The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-02-09 00:00:00

CARLINLE. rim 4.

The oldest meson living does not rentemberthe
rivers L'ilen, Caldea. and l'etteril. to hsve stunned
a greater height, or occasioned more extensgve and
serious ',alio:hid', than they have done this week.
During the greater part of the week, tae rain has
continued to fall ; in consequence whereof, the ri-
vers above-inentigined (which were already übove
their levels, owing to previous rains), overdowed
their banks. and inundated a vAst expanse of cone-
try, isrerentsigg, to the eye the appearance of net
east lake, or rather sea, vetted with
little islets. The damage experigniced is immense.
bridges, trees, fem.'s', immense quantities
.of soil, Ike. were rented. awes by name: moity
Of the torrent. The buy at Setlaroy has lowa en-
tirely destroyed. Arinatiovaite bay has also beets
demolished. But the roost serious injury sustain-
ed in the neighbourhood is at the bkoching•pre-
11114e$ in Denton Holm, belonging to Mr. Robson
Clarke. About 200 yards of the embankment
whieb served to prevent the eueroachment of the
Cliglew upon the Hgolm, were tarried away Ly the
imgattuosity sir the eurtent. • !The :Mitt?, no longer
restrained. instantly formed.. new eharesel, mud,
rushing with irresistible violence against the pre-
mises, carried away or destroyed the sluices, and
several pieces of machinery. Owe of the water
wheels was lodged on the oppoiitc side of the river,
a taw yards helow, and it is expected will be MN.
erred. l'he drying-house hes sustained consider-
able vlamairee—one of the an3les, several yards in
height., and upwards of one yard in hrearlth. was
• Wednesday last brought down by the strength
of the torrent. Some of the workmen had a nar-
row. curape, having removed from the place bat a
few s:corids before the ruins fell. On the some
day, as smite wortieu were. about to he conveyed
in it coot out of the dwelling-houses forguing part
of the premises, (the writes' having entered to the
depth of uowargls of two Pert) it •euloeltrly upset
in a deep pool. They, however were eatricuted
by one of the peopte, just in time to save their
live,. Alportton of ground. tlieproperty un thelMisses
Graham. of. Aaa'sphill, owing to the liiirsthig.of
the hank, is ogee under the exclusive sovereignty
of the watery eleramit, but it is supposed it may be
again recovered.
During the Rood, a few days, since. a Gen- •
'tertian heing &serous to go from Worcester to
Upton-upon-Severn, t Owe Fit linel ki,LN, of Stour-
port, awl two of his men, undertook to convey hire
thither in a boat. They arrived there perfectly
Safi, and landed their passenger ; but ou their re-
turn, the boat,, by some means unknown, was up-
set, and Mr. U. and his •ruen were unfortunately
drowned. The bodies have 'nice been all taken
op near Severn Stoke.
On Thursday morning, between seven end eight
o'clock, the passage-boat which plies, upon the Se-
vern, at Newnhain, was swaito.ged and sgiiik. when
Mr. Hewer?, of Frampton, and the .two boat.*
men, were drowned, in view of severill spettuturs
on both sides of the river, who, a!tisouit they in-
stantly put off in another bout, were not in, time
to render them any assistance. They had gone
over to the opposite shore in the small bout, and
were returning to Newsiliarn to avoid the good,
when they were unexpectedly overtaken by the•
bore, or head of the tide, which set in with

paralleled height and rapidity, and were suddenly
migulplied in the tremendous deluge, whilst pite-
ouily implorin7, assistance from the sltore. When
they saw that they could not escape the tide, they
jodieimisly placed the Liam end-on ; hut such was
the overwheliniog power of the torrent, that their
feeble bark was iiicap.thle of reiistin; its awful
f„,cel—..llite of the boatmen, TIieDIAS KNIGHT,

(alio had been a faithful and elution.' servant at
that ferry for eighteen years,) ha, kit a fainilv of
seven cliiidren ; the other, Tao►t.ti Ruoste, has
left three small. children ; and each of them a,preg..
omit widow, in such circ•umstnnees of &Areas a 4
to render them great objects of charity. Ms. Haw-
LETT had been married but a fee weeks.

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A t
POLICE.

'elllllllte-sinsr.
Oa Istinday two men of the asters of ..a. . e ' •
were csans.ised on a charge of rolibiez Its it)
Mr. Whitwell, of Beth.•al-green roma, soda 1,•41,1
ussittifitet use,. The Primmer, wet e stopped Kcs, edy,
and others ur the patrule, lielonghig Sr. ~., at
Bethnal gri en, crurying two large sacks, . p se-
isiniatienwine found to contain •pusre.• u,'
weight of Bodo and pearl nab. The odic. re 10.10
whence it had been 1:10‘41, immediately owl 40 Ms t= h 37
well, who identified the property. Mr lir. said Pot
boners were nut in his employ, hut was afraid were tom-
fleeted with some of his serviwits; for with.. a very short
period he had been rubbed of the abqve me-eke is, the
amount of sad.; bat had hitherto been with e to Awe oat
the thief, and was indiiited for the present sinpurtant,dts.
covcry to that very useful and necessary offender: of the
Pollee, the ;nitride. 'I be Prise:wee could give ny either ac-
count than that they saw the sacks lying millers wall, and
as no person was near them, they did nut k"uw that
it would be awy offence to take them up. When the
Patrule apprehended them, they said they did nut know
t hat the casks contained, and that they lied not bed th••in
„ve nilautes; but um being dearched, m ilinuitity of soda
was found in their packets. They were committed fur

SUPP:
•
Alma st month since, a sailor, of the name o:_
Janes Page,was sent from 011 board A roan-of-war,
et Portsinoutii, in custody, to Bow-street!..lifice, irs•
ernistspieriee of his basing confessed, that about,
eight years ago, he, in company with asiothey, to as
robbed and li/ordered a nuts, and threw the hotly
into aditeh, end covered it over- with earth,
grass. He assigned as a reason for his confessions
that he was miserable in his mind, in vonsequenee
of his hoeing murdered the man. Ile w.ss delass:•
ed its eustudjs mid Anthony sent to snake town,:
rues a kw miles on the Bueirinhailishirc-rond,
'puling from Oford-street, where he said he com-
mitted the murder, hut not the lama iiifornintien
could be pitied respecting such a eiftuntstaiicit
having taken place.- Anthony persevered' in the
inquiries on all the roads leadisg from Osfard-
Street, lest the Prisoner should be mistidtcn in his
description 011ie place, but none could be gehir.l.
The Prisoner persevering •in his confession, An-
thony took him M wear. 11, for him to point net the
spot; when he µMuted out more pieces !frau one,
but was sn indecisive in all he said, shut Anthony
ass satisfied his tale was manufactured to answer
some purpose. A good deal of the 'flea's history
ha:, since been traced, and it has been sisoerteisied,
that about twelve years since he fell from a hay-
rick, and pitched on his head, the elect of whist:,
it is supposed, has caused a slightdevangement.-
11e was claimed, on blunday, are deserter from
the Buckinghamshire Militia.
Although the verdict of the COroner's
Lis com!iletely refuted all the shameful reports
that have out of the circunxstance of a female
stchton having been found interred iu a held ;II
the parish of Cheswick, we fail it due to the irre-
proaellable caaracter of Mr. B. to repeat, that all
the allusions respecting hint have proved the most
groundli•ss, and basely calumnious ; siii trust
that retry honourable-minded man will use his
best endeavours to trace the original propagator of
th-se reports ; which, though they may Late origi-
nated in private malice. appear now to have been
imbistriously promoted hr party ntakholeacc.
Three-near were lately brought before Air. (let-
RAM, by AllniuNif. from near Ilford, eliart4ed with
uttering forged Bank-uotes. They are all carnmu.
and their defence is, diet they were driviag their
mania topolter along the road, and they picked
up a 'it. bon, whi..is continued forged notes* the
isonnnal *Ha • . - • •
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Monday arming', ass oW bseleiv Io Vidantine-
row, Bleekfriere-road, winch W. 114 used isisa work-
-hop, was blown down. A 1000 who was at mock,
had him leg tnneh hurt, lied hi, thumb cliAlveated
by the falling in of the roof ; and a do
sou the pea-
ittit,s was killed on the spot. The frenticticy of
these accident, seems to indicate the ince•sil of
• proper soryeyos being appointed to web district,
tabula:orders should be peremptory, in either polls
iug down haute, in danger of lulling, or else pro-
pet ly smite:rung or scpainng them, eo to praecpt
the possibility of lista, being lost, or occident* baps
pening from dirapidated lstrAa.
tlu Monday a num meanly dressed went to di.:
Earl of Lteauroues °tire in the Treasury, said
behaved extremely disorderly, and refused to
leave the Oftee; they were therefore obliged to
send 'for an officer, to. take bine avow, when he
provedee lieidentriged, and had broken out of St.
Luke's.-' He was coma-ye:4-in a cow4:l. back to that
place.
On Monday the 234 alt. sive brilse out in the
second boor of Little Theelow-hall, Stard)t., the
properqs.of H. &must. F. 41. bet now (reckoned by
Col.firaveassse, olti • en a short tate iltstroyed
nearly all the inside ut the sapper ru ~,,, * and roof.
It is supposed to have bet u occasioned by a large
bra kept in an open chimney of the great hall,
liming the late severe moaner, to prevent the fire-
mina from rusting. which commuiticated with
sense crows-heatiss iu the charnbAnis
On Sionday lest. the mullion. ot Lieut. ntt 1.1.151
SAYRR, late of the tilst roginieut, wire c.• tried
through Catiterbuiy, for interment at Sit..., .111,
of which place he was a native. Thee
died 00 board a transport, us he was
home from Spain with the rensuants. of. our lit-
fated expedition to that country.
An inquest was taken, oat Thursday litatrbefore
Jose'' ST.4DEM. Esti. Mayor of FONgtOitr, on
the firmly of Ttiostas llirwat.t.,.4f the 12th
'Dragoons, who shot himself .in the often:irou of
that slay. It appeared its the evidence adduced
before the Jury, that the deceased was atroogly
suspected of having felonitstely stolen ask box,
containing upwards of 41)1. and .sundry other as-
tides, the property-of Strjeatit STIWAST, of the
detachment, who had ordered Into into eustudy
flit the purpose of sending Lin to Dover fur ex.
notimitioit, when the deceased, placing his °tubule
(o;iicli it it conjectured he loaded iniswithAely
wthipirliOn was attached to hint) to breast.
claimed I'll do it, so help use Goal" Ausl al-
thongli several of Isis comrades were iu the anibie,
ha pulled the fatal.trige,er before ttie) had awaits
to resent it. The Jitry returned their verdict—
Ice, de se ; and he was Accordingly buried in the
hid hwey.
A report has reached us of the bridge at likii!g-
nort:t having been carried away by the Severn, and
of a stage coach and potwengisis having beau loet.—,
(Staffordshire Advertiser.J