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Monthly Chronicle.
The Directory nominates the receivers of all taxes and contributions , and the administrators of the national property : it presents a yearly account of the finances ofthe state . It may suggest any object to the consideration of the Five Hundred , but not in the form of laws . The Directory must reside in the same commune as the Legislative Bodies , and the salary of each member is fixed at the value of 10 , 222 quintals of wheat . Such are the leading principles which it will be necessary for those to carry in their recollection who arc deterred by any tedious plan , and have neither leisure nor inclination to peruse the whole constitution , now accepted so generally as to ensure its coming into operation .
Home News.
HOME NEWS .
THUNDER STORM . In the night of August 13 , and in the morning of the 74 th , a most violent ' storm of thunder ' and lightning took place in London , and in many ofthe country parts of England , the effects of which the following are some particulars : Mr . John Dalby , surgeon of the Royal South Volunteers , as he was sitting at dinner in Horse-Ferry-Road , Westminster , was killed by a flash of lightning , which left visible mark on his bodor clothes .
no y At Fieldalling , in Norfolk , a fire-ball fell down the chimney of one Thomas Carr , a labouring man of that parish , which split the chimney and balk of the house : the tea kettle , and the hake on which it was suspended , were bot h melted down . The poor woman had a looking glass on her lap , and was going-Jo put on her cap , when she was struck blind : her husband was knocked down , and remained senseless for some time ; and the looking-glass they have not been able to find , nor even the least remains of it : what is very remarkable , a but
child of a year old , sitting in the chair in the corner , received no hurt , was covered all over with soot by the explosion . A ball of fire passed through Braintree , in Essex , near midnight , which burnt three houses , together with all the furniture . It also struck the church steeple , irhich was shivered into an hundred pieces , melting the clock work , & c . & c . A fire-ball ( as it is termed ) fell on a barn belonging to Mr . Blomfield , of Brightlingsea , in Essex , in which was about eight coombs of rye , the major part of which , with the barn , was destroyed . It is very singular , that , in the month of August , in the year 1768 , a barn , standing exactly on the same spot , Was
destroyed iu a similar manner . Mr . Foyster , of Northwold , in Norfolk , had two barns burnt to the ground by the lightning . At Oxford , the spire of St . Mary ' s church was injured by the lightning , which appears to have entered the north-west side of it , about tjvelve feet below the ¦ weather-cock , and to have escaped at or about the dial / on the north-side , many stones thereabout being disjoined and broken , the dial itself perforated , and the ilt figure of XIIquite discoloured In Blue Bear Lanea ball of fire
g . , entered the tiles of Mr . Gee ' s house , and passing through Mr . Boswell's , fell in the Blue Boar Yard , without doing any materia' ! 'injury . ArlfHey the end of a barn was shattered by the lightning . A boy tending birds at Coddington , near Newark , was struck dead by a violent flash of lightning . His hat was shattered into near a score pieces , and his other cloaths much torn . At Huntley , in Gloucestershire , a large elm was struck by the lightning-, ofthe treeand made in the
which took three directions down the body , grooves bark four inches wide ; the bark torn off was carried to the distance of more than 300 yards . At Norwood Green , in the parish of Westbury , a large tree was ' blasted by the lightning in such a manner that it continued burning on Friday morning . A person , riding from Newnham to Claxhill , had his horse struck down , and the beast for some time lay motionless , ' though it afterwards recovered . Several persons saw bails of electric fire descend from the clouds .-In the parish of Worthe , in Lewes , Sussex , five sheep belonging to Mr Erookcr were killed by it ; a windmill , at Coprhonie , in the occupation 6 f
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Monthly Chronicle.
The Directory nominates the receivers of all taxes and contributions , and the administrators of the national property : it presents a yearly account of the finances ofthe state . It may suggest any object to the consideration of the Five Hundred , but not in the form of laws . The Directory must reside in the same commune as the Legislative Bodies , and the salary of each member is fixed at the value of 10 , 222 quintals of wheat . Such are the leading principles which it will be necessary for those to carry in their recollection who arc deterred by any tedious plan , and have neither leisure nor inclination to peruse the whole constitution , now accepted so generally as to ensure its coming into operation .
Home News.
HOME NEWS .
THUNDER STORM . In the night of August 13 , and in the morning of the 74 th , a most violent ' storm of thunder ' and lightning took place in London , and in many ofthe country parts of England , the effects of which the following are some particulars : Mr . John Dalby , surgeon of the Royal South Volunteers , as he was sitting at dinner in Horse-Ferry-Road , Westminster , was killed by a flash of lightning , which left visible mark on his bodor clothes .
no y At Fieldalling , in Norfolk , a fire-ball fell down the chimney of one Thomas Carr , a labouring man of that parish , which split the chimney and balk of the house : the tea kettle , and the hake on which it was suspended , were bot h melted down . The poor woman had a looking glass on her lap , and was going-Jo put on her cap , when she was struck blind : her husband was knocked down , and remained senseless for some time ; and the looking-glass they have not been able to find , nor even the least remains of it : what is very remarkable , a but
child of a year old , sitting in the chair in the corner , received no hurt , was covered all over with soot by the explosion . A ball of fire passed through Braintree , in Essex , near midnight , which burnt three houses , together with all the furniture . It also struck the church steeple , irhich was shivered into an hundred pieces , melting the clock work , & c . & c . A fire-ball ( as it is termed ) fell on a barn belonging to Mr . Blomfield , of Brightlingsea , in Essex , in which was about eight coombs of rye , the major part of which , with the barn , was destroyed . It is very singular , that , in the month of August , in the year 1768 , a barn , standing exactly on the same spot , Was
destroyed iu a similar manner . Mr . Foyster , of Northwold , in Norfolk , had two barns burnt to the ground by the lightning . At Oxford , the spire of St . Mary ' s church was injured by the lightning , which appears to have entered the north-west side of it , about tjvelve feet below the ¦ weather-cock , and to have escaped at or about the dial / on the north-side , many stones thereabout being disjoined and broken , the dial itself perforated , and the ilt figure of XIIquite discoloured In Blue Bear Lanea ball of fire
g . , entered the tiles of Mr . Gee ' s house , and passing through Mr . Boswell's , fell in the Blue Boar Yard , without doing any materia' ! 'injury . ArlfHey the end of a barn was shattered by the lightning . A boy tending birds at Coddington , near Newark , was struck dead by a violent flash of lightning . His hat was shattered into near a score pieces , and his other cloaths much torn . At Huntley , in Gloucestershire , a large elm was struck by the lightning-, ofthe treeand made in the
which took three directions down the body , grooves bark four inches wide ; the bark torn off was carried to the distance of more than 300 yards . At Norwood Green , in the parish of Westbury , a large tree was ' blasted by the lightning in such a manner that it continued burning on Friday morning . A person , riding from Newnham to Claxhill , had his horse struck down , and the beast for some time lay motionless , ' though it afterwards recovered . Several persons saw bails of electric fire descend from the clouds .-In the parish of Worthe , in Lewes , Sussex , five sheep belonging to Mr Erookcr were killed by it ; a windmill , at Coprhonie , in the occupation 6 f