The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-02-18 00:00:00

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• Shay he.... sit Grimsby hi" 9•81•11"41 flerfki isanige
from Ike treimesdeems worm wes Soloed*, WOW, the Id amt.
led two twigs nod • sielvmmer parted from their anchors in
the Roads, mid wer• wrecked es• the Trinity Sand. The
crews of the brigs look Si their heel% mid were detention the
Yorkshire coast, but tie bee* ea heard the selsomserwlong
to the rigging until the moluing, wheat they were released by
a pilot bust. We are happy to say so Ryes were lost. The
damage done by the gale mod Illood of she 2d inst. is Cumber-
land and Westourelind, has here tremendous. The details
published by the Carlisle papers occupy several column. The
Eden was coosiderahly higher than (Nein the flood of 1771,
the year in which the eruption of 'the Solway Mom look
place. Numbers of sheep, pigs, ice. were drowned, sod Area*.
lilies of trees torts up by the roots. Al Harker Lodge, wear
Carlisle, an iron trenching pkwigh, of great weight, was
driven by the mere force of the wind lye or six yards, mid
only prevented from going farther by • wall. At Arniatto-
Waite, the property of R. S. Milburne, E•q. of Armaih-
Waite Castle, sustained considerably injury. The water.
mark left in the kitchen is about Dios feet. The water
i• the stables was between six and seven feet deep, and the
horses were got out with great difficulty. Two fat swine
(rather titan he compelled to retire to • plsee of safety)
stubbornly rau into the stream, and wonderful to say, were
.it drowned; one landed a little below on the usher side,
and the other swam down the rough torrent at least two
miles, sod got ashore at Holm tVraugle, neither of them the
worse far the adventure ! One of the aerosols was much con-
eerneil for the fate of some dogs auJ • monkey, which be
knew were in the Castle and bail no means of getting out.
The monkey, it afterwards appeared, had shewn sooderful
sagacity and agility; pour pug was found perched upon the
upper edge of • flitch of !won which hung to the ceiling,
and four inches of which bad beets tinder the' water! there
wese no other means of safety whatever. A large Newfound-
lind dug continued to balance himself, half over head, on •
large table, which had swain about with him; but the poor
eulley (perhaps the must useful of the Shier), tN lag quiteuut
of his element, was drowsed. Hr. George Boorman, of Cue.
tie Shields, was under the outstay of taking his swine,
calves, sheep, .1:c. up stair*. •,
The following stone bridges have been utterly destroyed :
EastSeld-wath Bridge,uear Kirkby Stephen; Church Brought
Bridge; Huff Bridge, Eden Bridge, item Templesuwerhy ;
end Chilburn Bridge. Imandatious also took place at Yarns,
Bormighhridge, Leeds, Glasgow, he. 1n liensleydsle,
Swaledale, and Teesdale, much damage was door. The
Swale rose to 10 imaging height, carrying stacks of corn mid
hay, tomatoes sod sheep, down with it. At Catterick Bridge,
a 'liable was carried away just as they bad got Jonathan, the
race horse, out. From Pier bridge to Croft, banking. sod
trees were forced down. The battlement of Croft Bridge
has sustained mach damage. At Yertu, by the overflowtog
of the Tees, the water was seme feet deep is the main street.
No lives, however, were lust there, and but little damage
sustained in piuperly.

KESWICK, FEBRUARY 3.
The rain came on here ou Friday evening with a strong
wind, and coutiuned without ietermissiou through that
night and the whole of Saturday. The river Greta has not
(vets so high in any per,on's memory, and has June con.
sidersble damage. The Rev. Mr. Brown, of Bsseenthweite,
returning from Keswick noseket after dark, was washed off
the road uesr the Turnpike gate, and unfortomiely
drowned. Some of his neighbours were in company, bet
not near enough at the moment to perceive the accident till
bin horse was discovered without Its rider. The road and
adjacent grusuda were au mails flooded, that sea•eh at that
time nes impracticable: his body was found next morning,
on the subsiding of the water, in a field at some distance
• person from Wasdale, returning from Ormathersite Hume
towards Keswick, was, with him horse, driven off the road,
mar Monk Nall ; but some women hearing him call, pro.
cured assistance, and he was rescued from his perilous situ.