The National Register.
London, England, 1809-10-01 00:00:00

THE N iTIONAL REGISTER.

♦fCft!CLTLTURAI. REPO P.l FOR ta P 1 Eb!EER.

'The wheats in some counties have risen rather thinner to the
sickle than, fnom their appearance, they 'sere expected to do ;
bia they are Item 'y in hand, from the c(.rn le.rge and tine,
txeept in a few partial =pots nhere they %lyre ;Xt.( (eel by the

The barleys are mare than average crops, but have been y
good deal injured by tl,e successive rains. Where they were
thrown down bv the showers•of la,t n“.sntit, they have been
hedge-grown, which always reader them more dinicult to liar-
yen well when the weather is not bright.
The oats are a good crop, and will be very productive, al-
thongh much of the grain has falleu out of the ear, and in some
places has been ploughed in, to stand for a crop next year.
The beans, pease, and all the leguminous tribe, will be more
than an average crop ; but those do not throw off the leaf have
been considerably injured by the contiuued rains add cloudy
weather.

Tt►rn:ps, and rill the hrwlyica. ►.peciti, are ♦ery abundant. Po-
tatneß large crop, nod free from gaud.
The alien:rails, both of clover and natural graites, are very
large, an,l wii!: produce an attendance of autumn feed, as the
other Las prevented them fro's bring m•w■ fjr latter May:

OCT. 1,

Owing to severe and incessant rain on Monday, the rivers
hich environ Carlisle, the Eden, the CaHew, and the Peterill;
on Tuesday morning overflowed their banks, and presented a
vast and magnificent sheet of water, beautifully spotted with
little islands and clumps of trees. Happy would we be, were
:he grandeur of the scene the only circumstance worthy of re-
in:irk : unfortunately the painful duty remains of not king the
lest ructinn and ca.tastrophe occasioned by the sudden swell.
Though the Eden and Peterill were not deficient in mischief,
by far the largest proportion of damage wes CO"ected by the Cal-
dew ; whose mountain torrent, hurrying along" a continued de-
clivity, scarcely gave warning of its approach. By those per-
-ons in and near Caldewgate, who saw the flood descending in
its fury (which was between the hours of five and six in the
morning),i t is represented as resembling some mighty tide, rai-
ling forward with amazing rapidity. In Shaddongate, Cal-
iiewgate, and by the Damside, the hones were innundated to
the depth of three, tour, and even six feet. Furniture of every
description was carried away, and a house on the margin of the
river, inhabited by two families, was washed down, scarcely a
minute after they had made a precipitate retreat. Part of their
property was afterwards recovered, It having been cast upon the
shore about three miles below.

It was lamentable to view the immense quantities • of grain
which were driven down by the current 'at one time the river
presented the singular appearance of an immense moving bell
of corn. A small part was recovered *by means of drags, but it
• is supposed that some hundred thousands of sheaves have been
entirely lost. Timber trees, hedges, &c. were all carried away
in one promiscuous ruin; some stone walls were levelled, and
the ground stripped of its soil. A remarkable instance of the
latter occurred at Sehergham : in a field of potatoes containing
about one acre, not only the roots, but every particle of soil
was swept away ! se that What was formerly fertile land, is
now a barren bed of gravel. At the same place, the woollen
manufactory of Mr. Saul, with the machinery, &c. was entire-
swept way. Sebergham bridge shared the same fete. The►
bridges at Hawkesdale, Hesket, Whelpa, and over the rivet
Ellen, near Mary port, have been likewise dcstro)ed.
The following accidents, we are sorry to state, have come to
our knnwl,:dge :—At the time the arches of the last-mentionett
srid?,as gave way, a boy was passing on horse back ; enrol--
tunately perished, but the horse escaped unhurt. The rive:
IVaver being greatly swollen, the house of an old woman of thlk
name of Mary Calvert, at Field-End, near Woodrow, was stirs
rounded by water: the helpless situation of the poor creature.
eseiting the fears of the neighbours, as soon as it was practictt-
h!e, her condition was attended to, when she was discovered its
!ter bed a lifeless curse : and on Monday night, near the MPS
place, the driver of a post chaise,belonging to an innkeeper la
IVigton, missing his road, from the darkness of the night, and
he severity of the weather, the horses plunged into the foaming
deep, were they were drowned, and the chaise dashed to pieces
which fortunately contained no passengers. Miraculously
driver regained the shore.

The rivers Line and Esk were also muck swollen, and
-ieme quantities acorn were carried off from the low grounds%
The Moods have also been destructive in other places. We had
Beard that Ilexh:im bridge had been washed away, but out
Newcastle correspondent is silent on the•eutrject.
By a violent storm on Monday night a considerable part of
au ancivnt.pear-tree, in the garden of J. H. Maw, Esq. of
Doncaster, was blown down. This is the remarkable tree
noticed iu Dr. Miller's History of Doncaster, p. ‘5, as said,,
•
too have been planted by King Charles I.

An unfortunate circumstance took place at Faldingworth,
near Market Raisin, on Sunday sennight (tbe feast day i■
that parish). Thomas Cottinghum and William Slack chal-
lenged each other to fight; the conflict continued for three
quarters of an hour, w hen Cottinghata fell from a blow of
his antagonist, and died instantly. The fathers of the young'
men stood by, and eacit encouraged his son during the fight !
An inquest was held on the body of the deceased on Tuesday;
and a verdict of Manslaughter being found against Slack, he
was committed to the county gaol by Mr. Drury, of Lincoln,
the coroner.

Last week, as some workmen were quarrying on the lands of
Donnas, in the county of Clare, for Mr. Massey, of Waterperk,
on rem,)sing a large stone which lay in the way of a car, they
found two large crocks of wicket gold and silver coins, of the
reigns of Edward VI. James I. and Charlesi. with amok (Mr"'
relent foreign coins, sad a fry hvirpeuve of Chao:

OCT. 1..

An inquest was held last week at (Anemia, in Rutlandshire,
anon the bodies of Margaret, John, and Rachael Lowe, the
wife and children of a blind beggar, who were accidentally
drowned in the brook that runs through Lismthatts Pasture.
The man and his family were travelling from Old Overton to
Langharn, on the preceding evening, and the brook for a mo-
ment was swoln to an amazing size. A baker passing with
his cart, took them all up. As soon as they attempted to cross
the ford, the cart was carried away by the force of the stream,
and turned over. The woman and the children, together with
the horse, were drowned I the blind man was saved by his
dog, of the bull breed, about ten months old, a rope from
which was fastened round his wrist; and the baker escaped
with difliculty. •
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