HISTORICAL CHROKieLE. 57* 



■earth({ual{e happened in the town of eafy virtue, and found not guilty 



'of Oran. Within a very fhort f^ace 

 of time, twenty reiteratedjlhocks 

 were felt, >vbich fhook the whole 

 town, and buried a great number 

 of the inhabitsn<;, and part of the 

 garrifon, under I't ruins; on this 

 melancholy accLic.it more than 

 aooo perifhed. 



A curiou": dlfcovery, ■which may 

 throw foir.c light upon the means 

 of curing the bites of poifonous 

 reptiles, &c ba-; been ately pub- 

 liflied by a phyGcian ol New Eng- 

 land, viz. that when a rattle fnake 

 bites the nofc of a dog, the latter 

 digs a. hole in the ground, and, by 

 laying the part aiffefled in it, is 

 tci-^aonly cured, 



yortlampton, Jjn. 8. A boy 

 was brought to the country liofpi- 

 tal on Wcdnefday laft, having ex- 

 ifted fix days and nights without 

 any kind of nourilhment. His 

 mafter, who is- a flioe-maker at 

 Rotherflborp, near this town, or- 

 dered him to go on the evading of 

 Wcdnefday die 29th uk to a 



neighbouring town with a wallet ; j the vail guanrity of goods in this 

 -and ihc boy not liking his buCncfs.ibranch, manufaSored in Yort- 

 took th^t opportunity of eloping,- {hire only. It »ppcars by the re- 

 aiid was not heard of till Tuefday' turn of the proper officer, that 

 night laft, when he was difcovered there were fcnt to market laft year 

 by his groans ' a calf pen in Kin- Woollen gooJa manufaftared in tb*; 

 flingbury-fieid, where he had re- diftrivft of Yorkihire, taking is 

 mairitd from the time of his de- Rochdale (a fpace of ground not 

 parture from home.ard muft very more th-a; iiirty miles fqiiare) to 

 feon have pcrilhed for want, had the -value of three millicn>;, four 

 he net b(-tn thus fortunately dif-bui^drcd tlioufand pounds. ' 

 covered; though it Iccms the waU Jt '-.is been in conten-iplation to 

 let conuined a perk pye, which cultivate fugar in the Fandarch 

 the boy knew nothing of. A ' iflands. which lie midway in the 

 mortification has taken place in great Pacific ocean, and very nsar- 

 bis feet, in confequence of being fo ly in the fume parallel latitude of 

 long cxpofcd to the cold. l Jamaica ; ihefe ifles are very nti 



On the 1 7th January, the trial merous, and remarkably fertile, 

 of Lord Vifcount Dungarvan, eld- The rtmoval of the conviifts from 

 eft foji of the Earl of Cork, took New South Wales to fo very de- 

 place ; he was profccutcd lor a fu-eable a fituation, and the hopes 

 jolbe.-y bj one Wclden, a woman of being able to rujn<Iy thi* Chi 



i8rh January The Queen's 

 birth day was celebrated with the 

 ufual folemnity. 



On the laft day of 1 790, there 

 vt-as a fog at Amfterdani more 

 thick and dark than any which 

 memory or tradition can parallel. 

 The people could not fee their way 

 along the ftreets, and raw againft 

 each other, even though they had 

 lights in their hands. The acci- 

 dents on tjiat day were fo nume- 

 rous and remaritable, that they 

 muft be attributed in part to the 

 confkmation and terror, which 

 muft be the confequence of fudi 

 an uncommon phenomenon. It 

 faid that more than 130 perfona 

 perifhed by falling into canals. 



The Euglifti cotton manufadlo- 

 ries fuffer much by the importa- 

 tions from India, and this matter 

 will therefore be fcrioufly taken up 

 In pariiament. 



Some idea of the great impor- 

 tance of tlie woollen manufa^ure 

 to England, may be formed frota 



