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severed off completely from the 
body of the tree; nearly the whole 
of the bark of the body of the tree 
was alsotorn off, and scattered round 
in‘small pieces, to a distance of 20 
yards from the tree. 
Mr. Anthony Daffy Swinton, 
late vender of Datfy’s Elixir, under- 
went a long examination before 
three of the commissioners of bank- | 
rupts, at Guildhall. At his former 
examination he talked much of a 
Miss Moore, who he said had lived 
with him, and had burned the me- 
morandums which constituted his 
accounts. The commissioners issued 
orders for the appearance of Miss 
Moore, to be examined. Miss 
Moore did not appear; but the 
bankrupt confessed that he himself 
burnt the leaves torn from the ac- 
count-book, for which hesubstituted 
clean ones, and gave orders to a 
young man of the name of Hall to 
fill up the blank pages with fabri- 
cated accounts, and to write with 
different pens, and three different 
sorts of ink, to make it appear as if 
wrote at different times. He like- 
wise gave in, the same day, a list of 
things concealed at various places by 
his desire. ‘The commissioners told 
him, that from what he had stated 
at his several examinations, they 
thoughtit their duty to send him to 
Newgate; to which prison, after 
hearing Mr. Const as his counsel, he 
was committed. 
20th. A most atrocious fraud was 
committed on a number of gentle- 
mew at the stock-exchange, it being 
the settling day, by a foreign Jew, 
of the name of Joseph Elkin Daniels, 
who has for a long time been a con- 
spicuous character in the alley. 
Finding that, in consequence of 
the great fluctuation of omaium, he 
was not able to pay for all that he 
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had purchased at an advanced price, 
he hit upon a scheme to pocket an 
enormous sum of money, and with 
which he ‘has decamped : 31,0001. 
omnium was tendered to him in the 
course of Thursday ; in payment for 
which he gave drafts on his bankers, 
amounting to 16,816/. 5s. which 
were paid into the respective ban- 
kers of those who had received 
them, to clear in the afternoon. 
Having gained possession of the 
omnium, he sold it through the me- 
dium of a respectable broker, re- 
ceived drafts for it, which he cleared 
immediately, and set off with the 
produce. On his drafts being pre- 
sented, payment was ‘refused, he 
having no etiects at the banker’s. 
2ist. There was this day the most 
destructive overflow of water in the 
vale of St. John, near Keswick, that 
has been experienced there since the 
memorable water-spout of the year 
1749. This, too, is supposed to 
have been occcasioned by the burst- 
ing ofa cloud upon the mountains. 
About 2 P.M. the water came rush- 
ing down the gill, between Fisher- 
place and Brattah, with such force, 
as to overflow the channel of the 
river, and to do considerable da- 
mage. ‘The principal mischief was 
sustained by Robert Walker, of 
Iisher-place, whose grounds are 
nearly all covered by rubbish, 
washed down from the sides of the 
adjoining mountains. At the time 
the wide-spreading torrent was 
sweeping. every thing before it, 
down the sides of the mountain, 
there was scarcely any rain at the 
bottom. ‘The scene was terrible in 
the extreme. In the former visita- 
tion (1749,) a mill was washed 
down. The millstone has not been 
found to this day. . 
_ 29d. Early this morning a very 
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