Monthly Chronicle.

The bridge across the canal at Uxbridge has been entirely washed away by the floods . Accounts from Ware state , that they have experienced the greatest inundation ever remembered by the oldest inhabitant . Several mailings have been laid underwater , and considerable damages sustained thereby . The roads in many places are rendered totally impassable , and a number of lives have been lost in the neighbourhood . At Stanstead , several boats were employed in ferrying the

people along the streets , nearly the whole length of the town , while the rapidity of the torrent seemed to threaten devastation to the whole county . 2 . About eight o'clock in the evening , a new built house , not quite finished , belonging to Mr . Godsall , coach-maker , in Long-acre , fell to the ground , and a strong party wall , which divided it from the house of Mr . Lukin , coach-maker , giving way , by the shock brought that house down with it , and an adjoining one was unroofed . In the house of Mr . Godsal ! the workmen had fortunately left

off for the evening , and the wooden fence , usually placed in the front of new buildings , prevented any misfortune happening to the people who chanced to be pasting by at the moment . Mr . Lukin ' s house was inhabited , and completely furnished ; his shop was also full of carriages , all of which were destroyed . The family were providentially alarmed by the cracking of the walls , and had just time sufficient to escav . e before the house fell . The accident was occasioned by the undermining of the foundation . ro . Between the hours of seven and eight o ' clock , as a gentleman with two foreign messengers , in a post-coach and four , were on their way to Harwich to embark for the continent , they were stopped about three miles on this side oi Romford by five footpads , armed with pistols . The ruffians immediately upon

opening the door , seeing arms hi the hands of the gentlemen inside , fired upon them , and wounded one of the messengers most dangerously , and . the gentleman , who was Mr . Darby , a Leghorn merchant , in the scuffle , in the course of which no less than eleven shots were fired , viz . three by the persons in the coach ( three of their pistols having missed fire ) , and eight by the robbers . Mr . Darby , and one of the messengers going with dispatches to Florence , got out of the coach , and by the darkness of the night escaped to a neighbouring farm-house . The other messenger , who was shot through the thigh and the bowels , was dragged

from the coach upon the footpath , and most cruelly bruised about the head with the butt-ends of pistols . The robbers got a very large booty ; the messenger for Florence alone lost sixty Louis d'ors , besides about ten or twelve guineas . The messenger so badly wounded is since dead . Mr . Darby was wounded in the arm by a ball . He got a chaise to convey him . from the farm-house to Romford , where he remained during Wednesday night , and on Thursday morning , General Tarleton , accompanied by Mr . Rush , the surgeon , went down < md brought him to town . Mr . Darby wits particularly unfortunate , as his trunk was cut from

behind the coach before he had got from St . James ' s Place to St . Paul's . The postilions were suspected of being privy to both accidents ; in the robbery , particularly , circumstances of suspicion were strong against them . The gentlemen had given them orders , if they were called upon by any persons upon the road to stop , -to drive with all speed — if they were obliged to stop , to give notice by calling out . No such notice was given ; for the carriage no sooner stopt than the doors ivere opened , and the consequences ensued which we have above stated . A criminal information against the Earl of Abingdon , for printing a speech jn the newspapers , containing reflections on the character of Mr . Sermon , his Lordship ' s quondam attorney , came on to be tried in the Court of King ' s Bench in last term , when the jury returned a verdict of Gxilty .

; 2 . There was a final meeting of gentlemen at Mr . Pitt's house , in Downingstrcer , to propose terms for the loan of the ensuing year , which is intended to be twenty-four millions sterling ; of which eighteen is for the service of Great Eritpin , and six for the Emperor , who is to repay it in a stipulated time , and to pay an interest of seven and a half per cent . The agreement is of course subject to the final ratification of Parliament ; and . a clause is inserted to this effect is > iie contract agreed on .