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ing to 18,000 men, to the frontiers 

 of Holland, with the view of en- 

 camping there for a limited time. 

 He applied to the senate to furnish 

 the necessary supplies ; but they, 

 in reply, declared their finances to 

 be so low, as to be unable to pur- 

 chase even the wood for building 

 huts and temporary erections for 

 the officers. Mollitor remonstrat- 

 ed, and threatened ; but the se- 

 nate pwrsisted in their declaration ; 

 and in consequence, the French 

 general was obliged to relinquish 

 his design. 



12. About six o'clock in the 

 evening the inflammable air in a 

 coal-pit, at Grange-colliery, near 

 Bolness, Scotland, exploded ; out 

 of twenty-three persons who were 

 in it at the time, awful to relate, 

 only six were saved, seventeen 

 having suffered. This melancholy 

 event, which was altogether unex- 

 pected and undreaded (accidents, 

 the effects of inflammable air, hav- 

 ing been long unknown in that part 

 of the country) is understood to 

 have been occasioned by one of the 

 suffering women having placed a 

 light in a part of the pit, where, 

 from the late uncommon closeness 

 of the atmosphere, that air had 

 collected in strength, and of which 

 she had been warned by one of the 

 survivors, and there to have set 

 fire to it. The fatal effects were 

 produced, not by burning, as is 

 common in cases of explosion of 

 inflammable air, butbyitssuftiicat- 

 ing quality. Although immediate 

 rnedical attendance was given, and 

 every means used for restoring 

 suspended animation, only four 

 out of twenty-one were recovered, 

 the other two having got out w ith- 

 out receiving any injury. Besides 

 the other calamities attending this 



dreadful accident, eighteen chil- 

 dren have been left unprovided 

 for ; for whose relief a subscrip- 

 tion was set on foot. 



The roof of a barn, which had 

 recently been converted into a 

 meeting-house, at Home-End, be- 

 tween Christchurch and Poole, fell 

 in, while— Hodges, a methodist, 

 was preaching. There were a 

 hundred people present, many of 

 whom were much hurt, and four 

 persons were killed. 



17. The Queen Charlotte, of 

 120 guns, was launched at Dept- 

 ford. 



23. The earl of Northesk and 

 sir Richard Strahan, received, at 

 the Mansion-house, the swords 

 voted to them by the city of Lon- 

 don. They were accompanied by 

 the earl of St. Vincent. Appro- 

 priate speeches were made by the 

 chamberlain, and answered by the 

 admirals. After this ceremony, 

 they staid and dined with the lord 

 mayor. 



29. A destructive fire broke out 

 at Mr. Giilet's printing-office, in 

 Salisbury-sq uare, Fleet- street. The 

 premises had been rebuilt, at great 

 expence, after a former calamity of , 

 the same kind, in 1805. Several 

 neighbouring houses were greatly 

 damaged. 



AUGUST. 



3. This was an indictment 

 against the defendant, for selling 

 guineas at a rate beyond their 

 intrinsic value. 



The defendant has long been 

 suspected of being the medium by 

 which a vast deal of the gold coin 

 of the realm has been sent out of 

 the kingdom, and the prosecution 

 was carried on by the Mint. 



