Remarkable occurrences in the life of Jonas Hanway : comprehending an abstract of his travels in Russia, and Persia; a short history of the rise and progress of the charitable and political institutions founded or supported by him; several anecdotes, and an attempt to delineate his character / By John Pugh.

Pugh, John.

Date:: 1798

Credit: Remarkable occurrences in the life of Jonas Hanway : comprehending an abstract of his travels in Russia, and Persia; a short history of the rise and progress of the charitable and political institutions founded or supported by him; several anecdotes, and an attempt to delineate his character / By John Pugh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ tjt ] ON Saturday the i8th of May, 176^;, a fire happened at Montreal, in the pro- vince of Quebec, which, in three hours, confumed a fourth part 'of the city j one hundred and eight principal houfes, in- habited by two hundred and fifteen fami- , lies, jvith. their merchandize, furniture, and apparel, to the amount of eighty- feven thoufand five hundred and eighty pounds. The fufferers were a loyal obe- dient, and laborious people, and before this accident were recovering from the calamities of war. Mr. Thornton, Mr. Hanway, and Mr. Fowler Walker, as agents for the fufferers, petitioned the kins in council for a brief, which they obtained, and collected thereon eight thoufand four hundred and fiftebi pounds. A fubfeription was immediately 'begun, exclufive of the brief, and the amount tranfmitted to Montreal, chiefly in filver, with two fire engines, and a marble bufl: H 4 , ci

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