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hurt. Adjoining io this barn was 

 another, returned from it at a right 

 angle ; and as no hope existed of 

 being able to preserre the barn on 

 fire, it was left to its fate. The 

 communication with the other was 

 cut oflF, by pulling down a part ; and 

 the rain, pouring down in torrents, 

 checked the flames, and furnished a 

 supply for the engines. The pro- 

 gress of the fire was thus stopped, 

 after having, in the course of two 

 hours, consumed the barn, with the 

 waggon, and nearly all the wheat ; 

 also part of a corn-rick, which 

 stood close to the barn. The quan- 

 tity of wheat destroyed is not ascer- 

 tained, but it is supposed to be from 

 .50 to 60 quarters. The total loss 

 (independent of the barn, which was 

 not insured,) amounts to about 

 3001. but is not insured for more 

 than half that sum. The prompt 

 assistance of the neighbourhood, 

 and the alacrity and dispatch with 

 which the engines were conveyed 

 from Canterbury, attended by many 

 of the inhabitants, were materially 

 instrumental in suppressing the 

 flames. 



This very dreadful thunder-storm 

 was felt in a forcible manner in 

 Korfolk and Suffolk. The people 

 there do not remember the rain ever 

 to have been so heavy as it was on 

 that day. At Ipswich the water 

 was four feet deep in some of the 

 streets. At Aldborough, a trawl- 

 ing-boat, about a mile from the 

 shore, was upset in the tempest, 

 and two men, named Green and 

 Silvester, were lost. So expert are 

 the fishermen of this place in ma- 

 .naging their vessels, that no one 

 ever If new of a trawling-boat being 

 lost before. Their boat was found 

 on the Sunday following, and a 

 subscription was opened foi their fa- 



milies. About the same time, a, 

 whirlwind took place near Nor- 

 wich, which carried a boat apross a 

 common about 70 yards, and swept 

 away all the cut corn from a field. • 



8th. At Surlleet, near Spalding, a 

 poor woman, on turning down her 

 bed-cloaths, found a large snake, 3 

 feet long, which had unwittingly 

 been her bed-mate the preceding 

 night. The reptile was immediately 

 secured ; and Mr. James Hcardson, 

 of that place, possesses it. 



12th. The chapel belonging to 

 the parish of St. Giles's in the fields, 

 situate near Pancras-church, being 

 completed, was this day conse- 

 crated, with all due solemnity, by 

 the lord bishop of London, in the 

 presence of the churchwardensj 

 trustees, and other principal inha- 

 bitants of the parish. The burial* 

 ground adjoining and belonging 

 thereto was consecreated in June 

 1803. His lordship was pleased to 

 signify his approbation of the neat 

 manner in which the chapel is 

 finished and fitted up, with the ap- 

 purtenances belonging to it. In- 

 deed too much praise cannot be 

 given to those who have had the di- 

 rection of the whole of this concern. 

 The ground is hollow-drained, to 

 keep it dry, so that graves can be 

 dug 14 feet deep. It is laid out with 

 great propriety, different from most 

 others in and about the metropolis. 

 On the same day, his lordship con- 

 secrated the new burial-ground of 

 St. Martin's in the fields, situated 

 west of Camden-town. 



The bishop of London has lately 

 vested in his five aiyjhdeacons, as 

 trustees, the sum of 6,7001. three 

 per cents, yielding an income of 

 2001. towards establishing a fund 

 for the relief of poor clergymen in 

 his diocese, but not to be connected 



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