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about the Sound, into Catwater, 

 Mill-bay, and Hamoaze. The fish- 

 ermen consider this omen as porten- 

 tous of some great hurricane. They 

 have been shot at, but none killed, 

 their backs being impenetrable to 

 musket-shot. 



20th. The very extensive paper- 

 mills, belonging to Mr. Hamilton, 

 at Wansford, Northamptonshire, 

 were this night entirely consumed 

 by fire, supposed to have happened 

 through the carelessness of a boy 

 having left a candle, which commu- 

 nicated to a quantity of rags. 



This day divine service was per- 

 formed at St. Dunstan's church in 

 the west, for the first time since the 

 repairs, which have cost 1,3001. — 

 There are few churches in England 

 of greater antiquity than this. It is 

 said to have been built soon after 

 the death of the saint whose name it 

 bears, in 1087. It fortunately es- 

 caped the fire of London, which 

 approached very near it. In 1701, 

 the arched roof was taken down, 

 and a square one built, ornamented 

 with deep mouldings, &c. The pul- 

 pit, organ, gallery, and roof, are 

 again rendered handsome by gilding 

 and painting. The figure of a peli- 

 can feeding its young, over the al- 

 tar, has been re-painted. The co- 

 lumns of the Ionic order, between 



TAi- Nelsov on the part of the Bri- 

 tish empire, the united navy of 

 France and Spain endured an irrepa- 

 rable blow.* 



24th. The men employed in pul- 

 ling down the church of All-saints, 

 Lewos, discovered a monument that 

 had been long concealed between a 

 large Gothic arch and one of the 

 main columns that supported the 

 edifice. This antique relic was 

 formed of plaister, in the shape of a 

 coffin, and exhibited -i rude painting 

 of two infants, who had doubtless 

 been there interred many centuries 

 past. The figures represented were 

 of two different colours, and toler- 

 ably fresh. 



25th. The hurricane of this day 

 so tremendous, at Plymouth, 



was 



that many persons 



their legs. 



yard, was blown off into the Tamar, 



and was drowned. 



were carried off 

 A centinel, in the dock> 



NOVEMBER. 



The French papers of the 

 capt. Wright, 

 taken off the 

 and has since 



1st 

 29lh ult. state, that 

 who was last year 

 coast of Brittany, 

 been confined in the Temple, cut his 

 throat with a razor on the 27th ult. 

 upon hearing of the surrender of the 

 Austrians. Private letters from Pa-_ 

 which are the Creed and Lord's ris, however, of the 7th November, 

 Prayer, ilso a globe between two mention that the death of captain 



Wright did not take place till the 

 1st November. The Paris papers, 

 can know nothing of any transact 

 tions that take place in the Temple, 

 but from the government. The go- 

 vernment knew he was alive on the 

 29th ; but he died three days after- 

 wards. There cannot exist a doubt 

 of the falshood of the assertion that 

 captain Wright was guilty of sui- 

 cide j the moral temper of his mind, 



his 

 * Vide Appendi.x, for the particulars, and " Hi&tory of Europe." 



bibles, denoting the spreading of the 

 gospel over the world, are beauti- 

 fied ; and the fine pictures of Moses 

 and Aaron have been cleaned. The 

 outside of the church is also re- 

 painted ; and the whole may now 

 be considered a public ornament. 



21st. On this day was fought the 

 ever-memorable naval fight of Cape 

 Trafalgar, on the coast of Spain, in 

 Vhich, with the loss of the Immou- 



