All the gentlemen perished

Some gentlemen, among whom was Mr. Buckland, son to the late English consul at Nice, having been out on a shooting party in that neighbourhood, were overtaken by a storm of thunder, which forced them to take shelter in the lanthorn at the mouth of the harbour of Villa Franca, under which was a magazine of powder, which taking fire by the lightning, the whole fabric blew up, and all the gentlemen perished.