as bounty and benevolence were confpicuous in the hour of diftrefs, as his fortitude was apparent in the moment of danger. Between four and five 23d. o'clock in the morning, a violent storm 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 houses, inhabited by Mr. White; fo that it must have been raised 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 efcaped, by quitting his bed on the firft alarm. Several trees were blown down in Moorfields. Many houses 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, several stacks 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 distances; and inftantly after it became dark in the extreme, with a fmell resembling the fresh difcharge 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 horses 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 maga! zine taking fire by the continued lightning. At Harrow-on-the-Hill and St. Alban's, both elevated fituations, the electrical shock was very sensibly 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 ftorm was as wide and extenfive as awefully dreadful, at Springfield near Colchefter, the hail-ftones were very heavy, the lightning coinual, and, with the thunder, refembled the befieging of a fortrefs by the moft formidable enemy. At the Nore, a floop, that caft anchor during the tempeft, had her fails torn from the mafts, but nobody hurt. The steeple of Beckenham church in Kent, a fpire built of fhingles, was fired, and a part destroyed. The fhingles of the fpire of Horfham church, in Suffex, were fet 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, 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 stripped off cottages, 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 horses turned round, fnapped the pole, overfet the coach, and tore the harnefs to pieces. By the conftruction of the mail coach, the paffengers efcaped unhurt; but the guard received a bruise 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 tempestuous; 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 usual 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 tables, in which were fix fine coach-horfes and five hunters: they all, however, efcaped unhurt, except two hunters that were in the stails neareft the weft end, one of which was killed on the spot, the other maimed fo much, that it was neceffary to fhoot it immediately. A very fine large hot-house, built the laft 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 bruifed 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 shipping. DIED, near Blarney, in the county of Cork, in Ireland, aged 84, Owen M'Carthy, efq. commonly called Mafter-na-moran, or lord or master of the principality of Moran. He has left an only fon, now governor of Miranda, and colonel of a regi ment 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 BIRTHS for the Year 1790. Jan. 1. Lady Compton, a fon and heir. 21: Lady of Sir Tho. Which- Feb. 9. Lady of Reg. Pole Carew, 24. Right hon. lady Charlotte 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 midst 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 person 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 March Lady Herbert, a daughter. Lady Apfley, a fon and heir. 16. Lady of fir John Frederick, bart. a daughter. 19. Hon. Mrs. Finch Hatton, a daughter, April 5. Lady of the bishop of Lin coln, a fon. 11. Lady viscount Falmouth, a 23. Lady of W. Baker, efq. 28. Lady of hon. colonel Fane, May 8. Rt, hon. lady John Ruffel, a fon. 10. Lady of fir John Rous, bart. a daughter. 21. At Paris, the duchefs of Devonshire, a fon and heir. Hon. Mrs. Clifford, of New Park, a fon and heir. 28. Lady of fir Wm. Foulis, bart. à fon. June 14. Lady Haddo, a fon. 24. Lady of fir Alex. Jarvis, bart, a fon. 4. Lady of hon. Lewis Watfon, a daughter. 15. Rt. hon. lady Charlotte Lenox, a daughter. 16. Lady of J. Cox Hippifley, Lady of Sam. Smith, efq. Sept. 18. Lady of fir David Carhegie, 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. O. 4. Countess of Lauderdale, a daughter. 6. Lady of fir Geo. 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 Colquhoun, bart. a daughter. Rt. hon. lady Charles Somerfet, a daughter. 31. Lady of fir Henry Dashwood, bart. a daughter. MARRIAGES for the Year 1790. Jan. 4. Duke of Dorfet 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 majesty'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 Afhbrook. Earl of Errol to Mifs Blake, Owen Wynne, efq. M. P. Hon. John Spencer to lady 24. Hen. Otway, efq. to Mifs Cave, fifter of fir Thomas Cave. March 3. Hon. Mr. Montagu, fon of vifcount 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. In Italy, earl of Home to April. Rev. J. Eyre to Mifs Char- 13. Hon. Mr. Townshend to May. Col. Loftus to the right hon. lady Eliz. Townshend. Edw. Southwood Percival, Wm. Hen. Beauchamp, efq. Ch. Yorke, efq. M. P. to Humph. Prideaux, efq. to Marquis of Graham to lady Caroline Montagu, fifter of the duke of Manchef ter. W. P. Hamond, efq. to Mifs Sir Wm. Wake, bart. to Aug. Hon. capt. Townshend to Wm. Trenchard, efq. to Benj. Jennings, efq. to the Cap. Ch. Irvine to Mifs Rev. Str. Master to Mifs |