stood bolt upright, and appeared a venerable, comely person.

A large iron chain being brought round the middles of the two martyrs, "Good fellow," said Ridley, shaking the chain, to the smith who was driving the staple, "knock it in hard, for the flesh will have its course." After some time they brought a faggot ready kindled, and laid it at Ridley's feet, to whom Latimer said, "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out."

When the fire began to flame, Latimer received it as it were embracing him; then cried out in earnest devotion; and after having stroked his face with his hand, he soon died, to all appearance with little or no pain. On the other side, the fire had been so ill managed, by piling too many faggots, that it burnt only beneath him; which, when Ridley felt, he desired them for Christ's sake to let it come to him. His brother, not understanding the reason of his request, with an ill-advised kindness, heaped upon him more faggots, which made the fire, smothering below, so intense, that it burned all the lower parts of his body, before it touched the vital. This made him leap up and down under the faggots, and often desire them to let the fire come to him, saying, "I cannot burn:" which, indeed, appeared too true; for, after his legs were consumed, he

shewed his side to the spectators, clear, shirt and all, untouched with flame.

Thus he continued, till one of the standers-by, with his bill, pulled off the faggots above; and when the tortured martyr saw the fire flame up, he wrested himself to that side. When the flame touched a bag of gunpowder that had been tied to his neck, he was seen to stir no more; and either from the chain loosing, or by the over-poising of his body, after his legs were consumed, fell over the chain, down at Latimer's feet.

London, October 30. One day last week a sailor in the East India service, on his arrival in town, gave his wife sixty pounds, which he had accumulated in his voyage, to induct her into some way of maintenance; upon which she immediately gave intelligence of him to a press-gang, and he was the next day accordingly apprehended. The honest tar agreed to enter, provided they told him the person who laid the information. This being complied with, and the chief agent in the affair evidently appearing to be his wife, he obtained leave of absence, went home, excused himself for being out the preceding evening, and made no mention of what had happened; but the next day gave her a pretended draft of five pounds upon another sailor at the other end of the town. The woman, lured by the semblance of gain, willingly consented going to receive it; when, upon return-, ing, she found, to her great mortification, the

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drawer, wherein the above sum of sixty pounds. was deposited, broke open, the money taken away, and every requisite in the house disposed of to a broker.

To the Printer of the Salisbury Journal.-Sir, The following remarkable event is matter of fact, which though not of a very late date, has never been mentioned in any of the public papers, deserves your notice.

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At Windwhistle, a parish in a high situation, about four miles from Crewkern, in Somersetshire, was a constant spring of water, much used by the inhabitants, and in the memory of man, even in the driest summer, never known to fail, till the very day the dreadful earthquake happened at Lisbon, when it suddenly sunk down, and the surface round it, many feet into the earth, like a well, and has been dry ever since.

January 1.-A gentleman at Leostoff has favoured us with the following accounts:-" The dreadful storm on Wednesday the 19th ult. began about one o'clock in the morning, and continued with increasing violence till five, when the wind suddenly changed from the south-west to the north-west, and for two hours raged with a fury that was hardly ever equalled. Anchors and cables proved too feeble a security for the ships, which instantly parting from them, and running

on board each other, produced a confusion neither to be described or conceived; not a few immediately foundered, others were dismasted, and none escaped unhurt.

At day-light a scene of the most tragic distress was exhibited; those who first beheld it, assert, that no less than eighteen ships were on the sand before this place at one and the same time, and many others were seen to sink; of those on the sand, one-half were entirely demolished, with their crews, before nine o'clock; the rest were preserved a few hours longer: but this dreadful pause served only to aggravate the destruction of the unhappy men that belonged to them, who betook themselves to the masts and rigging; these continually breaking, eight or ten were not unfrequently seen to perish at a time, without the possibility of being assisted; fifteen only, about two in the afternoon, were taken off one of the wrecks, and about as many more were saved by taking to their boats, or getting on board other ships when they boarded each other.

It is impossible to collect with certainty, how many lives, or how many ships were lost in this terrible hurricane, twenty-five at least, perhaps thirty ships, and two hundred men, do not seem to be an exaggerated account. This indeed, is too small a calculation, if credit is to be given to one of the seamen, who declares he saw six vessels sink not far without the Stanford, among which was a large ship bound for Lisbon, with sixty or

seventy passengers on board, One or two of the ships that are lost belong to Yarmouth, and one to Plymouth, but the generality are colliers, and belong to Sunderland, Shields, and other places in the north..

The concern this destructive scene occasioned to the spectators of it was encreased by the following circumstance: when the masts of one of the ships, on which were eight or nine men, fell, two them were some time afterwards seen struggling among the wreck, but at length, after unremitted efforts, got upon the hull. In the afternoon a pilot-boat ventured from the shore, but it was found impracticable to administer any relief to the unfortunate sufferers, whom they were compelled to leave in their forlorn state; an approaching dark, cold, stormy night heightening the horrors of their situation.

The next day, to the astonishment of every body, one of the men was observed to be alive, and about noon the boat again attempted to save him, and approached so near as to ask the poor fellow several questions; but the hull on which he was, being surrounded with wreck, and the sea running so high, it was impossible to rescue him from the impending danger. He was at the stern of the ship; towards her head the sailors conceived it barely possible to board her with safety. This they told the unhappy man they would not attempt, and bid him walk to the place, but replying he was too weak to change his situation, they