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hatbour. of \Cork.s:iwaso! crowded 
with » West-Indiamen waiting for 
convoy. 
During the> severe hurricane of 
this day, the tops of many chimneys 
im the-metropolis were blown down, 
and: some houses;-were nearly un- 
roofed. There was no walking in 
the streets with'safety.. Many pas- 
sengers were: hurt: by’ the falling of 
tiles. » The casement of a windows 
light: blew: downfrom the garret 
window of the Flying-horse, Lam~ 
beth-street, Whitechapel, on the 
head -of: a child, who was passing 
at the time, and fractured its skull. 
The infant was immediately taken 
to the: hospital, but without hopes 
of recovery. A boy, about eight 
years old, crossing the upper end 
of Park-street, was forcibly carried, 
by. a:sudden gust, to some consi- 
derable distance, and, by its con- 
tinued violence, rolled several times 
over along the ground before he 
could be taken up; in the fall his 
under Jip was shockingly lacerated 
through to the chin, and the whole 
of his face very much bruised: he 
was carried to a surgeon in North- 
Audley-street. A stack of chim- 
neys,in St. James’s-place was blown 
down; they fell over the parapet 
into the street, but happily no per- 
son was passing at the time. An- 
other stack in Norris-street, Hay- 
market, was blown down. About 
the same time, the parapet of the 
front of a pablic-house in Sutton- 
street, Soho-square, had the same 
mischance, attended by similar cir- 
cumstances. Much damage has 
been done upon the river. Between 
Blackfriars and London bridges, 
four wherries were overset and 
sunk. Two coal barges brokefrom 
their moorings, and drove upon the 
starlings of London bridge, where 
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1803. 
they were dashed to pieces’ by the 
impetuosity of the waves; fortu- 
nately no persons were on board. 
The small vessels appointed for the 
conveyance of the volunteers and 
impressed seamen from the Tender, 
stationed off the Tower, to the 
Nore, were unable ‘to: proceed far~ 
ther. than Limehouse. The men 
were accordingly taken out at that 
place, and conveyed to their desti- 
nation in vessels better calculated 
to combat the storm. <A large tier 
of ships were driven from their 
moorings at Shadwell, and received 
much injury. Lvery other part of 
the river has suffered, more or less, 
from the same cause. In the wet 
docks, in the Isle of Dogs, though 
several prize ships broke from their 
moorings, by the badness of their 
own tackling, the mooring-stones 
remained perteétly steady, as did all 
the ships that were properly moored. 
Some trifling damage was done to 
the copper roofs lately fixed on one 
or two of the new warchouses, and 
to the shed upon the North Quay.— 
Almost every unfinished new build- 
ing along the Sussex coast has been 
levelled with the ground ; and chim- 
neys, to the great annoyance and 
danger of the inhabitants, have been 
precipitated through the roofs, and 
many of them have made their way 
to the ground-floor. A considera~ 
ble part of the ancient wall which 
surrounds the old Park at Canon- 
bury, with the embankment thrown 
up for the ball-firmg of the London 
volunteer corps, were leveiled with 
the ground; and part of the royal 
standard was blown from Wind- 
sor castle. 
Q7th. The light-house, on Wal- 
ney island, was this night burnt 
down. 
20th. At Horningtoft, in Nor- 
folk, 
