_ harbour, were thrown down. 
CHR ONT CLE. 
some weeks past have decided it—— 
On the 10th, 800 persons were em- 
ployed in digging for the bodies of 
those who were destroyed by the 
falling of the mountain at Schwitz. 
In forming a channel to draw off the 
waters, between thirty and forty la- 
bourers were swallowed up by a tor- 
rent of muddy water, which broke 
in upon them suddenly. 
By official accounts received from 
Malta, it appears that the loss occa- 
sioned by the explosion ofa powder 
magazine, which happened on the 
18th of July, amounts to—royal: 
artillery 14, thirty ninth foot 3, 
Maltese troops23. The number of 
inhabitants who suffered by the ex. 
plosion does notexceed 200. Some 
houses, and a small part of one of 
the curtains in the town of Vittori- 
osa, on the Cottoniera side of the 
We 
are happy to add, that no officer of 
the army or navy was either killed 
or wounded. ' 
On the 30th of August, a violent 
shock of an earthquake was felt at 
Rome. At Velletri some houses 
and the church of St. Salvador were 
thrown down. Very large chasms 
appear in the walls of the palace of 
Ruffinella, which is uninhabitable. 
Half of the beautiful palace at Za- 
‘garola is aheap of ruins. At Nemi 
the cloister of the Minorites is ruined, 
and the church divided in four parts. 
‘The stone edifices at Marino, and 
other places, are untenable. The 
house of Lucien Buonaparte is so 
considerably damaged, that he has 
“been obliged to take refuge in Rome, 
with the whole of his family.— 
The shock was most severe at 
Abruzzo, where several persons were 
killed and wounded. 
4th. As some children were lately 
playing on a straw-stack, belonging 
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to Mr. Coulson, of Bottle Barns, 
near Morpeth, one of them, Mr. C.’s 
daughter, was sliding down, whena 
fork, which had been left upright 
against it, penetrated her side and 
caused her death, 
7th This morning, at nine, Earl 
Percy, accompanied by Mr Whit- 
bread, Mr. Elliot, Mr Byng, and se- 
veral other friends, assembled on the 
Idustings in Covent-garden, to pro- 
ceed to the electian of a represen- 
tative for Westminster. After ad- 
ministering the oath to the High 
Bailiff, Mr. Whitbread addressed 
the eleétors, and lamented the im- 
possibility of finding a man of such 
exalted talentsand enlightened views 
_as Mr. Fox, whom he characterised 
as the best friend England ever had, 
He then alluded to the refu-al of 
Messrs. Sheridan and others, who 
had been applied to, to represent 
the city, and declared that he could 
confidently propose Earl Percy for 
their choice, as a candidate who 
united all the high qualities which 
could give force to his pretensions. 
His speech was received with loud 
applause ; and seconded by Mr. El- 
liot. Lord Percy was then almost 
unanimously elected. He expressed 
his thanks forthe honour which had 
been conferred upon him, and paid 
a tribute to the memory of Mr Fox, 
whose charaéter,- he declared, he 
highly esteemed, though he had not 
the honour of being personally 
known to him, and whose exam- 
ple he should always endeavour to 
make the guide of his public conduét, 
His Lordship then bowed, and retir- 
ed from the hustings. In the usu- 
al scene of confusion which arose on 
scrambling for the materials of the 
hustings, no person was seriously 
hurt. Acrimson gilt chair, elegant- 
ly decorated with laurel, was” 
G¢ brought 
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