The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Advices from Paris of the 27th instant mention that on the night of the 14th some persons in that city imagined they felt a slight shock of an earthquake; a shock was also perceived by some on the night of the 15th. All the great rivers are, however, overflowed; the Rhone, the Loire, and the Seine have done a prodigious deal of mischief; at Nantes, among other places, the water entering the houses at Gros Islet, and near the ditch, during the night of the 5th, melted upwards of 2000 pound weight of sugar that was in the warehouses; the bridge of Tours has given way, as also that of Nantes, a few minutes before the Marquis arrived at that place, with an intention of passing over it, on his way from Madrid; and the Seine, which rose almost as high as in the year 1740, prevented the carriage of fire wood for several days, which caused such a scarcity of that article as to occasion great distress among the people.