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alfo point out fome new fources of information on this 
interefting fubjeft. Upon this expectation, a number of 
gentlemen have taken young Zerah under their patronage, 
and have formed themfelves into a committee for the pur- 
pofe of fuperintending his education. A gentleman of 
fcience, well known for his mathematical abilities, has 
contented to take the child under his immediate tuition ; 
and the committee have therefore withdrawn him, for the 
prefent, from public exhibition, in order that he may fully 
devote himfeif to his ftudies. 
Some years ago, a plan was formed, and a company ef- 
tablilhed, for the purpofe of cutting a lubterraneous paf- 
i’age or tunnel through Highgate-hill, in a direction from 
Holloway, to the right of the late great road. The de¬ 
sign was partly executed, when, on Monday the 13th of 
April, between four and five in the morning, the fuper- 
incumbent earth gave way, and choaked up the paflage. 
The labour of feveral months was thus in a few moments 
converted into a heap of ruins. Some of the workmen, 
who were corning to refume their daily labour, deferibe 
trie noife that preceded it like that of diftant thunder. It 
was the crown-arch, near Hornfey-iane, that firft gave 
way; and the lane, in confequence, fell fome feet deep, 
and inftantly became impaffable. The houfes in the vi¬ 
cinity felt the fall like the fliock of an earthquake. The 
number of perfons whom the finenefs of the weather at¬ 
tracted on the preceding Sunday, to ini'peft the works, was 
not lefs than 800.—The plan of a tunnel was then aban¬ 
doned, and the proprietors determined to cut an open 
road through the hill, at very nearly the level of the tun¬ 
nel, and to conned the crofs road to Hornfey, &c. by 
means of a grand bridge over the valley. This vaft de¬ 
sign is now (1814.) completed ; the road has been for feve- 
ral months in a perfeCt Hate, for the paflage of the nu¬ 
merous vehicles which enter the metropolis in this direc¬ 
tion. The height of the work is 60 feet, fo that a per¬ 
pendicular afeent of that height is laved in a diltance of 
about 800 yards. In addition to the cut through the 
hill, another company have completed a new and moft 
beautiful road from Holloway to Kentifh Town, fo as to 
make the archway ferve as an entrance to the ealt and the 
welt ends of London. The archway alone has coif ioo,oool. 
On the 30th of April, the queen held a drawing-room 
at St. James’s Palace. It being the firft which her majefty 
had held lince the king’s birth-day in 1810, and there hav¬ 
ing been no court for the ladies during a lapfe of nearly 
two years, great preparations were made by the higher 
ranks for their appearance on this occafion. The public 
fplendour of the court was likewife confiderably increafed, 
on this revival of it, by the invitations of the prince-re¬ 
gent, which were iftued to the number of four hundred, 
to a magnificent entertainment given in the evening at 
Carlton-houfe, by his royal highnefs, to her majefty, the 
princeffes, and the nobility and gentry. The palace of St. 
James’s and the vicinity bore rather the appearance of the 
celebration of a birth-day than the holding of a drawing¬ 
room in the ufual manner. Parties of the life-guards 
were ftationed in the morning at all the avenues, and in 
the front of the palace, who, with the afilftanceof the po¬ 
lice, preferved great regularity and order in the pafiing of 
the carriages and fedans to and from the palace. At noon, 
Bond-ftreet, St. James’s-Itreet, and Pall-mall, were all in 
a buftie, thronged with fuperb carriages and elegant equi¬ 
pages, and the windows filled with fpeftators. All the 
arrangements refembled thofe for birth-days; and num¬ 
bers of tickets were iffued from the lord-chamberlain’s 
office, for fpeftators in the anti-rooms, guard-chamber, 
&c. Her majefty, with the princeffes Augulta and Mary, 
left the queen’s houfe about one o’clock, and alighted at 
the duke of Cumberland’s apartments at St. James’s, 
where her majefty and the princeffes dreffed, the royal 
jewels having been previoufiy brought thither from the 
bank. After partaking of fome refrelhments in the duke’s 
apartments, they proceeded with a numerous train of at- 
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tendants through the gallery and the ball-room, and en¬ 
tered the grand council-chamber, where her majefty re¬ 
ceived the company, and the numerous perfons who had 
the honour of being prefented.—The prince-regent went 
from Carlton-houfe to St. James’s palace; and appeared 
in full ftate for the firft timefince the eftab!i(hment‘of'the 
regency. The proceflion of his royal highnefs confifted 
of three carriages, drawn by two horfes each ; within them, 
his aides-de-camp, pages of honour. See. The fervants 
wore their ftate-liveries, and new ftate-hats, adorned with 
blue feathers. Then followed the ftate-coach of his royal 
highnefs, drawn by fix bays in fuperb red-morocco har- 
nefs, decorated with red ribands. On the fides of the 
carriage walked four helpers. The coachman and four 
footmen wore black velvet caps, like thofe of his majefty’s 
fervants. The prince-regent was in military uniform : 
he was accompanied by the duke of Montrofe (maffer of 
the horie), and lord John Murray (lord in waiting). The 
proceffion was efcorted by a party of the life-guards; and 
arrived at St. James’s at half-paft three. Earl Cholmon- 
deley (lord fteward), the earl of Macclesfield, and other 
officers of ftate, waited at the bottom of the grand ftair- 
cafe for the prince-regc-nt; and conducted his royal high- 
nefs to the grand council-chamber, where lie paid his re- 
fpects to his royal mother: he remained in the drawing-room 
half an hour. Their royal highnefles the princefsof Wales, 
the duchefs of York, the dukes of York, Clarence, Kent, 
Cumberland, Cambridge, and Suflex, their highneffes the 
duke of Gloucefter, and the princefs Sophia of Gloucefter, 
and his ferene highnefs the duke of Brunfvvick, were alfo 
prefent. 
On the 20th of May, a lamentable accident happened 
in a coal-mine at Orrell, near Liverpool. The workmen 
had been warned not to approach a certain part with fire 
or light; notwithftanding which, one of them entered it 
with a lighted candle ; when a tremendous explofion took 
place, by which all in that part of the mine, confifting of 
nine men and one woman, loft their lives.—But on the 
25th of the fame month, one of the - mod terrible acci¬ 
dents on record, in the hiftory of collieries, took place at 
Felling, near Gatefhead, Durham, in the mine belonging 
to C. J. Brandling, efq. which was the admiration of 
the diftrift for the excellence of its ventilation and ar¬ 
rangements. Nearly the whole of the workmen were be¬ 
low, the fecond fet having gone down before the firft 
came up ; when a double blalt of hydrogen gas took place, 
and let the mine on fire, forcing up fuch a volume of 
fmoke as darkened the air to a confiderable diftance, and 
fcattered an immenfe quantity of fmall coal from the up¬ 
per (haft. In this calamity no fewer than 93 men and 
boys periffied. 
At Southray, a village three miles from Bardney, in 
Lincolnffiire, three boys were killed by lightning on the 
28th of May. They were tending geefe, in company 
with another, named Charles Blakey, who efcaped in a 
moft providential manner. When the ftorm approached, 
they retired to a hovel, and fat down on the ground; Blakey 
having two companions on one fide, and one on the other. 
After fome time, he jumped up in a fright, faying, “Come, 
boys, let us go home ; we lhall all be killed in this place.” 
His companions did not fpeak ; and he ran home, where 
lie informed his mother, he thought his companions were 
all killed by the lightning, as they did not lpeak or ftir. 
Several of the neighbours went to the place immediately, 
and there found them all lying dead : the lightning feenied 
to have fallen on their heads, and run down their bodies, 
burning their necks, ffioulders, and breafts, in a dreadful 
manner, and cauimg large brown fores. Two of their® 
ftiirts were burned, but their outward garments vf?re not 
damaged. 
From the a b ft raft of a return of the number of non- 
refident and refident incumbents in England and Wales, 
prefented to the houfe of commons and ordered to be 
printed on the 28th of May, it appears, that the number of 
Incumbents 
