C Hi OW 1EC LE, 
inferpositions of Providence, the 
following circumstance stands aimost 
unparalleled :—-During | the height 
of the storm on Thursday se’nnight, 
a stack of chimnies belonging’ to 
Mr. Bignel, of Shepherd’s Bush, 
without the slightest notice to afford 
preparation for escape, fell through 
the roof of the house into his bed- 
room, with a most tremendous crash, 
breaking a beam which lay length- 
ways over the bed, through which 
it was forced, and at last rested 
against the floor: the other part de- 
stroying at the same instant a child’s 
bed, placed immediately opposite. 
The ends of the wall fortunately re- 
mained fixed. At the first alarm, 
Mr. Bignel directed his aid to the 
protection of his youngest child (on- 
jy three months old) lying by his 
side, and succeeded at length in 
escaping from the ruins, with his 
wife much bruised, and the infant 
unhurt; and afterwards he extri- 
cated the child in the other bed from 
its perilous situation, who had re- 
mained asleep during the whole of 
this terrific scene. Whien it is added, 
that the brick-work, wood, lath, 
and mortar that fell weighed nearly 
two tons, it will give an imperfect 
‘idea of this miraculous escape. 
_ 10th. In the hurricane of wind, 
lightning, and hail, a2 most melan- 
choly accident happened to the 
Jaunch of the Hibernia, of 110 
_ guns, which had been sent on shore, 
at Plymouth, for stores: returning 
té the ship in Cawsand Bay, in the 
evening, it then blowing a violent 
gale of wind, notwithstanding every 
exertion was made by the crew, she 
was obliged to bear away, it is sup- 
posed to put back to Plymouth, or 
to endeavour to. weather the Men- 
stone, and get into Winbury river. 
However, be it what it may, she 
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capsized near the land, andall hands, 
upwards of thirty-six, were swamped 
in this dreadful weather. he licu- 
tenant and several men reached the 
shore, and were saved; but the mid- 
shipman and 18 poor fellows were 
drowned, and their remains washed 
on shore near Winbury:—The coro- 
ner’s inquest sat on their bodies, 
and a verdict—‘* found drowned,” 
was returned by the jury. 
1ith. A man was executed ‘at 
Dublin for cow stealing. At the 
commencement of the fatal ceremo- 
ny, the rope broke, and the unfor- 
tunate wretch fell upon the railing 
before the entrance of the prison.—. 
He was brought up to the place of 
execution, dreadfully bruised and 
cut,- and the awful sentence of the 
law was completed without any fur- 
ther obstruction. 
13th. At the Clerkenwell sessions, 
J. L. Barrow, G, Wintle, S. Davis, 
J. Marryat, and Sarah Grover, in 
usurious connexion, were convicted 
of conspiring to prevent a bank- 
rupt, named Hathaway, from ob- 
taining his certificate, because he 
would not connive with them to let 
them put in their claim for money 
lent him at an exorbitant interest, 
and which they wished him to swear 
was a transaction for goods. On 
the 17th sentence was passed on 
them as follows: Marryat, Barrow, 
Wintle, and Davis, to be imprisoned 
two years, and pilloried, within the 
first month of their imprisonment, in * 
Finsbury-square. Sarah Grover to 
be imprisoned six months. 
15th. A dreadful accident hap- ~ 
pened to Thomas Whittington, esq. 
of Hamswell House, near Bath, by 
the machinery of his threshing-mill 
catching his hand, which tore off his 
arm, and fractured the opposite col- 
lar bone. Heis since dead, 
The 
