The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-11-15 00:00:00

I I . 1 :ti t . \ i 01 ‘ , Ifi , . . I I 1 ' J l' . ' . 1 1 1 I I . I 1 • 1 . ~ l i ; I . I I • • • ' t 1 I 1 ; . • i i •, '"; • • A , I . t s , 1 1 1 t k :1 1 I .! I 1 i illr i 1 i 1 I ' • c . ; 1 , I 1 , I 1 1 I I i I ... . M. 1s ' ".4 : DRE4IOI7L IN I.ISCOLNSIIIRE. Inns TRW BOSTON 6.4ZETIR eisit Lvsysawsuras ABIIIIKTISIIIII 9 if 1 . 11 0 • • : • ' The dreadful visitation In this part.of the country . which we have to-day the duty lg.:relating to cur distant Readers, .and of recording as matier'of *Vence for those whcsare our neighbours,.-.is itself of a nature s° impressive, that we have nothing more to do to rivet public attention to, the subject, than relataisartieulars. . On Saturday mortiloglast, about scree o'eloek, it'began to,ritin al boeton, and continnedto do so, throughout the day. • The !lad accompanied the rain impetuously from the : E,..5. E. and gradually increased in roughness:• from eleven o'clock inahe day till six its the evening, 'it blew.tatremely hard; fad from that twur till nine, a peifict . harricanc. The consequence of this continned gale for to many hours in one point was, that the in the evening MU in with great rapidity, and rose half an beer before the expected titnc of full fleet to a height exceeding by four inches what it is recorded to have attained en any occasion preceding.— What is' called 46 a good tide" was expected ; but the consternation produced by the rise of the water severe: feet above its usual level, may well be imagined tohave been excessive. Iluuses which on no occasion' whatever before bad been invaded .by the tide, were now, by its ovcrpcering all probable bounds, fillet ' to a great depth with the may., which rushed into kitchens and cellars, and inao-. dated every, apartment until it feu tid b its level. Whole . streets were thus circumstanced ; and some were fur two or three hours inaccessible but to those who had resolution' enough to wade up to the knees.; Wormgate, and all the streets and houses near to tho river, were in the latter predica ment ; and as it was night (seven o'clock) and rain fell heavily, the situatiou of the inhabitants was most distressing. • • What . was an extraordinary thing was, 'that the tide, when It had flowed tq its highest, did : not per. , ceptibly i subside for more than an hour. To those who hail any knowledge. of the way in which such an effect cask! alone be produced, this was a sure prognostiCation of an extensive calamity—to the* It was clear that thesea-batiks bad Volum, or were overflowed ; and fortunate fur thet.t l owu of Boston • (but troisfrniscrably unfortunate for the surround. coatitil) . was it s that, tkis thing happened ; • for had cot the tide forind inciiheiWnd less strait. c• oed course, bat towed till spent itself Its accustomed channel, it would have risen; . l probability, even some feet higher than it did the town, and have swept alinust every thing be fore it, As it happened, the town was saved, and the neighbouring country deluged. friskney new sea bank is broken by the title in two or three places; Lennon new sea bank the same ; of Frieston•new bank scarcely 'a vestige is left ; the Old bank also 'in that parish is broken in many 'plides, as is Boston East old Bank, and the hanks kirbesk Quarter, Wyberton, Frampton, and losdyke.—lt may be well here to observe, that 'the nett hanks are thotelately made on the inch!. 'sure of the marshes from the sea, but arc not re lied upon for the defence of the country at large. The old sea banks, unhappily for;the country, have proved insufficient in height, as the surge, passed over them almost along the whole line : .and' thin was the cause of the breaches—the overflow having first scoured away the banks ls from the sum mit to the base, on the land side. The situation of the country, in consequence, from Withal's' almost to Spalding, a distance of 30 miles, is such . us exceeds our powers of description: The Intel- Itgence of distress which we have for two days hourly had brought in to us, amazes and almostin capacitates us from our duty of relating what we hear. Of a visitation so awful and so extensive as is that of which we are writing, much that is exagge rated or untrue will surely be reported : aware of this, we' have been careful tq sift our information ; and, for ourselves, to keep vordeseription within the line of our authority. We have two heads of idol.- mation yet to work under—the losses sustained by the land-owners and holders in the inundation of the country, and those experienced by the merchant and , trader in wrecks and other disasters at sea; antrAread. ful as the latter must necessarily have been along the extensive mot of this county in a gale of perhaps unprecedented violence, we really believe that, in giving precedence Collie former head of informs. lion, we are speaking of that which, as far as worldly, pecuniary considerations may weigh, me rits the preference, In few, and perhaps plainer words, —the loss on shore, we believe, exceeds in value the loss by sun;—the estimate of human life being of course out of the consideration. The foresight of mau had not extended to the for mation of a barrier against such a title as that of Sa. turday night; and therefore the whole extent or the Eastern coast has probably been seriously affected by it. The calamity has beery naturally more severe on the low districts of this County, which with difficulty find an outfall fur their drainage; and the tide having once broken into them, pursues Rs course irresistibly fur miles, MI the fine pos. faros, the pride of this neighbourhood, have in one ,night been hill under water, and some Mows* of ,• Tril g STA'ISM A'. sheep and other cattle have been drowned. Thp ruin came so rapidly and unexpectedly, that the farmers had no time to save their cattle, had the , thing been predicable: but in some instances the inhabitants of farm-housex have had difficulty in 'saving their owa • lives ; and one instance is men tioned to as in which two persons at Fosdyke perished by the flood, which completely swept' away thsit-d wel ling. h nese. • • At Fishtoft, Mr. Smith Jessop (formerly in trade as a grocer at Bos i ton) lost his life in endeavouring to rescue.. some If hii father's sheep. On Saturday : eight, • old Mr. Jossop, accidentally looking out of ,his house, and, mistaking the approaching deluge for a fall of snow on the ground, exclaimed to his seu that care should be taken of sotne sheep on his pastures. The deceased immediately went forth, and before he had recovered from the astonishment tacked by tl►e scene, walked thiough the water, In his *Sy to the slieep l into a pit, where he was drawn. ed before any assistance could be rendered. The hotel (Plummer's) at Fricston shore was for same hoots-in danger of being quite washed down ; the great bow.window of the diniug.room, al. >though a ermakkrable• height from the ground, was forced from the building by the water, and carried to the distance of several fields. Dead sheep are seen lying in numbers from every road that is passable. The roads from Boston to wards the sea and Fosdy ke Wash are•nearly Imp's. sable, being horse.betly deep in water, and the communication along the sea banks is out off by the breaches in them ; but the Court of Sewers is sitting daily at Boston, ,issuing orders for the secu. rity of. the country. Stacks of corn, farming implements, and articles of household-furniture, have been floated away al most beyond number. The houses of Mr. Kean,. and. Mr. Dickinson, of Wyberton, have been neatly demolished by the flood, and many others much du maged.: liolbeach Marsh, we are told, 'the greater part of the estates are three feet under water; and the town of Holbeub has been much distressed by the inundation. Some few farmers are said to have lost nearly all the stock upon their lands. Names have been men. tioned to as ; bet, for fear of mistakes, we deem it prudent to abstain at present 'from publishing that. Great difficulty will be experienced in aim porting such cattle as may nut have perished on lip inundated farms; all the ditches, ponds, aWrelli in many parishes being filled with salt wateriek it will take some time to get rid of. The itleearanee of the cou►:try from the top of Boston steep!** sne. lanchuly in the extreme. At the seventh - mile. stone towards Spalding, the water runs over the road; and the country looks like a sea l as far as the eye, in the directions of the mischief, can carry its sense. We are assured thai, from the hour of three on Friday morning last, till five, it lightened as vividly and repeatedly as is common in the season when wo must look for such phenOmena. The flashes were attentively observed by the Masters of two vessels' lying in Skirbeck Quarter. . On Saturday evening, Captain Massam, of the Jason, accompanied by a man and a boy, went down by the low road towards Wyberton, with a view of getting on hoard the vessel, and -giving as. *tante to`Capt. Barclay. The gale blowing ex. treasely hard, • the party .by some means lost their • road. Finding this to be the case, they resolved tare. t urn and raake for the sea bank s but in this retrograde . movement were soon met by the tide, which, in the course of a few minutes, quite surrounded them, atrd .made them'seek safety on a. hill or tumulus in fieJdse; In this situation they all three continued uri. , tit between two and three o'clock on Sunday morn. ing, when Captain Manful), thinking it possible that the next tide Might rise so as to drown them all, de. tcrmined upon adventuring away, with the aid of some rails which he broke from a fence. In the At. tempt the boy got. into deep water and wardrowned : with &it labour the two uthers.gossto ahouse, Mr. in Frampton, whatethey were kindly treat. ed, and enabled. to proceed to their ship. The boy who perished was in the service of Mr. OlarkeOner. chant, of Skirbeck Quarter. t . .m......••••• LOSSES AT SEA. The ifosh?er, May, from Loudon to 'this port, with groceries, drove on the Herring . Sand iu the course of the night. There is too • mach ration to believe l that the ,whole of her 'crew have found watery graves. Mr. flay, the master ; was an ca. cellent mariner, and as a man highly respected. The brig Hope, supposed frotn Sunderland, coal. laden, came into the Deeps with the Polly, Estill, ottSaturday morning, and brought up astern of the Polly in Clay.hole. lii the middle of the gale the brig foundered at her auchcirs,• and every soul on board perished. The scene was beheld by the crew of the Polly Whilst themselves were struggling with eterilitS; unable 'to think even of aid. Happily, howevar, the Polly weathered the storm. A Scotch schooner drifted front the Scalp in the gale;" aid iipset j three handl, all on board, pc.' 'rished. When the tide left her, l oos p o or )0 was found lashed to the windlass ;•whicbilt, is supposed, be had himself done for safety, nut dreaming that the %owl would u • The old ship, the Seii port of .1V 4iihy s .was on I . •#. v .- . Efolbeich Marsh, after having weathered the storms of a hundred years. She was built in the reign of Queen A nne (we state this from good information), and has been a constant trader from Whltby to Lotri, j ,mg 'don, durink the long period intervening to the prei l tent year._ By the gales %Vlach prevailed alortnig* o she was,'for the first time, compelled to run tor ' 'Boston Deeps Land the subsequent tempest has wrecked her en a new shore The crew, with great difficulty,' landed on the Marsh from the boats, almost perished. -*owe A barge drifted over the bank near the Scalp, and may now be seen in the midst of the pastures, with , the sheep grazing round her l Yesterday evening the bot of Jose Pit Anderson, late Mate of the Allif4r, wag 'outfit near the yes. set, which, strangs.t• tell, has righted again, and is expected to be got of, with part of her cargo on board. The body was conveyed to the Golden Lion public-house. The Hannah, of Sunderland, Robert Tucker, master, put into Boston yesterday through stress of weather, with the loss of an anchoi and cable on entering the Deeps, and having her sails much rent. The Captain reports that, to the North of lugold mells, be passed a vessel unknown, Sunk in seven fathom water; with her top.sails jest above water, and a man standing thereon, to whom he was un able to reader any assistance. We are Informed that several wrecks are to be seen on the Lincolnshire coast, off Theddlethorpe and Mablethorpe. A' letter addressed to us yester day from a friend, at Spilsby, observes- 44 The wind on Saturday has produced such a scene of distress along the coast between Wainffeet and Salttleet as is truly afflicting t fourteen wrecks are visible from the hills. In our tieighboiirhood no material injury has been done, except that Walton Mill has been blown completely over. The miller's man, pail. dentially, had left the mill to fetch a candle from the house, and was just entering the mill-yard on his return, when the whole machine was blown over with a horrid crash." At Wisbech the gale was severely felt : a cor. respondent writes as follows:--" The tide rose to an unusual height, *and II olied . with such rapidity, that several craft loaded with grain broke from their moorings and sunk. The banks in several places were overflowed, and th'r liatlatcd. Several of tailed a serious loss, as buildings, near the river . I ter.. We fear that great the banks and enclosures river, but to what. event is not yet ascent: From the accounts of the Captains who came in with the gale, there is reason to belive that, during the greater period of its continuance, the wind it sea was South East : if so, there is a strong probability that many ships have cleared the land. With this consolation we will close the most•me. lanchoty account that oar duty,as journalists,ever im posed upon us the pain of narrating. Any attempt to estimate the loss which has been sustained is at pre. sent unnecessary and impossible : much is still to learn as to the extent of country in which this se. vere visitation of Providence hal been experienced; and our next week's account, it la - probable, may be even chore distressing than that - which we at pre& sent have been able to collect; '^ - '' - ''^ .. ......1MMM01111 ,~ .. , y 4: ~ A. Council •on the state of his M A jErrn was on Tuesday, i n a very private rower "cc Windsor. The Members who sat were very f e : 11 number. The resultlias not transpired. . On Saturday, the King of SWFDEN landed I .:3l.month, amidst a salute of girns, and the ehee t i, welcomes of the inhabitants. He was conducted' the Angel Inn. He is daily expected in town. In our preceding columns will be found , an a count of an unusually' tremendous Storm oa it coast of Liucolushire. 'lt is a most niteee st i o; though a most melancholy detail. be seen, by our Portsmouth Letter, the Havre Beet has escapea to sca, The Duke of Kent packet is arrived from Cad' which she left Osi the 26th ult. In a subse t part of oar Pieper, we have given• extracts f Spanish Papers, Oxon& by this conveyance. Cortes bow -to proceed in a very excellent spiii It appears, however, that doe people de not 04 they make that progress in the higher dßPart of their duty ; the fixing of theitett land.me e k sot free Constitution, which 00111seest fervently ho and expected. ' • On the oth day's sitting, the PILESIOtiT stated, that he receives' several anonymous Letter complaints to that effect. Fur our part, su s present, have much hopes of the labours of this be lustrious Body. They seem desirous of letting G s PEOPLE participate in the advantages of Govern. tnent ; and have not yet betrayed any wish to let on the principle which is grown so fashioady with their ALLY of ENGLAND, that all the blej. ings of a Government naturally belong oily the /eve, and that the PEOPLE are Willed only to the inconvenience and burthens of it. is events, we shall not prejudge them. And aisle be observed, that the more unfeigned modermice they proceed with, the more' stable and benefigig their work is likely to be. They have, very pm perly l 'avuiaed to encumber themselves with Mk The consideration of the means by whide#r v ik principled enemy is to be successfully 104 and finally expelled, is, therefore, referred too cular commissions. Mean time,Oneof the easdlit done, has been to refer to a the considerdtien of the bat ZING ion. Tea IPiIDT ISSUE 01 CAUbES ; in 'order that, the .kly be set at libarly s and as* issinisba This is an object of true Guist:amts. 14$ us hope, then, thai the Spanish nation will ad find mock Itepresentatirin in their august Cork! It appears that General ILLAIIII is advancing (too Murcia, to co.operate with the garrison of Cadiz with increased vigour, and to take this favourable opportunity of driving the assailants beyond the Sierra Morena. It is with great pleasure we find, that the epide. mic distemper in Cadiz has disappeared ; and 'tibia season of the year no fears are entertained of hire. appearance. A vessel (rots' Gibraltar, and wbich left it es& 20th, we ars also happy to say b provided piths clean bill of health, and the yelloW fever in dick NO longer prevalkd. 'The following interesting letter we have *ad this morning . from our Plymouth Correspondest:-. PLYMOUTH, Nov.l& " The Nercissus frigite which arrived Wert. terday, dismasted, met with that accident in Stutoaa Bay, on the North West coast of Spain, when she was at anchor with' Commodore Mends's ma. drug'. At twelve o'clock on the night of the Sat latent, in a most tremendous gale at wind, Okla blew into that bay, a Spanish frigaitidrifilati frog her alschors and cause scrota the .i.Vuicienis's With bfr which her masts were immediately carried tor, sad the surgeon and a marine killed,. together gill eight or nine seamen wounded, by their falling. At , ter very great di ffi culty and exertions on the lart of. the British seamen, the ships were disengaged hi cutting away the wrecks, when the Spanish hite drifted towards the shore, and in her course DA Kush her a Spanish brig of war, and . they kith, went on the rocks together ; and it is reported, that the Captain of the brig, together with two SCION were the only persons saved Of both ships' crews. Must of the Spanish gun-boats and small vesscli tached to the expedition, are states! to have 0 0 gone on shore and totally lost : and the nundyr A Spaniards drowned is feared to be upwards of 610 men. " The British vessels, with thne*eptioo of OR Narcissus, bas suffered very little damage. lied not the crew of the Narcissus cleared the wreck ig soon, there is every reason to believe, from the ria lence of. the gale, that she must have gone on AO also, in which case inevitable destruction must hate followed to the greater part of the crew from the state of the weather and heavy sea breaking .r 1 th c rucks. It is reported that the expedition, is cos. sequence of those disaters, has been abandtmcd . ' The ,Amason frigate towed the Narcissus to tbil. port, and then proceeded to Falmouth. 6 4 . Arrived a ship Irons M onte Video,:bol can. not learn her name. - 1 ► 1 1 64 Arrived the Caraceit hiptireel' (. he lands near the town i ts . things they have di lhs inha4itantt aispriso • Co mmittee, the ssarehoases ant' Sir annVIDIN , r, weep filled with salt wa- CRIkINAL innocent may quid at &vie has been done tt.; vs air the outfall of the guilty it is not yet ascertained." worthy of the labor GAS SHARES. wANTED TO BUY, SOME SHARES IN IItite•WTIVSGIV'S GAS LIGHTS. APPI) Is,Nr. 4_ l /gtis , 87, Fleet -street. Artleen. , i -• Mailo. •,• Die: 0 . Dublin I ••0••• i• , • Waterford , 1 0 ...$ ..k...Cottliz - 0 Lisboa I .0 • .. Malta .:...1 'l O lllO II OK STOCKS TIMIS DAY AT ON K`CI'CLOCK. 9 Per Rid. 69 I I 3 perCest. 671 SSI • Oiardorts 44 4 dis. STATESMAN. . , _ Lab:DON: • %`. TIMRSDAY, NuTEMBER 15,' tBlO. - TILE KING. it is with unfeigned pleasure we communicate to our readers the following Bulletins ; IViudisor Castle, Nov, 14. 44 His MAJESTY IS still better to.day, and ap. pears to be iu a state of progressive improvement. H. It. REYNOLDS. " HENRY HALFOR I I). 1 . M. HAMM. '► W. IiEIIERDEN. " R. WILLIS." " N0v.15. ills MAJesvir is mach the same today as he was yebterday." (Signed as above.) It begins to be now probable that t his MAvarrY will speedily recover; and, therefore it cannot now be supposed that any opposition will be made to the motion (at length avowed by Ministers) of a second adjournment for a fortnight. Yet, it is to be hoped, that the measure suggested by my Lord HOLLAND will be adopted—namely, that the two Houses formally meet daily, to be prepared to as. ramble numerously on the arrival of any important emt. even a fortnight is too long a space of time fui an ebsolete-adjournment 3 as it is sufßoleat to tempt Mcmbcrs to WitintlOll. into the COUtltsfa, •