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than any of the rest ; and we fear, 

 that through their influence, the 

 peace and submission of the whole 

 will be 60 incessantly interrupted 

 as to require some example of in- 

 timidating harshness — a stop to 

 all communication between the pri- 

 soners and the public, and a gene- 

 ral increase of vigilance and se- 

 verity in the management of the 

 d6p6t. The punishments inflicted 

 in the present case have been very 

 lenient, and the market was shut 

 only one day. 



Earthquake at Teneriffe. — " On 

 Saturday, the 18th of September, 

 at half-past eleven o'clock, a. m. 

 a more severe earthquake was felt 

 throughout the island of Teneriffe 

 ,than is within ihe knowledge of 

 ,any of the inhabitants ; it lasted 



• three-quarters of a minute ; no 

 very great damage was done : the 

 houses perceptibly waved, many 



• walls were cracked, buildings twist- 

 ed, and parts of cielings broken in. 

 Two slight shocks were afterwards 

 felt on the same day, not any on 

 the following, but two very slight 

 ones the next. It evidently went 

 in the direction from the Peak. No 



.volcano was discovered within five 

 .days in consequence of it. Chal- 

 ,don, a small village of Grand Ca- 

 nary, about twelve leagues from 

 Palma, the capital, was destroy. 

 ed ; the inhabitants escaped, about 

 seven or eight hundred of them. 

 .At Lagona, the capital of Tene- 

 .riffe, a steeple of the cathedral 

 .fell, also one at Palma, in Grand 

 Canary : two officiating priests 

 •were killed, and the bishop se- 

 verely hurt. A rent remained in 

 the Cathedral of Onatavo, Tene- 

 riffe, large enough for a man and 

 (horse to ride through. A rep'Tt 

 M» that a volcano appeared at 

 Vol. LV. 



Hiera, one of the small islands. 

 The shock was felt on the water, 

 and, I believe, on all the islands. 

 At Yeo del Aito, Teneriffe, the 

 mast of a large vessel, with rigging 

 attached to it, branded " United 

 States," has been thrown up by 

 the sea. 



22. A most atrocious murder was 

 committed at Portsmouth, about 

 four o'clock in the afternoon : the 

 particulars are briefly as follow: — 

 A waterman, named George Bro- 

 thers, was plied by three persons 

 to take them to Ryde, in the Isle 

 of Wight, to which he agreed, 

 and set sail for that purpose ; but 

 before they had started more than 

 five minutes, a scuffle was ob- 

 served in the boat, and the water- 

 man thrown overboard ; he was 

 soon after picked up, covered with 

 stabs and cuts, and quite dead. An 

 alarm being given, the wherry was 

 followed by a boat from the Cen- 

 taur, and several other boats. The 

 lieutenant of the Centaur's boat, 

 finding that they scarcely gained 

 on the wherry, put two men into 

 each of two other wherries, which 

 were also in chase, conceiving 

 them most likely to succeed in 

 the pursuit, and the result proved 

 he was perfectly correct ; for, just 

 at sunset, they ran the wherry 

 alongside, though going at the rate 

 often miles an hour, and secured 

 the three men, but not till after a 

 desperate resistance. They were 

 landed amidst the execrations of 

 an almost ungovernable populace, 

 and examined at the Town Hail, 

 when they acknowledged them- 

 selves to be prisoners of war, and 

 to have escaped fromForton prison, 

 at two oVl.Mck in 'he afieinonn. 

 It appears that they h^tl beei. ■ - 

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