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CHRONICLE. 
JANUARY. 
ist. J WURING the action off 
Trafalgar, a woman was 
- stationed below, handing up powder 
in the enemy’s ship L’Achille,which 
was burnt in the engagement. She 
escaped in the following extraordi- 
nary manner. 
‘¢ After the ship was dismasted 
and had struck, she came upon 
deck. About this time the ship 
took fire; her rigging lying across 
her, it soon became impossible to 
extinguish the flames,and all the peo- 
_ ple,who were able to swim, began to 
guither. The woman then went 
down to the lower deck, while the 
fire was raging above, and _ staid 
there nntil the gans began to fall 
through the main deck; she then 
_ gotout of the gun-room port on the 
back of the rudder, and undressed, 
but would not trust herself to the 
_ water, till the melted lead from the 
tafleril ran down, and burnt her 
head, shoulders, legs, and several 
parts of the body. Then, com- 
mitting herself to Providence, she 
jumped into the sea, and was about 
half an hour, as near as she could 
guess, without any thing to sup- 
port her: she then, fortunately, got 
hold of a piece of cork, which she 
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found floating: Soon after, a man, 
who was swimming near, brought 
her a smail piece. of plank, which 
she got under her breast—this was 
the only support she had ; and, after 
being. an hour and a half in the 
water, was taken up by one of the 
Belleisle’s boats, the officer of 
which, with that humanity and at. 
tention to the weaker sex, which, 
we hope, will ever characterize a 
British seaman, immediately pulled 
off his coat, and some other part of 
his cloaths, to cover her, She was 
soon after put on board the Pickle 
schooner, from whence she was gent 
on board the Revenge the next 
morning. She found on board the 
Pickle her husband, who had also 
escaped, and who was brought to 
the Revenge with her. They were 
both landed at Algesiras, on the 
ship’s arrival at Gibraltar, after she 
had been fitted out by the officers 
in adress as suitable to her sex as 
the conversion of dressing gowns, 
&c. would admit of. She was young, 
handsome, and very intelligent. She 
wasa native of French Flanders—her 
name Jannette.” 
The four vergers of St. Paul’s 
cathedral, who have the exclusive 
property of the body of the church, 
are said to make more than a thou- 
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