The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-08 00:00:00

STONEIIAVEN.

From the violence of the easterly storm between
Saturday and Sunday, a run of the heaviest sea that
has been seen here for a long time back, rolled into
our harbour, which is quite open to the storms from
that quarter, and is at best but poor shelter fur ves-
sels during the winter season. About one o'clock
on Sunday, u small sloop, belonging to Win. Smart,
of this piaee, broke from her moorings, and was dri-
ven with such haw upon the beach beyond the
liarbolr. that, in the course of a few minutes, she
was literally dashr.d to pieces—scarcely a plank or
deal in the whole hull but was broken into different
parts. She had on board 163 barrels of cured her-
rings, all of whiell, except casks, are totally lost.
None of the crew were on hoard at the time she
broke loose, or they must undoubtedly have perished.
Mr. Alexander's sloop also broke from part of her
moorings, but him:mitt:ly her head rope stood firm
until she got re-tlistemd, or she must have shared
the same tate as the other; bat unluckily the head-
ropes of Smart's vessel gave way first, when she
instantly swung round beaire both wind and water.
The greatest part of her standing rigging end sails
arc saved.

The late storm has been severely telt along the

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North Devon coast. On Thursday a flshing•boat
belonging to Clove!ly, with seven men, was lost in
sight of that romantic village, one only being saved.
This melancholy accident is much embittered by
the reflection, that the six untitrtunate individuah
have all left behind them wives and families to the
extent altogether of 35 children! One of the men
was culled Brent, and fnmerly at tended Dock mar.
ket. Several other he ring boats were dispersed
different directions, some being driven on the oppo..
site coast. An American ship possed up channel on
Thursday, laden with cotton ; she had on board five
men, taken off the meek of a brig laden with timber
in the Chops of the Channel. These men report
their ‘essel have been laid on her beam ends in a
gale of wind, but ou her masts being cut away rhu
righttsl, when two of the crew fell overboard and
were drowned. The survivors remained on the
wreck, living on raw salt Pork 14 days, when the
American vessel happily fell in with them.

The Fowls have remained in a state of depressiwa
during the past week, although the panic that origin.
ally produced it does not appear to base spread into tLet
country, Fri as to has e produced from thence, as had
beiin expected, any rentarkal.a influx of orders for the,
sale of stork. Tne prices are now as lOW as they were
at that mentor:de period, the eve of the negricaimi for
the last loan,- when a sudden rise of 3 or 4 per c. ni.
produced constapiences so disastrsus to the speculators
fur a fall. That similar results will now ensue, it would,
however, be hazardous to predict. The arguments ou
which the advoctres for a further fall rely, are, the
altered state of the country, her distreised commerce and
haulml troubles; to wliich are addial, an increasing
ratio of expense, combitiiiig, with the dimilatilion of the
revenue, to induce a further claim by the Goverment
on resources already exhausted, or taxed to the utmost.
To these the oilier party oppose the assertion, founded
on experience, that the very extent and activity of our
COf 111111111 l to these seasons of distress; that a
reaction is certain, and will bring with it prosperity to
our commerce, and improvenieut to our finances, its
the Fame proportion that both have suffered ; that the
popular tumults, confined to allow districts, will shortly
be suppressed by the arm of power, and that their future
recurrence will be presented by some wise and powerful
legi ilative eitattments, that gloomy pies-ages are but too
shoran, ristie of the country, and that all (lasso, of pet.
so s en;:tizerl in the speculations of •rce, or of-the
too ley mat ket, and %%Ito have destamded of the coun-
try, will eagerly turn their views, on the least change o 6
circumstaitces, in an opposite direction. At the Stock-
exchange motley has been extremely abundant, and
money stock so scarce as to produce little difference its
value netweett that and the purchases made for the
account.. The rate of continuation, in capital so em-
ployed, has not produced more than 2 or 3 per cent.—
lite public, it is believed, have not generally been sellers
of stock those who possess it hesitate at disposing of it
at the present prices; though it does not appear, on the
other hau.d, that those who had prof ously sold are
inclined to reinstate themselves; the majority, partaking
of the existing panic, hold nut in the expectation of a
fitrther depression. Standard gold a now at 78s. tiil•
tile ounce, and -would be still higher, but the demand
Cor it is extremely limited.—

We are sorry to state, that the Rhine packet,
from Hamburgh, which arrived at Leith on Thurs-
day, brought accounts that the Albion packet, from
Leith to Hamburgh, had run ashore on the coast of
Holland. We learn that Captain Hosie, of the
Rhine, on his passage down the Elbe, spoke a
Blankanese bout, who related the untimtunate
circumstance. With the exception of the sugar,
the greater part of the cargo is saved, and there are
also hopes the vessel may be got off.
Thursday an experiment tock place at the Royal
Arsenal Woolwich, of a t.ew method of plating
sights on the guns and carronades used on board
ships of war, thereby affording a greater facility in
pointing those weapons. The invention is 1L..:: of
Gen. Sir William Congreve, and, it is said, is very
superior to any thing that has hitherto been pro-
duced. Admiral Sir C. Rowley, Sir H. Blackwood,
the Hon. Cspt. 81)4:neer, and several other distin-
guished Military and Naval 01:leers, were present.

Wednesday a brace of partrik:es lodged in the
burying-ground belonging to Mount street work-
house, near l'ark-lane, which WAN ol•scrvcd by a
Gentleman whose windows overlooked the same,
and shot one, but the other escaped.

SACRILPGE.--011 Nloutley night last, the west porch
i.f convict, ~tripped of Al
the C,,I;1,1.1111t4 of scvcral itunrind .ecight.
t• • I the ittliaiiitants of llit•Pa Ivor.
th• •., c. es. been stroogly exci.eil by the dig.
emery rc:ltir,! to a utactice
ten ccn:•• .••• ! in booloii, to ti!)tii,ti what are
c.illei: •‘ •ei, atiaioniists, and for which pur-
pose, there ,s ro:lodar el4as inen, salted " Resurrre-
lion WM.' Ort Ihr uikut of Flltia, or early
nn satorday 'minutia. the etitt.cit-y arch of the parish of
tit. Augustine seas emceed hs some persons unknown.
who eartied aw Jr. the Colllnt. 10 a ft Walt% which ti sit
been interred 011 11 te preceding 'horning. The vestry of
the parish have offered 3 reward of fifty goincas for the
discos erj and couriction of toe ottuders.

AIRS. 11.4NM1n .VORE.
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Among the merttatious individuals who are RC.
titely etnpleyed in stemuyins. the tide of blas-
yhemy and impiety, is the celebrated Hannah
More. We understand the fallowing produe.ion,
which is widely circulated amen,' the lower classes
of society, is from the pen ut that meat exemplary
• Lady

ACCot7 T of THE LIFEANp DEATH

OF MR. THOMAS PAINE.
'The life of this onhappy man affords a striking ex-
ample of the came of Mal peinciples as he professed
1114.11 the moral. onniliact. He began his carerr.in life
with defraudint a public office in London, in which he
had been employed, and irons which he was come-
ipiently obliged to fly. It brio less a fact, that his next
employer was under the necessity of dismissing him
from his house, for loose and immoral conduct o int
his wile. 'Vier- his. cscipe from Franc', where he
played a dissiacefral and wicked part, he took up his re-
sidence in Aincriet, where 1w is thus described lw Mrs.
Dean, with, whom lie lodged ' lie next r. failed to
yet drunk duly, and even in his sober motuetits con
ate +tly iliviiriwil.the peace. rind destroyed the comfort
of. the family by his brutal violence and detestable
thiness: On leaving her, he next engaged in a firm,
hiring an old black w an to attend him, who lived
with hint, however, but hirer weeks. Like her master
the was every day drunk, aii4l.o.ten would they lie pros-
trate upon the same floor, swearing and threactaiug to
fight, though incapable, from extreme i 111 l rxication,. of
approaching each other. His next servant, a poor old
woman, was obliged to prosecute hint fur the autuuut it

ber wages.
" During the whole of the year preceding his death,
he never failed to get drunk twice a. day. it appears
likewise by a reproachful letter which was sent to loin
from a brotherjacoldu and infidel, .who had loaded Mtn
%volt tavonrs, which he repaid wOa the vilest ingrati
Lide, and who had lent hint money, which he would
never repay at ill, that he had seduced a Fiench woman
away from her husband, and afterwahls refusud to an-
swer the debt be had contracted for her board mid
isxt awl exulted glt ha% ing been Use runt (A the man
woo vainly sued him for it. The letter then proceeds
us describe the nauseous and disgusting situation front
which this-friend had relieved hint, in doing which,
*ernes of such detestable filthiness are disclosed, as de-
cency forbids our exhibiting to public view. How far
Paine maintained his infidel principles to the close of
his life, and the effect thry.produced upon hits at the
near approach of death, we shall gather lions the fol-
lowing account given by Dr.Manley,uhu attentle.l.l
his last illness

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6' During the hitter part of his life he s.multl not allow
his curtain to be closed at any time, and when it un-
snoidahly happened that he was felt alone by day or
by night, he would Serth•ls and halloo till some person
rime to hint. There W 415 something reutarkatile in his
conduct about this period (which Cafillprift a tile fortnight
ittimed:atelv before his death), whet) we reflect that
'Thomas Paine was author of several books denying
our Loral Jesus Christ, and deriding every part of re-
vealed religion. He would call out during his 'U-
pham* of distress, without itttermission,.• aLtird help
roe! God help in, ! Jesus Cheist help me!: Ste. re-
peating the same express' without the least variation,
and so al toss( of voice that would alarm the house.
Two or three days before hisdeatii, when he WAS COP-
at.totly excls• • g the words alsovemietitiontd, Dr.
:dinky said to him, ' What must we think of your
present conduct? Why do you call upon 3esti
Christ to help :;.;,,t I).i you believe Chit he can help
you? D you believe in the dim jolty of Jesus Chest?
Give me an answer as from the lip of a dying men !•
Paitte made no reply , best to a Lady who •constantly
visited and r, here', him on Ins.death-bed„ after asking
her if she hail read one of kis works, and being answered
%hat she thought it the most wicked book.she haul ever
seen, and had therefore burnt it, he replied, • That he
%%Alta all who had read it had been:equally wise ; ad-
d u
' if ever the Devil had an agent upon earth,.l am
that men V

On the sttlt of June, rang, died this ntiserahle repro-
bate, aged 72 years, who, at the close of the 18th ctn•
tiny, endeavoured to persuade the
England to think, that all. was wrong in that Govern-
ment, and that it %hick their forefathers had
tratta.nitted to them. For the sake of Engtand and ho-
-I,,anity, it is to he svialted that his itrilinsturca and his
unman/ may rot tortethee.