LON 
Upwards of a year, had ftolen, at different times, from the 
portfolios, a number of fcarce and valuable engravings, by 
the Dutch mailers, to the value of 1500I. He fold them 
to printfellers. A committee invefligated the particulars 
of the robbery, and came to a refolution that Mr. Digh- 
ton, who was charged with being concerned in taking the 
valuable articles, Ihould not be profecuted, on condition 
that he rellored the whole of the property that was miffing. 
Mr. Beloe, in whofe department it happened, was dif- 
jmiffed for negligence. 
On the 1 it'n of July, at a feffion of the Court of Admi¬ 
ralty, held at the Old Bailey, Acow, a Chinefe failor, was 
indifted for the wilful murder of another Chinefe, of the 
name of Anguin, on the 24th of May, on-board the Fall - 
India ffiip Travers, on her voyage home, near the Azores. 
The principal evidence was Robert Oliver, fecond mate 
of the ffiip,* who Hated, that on the 24th of May laft, be¬ 
tween two and three o’clock in the morning, as he was 
on watch, he heard a perfon moaning in great diftrefs; he 
called up two men, who, on going below, cried out, “ O 
God ! a man is murdered!” Others came up, who faw the 
prifoner Handing with a knife in his hand, which was co¬ 
vered with blood : the deceafed was lying near him. The 
prifoner made no refinance ; but, when they took him into 
cuHody, he faid, “ Me kill Anguin—Anguin tell me lie— 
China faffiion—me kill Anguin, me kill Anguin—you 
hang me.” The head was nearly fevered from the body. 
There were two mortal (tabs, one of which had penetrated 
the heart, the other the loins. There were in all nine 
wounds. The Other witnefs corroborated this account. It 
did not appear that the prifoner and the deceafed had any 
quarrel on-board, but they had fome difpute on-ffiore. 
The prifoner, by his interpreter, faid he muH be hanged 
by the Engliffi law, and did not defire to live ; he laid he 
cut the man’s head off.—The jury having found him 
guilty, fir W. Scott pronounced fentence of death upon 
the prifoner, who feemed to be but little concerned at it. 
He was hanged at Execution Dock. 
On the fame day, a tremendous fform of thunder, light¬ 
ning, and rain, commenced at eight o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing in the metropolis,and lafied till eleven, without inter- 
miffion. It excited univerfal terror. The lightning en¬ 
tered a houfe under repair in EaH-Hreet, Manchefter- 
fquare; the blaze was fo violent, that every one appre¬ 
hended that the whole houfe was on fire; but no injury 
was fuHained, except the breaking of a few panes of glafs. 
Two perfons, in the houfe adjoining, were flruck with the 
lightning. A ball of fire fell into the area of the lottery- 
'office, in Somerfet Place; it forced open the door, and 
drove Mr. Pearce, the fecretary, who was Handing at the 
window, with a perfon who was with him, to the oppo- 
file fide of the room. Another ball fell in the Thames, 
oppofite Arundel-Hreet.—In the country its effefts were 
fatal. On the north-eafl fide of Harrow-Weald Common, 
near Stanmore, Middlefex, a thatched hovel, w here thir¬ 
teen perfons, of both fexes, had taken ffielter, was fet on 
fire by the lightning ; and a woman, with a child at her 
breafi, was killed, whillt the infant miraculoufly efcaped. 
At Portfmouth, about half pall ten, the brig William, 
captain Denning, from London, bound to Jamaica, com¬ 
ing into St. Helen’s, was deftroyed by the lightning, which 
ftruck the head of the maintop-gallant-mafi, palled through 
that, dow n the top-mad, main-mall, and pierced the decks 
into the hold, where it let the cargo on fire. The cap¬ 
tain and crew efcaped. At Deal the lightning was very 
vivid and quick ; it flruck the maintop-gallant-mafl of 
his majefty’s bomb Profpero, ffiivered to pieces the top- 
maft, and damaged the main-mall; one man was killed, 
and feveral other of the people were knocked down, but 
recovered. A corn-mill, belonging to Mr. John Croft, of 
Caiflor, Lincolnlhire, was much damaged, and a boy in 
the mill killed, by the lightning. Nine ffieep, belonging 
to Mr. Sibfey, of Baffingham, near Carlton le Moorland, 
were alfo killed. At Gainfborough, there was a very un- 
©ominon fall of rain, accompanied with loud claps of thun- 
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der, and vivid daffies of lightning. Three pigs were 
flruck dead at Morton ; and two fine horfes, in a clofe near 
Lea, were killed. At Peterborough it was extremely vio¬ 
lent, and the inhabitants were much alarmed by a fire¬ 
ball burfting in the market-place. In Rutland, at Affi- 
well, a hay-flack, belonging to Mr. Chamberlain, was burnt. 
At Langham, Mr. Sherrard had a fiieep killed, and a cow 
belonging to Mr. El 1 icot was alfo killed, by the lightning. 
The hail came lb violent at Teigh, as to break many win¬ 
dows.' A boat belonging to the Slieernefs tender, lying 
iii Hull P.oads, was fent to Sunk Ifland, with feven hands, 
to bring on-board lieutenant and Mrs. Fox. Between 
nine and ten they had proceeded but a ftfort diftance from 
the fliore, when W. Mazarello, the cockfwain, aged about 
nineteen, Handing erect, was ftruck dead by the lightnings 
and fell overboard. Mr. and Mrs. Fox were much ft mined , 
and the reft, except one man, were all ftruck down, but 
foon recovered. The body of Mazarello was loon after¬ 
wards picked up : his clothes were burned to rags, and 
the cafe of his watch was melted. The old bloclchoufe- 
mill, at Hull, was ftruck by the lightning, and one of the 
main timbers fplir. William Curtis, labourer, of Pat ring- 
ton, was next day found dead in a field near that towns¬ 
having, it is fnppofed ? experienced the fatal effefis of the 
lightning : the hoe with which he was at work is fuppofed 
to have operated as a condu&or. Near Exeter the effects 
were extraordinary; in Moreton church-yard, the earth 
was torn from feveral graves, and human Ikulls thrown to 
a confiderable diftance ; and, near Bow, about fifty trees 
were cut in two, as if done with a faw. The report of 
the thunder was like that of artillery fired in regular fuc- 
ceffion. About two, the inhabitants of Ipfwich were 
much alarmed, as the craffies of thunder ffiook many 
lioufes; and at the hill-barracks it was Hill more awful, 
as the eleftric fluid communicated with a range of ftables, 
and ftruck down nine horfes, two of which were killed. 
The ftables were alfo fet on fire, but it was foon extin- 
guilhed. Near twenty perfons were ftruck down by the 
lightning, but none killed. A barn, at Framlingham, be¬ 
longing to S. Kilderbee, efq. of Ipfwich, was burnt down 
by the lightning. The ftorm was truly awful in Bir¬ 
mingham and its neighbourhood. The lightning fplit 
the crane at the canal-office in that town, "its effects in 
the country adjoining were dreadful. A man was killed 
by the lightning at Teffont. At Dumfries the peals were 
loud, and the flaftes uncommonly vivid. The lightning* 
ftruck the houfe of James Kirk, at Mains Riddell, Col- 
vend, fluttered the chimney-fiead, and, defeending the 
chimney, broke the liearth-ftone to pieces. Two cows 
were killed by the lightning, while grazing in a field near 
Ecclefechan. 
On the 2d of Auguft, at the Suffex aflifes, which were 
held at Lewes, the following caufe (for cruelty to a dog) 
came on : Hicks v. Collard. The declaration fet forth, 
that the plaintiff had a valuable dog; that the defendant 
beat him, and rubbed his fides with a cauftic liquid ; in 
confequence of which it became neceffary to deftroy the 
animal. To this the defendant had pleaded, that the dog 
trefpaffed upon his premifes, and that he beat him to keep 
him away. The plaintiff was a liable-keeper at Brighton, 
and the animal was his yard-dog. The defendant was 
a druggilt and chemift, who had a bitch in his houfe, to 
which the dog paid occafional vifits. In one of thole 
vilits the defendant fecured the dog, molt cruelly poured 
on him oil of vitriol, and turned him out. In the ccurfe 
of the next day, it corroded the flank of the poor creature 
until his bowels aftually dropped out, and it became ne- 
ceflary to put the animal out of it- mifery. It was Hated 
in confirmation by a witnefs, that the morning after the 
liquid had been applied, about five o’clock, he flrft faw 
the dog ; it was then running about the yard in great 
agony. The hair on the back was hard, aa if burnt; but 
on the fides, where the dog had licked himfelf, the ft cut 
was torn away, and there was but a thin ftcin between that 
and the bowels. The tongue of the animal, by licking 
S- kleifj. 
