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to be enrolled agreeably to the third 
resolution. 
Resolved unanimously, that the 
thanks of this meeting, be given to 
the right hon. the lord mayor and 
alderman oi this ward, for his very 
able and manly conduct upon the 
present important occasion—for his 
promptitude and zeal*in forwarding 
the association of the inhabitants of 
the city, and of this ward in parti- 
cular, in the defence of the kingdom 
—for his upright conduct in the 
chair, and his polite attention to the 
inhabitants at this meeting. 
16th. A remarkable circumstance 
happened in Wych-street, opposite 
the gate of the New-inn. About 10 
this morning, a woman, decently 
dressed, came up to a man passing 
that way, and, attempting to lay 
hold of him, fell back, and immedi- 
ately expired. On being searched, 
there was nothing which ‘could lead 
to a knowledge of her name, or who 
she was; for though some pawnbro- 
ker’s duplicates were found in her 
pocket, the articles appeared to have 
been pledged under ‘some other 
names, as the pawnbroker declared 
he was unacquainted with the per- 
son of the woman.—She was con- 
veyed to the workhouse, where the 
coroner’s jury sat on Sunday last, 
* and found a verdict, ‘¢ Died by the 
visitation of God.’? ‘The most ex- 
traordinary part of the anecdote is, 
that the man who was so accosted 
by the deceased, and who appears to 
have been a porter in the Brown- 
low-street lying-in-hospital, as soon 
as he came home, said he had re- 
ceived.a shock from which he should 
never recover, and died in the course 
of the day. 
A. letter from Hanover, of the 
16th, says, ‘* Yesterday was ccle- 
brated with much festivity, as’ Bo- 
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naparte’s birth-day ; every hour 30. 
pieces of cannon were discharged 
from the ramparts. In the evening 
was a general illumination, free en- 
trance at the theatre, a grand con- 
cert, &c. The States had been re- 
quired to furnish 30,000 dollars for 
this fete, but 10,000 were accepted.” 
20th. This day, at the house of 
Isaac Salter and son, clothiers, at 
Langley, near Chippenham, a large 
fire-ball fell down the chimney, into 
a room, where a woman and four 
children were struck senseless, and - 
that and the adjoining house were 
both in flames in a short time. <A 
young child received some hurt by 
the fire. Had it happened by night, 
many lives would inevitably have 
been lost. 
As Simpson, a bricklayer, was at 
work upon the roof of Albany- 
buildings, Jate York-house, Picca- 
dilly, he was struck down by the 
lightning, and deprived of sight.— 
He was immediately taken up, and 
carried in a coach to St. George’s 
hospital, where he now remains 
blind, aud in the greatest agony.— ~ 
His eyes and eye-lashes were quite 
burned. He recollects seeing, just 
at the moment of the accident, the 
lightning, like the blaze of a candié, 
running along his trowel. 
The merchants, underwriters, and 
other subseribers to Lloyd’s cofleed 
house, having this day met for the 
purpose of setting on foot a general 
subscription, on an extended scale, 
for the encouragement and relief of 
those who may be engaged in the 
delence of the country,.and who 
may suffer in the common cause ; 
and of those who may signalize 
themselves during the present most 
important contest: and feeling con- 
fident, that when our very existence, 
as a great and independent nation, is 
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