The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-08-25 00:00:00

STORMS.

Toesday afternoon, between four and five o'clock,
there was a violent storm of thunder and lightning
in the Guy of Glaserv, accompanied with an extra-
ordiatry tall at rain 4.,d had. roe oldes- inhabit-
ant does not tet:ollea ever having seen such large
and li.oilstoniis--a vast propottinn of those
which were reeul IT, su.ia used two inches in eircum-
' feoence ; great numbers of pieces of ice of about
two inch is lime. an met brand, and folly half an
inch thick, were foun I; in the centre of the mast,
regular loomed hailstones was generally very obei-
oes ; Slid n.ac piece fell into 4 court n.iar theloot of
Duke--treer. which measured flee ine e. hr four in
circumference. I'h I.gfurting was peculiarly vivid.
wild- therein was p tatted down in rapid bcteitms.
The sewers wet* unable is Casty ay.), the sudden
invade/ion, which, in /It my ;Atm extended from
the sides to the een.re of the str-et.. formeig one
sheet of w ,ter; and in sir.ne of trle sank sh,p, and
cedars, in the course of ten alit utes after or Desoto.
the water was levet al f -et 11o,•ro +mum's-able
panes of glass were broke:, beer all the cis' and
immediate neighbourhood. ana the c.to las acid sk
lights were in gropiral drove in or nodes &snag J ;
a considerable cantesion. was prialuced by i.t
the hailvones on the head of a boy, who hail gone
out without his bat. Chia stains was felt but a
little distance troth the city; and we have not
heard of any serious aced nt having appcned
The thunder book! near Par.ick, and knocked Jou.*
part of a gateway.
The following letter (ram kothelay, dated 15:1*
inst. contains some timber particulars of the thun-
der storm on the 13 :—" On Thursday, the 13ji
inst. about three o'clock, p. se. there was one of the
most violent thunder showers hese, ever witnessed in
the recoil: Rion of any person ; the rain ;muse %)
down in torrents, accompanied by frequent a ishes
of lightning, and loud p-als of thunder, one of
whier broke. with a tremendous crash, on a house
eh we the Cross, rent the door post, and broke
some slates on the roof ; one woman was struck
moonless, ant several people felt severely the
else lic shock, and the town bell, for a few seconds,
was set a ringing. he woman has recovered, and
thou.th many peap"e were greatly alarrvitd, nu fur-
ther ilijuiy has been sustained. The thower must
have been in a great meastne local, as there was
not a drop of rain at the time three miles to the
westward."

On Wednesday sennight, a tremendous whirl-
wind took plate, at the high end of Chalk Quar-
ries. near Cardew, Cumberland. Its violenee was
such as aflually to cause the trees in the adjacent
a -Ids to bend in such a manner, that their tops A-
nton touched the ground ; and by the rapidity of
its ►ertical motion, the homes at Cardew appeared
to be involved in flamed The thatch was torn
off, and ,arriod to the distant, of nearly halt a
mile. l'i.e people who were at work in the fields.
were obliged to throw themselves upon the ground.
and hold themselves by shrubs, &c. and the whole
neighbourhoul was alarmed by the whirlwind's
tremendous roaring.

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GVILDnALL.
BASTARD CHILDREN.
A curloas case was yestird y argued before Al-
derman
HUNT6II, the sitting Ju tire. rivp-elting the
claim of the reputed father to two or three elhidree
of that unfortunate class called Ai mellow& The
mother was charged with bad con .ura towards the
c7.ildrtn; and the reputed father contended that the
Juoita had power to grant a warrant agaii.st the
mother, with a view of separating her from him, and
ordering the children to Iv: decreed the property of
the suporid father, who now supports the ci.ildren
and mother, but wishes to continue his Nippon to
the'chil hen alone. The Magistrate refused to make
any order, or to grant any warrant in the case, or to. ' f
adm;t the legality of the Claimant's right to the re: i
lief applied for in the first instance: staring, that as
the children were illegitimate, the Claimant could I
not be aided by law in obtaining the possession of
them; ar.J also that the mother not heing married.
he had no legal jurisdittion over her conduit to the .. i
Claima-t, as mother of thew children. He was
se rmed by the Chief Officer of tie Court, that the
only remedy for him was to retain Inc children, west
to IMITv.! tie mother, we soppase, not so el 044.
bat by a process called, *Otter mamas inepeasie ; bee
the Magistrates doubted :Lis snage‘tion, and !i d iit. , '
down as law, that the mother c, uld nor bed •illtve4 , i
of the children by any process whallonevers e‘lMlNatif
as they were under she agree' um* rare. S,
A Mr. Harris attended, with a poor Irish sailor. `4l
of the name of Toole (who appeared to be Amifseee ,
ewer), and who, in the service of his King and, • 'I
country, as he elocuiently stated, had lost bodh -:.
his arins, from the shoulders.
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Mr. Harris stated, that he foand this jolly tar on
the ground, in an Alehcu,e, and a man of the same
of Illite, (against whom a warrant was issued), beat ..
", ' .Is
ing him unmercifully. i \
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the cau.e cf this ass.sult was the national vapour
of Pail y, in his cups, that an Hibernian was at 111
red a 110211 as any usher. .
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HATTOW4IIIIII,6II. ,i, ',l
Yesterday, 7 homes Davi: Waller, wick
stealing a quantity of lead off the roof ei
charts °
. .
church, was brought helots the Magi.trares se
Office for further exaraination ; when it
upon the depositions, that the robbery was conio~
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mined on the night of the tid August instant ; and.
the following morning a vast quantity of lead, an.1
swering the description at that which had been
stolen, was discovered concealed in the ditch of a
ii,ld in the neigiibourbood of the church, covered
over with boughs. The nest night, the Church.
wardens of Fanchley having set a watch upon the
place, the Prisoner was taken in the aft of carrying
two large pieces of the lead towards a bywhine,
where he had a horse and cart to convey it away.—
The Prisoner said, the horse and cart belonged CO a
person who was since taken up on suspicion, but, upon 4
investigation, was subsequently discharged i tall '
taa turned out to be, that the horse and cart did .
belong to the Prisoner. Under these circumstances. :
and the Prosectrors wi thing time to be aUowed fey
further investigation, the Prisoner was remanded. 4

Military Commanders in the South West MIA&
of Ireland r.-
Lfeinatiant.Goneral Fiord. OA; kfaior-Generel cents
Campbell, Kinsale: Maier-General lOU, tremor;
(Mimi Hogeton, Cork; Major-aecurst kle7ricit, Limerick;
OrigadieNGerierel Whet!, Limerick.—Tais di.trict cinteirines
the catmint.. of Cork Limerick, Clare, Kerry, and the P.arisaiimi
of Lt.ipci ()incised, Limier Cremond, end own*. and Ainin ~
eoenty of Tipperal.
ArPOOtTmticrs.—Captain Coctitaa se, to tha
Prther George; Captain 1.•01A011, to the Nartham.
berland; Captain Maims, to the Reward; Captaia
Coon Lan, to the LA ; Capt. Cm aat OO e. to
the Ardent= Captain .1-/-..-transt •1.1., to the Kiss's.

Lord Cotttisowooo took with him to the Dm.
danelles, the Qi4f tq. 99, Rear Admiral MAIITINg
Cipttin NOUS ; .11 die, 94, Captain ; ant. P
the Montfieste. 74, Captain R. W. OTWA Y.
Liirdsl,ip lett csnt sail of the line off ysdiz, to
watch the en. my in that vit.

The two Itatsa,onss in Leeds Volunteers intend to
go on per nan, dryto Y. irk, tsu Is days, to
contra:dee tn W-dneaday. the 3 all of sieptember.
the horn d trd-bound Istuascas fleet pa .sed Host-
tags on u.suday.
Ihe Oslo,: Albsci. Flovt.e, from St. Domingo.
for Savanna':, has hero :apt red uy a le,:nen priva.
te.r.recaptur-d by the ifiexander. &rams. and car-
ried r-:01../4MseCa.

nee Newf. Brit. from JArna;ea„ for G
it captured, and carned 1,.: ) Cuba.

A I. net riteived at Hull, Friday, turn a private
01 the 31st Regiment, at Alexandria, •ditad M.y
30th, states, is that our Hoops. eons st•-gt if 3).4
men, were blockaded up in that place by worm
nubs. &e. In the engagement of the 311
of April, the Slat R. gt lost In mei. ; 'he Turks
out of the heads both of the killed and wount'ed."
Extra& of a letter from Capt. Satires. of the
ship-Femur. arrived at the Lasareuo, New Yogic,
on the 17th August, from Citron 1..
.. As the Hideout is arrived. sod salad after me from Cm.
ton, there is nothing Iron (bet vtarter which 1 can caininu-
nieata oth attention. 1 sailet from Micas, Febeitari lath
ill,. day folowt4g hid a had rile Iron &h. emiward, canted
away the foremast. In pawing the Studio of Sunda was in.
fafavyl by the Goveritinene beat, that the deb Map totally
dewroyol the fortikeati on+ and n!' 3t !twittng+ en Unrest.
and there were four English slifits of war Cien theta The
ships mentioned here, pawed Anger, as follows :—.040n„ of
Philadelphia March 5, 115 day+ panne; Btya4, Wood, of
frividence, R I. Footway 13, 111 days peerage; Frances
Vientiane' New York, March 6, 149 days. On this 19'..1 of
April; in let. 29, 39 hdt.3ls, 24 K. was blerded by His in-
ertial MaiertyNap denn's frigate La Fledmontalse ; after two
heitir+• detention, permitted to proceed. On the L'lo.sPoke
the Ruby, of Chatlonon, from the river Congo, with slaves.
When soy left the river, the Noxious's, of Philsdols
phia,was lying there ; she issoi been there five weeks. outsides of
tho Itsist's inooth; mold not get in or oat on account of the
strung frtshts iu ilia tire.."
A search has been lately made throughout the
Spanish part of Min Prison, Plymouth, for weapons
of offence, and no less than thirty.two
stilettos, completely finished, besides
dies at flattened pieces of iron, ft for •
were found concealed in the roofs

oeee of the prison ; also two bayonets.
been wrenched from off the mnsicets -`
a senile between the soldiers •
some months since. This seAreh

'Anew, of some information
Gonad*, the Siunisb "prisoner wise,
for maw abouts fortnight tiuce.

rty.two daggers, or
wseeits several bun.
it for stiletto blades
Dori and houses oi
bayonets, that had
dads of the riard.
and the prso-lers
s was made in COQ.
.iven by Cawawa
wlta was essested