The National Register.
London, England, 1818-03-08 00:00:00

EFFECTS OF THE LiLvenic.Lu.

Between half-past ten and eleven o'clock on Wednesday night as
acciuent•vi a luau calamitous nature uccuried at the house of Lady
llayc. of le, Somerset street. The servants consisting of the cock,
the fuotinam housemaid, lady's maids and chairwu,nau, halt just set
down to supper, when the uuur bell suddenly rune. '1 fie toutinan
ruse, fur the purpose of opening it. but had only proceetted a short
distance along the passage, wren lie was alarmed by r loud tremen-
dous crash, resembling tout of a falling of a house. lie instantly ran
back, but a as unable to proceed lather than to the end of the passage,
far where the kitetien stood but a moment before, was now erne maps
of ruins. It we', discovaied that Mary Magnate, the tank. Slaty
Ihnell, the housemaid, and Smith, the laundress, Were no were
to be tuuud, a:.d as they had been left as supper, the greatest fears
had been cue: maned fur tneir safety Adel wine nine ate body of
Mary Stannic, was taken out with the head all dashed to atoms, and
the body dreadfully mangled ; she was quite dead. The other births
were alto dug out. tin examination of the bodies of Sundt and
Oinch, some signs of lice were apparent, although they were most
diengetously bruised. Smith inul her thigh broken, and ass burned
about theshoulder. Slaty Ihneli was burins' much worse. hut bad no
!nub fruetured, tiutm Witten it is conjectured, that they fell on, or
near the grate, in which there was then a large tire. lu explain the
eireannstances that IA to this shucking catastrophe, it wad us proper
to observe that the latcheu or Lady tray e was in the yard, at the buck
of the dwelling house, and in the rear of this again, stood Cranial-
buildings. A wall had been raised to the height of «bout sixty feet
or upwards, for the purpose of preventing theft, and blocking up
the communication between Culinal-beultlings and the houses in
Sotneesi.-street. In the course of the night the wind shifted in a
nurtnern direction, and blew Jong Calail-buildings lull against
the wall, which at length fell in, and by its weight burr down the roof
of the kitchen part of the leads fell against die wall, and was placed
in that situation that any person under it, although unable to cyan.
eau: them adve.i, might respire. Thi was the situation in which the
housemaid and the laundress were, but having fallen at the fire -side.
were exposed to the most horrid torture !ruin the heat until their
semen, and even all animation lett them The lsrge_ hicin whiett
bupported the kitchen and went across the nail, was foinul broken
in two ; ait.l as the body of ilie cook was found near the spot, it is
sop fused that it must have fallen on her, and caused instant death.
..--vlorkmen were einploeed the whole of Thursday, in clearing the
ruins. The unfortunate women ate not expected to recover. They
still lie at Lady Ilaye's house.
Between ten and eleven o'clock, on Wednesday night, during the
storm, a stack of chimneys front the adjoining house was blown down
upon that of Mr. Mortice, of South-street. Finsbury-square, and
drove in the roof of a room in which three of his infant children lay.
.stoat providentially. some friends were spending the evening wide
Mr. Morrice, who immediately dew to the adjoining apartment It
would be (lithe :sit to describe the scene that ensued, ur the feetingsof
the gentlemen (mostly relatives of the children> as they rescued thent
one by one from the ruins, aid delivered them without injury to the
anxious mother, who was waiting, in agony, the result of the active
exertions of their friends. it is most certain, that had any person
been standing in the loom at the time, they must have been kilted, or
had . the bests been in any other part of it than where they stood the
children must have perished.
Mr. 11Wkettsun of Broad-street. .st. James's, was dangerously
wounded on returning home through Wardour-strect, about 12
o'clock. Parted* a stark of chimneys were blown down, and a part
upon his head and shoulders, which struck him to the ground.
lie was conveyed hate in a senseless state.
Several chinuiey sta.rks were blown ott the houses in Denmark-
court, in the Strand, talent winch carne (limn with such max as to
break through the window rails ut an area on the opposite side and
smashed the whole of the windows.

Two houses. in Peter'sline, Cow-crosg, which were condemned.
but in one of which a poor family resided, the other was utur.aiu,pied,
we.e blown down as low as the tint *air, the enure of the runt's, tic.
being blown into the lane, fortunately no penult was passing at the
time, and tie inmates escaped unhurt. Another ohl house in Frug-
well.court, Charter Ilouse.donc,was blown down ; it was unoccupied,
except by a poor old. woman. who resided in Inc cellar, and who was
ottenvards dug out alive, being hearty suffocated from the dust, but
receiving no other injury. The roof of the principal pun of nag..
nigge %V ells Tavern was also blown off, and all the garden fenecr
and paling along (7hureit-row, St Yancras, were blown dow.i. The
streets in various parts of Clerkenwell were strewed with tales and
garden pots.
About ten o'clock, two houses in Prior-place, East-street, Kent-
road, cause dowti, with a ternienduas crash. The houses wire not
finished,
- -

I; p wards of two cwt. of lead was blown front the roof of Surgeons'
Bah, Lingoln's lnu-lieWs.

Three hou.ses, alinostiinished near the turnpike-gate in the New-
cut, near %% aterloo-bridge, tell about eight o'clock Kith a tremendous
crash, occasioned by the gale.

Sow- of the ca.:seinen-is of St. Bride's church, Fleet.street, were
blown in, and a chimney blown down of a house contiguous, and
the roof much injured.

Three post-cludses. were blown over on Winchester Downs, and one
of the drivers was much bruiss4—aill the pa.ssodigers escaped without
any inj!try
. .

On the Bath road, near Vevizes, several large trees were torn up.
by the roots, and had fallenaeross the road, so that it was impossible
for any carriage to pass.
On the' tow of Broadway-hid, Worcestershire, when the flail•
ciach arrived there,, the wind and snow were so tremendous, that it
became imposing(' for the coachman to force the horses on, the con-
sequence was, tuey became ungovernable, insomuch they turned
cowyletely round, and the coach was blown over. Happily no
serio.ei injury a u sustained either by coachman, guard, or passes.
garai

On Friday an inquisition wastakenat the Three Compasses,
South Poi titian Mews, on the body of Mary Marentie, servant
to Lady Hayes, who met her &nab by the falling in of thu
rout of the kitchen during the, hurricane on Wednesday even.
'f Is c !surly presented.,. most dreadful spectacle, antLa
protitsieit of blood had HOMO from the Lockport of the head.
The case was so. apparent that only one wetness was called,
and the Jury returned a verdict of—Accidental Death.
Estimated b:,xitencrs Of the following Civil Establishments. for the
year tell, as reported to the I louse of Commons :—,Sierra Leone,
1.3,4603..,- Nova Scotia, 13.4101.—New South Wales,. tie. 60.51.-14-
pee Canada, tuowol —New il;unswick, 60571. !W.—Newfound-.
land, s,4S3l.—Prinee
,Edward's Island.
.3,7l:Cll.—Bahama islands,
the
°tan:lB after'eedriedn' tut":
3,20 H„ o.4.—Cape lireten..4lool.—lmunnwe,
thTAhermoyfliocti..Le.,,in:r. of
li)
F'ranc e. tin the year
the Usual stoppages from and men on account of Provisions,
and the expveces Arforage tur A tunery hoots, r!s the wine are to be
supplied in kind by the govertwicot of trance, amounts to
107,9511. is. 14. •
The unturuhA Debt itt ,chequer Rill. outstanding on the Sth of
January last autumnal to sltax'9,4ooL of which only ten,nuokaux
provided for.
A shunt time since an elderly lady, of the Same of Style.
died m Church-strect,ll, indsor—Slie was uf penurious babas,
and lett a eonaithq.able property. Some of the clothes which
she wo:•e were given to het. nurse, a pour. woman of very re
spectaot,t claracter; among these were a pair of old stays,
which the deceased. had wenn tilt her last moments. 'Am
nurse, in cutleavounng to repair them, found Bank notes Ict
the automat of 1101 Secreted in the lining. With exemplary
honesty she immediately took back the same to the eacc.utog
of the ilt.ccaica.