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sioned several accidents. On Mon- 

 day night, the mails, and other 

 coaches, were delayed unusually 

 long. The Glasgow coach, which 

 should reach Stamford by eight, 

 did not arrive on Tuesday, until 

 two in the afternoon, and the York 

 and Edinburgh not until four. 

 Many of the coaches were over- 

 turned ; the York mail twice, near 

 Ware, notwithstanding the guard 

 and passengers walked to keep it 

 in the road. The Maidenhead 

 coach, on its return from town the 

 same evening, missed the road, and 

 was overturned. Lord Hawarden 

 was among the passengers, and re- 

 ceived an injury by the accident. 

 A girl named Griffiths, daughter 

 of a publican in Deptford, on her 

 return to London, missed the rising 



path leading to the bridge over the 

 Surrey canal, and fell into the 

 canal and was drowned. On Tues- 

 day night, a watchman in the 

 parish of Marylebone fell down 

 an area, while crying the hour, 

 and was found the next morning 

 with his neck broken; and on 

 Thursday night a serjeant belong- 

 ing to the West Kent Militia, gar- 

 risoned in the Tower, fell into the 

 river from the wharf, and was 

 drowned. There has been no in- 

 stance of such a fog as this week 

 pervaded the metropolis, extending 

 many miles round, since the earth- 

 quake at Lisbon, in November 

 1755. On Saturday afternoon the 

 obscurity was greater than it had 

 been at all during the day-time, 

 since its commencement. 



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