The National Register. — London, England, 1821-12-30 00:00:00

been the terror that you have excited, that yon have actually produced on that table, a wife against the km band,a child against the father. litti have produced that melancholy exhibition—dris en and compelled by your tyrannical mandates, that man has seen the wife of his bosom, the mother of his child, appearing against him, to falsify his testimony, in order to save you, who would have destroyed them both. These are atrocities not to be endured in any country. Baron NM:Miami continued at great length, and con cluded by pronouncing the awful sentence thus :—That you and each of you be taken from the place whet e you now stand, to the gaol from whence you came, and on a day hereafter to be named, your irons to he struck off, and yon and each of you, to the common place of exeen tion, the gallows, and there be hanged by the neck until you are deed, and may the Lord of his infinite goodness have mercy on your soul. Baron Wt.:1011;nd, and every individual in Court, were deeply atter:tett during this awful scene. After Baron NPClelland had pronounced sentence on the unhappy men, and they had been removed from the dock heavily nulled, The Solicitor General rose to request the Court, that a young person, named Curtaine, might be discharged from custody - ; he was charged with the same offence as Histon and Mullane, and the same evidence which had been given on their trial would also have applied to him; but his extreme youth induced the Counsel for the Crown to make the 'weft, lit application, conceiving that he must have been misled by others. The Solicitor-General also requested the discharge of James Jordan, who had been almost miraculously acquit ted of the charge of forcibly taking arms from Mr. Sper ling ; and he trusted in God, that those two men might return to society, as missionaries, preaching obedience to the laws among their deluded associates. The Com t then adjoin ned to the I tth of January. THE FLOOD. In consequence of the late heavy and almost in cessant rain, the waters arc so much out at Egham and Staines, the road is quite impassable. A bridge near the latter town has been entirely torn up. The Exeter and Pool mail-coaches could not on Friday morning proceed further than Egham, where the snails were taken from them and conveyed across, and for a considerable distance afterwards, in a boat, the roads being under water. The guards proceeded from Staines in a chaise with four horses to the Ge neral Post Office. The Prrtsmouth mail was delayed at Kingston on Friday morning upwards of an hour, in consequence of the waters being out. The northern mails have been stopped two days by the inundations. At Newport-Pagnel the coaches could not pass the bridge, owing to the floods. The York House mail coach was nearly upset on Wednesday night. Poles are now affixed on the banks of the low. lands to indicate the depth of water on the roads. At Market Harborough, Northampton, and New., port.Pagnet, the waters were on Wednesday NO high on the main -road, that they reached the backs of the horses. At Market Harborough and Northampton, the inhabitants were compelled to take up their re sidence on the first-floor, and the coach doors were opened to let the water pa-s through. Much pro. perty has been destroyed, but no lives lost. On Thursday there was was a tit:mentions storm of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain, at Oxtbrd, which continued nearly an hour with unabated fury. The ruin literally came down in torrents, the streets throughout the city were like rivulets, the thunder was awfully loud, and the lightnilig extremely vivid. The flood at Frome, on Sunday morning last, occasioned by the tremendous storm of the preceding evening, Was higher• than any that has been known in that town for nearly sixty years. The damage sustained amounts to several thousand pounds. The waters in the neighbourhood of Cambridge have risen higher during the prescn, week than they have been known to du for many years. The mea dows near• the banks of the Cam arc overflowed, and in many places the roads have been rendered nearly impassable. The waters in the tins arc unusually high. At Bristol and many other places, the heavy reins have been accompanied with violent storms of wind, thunder, and lightning ; unroofing houses, blowing down stacks of chimneys, and in some instances, burying the unhappy inmates under the ruins. On Tuesday last the Birmingham mail, which usually arrives at Bristol at six o'clock in the morn ing, did not reach its place of destination until one o'clock at noon : it was stopped at Norton-mills, be tween Tewkesbury and Gloeestc•r, where the water was nearly six feet deep ; the guide of the road being lost, the horses soot► got off their legs, and the greatest danger was evident: to increase the difficulty, Shurmer's stage-waggon has also been stopped in its progress, and was rendered immoveable ; o►ie of the horses of the latter was drowned, and another died soon after ; but by the great exertions of the coach. nam and guard,the passengers and ►nail horses were preserved: the former were obliged to f ro b.. 5 k to Tewkesbury; the paccels'and luggage were left be hind, and the mail of lettsirs conveyed at length to Cllocester, faun which it reached Bristol, six ~efinc stated, at noon. No Other Coach jrcitche4 liris!44 titan Birmingham during time day, and'on the 'Ttilliitiring THE NATIONAL REGISTER day (Wednesday) the mail was three hours after its time, being obliged to go round by Cheltenham. In consequence of almost incessant rains, there has been a rapid succession of floods on the river Severn during the last fi•w months. On Christmas afternoon the inundation had attained a very unu sual height, though nearly two feet below the flood of 1795. The lands on both sides of the river are flooded to a great extent: the waters had risen so high as to impede the passage over Tewksbury bridge, in consequewe of which the guards was ob liged to take a bout, swim a horse by the side of it, and thus gaining the road which was not under wa ter, mounted the horse, and proceeded. The late incessant rains have caused a greater flow of water throughout the low lands and valleys in Lincolnshire, than we have heard for many years. The London-road, near Caxton, Huntingdonshire, was on Saturday night for some time impassable for any kind of carriage, and the Edinburgh mail was detained full six hours, until the falling of the water enabled it to effect a passage. At the village of Godmanchester, nearly every house has been filled with water by the overflowing of the Ouse, and some of the inhabitants were compelled, after mak ing their lower doors and windows as close as possi ble, to eject their unwelcome visiter from their chamber windows by buckets. At Wansford, the Nenc rose so high as to inundate the yard of the Haycock-inn; and we believe every village situated in the valleys through which the Ouse, Nene, or Welland flows, has experienced some inconvenience front the water. The fens of Lincolnshire are for the greater part three or four feet under water. At Spalding and its neighbourhood, the Welland rose so high on Wednesday morning, that the inhabitants resident near the river on the Dceping-road, were called from their beds at four o'clock, to assist in erecting a water-tight fence on the crown of the road, to prevent the flood flowing over the fields on the opposite side: numbers of horses and carts, and a very great quantity of men were employed to check the inundation; and, notwithstanding their efforts, the water had increased so much as almost to bid defiance to their attempts to arrest its progress. A very heavy thunder-storm was experienced on the 18th at Blandford and its neighbourhood, in Dorsetshirc. The tower of Wareham church received considerable injury by the lightning on that day. The continued rains have considerably injured the lands in most parts of Devon All tke moors and low grounds present vast sheets of water. The sheep in many places are suffering by a disorder incidental to them in wet weather. The neighbourhood of St. George's-fields was on Friday evening was in many parts overflowed. Most of the kitchens in Great Surrey-street were about a foot under water, and the lower parts of the houses in Union -street, Bankside, &c. were also in a state of immersion. Bankside, particularly, front its vici nity to the river, and the several streets adjoining, were completely covered with the flood. FLOODS IN WESTMINSTER. The neighbourhood of NVestminster Hall, Abingdon street, and Milb.utk•►treet, were on Friday afternoon thrown into the greatest alarm, by the unusually high rising of the swing tide, aided by the floods occasioned by this late heavy rains. By three o'clock the what fs, etc. behind those streets and fronting the liver were com pletely overflowed ; the greatest difficulty, in many in stances, lacing in the way of getting the different cattle out of the stables. The timber, suave, &c. that were sus etlitible of ',mien, on the approach of sufficient water, begsn to float, and the wharfs thus became the scenes of confusion that soon spread terror around the neighbour- By four o'clock the currents front the Thames began to make their way info the main streets, and Mill bank-street in particular, as well as Vine-street, the Hug-eferry road, and other outlets front it, were 80011 overflowed, so as to become impassable except to houses, cartiages, carts, &c. Many of the uhf houses in this street were visited with peculiar severity, as, instead of losing approachable by steps ascending, they are entered by going down one o► two steps into the parlours. The house of Mr. Blackman, the King's Alms, facing the large stone-yard w Bich belonged to the late Alderman Staioes, presented an extraordinary appearance. The sheet in other parts is narrow ; but facing Mr. Blackman's house thew is a talge space, which collected sit immense quan tity of water, and formed a soft of lake ; and when the water entered Mr. Blackman's house, it rushed through wi h an impetuosity that no preCalliiollB could impede. Tile parlours, tap room, &c. were suon several feet deep OA cater. The Manse, though its visitation was not singu lar, became tile point of attraction, from its couspicnous situation, as well as from several heats having passed from the Horseferry stairs, awl appealing in the streets, con veying the inhabitants to and from their houses, and car rying those who had no other means of passage. The extensive damage that was here ionicted, and the obstruc tions which were presented to all business, exceed dem iption and as the flooding of the streets, which already displayed so appalling NU appearance, continued tail v ast five o'clock, the time or tlouJ tide, the situa:ion of the iuhahitauts was most painful. impetuosity and extent Of the Thames oriel llovriog its initiatory bounds were, however ►.ill more lotions op tan bank, and beyond Vauxhall-bridge. By the Millbaok wiiatt, which is beyond the Hurseferry-stairs, whence so nixoy boats castle' to the relief of the passengers mid the rohnbitants, the water rushed into the surrounding fields and sti.etts, Mr. Johnsou's extensive premise+, the mar - inel.:gal demi, Inc. haying the whole of mem uudersvaler. —4l,: t even this extrusive scene of devastation was 5:51,i.i.5tql by what took place het wren four and five °Mock, by the Lieakin islet °vet flowing of the bank ha. 411 _ . yowl Vauxhall-bridge; dim' this breakage is particular , the water hurried along wish cataract fury, covering the surrounding fields, gardens, &c. Vauxhall road, down to the Sewers-bridge, surroutithog Pimlico, was laid un d.•i watt i to the depth of seviral feet, so that even lior,ea and cutsiages could not pas. along without beim.; in ire than halt nutter water. 'flip sutrounding scene, how ever, was the most afflicting than was any where to be beheld; they tieing nutter water of the neighbood near thel'enitentiary were calatnit ots,but tl,e devastst ors were most distressing that were thus cooveyed into a new but roller as extensive neighbourhood un the left of the Vauxhall road, consisting of small houses, but on low ground, and many of them of .e than a sufficiently slight structure. The ground and roads about them, and leading to them, were tilled with water to the depth of several feet, so hat boats paved :dont with the greate,t fa t ility where there a ere not the impediments of high fences, walls, or the like. Along some of the lanse mid toads the water hurried (loan with as witch hole,- as if it were descend ing f hills; aid nosily of vie inhabitants, a ho hod already narrated from the willows to the first-lloors with their child,en, moveable limonite, &c. became apprehensive for ti.s.r personal safety. Tit, yeomme. tad pruceedin i ;s of the .1104 distressing nature'; females, ch,lat en, &c. being carried from their dwellings in boats us fo men's arms, with as little erreitiony and enmities-aeon its attend the efforts nt raging ti res t o r e scu e e n cl.:y g ed lives from the fury of an overwhelm lag e le consteieution appeared every whete.— li nd, eds of faculty. wet e all has hurry in fom t ten homes, a, parenil, wily noxious tor the pre ersatioa of existence; alai the danger in many instances, to men who waded through the water 1.11 hardened was i•tam nem ; to such a depth were the places uve.fftwed. The 1111110 road from Vauxhall Wll4 ctivered with boats, and horses being con veyed, or conveying away their titters, to pliers of safety. FO3 timately the wind was southerly : had it been north. ward, experienc d men stale that the fi roil west have beets still more destructive and extensive. PERTETUAL MOTION*—The piece of mechanism consists of only one horizontal wheel, not exceeding 3-4th, of an inch is diameter, through the centre of which, on the plane of the wheel, basses a small magnetic bar, projecting about 3-4ths of an inch beyond the circumference of the wheel on the one side, and about 3-Bths of an inch on the other side. These projections arc called the north and south poles. The axis of the wheel is, of course, perpen dicular. Its operative power is magnetism; its motion (probably owing to the friction it:separable from the long-continued axis of the sockets) is some what irregular; but on the whole it is a curiosity highly deserving attention. Owing to a sudden shock, its motion was stopped entirely the other day, but we learn it has been restored. About two years ago it was stopped by sonic_ unknown cause, but after a short pause recovered its motion of itself, without any additional impulse, and continued its revolutions without intermission. In u'room at Mr. Swan's, in Coppergate, which was excessively warm, and crowded with company, its action 'Tined alto gether, after first becoming irregular and sickly.— Query.—Might not this simple fact lead to some important issue on the question of the variation of the compass? This we only know, that the mag netic influence was deadened by excessive heat, and resuscitated by a more moderate atmosphere.—York shire Gazelle. The Congress of the United States of America was to meet on Monday, the 3d inst.; consequently the President's message is expected by the next ar rivals. It is conjectured that Mr. Taylor, merub...x for the State of New York, will not be re-elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, but that the choice will fall upon Mr. Nelson, of Virginia, a staunch and respectable republican. The legislative question which seems to be most anxiously and ge nerally auticiyated, is that of a National Bankrupt Law. A Pigeon Match, at eleven birds each, took place on Monday, at Southall Flat, between Messrs. Tate and Harris, from Suffolk, against Messrs. 1)ove and Harri son, from Hens, fur b 0 guineas a side. The following , was the result—Tate killed ten, and his coadjutor seven—Dove Lined Moe, aud his partner eight, which made it a lye. A s.:eusail Watch took place instead of drawing the stake, when Harris killed nine, and Tate eight. The opposing parties killed eight each, and lost the match by one. Tate challenged Harris to shoot at 15 birds each, tin half the wincing money, which was accepted. Harris killed 12 birds, and his adversary ho, and the sports closed. Oil Thursday night, the t!oth inst. Plymouth was vi sited by a treineinions hurricane front the W.N.W., which has occasioned considerable damage in the town ' and neighbourhood, and at one time was so violent as to cause many of the inhabitants in the higher parts of the tow is to leave their beds, and to take shelter in the lower apartments of their houses. The stack of chimneys on rite new !'own-hall, iu Ker-strcet, yielded to the violence o f the '' Ile, and falling with a dreadf u l c las h o n th e ro o f il earric every thing belore it ; and we are much con cerneJ to vale, that the paintings and ingestanis ma ry the Theatre of Art,. belonging to M. Thiuden, (who rind been exhibiting there for some time ;past), were entirely destroyed: unfortunately, thin, " at one fell sweep," tedoeing time lahnor of years to a heap of At Stolle:louse, we chimney of an old house to time Ouay, fell 'wimp the root, and forced the floor of the room in which a pi or ill ill named Richard Beavis„ was lying in lw I, into the cellar underneath, where he was crushed to death by the t tibbish. Cyrote, Captain 'Fir4ttr, drove from her moorings in the Sound, bin was brinigtst up when very near the tucks on Straddisii Point. Wraitliktri winter went on shore at the duck-yard, and the Loaiao tender, in Stonehouse Pool, but were gut up without iojury. We are apprehensive of hearing of great (Linage our the ciait.