The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-12-07 00:00:00

PNI LAts stonibL

There Las been lately a good deal of wet weather With
WO winds in Comberlsod. On Monday sennlght.the river
F.den, nt Carlisle, was swollen to • height searerly ever
exceeded. On the same day the London mail was detained
by • hurriesne on Mainmoie, on that it dud not •niev. at
Carlisle till after Pt u'eloork. It only rut nin•termrrosller
in six boors with the greatest exertion! The imitinlOns
in the heighhotorhnod of Appleby, Penrith, end Keadltir,
bete been all mach swollen.—So vierle•t were the gusts of
Mud on Saturday week, at Whitehaven, that an empty
Chaise, standing in Lowther-street. in front of the Neir'As-
t. newshly Room, was Meetly driven by one of thew. 'reverel
yards along that street, melon Kiog.stree., and was finally
stopped la its progress by coming in contract with a eh,bp.
Early on Saturday morning last, Newcastle sod tbe
oetgh-
bonrhood were visited by a tremendous gale front the 'west •
sward, A blast at onee so powerful and eon:ionisig so' Writ,
boy not been known here for many years. Greater Oen' of
two new homes in New Bridge.mreet, in that torn was blitwn.
to the ground by it. A stack of enmities NB on the roof of
a house in Johnson's ehare, on the New road, and by' the
force of their fall removed a beam from its situation, .
which struck the head of a poor woman named &oleo,•
upwards of SO years of age, who lived In the garret, tied
killed her instantly, Her grandson, a boy about nine yeari
of age, who tfas In the same bed, escaped unhurt. 30h
was the trree of the gale in the neighbourhood of All-
Seints' Church that small pebbles were blown through
some of the panes in the windows exactly as if they had
been shot. In the garden of Hugh Harrison, E4q. on the
Lester, several yards of wall with rails on the top were
Mown over. We understand that the Illethodi•t cha-
pel at Kenton, which is now used as a school, bad the
roof blown off, sod two of the windows blown in.—
Iw of the front of a bonne came into
the street with great violence. A stark of chionnies fell
sisal broke through the roof of Mrs. Ludlow's house, in the
Back-Woe, and lodged in the garret, which was fortunately
Warded, or the Misses Ludlow, who slept in the room
, broeith, would probably have b.en killed. A window in
She. Price's g'asa mat ufactory, fronting the river, was
, blown in wholesale, arid forced to the further tad of ibe
apartment. By the fury of the wind many mills In the
neighbourhood broke from their brakes, and several wands,
sails, dm. have been destroyed, or more or lees damaged. The
top and two of the wands of &Adult mill were blown off.
We bear that a new mill at Nottballerton was !Jima down.

DRHADRJL Acczogsr.

HASTINGS, DICZNINIR 4.

This morning, shout eight o'clock, • boat from his Ma.
jetty's cutter /nrfirstry, tender to his Majesty's ship Neretw,
was pulling on shore at t►is place, with a reinforcement of
men intended to strengthen t►e Coast Blockade parties to
our neighboterhood, when, at the distance of about a quarter
of a mile from the beach, the boat was shack by a •ea and
instantly sunk. Melancholy to relate, of thirteen persons
which the boat contained, on,y four were saved, one of übom
sea recovered by the meant. used us such occasions by the
Humane Society. One only of the other •ire men was
washed on shore, but all mesas employed to restore anima..
lion foiled. The other eight bodies have not yet been picked
up. It is some small consolation to r. tied, that this dread-
ful occurrence was entirely the effect of au occident, as an.
foresee. as it M lamentable; and that so blame can he at-
tached to the Commander of the cutter, who, as Master of his
Majesty's ship Severn, bas long been distinguished, so less by
the humanity and mild deportment of him manners, than by
his abilities as an officer and a thorougb-bred seaman. It
would be unpardonable neglect, should we refrain from
noticing the strung interest exhibited by Mr. Macqueen, M.P.
and • Gentleman belougiag to the Treasury Department,
visitors of this town, who exerted themselves fur t►e recovery
of the pour fellow., is a manner which will ever red. ct the
highest credit upon them as Christians mad Gentlemer.

DREADFUL FIRE.

IXTRAORDIN•ILY EFFECTS- OF 111:0HTTilliii

WOMAN AND ONB MAN DUD.
Oe Saturday morsiing, about six o'clock, a Are broke obt
at the Queen • Hi all public-houre, at Bromplon, send in less
than as hour ands half the whole was levelled to the ground.
Su rapid was the course of the d INR Okapi, that every
article of fordisuie, linen, Ate. was destroyed, and the 'si-
mian barley escaped with t►eir lives. Alin. Hodgkin
and a female I t were wiat difficulty taken out from
an upper win.dtw ; and Ir. Kipping, broker, of Allseelsioue
(who was sleeping in the house), made bls way through Mt
Are, by which he was severely scorelse:d Iw the face, bauda,
■nd other parts of his body. Two other hedgers also escaped
with great difficulty, one Of them being much burued IA at.
tempting to save snipe of bile clothes, for which purpose he
had impudently re.eutered the house. The women were
▪ to save a /Angle article of dress, except the might clothe's
The ailjoioing house was much injured, and had sot the
officers and privates in the barrack*, logethe r with that
duck-yard establislisneut, exerted themselves lu the malt
prompt and laudable manner, the whole street Would, is
all probability, have been damned. The louse and fut.
Dilure were insured; and although no•liyes were lost' its
the house, yet the effects which fulldwed are of a Me-
4eificholy nature. One woman, a near reiehbour, was so
■farmed, that she fell its a At, snit shortly expired. A pour
man also, who resided near ski spot, sad who bad beets
wooed. was so much agitated by Tear that be expired tie
next day. Au chiefly woman oho kept a small school, and
a young wousati, a cripple, both residing near, were so
dreadfully alarmed by the teerile appearance of the flamor,
as well as from apprebersion of out being able to make
their escape, that they fell.victecas to their fears, sad expired
the next day, literally from fright. Another woman also
now lies in a most &ogee-ova state of shun. frum the same

Jc;igrosal.)

The batik notes notes to the amount of 5,000!.
that were lost, and fur which • considerable rrw•rti
has been offered, arrived safe in town tin Weilnes-
day morning, haviirg ttreis lent to Dublin tuatead
of Du►ham.

A black man, by the name of CREIGHTON, who
has accumulated considerahA woiwrty as a barber
in Charleston, Souill Carolina, -tailed from that
10 ton the 17th instant in his own schooner, the
Cutypso, for Sierra Leone, where he and his family
and several colter free,persuns of colour have gone
for the purpose of settling and spending the re-
mainder of their days. CREIGHTON was the owner
of several slaves, to all of whom he off red the
• choice either to uccompary him in his expedition,
and have their fierthou, or to be sold and rrinaiti iu
this country ; yet only one could be prevailed upon
to proved with him.—(Aeso York Paper.)
ORIGIN OF THE IRISH LINEN MANUFACTORY.
—When WENTWORTH, Earl of Strafford, taw;
Lord Lieutenant iir Ireland, lie, at Jos. own ex-
pense. Imported and sowed a quantity of superior
Hax-seed, and the crop succeeding lo I rn expecta-
tion, he next year expended one thousand pounds
for the same purpose; erected looms, procured work.
men from France mud Flanders. arid at length was
enabled to ship for Spain, at his own risk, the titst
investment of liner, ever exported f
Esultiog in the success of this favourite scheme, he
fureteld„that it would prime the greatest means . f
enrichment which Ireland had ever enjoyed ; and Ins
sagacity is amply attested by the industry and
1 wealth which the linen manulactory continues to
I diffuse over that portion of the empire.—(4 41/oc-
' diaratid, M.—Stretford', Letters, I. 93. 473.
St. 19. 109 )

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AMERICA.
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(Fres 's Tas Ormisareisl Advert Isar.")

Maw Roan, OCTOBRIL 16.
From what took place daring the last itemise of the Le-
gislature, is cuss oesee of a petition from the etstoty of
Weetehester, is Mates h those valuable institution, the I
Agricultural Societies, we were somewhat appeebeseilat that
the seal of some would aet be as greet as hatrelasee. Ist
we we happy to Sad heat the several Repeals which we
have read, that the eelehrolose this year have equalled, if
Ina eareeded, those of any formes. eat. We Sad emend
Plena in this sad other Sterns exclusively devoted to the
*eremites*, interest; sod almost every paper we epee of
tkia, and from the seighbiesring States, contaise amounts of
fairs, ratite chews, pleoghisig mistakes, agricultural essays,
Wad often interesting steams of the improvements making
ip the art of husbandvy. Our fanners are the hose asd
eiaew of the cepoutry, sad every well-wisher to the future
piimperity of the sation, will rejoice at the success
white' has hitherto marked the progress of our agrimaturall,
institutions.
We make the pretesting remarks u an entombs= to a
settee of several agaesiteeal festivals which have ramesitly
tile. place in tMs and the oeighboorime States.
A Mead who is now is the welders district of this State
has gives es some soonest of the celebratios of the Oneida
Agrirultural Society, which teak place at Widiesboooselt, os •
the 9th inrtant. He obaerres, .4 That he was eeeee more
grail& dat nay relithitios. The tattle, horses, Ike. were of '
superior order, and the articles of domestic fabric were of
eseellent grislier. Theism's preseism(rwmtly dollars) for
(towline roanalseleres, was fee the best imitation Lei/kern
has. S. viral derma hits wore presented, but the successful
candidate far the highest premium was Miss Hopkies,
thAsghter of Demur Reebiee, a chow It was considereq
to good judges to be a goer texture than the justly-cele-
brated has. made at Wethersfield sad Hartford. Miss Mop.
klieg hen f uvoured me with" sample, which I taelose to you,
sad which you eaa show to say of your friends. Miss LA
R9y, a very harvesting mom miss, urinal six years, wine,
tat braided by herself, of which • very ha
tiro was Made in the Report of the Committee, .
lag • premium to be awarded le her, which wooden,. The
ereimens of cloth, carpeting, hearth raga, linen, damask
table ditto, shirting, dassela, Ale. evioced• great improve.
merit. The preiaiiims were somerous, and given to many
p• r.on., "hoer games will be ..ripened in the Society's Re-
purl; lint I manes forgo the pleasure of meatiuniog old
instant.. Several par of wanted stacking, maatifsclueed
the family of Simnel Royce, Eaq. of Clinton, obtained
the highest pet-minim kw that article. They were equal In
tie burst inaportid tiockings.
" lit the aftersnam, an eloquent address was delivered by.
11 • It. Sown, El. The essiseourse of persons was so great
thtt no building would eontaie the trachea, sod it was
deteroneed that the speskers *Wald address them from a
weed ?reeled on the grees. Here the orator bad before.
bum sem- thusessods, who bat thirty years ago were Jubb.
toistet. of other states, or their demeadaats. The spit ell
buck he then stood, and the vast reentry 'rotted him, was
si that period little better than ore vast wilderness. •
lierrierase who steed next lo me, observed, that sweaty.
eight yews eau he came into Fort Schuyler (sow the delight.
Rol town of Utica), sad oily use small but was them erected;
a. d Whiterborough was bat • little before it.
" It would afford ma pleasure to have bees able to have
prat a ropy of the address, but as a modem wee offered hp
T. Ladd, Esg. that a nary should be requested fur Pub'
beeline, you may soon expect to see it is pita. 1 *OM
41.. iojaiatice to the speaker should I attempt a she.* les
own langinge --He took an iatereating review of the mold
growth of this western country, sad compared it, sod the
isdoetry sad enterprise of its citizens, with that oectims
of ear ornatry, where the labour was performed by those
oho land been tors from their native shores cod from every
lie that was valuable to them. Alluding to tbe,,elesotestie
urtieles before him, he observed, that there was an Goidelic',
true ilidePelielenee ; sad, although be paid a very just
tribute to the rommercial esteeprise of out citizens, yet he
said it was the defy of every fanner to prostate the man*.
facture, in Ma ern family. of such articles as they steed is
fermi of. Mr. Steers winced the peat improvement is the
meuefeetere sad hiraceing of lines, and recommended
greater &arenas to the ealuivation of Sot. He observed
that it war the staple senile of astaufactore ia !reload, and
that all the Ras was spats its priests families, cod sent by
them to the miumaracimrtr • ' and l,' said the speaker,
• America equal Irelmad ?—fiet the toasty of Oneida set the
examark.'
I Corot to mention, that among Ilse dontretie articles,
wet, some very good black tea puts, made at Rome, cause-
d. red twist to these lasportrd.
" Yerierday worsting 9th) I was at Herkiimr. It
or is the day of the celebrators is that carat,. An imitation
Leghorn was shwa are. which had been made by Mies Mask,
of Warren, in that email. It was a beautiful Ipecimea,
hot was nut espial to the use ealtibited by Mies Hupkius at
ht bittehowegh."
FAIR AT ALBANY.

On Tomalley last the Albany Coast; A (firsthand Society
Iwlll their I caul, show mid fide at Albany. Thirteen
teams were engaged is the ploosioc match. A greet variety
of Mame inaosifseisires sod implements of lisataralry were
'obit's led it the L' 'caster bebsel room. Arses`` the latter
sire Waif sickles. otansfairtured by Mr. Juba I Gadftry, of
t Let city, ohi. It mere prootroaced by competent jadges vastly
si.perior to se! imported, sad folly equal to those of P. at.
s).• ' aria marufac, ore. Au address vas delivered by Jesse
Lel, £,q. olsieb Is spates of is very &Refill terms.

OTSEGO COUNTY.
Tie lush astriversaty eahtbittee of the Otsego Coast,
Apimateral Society eras heed at Cooper'lowa am the Id sad
id imeloot. A. address was delivered bi Peaks! Frainhot,
Presideet of else Beckly. The sleek sad ether articles
eilsoblled are tie kl to have bete lee.

Coristitee •peek of the &sisals es being de-
cidedly preferable to abase exhibited at soy forgoer period
since tie argasisatior uftbe bariety.
Domestic lairvjadieres.—ne esa initiation of the articles
p~e►ert.A, asp the Comiesitsee, has bees • source of the
Liebest gratigraties. Analog these were sae superior gross
hosset I, some Sue sp►cioea' of aspic sugar, aid • variety
ai woolk• cloths, pressed cloths, carpeting, table limes, wad
sbirliog.

JEFFERSON COUNTY.
Tlis fourth anciversary of the Society i■ this county has
taheo place. llor colictitto of people was greeter thee at
any of the former ceishirstimm, sad so increased spirit and
interest ass nsalfgeted. The bat day was devoted to the
eamairalwo of animals sad sisintestic manufacieres, the et-.
rued to the phiegbing mateb, public exercises, awarding a
peinseine, politic dimmer. awl " tits day clamed with a *plea.
did agricultural boll, at which upwards of owe hundred
ladies, the best hope of Jeff:rms, graced the Row." The
magnum of farmers, with their hats graced wit► ►eads of
wheat, were aecompesied by a lee baud of mosaic aod sp•
proptiale lap to the church, when the usual CfrelliONiell
were observed, sad los original agricultural odes ems' by
tbs dews*.