The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-15 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OP Tit?: BRITISH PRESS.

a,--Und,r the head of Police Reports, in your Parer of Fri.
day test. ihe leth instant. the particulars are Kowa of an ineesti.
ratio!' which took place before the Lord Mayor, relative to 'my
pose oom of a hdl of • xeliany which Mr. bent. of 76. Fleet.street.
silted to have lost. Au the ultaervitions ulnae by the Lord Jlayur
acre eslculuted to send forth a wrong impression ui the fact as re.
prdrd niywil, 1 beg you will S.) inc the justice to insert the fol-
losing letter. 1 ant, Slr, your t hcillent servant,
Lo..thol. Dee. 14, 11124. J. A. RICHARDSON.

("PT.
<ls.—From the investigai .... ) which took place before the Lord
Mayor, at the ilun.iau II Jure on l'himulay. the 9th instant, rela-
tive tea hill or exchatow winch you informed me was in rout pos.
session. and which had been list by tiw on die 16th of November
lavt,.---1 have only to repeat, that I think, notwithstanding the in-
qiiirin you owl': respecting the responsibility of the acceptor, that
pa aced c.cautiouslr in receiving the said bill, but having volun.
telly contented to resign all further claim to it, and thereby sub.
niitting to the loss of your property given for it. I beg leave to de-
ear: myrelf perry:Mr satisfied with your honourable conduct.
I ails, Sir. your obedient servant,
757., Fleet-street, Dee. 13, 11321. lttigned) W. DENT.
Mr. .1. A. Itichardson.

Fat N/ Cu NI A I I.S.—Vesterday morning notice was posted
at the General Post Otike. that from Monday, January 3,
li all French Mails will in foture be sent to trance, on
Monday, Tu:sday, Wednesday, and Thursday. instead
of Toesday. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. All
the French Mails for Great Milan.. will be due un Mon-
day, Tuesday. Thursday, and Friday.
Tits t molar or Force►..—A curious trial occupies
at the present moment the attention of the Parisian public.
The notorious Fondle died some time ago in exile, as a
Regicide. A book has since appeared under the title of
Memoirs by him, which contains many interesting anec-
dotes of the Revolution. It was eagerly read in France;
the first edition was soon sold, and a secotThd was printing,
when the ions of Fouche instituted the presen t suit to have
the work suppressed. There has been one hearing of the
cause•, but wily the plaintitlV Counsel has yet argued. Ile
rests chiefly en the following dilemma:—Either the work
is genuine. or it is not : if it be genuine, the copyright be-
longs to the heirs of the author, who do not choose to pub-
lish it ; if it be not genuine, the publication ought to be
supprewd, as spurious and fraudulent. In point of fact,
however. he asserts that the work is nut genuine; but the
persons hest acquainted with the secret history of the Re-
volution do not pay much regard to this assertion : and as
to any injury to the character of Fouebe, how can it be in-
jvred. so long as the Monitrur exists, to chew, under hit
ou•s hand. rand a monster he was ?

We reset to learn, that serious apprehensions are enter-
tained for this safety of the Stornoway packet, which sailed
from Pool-ene for Stonioway about throe weeks ago, and
has not since beca heard of. Several passengers were on
hoard, among others a cit rgyman belonging to the Lewis.
It was conjectured that the heavy gale to which she was
exposed soon after leasing port, might have compelled her
to run northward, but it has since been eseertsined that
she had not put into any place of shelter on the coast.
Prom the circumstances of a V e haring been seen in
distress oif tlw point of Cdrigal, about the time the packet
diAipperred, there is t:ss much reason believe that she was
that unfortunate vessel, and has gone down at sea with all
on board.—( *dedon:an 211errnry. _

A letter of the Ytth ult. states, that the shipping in the
Mole lou sustained much lI.NA damage titan had at first
been apprehended, nor has the Imo on the river been such
as will materially affect the British merchants. The
lighters shown the river, Isulen with merchandise, arc safe,
As also were those in the town, which remained secure at
their moorituN. The holders of Baltic produce were at
present unwilling to make a price, it bring understood that
the entire stock of Indus, and much of the hemp in store,
are materially injured.
Tole a ATE Muanra NEAR KENDAI,—OIIE readers
will recollect that a shocking murder was penetrated at
MOlnthorp. in Westmorland, II few weeks ago. Sunday
evening Taunton, time flow-street Officer, who has been
engaged in investigating the business, passed throuo
MJnelosster. We understand that he had apprehended a
person named Hayes. a watchmaker, against whom some
auspicious circumstances appeared; but as no sufficient
evidence could be obtained to warrant his counnittnent, he
was discharged on Thunolay.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

INUNDATIONS IN 7'lt NORTH (F El7RoPt.

T. PETEIIgDIT 11;11. Ner.'2l.

R. cting the dreadful ini,fortune whie:t visited our
city on the 19th, the (. ,1,11 Go:rife dos 1101 yet en:itain
any partici* ant, and the egmserratewr Impartial only the
following article:--
" A dreadful miscortnne, such as has trot heei seen for
nearly half a century, has plunged this espital into ea:
:;:Latest consternation. Oa the 19111 of ti month, the
Siva swelleil by the influx of the water from the coil' of
Finland. which was driven tip by a violent wind, im-
petuously over its hanks, and the whole city was annotated
in a mmtomt. It was not till a quarter 1.,.5t two o'clock
that the water began to recede. atm .:bout the middle of the
night, the river suMid, ii to its twit:nary level. The pv.t
refuses to trace the details ef this dreadful event, and it.
frightful consequences, to which the inferior e!as.4. a of the
p, ill partiralar have been victims. The qua) s, a part
of the bridges, a great tut miter of pubic and privat
establishowlits, are th-stroyed or touch injured. The loss
of the comm. reinl comniuni'y is iticalculabl,.. It k b..-
possible to recount the instances of cottr:e,e and humanity
.hewn by a !treat number of lk rsons of all draws, under
these circumstances. Every street, and almost every
house, was a scene of the most affecting a 1:'-den:al. As
a witness of thime evems. and always ready to repair the
evils which the kw-Tillable deer' es of Provi..:-.IICV now and
then bri:eg on the people 1.1 his great e,.ipire, our august
Swereign has already anticipate 4 the hopes of the inhabi-
tants of this rspital, and efficacious measures have le en
ore,i7ribosl to their suflio His Majesty bas
teen pleased to assign the soot of a toilli.ot of rubles to
relio-'..e the most urgent wants of the wont.: ClNtirtll7
Belidell theta wt. lumen the following particulars

•• The imperial Palace of Catharine:MA with all its
late line improvements, Einilianouka, Kurujuous 141.50(1,
and all the cwintrv-houses on the great roast to Riga. to
the distance of twelve vends (right miles), have suffered
incredible damage. The number of pt rums who have
perished in this inunolatlon probably amounts to some
thousands. The number of animals that have been
drowned is beyond all conception. The last great inun-
dation wits in September, 1777, but this one was still
greater, the water having risen an arsiteen anal a quarter
higher. It is supposed that abort 390,000 ponds
(10,m00,P00 lba.) of Furst arc damaged, and the half en-
tirely melted and washed away. Nest to sugar, the loss of
twist, in particular. is very great ; and among the articles
lof Russian ptwluce, hemp, pot-ashes, and hemp-oil, have
sulferetl very mush. In consequence of these events a
great rise has tat.• n place in the prices of many goods.
chiefly sugars, white Havant:all has risen horn UT to 35,
and retitled from 3$ to AS."

A I 7,umnittee, of which Al. Million', Counsellor of State,
is Prtahlent, has been appointed to sup. rintend the distti-
bution of the above-mentioned million of rubles among the
aulFerets by the inundation.
Habitations hare been ausi7neil, fnr the present, in the
betel of the Alilitary Governor, for those who are destitute
of shelter.

thi the 19th there was a terrible storm from the S.W. at
Cretins'lt, which laid the whole island under water. The
merchant ships suffered great damage. Several lost
anchors, cahler, sails, &c., others are leaky, many sunk,
and othi rs are rendered unlit for service. The crews of
all, and the cargoes of most, were, however, saved.

IlAmaricn, Disc. &

It is our melancholy duty to state, from numerous pri-
vate and mercantile letter arrived to slay from St. Peters-
burgh, that the disaster which visited that great city on the
19th, far exceeds every idea, that was formed of it from
the first accounts. The waves of the Gulf of Finland,
forced by the hurricane into the Neva, overflowed the whole
city, lying nearly on one level, and its environs, in a mo-
ment, in such a manner that it may be said that the lower
storks of all the houses, &c. were quite fished ; it in many
caeca rose into the second story, and entirely overflowed
the low habitations and booths, of which, in many in-
stances, not a trace is to be seen: so that several villages
in the immediate vicinity—for instance, Einilisiienka—
are no more to be: found. It was stated (and here we may
justly say, the pen refuses its ofiice) that the corpses of 800
persons lied already been found.
The letters by the mail before Ids, expressed fears of a
general famine, from the destruction of such quantities of
provisions, especially of all the bread, and the ruin of the
ovens. The Exchange bad been titted up to receive 4,000
persons. Arming the Imperial establishments that have
suffered, all those at Cronstaelt are mentioned, which were
exposed to the first fury of the flood ; the damage done to
the imperial fleet is said to be immense; the imperial iron
manufactory, at Catharinenhof, eelsich was under water,
and where goo workmen perished, of eighteen barracks.
fifteen were washed away. &c. With respect to goods, it
is reckoned that two-thirds of all the sugars are spoiled, all
the potashes destroyed, and three-fourths of the hemp have
be: und• r water. The herring magazines, with 15,000
barrels of herrings, are washed away. It is scarcely ne-
ccuary to add, that under these circumstances, a most
alarming want of credit has mind, and the moat ruinous
consequences to trade were feared, as all the trades-
people have suffered severely, and many of them must
be. considered u ruined for a lot•.g time to einne.—llersee-
&tile Lies.

Private letters from St. Petcrsburgli giro even a more
disastrous picture of the inundation. One letter. dated the
st3d ult. states the loss of property to be beyond all calcu-
lation. Poor thousand dead bodies had been found, and
as many more were inissing. More than ten thousand fami-
lies were without shelter until the Exchange and the public
buildings were thrown open for their accommodation. The
Governor of St. Petersburg!' hail given up his house to the
poor sufferers. A short time previous to the dreadful in-
ululation, the city wag in dankness, so that it was
almost impossible to save anything. The French Ambas- '
sailor's house, which is situated ou one of the highest points
of the city, was nearly destroyed ; eight horses in ha sta-
bles were swept away, and it was with great difficulty that
the archives of the t.mbuusy could be saved. The letters
state that several villages have been destroyed. and that the
fleet at Froostailt is entirely demolished. The Emperor,
it is said in the letter, feels derply afflicted at the cala-
mity, and had subscribed a million of rubles (40,000!.) fur
the relief of the sufferers. Several of the Nobles had also
subscribed liberally.
l'nonatult was completely under water. Much damage
has been done to merchant vowels, and to their cargoes.
From Gottenbureh, also, we have accounts of a like mourn-
ful charnctrr. There, many of the inhabitants hail not
time to escape from their houses, and were compelled to
seek for safety ou their roofs—a precarious, and in sonic
cases an insufficient resource, as many houses were wholly
carried away 'oy the waters, while the terrified sufferers
beheld the astonishing spectacle of large shire thrown on
on the shore to the distance of four thousand feet from their
anchorage.

The water in the Rhine continues to fall.
vl'he waters are out s 9 much, in particular from )lairlen-
head to Chertrey, that all the intervening country is under
water over the lie,!ges ; the ileotls run across the streets
through Eton into the houses; in some of the shops the
water is as high as the counters. At Slough it was neces-
sary for fo n-passowers to be conveyed in boats. The
whole of Windsor Little Pstk is inundated, and the adja-
cent meadows are in tome parts impassable.

A letter received in Or.een.wk,.elateal Frederica. St. Si-
meon's l.bend, Georgia. Sept. SO. states that the hurricane
had proved very destructive. Many of tl.e planters are en-
ti-ely ; the count and corn drops uctut. destroyed,
and the house*, &Iwo, and caul: swept away. Many of
the pour n.•grocs saved the•ntselvesc by floating on pieces of
wood. One planter has sustained a loss of 60.000 dollars.
Another has lost about '2O houses and his cotton crop, Woo
barrels of rice, and lot► head of sheep. The roads are ren-
dered impassable by fallen trees, and &um the bridges
being all washed away, which has almost entirely cut off
the communication between plantations, towns, &c. About
100 persona have lea their lives, A Mr. Snow lost his
daughter, his sister-in-law, two brothers-in-law, together
with a gentleman, Mr. Merril, who was paying his ad-
dresses to his sister-in-law ; they were all in the same
house, and were washed away. Mr. Snow and his wife
saved themselves by flaming on trees or logs for six or
right hours. The body of Mr. Merril has since been found,
and in one of his hands he had a piece of the gown of the
young lady, whom he had perhaps attempted to save, and
is whom be was to have bees wedded.

Lail~•~.:~.

VI I PPING INDE LLIGENCE.

Flto3l LLOYD'S LIST.

rat.mnt—ru, 1.2. AtTired from the Dolma the Lail•
Ent. Tiehr-rt. fi r ...soh Wiles; the Planet. B•relay, and
the Artlndel, l'or.;, for Jan•Y:ra; anti thu Gott Wellington,
l'iet•ard•. It r Mena Leone. Pitt hart the Cao.bri,!re, Mason, for
.t. n;..1 the Jithim, Jackbot., t'or watt lugs of

N:01•1-!.. 11r.c. 12. —Arri.:eil (mei the Deans the IMy
A rh..-1:1, Hewitt. I.n. Smith America ; Hervey, Texie. roe Val
IheineCx lemd. :.‘iled the Ludy Aulheru. Lash., fur th. South

• ; ti I ••-or:: 1., Pr,1)111r1Ifill., J 31.1111111 ; ith .tt7tril
a 1.•., rar tt.e Wayt 1.
The Itn:;i, it.: Ja,.latea, bus been got off the ruck, nueh da.
1.

l'i,er•tstor•rtt, I)rc. I:l.—Arrived from the I.l,;weg the heet.
Tro.,e, rm.!: ; ucd the Ne.,,tr, ray for Jamaica ; the loth.
Richard', tor ItarliadoL. ; aiJ the Caledonia, ---, for

Ire. 13.—.Patrea through rot the river tht Eden, rear-
." ; II ithin/fel% —. trona Quelrc ; and
the —, front the Wev.rtArd. Arrived from
and reumiu the Sylph, Ma,,on, for Port •u Priure ; the
31e.1.11ewn, fur 3lngedure ; and the Nasuble, Elidun,
fo- n.

11 aft:aTr. Dry. 1 1.-I,endeil her:: to.dny. taken up to the
rll4' :Nina ii 14.1. an anchor. gnat ked " 21. Q. Z.
vv..," on v;,..114..k ; aid Tr. I No. 3ttil," on the ...row,. hay.
Jr an iron 'stork. in4citter with blunit 25 fathoms of I I inrh chain
tAld ninrked ••t'roven"on the cruas hats of the links ; also a cas!:.
;Amy. nnrl

VES CND. PLC. M.—Arrived the Ottaway, Dour las, from
Qt,olicr ; .1c o. I 0w..., from tlnto •' Ltltn, Pritrion„ troll C3lll.
pe..rloy Pri. e t ,•burg, Mart, fro tt littniburr,ll;
fro,. I! ; Tint ISors:h•g, Bluckhurit, from Riga;
leuolon, •e, front Qtl. c ; r.mtittuie I 4-wis, from ditto;
tio•nt Wadi. ; ltitworliaht:ll, Scott, front Sirga.
pore. the Rti/t7e3, St:antlers, for Tobago; and the Thomas
ltrtch. I:nlet. fur Paketpu.

faro: ;iron,— 12.—Arrired the Dickens, Proctor. from
Alc,:andris ; KAsirk Wood, Vomits. front Quebrc ; and this
llot ins, Sparks. from dit.ti —sailed 14th Nov. The Uniou front
this place wits still on *hide, and nn her beam ends. _

Tr amt.. Irrc. 7.—The stern 4a vessel, with Beliona, Lon-
rho," pxintal on it, has Inca washed on shore on the West put of
the Tesel.

Iti:rkt., Nor. 24.--Thc Andromeda. Cowie, from St. Peters.
burgh to London, h,s put Fan Baltic Port, leaky. and whit loss
of her deck lumts r• ". •I,•iuus. klertr. fmm St. Peterthurgh to
Lubec, is on shore elf lSu Por;. On the Ifhh and likb instant we
bade violent hurricane front N. W to %V. N. %V.

Dina, Nov. 24.--The Dorothy, Ileseltine, from hence to Hull,
abandoned by the crew. has been driven arm.. the Gulf to the
I:!.l.lMite t of the Wand of (hart. and amniptn are making to
it her to a place of safety. The master. mate, two men, and two
buys, hay,: got to (heel. N e have had boisterous weather last
week. The Demuth, Martin, which Railed from hence 11th
has retinuel with how of bowsprit, bower, chain-cable, and part of
low bulwark., but it Is rspeeted will be ready fur /Ma in a few days.
The Thetis, Astront, from Strelcholui to Calais, 11116 been driven
trom Gotland into thin port, wilt In.. of sails.
CIinXIIITADT, Now. 21.—The storm of the lath was far more
terrible than any that the oldest inhabitant can remember; the
whole island was under water, !Irlietire it may he supposed what
damage was done t•.m the shir; g. The fellowing vessels have
put back :—Twist, Rayner; l'aris, Stonehonsc tyren, Green
Su:plien (ire, Cook; Fair& Id. leyall : Intrepid, Vicinity; and
Ann, Rennie. The Ann is Inky, and lust her sail.. All the
other chips have lost anchor, sad cables, and ionic have %retained
other damage. The Lubec ship Constantia, Clapen, is returned,
with hat of sail.; ship and cargo not injured. Lubec ship, Sc.
turner, bile?, ds'eagrd in Hull and rigging. by a ship which ran
foul of her. The Swldidi ship Jupiter, Humble, has put back
leaky, and with lotus of mail. and riggiow.
...o. . . . .

ST. PLTEVirtilltili, Nov. 20.—TOY City and vicinity were
yesterday visited with an unprecedented inundation. There are
no accounts at present from Cirtllitilat, but it is feared they will be
disastrous. The loss and waste of goods, and loss of Imo, are
very serious. The mom rageti through owl of Thursday night,
till yesterday at sumset. front W. to W. N. W. and N. V..
Nov. 211.—The mischief occasioned to shipping in the Mole, is
not so 'unions ILI was feared. There is no loss or material injury
in the river that interests Underwriters. The loaded lighters am
all safe, as Mr as accounts hare been received t those up t.t town
are all secure and in order. Getters front Wogs mention that sere
bad weather had been experienced there, and several vesselelost.
Itow xv. Boaxam.m, Nov. 17 —The litaGtte, Zander, of
and IM l)antzic front Milford, struck the Sands this mottling, on
the North l'oint of Ronne.

The A imwell, flaulton, from London to lis=burgh, has put
into Chriatiansand, leaky. end mu,t discharge.
The Ca:hueratown, Rxisbeck, from Petershurgh, was driven
on rho:0 iw:a Drug K, amid the 30th ult., bet expected to be
gut oil:
The rid.iity. Peartnn. from :11eme1, has put into Copenhagcn,
haei lig tvant on shore on lhogne. . . .

Th; ships stralded new 'Memel in the late storm, except the
Newman, ere condemned as carets, and cannot be got
admit &palm
Tt.e 3lagdalene, Uck, from Aalborg to London, has put into
Norway, demng—J. _ . . . .

A pnt of the stern of a veniel has been driven on shore on the
enast ofJuttand, with the name "Swift" upon it, supposed to be
the Swift. Maur. from St. John's to London. _ _

The U.lney„ Holden, from Bengal and Matlra. to Load4n. was
spoken with 29th May, off the Island of Bourbon, and kas not
sine► been heard of

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VESSELS !POE EV wrrn.—Lyra, London to Smith Scam. ICtb
ult.; Prince of Orange transport, Londm Newfoundland,
24th ult.; Falmouth. KtoJanrtruto I.ovilon. Bth Wt.; Weaunoe-
lin& Buenos Ayres to Liverpool. 31st Oct.: Eagle, Pondicherry to
llordetuz, 2Cth Sept., off the Cape of (Mod Ilope Ossion. Wocb,
lloriarista to South America, 24th October ; II ipricampia, New.
foundland to }twit. 11th ult. ; Lydia, Robinson. bound to Ho.
vannah, Bch inst.. all welh by the Bonito. arrircd in the Downs.
Hero, for Rotobay, Bth Inst., all sill, by the Prince, arrired off
Dover. Recovery, from Quebec to Loudon, 24th ult., by the Kel.
..ick Wood, arrived at Liverpool.