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attend his majesty, to learn his 

 royal pleasure when he would be 

 pleased to receive the same. 



6th. On the close of the poll this 

 day at Guildhall, the sheriffs de- 

 clared the majority to he in favour 

 of sir William Staines and the pre- 

 sent lord mayor ; and having re- 

 ported the same to the court of al- 

 dermen, sir William Staines Avas by 

 them elected lord mayor. 



l6th. This day the lord mayor 

 and corporation of London attended 

 his majesty with their address ; 

 which being presented to the king 

 on the throne, his majesty was 

 graciously pleased to make this 

 answer : " I am always desirous 

 of recurring to the advice and assist- 

 ance of my parliament on any pub- 

 lic emeirgency • and, previous to 

 receiving your petition, I had 

 given directions for convening my 

 parliament, for the dispatch of 

 business." 



The Russian charge d'affaires, 

 about three weeks since, applied to 

 the under secretary of state, for the 

 northern department, for a passport 

 for a Russian courier. Not receiv- 

 ing it immediately, he applied for 

 it a second time, and seemed very 

 impatient to procure it. At eight 

 o'clock on the following morning, 

 M. Lisakewitz left town, talking 

 with him all his baggage ; but he 

 gave out that he was only gone for 

 a few days into the country, having 

 no business in town. He however 

 left the country under the passport 

 granted for this courier. 



22d. At Margate a most tremen- 

 dous storm of wind came on about 

 three o'clock in tiie morning. The 

 jetty, for thirty yards, and all the 

 shops, including the fishmongers, 

 watchmaker's, and Mantle's, the 



fruiterer, were beat down by a 

 collier, who broke from her moor- 

 ings in the harbour, and was driven 

 in by the hurricane. Soon after, a 

 heavy swell from the north washed 

 away at least half the Parade, 

 which stood about six feet above the 

 surface of the water at high tide. 



31st. This night, about nine 

 o'clock, a fire broke out at Mr. 

 Smith's, a shoe-maker, close to 

 Aldgate pump, which in a short 

 time consumed his house and three 

 others adjoining. They were wooden 

 houses, and burnt with great rapi- 

 dity. At one shop, a lady suddenly 

 finding the fire burning through to 

 the house in which she was, and 

 supposing there was no escape by 

 the stair-case, threw herself out of 

 the two-pair of stairs window. By 

 the fall her arms were broken, and 

 she was otherwise much bruised. 

 She was cari-ied to the hospital, and 

 recovered her senses, but her life is 

 in great danger. No other per- 

 sonal accident happened till about 

 eleven o'clock, when the fronts of 

 three of the houses fell forward on 

 the street, and crushed several per- 

 sons in the ruins. Two of the fire- 

 men v/ere dug out before twelve 

 o'clock. Four firemen were on the 

 tops of the houses when the fronts 

 were falling ; but they clung to a 

 stack of chimneys, and were saved. 

 The calamity was occasioned by a 

 person who was manufacturing 

 squibs and rockets, preparatory to 

 tlie celebration of the fifth of No- 

 vember ; and who, by some acci- 

 dent or other, suffered a part of the 

 apparatus to take fire. 



The superb chapel of St. George, 

 at Windsor, is now completed ; 

 and its grandeur is so combined 

 with simplicity, that it is one of the 



