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is strongly marked with melancholy, 
reflection, and deep thought; the 
lines of premature age are very Vi- , 
sible upon it. He is said to be im- 
penetrable even to his triends. His 
head is remarkably large, and his 
eyes are well formed, and well set, 
animating a countenance which has 
been seldom known to smile. His 
voice is the deepest toned, and seems 
to issue as from a tomb. His mouth 
is large and handsome ; and, in ge- 
neral, it may be asserted, there is 
that harmony of features which de- 
notes an entire character. ‘The va- 
rious resemblances of him are toler- 
ably exact; though they by no means 
do him justice, nor give his look, 
which is extremely interesting and 
impressive. 
The image of the Holy Virgin, 
which had been carried to France 
from Loretto, during the revolution, 
was brought back thither from 
Rome, and welcomed with the dis- 
charge of cannon and ringing of 
bells. It was carried on a superb 
frame, borne by eight bishops, and 
placed in the Holy House. A con- 
course of above 50,000 persons had 
assembled on the occasion. In the 
evening Loretto and all the neigh- 
bouring places were splendidly illu- 
minated. : 
9th. This afternoon, a boat be- 
longing to the Neptune, with eight 
persons in it, five belonging to the 
boat, and three passengers (two of 
them young gentlemen of Gosport, 
who were going to the Neptune, at 
Spithead, to see their brother) was 
upset, ina gust of wind, near the 
hospital, and all drowned, except 
three of the boatmen. Four dead 
bodies were immediately picked up ; 
two of them the young gentle- 
men aforementioned, who had held 
by the boat until exhausted, but 
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driving on the shore, were beat off, 
and perished. . 
10th. This evening, about 6, the 
Active, of Greenock, Capt. Hornby, ? 
a fine new West India ship, of 350 
tons burthen, laden with 300 hogs- 
heads of sugar, &c. bound to Gree- 
nock, parted from her anchor in the 
Margate Roads, and came ashore 
within half a mile of the pier-head, 
where she soon sunk. After the sea 
had made a complete breach on her 
weather-side, she drove in shore, 
with her fore and mizen-masts stand- 
ing, upon the Nayland Rock, at 
three o’clock in the, morning; to 
which fortunate circumstance may 
be attributed the safety of part of 
the passengers and crew, who, had 
she remained where she first struck, 
would, in all probability, have pe- 
rished. They consisted of nineteen 
persons; and, from lashing them- 
selves in the shrouds, ten out of the 
nineteen were saved. Five perished 
in the main top, by the falling of the 
mast; one lad was washed over- 
board, and three were taken from 
the rigging, who perished by the 
spray of the sea, and from the in- 
clemency of the weather. Every 
means of resuscitation on them was 
used by Mr. Slater, a surgeon of 
this place, without success. Among 
the survivors are the captain, mate, 
and pilot. 
At night, during the heavy gale of 
wind from the eastward, the Hussar, 
of 38 guns, commanded. by captain 
Wilkinson, lying at Blackstakes, 
caught fire, by accident, in the gun- 
ner’s store room, close to the maga- 
zine; and, from the explosion of 
some combustible matter, the ship’s 
company rushed on the quarter- 
deck, and thence into a boat, which 
was hanging in the tackles astern 5 
and, from too great a number get 
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