The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-02-13 00:00:00

JAUNDA 110

On Saturday and Sim lay se'rmight, anti Wed.
nesdny last, the rivers Edam, Caldew, awl Kuril,
swelled beyond their Wreath to a height scarcely
ever remembered, by the sudden melting of the
slimy in the neighbourhood of Carlisle. At the
heel of Demon Hahne. •Irout a mile above that
city, the sear that divolts the Cntilew to Ale,srs.
Lush mid Ce.'s printwork., impeded the ileetion of
the large solid blucks of tee that cosine down the
river. so much so, that the river ref urgit*terl upon
the adjoining grnuilals, mid at last burst a mound of
considerable magnitude, erre:nal in the full of Mr.
Gudrun, and swept away large trees of variorum
kitsch,
kitsch.. along with Ales.rs leosh and Co.'s sluice.—
The carotin then ran against the newly-erected
folewelowarrks of Mr. Robson Clarke, and snow *ap-
peal the foundation of these buildings, which, we
are exceedingly sorry to state, have given way in
miny The damage. we hem., done at this
place, is estimated at upwards of 7001.
The river having now lost its natural channel,
its eurvitirs produced tile most dreadful ravages.
After impingieg on the works of Mr. Clarke, it
took a trattsverse direction, and swept away above
up sere of gro ttttt I, the property of Sir John :lois-
grave ; carried 'sway a bridge near Denim 1,111,
anal a 444.-liouse he' ins; to Messrs Eergiisdra
and Co. Part of the emironition we. law
bet-. 1 carried awry at ahh.itig,h
ed tugether it tar strov,:est en-niter with mat.
o.e. the lbeitoil. part of the imam wear and slu;rl
of the cotton will belouging to Messrs. Itothoa.a:011
Rohl Ce. was carried away by the flocal-suost we
liave hut heard that may other very serious &wage
has been alone by this river.
lVe hear that the river Esk overftesed all
low grounds iii the vicinity of its course: It has
swept away the greatest part of Netherbv Bay.
formed by a beautiful stogie wear erect. ri by Sir
James Graham, Bart. seross the river. That wean,
we are informed, cost the !loom of Netherby up-
wards of 15,10001. It contained a breadth of 44
feet, and rose gradually to the perpendicular
height of 12 feet: it was aubstainially boomial to-
gether with soitimre timber, anal the intersects
tilled with hewn freestone. A recently erected
embankment, of considenable strength, at Rarekliff•
Cross, belonging to K. Mounsey, Erep of Carlisle,
has been swept away by the river.
The stone wear, across the Eden, at A rmuthrwaite
Castle, has also been cerried away. The sweet re-
tirement of Arinathwaite wits 1)1.6%6[1411r resorted
to by the tourst and traveller, to see the Eden rush
o-er, in one rol:eet of water, this !stone wear, and
then fall a height of twenty feet. r The cascade
was allowed to he extremely floe in a Swat, front
such an nonsense volume of wet. r flowing over u
surface extending u.rwards of two hundred yards.
Much damage has been sustaiseal by violent
floods in the Etteriek during the last ra,n. Ile.
sides ether damage., Ow beautiful new bridge
built over the. Yarrow, two miles r Selkirk,
leading to the new road up Etterick, but been rii-
tirtly swept away.

NEWCAiTI.F., ►►. O. 4.

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Saturday evening lest, the whir it had been
colleeterl in the River Tyne, at the bridge here,
broke away with a tremendoies crash, and so great
was the power by which it was impelled, that, 1/1
spite of ropes, cables and other moonily. it forced
Weir *hips, whitis liesj• hems Immo up,. b out their
stations alongside the quay, awl carried thesis down
the river. All efforts to stop them proved ineffec-
tual, omit they reached the cud of Sanelgatts where
they lut4ily took the ground, and were thus pre-
vented from proceeding without any further injury.
Sunday morning last exhibited one of the moat
distressing scenes ever witawswil in Shield* her-
hour. ' Fro•n the sudden thaw, and the lawd flood,
the ice, in large pi:entities, twine down the river
with great veltecity, and drove from their moor-
ings four of His Aliejesty's AM* of war, end us.
wards of twer.ty merchantmen, many of w hick
were in the fano perilous sitliations. The South
Shields original Jete-lioat was immediately launch-
ed, and went to those vessel* in the greate*t jeo..
portly, resetting their crews from danger, (ay two
of the veiled' went in pieces on the rock*), and af-
fording every assistance to the other ships in iris-
tress. A great concourse of people were awenabled
to view the melancholy scribe, who were loud iii
their applause, en beholding the very eine ;n.irelis
moistener rendered by the life-bout and he nitre..
pid ere*.

The Fortis Jrrttivos, frt,m Falmouth, fur
Sweden, ie on *bore tiftf Pe:mance, and full of
water.

MIRAC'ULOCS PRESERVATION.
Yestirday week, as a boy, about nine yeara of
age (the son of Mr. Robert Rider, of Marsden-
street, in Manchester) was ainusiug It i ttt setf at the
side of a puriip in the neighbourhood of Princess-
street, the stone upon which he stood suddenly
sank, and precipitated him to the bottom of the
*ell, eighteen yards deep, with upwunls of fonr feet
of water ; emerging to the surface of which, the
unfortunate youth, though stunned by the fall, in-
stinctively caught hold of a part of the puinp-u k,
and had the presence of mind to support himself
there until assistance was procured. A rope having
been thrown down, he tied it round his body; but
the noose giving way, lie maintained his grasp
with both hands until he was drawn up and extri-
cated from his perilous situation. It is remarkable,
that though the welt is more than sixteen yards
deep from tee month to the surface of the water,
the boy received no very material personal injury ;
but having remained full half an hour in his lion id
sitlncrrailemis prison, he comp!iiiiied flinch of
shivering 1:411(111eSS, hid), however, produced uo ill
edict.