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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



deliverance from the dangers that 

 surrounded her : she sprang from 

 her seat to a twig that overhung, 

 and regained the road in safety. 

 The horse fell (a depth of 200 

 feet) into the waters below, and 

 swam to the opposite shore with- 

 out material injury. 



A letter from Frankfort, dated 

 the 26th of October, states, that 

 the vintage on the right bank of 

 the Rhine had been almost totally 

 ruined. A continued series of wet 

 weather for 13 weeks had pre- 

 vented the grapes from arriving at 

 maturity, and was followed by 

 some cold nights in the begin- 

 ning of October, by which the 

 grapes were frozen, and rendered 

 not worth the gathering. The 

 vintage on the left bank of the 

 Rhine had equally failed.. 



29. The ravages of the plague 

 this year at Smyrna have been un- 

 usually dreadful. It is stated, that 

 in June, frequently upwards of a 

 thousand have been buried in one 

 day ; one-third of the inhabitants 

 had left their dwellings and the 

 town. Some compute the num- 

 ber of deaths this year at 50,000; 

 the least computation is 30,000. 

 Smyrna is said to contain from 

 150 to 180,000 inhabitants. All 

 Asia Minor, Syria, the Islands, 

 &c. experienced this year a simi- 

 lar loss of about one-quarter or 

 ooe-fifth of the whole population. 

 The crops of corn, &c. remain un- 

 gathered in the fields in many 

 places in the interior, for want of 

 hands; and several towns and 

 villages have been entirely aban- 

 doned. In Smyrna the keys of 

 800 houses have been delivered to 

 tVe Governor, as many families 

 hate been altogethe.- extirpated, 

 and the Government, is heir where 

 there is no very near relation. 



The following melancholy ac* 

 cident occurred in Cambridge : 

 as the Rev. Mr. Brathwaite, fellow 

 of St. John's College, was enter- 

 ing into the Blue Boar Inn, 

 Trinity-street, on the roof of the 

 Ipswich coach, he was so much 

 crushed (owing to the lowness of 

 the gateway) as to cause his death 

 in a few hours. 



31. A shocking accident oc- 

 curred at the gig-mill of Mr. John 

 Carr, at Armley. One of the 

 straps by which motion is commu- 

 nicated to the gig-engine having 

 started, a young man of the name 

 of Lee attempted to replace it, 

 but in the effort his arm unfor- 

 tunately became entangled in the 

 strap, and he was drawn among 

 the machinery, and instantly killed ; 

 his body was mangled in a manner 

 too horrible for description. 



NOVEMBER. 



1. Accounts from Gurry, in the 

 East Indies, mention a calamity of 

 too frequent occurrence in that 

 country. On the 12th of February, 

 the Nerbudda, during the night, 

 overflowed its banks, and swept 

 away upwards of 15 villages. 

 This was so sudden, that the in- 

 habitants, houses, furniture, and 

 cattle, shared one common fate. 

 The number of human lives lost is 

 supposed to exceed 3,000. 



The amount of Bank-notes in 

 circulation on the 1st of Novem- 

 ber was 27,857,290/.; of which 

 17,000,000/. were notes of 5/. and 

 upwards, 1,250,000/. promissory 

 notes at seven days' sight, and 

 9,500,000/. of 1 and 2/. 



Mr. Clark, of Broughton, in 

 Cumberland, met his death in a 

 dreadful manner. He had been 



