The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-27 00:00:00

7-fiGri TIDE.

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Yesterday afteirndon, abont half past one c.:-.1.0cW,
.was r).ne.of the highest tides ever rent inbert,.ls.y
oldest waterman on. the river-Thai-nes.
rowed into Palace and Little Scotland Yard4..ll:d !..e
wt,ter through (he sewers filled moss of this csellis
about the Horse-Guards anti other houses in PAia-
mentastreet. The weather; forninately, was quite
calm, so that no damage whate..er a..s sustainin.i on
any part of the river, the
heightened by the fineness of the dty,
beautiful speetacie. to thouiliids of persons v. ho
sembled on the bridges and i'arious other phtues to
behold it. • ,

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

INtmtiArios.7--The Spring tide rose yesterday„ at
,two o,'Lloek, to such a height, that the sower p.A.t.
Wapping Was laid under water. Higher up the racer;
the etFeots of this overflow on the part of Old Ft!iter
Thames were not less conspicuous. The whole ,of
.56tland,Yard was covered with y,ater, and the cel-
lars and kitchens 114 that quarter; as well as in Parlia-
ment-street, were completely filled. The inundirion
reached'to the Horse-Guards, where the Par..e.,:e was
converted into a pond. In the two Palace- Yards it. 4
effeCts were equallj- conspieuOus. The lower part of
the Speaker's house was filled, and Hilher's and Oii-
vers. Coffee-houses were absolutely inaccessible. Ihp
moon was full, but the wind wa, westerly. H-1,1 it
been otherwise, the damages would have been incal-
culable. Fifteen years haveelapsed since those guar;
ters experienced such another visitation.

On Saturday morning last the rive? Stinchar, at
the town of Ballantrae, Scotland, ro•e to a. Frixii-
gious height, and overflowing the highway ti,r near-
, ly two linnafed yards at the south end of the bridge,
presented a scene of the Inostnistressing nature
ever seen there. At about eleven o'clock A.M.
while the gth Troop cif :;ie Ist Royal Dragoons, on
their route from Hatnilton to Leland, att&opted to
pass the waters, five of the horses, with their riders,
were borne down by the violat rapidity of the cur-'
rent. Accoutered as the men and horses were, and
encumbered with large heavy military clocil:.s,L al
ready saturated with the rain, it was' a considerable
time before the men got themselves disengaged from
their horses, and, during that interval; were 5,:1-!ti
frequently rolling over and over one another,
struggling for emstence in the raging and merailess
element. The inhabitants of Ballantrae, ever read.,
and active in the cause of humanity, exerted them•
selves in a manner that calls for•the thanks of the
country ; for, without their assistance, five 'brave
men, with their horses, had inevitab'y perished.--
,At the risk of their. lives they plunged into the wa-
ters, and happily succeeded in bringing four of t:te
•unfortunate men safe to the,shore fitth pt:or
fellow most providentially got on
,his feet, on a
higher bottom, 150 yards below the road, and stood
more than twenty minutes in the water Up the
stomach, until 'a boat was.bniur.,-ht from the town,
%Olen he was picked up by four 131111ntrae h 1,!!,,
thus rescued. out of a divadfully Li,in,
ur) which'
.he coqid 'have no -hupes of as
the waters were still continuing to rise cvery
,In the general ‘confusion and di;:ress,
spectators, by the 1)owe( of sympathy, i.vere dis 7 •
qualified from making accurate observations of every
particnlar,,and a doubt, prevails that there, is one.
man and a horse gone down to rise no More. The
rear of the Troop (who as yet had not time to c:os3
over), on perceiving the fate' of their companii.xis,
retired back into the town, where they remilined
until nine, o'clock at night, when that' got a! safely
over. One of the men who' sip happily escaped a fatL:, at
this time so certainly premature, is said to be a good
deal bruised, perhaps by the struggles of his horse.
Part of the troop'having got through, and part turn-
ed back, it cannot be known until they arrive at
Port Patrick whether or not there is Li man and
horse lost. - ,

. A curious. circumstance happened a shoft time
since at Limehouse, The wife of a poor man, of
the naMe.of Jasper, was much addkted to liquor;
. and whenever she could procure money used to de-
cal* and stay away as long as it lasted. About a
month ago, on her not re-appearing, after a full
week's absence, Jasper, his two sons, and two
daughters, became alarmed for the safety of the
fugitive.' At the expiration of the tomb day, a
neighbour. of Jasper's informed him that his wife
—was lying at the bone-house, having been taken out
of the Thames that niOrning in a vary putrilied state.
Jasper, accompanied by his eldest, son, and
claimed the body, which wa put into a shell, and
carried home. Being in very indigent circumstances, ,
he wag indebtec', to the assistance of a few charitable
neighbours in raising the sum of fifty shillings, when
the supposed Mrs. Jasper was de.cenlly interred. Two
days after; to the astonishment of Jasper and Isis fa-
mily, a friend informed him. that he saw his wife,
on the preceding day, at Dartford, drunk, in the
streets. Jasper was accordingly induced to send one
of his sons to Dartford, to 'inquire into this mysteri-
ous affair, where,, to his horror and astonidimen,
he found his mother in the situation described; when
she accompanied him home, swearing vengeance
against her husband for his cruel treatment. The
woman who was taken out of the river was the wife
of another man.

By.the official return of the number of sheep and
black cattle sold at the i-air of Balinasloe, in Ireland,
it appears that at the last fair there were 12,190
head of cattle brought to market, and 87,323 sheep,
which amounts to about 2000 of each description;
more than have been seen at any of the annual fairs
there for these six years past. It is also to he•seen
from this statement, that 7032 head of cattle re-
mained on the hands of the owners, and 23,171
sheep. Last year there were only 3003 bead of
cattle unsold; on each of the three preceding ear.,;
there were only two, three, and four hundred un-
sold ; . and in the:year 1801, the unsold cattle
amounted to 1504. The quantity of sheep return‘d
from the market with the owners bears no -
parison with any of the former years given in the
account : in 1801, the year of the. most dull sale
previous to the present, the unsold sheep atnunnted
to 8863 ; in 1804, the year of the briskeit, sale, only
1213 remained On hand, and last year there were
43GG unsold. The bare statement,, iroAe.er, is
given, and no cause assigned for this extr.:ordim:ry
bovines in the'sale at great market,