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London, England, 1810-11-13 00:00:00

SHROPSHIRE 4UPJtULTUMAL SOCIETY.

Thursday a moat numerous meeting, cousistlst
of the Nubility and Gems; of Shrewshur„.
held at the Litre Inns fbr the purpose of calling
into effect a resolution entered into. Brier the last
Infirmary Sleeting. for establishing en Avicula
torsi Society for Shropshire. he Itight lion.
Lord Bradford took the chairs and idles having eas•
plained fully. ant( swat ably, the nature and pur-
line, of the Itatitutiot . vit.—To promotu know-
ledge among the farmers—to facilitate labour—to
imprnre the breed of all iasds of stock. sod ewer-
Lain the moat profitable mutate of raising crops upon
flurry krodef larsdia-etipsl Ste- promote, by suitatde
rewards, industry among the laboari peogstttry—
he then suinuitted theeules and regulations of the
Inetitirtion.which met with general orprobatioa;
and having been seconded by W. Childe, F..sq.
area adopted. Lord kira4foed haring, at the
former trx..t.n.r. been ap;,airiared Pres:dent. W.
Vice-Friardsot. and Mr. Jethro.
S.cretary ; it was ordered that the Sectit.try should
also Le Tre. sorer ; sad a-Cornwittee, treuitating of
the i'raitteot. V ice-Perivient. W. Lloyd. J. Cam/
R. Lyster. J. Ihll, W. (I,enn, T. Lloyd. aed .
Tench. &grit. were stipulated to carry the *olio
io us of the Socie4y.Osto exputitioo.

Four weasels, whose eamea we have no' learnt,
ported from their anchors, arid went on shore on
Saturday li.st oo Yarmouth beech. Ile crews of .
them would have aU perished, Wafer the exertions
of Capt. klarinr, and his minter ineeutioa—they
wet* all saved he it.
DitaL FAIMINTSra—Ao Affair of honour was
intended to he decided ou Mount %Vise. near Ply.
mouth, on Wednesday evening, at half-past eight
o'clock. by moonlight, between two Lieuteuants of
the Royal Artillery Gunner Drivers. Infmniation
having been given to the Magistrate. a warrant was
issued to apprehend the parties, and through the
activity of the Constables. who had the execution
of it, they arrived on the ground just in tame Its
prevent the duel.--The parties being assured. were
bound over to krwp the peace.
(hi the 25th ult. the day on which our beloved
Monarch completed the 30th yrar of lis re.gn,
(*Amerce, Dispensery was opened for the edgers-
-on ." patients. After divine b.-nice at the Ca-
thedral, isici a newt ewesvtie and imprecate ter-
lima by the o.7an, t..e nest peegeser of the luau.
tatlon iespresa; Clouded a a testimony of loyalty
and gratitude to t I.: nest of ciags), • metetit.g was
helu :u the Chaptst Room for the rlecboa of of.
beers for the ensuing year. In the evening a large
party dined ..; 'he Penricya Arms, the Right Rev.
the Loan Rance in thr.Chair ; his Lordship, in Is
neat and appropriate Address. in which lie passel
the most merited encomiums oo the Worthy U no
for his seal is prernotisig, and his iadeLt:gahle
exertions in bringing to perfection, the Ciartiar.on.
shire and Angkor* Loyal Dispensary. proicust.el the
Dean's health. aid the Meeks of the ertierm.y f•r
his unwearied assiduity and attentsoo. In ietuirs
the Dean gave tt May the counties tarnarron
end oentrlesee ever be united in acts Amity and
i'
loyalty." The evening coo. uded •i the greor.t
harmony and gaud-hutuour. all present being highly
lacteal with the stteutien end urbanity of his
Lordship. Same day, Major Sir nooses' Wit.
trans, in the :tame of the Officers of the Royal
An4lesee Lucid Militia, presented au elegant
Sword to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Butke-
tee, their respected Colonel, accompanied by an
Address expresiore of their resort': to shich his
Lordship returned an appropriate reply. Daring
this ceremony a royal salute was fired from the
battery, which wee returned by the armed ships
lying to the harbour, and flags were displayed on
the tower. castle, and church. at &swamis. His
Lordship afterwards gave • splendid dinner to the
Oflicers at Barron Hill, where the evening was
spent in friendly conviviality. The Non-commis-
sioned Officers were regaled by their Noble Co-
keel with au excellent dinner at the 'Solna-head,
&sonatas.

A person of the name of MOIIIMEW. a muster
cooper of Dover, was on Sunday found dims oird
n small distance to the westward of the South IF Ofe.
land: it is supposed, in going from Dover to Seint
Marga►et's, a distance of shout three miles, where
it appears he had some business to tratimeto he
was calizht by the tide ander the cliff, and could
not extricate himself.

The widow of a butcher, oldie name of IlttcAts.
with a nuniernits family. hung herself on Sunday.
at her residence in Fitsrormarket. Shit warn
found sa.pendtd by one of hrr children. and by
medical add she was brosight to baste •hierk hm.
eft some hopes of ri cos erv.
An inquest a as yesterday held at the George. lit
George-Court. Strand. before AsTuollY Gets..
Req. Coroner of Westminster. on the body of ItlattY
STONE, servant to Mr. CLAGDON, of George.atree,
Alt I phi. From the evidence of a young ;;grit like-
*-i.e a s:rvint in the same house, tt appeared that,
shout 1-1, ri clerk nn Saturday night, she found
the deceased. who had previon.ly complained ef
indisp -itnin, lying upon the floor of the kitchen
wiotte she had I ft her -fitting a short time henry.
:he then v.,: leas very cold and ill. and beg-
gerl that medical ethic, might be procured ; but
oa the arrival of au it-sistnut of Messrs. Alstawsn-
ton sad illicit. i.i the Strand, life was satinet. It
hisopioion, that her death was ocraslowed by
the sudden rupture of • bleed-vessel in thebrois
er lime whet vitro' part. The Jury witlinot
tnn returned a verdict of.—Thed Ike gird eke tf
(.o,l—The derailed was billion) forty end AR?
years cf Jc.e.

DrBLIN, N'ert. s.

COURTS OF LAW.

Trendy beiag the vatting day of Term, the Lord
Ch •ncellor need the Chief Judges had their usual
Levees, at which the Puisne Judges, Law Officers,
Kiag's %.:o.lfiliti, and the Gentlemen of the Bar, at-
tetemd to pity their respects. The Lur.l Chancel-
loe, tiller his Levee, went in procession to the Four
quarts, and the several Judges proceeded to dis-
charge the bo.iness of their several Courts.

..Tue Lord Chancellor was accompanied, on hie
taking Ins sea: ,spon the Bench, by the Muter of
the Rolla and *cater Hrno, after which three Gen-
tlemen- were sworn In Barristers by Mr. Bourchier,
the Clerk of the Hanaper.
It was generally reported in the Hall, that Lord
Chief Jusare Downes would not again appear upon
the Judi ml Beach, but that the Solicitor-General
would succeed to that high situation in the Course
of the present Term.
dodge Day was the only Judge that attended the
Court of King's Bench.

DREADFUL OCCVREENCE.

[From the Curk Mercautale Chteaitle )

It is with great horror that we harelbrelats a

Calamity. which far exceeds, in the fatal conse.
• garnets resaibug from it, p Thep any casualty
ever kaown in this city. About ten o'clock on
Saturday night an ezplouon was heard, proceeding
from the quarter of St. Barry's, so loud and un-
expected as to produce the deepest sensations of
wonder and alarm. Crowds ran to the place from
whence the roar of destruction seemed to proceed,
sod in a short true. it was but too evident that up.
prebension hid not over-calculated in the boding,
of -misfortune. It was discovered that three
houses in Brandy-lane had been blown up, ap-
parently by gunpowder ; that the adjaLent houses
ware in names; and from the sad testimony of
feet* it was clear, that man) unfortunote ems.
tam had been the victims of instantaneous de.
'traction. For a moment horror sod consterna-
tion sespeodrd inquiry...ell was mute amaze.
seset...snie was these aay one near this scene of
death and ruin who could, for a time, give any rela-
tion of the cause of this dismal tratisectson—while
the ieereeelag crowds were gazing npou the mask-
leg mesons ortbe amuses, and the mangled limbs
and bodies of vteir unfortunate inhabstauts. The
cries of those whose houses were in flame at length
called forth venue efforts, and, its a little time, such
zealot's and generous exertions were made. as al-
ways
distioguisis the ru he burins of this City, incases
vb.». 'misfortune makes any claims upon them.
The tors houses immediately adjoining the confla-
gration were almost instantly polled down, and the
rest were saved from destruction.

It apprars, that • person of the name of Ellen],
who hired in one of the ruined houses, bad been a
workman employed in the pantile works at Bailin-
collig. It is suspected, that by some means or
ct lee this man contrived so evade detection in bring-
ing out, from time to time, quantities of gunpowder,
for which he in general found customers among the
quarry into employed in the neighbouring qacrries
about the ell'. It is supposed that his wife and
oth• h.e f0.1n,14 were roma°. ell in drying this
powder, and hod, while so engaged, brought a
candle two claw to it, which sawed the terrible ea.
g°Woo that took place; and, aa great many poor
lottis* lodged is that and the naii;ittiuuring
houses, occauoutd the toss ist co m liven
Of those who have already perished, the names
are as follow :—Mary Mahony, • widow ; Julio
Corcoran, a child; Thomas Mud, the supposed
esinie of the calamity, had his thigh torn off in a
dreadful manner, and died as he had reached the
South Infirmary ; Mary, his wife ; Florence Sis.-
liven, a tumuli, Catharine, his wife, and Edward,
has sun, aged 20; Mary Egan, sen. and Mars Egan,
jun. ; Daniel Daly, a cooper, Mary, his wife; Mary
Connor, a child ; John Tuomry, • liihnurrr, Eli-
nor, his wife, Honors, his child, Denis Tunatry, his
brother ; Elinor Daly, a servant; and John *Car-
thy, • labourer. There are three others in the In-
firmary, of whose recover) scarcely any hopes are
tatertamed.

The bodies of those unfortunate people exhibited
a dreadful sight, which even in deocription would
overpower the fselings of tee generality of our
retailers. The five which were in the hoism with
Toomey, the labourer, were muuled and mutilated
in • woeful mannee—.their Ii bejug strewed
about the place ; ■aid several of the women who
withered, to add still to the inefortune. were with.
ckild—eigmeen persons having been literally al.
most torn to pieces, and the remaining three hourly
expect to be released from torture. Three hovers
were blown to ruins, and several others extremely
injured.

The conduct of the Mayor, and Sheriffs Deane
and Besuard, sod of the Coy Coroner, Mr. H.
Hardy, detnai.ded iu jua•ice the most universal
;oriole. Them was limiting that settee and hums-
laity could suggest upon an occa,dosi of an terrible
• nature, that was left unpetfurinell. To tbia hu-
mine VlAtclifullicsi one poor creature owes her
life. She was buried under the runs; but the
casual junction of a lees large %loiter having pre-
vented ,he rubbish from cru-hung her, her groans
werre not altogether inaudible. She was heard
by Mr. SIM lir 13,411 r, a Ito se•trche,l according
to the seeming direction of the aroma, and after
some time cluplayed aurangat the ruins,
he hail the satisfaction of reacniti4 the poor woman
!rpm a dreadful death. The report of the explo•
sibui was immensely loud, and the concussion oc-
casioned by it broke the wi•duwa in that entire dm-
hie( of the city where it took place.

At Beverley Fair, on Monday sennight. good
hunters wild very high ; hackney horses were lower
than of late; beasts and pigs fully maintained the
prices previously current.
The weather during the week has been very se.
vere, considering the season. We hays had soma
slight falls of sun. and sleet, and during some
eights the frost was so intense that ice has barn oh.
served an inch in thickoesa►—/CarlraleJerrwal/
On Tuesday 14'4, John Wetsun was convicted
before the Loan ►MA?OR of YORK of throwing a
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4bD!TIOMIL CAW** .111 rakS S Ok CIA&

DAMN.

It is a melancholy truth that, notwithstanding the
frequent admonitions given to parents, and others,
having the charge of young children. especially the
lower ranks in life, no calamity, however distressing
is its consequences, will operate sufficiently to pro-
tect against those dreadful ev-tits occasioned by tire.
Last week an Inquest was held at Huline, near Ca-
vermeil, Staffordshire' on the body of Hannah Lira-
tree, a very beautiful child, aged 4 years, who was
burnt to death, in the absence of her parents, who
had incautiously left the deceased, and another in-
fant child in the house, unprotected by ally one,
the house itself being nearly a mile distend from
any other. On the mother', return (rota the
coal pit. whitiser she had gone for coals, she found
the deceased standing near en inner door, her
clothes completely burnt away, and herself n miser-
able spectacle, except only her face, which had
received nu injury. What renders this catastro-
phe more singular, the deceased, it appears, had
when on fire, gone to her intent sister then on the
bed, and communicated the flames to the bed,
which was literally consumed to a-hes, but the
young child providentially received not the slightest
injury. notwithstanding some part of its clothes
had suffered from the flames. The deceased len-
guished in extreme pain till arrested by death
the following morning, but had previously inform-
ed her parents that, upon her endeavouring to
reach from the chimney-piece her moth. is huswile,
the fire had caught her frock.—And on Moitilay
last a similar occurrence happened at Li:mill:old, to
Hannah Copestake, a child of the age of seven
years, who, in the absence of both her parents,
then at labour at a considerable distance, on her
endeavouring to place an article on the thinnary.
piece, hail her clothes entirely consumed by the
tire of u..• g.tit-, and herself mi•ersbly ou•nt. She
survived a few Mars only ; every possible means in
the mean Ode having been excited for her resto-
ration without effect.—Vey tit. Acei testa Deaths.