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London, England, 1808-07-22 00:00:00

chards is this part are stripped of their fruit, the
gerdeue of their 'the row of trees bill 'e
Mr. Tneker'S house, in Menrend, was so broken,
that the leaves and loittoelies lay in the road a
toot d;:eci.
At Tethury.and its neighbourhoedo some houses
were set ma tire; and tae,,ty-three panes of
glass le-okett to eieces in the greeto-house of H.
iliedermaisu, Esq.
At Gruuccotet-, a fire-ball burst, about eleven
o'clock, in the College-(ireeloo uorl.i lug awe) nue
of the pionaeles teem the west eiel of the Cuthe-
dral. Tee Cows were killed field at Sneed-
ham-C; nen', in the parish of('peon St. Leonard's,
near Gloucester ; cud ten couple of ducks` were
killed in the folori-hard of a getitieitien near Chel-
tenham. A sutnater-house, oil au elevated-spot of
ground, belonging to- Edward tilteppard, Esq. of
Uley, just fanslied %moil an elegant ;elate was
struck by the lightnhig, mid entirely build.
In many parishes near Nletenoutli. roofs of
heuses,barus and skylights, were destroyed by the
hail, as though they bad been lesoken with a ham-.
sner ; boughs of trees were cut asunder ; and the
apples and pears ley scattered in sue,' gin:notifies,
that they might have been raked together in heaps.
A seretut-boy beloaging to Ale Alien, of Mimes-
tow, iii attempting to stop the tnun, the horses
lieoug frightened by the thuteler„ seas ;:,irowndown.
and the wheels emir ever •his body, was killed on
the spot.
SIIREwAitt aft it773'19.
The heat of the weather, on Tueelsy, the Ilth
instant, and the three follotiiiig days, WR4 more ins
tome than has been experienewl in this climate
;Or near a century past ; add persons who lance re•
sided in the Feet Indies have declared they never
felt it more oppressive than ou Tuesday. The
therinotueter, on that day, about II o'clock. blood
at 93 deg. in the shade; and at one o'clock stood
at 95 deg. partially exposed to the sun, it rose to
104 deg. said when fully expo red, iu a south aspect,
in the *eerie:son, from 110 to 116 deg.-t riliiere
day. its greateat height was 1111,4111, ftleir in the after-
noon, but lower than on the precoehug day. fhe
evening of Thursday was cloudy,, a genii steal of
lightning was observed, anti in the eight some lieht
showers et rain fell—About eight en Friday morn-
ing the thermometer was somewhat higher thin' on
the preceding days at the seine Ituur, and tin brit
INN 'atoms through the whole of the da“ Be-
tween 9 and 10 at sight the lightning became very
froqueut ; s4ollllllatter eleven, a constant runilding of
&want tliaturler was tumid, and at its hearer
approach, the claps became load and &wittily tre-
inetiolons. the lightning extremely tiyid, end the
dashes almost without momentary iutermileion.—
Before one e'elisek the rain fell in torrents, and
exintioued for a 'censideratole tine ; and about two
the storm tamest, subside.--11 e have not heard of
one emendosnoble damage. tieing done by it iu this
neighbourhood. •• • ,
The elletts of the teepee have been severely felt
in some places. At Ilrideriorth, shout one e'eLiek,
. a Rash otliglitniag steeds the roof of t!)e I?ltl(,l}art
of a dwelling-house in the lower-time, Fair) mg
down a large portion of the chimney t&, 4.l,,ccod-
ed into a !ant-room over the kitelita, detuo.iehed
the windows and three deers is therttoin. and in.ced
Jews the whole front of a large clo,et. splinter-
ing the weadework iu all direction.; three cliiidten
is bed prowdentially escaped unhurt. The dee-
irk Ire atm passed through the dour into the kit-
chen and lerewhothoe; mod entirely destreyed the.
windows its both. At Gloucester the stone Nos in-
deed dreadful ; aofiil. pieces of ice were „tortured
down. which measured tie inch in diameter; and
the greatest alarm and dismay pretested every
where. At three-quarters peat eleven, the tempest
seamed at its height; and about this t•me a fire-
*ill bard io this College-green, carrying away one
et the pinnacles wpm the west-end of the Cadet.'
Aral, and outittlior a suiehureoue vapour, which
was sensibly felt by the inhabitauts of several of the
• adissialoll lekties.• Another fireotall fell in the play-
the bessespelet, erbool, which scorched a
rir a/mead otessiatiod a yr asitletable aperture in
Ike ground-by the ceneension.
la the park of Earl Digby, near Sherborne, the
limbs of a large oak tree were shivered topiece,,
silk the middle pert, er heart, was lett stauding :
Mien sheep were killed ander smother tree. The
Mil-stores which tell at Milborne-port, Paining-
Wass. Yaringtson, Carton, and ether plores, were rJ
spagnittele exceeding any before heard of, to the
dastreetion of windrows. eacumber-frames, &c.
Mee sterns appeared to have spent its fury be-
Meese Piper's-his and Asheott. Her., as well as,
at Glastonbury. the corn was laid gat, the road.
were inunduted, the apple-trees were stripped, not
'lndy of their fruit, but of their very leaves ; and al-
most every pane of glass in the village of Asbcott
was broken.
IIZACISTLE, JULY ill.
The heat was so intense, at Wednesday last/ $l4
to occasion the thenuoineter to rise t• 64 deg. in
the shade, sod at 9 o'clock in the evening, it was
at 78, being two degrees above the usual summer
height. In a garden in the neighbourhood of this
town. the nails which fastened the tender extremi-
ties of the breeches of peacii said neetariue trees
to the walk, were heated to suck a degree as to oe- •
emion them to be burnt in several places. Accord-
tug
16 the following oteconne the heat has not been
near so intense here as at Hall and its neighbour-
hood :
"Wednesday last was one of the hottest days ever
raserahered here.--The snn shone throughout the
day, and scarcely a single breath of air was to be.
felt. In different situations in the toms, the ther-
mometer steed at from 89 to degrees in the
shade; and in the sun it was upwirds of 120 de;
grees,Se intense was the heat, that one married
woman, en inhabitant of this plat% of thel1;111* sof
Watson, having gone to work in the hay-field
a few hours. was taken ill, and compelled Ito lie
down in the field, hoping to regain e; little leforsh-
meat by so doing; her emnpastioro, after leaving
her a short time in that sitestion, on their return'
Band her quite lifeless. A nom working near the
Holderneeeroad erife so much disordered by OW
heat. that he became quite insensible, and lay in
that state in a neighboerinig house, to Which he was
married, for the space of five horns; before he re-
coveted. Several Wort persona were obliged to
be takes away out of. tl,:e fields
.iu carts to their
respective homes. At I)itil !! i!! glen 4 tugiO4 the
name oaf' "roel,4e,liplce ed. stsiAaktlii,esv

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