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without imminent clanger, remain 

 in this situation, he left the wreck, 

 and getting hold of the boat's 

 oars, by which he supported him- 

 self, he swam ashore, after being 

 two hours in the water. Scarcely 

 had he left it, when the boat was 

 seen by persons on shore to sink, 

 and the three servants were un- 

 fortunately lost. 



12. Owing to the melting of 

 the snow on the surrounding 

 mountains, Strabane (Ireland) 

 was visited by the greatest and 

 most destructive flood which has 

 been witnessed there for nearly 

 twenty years. Fortunately it took 

 place in the day time, otherwise 

 hundreds of lives must have been 

 lost in the lower part of the town. 

 As it was, numbers were rescued 

 with difficulty by boats brought 

 from LifFord, there being none at 

 the time on the canal. The wa- 

 ters approached nearly to the 

 market-house in the centre of the 

 town, completely inundating the 

 entire space between that and 

 Lifford ; some houses and cattle 

 were carried away, and the goods 

 of the poorer classes, by whom 

 the lower parts of the town were 

 chiefly occupied, were mvich in- 

 jured. 



13. For some time past the 

 biidge over the Petterill at Bot- 

 cherby, a village in the near vici- 

 nity of Carlisle, had been in a 

 very insufficient state ; and this 

 condition of the bridge was ren- 

 dered still more insecure by the 

 late flood, the effects of which 

 w«re e.\tremely visible, as it ap- 

 peared almost to have separated 

 longitudinally into two parts, the 

 walls and arche.? on each side 

 considerably declining from the 

 perpendicular, so that it was 

 deemed impossible for the bridge 



to hang together during any length 

 of time. On ^Vechiesday, as Pe- 

 ter Dbcon, Esq. was proceeding 

 from Carlisle, with two of his 

 sons and the female branches of 

 the family, to Warwick, to visit 

 the extensive manufacturing con- 

 cern cai'ried on in that place, un- 

 der the tirni of Peter Dixon and 

 Sons; the carriage, in which 

 were seated Mr. DLxon, sen. and 

 the young ladies, had only passed 

 the erection in question a few 

 minutes, and one of the young 

 gentlemen, who was following 

 on horseback, had scarcely clear- 

 ed the extremity of the bridge, 

 when one half of the structm-e 

 suddenly tumbled into a mass of 

 ruins, leaving, on the opposite 

 bank, the other young gentle- 

 man, on the very instant of his 

 getting upon it ! Indeed, so very 

 instantaneous was its ruin, that 

 the two Messrs. DLxons had no 

 other notice of the peril they al- 

 most miraculously escaped, than 

 the tremendous crash by wMch 

 it was accompanied. — {Carlisle 

 Journal.) 



18. This being the day ap- 

 pointed for General Thanksgiving 

 to Divine Providence on the re- 

 establishment of Peace in Europe, 

 a particular form of Prayer, pre- 

 pared, as usual, by the highest 

 ecclesiastical authority, was read 

 in all the churches throughout 

 the kingdom. The day was se- 

 lected likewise in London, vei-y 

 appropriately, for the ceremony 

 of lodging the eagles taken from 

 the enemy at the battle of Water- 

 loo, in the Chapel Royal, White- 

 hall. Undoubtedly it accorded 

 well with the solemnity of the 

 occasion, and added, not a little, 

 to the interest of the scene, to 

 behold the spectacle of depositing 



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