272 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



Persons were employed for the 

 purpose of entrapping him, by 

 purchasing fifty guineas from 

 him at the rate of lis. 6d. each 

 guinea, which they did, and he 

 was immediately apprehended. 

 The case was proved. His counsel, 

 however, took '■))jections, which 

 are to be argued next term, and 

 the jury, under his lordship's 

 directions, found him guilty, sub- 

 ject to the opinion of the judges 

 upon the law of the case. 



5. A thunder-storm passed over 

 the metropolis between one and 

 two o'clock in the afternoon, ac- 

 companied by a heavy rain and 

 a quantity of hail. The storm was 

 of short duration, but did some 

 mischief. Thehouseof Mr. Horni- 

 blow, in Upper Marsh, Lambeth, 

 was struck about half-past one. 

 The electric matter entered at the 

 upperpartof the chimneys, and de- 

 scended to the attic story, where 

 a man and his wife were sitting at 

 dinner : it passed within a foot of 

 the woman, butprovidentially with- 

 out doing her any injury. Thence 

 it passed into the second floor, 

 rending every thing in its way, and 

 to the first floor, where the chim- 

 ney-piece was torn away, and a 

 picture rent. It then descended to 

 the lower part of the house, where 

 an old lady received a considerable 

 shock, but was not hurt ; and 

 passed to the entrance, splintering 

 the door in its progress. Several 

 of the windows were broken, and 

 the house was much shaken and 

 materially damaged. The house 

 has a N. W. aspect. A house in 

 Bowling-street, Westminster, was 

 struck in a similar manner; the elec- 

 tric matter entering by the chim- 

 neys and passing through the 

 floors. A bell-wire was melted, 



and the door at the entrance was 

 broken. A newspaper which a 

 person was reading at the time was 

 set on fire, but the person reading 

 received no injury. A female ser- 

 vant and a child were hurt, but not 

 dangerously. During the storm a 

 remarkable phenomenon occurred 

 at Mr. Frazer's, botanist, King's- 

 road, Chelsea, behind whose 

 house, in a southern exposure, 

 the hailstones, in consequence of a 

 strong eddy of wind, had fallen in 

 such quantities into a back cellar, 

 the door of which happened to be 

 open,astobecomeacomplete piece 

 of solid ice, about eight feet in cir- 

 cumference, and two feet in depth. 



12. A dreadful earthquake hap- 

 pened this day at noon, at St. 

 Michael's, one of the Azores. 

 The village of Cozas, situated on 

 a pl^in, comprising twenty-two 

 houses, was swallowed up; and in 

 the spot where it stood, a lake of 

 boiling water gushed forth. Many 

 of the unfortunate inhabitants had 

 previously retired to the elevated 

 ground ; but about thirtj'-two per- 

 sons, it is calculated, have lost 

 their lives by this awful and cala- 

 mitous event, and cattle and pro- 

 perty to a considerable amount 

 were destroyed. A great degree 

 of alarm continued to pervade the 

 whole island, as on the east side 

 an orifice had been discovered re- 

 sembling the crater of a volcano. 



l-i, 15. The tremendous thun- 

 der-storm on these two days has 

 done infinite damage. At two 

 o'clock in the forenoon it appeared 

 as if a cloud burst over the metro- 

 polis, and discharged in the course 

 ofaminutea profusion ofwater: this . 

 was succeeded by a shower of very 

 large hailstones,which broke seve- 

 ral windows, and much glass in the 



