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60 squares in the house were 

 driven in %vith great violence by 

 large hailstones, resembling pieces 

 of ice. A particularly large tree 

 at Kirkandrews-upon-Esk, and 

 others in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood, were completely torn 

 Tip by the roots. The country 

 about Scaleby and Kirklinton 

 also experienced the severity of 

 the storm to a violent degree. 

 Foldtown began to pray in earn- 

 est, thinking- the Italian astrono- 

 mer's predictions were about to 

 be fulfilled. The storm was so 

 violent as to break their windows, 

 doors, and unroof their houses. — 

 Carlisle Journal. 



30. Extract of a Letter from 

 Dresden : — " M. Fouche, Duke 

 of Otranto, with his tiamily, quit- 

 ted this city some days ago : the 

 day before yesterday he reached 

 Toeplitz, on his way to Prague, 

 where he has taken a house. 

 During his stay here M. Fouche 

 led a very retired life. His pri- 

 vate Secretary, and M. Desmar- 

 teaux, the tutor of his three sons, 

 drew up, under his direction, a 

 Notice on his political life, which 

 is to appear early in September, 

 in German, at Altenberg, and in 

 French, at Brussels. Twelve 

 official documents, unmutilated, 

 will be annexed to this work. 

 The letter of M. Fouche to the 

 Duke of Wellington, of the 1st 

 August, 1816, will also be pub- 

 lished from an authentic copy. 

 It will be followed by three vo- 

 lumes of Memoirs, with a great 

 number of justificatory docu- 

 ments, in part unknown to the 

 public. The period of this latter 

 publication would appear, how- 

 ever, still to depend on circum- 

 stances." 



Vol. LVIII. 



Information was brought to 

 the Head Police Office early on 

 Saturday morning, that the post- 

 boy, carrying the mail from Dub- 

 lin to Mulhngar, escorted by a 

 single dragoon of the 16th regi- 

 ment, was assailed by a banditti 

 of ten or eleven, between Mayan 

 and Nobber, county of Meath. 

 The most daring of the ruffians, 

 after the usual cry of " stand" 

 was given by the whole party, 

 walked boldly up towards the 

 post-boy, when the dragoon in- 

 stantly shot him dead with his 

 carbine. The whole of his ac- 

 complices, terrified at this in- 

 stance of bravery, and the fate 

 of their comrade, fled with pre- 

 cij)itation, and suffered the mail 

 to proceed without further moles- 

 tation. — Dublin Post. 



31. About one o'clock in the 

 afternoon, the remains of Miss 

 Burrowes, of Red Lion-street, 

 Clerkenwell, were taken to St. 

 James's Church, Clerkenwell 

 green, for interment. The grave 

 was ordered to be dug 20 feet 

 deep : when the body came to 

 be lowered, the undertaker found 

 some fault with the depth, and 

 the grave-digger and his assistant 

 went down to throw up a few 

 more shovels of earth, when, un- 

 fortunately, owing to the great 

 pressure of the people and the 

 ground being composed of loose 

 earth, the sides gave way, and 

 the earth fell in and buried them 

 under its weight; several men 

 were immediately set about sho- 

 velKng away the earth, which 

 kept constantly falling in ; but in 

 about an hour after, the body of 

 one of them of the name of But- 

 cher, apparently dead, was found, 

 immediately caiTied home, and 



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