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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. [Aug. 



quite hollow, and he was engulfed 

 in the burning abyss, Avhich in- 

 stantly closed in upon him, and 

 sent forth a volume of flame and 

 smoke like the crater of a volcano. 

 The person who was working a- 

 long with him was not aware of 

 the fate of his companion till 

 he perceived the flames bursting 

 from the opening made in the 

 heap ; any assistance to the unfor- 

 tunate sufferer was entirely out of 

 his' power. Not a vestige of the 

 body has been seen. 



20. Proclamation by M. Dewett 

 Clinton, Governor of the State of 

 New York, General and Commander- 

 in-Chief of all the Militia, S^c. Sfc. — 

 Whereas it is represented to me 

 that a pestilential fever prevails 

 in the city of Charleston, in the 

 state of South • Carolina, and in 

 the city of Savannah, in the state 

 of Georgia, I do, therefore, by 

 virtue of the power vested in me 

 by the act, entitled, "An act to 

 provide against Infectious and 

 Pestilential Diseases," prohibit all 

 intercourse and communication 

 between the city and county of 

 NcAV York, and said cities of 

 Charleston and Savannah. And I 

 do order and direct, that no per- 

 son shall be permitted to enter 

 the said city and county of New 

 York, who shall have been in 

 either of the said cities of Charles- 

 ton and Savannah, until twenty 

 days shall have elapsed after such 

 parsons shall have been in either 

 of the said cities of Charles- 

 ton and Savannah. And I do fur- 

 ther order and direct, that all ves- 

 sels arriving in the port of New 

 Y''ork, from any place in the United 

 States south of tlie Delaware, and 

 all other vessels on board of 

 which any sickness or death has 

 occurred, during their last voy- 



age, or during their stay in the 

 ports from which they last came, 

 shall, until the 1st day of October 

 next, anchor at the place assigned 

 for quarantine, and shall be sub- 

 ject to an examination of the 

 health officers, and to such regu- 

 lations as may be deemed expedi- 

 ent by them. And all officers in- 

 trusted with the execution of the 

 said act, and all other persons, arc 

 requested to take notice and go- 

 vern themselves accordingly, un- 

 der the pains and penalties im- 

 posed upon offenders by the said 

 act, which will be rigorously en- 

 forced. 



In witness whereof, I have here- 

 unto subscribed my name, and af- 

 fixed the privy seal of the state, 

 at the city of New York, the 20th 

 day of August, A.D. 1817^ and in 

 the 4'2d year of the Independence 

 of the United States. 



Dewett Clinton. 



21. Five persons were burned 

 to death by the explosion of the 

 fire-damp in a coal-pit near Brad- 

 ford, Yorkshire, owing to the 

 bottom of one of the safety- 

 lamps of Sir Humphrey Davey 

 having been separated from the 

 body, from its being soldered in- 

 stead of rivetted ; thereby forming 

 a communication between the in- 

 ternal and outward air. 



22. The trials of the state pri- 

 soners, as they have been called, 

 closed at York this day (Saturday); 

 and of the 24 persons against 

 whom the government solicitor 

 was instructed to institute prose- 

 cutions, ten have been pronounced 

 not guilty ; against eleven others 

 no bills were found ; and one has 

 been liberated on bail ; leaving 

 only two of the whcsle number in 

 confinement, and those two un- 

 fortunate men have been detained, 



without 



