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prevented her from executing this 

 pious office. It was on one of these 

 occasions.that the sacrilegious wretch 

 took the opportunity of perpetrat- 

 ing this crime. 



A gentleman v/ritcs from Virgi- 

 nia, that they had been for 12 days 

 clouded with a dark smoke ; and 

 that, on the day he Avrote, the Clinch 

 mountain had sunk for many miles 

 to the depth of 50 feet, after which 

 clouds of smoke issued therefrom ; 

 so (hat the inhabitants at the dis- 

 tance of 20 miles from the place, 

 were not able to discover an objelSt 

 at 20 feet distance. This, it is sup- 

 posed, was occasioned by the burn- 

 ing of the stone coal which is in that 

 mountain. 



20th. A coroner's inquest was 

 held at the ship taycrn, Milbank, 

 on the body of Susannah Humphries, 

 a young lady who fell out of a boat, 

 and Avas drowned, at Chelsea reach. 

 She was in company on the preced- 

 ing day with Mrs. Sutler of Lambeth, 

 and her son, Mr. Sutler, with whom 

 she was on the point of marriage. 

 An inquest was also held on the 

 body of Elizabeth Woodcock, who 

 was burned to death the day before 

 in a garret, No. 4, Lascelles' place, 

 Broad-sreet, Bloomsbury: an acci- 

 dent supposed to be occasioned by 

 lifting of a saucepan from the fire. 

 The verdicts were, in both cases — 

 Accidental death. 



22d. About 8 at night, a most 

 dreadful fire broke out in the stables 

 of the Spotted Dog public house, in 

 Chelmsford. A party of Hanove- 

 rians, about 120 in number, march- 

 ed into the town about 2 o'clock 

 the same day, and were, for conve- 

 nience, lodged in the house and sta- 

 bles upon the ))rcmisos. Fatigued 

 with their march, they retired to 

 rest at an early hour, seventy of 



them in particular, in a large sta- 

 ble at the above public house, with- 

 out any other fastening to the door 

 than a latch. In the evening, an 

 alarm of fire was given, the drums 

 beat to arms, and the premises where 

 the 70 men lodged, among whom 

 were some women, were discovered 

 to be in liaraes ; possibly unacquaint- 

 ed Avith the use of a latch, the Ha- 

 noverians were some time before 

 they could open the door, which, 

 after a short time, Mas efl'ected from 

 without, and they (as was at first 

 supposed) all made their escape, but 

 not without many of them being 

 most dreadfully scorched, and their 

 clothes in flames. Every mind was 

 perfectly rejoiced, that providence 

 had saved, as they supposed, the 

 lives of those who were just before 

 the inhabitants of the buildings ; 

 but little was it suspected, that 12 

 poor unfortunate fellow creatures 

 were left struggling under the ruins. 

 The fire had subsided about twelve 

 o'clock; but next morning, on re- 

 moving the rubbish, it was disco- 

 vered that 12 men had perished ! 

 Their mutilated remains Averc drag- 

 ged out, in a state too dreadful to 

 describe. A number of horses be- 

 longing to the royal Avaggon train 

 were in the stables, all of Avhich 

 were removed, but tAvo, and they 

 were burnt to death. — One other 

 unfortunate Hanoverian died the 

 next morning from the injury he 

 received. Every soul must have pe- 

 rished in the flames, had not the 

 corporal of the detachment, to whom 

 the alarm of fire had been given, 

 most providentially ran doAvnto the 

 stable, and extricated them from 

 their distressing situation. — Several 

 of the survivors Avere shockingly 

 burnt. The coroner's jury, which 

 sat upon this melancholy event, af- 

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