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CHRONICLE. 



JANUARY, 



1 7th. A T ten at night the whole 



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church fell in with a great crash : 

 fortunately no person was passing 

 by at the time. The ruins seemed 

 to threaten the chancel, by falling 

 in it. An inscriptionj in white 

 stone Gothic letters, nine inches 

 long, inlaid in flints and hard mor- 

 tar, in relievo, on the outside of the 

 wall of the south aile,just under the 

 battlements, sets forth that this 

 building was erected, by the contri- 

 bution of the townsmen, in 1424. 



General Washington's funeral 

 was celebrated, on the eighteenth 

 of December, with every mark of 

 honour and regret so justly due to 

 his virtues. A great multitude of 

 persons assembled at mount Vernon, 

 to pay their last melancholy duty to 

 this distinguished man. His corpse 

 lay in state in the portico. On the 

 ornament, at the head of the coffin, 

 was inscribed Surge ad Judicium ; 

 about the middle of the coffin, 

 Gloria Deo ; and on the silver plate, 

 " General George Washington, 

 departed this life on the fourteenth 

 of December, '99, ^t. 68." 



The prince of Wales has made a 

 present of a Scotch horn, very 

 beautifully mounted in gold, with 

 a Scotch pebble at the top, to the 



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marquis of Huntley, as a proof of 

 his esteem, for the very gallant con- 

 duct of that young nobleman in 

 Holland. There is an inscription 

 on the lid, in Erse, to the following 

 purport : " The son of the king, to 

 his friend the son of the duke of 

 Gordon." 



2 1st. Between the hours of ten 

 and eleven at night, a terrible fire 

 broke out in Bramah's manufactory 

 of engines and patent locks, in 

 Eaton-street, Pimlico, which, in a 

 short time, destroyed the whole 

 building, being made of wood. 



22d. Exeter. Between the even- 

 ing of Saturday last and the Monday 

 morning following, a most daring 

 robbery was committed on the city 

 bank, situated in the church-yard of 

 this city, and conducted under the 

 firm of Samuel Milford and Co. the 

 circumstances of which are as fol- 

 low: the bank was shut at the usual 

 hour, on Saturday evening, and the 

 cash, bank notes, drafts, &c. were 

 deposited in an iron chest, in an 

 inner room of the bank ; after 

 which, the five keys were deposited . 

 at the dwelling-house of Samuel 

 Milford, esq. one of the proprietors. 

 On the Monday morning following, 

 the clerks, having opened the bank 

 as usual, found every door. Sec. 

 locked, as it had been left; but 

 were astonished to perceive that all 



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