The National Register.
London, England, 1808-07-24 00:00:00

PROVINCIALS.

We have accounts from different parts of the country, commu-
nicating numerous distressing consequences of the late extraordi-
nary heat of the weather. A man, at Corby, Lincolnshire, on
Wednesday se'nnight, while hoeing thistles, was so overcome by
the heat that he died in the field.—A woman ettlpioyed in mak-
ing hay in a field adjoining the town of llontingdon, complained
of being ill from the heat, and died before she could get home.—
A woman at Bellesdon, in Leicestershire, on Wednesday, died
of the c vcessive heat.—Two haymakers, who had been working
in a field near Hampstead, were found dead ; and three persons,
belonging to the same place, are sutfrring so severely from the
same cause, as to render tacir recovery doubtful.—The horses
in Mr. Pattersen's carriage, going to Cromer, stopped on the
road, unable to proceed, and on unharnessing them, one fell
lifeless.-1 no horses in the mail coach, between Grautham and
Newark, died while in harness.—Ota, of the horses in the Yar-
mouth coach died on stopping at Norwich.—Two horses belong-
ing to Mr. Fawcett, of the George Inn, Stamford; and one the
property of Mr. Roodhouse, of the same plate, died on the
road; as did a post-horse belonging to Mr. Bone, of Dereham,
in Noreol k. •
A waterspout lately broke .near Kirkconnel, N. B. It
thus described in a letter from SKuquhar :—" In the afternoon,
a large black cloud appeared to test on the hill of Cor.encon,
which soon shifted and stood over the coal-pits, about two
miles from that place, when a whirlwind, apparently rising
directly below it, appeared to shake the cloud. At this instant
a loud and confused noise was heard, and the water immediately
descended with great velocity, in an awful and tremendous man-
ner, tearing up the ground and stones of an immense size,
wherever it touched. Those who witnessed this scene describe
the water descending from a considerable height, in broketi
columns rolling over one another, which, when it approached
near the earth, terminated in a small point, in an inverted
conical shape. The day was uncommonly warm and sultry,
scarcely a breath of wind could be felt."
t urn,. S roast.—On Friday se'nnight, about nine in the
eve Gins;, there was a storm, near Glastonbury, in Somersetshire,
in its appearance and consequences exceeding any thing that has,
for a long series of years, been known to this country. The
thunder and lightning were tremendous ; and the shower of hail,
Well formed a part of this tremendo" phenomenon, was of a
nature which wnuld scarcely justify belief, if we had nut a per-
fect confidence in the Gentleman who communicated the account.
The storm appeared to have spent its chief fury between Piper's
Inn, on the road (ruin Welts to Brikewater, and the village of
Ashgale. Here the corn was laid flat; the roads were inun-
dated; the apple-trees, which abound in that country, sere
stripped not only of their fruit, but of their very leaves; and
almost every pane of glass in the latter village was broken. rite
larger hail-stones, which were of an irregular form, measured
tiz inches in circumference ; and the lesser ones, or rather halls
of ice, %%ere about half that size. The inhabitants were so
much aliumed at this extraordinary visitation, that they trem-
bled for their lives; and few of them,_ to use their own expres-
sion, expected to behold the room of day.