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that an orphan girl whom Miss 

 Kelly had brought up in her ser- 

 vice, with i-nother whom she 

 was also about to provide for in 

 the same manner, perished in the 

 flames. Miss Kelly> by her shrieks, 

 endeavoured to awaken them, for 

 it was impossible for her to reach 

 the chamber in which they slept. 



The colonel, at the moment, 

 was carried to Mr. Lingham's in 

 Beer-lane, and the injuries he has 

 received make it dangerous to re- 

 move him for the present ; this, 

 added to a severe astlimatic com- 

 plaint which he caught in the re- 

 treat under sir John Moore, and 

 which was much increased by the 

 Walcheren fever, renders his re- 

 covery very doubtful. Miss Kelly 

 and her familj' have lost every 

 part of their property that was in 

 the house. Nothing was insured. 



The fire, according to the re- 

 port of the firemen, would have 

 been got under very soon, but the 

 explosion of the gunpowder having 

 struck terror into the men who 

 worked the engines, they fled and 

 left the flames for some time to 

 rage uncontrolled. This powder 

 was for the use of the volunteer 

 corps, and did not, it is now said, 

 amount to a larger quantity than 

 ten or tweUe pounds ; but the as- 

 sertion that there were as many 

 barrels, threw an instant [)anic on 

 all around, and throughout the 

 neighbourhood. Certain, how- 

 ever, it is, that had not this ex- 

 plosion taken place, the fire would 

 not have spread. As it is, there is 

 great consolation in knowing that 

 many of the important papers of 

 oflice have been recovered ; and 

 s«veral chests of valuables, with 

 the principal records, have been 

 •aved. No delay will take place 

 in the progress of business. 



Vol.. LVI. 



The first Custom-house built in 

 London was in 1559, 225 years 

 ago; it was burnt down in 1718, 

 and rebuilt the same year ; and it 

 was on Saturday, the 12th of Fe- 

 bruary, agiiin totally consumed by 

 fire. The first Custom-house, 

 therefore, stood 159 years; the 

 second, which was burnt on Sa- 

 turday, stood 96 years. 



14. About a fortnight ago, Mr, 

 Thomas Lang, a respectable blan- 

 ket manufacturer, of Littletown, 

 deposited in a drawer of his desk 

 two bills of exchange, of the value 

 of upwards of seventy pounds. On 

 Tuesday last, Mrs. Lang having 

 occasion to refer to the bills, went 

 to the drawer, but to her great 

 consternation no bills were to be 

 found. Every article in the desk 

 was turned over, and the search 

 was continued until midnight 

 without effect, and resumed the 

 next morning with no better suc- 

 cess. When all hopes of finding 

 the lost property had vanished, a 

 neighbour came in, and ha zing 

 heard the story of the loss, remov- 

 ed the desk, and on the back part 

 of it, a small aperture was dis- 

 covered. On continuing the search 

 a similar hole was found m the 

 floor, and upon removing three 

 flags, a mouse's nest was discover- 

 ed, in which were the lost notes, 

 almost reduced to their original 

 rags, and which the mouse, with 

 great ingenuity, had converted 

 into a very comfortable lining for 

 its nest; but fortunately the bills, 

 though torn into minute piecesj 

 retained sufficient of the writing 

 to ascertain their identity. 



The remains of Mrs. Wright^ 

 late Prioress of the Nunnery at 

 Lanherne, were interred in Maw- 

 gan church ; on which occasion a 

 procession of the nuns of that in- 

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