48 ROBERT POCOCK. 



light, a meteor shot forth in the westward, passing 

 along horizontally a great space, and entered or went 

 behind a cloud, making its appearance again in a 

 clear space, and once more entered a hazy cloud that 

 reached to the horizon. This was a singular phe- 

 nomenon. I guess about next Friday the comet 

 will eclipse, or be very near the last star in the Great 

 Bear's tail. The town full of hissing serpents (fire- 

 works), folio wing a lawless rabble called ' Mock Mayor/ 

 who go from door to door collecting alms for drink 

 and riot, and imitating his Worship the Mayor, his 

 mace-bearer, and the rest of this singular body, who 

 demand 20Z. for the privilege of a man becoming free 

 of the town, but deny this freeman the privilege of 

 voting for any one, either mayor, jurat, or common 

 councilman! " 



" Tuesday Morning, October 1st. A person from 

 Dover called and told me that David Anderson, a 

 pilot of Deal, had met with his death in a tragical 

 manner. He was coming up in a south whaler, which 

 ran foul of an East Indiaman, and received such a shock 

 that it was expected she was sinking, whereupon all 

 the men of the whaler, except two, jumped on board 

 the Indiaman ; but Mr. A., in jumping, either 

 missed his hold or jumped short, and fell between the 

 ships, which at that instant suddenly came in contact 

 twice, and squeezed him fatally. The whaler, with 

 two men on board, drove on Margate Sands, losing one 

 of the two men. What has become of the ship is un- 

 known, as she is not now seen on Margate Sands. 



" Had this morning a violent pain at the bottom of 

 my heel, which affects the back part of my leg. Never 

 had such a pain before ; surely it must be the gout for 



