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driven to considerable distances. They, however, ceased the following day to cast forth any lava. The first aperture continued still, on the 15th of December, to emit torrents of fire; and, even at the time when this mouth had the appearance of being stopped, there suddenly issued from it clouds of ashes, which descended in the form of rain upon the city of Catania and its environs, and upon the fields situated at a very great distance. The current of the lava was still very slow, inasmuch as in the space of nine days it had scarcely passed over three miles, and had only reached the rock called della Capra (the Goats). A roaring, resembling that of the sea in the midst of a tempest, was heard in the interior of the mountain. This sound, accompanied from time to time with dreadful explosions resembling thunder, re-echoed throughout the vallies, and spread terror on every side. Such was the state of Mount Etna on the 18th ult. The eruption still continued, and occasioned fears of the most terrible disasters.

23. A second meeting of the Catholic Committee of Delegates took place at the theatre in Dublin, Lord Fingal in the Chair. Before any business had been done, Counsellor Hare, a police magistrate, placed himself by the chair, and after some conversation about the meeting had passed, officially removed his Lordship from it. Lord Netterville succeeding him, was removed in like manner; and the meeting broke up. On the same day a number of catholic gentleinen met in their individual capacity, and were not molested; and a requisition was signed for an aggregate meeting of catholics to be holden on the 26th,

28. The attention of the people of Berlin has lately been very much occupied by the tragical adventure of M. Kleist, the celebrated Prussian poet, and Madame Vogel. The reports which were at first circulated with regard to the cause of this unfortunate affair, have been strongly contradicted by the family of the lady; and it has been particularly denied that love was in any respect the cause of it. Madame Vogel, it is said, had suffered long under an incurable disorder; her physicians had declared her death inevitable; she herself formed a resolution to put a period to her existence. M. Kleist, the poet, and a friend of her family, had also long determined to kill himself. These two unhappy beings having confidentially communicated to each other their horrible resolution, resolved to carry it into effect at the same time. They repaired to the Inn at Willemstadt, between Berlin and Potsdam, on the border of the Sacred Lake. For one night and one day they were preparing themselves for death, by putting up prayers, singing, drinking a number of bottles of wine and rum, and last of all by taking about sixteen cups of coffee. They wrote a letter to M. Vogel, to announce to him the resolution they had taken, and to beg him to come as speedily as possible, for the purpose of seeing their remains interred. The letter was sent to Berlin by express. This done, they repaired to the banks of the Sacred Lake, where they sat down opposite to each other. M. Kleist took a loaded pistol, and shot Madame Vogel through the heart, who fell back dead; he then re-loaded the pistol, and shot himself through the head. Soon after, M Vogel arrived, and found them both dead.

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The public are far from admiring, or even of approving, this act of insanity. An apology for this suicide, by M. Peguilhen, Counsellor at War, has excited unanimous indignation among all who have the principles either of religion or morality. The Censorship has been blamed for having permitted the circulation of an account of this tragedy, in which the suicide and the murder were represented as sublime acts. Some have even gone so far as to express a wish to see M. Peguilhen punished, for having, as a public functionary, preached up such principles. The husband has also been blamed for having given éclat to a catastrophe over which it would have been better to draw the thickest veil.

31. A serious disaster has befallen the province of Molise, in Naples. The Bisano and several other rivers, swelled by the heavy rains, overflowed their banks. The water rushed down from the mountains in torrents, and some of the rivers rose forty or fifty feet above their usual level. The town of Bojano was entirely laid under water,

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choked with sand and mud, that some thousands of labourers have been employed to render the houses habitable. The province of Molise is mountainous, but contains several fertile and populous vallies, which now present the appearance of a desert.

The waters of the Lake of Constance have fallen very perceptibly; and the people who live in its neighbourhood say, that since 1521 they have not been so low as this year. People now pass on foot many dry places, which were usually covered with water. The Rhine, the Maine, and the Danube, are likewise very low, which impedes greatly the

navigation of the interior of Germany.

There was a dreadful flood at Belluno last month. The novelty of the spectacle had excited the curiosity of the inhabitants, who assembled on the bridge, which blew up, and carried away fifty of the spectators on the fragments. The situation of these people was distressing; they were obliged to remain during the whole of the night, clinging to the ruins, dreading every instant that the inundation, or even the measure taken to save them by rafts, would be their destruction. The whole were freed the next morning by rafts.

The following list of the cities and towns in France, whose population is not less than 20,000 souls, has been published under the authority of the government; Paris 547,756, Marseilles 96,413, Bourdeaux 90,992, Lyons 88,919, Rouen 87,000, Turin 79,000, Nantes 77,102, Bruxelles 66,297, Anvers 56,318, Gand 55,161, Lille 54,756, Toulouse 50,171, Liege 50,000, Strasbourg 49,056,Cologne 42,706, Orleans 41,937, Amiens 41,279,* Nismes 39,594, Metz 38,055, Bruges 33,632, Angers 33,000,' Montpelier 32,723, Caen 30,923, Rheims 30,225, Clermont and Alessandria 30,000 each, Besancon 28,436, Nancy 28,227, Versailles 27,574, Rennes 25,904, Brest 25,865, Louvain 25,000, Aix-la Chapelle, 24,419, Troyes 24,061, Geneve 22,769, Mayence 22,525, Touci 21,974, Montauban 21,950, Mondovi 21,557, Avignon 21,412, Tournay 21,303, Asti 21,225, Dunkerque 21,580, Aix 21,009, Grenoble 20,064, Tours 20,240, Limoges 20,225, St. Omer 20,109, and Dieppe 20,000.Total 2,401,062.

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24. Lady Anne Montgomery, a son and heir.

25. Lady King, a son. 27. At Madeira, the wife of major-gen. the hon. Robert Meade, a daughter.

28. The countess of Harrowby, a daughter.

Lately, The wife of sir Henry Fletcher, bart. a daughter.

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las, a son and heir.

Feb. 3. The wife of William Gordon, esq. M. P. a son.

5. The hon. Mrs. Codrington, a daughter.

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9. Countess of Mansfield, a son. 12. The wife of major-gen. the hon. Alexander Hope, M. P. a daughter.

25. The hon. Mrs. Ponsonby, a daughter.

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. Lady Emily Henry, at Leinster House, Dublin, a daughter. 26. The wife of Henry Bonham, esq. M. P. a daughter.

Lately, Lady Sondes, a daughter.
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Lately, The countess de Salis, at Dublin, a son.

May 22. The duchess of Newcastle, a son and heir.

31. Viscountess Galway, a son. June 5. Viscountess Arbuthnot, a daughter.

- Lady J. Taylor, a daughter. 6. The wife of sir Henry C. Montgomery, a son.

15. The wife of lieut-gen. sir Geo. Nugent, bart. a son. Lately, at Carlsrhue, the grand duchess of Baden, a daughter. 30. The hon. Mrs. Wellington,

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Sept. 4. Viscountess Turnour, a daughter.

5. Lady Anne Chad, a son and

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7. Hereditary princess of Bavaria, a son.

Lately, Countess of Courtoun, a daughter.

, Lady A. Macleod, a son. The wife of William Lowndes, esq. M. P. a son. Oct. 6. Lady Frances Legge, a daughter.

17. Lady Mary Anne Sotheby, a daughter.

22. The wife of major-general F. White, a son.

27. Lady Kinnaird, a son. 28. The wife of sir J. F. Leicester, a son and heir.

31. The wife of the late Thomas Hughan, esq. M. P. a son. Lately, Countess of Banbury, a daughter.

daughter.

Hon. Mrs. Stopford, a

The wife of the bishop of Derry, a daughter.

- The wife of Thomas Wright, esq. high sheriff for Notts, a daughter.

Nov. 1. Hon. Lady Levinge, a son and heir.

8. Lady St. John, a son and heir. Viscountess Hinchinbrooke,

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Jan. 3. Hon. Windham Henry Quin, M. P. for Limerick, to Caroline, only daughter of Thomas Wyndham, esq M. P. for Glamorganshire.

8. James O'Reilly, esq. eldest son of sir Hugh O'Reilly, bart. Ireland, to the only daughter of the late baron d'Arabet.

20. Joseph Atkinson, esq. Dublin, to Sarah, second daughter of the hon. baron George.

Lately, John Flood, esq., to Sarah, eldest daughter of the attorney-general for Ireland.

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T. Forster, esq. of Roydon-hall, to miss Sarah Holland.

Lately, Lieut-col. Thomas Marriot, of the Madras army, to Anne; youngest daughter of John Becket,

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William Edward Powell, esq. of Nanteos, Cardiganshire, to Laura Edwyna, eldest daughter of James Phelp, esq.

Feb. 1. Thomas Hughan, esq. M. P. to the eldest daughter of the late Robert Milligan, esq. Hampstead.

12. Humphrey, Wild, esq. to the hon. Christina Clifford, eldest daughter of lord Clifford.

20. J. F. Buckworth, esq. lieutcol. in the Cheshire militia, to lady Mary Payne, widow of sit John Payne.

25. Sir John Twisden, bart. to Catherine Judith, eldest daughter of the rev. William Coppard,

26. The hon. capt. Arundel, son of lord Arundel, to lady Mary Grenville, only daughter of the marquis of Buckingham.

-- Thomas Perrott, esq. lieutenant-colonel of the Oxfordshire militia, to the only daughter of late R. Davies, esq. of Glamorganshire.

Lately, Major-gen. Reynolds, to Mary, eldest daughter of John Hunter, esq. consul-general in Spain.

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Richard Orpen Townsend, esq. of Ardtully, to Anne, eldest daughter of the hon. W. Townsend Mullens, son of lord Ventry.

March 2. W. Peere Williams, esq. only son of admiral Williams, to Frances Dorothea, eldest daughter of Robert W Blencowe, esq. R. M. Tighe, esq. to the only daughter of sir Patrick Macdermot, bart. Ireland.

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