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are entirely ruined, and those 

 troops had great difficulty to es- 

 cape from them into the New 

 Town. 



The consternation occasioned by 

 this misfortune was heightened, 

 when it was known that the fire 

 had communicated to that part of 

 the wooden fort which contained 

 the principal store of powder, 

 cartridges, and grenades. The 

 most prompt assistance was re- 

 quisite to prevent an explosion still 

 more dreadful than the first. An 

 Aulic Counsellor had the courage 

 to seize and pull away a beam tl)at 

 was on fire, and that alone would 

 have been sufficient to annihilate 

 us. The cellars where the powder 

 was deposited were covered with 

 earth and dung, and Heaven in- 

 terposed in our favour. It beo-an 

 to rain about eight o'clock, and the 

 rain lasted the whole day. 



Even in the Old Town upwards 

 of 1,000 houses were much da- 

 maged by the shock. Beams were 

 thrown to the opposite side of the 

 Elbe, which proves the extreme 

 violence of the explosion. It was 

 felt as far as Pi rna, which is four 

 leagues from Dresden, and the 

 windows were broken there in 

 almost all the houses of the Castle- 

 street. The number of persons 

 who perished by this catastrophe is 

 not correctly ascertained. 



Waterford. — About five o'clock 

 in the evening, two ruffians 

 armed, one with a blunderbuss, 

 tlie other with a carbine, appa- 

 rently strangers, and their faces 

 slightly blackened, entered the 

 dwelling-house of Charles Crow- 

 ley, %yoodranger, at Woodhouse, 

 in this county. Crowley was 

 absent, but the intruders made 

 his sou Francis accompany one 



of them into an inner room in 

 search of arms, while the other 

 was stationed at the door. Shortly 

 after they had entered the room, 

 n shot was fired by the man on the 

 outside, which almost instantly 

 killed Crowley's daughter, a youno- 

 woman about twenty years of age. 

 The search was immediately aban- 

 doned : the villains ran off, and we 

 regret to add, have hitherto escaped 

 detection. — Waterford Mirror. 



15. A dreadful riot, attended 

 with very melancholj^ consequen- 

 ces, took place at the Race Course 

 of Downpatrick. 



It appears that a very great and 

 unusual assembling of country 

 people, all armed with sticks, and 

 some with pistols, was observed ou 

 the Race Course ou Friday, aad it 

 was understood that a preconcerted 

 disturbance was to be the conse- 

 quence, as for several days before, 

 it was said without hesitation, that 

 " the Orangemen had their day 

 on the 12th of July, and they (the 

 Threshers, or whatever name they 

 go by) should have their's on the 

 Friday of the races." About four 

 o'clock on that day, a quarrel 

 (many present say a sham fight) 

 took place between two men, 

 which in an instant attracted a 

 great crowd, apparently on the 

 watch, and a disturbance ensued, 

 and continued for a considerable 

 time, till it became so alarming 

 that the magistrates found it ne- 

 cessary to send to Down for a d£- 

 tachment of the Middlesex Militia 

 quartered there. 



When the military were drawn 

 up, the rage of the assembled 

 crowd was directed almost wholly 

 against them, and they were as- 

 sailed with vollies of stones from 

 behind the tents, and many op- 



