The National Register.
London, England, 1821-12-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

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HURRICANII AT I.I7IIRPOOL. STATE OF IRELAND.
—... . —Now—.A
meeting upon this subject was held on Tuesday, at
LIVERPOOL, Dec. I.—Yesterday was reinarkably free the Thatched House, St. James's-street. Lord Darnley
front early in the morning till towards four in the after- took the chair.
noon, when a cold and sharp wind front the west began t Air. S 'bona opened the business of the meeting.
His to blow fresh, and continued to increase in violence till object was to have that inquiry instituted which
towards midnight it became a perfect hurricane; the sea
should make England acquainted with the real causes of
(or river) ran mountains high ; the ships in the Mersey
were drifted from 'lair anchors; the passage boat across the calamities that now afflicted Ireland. It was a frt
the river dared not face the gale; I fiats, laden and subject for the investigation of Parliament, and he there-
unladen, were dashed to pieces; the beautiful steam ses• fore moved a petition to the King to convene Parliament
set luanhoe, Dubliu packet, lying up in the Queen's Basin, as early as possible, to we whether the evil could be re-
was driven with such violence against the pier, that she curdled, Ireland, amidst its crimes, having escaped the
is now a complete wreck : close to her a sloop, totally suspicion of disloyalty, and disaffection to the Govern-
broken to atoms; between twenty and thirty flats sunk utent.—He then read the petition.
and damaged in various parts of the river; a fine Anseri- Mr. D. Dozeovax, of Cork, declared that the cause
can packet (the 4 !Hon) ashore, and likely to go to pieces of all Ireland's calamities was over-taxation. He then
before she can be got off next spring tides; the Amity,
proceeded to condemn the system of " middle-men.",
American outward bound ship, likewise stranded, with :.
I hey must do something more than make a barrack of
damage, end taint be unloaded ; a great number of boats
stink and broken to pieces; a Yorkshire vessel, in which Ireland, before they would make Ireland better. The
the wife and family of the captain were, all perished truth was, the Government of Ireland was ton expensive;
within a few yards of the pied Daring the storm, a it was much too highly taxed; and till a remedy was
windmill, situate near the signal-house, on the Cheshire applied to that evil, the tranquillity of Ireland could not
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side, which could not be stopped by any atrt of the
miller, took fire, and was burned down. Many new
buildings, nearly finished, are levelled with the ground;
scarce a roof in the town 11811 escaped damage, and the
falling slates, tiles, and bricks, during the tempest, ren-
dered the streets dangerous fur passengers all the night.
A melancholy circumstance attended the fatal storm to a
most respectable family in this town:—Mr. Barton, a
considerable brewer, and a highly esteemed inhabitant,
residing in Scotland-road, retired to rest with his wife and
infant at the usual hour ; and, dreadful to relate, in the
dead of the night, a sudden gust of wind blew down a
large stack of chimneys, belonging to the premises, on to
the roof, exactly over the bed where Mr. and Mrs. Barton
and the infant were asleep, and killed the father and um
ther on the spot, but the child, that lay between them, was
this morning found alive! Another stack of chimneys fell
down in a house near the park, and nearly killed a child
et two years old, in bed with its mother; who, iu her
dreadful alarm, ran out of the house screaming fur help,
and before assistance could be procured, the falling rub-
bish had lil.icked top the door-way, cud the tipper panels
were obliged to be dashed out before any person could get
into the room, where the child was beard crying at inter-
vals, and nearly three hours elapsed before they could get
at the bed, where the infant WAS still alive, but much in-
jured about the head and breast. The gale has continued
very strong all day. An instance of great courage and
perseverance during the stouts last night was related to
ins by the owner of the ship :—A vessel ready fur sea was
left at anchor in the river, in the care of a lad between la
and 13 years of age; the captain and crew wet eon shore,
and could not have gone to the ship had they been ever so
well inclined, as no boat durst ventnre from the pier on
any account. During the strain, the vessel broke an eight
inch cable shunt iii two, and drifted with the wired ; the
boy ran to the tiller, but was knocked down by a sudden
lurch of the ship ; as soon as lie recovered, he rail again to
the helm, and, with the assistance of a rope, fastened
lila/melt' so as to be able to steer the vessel through all the
storm sate into the Queen's Basin, where the owner found
her this morning very little injured.

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be restored.
Mr. NV et.t.s spoke of the imperfect character of the
laws. The proximate causes of the evils were the send-
ing home of Irish labourers without providing for their
subsistence, and the low prices of • the produce of the
land. They were so tow that the occupiers could not
pay the rents which the landlords were entitled to re.
ceive.
Mr. S. Rice, M.P. had no objection to discuss the
question—but let it Ike discussed by open means; before,
however, they did any thing, let them pause as to the
consequence likely to result from their conduct. He had
ju,t returned front Limerick ; and no man, who had a
heart within his bosom, could witness what he had seen
without being deeply affected. He begged them to
pause, because, if they proceeded, they must do harm.
Lord DititaLeY said, under all tile circumstances, he
submitted whether it woulJ not be better to adjourn the
present meeting.—(Hear hear! Move, mve.)
Mr. MOONSET moved, as an amendment, that this
be adjourned to a future day, such day of meeting being
notified with their noble chairman's name.
Mr. RICE, senior, spoke against the interference bf
gentlemen in England at the present moment, especially
as there had been a change of the Irish Ministers—be-
sides, Parliament was about to meet. He was for ad.
jourtunent sine die.
Colonel To aßENSthought this Inert's% had been most
properly called. He added, that they wanted information
on the subject—of the causes of the evils, and of the
remedies for them. Those who were present certainly
were somewhat impartial—they had no local prejudices
to bias them.
Lord liiessistoToa did not see any good would re-
sult from adjou 1111 l ent, if they were to petition at all.
Mr. WATSON thought those Irishmen who were there
ought to be in Ireland; he was sorry to see so many
Irishmen at the meeting; in their own country they •
would be useful. There was danger, and. they ought to
be at the post of danger.
The question of attjouroment was then negatived by a
considerable majority.
Mr BEBCHRR said, he thought Parliament ought to
be assembled, not because he de,ired severe measures,
but because he considered it ought to investigate so im-
portant a matter. It was then moved by 1 , that the
King, considering time circumstances of Ireland, be peti-
tioned to convene Parliament forthwith.
The petition was then agreed to, and signed by Lord
Darnley; after which the meretiax actiourtied.

HAsTt sum Dec. 3.—(Extract of a private letter.)—A
melancholy accident occurred un our beach this morn-
ing. About half:past eight o'clock, a galley was perceived
to be making for the shore, with thirteen hands in lice,
from a cutter in the offing; and as the surf was very
heaty, Malty persons were looking, expecting front the
state of the weather, some mischief would ensile. On
her making the shore, she came through some very heavy
seas safely, and had just encountered one when the boat
came broadside to; one of the men in her was seen to
stand up, and she immediately upset. The men were
most, if not all of them, seen floating about, and every
exertion was nia,le, by men swiuuuutg out with ropes
fastened to their bodies, in order to bring some of the un-
fortunate beings on shore. Four were brought in by
their exertions, but only three survived ; the other was
too far exhausted to be recovered ; nine met with a
waters, gra% e. One of them 1 saw clinging to an oar fur
a considerable time a lier the others had sunk, and waved
bus hand for asststatice ; at last he was overwhelmed in
the heaty surf, at a time when a man who had swam
out was within a rod of huts. Thus have nine persons
perished in sight of hundreds of their fellow-creatures,
who had nu uUrauts of gi% ing them assistance.

I /sward and Gibbs's Bankniptcy..J-In the Vice..
Chancellor's Court, on Wednesday morning, his
Honour delivered his judgment in the several peti-
tions in this bankruptcy. He dismissed the present
ussigneess, and dictated that a new choice of assig-
nees should be made, but the time of making it to,
be stayed, to give Mr. Carroll an opportunity of
presenting a petition, for the purpose of establish-
ing his debt under the Commission.
During the performance of The Two Gentlemen
of Verona, at Covent Garden, on Thursday night,
Mr. Abbot, who was acting Sir Proles; met with
an accident, which caused great a!arm, but happily
proved tu.t to have caused serious injury. In the
last banditti scene, the weapon of one of the party
struck him with some violence near the eye, but
without touching the organ. A most violent shock
was given to the audience. The report of a profes-
sional gentleman, however, soon quieted the anxiety
that was felt. The performance stopped instantly,
but it was very near the conclusion of the play.
On Thursday se'nnight the Mayor of Cork re-
ceived a communication trom Government, requiring
hint to take away from the venders of gun-powder
in that city, their entire stocks in that article. He
accordingly took the necessary measures to put
those instructions into execution, and in the course
of the day, attended by the Sheriffs and a number of
peace officers, proceeded to the houses of all the
persons in that trade, in the above city, who readily
delivered to him all the gun-powder in their pos-
ses:ion.
Departure of the Guards for Ireland.—On Tues-
day morning, at an early hour, the third battalion
of the First, or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards,
under the command of Colonel Stewart, began to
assemble at their barracks at Knightsbridge, for the
purpose of marching to the Basin Of the Grand
Junction Canal, where boats were waiting to con-
vey them to Liverpool, on their way to Dublin.--
The 16th Lancers, the 1 gth, ‘.:9th, 84th, ana 89:h
regiments are gone to Ireland.

During the prevalence of one of those heavy gales
which marked nearly the whole of last week, the sails
of a wind-will at Appleton, Yorkshire, were taken a-
back, and its powerhil ax'e revulsed against the fixed
principle of its movements. The effect was that of a
heavy lever operating upon a light fulcrum; the base of
the obit yirlded to the unnatural revolution of the sails,
and the whole structure upset with a crash, which por-
tended the death of the tinder and his Wan, both of
whom had been at wink in the upper Hour of this fra-
gile concern. But " time ways of Piovidence are iii-crut-
able." This apparently devoted pair crept Inuit tile
ruins without the smallest injury, and were of time first
to " see after the stock and secure the property." Their
miracidotis escape is be attributed to this most singular
intervention ; the velocity of the atee, in a ratio con-
trary from its design twisted it mit of its pivots, and as
the inill %veered he,ore its m,cipitation, the axle reached
the ground first—eased the fall of the structure, amid left
the upper story nearly entire. The mill belongtd to Sir
Aldner; it was let ott a repairing lease. Tene-
ments so leased are not often found iu the best repair—
All that the neighbours say on the suljeet is, that they
never expected it to have stood against tue storms of tile
last ten years.

Oa Thursday about twelve o'clock, trhikt the maid
servant of Nit.. Smith, Loot dud shoe-maker, or 45, Wel-
lington-street, Clerkenwell, was gone un au errand, she
left the street dont open, when some stiraltitig %lOM's
went into the parlours and stole a silver watch, value cix
guineas, and CS(.3l)Cii 1111dISCOVered. loiminalion was
immediately gisvn of the rubbery :It .lilC I`..llCe•UfliCe,
liation-garden.