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A girl about eighteen years of age , who was on a visit to some relations zt Moulsoe , near Newport-Pagnel / , being greatly alarmed , arose from bed with the rest of the family , and , standing near the chimnej' -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 Dundrum . It struck a man and two women senseless for a considerable time , killed mastiff dog that was at the doorand then forced its way through the
a , roof , taking some slates and the ridge tiling off it , broke a pane of glass , and took some stones ' out of the wall . The man and two women we , re theonly people in the house ; they recovered together , and none of them could tell how long they were in a state of insensibility . 17 . Their Majesties , and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses , 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 jr . On our last market-day flour was at the enormous price of 5 s . 6 d . fhe stone , wliich is nmch beyond what the oldest man living here remembers it to have been before ; 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 Atlercliffe , a village about a mile from lience brought a large quantity of flour into this town , which he sold at 23 . 4 c ! . lower the
a stone , which obliged all the rest of the corn and flour sellers to 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 generons , so noble , an action , yoit may depend on it , did not escape the notice of the people ; and accordinglv on Thursday , the day following , a coach was hired , to which the peole exultingly yoked themselvesand drew it to Attercliffeforthe purpose of
p , , bringing , the worthy miller into Sheffield , and drawing him in triumph through 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 . " Tlie air was rent with the shouts of admiring thousands ; but , determined that so excellent an act should not pass unnoticedthey requested that he would give his servants a holidayand pennit
, , them to enter the coach as his representatives ; which being complied with , and 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 Waingate ; 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 liment to the humane and beneficent mind of Hartopwho '
comp , was the honourable cause of their being at that moment so joyfully collected together . As soon as this oration was over the procession moved on , 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 thouof the millerand
sands and millions of blessings on the name Hartop , patriotic , the friend of the poor , the thousands assembled , like good and peaceable citizens , quietly retired to their respective homes to eat the cheap loaves with which 2 liis worthy man had furnished them .
Sept . 1 . O'Connor and Griffin , two of the friends of the French Convention in Ireland , were found guilty of high-treason at Naas , in Ireland , and sentenced to be hanged , drawn , and quartered . ' After 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 zt Moulsoe , near Newport-Pagnel / , being greatly alarmed , arose from bed with the rest of the family , and , standing near the chimnej' -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 Dundrum . It struck a man and two women senseless for a considerable time , killed mastiff dog that was at the doorand then forced its way through the
a , roof , taking some slates and the ridge tiling off it , broke a pane of glass , and took some stones ' out of the wall . The man and two women we , re theonly people in the house ; they recovered together , and none of them could tell how long they were in a state of insensibility . 17 . Their Majesties , and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses , 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 jr . On our last market-day flour was at the enormous price of 5 s . 6 d . fhe stone , wliich is nmch beyond what the oldest man living here remembers it to have been before ; 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 Atlercliffe , a village about a mile from lience brought a large quantity of flour into this town , which he sold at 23 . 4 c ! . lower the
a stone , which obliged all the rest of the corn and flour sellers to 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 generons , so noble , an action , yoit may depend on it , did not escape the notice of the people ; and accordinglv on Thursday , the day following , a coach was hired , to which the peole exultingly yoked themselvesand drew it to Attercliffeforthe purpose of
p , , bringing , the worthy miller into Sheffield , and drawing him in triumph through 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 . " Tlie air was rent with the shouts of admiring thousands ; but , determined that so excellent an act should not pass unnoticedthey requested that he would give his servants a holidayand pennit
, , them to enter the coach as his representatives ; which being complied with , and 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 Waingate ; 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 liment to the humane and beneficent mind of Hartopwho '
comp , was the honourable cause of their being at that moment so joyfully collected together . As soon as this oration was over the procession moved on , 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 thouof the millerand
sands and millions of blessings on the name Hartop , patriotic , the friend of the poor , the thousands assembled , like good and peaceable citizens , quietly retired to their respective homes to eat the cheap loaves with which 2 liis worthy man had furnished them .
Sept . 1 . O'Connor and Griffin , two of the friends of the French Convention in Ireland , were found guilty of high-treason at Naas , in Ireland , and sentenced to be hanged , drawn , and quartered . ' After O'Connor had received his sentence , he addressed the court in a speech of considerable length , in which he censured the abuses of Government .