_CH'RONICLE.

The fire was happily extinguilhed
at ten o‘clock at night. Ten per-
fons were found dead at the market-
place, many more were wounded,
twelve were grievoully burnt, and
much cattle perilhed in the waters,
into which they ran with irreliilible
precipitation. A man on horfeback,
pafling by the magazine, was blown
up into the air, and could not after-
wards be found. His horfe only
was difcovered dead 20o paces from
the magazine.

Letters from Naples aflhre, that

_ the extraordinary expences occa-

fioned by his Sicilian majelly’s
marriage, through a truly paternal
tendernefs for the people, will not
be levied upon the Rate, but de-
frayed out of thefavings of the
fpare-chell.

At Laval, in France, on the 8th
inPt. the weather being warm and
calm, and the night dark, alumi-
nous liar appeared to the north-welt
of that town, with a long tail fome-
what crooked, which terminated to-
wards the north. Next morning,
at fix o’clock, the fun breaking
thro’ the clouds, {hone out as h_ot as
in the dog-days. At eight it began
to lighten, and from 1 t minutes to
2o, !the lky appeared of a fea- green
colour, and fo dark that one could
fcarce fee to read. The thunder
was loud and dreadful; and there
fell f0 great a quantity of hail, and
offo large a iize, that it did infinite
damage to the fruits of the earth,
and even defiroyed trees and killed
cattlea In fome places "the hail was
found three or four feet deep, a4
hours afterit fell; and many of the
hail-itones were nearly as large as a
hen’s egg. The damage done by
this itorm is almolt incredible: fe-
veral mills were carried away by the
violence of the flOods, the gardens

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are totally dellrovetl, and whsn the
hail melted, it carried orf ev ‘n the
furface of the ground, and left inch.
a fmell as even the very beafls them-
felves could not bear. 1:1 iliort, no-
thing like it erer happened befcre
in this part ofthe world.

A fire broke out at Lari.
fperg in Germany, which in _
three hours burnt clown 25; houfes.

An odd wedding was celebrated
lall week in a village in Berklhire:
the bridegroom was 8; years of
age, the bride 8;, the rather 9t,
and the two women who officiated
as bride-maids each above 7o; nei-
ther of thefe women had been ever
married, though both of them had
been ntozhers. Six grancLdaugh-
ters of the bridegroom iirewed flow-
ers before the company in their way
to and from church, and after din-
ner four grandfons ofthe bride fung
a kind ofepithalamium, which the
clerk of the parifh had written on
the occafion. _

They write from Dublin, that
there is now living, near Crumlin,
one john Ryder, a Palatine, aged
about 12o; he ierved under the
duke of Wittemberg. when ‘fienna.
was befieged by the Turks in r683,
and retains all his fenfes. Bene-
faétions are collcéted in that city for
his fupport.

Died] Thurfday, at his houfe 
Jermyn-llreet, count Deiiniky, a
Polilh gentleman, _

In Old-ltreet, in the 106th year
of his age, Solomon Humphries,
formerly a gardener, bat, having
been blind upwards of ten years,
was fupported by the benevolence
of the public.

In Ireland, a few days ago. neat
Drumcondra,‘ Either Duggan, aged
n9.

At his houfe near Rieggte, Mr.

lame;

gtil.