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his coachman, to order him to drive 
the carriage as close as possible to 
the windows of the room in which 
he was—to keep on his box——the 
step was to be ready let down, and 
the two footmen placed up behind. 
All this the clerk had done, according 
to direction. Mr. L. then ordered 
Mr. Peacock to open the parlour 
windows, and at this moment a 
waiter, unapprized of ‘the transac- 
tion, entering the room, he fired a 
pistol at him, loaded with three 
balls, which lodged in the wall; then, 
throwing some wine, and the con- 
tents of a butter-boat, in Mr. P.’s 
face, he jumped out of the window 
into his carriage, which drove fu- 
riously off, atid he has not since been 
heard of. A commission of lunacy 
against him has been taken out. 
The Termagant, which arrived at 
_ Portsmouth this day, brought the 
_ melancholy intelligence of the total 
loss of the Athenienne, of 64 guns, 
on her passage to Malta, by striking 
en the Esquerries rocks, near Tunis, 
in a gale, on the 20th of October 
Jast. he following are the names 
of the persons, above the rank of 
sailors, who lost their lives: Capt. 
Rainsford ; lieutenants Swinburne, 
M‘Millan, and Salter ; capt. Stains, 
and lieutenants Moss and Minden, 
of the marines; Mr. Griffin, sur- 
geon; the boatswain, carpenter, 
and gunner; Messrs. Hennell, 
Rome, Morrison, Newman, Fitzge- 
rald, and Blackburn, midshipmen. 
Passengers: Licutenant Barker, of 
the Melpomene ; ensign Banker, 
of the 37th regiment ; aud the car- 
penter of La Bergere sloop. Per- 
sons saved: Liutenants John and 
James Little, and —— Pym; Mr 
Goodwin, purser; Messrs. Man- 
ning and Francis, midshipmen ; Mr. 
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Parker, master; Mr. Cannon, mas- 
ter’s mate. Passengers: Brigadier 
general Campbell; Mr. Byron, sur- 
geon of the Endymion ; Mr. Dyer, 
to join the Juno; Messrs. G. 
Thorn, J. M‘Lean, and $. Wells, of 
La Bergere. Seamen saved, 1215 
women, ditto, 2—123. Officers and 
seamen lost, 347.—The conduct of 
captain Rainsford is spoken of in 
the highest terms. When the ship 
struck, he declared he would be the 
last to quit her. It was owing to 
his presence of mind, and the autho. 
rity he employed, that so many lives 
-were saved. The ship had on-board 
10,000]. in specie. 
‘19th. A widow woman, of South- 
wick, near Oundle, had three horses 
poisoned a few days ago, in conse- 
quence of their eating the fibres of a 
yew tree. 
20th. This morning about ten, 
a violent storm of wind, thunder, 
lightning, and hail, came on at 
Alnewick. The hail-stones, which 
were driven by thé gust with un- 
common force, consisted of pieces of 
complete ice, three quarters of ar 
inch square. Very great damage 
was done to the windows and glass- 
work, at Alnewick ; and at Swans- 
field, Mr. Sealey had 260 squares of | 
glass broken ; and’ others sustained 
similar losses. The skirts of the 
storm reached Newcastle. It was 
very severe to the westward. The 
flag-staff, on the new quay at 
Whitehaven, was shattered by the 
lightning, and several panes of 
the light-house were broken. In 
Liverpoo], between twelve and one, 
the wind was so tremendous, as to 
blow down a new built house in 
Nile-street, unroof several houses, 
and upset a boat on the river, in 
which there were three men return- 
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