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rising ground, and occasioned its be- 
ing upset. The carriage swung 
round’a great tree before it fell. 
When the surgeon saw the princess 
of Wales, she most benevolently de- 
sired him to go up stairs, as there 
was a lady who stood more in need 
of his assistance. Thesurgeon (Mr. 
Lasydell, of Great Bookham) then 
went to Miss Cholmordeley, and 
found her totally deprived of life. 
There was a violent contusion on 
her left temple ; and her death ap- 
peared to have been occasioned by 
the rupture of a blood vessel. The 
jury rettirned a verdict of Acciden+ 
tal Death. Miss Cholmondeley 
was born in 1753,and was the daugh- 
ter of the late Hon. and Rev. Ro- 
bert Cholmondeley, reétor of Har- 
tingford-Bury, and St. Andrews, 
Hertford, who was son of the third 
earl of Cholmondeley, and uncle to 
the present éarl. Her mother is 
living, and resides in Jermyn+street. 
On the 8th, at 12 o’clock, the re- 
mains of this unfortunate lady were 
interred in Léatherhead church, 
close to the spot where lady 
Thompson, wife ofsir John Thomp- 
son, some years since lord mayor 
of London, is buried. The body 
was, on the evening of the sixth, re- 
moved from the Swan inn to an un- 
dertaker’s near the church-yard, 
and was followed to the grave by 
her brother, George Cholmondeley, 
<sq. one of the Commissioners of 
excise; the hon. Augustus Phipps ; 
William Locke, esq; S. Gray, ésq. 
and several other gentlemen. The 
fatal spot where this amiable lady 
met her sudden death is still visited 
by crowds. 
SwitzerRLanp.—On the 2nd ult, 
at five in the evening, the Knippe- 
nouhl Rock, which formed the sum- 
mit of Mount Rusenberg, was on a 
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sudden detached from its situation + 
and at the same time part of the 
mountain, of several feet thick, on 
the western side, and about 280 feet 
thick on the east side, gave way, and 
fell into the valley. which separates 
thelake ofZug from that of Lauwertz, 
and some houses in the village of 
Stein. One part of the mountair 
fell into the lake of Lauwertz, which 
caused such an agitation in the wa- 
ters of the lake, that they overthrew 
a number of houses, chapels, mills, 
&c. along the southern shore. Up- 
wards of 1000, persons were the vic- 
tims of this calamity. A society of 
thirteen travellers were dn the road 
from Arth to Schwitz: nine who 
walked first perished; the othet 
four escaped. In this convulsion, 
enormous pieces of rock were car- 
ried through the air to. prodigious 
distances. The lake of Lauwertz 
tias lost above 4 quarter of its ex- 
tent. That rich plain, which was 
so beautiful, now presents a moun- | 
tain of near 100 feet in height, a2. 
league dnd a halfin length, and as 
much in breadth. The villages of 
Goldau and Rothen, consisting of 
115 houses; that of Busingen, of 
126; and that of Kuslock, have 
totally disappeared. Of Lauwertz, 
which lost 25 houses, there remain 
10 buildings, all much ddmaged.— 
Twenty years since, general Plyffer 
predicted this catastrophe, from the 
knowledge that he had of the na- 
ture of the mountain. A professor 
of Schwitz said, that above Spiets- 
fleu was a sea of water, which had 
undermined the rock for several 
years, and that below, there was a 
cavern of great depth, where the 
waters were engulphed. ‘The quan- 
tity of water which has fallen during 
the preceding years has hastened 
this catastrophe, and the rains of 
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