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increased with such rapidity that 
before the engines could be 
brought from Howden (a distance 
of four miles) the entire building 
was on fire ; by which the whole, 
with the leaden covering, was en- 
tirely consumed, except one cham- 
ber, with the outer and some parts 
of the inner walls, It is supposed to 
have been occasioned by a chim- 
ney taking fire, from which no dan- 
ger was apprehended when the fa- 
mily went to rest.. The south side, 
or principal part of the quadrangle, 
being the only part left undemolisb- 
ed in 1650, contained the dining- 
room, drawing-room, and chapel, 
used as the parish-church ever since 
the other was ruined in the civil 
wars. In the two principal chambers 
were some beautiful stair-cases of 
Singular contrivance, containing 
double flights of stairs, winding 
round each other, after the designs 
of Palladio. 
e4th The following melancholy 
“occurrence took place. As 
the ferry boat was crossing the r- 
ver from Common-staithe quay to 
Old Lynn, at seven in the evening, 
with about 30 persons on board, it 
ran foul of the cable of a barge, 
and was unfortunately overset, by 
which accident it is feared that 
upwards of 20 persons have lost 
their lives; four more must in- 
evitably have shared the same 
fate, but for the active and vigo- 
rous exertions of one of the passen-= 
gers (John Price, a sailor), who 
at the imminent hazard of his life, 
and with that humanity and intre- 
pidity which are the characteristics 
ofan English sailor, rescued four 
fellow-creatures from death ; he 
had seized a fifth (a woman), but 
the rapidity of the tide tore her 
from him, and he himself had 
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nearly perished in the attempt to 
save her life. Eight only of the 
bodies have yet been found. It is 
just 166 years since a similar acci- 
dent happened at the same ferry, 
when 18 persons were unfortunate- 
ly drowned. 
pire. 7th—At his lodgings 
in Bath, John Sibthorp, M. D, 
F. R. S. and regeus professor of 
Botany in the university of Oxford. 
He was indefatigable in his research- 
es for new and tear plants, “and 
travelled twice into ‘Turkey and 
Greece to collect them. The fa- 
tigues he underwent in his last 
tour entirely destroyed his consti- 
tution, and he has fallen a victim 
to his favouritestudy. He took the 
degree of M. A. June 28, 1780, 
of B. M, Dec. 8, 1783, (about 
which time his ‘father resigned to 
him the professorship), and of 
D. M, Jan. 20, 1784; Some years 
ago the university appointed him a 
travelling fellow on Dr, Radcliff’s 
foundation, and in that capacity 
he visited a great part of the Eu- 
ropean continent. At Gottingen 
his abilities where held in such esti- 
mation, that he was honoured with 
a degree in physic by the universi- 
ty. In 1794 he published a Flora 
Oxoniensis, and has left an estate 
of 300]. per annum to the univers 
sity, in trust, to defray the expen- 
ces attending the publication of a 
Flora Greca, taken from speci- 
mens in bis own valuable collec- 
tion, After that work is finished, 
the sum of 200]. per annum is to 
be added to the salary of the She- 
rardian professor, on condition that 
he reads lectures on botany in eye- 
ry term, His excellent collection 
of plants and books he has be- 
queathed to the botanical library of 
the university. 
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