The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-10-11 00:00:00

NE-1, SOUTH !VALES.

We hare received, via Bombay, a set of The
Sydrey tiazette. which contains a most distressing
account of a flood at Haskvsbury, which laid the
a hole of that extensive and flourishing settlement
unitvr water, and swept away, with indiscrimi-
nating fury, itillabitantp, ciliate, grail:, anti pro-
duce of every description. The following is no
exaggerated stuteinent of the dreadful visita-
tion :

FLOOD AT IIAWKESBV'RY:•
Accounts were on Tuesday lust recereasil in town
of the Ilawkesbury settlement being again flooded ;
and in the course of the following day those ac-
counts were unhappily confirmed. A Mr. Bull, of
Sydney, who was at the house of Mr. John Items,
down the river, at the commencement of the flood,
informs us little ur no rain fell in that quarter until
Saturday evening, the 29th ult. when a heavy rain
set in, which cuntiuued without interinissiou until
Monday morning. That a rise in the water was
perceived between ten and eleven on Sunday night,
amid continued for some hours to nee gradually,
but attewards with an astosiishing rapidity,
the whole of the surrounding farms were laid under
water. About noon on Tuesday it was at the high-
est, and in the course of the afternoon abated five
or six feet : but iu crmsequenee of the deluges of
rain that fell in the evening and night of Tuesday,
the water rose again several feet. On Wednesday
it began again to fall ; by the noon of Thursday
had decreased ten feet from its greatest height.
Among the principal sufferers that we have heard
of down the river, is Mr. Beim; lie having lost up-
wards of 300 head of swine, 100 sheep. about 1000
bushels of wheat threshed or in stack, and a stack
of barley, besides a valpable property contained in
his dwelling house and barn, among which were
two chests of tea and u ton of sugar, but a few days
prior received from Sydney.
Front the Green Hills, the following report, con-
tained in a private letter, dated on Tuesday night,
eleven o'clock, was received in town on Thursday :
With regret I inform you of the dreadful
scene that at the present moment chills me WO
excessive horror. The whole of this extensive set-
tlement is one uninterrupted sheet of water. The
lower range of houses upon the Green Hills is im-
mersed, and the river has formed a junction with
South Creek, across the bills, through Rickerby's
grounds upon the river side, and those of the Rev.
Mr. Marsden on the Creek. Yesterday and last
night was a most dreadfu►. scene ! The danger
encroached with a rapidity never before witnessed ;
and the cries of the numerous families who were
more imminently exposed, were rendered still more
agonizing by the impractiealnlity of affording them
immediate relief. In one alarming instance,
young man, settler, his wife,. and three children,
were sealed ow a ladder lain across the fork of a
tree, in which situation they contrived to sustain an
equilibrium for nearly three hours, the man, a great
part of the time, clinging by his hands at the end of
the ladder; but at last yielding to fatiglie, be foisui.k
his hold, will all were in consequence precipitated
into the deluge. The woman and children were
picked ups but the fate of the unfortunate Mall is
doubtful.—A settler at Cornwallis passed the hills
this rooming on the tdp of a smell wheat black ;
his fate is unknown; but it is much hoped he may
have been preserved by some of the boats employed
in this humane work. In souther and truly Inc.
lancholy in►tance, eight person.; are supposed to
have perished in one spot. The names of those
supposed unfortunates have beet mentioned ; but
from this I must refrain, hoping the account may,
be erroneous, or at least exaggerated ; at present
all is uncertainty and dread, all terror and asto-
nishment ! Some lives are lost ; many have been
sieved by the exertions of the more enterprising, di-
rected by our Magistrates, who by their example
encouraged the toil of rescuing whole families from
the very verge of fate. And I canunt omit to men-
tion the active and mdefutigable exertions of Messrs.
Thompson awl Biggers., to whom, under the di-
rection of Divine Providence, many are indebted
for their lives. Their fatigues were equsl to their
dangers, which were increased by the extreme
darkness of the night ; during which their boats
were repeatedly stove, mid it was with difficulty
they could with their crews preserve their lines.—
Many others, who volunteered their exertions, are
also entitled to every praise. At the order of Mr.
Bell, the church was appropriated to the reception
of the sufferers brought to the hills, and such as
were destitute were victualled from the store, and
every measure that humanity could devise was
adopted to alleviate as much as possible the misery
of their condition.

" It is con .idered that the perpendicular rise 'or
the river could not be much less than sti feet from the
general level, and to have exceeded that of March
181)1i, bt• six or eight feet of perpendicular height ;
and unfortunately hamwtis at a lime of the year
which totally destroys ttie prospects of the settler,
and the dependence (Atha colony upon this s•ttle-
meut for the next year, as the sow,. wheat will in
all probability perish in the ground in most of the
lower pituations." •

At the firm of Mr. S. Terry, sine persons, six.
Cooley, of Toongabbee; Mumey, of flavrkesbury ;
Hodges, servant to a Gentleman of Sydney; Ma.
honied, an A.iiitie, his wife and two children. and
two blat k tutu—had endeavoured to secure them-
selves on the top of the barn, which fell in about
five on Monday evening; but as there was uo other
resource left, they continued upon the roof for
about two hours after, when the wife of Mahomed
fell through the thatch with one of her children in
her arms, mud was no more seen. Cooley (endea-
vouring to save the other child, which clung to
Mahomed the father) slipped off with the inlaid,
and in like manner disappeared; as did Mousey
also. Mohamed and the two black men saved
themselves in trees ; and Bodges, swimming shout
to the dark, at length got into the stream, by which
he was carried between live acrd six miles before any
impediment opposed his rapid course; when hap-
pily he found safety among the branches of a tree;
from whence he was at lenuth taken by a boat, and
conveyed to a !place of safety.

The accottris Nina Richmond Hill are of the
fame diAreviiing tendency ; but from Portland Ilead
norommusiirationlias yet been received.

The loss of stock he; been eery , ni well
a 4 grain ; no po►sible coked% can be formed et
prevent.

As soon as the melancholy intelligence was re-

ceived, his Honour Lieut.-Governor Foveaux left
town, accompanied by J. Finucane, Esq. Secretary
to hia Honour the Litut.-Governor, with intention
to proceed to Ilawkesbury direct ; but cods obliged
to return, as the roads were impassable.
The banks of Georges river were unfortunately
inundated 9t the same time : and a great quantity
of stock and other property lust, lu Nlujor John-
stoles mock-) ard, 490 sltreo were drowned ; Mr.
lo,t Jou, and several houses were left io
ruins.

DUBLIN. OtT. 5.

REIPLIL OF TIIN UNION.

.1 TO TOO MOOT ROL MINOT ORATTAT, OWIR 11, TNT
OINTATITES OF THE CITY OF OVIILIO II POO-

LI
We address you, Sir, In the name of ynnr Constituents,
the Frames soil Freeholders of the City of Dublin, con-
vened at the Royal Exchange, on the lath September lust.
fur the porpoise of humbly submitting to His Mayesty, and to
Parliament, Petitions for Are Repeal of the Union.
" These Petitions extlibit a feeble outline of the tuitions
comequences of that tucasuretilllirtilltlll'ell Whirl% you
foresaw. with the prophetic wisdom of a Statesman, and
which you characterized with that surpassing energy of elo-
quence, and that 'iodinated ardour of patriotism, which
have distinguished your political career, from the period at
which you gave a fore Constitution to Ireland, to the un-
happy time when that Constitution sunk lancuth the united
efforts of despotism and fraud.
" Your Coustituents, Ste, implicitly confiding iii that inte-
grity which has never been questioned, ill that spirit w holt
bits w frequently been primed, and in that patriotism which
has identified year same with thrit of your country, doubt
out that you will exert, iu het behalf, those transtendaut
talents by which you ohtainol su much fur her liherty, and
to which, Mika by the Urpresentatiun and the People of
Ireland, she still looks for the re-estublislimeiit of her tights.
" By the destruetion of these rights, by the atiaibilation
of her Parliament, she has been reduced to the iitliicitims of
oppression and poverty. Dispossessed of low local Leftists-
tale, deprived of her icsident Nobles and Geutry, she does
not yet, bout ct r, flu I debility ; our will she, while she has
511(11 an advocate as !leery Granite, yield to the suggestions
of despair. Your Cunstitiumis, Sir, fiel, in common with
the Irish People, that the melancholy effects of the Union
arc wont damning and dangerous, 1114 only .to the 'inertial
safety of Deltoid, but to the stietigth and imerests of the
Empire, servieg, as they do, to encourage the COMIIIOII ene-
my 4 his design of subverting the Constitution, and of sub-
jugating the people, of these Islands.
" To a repeal, then, of that fatal measure, I hey.look foeo
relief from their present sufferings, and for It protection from
those more dreadfutevila by which they are menaced. Your
Constituents, therefore, Sir, feel justified in the hope, that
when their Petition is considered by their most graciona
Sovereign, ilia Majesty's parental affection will induce bins
to attend to their prayers. They also feel confident that
whoa the Representatives of Great Britain hare the true
cause of Irish grievances fairly and fully stated to them, they
will sympathise with their fellow-subjects, and feel this in-
controvertible truth—that, by whatever right the people of
Englawd enjoy a free and local Legislature, by the same right
the people of Ireland are jamifiable in claiming a regenera-
t iou of their eat ire Parliaineut, under the authority of which
alone they ran feel themselves safe, happy, or free. Your
Constituents are persuaded, that such a reestablishment of
a National Constitution is the only means by which Com-
merce eats be revived, or that the cheerful contributions of
the people, in the payment of taste for Ilse support of the
honour and safety of the Empire, can be permanently se-
emed... Signed by order, " Eft ED. W. ,CON WA Y,
The Committee having waited !oil Mr. Grattan,
according to appointrnedt;lon Thursday the 4th
inst., with the foregoing Addrew,. that Gentleman
was pleased to Kite the following answer :

TO THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED ST THE
GATE SEI.TINO Of THE IRRIIIIRE /IMO 1Att1IOLO•
CRS OP Till CITY OF DE REIN, SIM.
GENTLEMCV
" • - • • •

" I have the honour to receive an Address presented be
your Commitsi e, and expressive of their wishes that I should
present certain Petitions, and sappurt the Repeal of au Act,
intitukd "The Act of Dawn;" sad your Committee adds,
that it speaks with the authority of soy Coustitucuts, the
'remota and Freeholders of the City if Dublin.
44 I beg to issue your Committee, nod, through them,
my much Beloved and snach.respeeted Constantine, that I
shall accede to their proposition ; I shall present their Pe-
titions, sod shall support the Repeal of the Act of Uition
with iidecitled attachment to our counc.tion with Great Bri-
tain, and to that harmony between the twocountries, without
which the conuection cannot last. Ido sot impair either, as
I apprehend, when I assure you that I shall 'apron the Ke.
peal of the Art of Union. You will please to observe that
a proposition of that sort in Parliausrat, to be either prudent
or possible, must wait until it shall be called for and backed
by. the notion. When piopused, I shall Ilea, as at all times
I hope I shall, prove myself au traiman, and that Itisiouan
whose first anti hat partici* was his native country.

" As to the personal approbation with whieir you have
bosomed me, it is, I mast say, year kirwhicss wrr►ates my
pretentious; bat I have our pretention which neither age, our
time, nor distance, can educe—au attachment to Irelaud, un-
altered and unalterable —I bare the honour to be, with the
greatest esteem, your very Mumble servaid,
" Dublin, Oct. 4, is to." " HENRY GRAI TAN
TO 'HAW, TM. OY► Ur TUT IierIICSTNTATITTS
TUT CITY Ur DIJIILIN IN 1.1.111.11111 NT.,

" St o.—We address you in the name of your Constituents,
the Freemen and Freeholders of the City of Dahlia, et/evened
at the Royal Exchasge, the purpose of submittiug to His
Moijesty,siol to Parliament. Petitions praying a Repeal of
the Legislative Union Intween Great Brit:ins and Ireland.
" In submitting these Petitions, we miler their must fa
'outage reception sad warmest support at your hands; front
your candour and integrity us our Representatete, from
the reelect you hare ever manifested for onr *ranunculi', from
your past exertions iu 1114wobil to the destructive. measure
of Cajon, and from the sanctiuu your presence has already
conferred on the proceedings fur procerigg its Eepeal.
" To those sentiments of respect and confidence, and in
• those hopes of success from your manly and honest exer-
tions, •we can assure you Shut your Constitursats join in
• heartfelt uninsituity. Signed by order,
" FREDERICK W. CONWAY, Sec."

The Committee having waited epon Mr. Shaw
with the foregoing Address, he was pleased to give
the following answer:—
" Gr% ?LI MEN feel numb obliged for your kind and
fluttering Address—it is the greatest possible gratification to
me, that my public conduct shoold have met the wishes of so
large and respectable a body of ray 61km-citizens as the
Freemen sod Freeholders in Aggregate Meeting duly am
'onside& Since I ►ave hod the boomer of being one of poor
Representatives, I have always considered it my duty to
attend any Meeting of my Constitutors, legally coommed,
fur the purpose of hearing their sentinseots ; and I thought
myself particularly called on to do so on the late occa-
sion, when a question of so much importance fur the wel-
fare of the Nation was to be agitated. Upon the subject
of the Vaion, my sentiments have been already most us-
equivocally avowed. Throe seatiments mutant unc hanged.
It is with much Fatefiction I contemplate t►e part I took,
when that measure was diatonic.] in the Irish Pa►lia-
nnent ; and it cannot b■t afford tne additional pleasure to
dna, that toy rundnet upon that premien is at this day
recollected by you with approbation. With them Unfree-
Dims upon my mind, yes will, I trust, readily believe me,
when I assure you that I shall feel mom sincerity happy
in eiceperating in all such messiness as may seem best
cakalated to (ocean) the object of your Petitions, consist-
evilly with what the int of Dublin, the general prospe-
rityuf Ireland, and the power and stability of the Empire, may
demnud —I have the loonier to he, Gentlemes, year most
otiedient and faithful humble tenant,
`• Merriam quasi." " ROBF.RT SHAW."
By the &letter, ‘Vordens, and Brethren of the
Corporation of %Vrsvers. ter (:u.ld of the Blessed

Nrirgin Whey, thility, et their Cti.ld-1;,41 abled, oil Monday the let of October, I sio, 6:—
public (barter Day ; .tid
ItottEitt ATKINSON, Master, in the (lair ;
The followitik Resoltittotis were propond, and
unanimously agreed fo :-
00 Resolved.-That we feel equally impressed with the rest
of our Fellow-Oil/cu., as to the mei ashy of • Etvp. a „j
the Legislative Uiliou between this Country and Groat
Britain.
00 Resolved—That we deprecates .4 flinch as any bads men, all party business at this crisis, or the bringing russ,rs
any measure that would impede or distract the Goveronwat;
but that when the Factories of our Manufasturers are
into ruin, tow Mnuurscturrts Locuutiue iosolvent, sud,„u!
industrious Poo, iu the streets, it has becvnie nu.
Iterative on us to declare, that nalajim can prevent our total
ruin but the Repeal of Ibis de.truetive useasum.
" Resolved-.. That our Repirseistatises in Partiamtat arc
!Meaty instructed to support the Repeal of the Act of Cows,
and that we will not cute for or support nay Candidate at
any future Election, who dues not (meet himself to 'Anus
this Great National Object.
Resolved—That our Representatives in the C001113(4
Council are required by us to aisppart, ill the Corporation sf
this City, every Constitutional Measure that shall be branm.
forward to obtain the Repeal of the Act of Unto, ; ass
oat the issuing Electrum, in Itiovranher, we will sot vets L,
env Member to be a Common Councilman, who dam nut
Witte himself to that effect.
. .

" oar warmest flanks be, and ate hf.„.
by returned to our late lewdly High Sheriff, Sir JUNI kid,
dell, hut. fur his prompt and ready acquiescence in toners.
fug an Aggregate Sleeting of the Freemen and Freeholders
of ibis Cut), to take into consideratioa the effect., id n,e
Union ; and fur his active and indefatigable esti iiolll doting
his Sheritfalty, and that the Freedom ot out Corponti,„.be
presented to him, in the must respectful usatieer, is • Sittie
Sbuttle.--Signed bs (hail.
GILU RIM IRWIN, Clerk ortht