90 Earthquake at Naples 



of re-establishing the prodigious number of different rnea-> 

 sures which prevailed in France and shackled its interior 

 conuiierce, — government, fully convinced of the utility of 

 an uniform system of measures, will take the most effectual 

 mean? for accelerating the use of them, and for overcoming 

 the resistance still opposed to it by old habits, which are 

 already disappearing every day. 



From these considerations vour conmiission unanimously 

 proposes the adoption of the senatus-consultum presented 

 by the government. 



EAUTHarAkE AT NAPLES. 



Kn/'U'S, jlit^ust 9. — 'The duke d'Ascoli, the minister of 

 the police, has transmitted to government the following 

 report : 



" The terrible earthquake which was felt in this capital, 

 and the provinces of the kingdom of Naples, on the 26th 

 of Julv, at ten in the eveninsr, has occasioned, according to 

 the reports which have hitlierto been received here, thp 

 following devastation and damage : — In the capital, several 

 houses, churches, and convents, have been thrown down : 

 a woman was buried \mder the ruins of the palace of Cor- 

 sigliano ; 4 70 buildings have greatly sufi'ered, and threatened 

 to fall down. The palace of Cascrta, and a number of pri- 

 vate houses, have suffered nearly in the same pro]iortion : 

 a woman in them was killed. At Nola, a part of the bar- 

 racks belonffing to the cavalry, and several houses, sus- 

 tained great damage; but no lives were lost. At St. Mary 

 of Capua (a fortress in the neighbourhood of Capua), a 

 part of the barracks belonging to the cavalry was almost 

 entirely thrown down : eleven soldiers were killed, and 

 thirty-four severely wounded. At Ncvano, and the envi- 

 rons, the inhabitants suffered very little. The town of 

 Isernia is almost entirely fallen to ruins, and more than a 

 thousand people were found dead m it : a part of the inha- 

 bitants were saved by betakinii- themselves to flight. During 

 these dreadful shocks, which convulsed every thing, flames 

 were observed to issue from the earth throughout an extent 

 of several leagues. A small part of the town sustained no 

 damage. In the same province in wiiich Isernia is situated, 

 C'ampo-Basso, Cerreto, Baraniello, and about seven other 

 places, sustained a fate almost similar; but the number of 

 the dead is not yet known. In the town of Montefusco 

 all the houses were damaged ; the bt'll of the collegiate 

 church fell down ; a woman was killed, and several other 

 pcroons v\ere vi-c>undcd. 'I'hc town of Avellino shared the 

 3 same 



