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CHRONICLE. 



JANUARY. 



1st. OOME workmen, enlarging 

 O a pleasure-ground in the 

 eastern suburbs of the metropolis, 

 discorered an immense quantity of 

 Roman coins, of different metals, 

 the impressions in good preserva- 

 tion, and consisting of a great num- 

 ber of emperors, consuls, Sec. sup. 

 posed to have lain in the earth up- 

 wards of 1700 years. . 



Part of Clowes Wood, in Blean 

 Parish, caught fire, by the wind 

 haTlng blown some embers of wood, 

 lighted for making wefts or band?. 

 It began on the side of the wood, 



; near the road to Swalclifie, and ex- 

 tended in the direction of the wood, 

 nearly through to Blean-common, 

 where it luckily spent itself, by the 

 opposition it received from tiie 

 standard wood, after consuming 30 

 acres of furze and heath. The pro- 

 gress of the flames were considera- 

 bly checked, and preventfid from 

 spreading in lateral diredions, by 

 the patches of snow in dilTerent 

 places. Fortunately the wind was 

 not in a contrary direftion, for, 

 from the vicinity of the fire to 



iThomdon-wood, an extent of 700 

 acres, more damage nii^ht have en- 

 sued. 



12th. About seven ia tbeerening 

 Vol. XLVII. 



a strong shock of an earthquake was 

 felt for two or three seconds, in the 

 whole of the lower end of the vala 

 of Clwyd, which, from its seTerity, 

 must hare extended to a considera- 

 ble distance. 



The same night, as the Doris fri- 

 gate was proceeding to Quiberon- 

 bay, through the Benequet passage, 

 she struck upon a sunken rock, 

 called the Diamond Rock, and iu 

 consequence made so much water, 

 that Capt. Campbell was obliged to 

 throw all her guns, and every 

 weighty article, overboard. Dur- 

 ing the following day, it blew a tre- 

 mendous gale at S. W. but the wea- 

 ther moderating on the day follow- 

 ing, they gained upon the leak, 

 which was under the fore-foot, and 

 in the evening she sailed for Eng- 

 land with a fine breeze, accompanied 

 by the Felix. In the night, how- 

 ever, it blew hard from the N. W. 

 with a heavy sea, which tore off the 

 foddering which had been put un- 

 der her bottom to stop the leak, and 

 the water gushed in with such vio- 

 kuce, that ev.ery exertion to keep 

 it out proved inefleiJtual ; she be- 

 came water-logged, would not an- 

 swer her helm, and had drifted con- 

 siderably to leeward during the 

 night. In this predicament Capt. 

 Campbell, finding it impossible to 



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