XXIV 



[Hij2orical Chronicle. 



dwellirig-houfe, and alfo the 

 houfe of Mr Pritzlier, befides 

 damaging f^veral others. There 

 were about five hundred tons 

 of fugar rough and refined. 

 The conflagration wa'i twilv 

 dreadful, and raged wi)h the 

 utmoft fury for upwards ot 

 four hours. The lufs is efti- 

 jTiated at upwards of tliirty 

 thoufand pounds. The fame 

 premifes have been burnt down 

 three times within the fpacc of 

 twenty years. 



On the loth December, 

 about ten at night, Colonel Sin- 

 clair was attacked in Flett 

 itreet, London, by three men 

 armed with bludgeons, who 

 wounded him in a moft ihock- 

 ing manner, and left him alnioft 

 dead on the ground. It ap- 

 pears their intention was to 

 afiaflinate, not to rob, as his 

 money and watch were left. 

 It had been reported that the 

 Colonel was enlilling Britifh 

 fubjedls for the fervicc of the 

 French Princes. But on an ex- 

 amination of that gentleman, 

 by a deputation from the Se- 

 cretary of State's OflSce, it 

 turns out to be a mahcicus 

 fa'.fehood. — The Colonel is now 

 out of danger. 



On the lith of December, 

 three young gentlemen were 

 drowned in the Canal in St 

 James's Park, London, by the 

 ice giving way. 



• On Sunday the 25th De- 

 cember, between fix and fcven 

 in the evening, there was a 

 great ftorm of thunder at 

 Greenock ; the flaflies of light- 



ning were very vivid : Some 

 failors on board the Minervaj 

 at the tail of the bank, were 

 ftunned by the lightning, but 

 fcon recovered. There had 

 been a thaw all day, but after 

 the thunder it inclined to froft. 

 Accounts from Rothfay are 

 more dreadful : About twenty 

 minutes before feven, the (loop 

 William of Rothfay was ftruck 

 with lightning in the harbour ; 

 her maft fliivered to pieces 

 down to the deck, part of it 

 driven to a great diftance ; the 

 remaining part is laid to have 

 jumped up out of the ftep : 

 The William had no people on 

 board at the time. The light- 

 ning alio broke on the fea near 

 a veffel lying at anchor, which 

 was agitated by the Ihock. 



This ftorm fcems to have 

 been of large extent. At 

 Campbeltown, the night of the 

 25 th, was the moft dreadful for 

 thunder and lightning in the 

 memory of the oldeft perfon. 



At the commencement of 

 the prefent reign, the Iteel m.a" 

 nufacturers at Wolverhampton, 

 in Staffordlhire, prefented his 

 Mdjelty with a pair of buckles, 

 value scol. 



As a ftriking inftance of the 

 greatnefs of the woollen trade 

 of the Weft Pviding of York- 

 ihire, an eftate near Hudders- 

 field belonging to the late Mr 

 Thornton of Tierfall, near Brad- 

 ford, which was out of leafe, 

 and produced no more thaa 

 fixty pounds a-year, was lately 

 fold tor the aftonifhing fifra of 

 L. 10,780. 



END OF THE SIXTH VOLUME". 



