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22(1. The surrender of Surinam 

 to his majesty's arms was this day 

 commumcated in the following let- 

 ter from Earl Camden, (one of the 

 principal secretaries of state) to the 

 lord mayor.* 



" Downing-street, June 22d. 

 " My lord, 



" I have the satisfaftion to ac- 

 quaintyour lordship, that dispatches 

 Mere received late last night from 

 M. G. Sir Charles Green, com- 

 manding his majesty's troops in the 

 Leeward Islands, dated Paramaribo, 

 Mav 13th. announcing the surren- 

 der of the colony of Surinam to his 

 majesty's arms, on the 4th of that 

 month, Mith a very inconsiderable 

 loss on the part of his majesty's 

 forces." 



" I have the honor to be, 

 " &c. &c. &-C. 



" Camden." 



23d. A dreadful fire broke out 

 yesterday morning at Grays, in Es- 

 sex. A labouring man who had been 

 drinking at a neighbouring public 

 hoasc, on his return home with a 

 lighted pipe, incautiously knocked 

 out the ashes among some straw and 

 other inflammable matter that lay in 

 a heap close by the range of ware- 

 houses at the back of the town, 

 which had been long used as grana- 

 ries. The consequence was, the 

 lighted tobacco smothered during 

 seyeral hours, and on yesterday 

 morning the inhabitants were alarm- 

 ed by the flames bursting from one 

 of the warehouses, which took fire 

 and communicated with the rest. 

 Before assistance could bo procured, 

 the whole range was consumed, 

 with several thousand quarters of 

 wheat and flour. At ten o'clock 

 {his morning the coluipus of smoke 



arisin? from the ruins were seen from 

 the Kentish hills, as far distant xt^ 

 Plumstead. 



A Ludgershall tythe cause was 

 decided in the court of exchequer, 

 by which a verdii^l was given for the 

 minister, originating in his being 

 rated to the poor, contrary to the 

 usage of the parish. It is the cus- 

 tom of the country for the minister 

 to be exempt from poor rates, wheo 

 he receives his tythes and dues by 

 composition; but when he takes 

 his tythes in kind, he then becomes 

 chargeable. In this case the court 

 decreed the repayment of the rates 

 for the respedive' years the minister 

 had been compelled to pay. 



A thunderbolt fell at Newport, 

 which killed three horses and an ox, 

 and wounded three men. 



21th. This day (Sunday), at 

 Hanslope, Bucks, was experienced 

 one of the most tremendous thunder 

 storms, hccompanied by lightning, 

 ever remembered by the oldest in- 

 habitant living. It seemed to gather 

 in the W. S. W. Mith most astonish, 

 ing napidity, where it hung for a con- 

 siderable time in silent and gloom/ 

 horror, wheti on a sudden, a dread* 

 ful peal of thunder broke over the 

 village with a tremendous roar, 

 which was succeeded by others still 

 more loud and awful. In fa6t, th« 

 Avholc artillery of the skies seemed 

 to be let loose at once ; and the 

 lightning that accompanied it wal 

 the most tremendous ever witnessed. 

 The elen)ents seemed in one conti* 

 nued blaze. About half past eight 

 in the evening, the storm was at its 

 height, and while the affrighted vil- 

 lagers were supplicating the Supreme 

 Power, they were alafmed by the 

 falling of the splr^ qf the Tsncrable 



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