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prize until payment shall be made 

 of the sum of 3^. rated and as- 

 sessed on him, upon proBts and 

 gain arising from his trade, em- 

 ployment, or vocation. Dated 

 10th September, 1810. 



3. The workmen employed to 

 repair the church of St. Mary Al- 

 dermanbury,discovered ,afevvdays 

 since, the remains of the notorious 

 chancellor Jeffries. A large flat 

 stone was removed near the com- 

 munion-table, and inavaultunder- 

 neath, the men found a leaden cof- 

 fin, containing the body. The cof- 

 fin did not appear to have suffered 

 much decay. It was closed, and a 

 plate remained on it, inscribed with 

 the name of chancellor Jeffries. 

 His son and daughter are also 

 buried in the same vault. The 

 coffin was not opened ; and after 

 public curiosity had been grati- 

 fied, it was replaced in the vault, 

 and the stone fastened over it. 

 Dated Nov. 9. Paper addressed by 

 Brigadier D. Joao Dias Por- 

 lier, to the commander of the 

 French troops in Spain. 

 " Having learnt, that on the 

 seventh instant, three soldiers of 

 the iiussars of Cantabria, who had 

 been taken at Corvera, were put 

 to death in the city of Palencia; 

 in execution of the orders which 

 the national government has is- 

 sued in opposition to those of the 

 robber Soult, alias duke of Dal- 

 matia, I have ordered six French 

 soldiers to be shot, and to be sus- 

 pended on trees, or the walls of a 

 place, the nearest possible to the 

 city of Palencia. 



'* All the nations who compose 

 the French armies in Spain must 

 therefore understand, that by or- 

 ders of the Spanish nation, for its 

 own honour and that of all the sol- 

 diers who defend it, all acts com- 



mitted in future by the French 

 generals, contrary to the rights of 

 war, shall be considered as crimes 

 committed against the rights of 

 men, and on all occasions the 

 strictestretaliationshalltakeplace." 

 10. Tremendous storm. — This 

 morning, about seven o'clock, it be- 

 gan to rain at Boston, and conti- 

 nued to do so throughout the day. 

 The wind accompanied the rain 

 impetuously from the E. S. E. and 

 gradually increased in roughness ; 

 from eleven o'clock in the day till 

 six in the evening, it blew ex- 

 tremely hard ; and from that hour 

 till nine a perfect hurricane. In 

 consequence of this continued 

 gale for so manj' hours in one 

 point, the tide in the evening 

 came in with great rapidity, and 

 rose, half an hour before the ex- 

 pected time of full flood, to a 

 height exceeding, by four inches^ 

 whatit is i-ecordedto haveattained 

 on any occasion |)receding. What 

 is called a good tide was expected; 

 but the consternation produced 

 by the rise of the water several 

 feet above its usual level, may 

 well be imagined to have been ex- 

 cessive. Houses which on no oc- 

 casion whatever before had been 

 invaded by the tide, were now, by 

 itsoverpeeringallprobablebounds, 

 filled to a great depth with the 

 water, which rushed into kitchens 

 and cellars, and inundated every 

 apartment until it found its level. 

 Whole streets were thus circum- 

 stanced ; and some were for two 

 or three hours inaccessible but to 

 those who had resolution enough to 

 wade up to the knees. Witham- 

 place, Wormgate, and all the 

 streets and houses near to the 

 river, were in the latter predica- 

 ment ; and as it was night, and 

 rained heavily, the situation of 



