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A girl about eighteen years of age , who was on a visit to some relations rf Moulsoe , near Newport-Pagnell , being greatly alarmed , arose from bed with the rest of tbe family , and , standing near the chimney-piece , was struck dead by a flash of lightning . She expired without a groan , and there was not the least mark of violence discovered about her . In Ireland , during the same storm , a ball of fire fell on a house a little above Dun-drum . It struck a man and two women senseless for a considerable time , killed a mastiff dog that was at the doorand then forced its way through the
, roof , taking some slates and the ridge tiling off it , broke a pane of glass , audi took some stones ' out of the wall . The man and two women were the only people in the house ; they recovered together , and none of them could tell how longthey were in a state of insensibility . 17 . Their Majesties , and their Royal Highnesses the Princesse . s , set out from Windsor at a quarter before five o'clock , and arrived at Gloucester-lodge , Weymouth , at a quarter past five the same evening in perfect health .
SHEFFIELD , August 31 . On our last market-day flour was at the enormous price of 5 s . 6 d . fhe stone , which is much beyond what the oldest man living here remembers it to have been befofe ; but in the space of two days it was down as low as 2 s . 4 d . and how do you think it was brought about ? Mr . Hartop , a farmer and miller at AtlerclnTe , a village about a mile from lience , brought a large quantity of flour into this town , which he sold at 2 s . 4 d . of the and flour sellers to lower the
a stone , which obliged all the rest corn prices from 5 s . 6 d . to that sum ; and even the committee , who had purchased corn to sell again to the poor at a' more reasonable rate than the market price , ¦ Were obliged to come down to 2 s . 4 d . So humane ,-so generous , so noble , an action , yotl may depend on it , did not escape the notice ofthe people ; and accordingly on Thursday , the day following , a coach was hired , to which the people exultingly yoked themselves , - and drew it to Attercliffe , for the purpose of and him in h
bringing-.: the worthy miller into Sheffield , drawing triumph throug every street in the town ; but his modesty keeping equal pace with his merit , he ' declined the compliment , assuring them " that he had been mostamply overpaid by the pleasure he had received in being the humble instrument of making so many of his fellow-creatures happy . " The air was rent with the shouts of admiring thousands ; but , determined that so excellent an act should not pass unnoticed , they requested that he would give his servants a holiday , and peimit them to enter the coach as his representatives ; which being complied withand
, the servants seated in the coach , they were drawn , amidst continual acclamations of joy , to this town . As they approached the town , the bells of all the churches began ringing , and the procession moved slowly and regularly up Wain ° -ate ; and when the coach was arrived in the Bullstake , opposite to the Tontine inn , a person of the name of Stanley began with paying a handsome and appropriate compliment to the humane and beneficent mind of Hartop , who ' was the honourable cause of their being at that moment so joyfully collected
together . As soon as this oration was over the procession moved oh , and went through all the principal streets . The coach was ornamented with ribbands and garlands of flowers , and the orator above-mentioned bore in his hand , by way of ensign , a bag of flour tied with ribbands . After parading through the principal streets , amidst the ringing of bells , bonfires , and firing of cannon , and bestowing thousands and millions of blessings on the name of Hartop , the patriotic miller , and the friend of the the thousands assembledlike good and peaceable
citipoor , , zens , quietly retired to their respective homes to eat the cheap loaves with which . ibis worthy man had furnished them . Sept . 1 . O'Connor and Griffin , two of the friends of the French Convention in Ireland , were found guilly ol" high-treason at Naas , in Ireland , and sentenced to behanged , drawn , and quartered . ' Alter O'Connor had received his sentence , he addressed the court in a speech of considerable length , in which he censured the abuses of Government .
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Home News.
A girl about eighteen years of age , who was on a visit to some relations rf Moulsoe , near Newport-Pagnell , being greatly alarmed , arose from bed with the rest of tbe family , and , standing near the chimney-piece , was struck dead by a flash of lightning . She expired without a groan , and there was not the least mark of violence discovered about her . In Ireland , during the same storm , a ball of fire fell on a house a little above Dun-drum . It struck a man and two women senseless for a considerable time , killed a mastiff dog that was at the doorand then forced its way through the
, roof , taking some slates and the ridge tiling off it , broke a pane of glass , audi took some stones ' out of the wall . The man and two women were the only people in the house ; they recovered together , and none of them could tell how longthey were in a state of insensibility . 17 . Their Majesties , and their Royal Highnesses the Princesse . s , set out from Windsor at a quarter before five o'clock , and arrived at Gloucester-lodge , Weymouth , at a quarter past five the same evening in perfect health .
SHEFFIELD , August 31 . On our last market-day flour was at the enormous price of 5 s . 6 d . fhe stone , which is much beyond what the oldest man living here remembers it to have been befofe ; but in the space of two days it was down as low as 2 s . 4 d . and how do you think it was brought about ? Mr . Hartop , a farmer and miller at AtlerclnTe , a village about a mile from lience , brought a large quantity of flour into this town , which he sold at 2 s . 4 d . of the and flour sellers to lower the
a stone , which obliged all the rest corn prices from 5 s . 6 d . to that sum ; and even the committee , who had purchased corn to sell again to the poor at a' more reasonable rate than the market price , ¦ Were obliged to come down to 2 s . 4 d . So humane ,-so generous , so noble , an action , yotl may depend on it , did not escape the notice ofthe people ; and accordingly on Thursday , the day following , a coach was hired , to which the people exultingly yoked themselves , - and drew it to Attercliffe , for the purpose of and him in h
bringing-.: the worthy miller into Sheffield , drawing triumph throug every street in the town ; but his modesty keeping equal pace with his merit , he ' declined the compliment , assuring them " that he had been mostamply overpaid by the pleasure he had received in being the humble instrument of making so many of his fellow-creatures happy . " The air was rent with the shouts of admiring thousands ; but , determined that so excellent an act should not pass unnoticed , they requested that he would give his servants a holiday , and peimit them to enter the coach as his representatives ; which being complied withand
, the servants seated in the coach , they were drawn , amidst continual acclamations of joy , to this town . As they approached the town , the bells of all the churches began ringing , and the procession moved slowly and regularly up Wain ° -ate ; and when the coach was arrived in the Bullstake , opposite to the Tontine inn , a person of the name of Stanley began with paying a handsome and appropriate compliment to the humane and beneficent mind of Hartop , who ' was the honourable cause of their being at that moment so joyfully collected
together . As soon as this oration was over the procession moved oh , and went through all the principal streets . The coach was ornamented with ribbands and garlands of flowers , and the orator above-mentioned bore in his hand , by way of ensign , a bag of flour tied with ribbands . After parading through the principal streets , amidst the ringing of bells , bonfires , and firing of cannon , and bestowing thousands and millions of blessings on the name of Hartop , the patriotic miller , and the friend of the the thousands assembledlike good and peaceable
citipoor , , zens , quietly retired to their respective homes to eat the cheap loaves with which . ibis worthy man had furnished them . Sept . 1 . O'Connor and Griffin , two of the friends of the French Convention in Ireland , were found guilly ol" high-treason at Naas , in Ireland , and sentenced to behanged , drawn , and quartered . ' Alter O'Connor had received his sentence , he addressed the court in a speech of considerable length , in which he censured the abuses of Government .