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glass was broken, and the roof 

 much injured ; the carpets, cur- 

 tains, and all the drapery, were 

 torn to ribands, and the furniture 

 broken. Mr. Pyatt's house in 

 Canal-street is much damaged ; 

 and the roofs of all the warehouses 

 on the canal are dreadfully shat- 

 tered. Miss Barnsdell's house is 

 much injured ; the doors are torn 

 off, andeverypane of glass broken. 

 There are numberless instances 

 in the town of furniture, and 

 goods of great weight, having 

 been thrown down with every 

 appearance of an earthquake ; 

 the shock was so tremendous, as 

 to be heard many miles distant 

 from Nottingham. 



The loss must be very great, 

 and sets present calculation at 

 defiance, as a great quantity of 

 goods of every description, which 

 were in course of delivery, com- 

 prising paper, whalebone, oil, oil 

 of vitriol, wool, cheese, and many 

 thousand quarters of corn, with 

 a great quantity of almost every 

 description of property, are there- 

 by destroyed. 



Only ten of the victims of this 

 catastrophe have yet been found. 

 Several are missing ; and this day 

 (Thursday) they are letting off 

 tne water, to discover any bodies 

 that may be in the canal, and 

 also in hopes of finding some of 

 the valuable merchandise, which 

 it is thought may have been 

 thrown into it by the concussion. 



Mr. Faubert, a book-keeper, 

 was just sent on an errand in time 

 to escape the death that must 

 have befallen him ; Mr. Pyatt 

 was on the wharf only about 30 

 yards from the building when it 

 blew up, and had at that moment 

 despatched two of his men to 



another part of the wharf to 

 remove a cart, which was des- 

 troyed, and both men were 

 killed; one of Mr. Hooton's wag- 

 gons was loading, when part of 

 the building was thrown on it, 

 and crushed it to pieces, killing 

 the waggoner, and the shaft 

 horse. A boy, son of Mr. 

 Howell, who was fishing in the 

 canal, was killed; a man who was 

 hauling a boat on the opposite 

 side of the canal, was blown into 

 the meadows; three men that 

 were in the boat under the ware- 

 house were killed ; and Mr. Hall, 

 stone-mason, was blown into one 

 of them, where he was nearly 

 killed, but was extricated by Mr. 

 P)'att, just in time to save his 

 life before the boat filled ; he is 

 so much hurt, that his life is de- 

 spaired of. 



The ground-floor of the ware- 

 house was of stone, and such was 

 the power of the explosion, that 

 a large portion of the pavement 

 was driven six or seven feet into 

 the solid earth. 



OCTOBER. 



At the University of Moscow 

 almost all the public courses have 

 recommenced, and it is remarked, 

 that the very disasters of that 

 city have had a favourable influ- 

 ence on the state of the sciences. 

 The appointments of the profes- 

 sors have been augmented, the 

 different branches of the sciences 

 have received a greater develope- 

 ment, and the number of students 

 is augmenting. The Gymnasium 

 has been opened anew, and per- 

 fected in several of its parts. It 

 is the same with the schools in 

 the country. After the example 



of 



