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ing the fate of her mother, the fell ‘into vio- 
lent hyfterics, from which fhe hardly re. 
eovered ail the following day. The fitua- 
tioa of Mr. and Mrs. Affley is indeed troly 
deplorable. His mother died about a week 
ago; her mother was a few days after burned 
to death 3 his father is now detained a pri- 
foner of warin France, at the moment his 
mother was expiring ; and now the whole of 
his property and his hopes are, In one night, 
extingutihed. Mr. Aft cide nas infured part 
of the value ef his premifes, at various. fire- 
offices, but by no means equal to the whole 
amount. The confufion,occafioned by the inha- 
bitants who furrounded the Theatre, remo 
ing, their gcods, was beyond defeription, sea 
the damage to furniture has been immenfe = 
fortus: ately water was at hand,and-the engines 
afflembled in time to prevent the entire de- 
ftrn tion of any houte but that i iminediately 
conneéted with the Theatre, although on 
evety fide their offices and back premifes are 
burnt, and feveral of them had a€tually 
Sie fire. Of the houfes in frost, mof 
were but little damaged. Fortunately an 
high wall proteéted Mr. Elliot, the coach- 
maker's premifes, and arrefted the progrefs 
of the flames in that dire&tion, although 
the roof and turret of his workfhop were 
at One time on fire. Eight of the fmall 
houfes in Amphitheatre-row are much 
Gamaged in their roofs by the fiercenefs of 
the dimes from the old fcenery depofited in 
the jong thed; and two of them were on fire 
in feveral. places, but the engines extinguifhed 
them, By half paft three o’clock the whole 
of the Theatre had falien in, and nothing 
was then left but the bare walls and fmoak- 
ing ruins, A party of guards attended and 
proteCted the vait pile of goods colieéted in 
Wr. Richardfon’s. yard, and in ~ other 
adjacent places. The columns of flames 
which at one time afcended was incon- 
ceivably great, and the crowd affembled 
round the {pot was, of courfe, immente, 
Jt is but little more than nine years fince Mr. 
Aitiey’s former Theatre on this ipot was de- 
ftroyed by a fimilar calamity! 
Lhe allowing is a correc? account of the Caf 
Iron Bridge eretled over the River Thames at 
Staines—Jt is the firft_bridge wholly of cajt-cron 
that bas been attempted jince ibe famous one at 
Celebs cok- daleom——The arcn et this elegant ftruc- 
ture is the flatteft fegment ever built ona 
large fcale, being the fegment of a circle of 
25,22 feet diameter, the chord or fpan 130, 
and the verfed fine, or height, 16 feet; it 
foriags from avutments of ftone built on 
piles, and is 27 feet 2 inches in breadth, it 
confilts of 6 ribs, placed § feet afunder, kept 
in their pofition by perforated crofs-bars 
placed horizontally at the top and bottom of © 
each arch-piece quite acrofs the bridge, each of 
- ribs is compofed of 39 arch-picces 4 feet 
4 inc. long at top, and us feet 63 inc, at bot- 
tat, 4 fact deep, and 44 inc. thick, they are 
caitt hollow, for the purpofe of introducing 
Ineidents, Marriages, and Deaths, in near London. 
(Oe. 3, 
dowels 43 inc. wide, and 2 inc thick, throug 
thefe dowels, and alfo the arch pieces, are 
caft holes, into which wedges are driven, 
which bring the parts into clofe conta and 
very conSiderably lefien the fhodt or thruft of - 
the arch-—the tpondrils are filled up with 
circles wich diminifh from the abutments 
to the cs: tre, the whole is covered with 
plates t inch thick, and 2 feet broad, on the 
ends of which reft the pannels, on which the 
balluitrade is placed-—the whole weight of 
iron is 270 tons, of which the covering plates 
weigh toc, the® bridge was caft by the Wale 
kers of Rothe rham, on an improved plan, 
for the tavention of which his Majefty hag 
been gracioufly pleafed es grant his Royal 
Letters Patent to Mr. T. Wiifon, engineer 
of Wearmouth-bridge, under whofe direction 
the whole iren-worlz»was thrownvacrois the 
River Thames, and completed in lefs than 
fix months. The bridge was opened for pub- 
lic ufe on Saturday the 3d inft. when the 
commiilioners had the pleafure of feeing 160 
fat oxen, ro horfes, and a great number of 
people upon the bridge at the fame times 
without producing the leaft effect upon it 5 
alphqne the trotting of a khorfe makes it vi- 
brate, the king and royal family pafied over 
in the firft four coaches drawn by four horfee 
each. 
- MARRIED. 
W. Le Blanc, efg, of the Inner Temple, to 
Mifs A. Elliot, of Brifiol. 
« At Marybone, E, Lumby, efq. to Mis E.. 
Phillips, of Roxby-lodge, Surrey. 
At St; James’s,Clerkenwell, J. Balleeua 
efq. of Clarence place, Pentonviile, to Mis, 
Richardfon, of Fore-ftreet. 
W. Wiilis, jun. efq. basker, of Lombarde, 
treet, to Mifs Ponton, daughter of {- Pous 
ton, eiq. of Batterica. 
A‘ Richmond, P. Defpard, efq to Mifs 
Rainsford. 
Lieut. Col. Fither, to Mifs Shaw, of Upper 
Berkeiey-ftreet, Portiman-fqu ‘re. 
At Cumberland Houfe, D. Erfkine, efq. of 
Cardots ,to Mifs Keith Elphinftene- 
B. Gio, eig. of Godttone, Surrey, to 
Mifs Daniell, of Brompton-grove. 
W. Goleghtly, e{q. Of Berners-ftreet, to 
Mifs Dodd, of Cow fea Middilefex. 
i Leyettan, efq. of Bedford-{quare, te 
Mrs. R. Craven, af Grove Houfe, Black- 
heath, 
At the New Church, Strand, Capt. J. C. 
Fitzgerald, to Mifs A. cf Dassen 
T. P. Spencer, efq. of Vauxhall, to Mifs 
Rofs. 
At Camberwell, Mr. Blanchard, farseon, 
to Mifs Reed, of Peckham, 
At Chelfea, Capt. H. Hornby, to Mifs 
J. M. Smith. 
G. Brett, efq. of York-place, Persad 
fquare, to Mifs Templeton, daughter of the 
late Capt. Templeton, of the 6th regiment 
dragoon guards. 
P. Free, 
