The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-07-07 00:00:00

TILE WEATHER.

[From the Cheliorifele of july 0.1
TITUNDERsTORm AT CHELTENRAPC—CheItenham trae 07-
eted on Tuesday night by one of the must terrific thunder-statm
remembered for many years. The seeming warfare of the denten:a
was indeed awful; the peals of thunder, which were long, loud,
and frequent, shook the houses to their very foUndations; and tha
flashes of lightning were vivid and continual, and Could no, fail t)
impress the most hardened atheist T>ith a deep sense et the twat rut.-
neis of man, and 0 the power of the great Being who bade th
tivmda roar and ligAiiing 131::2e. Ile who could CCU. duriug such
a scene, confilentli throw himself for protection uptm the mercy of
the King of kings, must, if possessed of any feeling, be wretched
intl. ed. We are happy to state that we hate rot heard of any
images resithing from the smith. bur that, on the contrary, it up.
pears to have done us material benefit, by roofing the sir,. walch
had been for several days exceedingly orpressive.
[From the Sal,piatt wernal of July 5.1
On Saturday last, one of the greatest storms of hail and rah],
Mtended with thunder and lightning, fell at Bridgnorth end
neighbourhood, ever remembered there, which continuer more
than an hour. We have not heard of any serious damage done
by it.
[from the Wartrickrhirc Chronicle of Wednesday.]
We have this morning received the following front Coventry
" This morning the city of Coventry was visited b 7 a most trtr.
mendous thunder-storm, accompanied with a delugnig shower of
rain. It commenced about one o'clock, and for upwards of in
hour, the vivid flashes of the lightning, and the deafening peal, of
the thunder, were alarming beyond description. About a quirta
last two, the electric fluid descended against the house of Mr. Car:.
ess, in Much Park-street, and struck the iron hinge of a window
shutter on the grohnd floor, on the east side of the building; it
entered the premises, Bashi r gto Splinters the window and window..
frame; and taking a perpendicular direction, forted its way
through the ceiling into the chamber above, where part of the fa-
nii!y were at rest ; the window and frame here shared a ,imilar fate
with those below; several splinters being thrown on the bed of the
terrified inmates. The fluid proceeded SCUM the chamber. forcing
large pixel of wood and brick from the wall, and entered the shop
above, which contained several engine-looms filled with si k. front
the a?pearance of this place, the electric. matter had lost none of ice
power. In several places, bricks were -torn from the wall with ire.
mend ius viol .nee, and considerable damage done to the loolnsi
The destructive fluid afterwards made its egret% through a wiodcw
on the west side of the house, tearing out the Window frame. A
young man, son to -Mr. Careless, who slept in the Atop, terrified by
the vlelence of the storm, rose for %herniate of closing tic window
as the electric fluid entered. Ile was immediately struck to the
ground, but, we arc happy to *trite, received no farther paesotial
injury than being fora ahott time shafted. lie deoctibes the were
cation he experienced as similar to that of a person whose head was
surrounded by a flame of fire. No other member of the family rat
injured."
HONEST THIEVES.—One of the prisoners in !Vosges
lately complained that'ln the night somebody had taken
his buckles out of his shoes.- " What, the sass
anogrec, "have we then thieves amongat us? It must nut
he suffered. Let us search out the rogue and pump hiva
I) death."