wherry with a 
fail, which: they had built for their 
amufement, the boat. overfet near 
Kew, by ftriking againft a barge, 
and all three tumbled overboard. 
Mr. B. Taylor got-on fhore unhurt; 
Mr. Herbert Taylor was brought 
‘on fhore with little figns of life, but 
has fince recovered by the means 
recommended by the Humane So- 
ciety; and Mr. William Taylor 
was drowned, and his body is not 
yet found. -The latter had lately 
returned with Mr. Hammond from 
Vienna, to whom he aéted as fecre- 
tary, 2nd was much. efteemed by all 
who had the pleafure of knowing 
him. The night was extremely 
dark and 'tempeftuous. 
(18th. This nighta terrific ftorm of 
thunder and lightning, attended by 
# very heavy rain, was felt in the 
metropolis. . It-began in the fouth- 
weit parts of the kingdom, and has 
done confiderable damage. 
19th. Early this morning, during 
’ the prevale’nce of the thunder-ftorm, : 
a fire broke out in the houfe of Lord 
St. Helen, in Great Ruffel-ftreet, 
Bloomfbury, which entirely ‘con- 
fumed it, and confiderably damaged 
that of Sir George Young, adjoin- 
‘ing. It broke out, notin the bed- 
chamber, but ina room adjoining, 
where his: Lordfhip was) writing, 
with his back partly turned towards 
2 window, the :curtains of which 
fuddenly burft out into a flame, 
»which fpread itfelf in a few minutes 
. into every part of the room. | From 
the pofition of the candles on the 
- wriling-table, and the ruftling noife 
vanddinell of fulphur which accom: 
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panied the breaking; out of the 
flames, it feems highly probable 
that the accident was uccafioned by 
the lightning. 4 
Several of the failors engaged in 
the late difgraceful mutiny, were 
executed in the courfeof this month. 
The number of arms taken from 
the people in the north of Ireland, 
not including thofe feized in confe- 
quence of General Lake’s proclama- 
tion, are as follow: mufkets 10,600, 
bayonets 1984, piftols 726, fwords 
608, pikes 1419... 1 ae 
Worcefer, 20th. In beginning the 
repairs of our cathedral, tie tomb 
which ftood in the nave, near: the 
chancel, to commemorate the in- 
terment of king John, was propof- 
ed to be removed ‘to'a more con- 
venient place; but, to the aftonif- 
ment of the workmen,.a ftone cof- 
fin was difcovered at: the bottom, 
level with the floor, which, on care- 
fully examining it, was found to 
contain the remains of the king. 
From the great length of time the 
body had been depofited (fo long 
fince as the year 1216) nothing but 
‘conjectural ideas could be formed 
as to.the veftments, &c. Part of 
the robe was firm in_its texture, but 
of what colour could not be afcer- 
tained. . What was. difcovered of 
the body appeared to be nearly in 
-the fame pofition as the figure on 
-the top of the tomb-ftene, and, 
fromthe length of the coffin, mea- | 
fured five feet fix inches and a half. 
‘Part of afword was lying by his ieft 
fide, which time had much moul- 
dered; and the leather fheath was 
nearly in the fame ftate: the moft 
perfect part was towards the bot- 
‘tom of the legs and feet, on which 
-appeared a kind of half boot. A 
-quantity of a fort of white pafte lay 
_in two.or three lumps on and be- 
low 
