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most of the cellars about the Horse- 
guards and Parliament-strect.. A 
number of wharfs, cellars, and 
warehouses, from the top of Upper 
Thames-street to the bottom of 
Lower Thames-street, and in Bridge- 
street, Blackfriars, were completely 
inundated ; and also the Lower 
apartments of several houses in 
Horsleydown. The irjury sustained 
is considerable. ‘The moon was at 
full, but the wind was fortunately 
westerly. Fifteen years have 
elapsed since those quarters expe= 
rienced such a visitation. 
27th. This day the Thames again 
rose considerably higher than on 
the preceding day, at Rotherhithe, 
Lambeth, and Milbank, as well as at 
the newly embanked cut at the Isle 
of Dogs, where serious injury was 
occasioned by the inundation. Near 
Lambeth horse-ferry a sow and 12 
pigs were drowned. 
28th. About twelve o’clock, one 
of the arches of Haydon-bridge, 
Northumberland, 95 feet in span, 
fell in, with a most tremendous 
crash, at the time that a number of 
people were going over it to church. 
One man sunk with the ruins to the 
depth of 40 feet, by which his thigh 
was fractured, and he was other- 
wise much bruised; but he is still 
alive. The bridge had long been in 
a state of decay. 
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BIRTHS in the Year 1806. 
Jan. 1. At Laugharne castle, 
county of Caermarthen, the wife of 
major R. J. Starke, a son. 
In the Royal Crescent, Bright- 
helmstone, the wife of Kean Osborn, 
esq. a daughter. 
4th. In Green-street, Grosvenor- 
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square, the wife of capt. Byng, R.N, 
a still-born son, 
5th. The wife of Edward Rigby, 
esq. mayor of Norwich, a daughter. 
At Edinburgh, the wife of capt. 
Halkett, R. N. a daughter. 
11th. At the Union Fire-office, 
Cornhill, the wife of Mr. Charles 
Philip Galabin, a son. 
13th: In Baker-street, Portman. 
square, the wife of J. Boddington, 
esq. a danghter. | 
14th, The wife of John Biddulph, 
esq, of Champion-hill, Surrey, ason. 
16th. At the Rectory-house’ at 
Acton, Middlesex, the wife of .the 
rev. Mr. Antrobus, ason. 
19th. In Park-street, Grosvenor- 
square, the countess of Banbury, a 
daughter. 
2ist. At the house of Hamilton 
Nisbett, esq. in Portman-square, the 
countess of Elgin, a danghter. 
24th. At Little Bookham, in Sur- 
ry, the wife of liceut. general Man- 
ningham, a daughter. 
Feb. 1. In Great George-street, 
Ilanover-square, the wife of Thomas 
Sheridan, esq. (son of R. B. S. esq.) 
ason. 
Qd. At Packington-hall, county of 
Warwick, the countess of Aylsford, 
a daughter. 
3d. At Shroton cottage, county 
of Dorset, the wife of lieut. colonel 
Seymour, ason, 
4th. At the Government-house, 
Guernsey, the wife of lieut. colonel 
Doyle, a daughter. 
6th. At his seat in Lincolnshire, 
the lady of sir Thomas Whichcote, 
bart. a son: 
The lady of sir W. Ramsay, bart. 
a son. 
At Glasgow, lady Janet Bucha- 
nan, a daughter. 
8th. The wife of Richard Congreve, 
esg. of Linley-hall, Salop, a son. 
Oth, The 
