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an affecting spectacle, of wliich 

 the most interesting and distressing 

 part was the appearance of Madame 

 Moreau, supported by two ladies. 

 The French princes were there to 

 do homage to the memory of a 

 man who has fallen in so good a 

 cause, and a great number of old 

 French officers were also present. 



Fire. — About one o'clock on 

 Friday night a fire broke out in 

 the office of Mr, Phillips, an attor- 

 ney in East-street, Red-lion-square, 

 which for some time threatened 

 destruction to the surrounding 

 houses. The office, which was si- 

 tuated in a back yard, burned with 

 great fury for nearly an hour, 

 when several engines arrived, 

 which being well supplied with 

 water, succeeded in saving the 

 dwelling-house, and the surround- 

 ing houses. The office, with most 

 of its contents, fell a prey to the 

 flames ; but several deeds, and 

 other papers, were preserved 

 through the activity of the fire- 

 men. The accident happened, it 

 is said, through the negligence of 

 one of the clerks leaving a lighted 

 candle on the desk, the snuff of 

 which fell amongst some papers. 



16. This night, after the Glas- 

 gow mail had changed horses at 

 Polmont, the guard and coachman 

 being both intoxicated, the latter 

 having dropt the reins, in endea- 

 vouring to recover them fell from 

 'his seat, and the coach going over 

 his head, he was killed on the 

 spot. Meanwhile the horses being 

 •at full speed, the guard was so 

 perfectly incapacitated that he 

 could make no effort to stop them, 

 and they continued at the gallop 

 along Linlithgow-bridge, till they 

 came to the Post-office in that 



town, where they stopped, without 

 the slightest injury. 



17. This morning, about two 

 o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out 

 at No. 165, High-street, Shadwell. 

 The flames were first discovered 

 from without, and before the alarm 

 was communicated to those within, 

 the lower part of the house was 

 in one entire blaze, and fast com- 

 municating with the upper floor. 

 Several respectable females lodged 

 in the first and second floors. One 

 of them jumped out at the first- 

 floor window without being much 

 hurt, and another from the second 

 floor with a child in her arms, who 

 had her thigh broke, though the 

 child was preserved. The mother 

 was carried to the London Hospi- 

 tal with but little hopes of reco- 

 very. The premises in question 

 were completely burnt to the 

 ground, and the houses adjoining 

 on each side materially injured. 



20. Letters received from the 

 United Slates mention, that, in 

 June and July, the river Mississipi 

 had risen higher than it had been 

 known for 30 years. The conse- 

 quences had been dreadful. The 

 water had burst the mounds, and 

 inundated the country on the 

 west side to the distance of 65 

 miles. The beautiful and highly 

 cultivated land contiguous to Red 

 river was an ocean. The inhabi- 

 tants had fled to the heights, where 

 they and their slaves were en- 

 camped ; but vast crops, planta- 

 tions of sugar-canes, with an im- 

 mense number of horses, cattle, 

 sheep, hogs, and deer, were swept 

 away. Mr. Winthrop Sargent has 

 lost 500 head of cattle; many 

 other proprietors of land from 3 

 to ■too. The loss of neat cnttle 



