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were extraordinary: in Moreton 
church yard, the earth was torn from 
several graves, aid human skulls 
thrown to a considerable distance ; 
and, near Bow, about 50 trees were. 
cut in twe, as if done witha saw. 
The report of the thunder was like 
that of artillery fired in regular suc- 
cession. About two, the inhabi- 
tants of Ipswich were much alarmed, 
as the crashes of thunder shook ma- 
ny houses; and at the hill barracks 
it was still more awlul; as the elec- 
tric fluid communicated with a range 
of stables, and struck down nne 
horses, two of which were killed. 
The stables were set on fire, but 
it was soon extinguished. Near 
twenty persons were struck down by 
the lightning, but none killed. A 
barn, at Framlingham, belonging to 
$. Kilderbee, esq. of [pswich, was 
burnt down by the lightning. The 
storm was truly awful in Birming- 
ham and its neighbourhood. The 
lightning split the crane at the canal 
‘office in that town. Its effects in 
the country adjoining have been 
dreadiul —A man was killed by the 
lightning at Teffont. At Dumfries 
the peals were loud, and the flashes 
uncommonly vivid. The lightning 
_ struck the house of James Kirk, 
at Mains Riddell, Colvend, shattered 
the chimney-head, and, descending 
‘the chimney, broke the hearth-stone 
_to pieces. Two cows were killed, 
- by the lightning, while grazing in a 
field near Ecclefechan. 
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF THE 
LATE VIOLENT STORMS. Sutton 
Place, near Guilford, in Surrey, the 
seat of John Webbe Weston, esq. 
was struck by lightning, when he 
and his lady had a most wonderful 
escape. ‘They werein bed, in aroom 
_ in which was a sash-window facing 
the West ; the head of their bed stood 
“not torn into pieces, 
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to the South, about six inches from 
the wall, and opposite to the feet of 
it was the chimney; at the wall be- 
hind the bed’s head were two pulls 
for a bell which hung in the room 
below, from the middle of which pulls 
a wire went down the wainscot and 
through the floor. Inthe room be- 
low there was a window (under that 
in the bed chamber) secured by up» 
right iron bars. ‘I'he lightning en- 
tered at the S. W. corner of the bed- 
room, tore off the paper and plaster 
from the wall, took the wire of one 
of the pulls of the bell, which it 
melted into small globules, some 
round like shot, some long, and run 
down the wire in the centre into the 
room below, where it seems to have 
been conducted upwards by the iron 
window bars, and to have entered 
the bed-room again by the window 
above. where nearly every pane of 
glass was broken, and where the 
skirting-board was forced into the 
room ; from thence it went up the 
chimney, displac'ngasmalliron back, 
forcing out the bricks on the east 
side of the chimney above the roof, 
and splitting a chimney-pot, on the 
top, which fellin all directions. When 
Mr. and Mrs, Weston awoke, the 
room was full of fire ai.d rubbish; but 
no farther mischief was done. — At 
East Horsley,a few miles off,two ox- 
en belonging to W. Currie esq.were 
killed.—An oak in the grounds of 
Loseley, near Guildford, was strip- 
ped of its bark,and the body,though 
was split and 
shivered so as to hate scarce a sound 
timber in it. | 
12th. A meeting of the principal 
gentlemen of the county of Essex 
was held at the Angel inn, Ilford, 
agreeable to advertisement, for the 
purpose of considering the propricty 
of applying to parliament for an 
, act 
