Mar.] 



CH RONI C LE. 



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thirty-five prisoners, who ndw are 

 all lodged in Bridewell. The 

 womenj in multitudes, assembled 

 to supply the meil with whisky to 

 encourage them. Nothing could 



exceed the coolness of 



BlSHitJe and' his party, who cer- 

 tainly itiade a masterly retr'eat to 

 the slated store at Carrigaholt, 

 ti'here I found them. He and 

 Fitzgeiald were wounded, but not 

 severely : Fitzgei-ald had a mira- 

 culous escape, and would have 

 been murdered, but Was pre- 

 served by a man he knew, from 

 Kerry, who put him under his 

 bed, &«. &c. (Signed) 



J. Miller. 



MARCH. 



1. Treres.— The 29th of Febru- 

 ary was a day of terror to us. 

 About 1 p. m. a dreadful storm 

 arose, accompanied with thunder, 

 lightning, snow, and rain. A 

 thunderbolt fell perpendicularly 

 on the church of St. Paulinus, 

 one of the finest in Germany, and 

 in less than an hour the whole 

 building was in flaiftes. The 

 steeple, antl the whole of the 

 roof, which was of combustible 

 materials, were consumed : the 

 interior of the church happily 

 escaped. 



The bears have appeared in 

 much larger number than usUal, 

 between Irkutsk and Nerischinsk, 

 in Siberia, 12 or 1,500 leagues 

 flom the capital of Russia. They 

 penetrated with fury into the 

 hamlets and lemote habitations, 

 the inhabitants of which had for a 

 time much difficulty in repelling 

 their attacks. About Werehlie 



Oudensk n^ar 400 of these fero- 

 cious animals were killed. 



KIOTS IN SOMERSETSHIRE. 

 (From a private Letter.) 

 Rachtock, near Bath, Marchl. 

 On Friday last, the colliers in 

 the neighbourhood of Radstock 

 and Paulton collected in a number' 

 of about three thousand, and ma- 

 nifested some very seriotis symp- 

 tbtis of riot and destruction td 

 the pits and the buildings an- 

 nexed to them, which spread the 

 greatest consternation through 

 the whole neighbourhood. Sir 

 .Tbhn Hippisley, accompanied by 

 his brother magistrates, and seve- 

 ral gentlemen, repaired to the 

 spot, wlrere he pointed out to 

 them, in an impressive speech, 

 the enormity of their offence. He 

 read the Riot Act : it had lio 

 effect. They then proceeded, and 

 took possession of several of the 

 Works, and sent persons down 

 into the pits to con; pel those who 

 worked in them to be diawn up, 

 and then adminisieied an oath 

 not to work any more until their 

 grievances were redressed, and 

 threatened that night to demolish 

 the works. Sir John arid the 

 magistrates sent inuuediately for 

 a troop of the 23d Lancers at 

 Bristol, and the North Somerset 

 Yeomanry, part of Which arrived, 

 and kept older for that night, and 

 by day-break the whole of the 

 Nortli Somerset Yeomanry Weie 

 on parade at Stone-Easton-hoXise, 

 and other places pointed out to 

 them, so as to render assistance 

 at every point where danger was 

 apprehended. About nine o'clock 

 Sir John Hippisley, accompanied 

 by a numeroxis assemblage of 

 iriagistrates and gentlernen, pro- 

 ceeded 



