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most of the cellars about the Horseguards and Parliament-street. number of wharfs, cellars, and warehouses, from the top of Upper Thames-street to the bottom of Lower Thames-street, and in Bridgestreet, Blackfriars, were completely inundated; and also the Lower apartments of several houses in Horsleydown. The injury sustained is considerable. The moon was at full, but the wind was fortunately westerly. Fifteen years have clapsed since those quarters experienced such a visitation.

27th. This day the Thames again rose considerably higher than on the preceding day, at Rotherhithe, Lambeth, and Milbank, as well as at the newly embanked cut at the Isle of Dogs, where serious injury was accasioned by the inundation. Near Lambeth horse-ferry a sow and 12 pigs were drowned.

28th. About twelve o'clock, one of the arches of Haydon-bridge, Northumberland, 95 feet in span, fell in, with a most tremendous crash, at the time that a number of people were going over it to church. One man sunk with the ruins to the depth of 40 feet, by which his thigh was fractured, and he was otherwise much bruised; but he is still alive. The bridge had long been in

a state of decay.

BIRTHS in the Year.1806.

Jan. 1. At Laugharne castle, county of Caermarthen, the wife of major R. J. Starke, a son.

In the Royal Crescent, Brighthelmstone, the wife of Kean Osborn, esq. a daughter.

4th. In Green-street, Grosvenor

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square, the wife of capt. Byng, R.N. a still-born son.

5th. The wife of Edward Rigby, esq. mayor of Norwich, a daughter. At Edinburgh, the wife of capt. Halkett, R. N. a daughter.

11th. At the Union Fire-office, Cornhill, the wife of Mr. Charles Philip Galabin, a son.

13th. In Baker-street, Portman. square, the wife of J. Boddington, esq. a daughter.

14th. The wife of John Biddulph, esq. of Champion-hill, Surrey, a son.

16th. At the Rectory-house at Acton, Middlesex, the wife of the rev. Mr. Antrobus, a son.

19th. In Park-street, Grosvenorsquare, the countess of Banbury, a daughter.

21st. At the house of Hamilton Nisbett, esq. in Portman_square, the countess of Elgin, a daughter.

24th. At Little Bookham, in Surry, the wife of lieut. general Manningham, a daughter.

Feb. 1. In Great George-street, Hanover-square, the wife of Thomas Sheridan, esq. (son of R. B. S. esq.)

a son.

2d. At Packington-hall, county of Warwick, the countess of Aylsford, a daughter.

3d. At Shroton cottage, county of Dorset, the wife of lieut. colonel Seymour, a son.

4th. At the Government-house, Guernsey, the wife of lieut, colonel Doyle, a daughter.

6th. At his seat in Lincolnshire, the lady of sir Thomas Whichcote, bart. a son.

The lady of sir W. Ramsay, bart.

a son.

At Glasgow, lady Janet Bucha. nan, a daughter.

8th. The wife of Richard Congreve, esq. of Linley-hall, Salop, a son.

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13th. At Pimlico, the wife of lieut. colonel Elliot, a son.

14th. In Manchester-street, Manchester-square, the wife of John Murray, esq. a daughter.

The wife of John Finch Simpson, esq. of Laund abbey, county of Leicester, a son.

The wife of Richard Topp, esq. of Whitton, Salop, a daughter.

17th. At Haughley-park. Norfolk, the wife of George Jerningham, esq. a son.

20th. At her house in Pall-Mall, lady Holland, a daughter.

21st. At her house in Portlandplace, the countess of Mansfield, a

son.

In Norfolk-street, Grosvenorsquare, lady Ogilby, a daughter.

Lately, at Winchester, lady Sarah Crespigny, a son.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, aged 61, wife of Mr. Thomas C. of Weobly, Herts, aged upwards of 70, a daugh. ter, being the only child they have had, after a marriage of more than 20 years.

At the house of sir Richard King, in Devonshire-place, the wife of captain Rowley, R. N. a son.

23d. At Orton, near Peterborough,the countess of Aboyne, a son. 25th. At Sudbrook-park, near Richmond, lady Mary Stopford, a daughter.

28th. At his house at Mickleham, Surrey, the lady of the honourable VOL. XLVIII.

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D. M. Erskine, M. P. for Portsmouth, a daughter.

March 7th. In Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, the wife of Samuel Bosanquet, junior, esq. a son. 9th. The wife of Mr. Crane, hatter, of Maidstone, three sons.

10th. In Devonshire-street, Portland-place, the wife of capt. Rolles,

a son.

16th. The lady of the honourable lieutenant general St. John, a daughter, who died in a few hours.

17th. At St. John's Wood-house, viscountess Mahon, a son.

At Rodmarton, county of Glou cester, the wife of the rev. Daniel Lyfons, a son.

18th. In Great Ormond-street, the wife of serjeant Best, M. P. a son. 22d. At Bath, lady Charlotte Drummond, a son.

24th. In Grafton-street, lady Charlotte Duncombe, a son.

31st. The wife of J. J. Smith, esq. alderman of Castle Baynard ward, a son.

April 2d. At the house of general Brownrigg, in Audley-square, the wife of Major Nesbitt, a son and heir.

At Baldon house, Berks, the lady of sir Christopher Willoughby, bart. a daughter.

4th. At Moreton, co. of Dorset, lady Harriet Frampton, a daughter.

5th, 6th, and 7th. The wife of Mr. Joseph Nicholson, of Pennington, near Ulverston, farmer, two sons and a daughter.

6th. At the admiral's house, in Portugal-street, Grosvenor square, the hon. Mrs. Berkeley, a son.

8th. In Dover street, Piccadilly, the lady of the honourable John Bridgman Simpson, a daughter.

9th. At Wolhampton, near LyI h mington,

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14th. At the rectory, North Luffenham, Rutland, the wife of Hieutenant-colonel Ainslie, inspector of Lincolnshire, a son.

17th. The wife of John Faux, of Norton-Malerward, county of Somerset, two sons and a daughter, being the third time of her having three children at a birth.

22d. The wife of Benjamin Hobhouse, esq. M. P. for Grampound, a daughter.

25th. In Portman-square, lady Louvaine, a son.

At Grantham, county of Lincoln, the lady of sir Montague Cholmeley, bart, a daughter.

27th. At Berlin, the wife of Mr. Jackson, ambassador to the court of Prussia, a son.

28th. Mrs. Davies, of the Strand,

a son.

May 2d. At Ockham-park, near Ripley, Surrey, the lady of lord King, a daughter.

4th. The wife of the reverend Mr. Collin, of Quendon, Essex, a son.

7th. At the rectory, Beaconsfield, the wife of the reverend W. M. Bradford, a son.

9th. In Fitzroy-square, the wife of Charles Lambert, esq. two daughters, one still born.

10th. In Queen Anne-street West, the hon. Mrs. Boyle, a son.

11th. In Grosvenor-square, the duchess of Beaufort, a daughter.

In George-street, the wife of George Smith, esq. M. P. a daughter.

13th. The wife of Henry Otway, esq. of Stanford-hall, county of Leicester, a daughter.

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14th. In Charles-street, Berkeleysquare, the wife of Charles Jenkin. son, esq. a daughter.

17th. At Fulham cottage, Middlesex, the wife of S. F. Lettsom, esq. a son.

18th. At Oxford, the wife of colonel Cox, a son.

20th. The wife of William Windham, esq. of Dinton, near Salisbury, a daughter.

22d. The wife of Mr. J. Bowyer Nichols, printer, Red-lion passage, Fleet-street, a son.

At the house of admiral Sir John Orde, in Gloucester-place, Portmansquare, lady Orde, a daughter.

24th. At Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, the wife of Richard Dayrell, esq. a son.

At Charlton, Kent, the wife of John Atkins, esq. M. P. a son.

28th. At South Lambeth, the wife of Ashburnham Bulley, esq. a daughter.

Lately, at Hermandston, in Scotland, lady Sinclair, a daughter.

In Lansdown-place West, Bath, the lady of vice-admiral sir Charles Knowles, bart. a daughter.

In Cumberland-place, lady Boringdon, a son.

29th. At Brixworth-hall, county of Northampton, the wife of Walter Strickland, esq. a daughter.

31st. At Ingestree, countess Talbot, a son.

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June 1. In Grosvenor-square, the wife of colonel Gore Langton, M. P. for Somersetshire, a daughter.

The wife of James Christie, esq. of Pall Mall, a daughter.

At his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the wife of C. Pullen, esq. a son.

2d. At Weston, the wife of the rev. Christopher Sykes, a daughter. At his house at Plymouth-dock, the wife of rear-admiral John Sutton, a daughter.

4th. At Airly-lodge, in Scotland, viscountess Arbuthnot, a son.

6th. The wife of William Owen, esq. of Woodhouse, co. Salop, a son and heir.

8th. In St. James's square, lady Grantham, a daughter.

9th. At Ensham-house, co. Dorset, the wife of brigadier-general Monro, a daughter.

10th. At Gosport, Hants, the wife of Mr. W. Midlane, a son.

11th. At South-End, Essex, the lady of the hon. Edward-John Turnour, youngest son of the late E. of Winterton, a daughter.

17th. The wife of the rev. Mr. Skinner, rector of Camerton, Somer set, a daughter.

At her house in Wimpole-street, lady Elizabeth Loftus, a still-born

son.

19th. At Bath, the wife of lieut.col. Blackford, a son.

At Dovenby-hall, the wife of J. D. B. Sykes, esq. high sheriff of the county of Cumberland, a daughter.

In Charlotte-square, Edinburgh, the wife of col. Horner, of Mells park, co. Somerset, a daughter.

21st. In Cheyné-walk, Chelsea, the wife of the rev. Weeden Butler, jun. a son.

At Bradfield-house, Bucks, the wife of Richard Orlebar, esq. a son and heir.

24th. In Stretton-street, Piccadilly, the countess of Chichester, a daughters

Lately, in Dublin, the hon. Mrs. Hans Blackwood, a daughter.

At Dalkeith-house, in Scotland, lady Caroline Douglas, a daughter.

At Paisley, Mrs. Fraser, wife of Mr. J. F. manager of the theatre there, a daughter, being her eighteenth child.

At Sydney-lodge Southampton, the hon. Mrs. Tenant, a son.

In Chatham-place, Black-friers, the wife of Henry Budd, esq. a

son.

15th. (O.S.) AtSt Petersburgh, the wife of Robert Busk, esq. an English merchant there, a son.

26th. The wife of W. Earle Welby, esq. of Nottinghamshire, a

son.

George-street,

In Hanoversquare, countess Cowper, a son and heir.

The lady of the hon. lieut.-col. Plunket, of the Coldstream reg. of guards, a son.

28th. In Portland-place, the lady of the hon. Henry Blackwood, captain in the royal navy, a daugh ter.

At his house in the Close, Salisbury, the wife of the rev. Chancellor Douglas, a son.

July 2nd. At Ipswich, the hon. Mrs. Leighton, wife of Knyvett L. esq. of Ford, co. Salop, and sister of lord Viscount Doneraile, a son and heir.

At the Temple, Rothley, the wife of Thomas Babington, esq. M. P. for Leicester, a son.

9th. In Clifford-street, the wife of G. B. Mainwaring, esq. M. P. for Middlesex, a son.

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At Sutton vicarage, near York, the lady of the hon. and rev. Edw. Rice, a daughter.

10th. The wife of R. H. Boddam, esq. of Bull's-cross, Enfield, a

son.

At Plymouth, the wife of Stephen Love Hammick, esq. surgeon-exHh 2 traordinary

traordinary to the prince of Wales,

a son.

11th. At Park farm, Tooting, Surrey, the wife of William Abbott, esq. a daughter.

At his house in Ely-place, Holborn, the wife of Richard Price, esq.

a son.

12th. The wife of John Hill, esq. of Hardwick, co. Salop, a son. 13th. Mrs. R. Twining, of Norfolk-street, Strand, a daughter. The wife of Joseph Rose, esq. of Tovill-place, Canterbury, a daugh

ter.

At Denham-green, the hon. Mrs. Erskine, of Cardross, a son.

14th. At his seat, St. Bride's-hill, co. Pembroke, the wife of C. A. Phillips, esq. a daughter.

15th. At Bishop's-court, Exeter, the hon. Mrs. Paget, a son.

In South Audley-street, the countess of Albemarle, a daughter.

16th. At sir Laurence Palk's in Bruton street, lady Elizabeth Palk,、

a son.

17th. At Lymington-lodge, Hants, the wife of Matthew Gossett, esq. a

son.

At Inverness, in Scotland, the wife of Alexander Macdonell, esq. of Glengarry, a son and heir.

19th. The wife of Mr. Horatio Robson, of Piccadilly, a seventh successive daughter.

The wife of capt. Gold, of the royal artillery, a son.

At the cottage at Bridlington, the wife of Marmaduke Prickett, jun. esq. a son.

20th. At Mulgrave castle, lady Mulgrave, a still-born child.

21st. At Brompton, the wife of lieut.-col. Home, a daughter.

24th. At Darnhall, in Scotland, the hon. Mrs. Oliphant Murray, a daughter.

Lately, at St. John's, Newfound. land, the hon. Mrs. Mason, wife of capt. M. of the royal navy, a son.

At Dublin, the countess of Belmore, a daughter.

At sir Hercules Langrishe's, St. Stephen's green, Dublin, the wife of the rev.Dean Langrishe, a daugh

ter.

At Eccles, in Scotland, the wife of Jn. Maitland, esq. sheriff of the county of Wigton, a daughter.

The wife of lieut -gen. England, commander in chief of Plymouth garrison, a son.

At Hensington-house, Woodstock, co. Oxford, the wife of Dr. Blackstone, a daughter.

At Halswell-house, co. Somerset, the wife of Charles Kemeys Tynte, esq. a daughter.

At Bath, Mrs. Matchem, wife of George M. esq. and sister to the late lord Nelson, a son, being her ninth child.

28th. At lord Boston's, in Grosvenor-street, the hon. Mrs. Frederick Irby, a son and heir.

30th. In Lamb's Conduit-place, Guildford-street, the wife of T. W. Plummer, esq. a daughter.

Aug. 1st. The wife of Francis Freeling, esq. of the general postoffice, a son.

At Lumford Bakewell, co. Derby, the wife of Robert Arkwright,

esq. a son.

2nd. At Dublin the lady of the right hon. Maurice Fitzgerald, knight of Kerry, a son.

3d. In Hertford-street, May-fair, the lady of the hon. brigadier-gen. Stewart, a son.

In Clarges-street, the lady of the hon. sir Edward Crofton, bart. a son and heir.

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