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hour covered 100 acres of iand, from ‘20 to 
60 feet deep. It left no chasm behind, but 
the original bog is 15 feet under its usual 
level. It has since spread to a great ex¬ 
tent, and is still proceeding with a terrific 
front, 200 yards wide and 8 feet deep, at 
the rate of 2 yards every hour. A. Fuller, 
esq. of Woodfield House, has a thousand 
men embanking before his house and en- 
deavouringto direct its course in the line of 
Ballyboughlan. The upper country is com¬ 
pletely inundated, and fresh convulsions 
have rolled the pasture lands before it, and 
apprehensions were entertained that it 
would get into contact with the river of 
Ballyboughlan. Roads and bridges are co¬ 
vered, communications cut off, ike. 
Married .] At Dublin, E. S. Lees, esq. 
Secretary to the General Post Office, to 
Jane daughter of the late Captain .Clarke, 
of the 40th regt. 
Died ] At Cold blow, county of Dublin, 
D. George, esq. late one of the barons of 
the Court of Exchequer. 
The late Dr. Beaufort, whose death was 
reported in our last, had rebuilt at Iris own- 
expense, his two parish churches, a few 
years previous to his decease. 
At Castle Lacked, county of Mayo, Jas 
Earl of Tyrawley. His lordship was re¬ 
markable for the urbanity of his manners, 
and a punctilious sense of honour. 
ABROAD. 
The whole of the country of Siam was in 
a deplorable state in consequence of the 
spread ofth e Cholera Morbus, from Hindoos- 
tun, where it has carried off half a million of 
persons. In Siam its ravages were sb dread¬ 
ful, that at Bancok alone (the capital) up 
wards Of -10,000 perched. The .poorer classes 
[Aug. 1 
of the Siamese unroofed their housesto admit 
vultures and other birds of prey to carry oft 
the dead. The King had convened a council 
of nobles, priests, and astrologers to ascer¬ 
tain the cause of this unprecedented mor¬ 
tality : when they were unanimously of opi¬ 
nion that it proceeded from an exit spirit in 
the form of a fish, who being disturbed in its 
usual abode m a far uninhabited country, 
had sought shelter there, and that the only 
method was to frighten him back with guns, 
muskets, drums, gongs, &c. Accordingly an 
innumerable number of ihe inhabitants col¬ 
lected along the sea-shore, to put into execu¬ 
tion the imperial mandate; drums and gongs 
beat in all directions; and thousands of the 
Siamese plunged into the sea with spears, 
swords, stones, and olher missiles, to frighten 
the fish ; but when the scene ended, about 
seven at night, upwards of 7,000 souls were 
left dead, with the cholera morbus on the 
beach and in the water! what a triumph of 
priestcraft. 
Died.'] At Jehu, in Chinese Tartary, on the 
2d of Sep. last, the Emperor Kea-king. The 
express from Peking mentions, that his Im¬ 
perial Majesty on the 25th of the 1th moon, 
at Jeho, departed to'ramble among the 
immortals. The Emperor was of the Ta-tsing 
dynasty, aged 01 years, 25 of which he sat on 
the throne. He was the 14th son of Keen-lung. 
Since he mounted the throne, ihe great body 
of the people have loved him, and praised him 
as a beneficent prince. His government has 
been, upon the whole, better than that of the 
princes oi' the former dynasty (Ming.) He 
seems to have been capricious, under the in- 
liuence of his minions; fond of drink ; distrust¬ 
ful ; harassed by superstitious fears; often 
guilty of persecution; but upon the whole 
not an oppressor. 
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