Abbildungen der Seite
PDF
EPUB

bounty and benevolence were as confpicuous in the hour of diftrefs, as his fortitude was apparent in the moment of danger.

23d.

[ocr errors]

Between four and five o'clock in the morning, a violent ftorm blew from the fouthweft, attended with fucceffive flashes of lightning, and continued rolls of loud thunder, fucceeded by heavy fhowers of hail and rain. Part of the copper roofing of the new ftone buildings in Lincoln's-inn was blown over the Six Clerks' office into Chancery-lane, and fome part of it over the roofs of the oppofite houfes in the lane, into a yard, and part paffed through a garret window of one of thofe houfes, inhabited by Mr. White; fo that it must have been raifed near a hundred feet into the air. Thirteen trees were blown down in Lincoln's-inn gardens. A maidfervant of counsellor Graham's was killed in her bed, by the falling of a stack of chimnies, at his chambers on the fouth fide of Lincoln'sinn New-fquare: his man-fervant fortunately escaped, by quitting his bed on the firft alarm. Several trees were blown down in Moorfields.

Many houfes were unroofed, and others fuffered confiderably.

The high piles of wood in moft of the timber-yards round the metropolis were blown down.

At Walthamstow, a large barn, feveral ftacks of chimnies, and feveral trees were blown down.

At Windfor, the storm was very dreadful; the fentinels on guard upon the terrace defcribe the air to have been fo luminous, that they could for a minute fee at very great diftances; and instantly after it became dark in the extreme, with a

smell refembling the fresh discharge of cannon.

The drivers on the road from Salifbury, and the paffengers, corroborate the teftimony, that the lightning was rather like a ftream of fluid from a glafs-houfe furnace; and the horfes were fo generally terrified, that with 'difficulty they got on.

At Purfleet and Erith, which are on the oppofite fides of the river, a few miles above Gravefend, the inhabitants were in one continued alarm the greater part of the night, for fear of the gunpowder magazine taking fire by the continued lightning.

At Harrow-on-the-Hill and St. Alban's, both elevated fituations, the electrical fhock was very fenfibly felt, but no mifchief done; though at the latter the fire was feen to play through and about the abbey fteeple in a fingular manner,

As a proof that the form was as wide and extenfive as awefully dreadful, at Springfield near Colchefter, the hail-ftones were very heavy, the lightning continual, and, with the thunder, refembled the befieging of a fortrefs by the most formidable enemy.

At the Nore, a floop, that caft anchor during the tempeft, had her fails torn from the mafts, but nobody hurt.

The fteeple of Beckenham church. in Kent, a fpire built of fhingles, was fired, and a part deftroyed.

The fhingles of the spire of Herfham church, in Suffex, were set on fire, but were extinguished by the rain.

A hovel belonging to Mr. Grant, of Towcefter, was blown down by the violence of the wind, by which [P3] accident,

1

accident, four cows that were under it at the time were killed. A barn at Blifworth was likewife blown down. Trees were blown up by the roots, the thatch ftripped off cot. tages, and many chimnies blown down, in different parts of the country.

A very large elm tree, by the fide of the road about a mile from Brentwood, was ftruck down by the lightning, about two yards from the bottom, and fell across the road, about five yards before the leaders of the Ipfwich mail coach. All the horfes turned round, fnapped the pole, overfet the coach, and tore the harnefs to pieces. By the conftruction of the mail coach, the paflengers efcaped unhurt; but the guard received a bruife in his leg.

The driver of the Liverpool ftagecoach was terribly fcorched by the lightning; and the drivers of the different mails had the utmost difficulty to make their horfes keep the road.

At Whitehaven, in the night it became tempeftuous; the wind raged dreadfully; there was much thunder and lightning, and a great deal of hail and fleet fell. The tide in the harbour flowed much earlier than the ufual time, and rose to an aftonishing height. Several of the fhips (there were a great number in port) broke adrift in the course of the night, and many of them were damaged, but none materially. The profpect of the fea, with the coming tide, was alarming beyond defcription; the huge billows, chafing each other, broke with irrefiftible fury over the outer works of the harbour, and all was whitened with the foam..

Accounts from North Wales are full of melancholy events. Trees in

feveral parts were torn up by the roots; and in one place a cottage was blown down, by which a man, his wife, and four boys, were killed in their beds. In another place the wind quite unroofed the house of a gentleman, and blew the bell, &c. which stood on his coach-house, several yards, fhattered the gable end of the ftables, in which were fix fine. coach-horfes and five hunters: they all, however, efcaped unhurt, except two hunters that were in the ftalls nearest the weft end, one of which was killed on the spot, the other maimed fo much, that it was neceflary to fhoot it immediately. A very fine large hot-house, built the last fummer, was alfo entirely levelled with the ground; and the gardener, who lived close to it, fuffered very much, fome bricks, tiles, &c. falling through the roof and top of the bed, which broke his left arm, and bruised his thigh exceedingly.

The ftorm was feverely felt in many parts of France. Several houfes at Dunkirk were thrown down, and much damage done among the fhipping.

DIED, near Blarney, in the county of Cork, in Ireland, aged 84, Owen McCarthy, efq. commonly called Mafter-na-moran, or lord or mafter of the principality of Moran. He has left an only fon, now governor of Miranda, and colonel of a regiment of horfe in the Portuguese fervice. The deceafed had 15 brothers, 13 of whom emigrated for bread, after lofing their eftates in that kingdom, and were promoted to high ranks in the different armies of France, Spain, Portugal, and Germany.

At Arlefcote-houfe, near Edgehill; in the county of Warwick, Mr. Thickneffe, many years high mafter $

of

[ocr errors]

BIRTHS for the Year 1790.

Jan. 1. Lady Compton, a fon and heir.

21. Lady of Sir Tho. Which-
cote, bart. a fon.

Feb. 9. Lady of Reg. Pole Carew,
efq. M. P. a daughter.
13. Lady Warren, of Staple-
ford-hall, a daughter,

24. Right hon. lady Charlotte
Dundas, a daughter.

of St. Paul's school, from which em- fured 6 feet 4 inches round the ployment he had retired near waist. twenty years. He died in the 77th year of his age. The mercers company had fo great an opinion of his worth, and fo much gratitude for his fervices, that they would not confent to his refignation, until he had named his fucceffor; and they fettled upon him, during his life, one hundred guineas a year. The late Mr. Holbeach, a bachelor of large fortune in Warwickshire, had been Mr. Thickneffe's friend from the time he was upon the foundation at Winchefter; and, when he refigned St. Paul's fchool, the good old man defired him to retire to a wing of his old manfion-house, which he had left standing for that purpose more than fifty years before. When Mr. Thickneffe arrived at this pleafant remnant of hofpitality and goodness, fituated in the midft of a noble park, he found a good fire burning upon all the hearths in the houfe; his binns filled with wines, and an annuity upon his table, the donation of the generous owner: but alas! before the revolution of one year, while Mr. Thicknesse and he were at dinner together, the good old man threw his head back in his chair, and died without a groan.

At Alderwafley, Derbyshire, aged 102, Dorothy Fletcher.

At Carlmywark, Galloway, aged 108, Jane Walker.

At Limerick, aged 102, Mrs. Magee.

Near Donaghadee, aged 107, Mr. James Cree.

At Uttoxeter, in Staffordshire, a perfon of the name of Raulin, aged 32, nearly equal in weight to the celebrated Mr. Bright, of Effex, viz. 34 ftone. Though but 5 feet 6 inches and an half high, he mea

Lady Herbert, a daughter.
Lady Apfley, a fon and

heir.

March 16. Lady of fir John Frederick, bart. a daughter.

19. Hon. Mrs. Finch Hatton, a daughter,

April 5. Lady of the bishop of Lincoln, a fon.

11. Lady viscount Falmouth, a

fon.

23. Lady of W. Baker, efq.
M. P. a daughter.
Lady Louvaine, a fon.
Lady Willoughby of Eref-
by, a daughter.

28. Lady of hon. colonel Fane,
a fon,

May 8. Rt. hon, lady John Ruffel, , a fon,

10. Lady of fir John Rous, bart. a daughter.

21. At Paris, the duchess of Devonshire, a fon and heir.

Hon. Mrs. Clifford, of New
Park, a fon and heir.
28. Lady of fir Wm. Foulis,
bart. a fon.

June 14. Lady Haddo, a fon.
24. Lady of fir Alex. Jarvis,
bart. a fon.

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

4. Lady of hon. Lewis Wat

fon, a daughter. 15. Rt. hon. lady Charlotte Lenox, a daughter. 16. Lady of J. Cox Hippisley,

efq. M. P. a fon and heir. zo. Lady of col. North, a fon. Right hon. lady Arden, a daughter.

Lady of Sam. Smith, efq. M. P. a daughter. Sept. 18. Lady of fir David Carnegie, bart. a daughter. Lady of fir John Ingilby, bart. a daughter.

25. Lady of John Anftruther, efq. M. P. a fon.

30. Lady of hon. col. Rodney, a fon.

Oct. 4. Countefs of Lauderdale, a daughter.

6. Lady of fir Géo. A. W. Shuckburgh, baronet, a daughter.

8. Lady of fir Wm. Cunningham, bart. a fon.

9. Lady Grace Douglas, of
Cavers, a fon.

15. Lady of fir James Col-
quhoun, bart. a daughter.
Rt. hon. lady Charles So-
merfet, a daughter.
31. Lady of fir Henry Dash-
wood, bart, a daughter.

Nov. 18. Countess of Carysfort, a fon.

Dec. 5. Lady of Geo. Summer, efq. M. P. a daughter.

6. Rt. hon. lady Stourton, a

fon.

29. Lady of J. Blackburne, efq. M. P. a fon.

Right hon. lady Compton, a fon.

MARRIAGES for the Year 1790.

Jan. 4. Duke of Dorset to Mifs Cope, eldest daughter of lady Hawkesbury. Hon. Hen. Fitzroy to Rt. hon. lady Ann Westley. Hon. Mr. Digby to Mifs Gunning, one of her majefty's maids of honour. Thomas Langford Brooke, efq. of More, to Mifs Boughton, eldest daughter of fir Th. Boughton, bart.

Feb.

Rev. J. Jones, D.D. to the dowager viscountess Ashbrook.

Earl of Errol to Mifs Blake,
eldeft daughter of J. Blake,
of Ardfry, county of
Galway, efq.

Owen Wynne, efq. M. P.
to lady Sarah Cole.
Edw. Jeron Rickets, efq.
to the hon. Mifs Twifle-
ton.

Hon. John Spencer to lady
Eliz. Spencer.

Miles Sandys, Efq. to Mifs
Dalrymple, daughter of fir
J. Dalrymple, bart.

24. Hen. Otway, efq. to Mifs Cave, fifter of fir Thomas

Cave.

March 3. Hon. Mr. Montagu, fon of viscount

viscount Hinchinbrook, to Mifs Buckingham. 5. John Calcraft, efq. M. P. to Mifs Hales, daughter of fir Pym Hales, bart. 22. Hon. Ed. Foley to Mifs Hodgetts.

27. Col. Freemantle to the hon. July.
Mifs Ongley.

In Italy, earl of Home to
Mifs Coutts.

April. Rev. J. Eyre to Mifs Char-
lotte Armytage, daughter
of the late fir George
Armytage, bart.

13. Hon. Mr. Townshend to
the hon. Mifs Southwell.
William Elliott, eldest fon
of fir Francis Elliott, bart.
of Stobbo, to Mifs Ruffell.
24. Hon. Henry Dillon to
Mifs Grant.

May. Col. Loftus to the right hon.

Jady Eliz. Townshend. Ch. Hoare, efq. to Mifs Robinson, daughter of fir Geo. Robinfon, bart. Edw. Hay, efq. to the hon. Mifs Maria Murray, daughter of lord Elibank. Col. Hotham to Mifs Dyke, daughter of fir J. Dixon Dyke, bart. June. Hon. and Rev. Arch. Ham. Cathcart to Mifs Fr. Henry Freemantle. Eben. Oliphant, efq. to Mifs Mary Stirling, daughter of fir W. Stirling, of Ardock, bart. Wyndham Knatchbull, efq. to Mifs Knatchbull, filter of fir Edward Knatchbull, bart. Edw. Southwood Percival, efq. to Mifs Sutton, daughter of the late lord Ģeo. Manners Sutton.

Wm. Hen. Beauchamp, efq.
fon of fir W. Beauchamp
Proctor, bart. to Mifs
Frances Davis.
Hen. Methold, esq. to Miss
Eden, daughter of fir J.
Eden, bart.

Ch. Yorke, efq. M. P. to
Mifs Harriet Manning-
ham.

Humph. Prideaux, efq. to
Mifs St. Aubyn, daugh-
ter of the late fir J. St.
Aubyn, bart.

Marquis of Graham to lady

Caroline Montagù, fifter of the duke of Manchef

ter.

W. P. Hamond, efq. to Mifs
Carr, daughter of fir
Rob. Carr, bart.

Sir Wm. Wake, bart. to
Mifs Sitwell.

Aug. Hon. capt. Townshend to
Mifs Gladwyn.

Wm. Trenchard, efq. to
lady Hefter Amelia de
Burgh, fifter of the mar
quis of Clanricarde.
Sir Griffith Boyntun, bart.
to Mifs Parkhurst.
Hon. Spencer Perrival to
Mifs Jane Wilfon, daugh-
ter of fir Tho. Spencer
Wilson, bart.

Benj. Jennings, efq. to the
dow. vifcountefs Dudley
and Ward.

Cap. Ch. Irvine to Mifs
Diana Gordon, daughter
of the late fir Alexander
Gordon of Leffmoor, bart.
Sir Ch. Afgill, bart. to
Mifs Jemima SophiaOgle,
daughter of fir Chaloner
Ogle, bart.

Rev. Str. Mafter to Mifs
Eliz.

« ZurückWeiter »