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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817 



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[Nov. 



telly direction, but continued ad- 

 vancing eastward until about half- 

 past 9, by which time it had burnt 

 the premises of Mr. James Clift, 

 ^v■here great exertions were re- 

 quired, and were happily exerted, 

 to savethe premises of Messrs. Per- 

 kins and Winter, upon which 

 depended the safety of the whole 

 range of houses on the Church- 

 hill, on the upper side, and the 

 stores of Messrs. Trimminghams 

 and Co. on the lower side, just 

 where the late fire was stopped 

 in its progress westward ; all of 

 which buildings narrowly escaped 

 on the 7th inst. Thus a great 

 part of the western half of the 

 town, which we contemplated as 

 a shelter for the then distressed, is 

 laid in ashes, and many families 

 have to lament and feel the pain- 

 ful distress of a second time being 

 burnt out of their dwellings in the 

 short space of fourteen days : by 

 what means many of them will 

 find shelter the approaching win- 

 ter, we are at a loss to conjecture, 

 should they even be fortunate 

 enough to have the means of pur- 

 chasing necessaries. 



In this hasty account we cannot 

 enter fully into particulars, nor 

 can we at this short notice pretend 

 to estimate the iiggregate amount 

 of the damage done to the veiy 

 extensive stores and dwelling of 

 Messrs. Cuiminghame, Bell, and 

 Co., and those of Messrs. Hale, 

 Keed, and Co., Ryan and Sons, 

 Mr. Robert Nevins, Mr. James 

 Clift, Mr. John Buike, and seve- 

 ral other mercantile establish- 

 ments, have fallen a sacrifice to 

 the devouring flames : the dwell- 

 iug-house, shop, &c. of Mr. Ne- 

 vins, were preserved. — From the 

 Mercantile Jditmal, 



An ordinance has been passed 

 in the city of Savannah, by which 

 any one who teaches a person of 

 colour, either a slave or free, to 

 read or write, or causes such per- 

 son to be so taught, is subjected 

 to a fine of 30 dollars for each of- 

 fence ; and every person of colour 

 who shall keep a school to teach 

 reading or writing, is subject to a 

 fine of 30 dollars, or be impri- 

 soned ten days, and whipped 39 

 lashes. 



20. It is with much concern 

 we inform our readers of the sad 

 catastrophe that has befallen the 

 stone beacon, which, for some 

 years past, has been erecting upon 

 the Carr Rock, situate at the en- 

 trance of the Frith of Foi th, and 

 lying about two miles off Fifeness. 

 The building was visited by the 

 superintendant on the 10th inst., 

 and reported to be all in good or- 

 der. On the evening of the 14th 

 a very heavy swell of sea came 

 ashore, and on the l.'Stb the 

 ground-swell still continued ; but 

 the weather was so thick and fog- 

 gy that the rock could not be seen 

 till the afternoon, when the sea 

 was observed to break upon it 

 with much violence, but a great 

 part of the building was gone. 

 The Carr Rock forms the termi- 

 nating point to seaward of a most 

 dangerous sunken reef, extending 

 about two miles from the shore. 

 The numerous shipwrecks which, 

 notwithstanding all the improve- 

 ments on the coast, still happen 

 in this neiglibourhood, had ren- 

 dered the Cair Rock Beacon a 

 work of very considerable inte- 

 rest, and its completion had been 

 looked forward to with much an- 

 xiety. The Beacon Rock mea- 

 sures about 72 feet in length ; its 



greatest 



