520 
The following is a tolerably exact ac- 
eount of the loss sustained: ° 
484 individuals—dead. 
170 cows and horses—dead. 
408 goats and sheep—dead. 
37 meadows entirely destroyed * 
60 meadows damaged : 
95 houses entirely destroyed. 
8 houses damaged and uninhabitable. 
466 cowhouses, barns or stables entirely. 
destroyed. 
49 cowhouses, barns orstables, damaged. 
The total damage is estimated at least 
at 120,000l. sterling. 
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For the Monthly Magazine 
account of the FIRST EXPERIMENT of 
the PUBLIC USE Of GAS LIGHTS. 
N Thursday evening the 4th of 
Q June, the first public exhibition of, 
Mr. Winsor’s Gas Lights took place in 
honour of his Majesty’s birth day, in the 
lighting of a great length of lamps, fmilar 
to the side of a street, at a considerable 
distance from the carbonizing furnace. 
This experiment was made on the wall 
which separates the Mall m St. James’s 
Park from Carlton House Gardens. The 
works had been for some time in prepa- 
ration, and private trials had previously 
been made, to prove the air-tightness of 
the tubes of communication: which were 
of tinned iron, with soldered jomts, -ex- 
cept at certain distances where they are 
otherwise cemented together for the con- 
venience of removal. The diameter of the 
long pipe is 13 inch; it commences in 
the two close carbonizing 1ron furnaces 
in Mr. Winsor’s house in Pall Mail, one 
capable of containing and cokeing four 
pecks, and the other two pecks of 
common pit or sea coal; and by 
means of stop cocks, one or both of these 
furnaces can be made to send its gas into 
the pipes above mentioned; which first 
proceed south, about ten yards under- 
ground, until they enter the Prince of 
Wales’s Gardens belonging to Carlton- 
house. From hence the pipe proceeds W. 
for about one hundred and forty yards, 
rising gradually against the garden wall, 
to which it is affixed, until it arrives at 
the NW. cornersof the garden; whence it 
is conducted one f.undred and fifty-three 
yards S., on the top of the wall which 
separates the Prince’s from Marlborough- 
house Garden, to the door at the SW. cor- 
ner of Carlton Gardens. Here the first 
light or illumination was produced by a 
thin and broad stream of gas from a small 
tube or branch from the pipe; which 
gave a very brilliant light in the open air 
without a glass cover. 
Experiment of the public Use of Gas-lighis. 
From this point the communicating pipe 
proceeded along the top of the wail for two 
hundred and fifty yards in an east direction, 
to the private door in the wall opening into 
the Mall, having on it thirty-two tubes 
or burners, inclosed in glasses of ditlerent 
shapes and constructions, and some na- 
ked burners without glass covers. On one 
of the piers of this private door, a four- 
branch gas burner with reflectors, in imi< 
tation of the Prince’s feathers had a very 
pleasing and appropriate effect. From 
this private door, the tube proceeded fifty 
yards further, withinside of the wall, to 
the back gates of Carlton Gardens, and 
there terminated in a grand transparency 
erected over the gate-way, consisting on 
one side of a number of cut-glass stars 
and other devices, with gas-lights behind 
each, besetting the crown and letters 
G. R. The transparency after a while was 
turned round and exhibited on the other 
side in illuminated letters the following 
ode : 
Sing praise to that power celestial, 
Whom wifdom and goodness adorn } 
On this Davy—in regions terreftrial, 
Great George, our lov’d Sov’ reign was born. 
Rejoice,—rejoice, "tis George’snatal day. 
Oh, hail this glad Day so propitious, | 
WhenG gonGe our dread Monarch appear’d, 
Remembrance to Britons delictous, 
Of a King, as a parent rever’d. 
Rejoice, &c. 
Vouchsafe, then, ye pow’rs celestial 
Long health to a life so endear’d 5 
The greatest of blessings terrestrial 
God send to our King sorever’d! — | 
Rejoice, &c. 
The inflammable gas, which is quite 
transparent or invisible, began to flow in 
the pipes soon after eight o’clock, and a 
lamp-lighter, or person with a small wax- 
taper (the evening being quite serene), 
appeared and lighted the gas issuing from 
each burner in succession: some time 
after, a very large burner or assemblage 
of small streams of gas was lighted on the 
top of the transparency, which was not 
however illuminated for a long time af- 
terwards. . 
The light produced by these gas lamps, 
vas clear, bright, and colourless, and 
from the success of this considerable ex- 
periment, in point of the number of 
lights, the distance and length of pipe, 
hopes may now be entertained, that this 
long-talked of mode of lighting our streets 
may at length be realized. The Mall con- 
tinned crowded with spectators, until near 
twelve o’clock, and they seemed much 
amused and delighted by this novel exh 
bition, Your’s, &c. F. 
“For - 
