The National Register.
London, England, 1821-06-18 00:00:00

COURT OF CLAIMS.

Saturday the Court of Claims sat in the Painted.cham
her, to consider further of all claims made, or to be made
fur the performance of services at his Majesty's approach-
ing coronation.
Business commenced at two o'clock with the presen-
tattoo, by the recorder of Loudon end the city realign.
oraocer, of a petition from the Right lluu. the Lord
:Mayor, praying for leave to subnitote our or two names
in doe place of others in die Lord M VI% petition to the
('t•un ur Chums last year, for the a,signiticitt of a place
14 himself and lerehe citizens at the corporation festit al
ul WestaiMister-lialf. One or tuo alterations in last
ties list had °cent-ea by dean's, and the presem appli-
..tton was to fill up the Wanks.
When the recorder had handed in this petition, twelve
ardens of the liveriLs oi* the t tiy of London made their
Mira:ice with another petition, staling they were the
ardeos for the present year of the liveries named in the
I ord Mayor's petition of last year, and they therefore
(aimed tile privileae of having their mutes 111st:tied
itistead or those already set down, anti woo were
he retired, not ihe present wardens.
Tate of Harrow tw said, that that coon knew it'
thing of whit were or who were tint WardellS of lute city
di London lit cries, nor oar had ally persons as Wardens
a rialit of pre3,loCe at the C.mmatiOo. The Lord Mayor.
ix-ujficiu, nail a mitt, soil his lordship was also to be
accouipaitied by twelve cdiz •its, btu the latter it was for
hint, not the court, to tint.liale. The claim therefore
of the mod% e warat•n, the die present year Were rejt.c.ed.
•Toe claw, of Loud Gwyttir, as deptOrdiaill bet-
lain, and Lord Oi Mood, as chief-cutler of Ireland, to
attend al ti.e Cooma.roo, was then put in by the respec-
tive louts, and referred to the limy in council.
Mr. 1)% mok CIJOII to appoint his Sufi, a minor, to
perform the office as champion, was then discussed.
The court was cue red, and on the re-admission of strait
gers be.ow the bar, it was announced that die Rev. Mr.
Dyinoke might be exempted from olliciatient aschampion
on account of his beiti. a elerayinati, and that lie should
be allowed to appoint a " sufficient deputy."
The co. et diet) ad;ourned until Friday next.

A letter received from an English gentleman who
is making a tour of Italy, states, that Nlajoechi now
resides ut Milan in an elegant villa, where he lives
in splendour, and has a number of servants in livery,
but he is not adm;tted into any respectable com-
pany. What has become of Mademoiselle Dumont,
the mock Counttas of Columbia?

The surgeon who was called in to examine the
dead laxly of Sarah Sumner on Saturday sc'nnight,
which was found in a putrid state it, e. house in
Beil•street, was taken ill immediately after, and died
the Monday following.
DREADFUL THU DER SToRNI.-I)orittg ;% heavy
'limo in [builder ~rid rail,. on StIII,I.IV the 10th iost.'lle
lIUtCIt ot Cal Illv, e miles non It-oa;; of Stamford, was
,Featly OJniagt by a fire-hall, and the I,,,tishionerS
tx-
•cricnced arcu,,trka tie essay' (non perb•mal iojore. At
he umal time tOr imgma to for atiertmon s.•r% ice, the
clerk %vent to ttie feelorV-Rolla', when the minister (the
lies, T. Ilurst) expressed a wish that the tinging should
l.ot begin till tne tetni•tsi, ,tiled was Own cutniug on
in sable majesty, simbld hate passed over, that the pa-
iismoners tint gel Wel ill going to church. lit
eolviequestee of this the parishimiers remained in their
houses, whilst the elemental sante of hail 'sill, thunder
lightlimg, and wind, increasol seiblimely in the brave-tie.
Atann five
which hung over the church,
,was Ohdereed to emit a
ball of fire, which set 1-nd persons who saw it described
as being as hint! "as a peck measure." The descent of
the body oas accompanied wi, h all eXplogioll of such
teerthe lou,!ness as seemed to shake every Within); in
the parish to its foundation, and the alarm of usein-
habitants a as excited by it w the highest vossilile p tell.
As soots as some degree of comp using Was restorcd, it
was nitwit that the electric matter had entered the ceriAe
of the ciaireri at the window on the west side, and had
from within crock the wall on the east side with such
fusee as to knock out the stones kir a C4lllSillt • VAC dis-
tance ; the fire then dropped into the choir h, as it is
believed, the mischief dime to the windows, and many
interim parts of the bitildittg, being cons .I.ideral I e—and
then passed up aasin in 411 the tool, at all4lller plaCe,
driving down part of a contaaions side wall, tearing up
and Indian.; lead in an extramilitiary way, and lea%
the joists and ratters of th, roof in dames, which were j
happily 50011 extinguished by the brae), rain that was
falling at the . The swim lamed for half al, hour
and as MIS ftiperlathle lailelll.llll assures on, frightened
the pariah almost to death! One qt, to rof the spire of
the church (the east side) is rippeo ma, end the belfry
is 'decked up with the stones; so that a very serious ex.
pet-re of n pairs will fill upon the inhabm.nts and pro.
priemrs its Carlby. Many stunts from the steeple ahtl
parapet' were hurled into the ChtliCii and Ili the isita-
titn. occurred Jost at the Moe when, if vhe tempest had
been foreseen, the parishioners nimbi hare been
ths sly all assembled at distil: seivire, their escape hoot
tivstruct.
church, as well as the steeple, Is so snitch shattered,
and the irresistible power of the elecinc fluid is so woo-
ds-golly thew'', as to be well moult the observatiosi of
persons iussulg near Canby.

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