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keep her above water, determined 

 to abintlon her, and accordingly 

 brought her to an anchor " be- 

 tween a reef of rocks, off Crozie 

 (near the Mouth of the Loire) 

 called Lo Four, and a rock, called 

 the Turk ;" there wrts art excessive 

 heavy swell running, and the break- 

 crs could be seen diredtly astern, 

 about three miles distant. Happily 

 the wind abated, or all must have 

 perished. At this time a Danish 

 brig was drifted in by the tide, and 

 part of the crew put on board her, 

 with orders to proceed for England ; 

 the rest, including the Captain and 

 most of the officers, in all 117, got 

 on board the Felix, with a few por- 

 table articles. Capt. Campbell then 

 set the Doris on fire ; and, iu a 

 short time the after-magazine blew 

 up, (the fore one had been drown- 

 ed) and she immediately went down. 

 On the 16th the Felix fell in with 

 the squadron under the orders of 

 Sir T. Graves, and delivered the 

 Doris's people on board tlie Ton- 

 nant, which ship left that station 

 on the 21st, for Esgland. 



The Gazette of this day contains a 

 letter from Admiral Duckworth, da- 

 ted Nov. 4. announcing the capture 

 of the Hazard privateer, pierced for 

 16 guns, but only ten 4-pounders 

 mounted, by the Echo; La Cxra- 

 ciciTse, French schooner, of 14 guns 

 and .55 men, by the Blanche ; and 

 La Chasseur, French privateer, of 

 f> guns and 66 men, by his majesty's 

 schooner. La Supericure. 



13th. This morning, between three 

 and four o'clock, a fire broke out 

 in Mr. Dowding's cooperage, Wap- 

 ping-wall, which consumed those 

 extensive promises, together wi(h 

 an immense stock of casks, staves, 

 ^'c. 'J'he llamos extended to the 

 premises of Mr. F,rrington, wine- 



merchant, in Spring-street, whose 

 warehouse, and immense stock, 

 were entirely destroyed. His dwel- 

 ling-house narrowly escaped the 

 same fate, being partly consumed ; 

 four houses in Scone's-allcy were 

 burned to the ground, and five or 

 six tenements in Purdon's-court, all 

 of them inhabited by very poor 

 people, now left destitute of house 

 and furniture. The rears of seve- 

 ral houses in Star-street have suf- 

 fered considerably. 



14th. Samuel NVyldc Mitchell, a 

 weaver, was executed at the Old 

 Bailey, for the wilful murder of his 

 daughter, Sarah Mitchell, a girl only 

 nine years old, by cutting her 

 throat with a razor. He was con- 

 vifted on his own confession, made 

 before Mr. Justice Moser, at Wor- 

 ship-street ; and, from the time of 

 his trial to that of his death, he be- 

 haved with great contrition. 



16th. A coal-mine, belonging to 

 Mr. Gallimore, near Burslem, Staf- 

 fordshire, having taken fire about 

 two months ago, the tlames were at- 

 tempted to be extinguished, by 

 stopping up the tops of the pits, to 

 prevent the access of air. This day 

 two of the workmen went down 

 into the coal-pit, before the fire was 

 put out, and the impure vapour suf- 

 focated one in a moment ; the other 

 was drawn up alive, and has reco- 

 vered. 



The following curious and im- 

 portartt cause came on this day in 

 the court of Chancery. The plain- 

 titf was the celebrated J. II. Dolder, 

 tht( Landaman, or supreme magis- 

 trate of the Helvetian republic ; the 

 defendants the Bank of England, 

 lord Hnntingfield, and the hon. R. 

 Walpole. It appeared that when 

 the cantons of Switzerland were 

 threatened with destruction as an 

 tadepeadeat 



