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to exceed five or six seconds. From 
the great height at which the me- 
teor was moving, and its great ve- 
locity, there was no expectation of 
hearing of its fall, or of any of 
those masses of iron and stony 
matters which have, in so many 
well-authenticated instances, fallen 
from the atmosphere, and buried 
themselves in the earth, on the 
bursting or extinétion of many si- 
milar meteors. 
14th. <A letter frem lord Hobart 
to the lord mayor, announced the 
surrender of the colonies of Dema- 
rara and Essequibo, on the 19th 
September last, to his majesty’s 
forces under the command of gene- 
ral Grinfield and commodore Hood. 
(Vide Appendix. ) 
Mr. Dewy, of the 8th regiment 
of Loyal London volunteers, who 
received the contents of a musket, 
ata sham fight, near Hornsey, on 
Wednesday, the 2d instant, lan- 
guished until half past 11 o’clock 
this night, when he expired, after 
experiencing the most excruciating 
pain. It has not yet transpired who 
the person was that inflicted the fatal 
wound. Coroner’s verdict; acci- 
dental death. 
16th. ‘The Circe frigate, of 32 
guns, was lost this evening. She 
was in chace of a French priva- 
teer, and, unfortunately, struck the 
ground, by which accident she made 
so much water, that the crew were 
obliged to leave her next day. She 
went down soon after. The crew 
were brought into Yarmouth-roads, 
- by three fishing vessels, on the 18th. 
17th. The court of - common- 
council voted their unanimous thanks 
to the late lord mayor; which were 
ordered to be written on vellum, 
richly emblazoned, framed, and 
glazed, and presented to him by 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
the town-clerk, in the name of the 
court. The salary to the recorder 
of London, hitherto 6001. was fixed 
by the court at 10001. per annum. 
18th. Reports respecting the fe- 
ver at Newcastle are very erro- 
neous. Some of them state the mor- 
tality at not Jess than from 20 to 
30 persons a day ; the number has 
not been more than so. many per 
week. The infection communicated 
to Gateshead, in the county of Dur- 
ham, but the mortality of that place 
was trifling. At Newcastle, lamps 
have been lighted on the quay with 
tobacco, for the. purpose of puri- 
fying the air. ‘The late mild foggy 
weather is suppesed to have pro-. 
duced this malady. Mr. Mayor 
having requested the attendance of ~- 
the physicians and surgeons of New- 
castle, in order to quiet the alarms 
that have been spread on this oc- 
casion ; those gentlemen have pub- 
licly testified, that although a typhus 
fever (such as is usual at this season) 
has prevailed in different families, 
from which some deaths have hap- 
pened, it has not shewn any thing 
new in its character ; and that all 
the late cases are of a milder nature ; 
the number taken ill considerably 
lessened, and the disease rapidly de- 
clining. 
Lately, at Sketty, near Swansea, 
as some labourers were employed 
in digging a pond, within a hundred 
yards of Sketty-house, they disco- 
vered three earthen pots, containing 
a great number of gold and silver 
coins of Edward Lil. Many of them 
were in a high state of preservation ; 
not asingle coin was found amongst 
them, either prior or subsequent to 
that reign. 
20th. General Baird, who com. 
manded the storming party at Serin- 
gapatam, and who had afterwards 
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