22 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



complete? tl>e statementri lelalive 

 to this melanclioly event. 



" Otricliil return of tlie meiij \c. 

 belnn>j;ina,- to the .S'2il regiment of 

 foot, lost hy the wreck of the R'la- 

 dicea transport, oft' Kinsale, on 

 the 30th of January, Ifilo:— 'i 

 Lieutenants, 1 Assistant Surgeon, 

 S Serjeants, 158 rank anil file, 

 \.:', women, and \(j chndren. 

 Total lost, 19G. Names of (Offi- 

 cers lost j — LieutenantDaven))ort, 

 Lientenimt Harding, Assistant 

 Surgeon Srott ; also Mrs. Scott, 

 his wife. 



" Total om1jarked,'28;i men, in- 

 cluding non-commi.ssioned ofli- 

 cers, and S men of the .'5.5t!i rugi- 

 ment, two of whom were saved — 

 7 OHirers, including 1 Assistant 

 Surgeon, II women, and 17 chil- 

 dren." 



The following ■ parlicidars of 

 coips safely disembarked, &c. may 

 relieve some anxious friends : — 



' ' Detachments of the 8'2d, IGtli, 

 3.")th, (>'U\ regiments, were dis- 

 eiwbailccd yesterday morning at 

 Monkstown, marched into this 

 city in the course of the day, and 

 ure to proceed to Kinsale. 



" Detachments of the '2d Gar- 

 rison Battalion were di-sendjarked 

 this morning at ]Monkstown ; on 

 their airival in town, they were 

 billetted on the inhabitants, and 

 are to march to Fcrmoy to- 

 morrow. 



" The depot of the 41st regi- 

 ment will also l)e (lisembarked 

 to-day. 



'' The <2d battalion of the 30th 

 regiment Avas disembiuked at 

 IMonkstov^n on Tuesday, and 

 marched int() this city imder the 

 command of JIajor Howard ; the 

 left wing ])roceeded from this city 

 yesterday morning for jMallow, 



on tl>elv nmte for Buttevant, 

 where they are to remain till fur- 

 ther orders. 



"The right wing marched 

 this morning for the same desti- 

 naliun.'' 



,i. .\d vices fioni Lisbon to the 

 .id inst. .state, that on the '2(1, the 

 inhabitants t.f that capital were 

 most seriously alarmed by two 

 smart slnnks of an earth([uake, 

 which were felt throughout the 

 town. No real injury, however, 

 ensued, and when the last accounts 

 came away, all fmther a])prehen- 

 sions (Ml tlie subjcft had ceased. 



LeHcr received hij a Gentleman 

 of Hull. " lAshon, Feh. <2, 181G. 

 Iriihty Morning. — My Dear Ta- 

 ther — I should not have so soon 

 disj)atched this, had it not been 

 for the dreadful shock we felt 

 last night, oi- rather this morn- 

 ing — At aljout five minutes be- 

 fore one, 1 felt my bed move, as 

 it were, up and down, for about 

 a minute, or a minute and a half : 

 the shaking increased after this, 

 and changed its direction from 

 side to side, and very severe j 

 when, on a sudden, it ceased. I 

 cannot describe the horror I felt, 

 when the thought of the real 

 cause of this di&tuibance Came 

 across my mind. The veiy word 

 eartluiuake (in Portuguese, Tre- 

 nior de Teria, or Terra Mota), 

 j)ut me in a perfect fever. — Every 

 one iix the house, as by instinci, 

 met on the stairs, calling foi' 

 light ; and the scene of confusion 

 that ensued is past description. I 

 opened my window, which, by 

 the bye, is the safest place : the 

 atmosphere was dense ; a thick 

 fog covered the whole city ; yet 1 

 C(mld see the lamps of the further 

 end. On a sudden, every thing 



became 



