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•d, and under various crops of ex- 

 cellent promise. 



Part of the road to Bagshot, near 

 Virginia Water, lately sunk 8 or 

 10 feet, and people have been em- 

 ployed in cutting it down to a 

 firmer station. The new surface had 

 not, some days since, been covered, 

 but received the carriage wheels for 

 several inches. 



Three accidents by fire have lately* 

 occurred in the neighbourhood of 

 Spilsby, CO. Lincoln. A sou of 

 Vim. Taylor, of Winthorpe, about 

 five, and a boy about three, belong- 

 ing to Anthony Birch, of East 

 Kcal, being left alone, were so 

 burnt, in consequence of their 

 clothes taking fire, that they both 

 expired a short time after. And 

 Mary Jessne, a widow woman, Tvho 

 resided in a cottage, by herself, at 

 Skendleby, was found by a neigh- 

 bour lying across the fire-grate, up- 

 on which she had fallen in a fit, and 

 burnt in a manner too shocking to 

 describe. 



The small-pox having lately made 

 its appearance at Boston, with some 

 fatality, the opulent inhabitants 

 have opened a subscription for the 

 purpose of introducing the vaccine 

 inoculation ; and the vicar has pub- 

 lished an admonitory address to the 

 people, exhorting them to overcome 

 their objections to this admirable 

 preventive. 



A sailing-boat was upset in Wood- 

 bridgc-iiver, Suttolk, by which ac- 

 cident John Calder, c^q. captain and 

 paymaster of the 2lst light dra- 

 goons, and William Joyce, a marine, 

 were unfortunately drowned. 



During a storm in Yarmouth 

 Roads, three soldiers were leaning 

 OTer the side of a ship, when a 

 heavy sea washed them overboard. 

 A boat was immediately launched to 



their assistance ; but a sudden squall 

 upset it, and seven sailors shared 

 the same fate as the unfortunate 

 soldiers. 



The Medusa frigate, with the 

 marquis Cornwallis and suite on 

 board, arrived at one of the Cape 

 de Verd islands, on its way to In- 

 dia, in seventeen days ; being the 

 quickest passage, perhaps, ever 

 known to be made by a ship of that 

 description. 



26th. This morning, at a quarter 

 before one o'clock, a most dreadful 

 fire broke out in the shop of Mr. 

 Rogers, stamp distributor and sta- 

 tioner, and Mr. Curzenven's, linen- 

 draper, in Broad-street, Plymouth, 

 which burnt with such incredible 

 fury, until half past four, that the 

 whole of those two extensive pre- 

 mises, with all their stock in trade, 

 household furniture, and even wear- 

 ing apparel, were completely a prey 

 to the devouring element. Mr. 

 Rogers's loss is very great : he es- 

 caped with his M'ife, scarcely cloth- 

 ed, out of the window, by the assist- 

 ance of his neighbours, with three 

 little orphan brothers, quite un- 

 dressed, who were taken over the 

 stairs while they were on fire. 



27th. At a court of common 

 council, held atGuildhall, the thanks 

 of the court, on the motion of Mr. 

 James Dixon, were unanimously 

 voted to captain Frederick Mait- 

 land, commander of his majesty's 

 ship La Loire, for planning and di- 

 recting the attack at El Muros,* on 

 the 4th instant ; also to lieutenant 

 J. Lucas Veo, the officers, seamen, 

 and marines, acting under his orders 

 at the attack at the fort of El Mu- 

 ros, and for their exemplary bravery 

 on that occasion ; but more particu- 

 larly for retaining the ancient cha- 

 racter of the British nation, in their 



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