Ree en, eee 
one felt in Paris. 
CCEIIRe OZNFEC EE. 
apprehended, and commitied to 
clofe cuftody for life. 
DECEMBER. 
1%. Mr. Fox prefented to the 
King, at the levee, a petition, from 
near five thoufand freeholders of 
the county of Down, in Ireland, 
complaining of the hardfhips which 
that county at prefent labours un- 
der, and praying for a redrefs of 
grievances. 
2nd. Gold feven fhilling pieces 
were ordered to be received as the 
eurrent coin of the kingdom. 
5th. The Dublin papers brought 
' intelligence that Hugh Wheatley, 
one of the perfons brought for- 
ward by the crown againft Mr. Orr, 
lately executed in Ireland, had con- 
feffed that he had been guilty of 
perjury and murder. 
The late thick fogs have not only 
been prevalent among us, but in 
various other places. We havea 
private account of a moft furprifing 
The whole city 
appeared, as it were, enveloped in 
2 cloud of feetid emanations, and 
acid fulphureous matters, which af- 
tected both the {mell and the fight, 
and fcarcely left in the atmofphere 
vital air enough for a painful re- 
{piration; infomuch that chymifts 
are now employed in analyfing thefe 
jhanomena. At four o’clock, the 
mift was fo powerful as to intercept 
all the rays of light beyond a few 
paces; and foon afterwards became 
fo thick as almoft to extinguifh the 
torches which people were obliged 
to carry in the ftreets. It was ele- 
yen o’clock at night before the 
eold had power enoughto condenfe 
the vapid air, or precipitate. the 
foggy particles with which it was 
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impregnated. | Many © accidents 
happened by the overturning of 
carriages, &c. Some paffengers fell 
into the water. The thieves were 
particularly active amidi{t the gene- 
ral confufion. 
Staford/hire. The fnow was 
nearly general in this county, 
from the eaft: it is deep on moft 
of the roads from Norfolk and Lei- 
cefterfhire, quite acrofs the  king- 
dom to Chefter and Lancafter. In 
fome places upwards of two fect 
deep; arare circumftance fo early 
in the feafon. 
12th. That part of the water- 
works at Shadwell, in which Mefirs. 
Bolton’s fteam-engine was erected 
in 1774, over the well, was in one 
hour and a half burnt to the ground. 
This engine’s power of raifing wa-, 
ter was at the rate of 903 gallons 
in a minute, which is 54,180 gale 
lons in an hour, and 758,520 gal- 
lons, or 2853 tons 152 gallons in a 
day of fourteen hours, the ufual 
time of working it. It fupplies 
a diftri& of near 8000 houfes, be- 
fides publie buildings, extending 
from the Tower to Limchoufe- 
bridge, and from Whitechapel to 
the Thames. 
Dublin. 12th, Yefterday intelli- 
gence was received in town of the 
death of Colonel Fitzgerald, who 
was lately guilty of a moft fhame- 
ful-and difhonourable act in the 
family of the prefent Earl of King- 
fton, by fecsicing a daughter of that 
much refpected nobleman, to whom 
he was allied, and in whofe family 
he had been a conftant vifitor. He 
met with his death in the following 
manner: After the difcovery of this 
unfortunate criminal intercourfe, 
which occurred in England, and 
in confequence of which a duel 
had taken place between the bro- 
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