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named Thomas Kilby was found 

 dead in the morning, on the road 

 near Queenborough ; and a boy at 

 Nicol's iodge was deprived of his 

 eye-sight by the lightning. On 

 the whole, this storm is pronounc- 

 ed to be the most awful that ever 

 was experienced in that part of the 

 country in the memory of man. 

 Nearer Stamford we do not liear 

 of any mischief done beyond the 

 unroofing some buildings, and the 

 tearing up or breaking of many 

 large trees. The Leicester coach 

 was overturned in consequence of 

 it ; as was the Paul Jones, in going 

 down the hill near Greetham ; 

 and the Newcastle coach, near 

 Norman-cross ; but providentially 

 none of the passengers were much 

 hurt by these accidents. At Spald- 

 ing, the electric fluid entered a 

 chimney of the Royal Oak public- 

 house, which it threw down, and 

 passing into a sleeping-room, 

 slightly scorched a child in bed." 

 — Stamford Mercury. 



31. The seventy-first annual 

 conference of the Wesleyan me- 

 thodists assembled at Bristol on 

 the 25th. Dr. Adam Clarke was 

 president ; and nearly 300 minis- 

 ters were present. The increase, 

 during the last year, amounts to 

 near 15,000—12,484 of whom, 

 have been added in Britain, and 

 the remainder in the West Indies 

 and Nova Scotia. 



AUGUST. 



1. Although the two last 

 months had been distinguished in 

 the metropolis by an almost con- 

 stant succession of spectacles of 

 grandeur and festivity, all bearing 

 relation to the great and happy 

 events which had taken place in 



the earlier part of the year, yet it 

 was determined in the councils of 

 the Prince Regent that the return 

 of peace should be marked by dis- 

 plays of joy still more striking and 

 appropriate to the occasion, and of 

 which the whole public might be 

 partakers. Of the particular cha- 

 racter of these exhibitions, and the 

 time when they were to make their 

 appearance, considerable indecisioQ 

 seems to have prevailed. It was 

 at first understood that the show- 

 was to be combined with some 

 entertainment of superior splen- 

 dor to be given to the imperial 

 and royal visitors ; but the short- 

 ness of their stay would not allow 

 time for the vast preparations to 

 be brought near to completion. 

 With respect to the subject of 

 celebration, the renewal of peace 

 was naturally that which first pre- 

 sented itself; and over the royal 

 booth an inscription was placed to 

 this effect, viz. " Peace restored 

 under the Regency." But, from 

 delay, peace was now become a 

 circumstance with which the pub- 

 lic mind was familiarized ; and it 

 was at length resolved to associate 

 with it the Accession of the House 

 of Brunswick, by selecting the day 

 on which that happy event took 

 place a hundred years before. A 

 new inscription pointed out this 

 intention ; and the names of Nel- 

 son and Wellington, in great let- 

 ters upon the booth, further indi- 

 cated that our naval and military 

 glories were to form other objects 

 to which the joyful feelings of the 

 spectators were to be directed. 



The three parks were properly 

 chosen for the scene of this civic 

 jubilee, as alone affording space for 

 the expansion of the immense mul- 

 titudes by which the British me- 



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