The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-09 00:00:00

DREADFUL STORM.

( Extract of a Letter from Chester, dated the 7th inst.)

Most deeply do I regret that it is my unpleasant task to ac-
quaint you of a tremendous storm that took place on the night
of Thursday last and yekerday morning, in this city and neigh-
bourhood, and the town of Liverpool. It commenced here
about 10 o'clock, p.m., and continued with increasing violence
till 4 o'clock,'.a.m., during which period the roofs of a great
number of hoUses'ivere in a great measure removed, and several
inhabitants with difficulty escaped with their lives, in conse-
quence of the falling in of. chimneys, &c. Meadows were and
are ' greatly overflowed : a 'boat on the river Dee, with corn
to the 'Dee mills, was upset, and the two people therein, a
man and woman,. drowned ; The event took place two miles
distance from the city ; but I have the satisfaction to observe,
that not one life is lost in the city, and no one materially in-
jured in person—though many were in most imminent danger,
from the falling of the roofs, &c. • 'With regard to Liverpool,
I regret to say, that a more melancholy picture presenth itself,
viz. Mr. Dixon of Everton's two daughters, about II and 13
years of age, were killed by the falling of chimneys ; Mr.
Yates's house, Seal-street, the servant's mother killed from the
same cause—the daughters escaped by leaping out of the win-
dow : Mrs. Worrell, of. Upper Islington, was sitting in her
parlour, and was, by a similar accident, crushed
.into a cellar.,
and buried in the ruins, from whence she was extricated, a dread-
fully mangled • corpse : her two daughters were 'also consider-
ably hurt. In Strand-street, a chimney also fell in and killed
a woman, and much hurt a man. Sign-boards were torn from
the houses, and drifted .in some instances to a considerable
distance; and much mischief was done in' Liverpool to the
roofs of dwelling-houses and other buildings. I do not enter
on the losses sustained by the owners of shipping, on the river
Mersey,- as represented to the underwriters in Liverpool, as it
will be probably better communicated to the public than in my
power. Hatton Hall, near Waverton, belonging to the Mar-
quis ChohnondeleY, near Chester, was blown down—no
.lives
lost, but twenty cheeses, about 901 b.-each,.-each, dispersed to atoms.
I now come to the most melancholy circumstance of all, the
loss of the Elsernere steam-packet, a total wreck, which sailed
from Liverpool at three o'clock on Thursday evening for Else-
mere port, Cheshire, with, 22 passengers 'on board, 9 of whom
are lost, including Captain Dial-mind, who, in the act of taking
off his great coat, iii order to endeavour to save his son and
himself from being washed overboard, and unable to gain the
shore with Thomas Patten the blind fidler, whose wife was
saved, as well as Mr. Burt, a very eminent miniature painter
(whose son was lost), the engineer, a black and another of the
crew, and three otheri, they leaping instantaneously into the
flat, as it passed; whose- stem cut the :team-packet, and even-
tually occasioned her loss. W. H. F.

P.S. To the Funds of the Ladies' Clothing Committee for
the Relief of the Distressed Irish Peasantry, the Hon. and
Rev: Mr: Dymocke, his Majesty's Champion, has very hand-
somely contributed,as also the Dtichess Dowager of Rut-
land ;—the Female Friendly Society at Kingston upon Thames,
a Society established for the Relief of Poor Widows and chiefly
maintained, by wealthy ladies, has contributed 1461. 15s. Bd.,
and the poor MemberS themselves have given 1/. 2s. 6d. The
Ladies of Kingston upon Hull, Derby, Leicester, Plymouth,
St. Neott's, have likewise contributed largely. The Ladies of
the Stair Corps, at' Hythe, have also made a collection, to
which the •Soldiers" Wives contributed their pence; and the
Soldiers' Children assisted in making up the clothing_

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Dec. 7.

Foreign-Office, Dec. 4, 1822.
The King has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Francis Re-
Binald Forbes, late Secretary to his Majesty's Legation at the
razils, to be his Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court
of Denmark.

Whitehall, Dec. 3, 1828.
The King has been pleased to appoint Alexander Murray,
Esq. to be Sheriff Depute in the Shire of Aberdeen, in the room
of Mr. Alexander Noir, resigned.

Crowp-Offlee, Dec. 7, 1822.
MEMBER returned to serve in this present Parliament.
County of Salop—John Cressett Pelham' of Cound Hall
and of the Castle in Shrewsbury, in the said county of Salop,
Esq. in the room of Sir John Kynaston. Powell, Bari., de-
ceased.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
T. Slyvester, Witney, Oxford Shire, currier, Dec. 17, at ten,
at the house of R. Bartram, Oxford.

J. Day, Fenebureli-buildings, merchant, from Nov. 30, to
Jan. 13, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
J. Armstrong, Reading, Berkshire, linen-draper.
ILANKRUPTS.
_ _ _

R. Errington, Hexham, Northumberland, -butter-factor, to
surrender Dec. 30, 31, and Jan. 18, at ten, at the Bush Inn,
Hexham. Attornies, Mr. R. Adams, Verulam-buildings,
Gray's Inn, London ; and Mr. Friend; Hexham.
T.Turner, Saundridge, Hertfordslirre, timber-merchant, Dec.
10, 17, and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Cointhissioneis„
London. Attornies, Mr-Roche; Charles.-street, Covent-gar-
den,
London ; Mr. Piggott, St. Alban's, Herts. • •
IV. Crisp, Brainfield, Suffolk, grocer, Dec. 23, at four, 24,
and Jan. 18, at eleven, at the New Swan, Southwold, Suffolk.
Attornies, Mr. B. Pugh, Bernard-street, London ;. and Messrs.
White and Woodcocke, Halesworth.
J. Wiltshire, Woottori-Bassett, Wiltshire, draper, Dec. 20,
at seven, 21, and Jan. 113, at one, at the Angel Inn, Wooton-
Bassett. Attornies, Messrs. Thompson and Jay, Gray's Inn-
place, London ; and Mr. Mullings' Wootton Bassett. -
J. Wiltshire, Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, sadler,' Dee. 20,
at four, 21, and Jan. 18, at ten, at the Angel, Inn, Wootton
Bassett. Attornies, Messrs. .Thomson and Jay, Gray's Inn.
place, London ; and Mr. Mullings, -Wootton Bassett.
L N. Browne, Manchester, cotton'-spinner, Dec. 24, 26, at
one, and Jan. 18, at nine, at the Bridgewater Arms Inn, Man-
chester. Attornies, Mr. Edge, Manchester ; and Messrs. Milne
and Parry, Temple, London.
W. Heap, Cobbers Nab, Bury, Lancashire, calico-printer,.
Dec. 23, 24, and Jan. 18, at one, at the Bridgewater Arms
Inn, Manchester. Attornies, Mr. Edge, Manchester; and
Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple.
J. Austin, Berkhampstead, St. Peter, Hertfordshire, coach-
maker, Dec. 10, 21, and .Jana 18, at eleven, at the Court of
Commissioners, London. Attornies, Messrs. Williams and
Goddard, Gray's Inn-place.
T. Jones' Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, innholder, Dec.
19, 20, and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Black Horse Inn, Wor-
cester. Attornies, Mr. Becke, Devonshire-street, Queen-
square ; -and Mr, Hill, Worcester. .•
IV. Cotterill, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire, farmer, Dec
12, at five, 13, and Jan. 18, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Tewkes-
bury. Attornies, Mr. G. Edmunds, Exchequer Office, Lincoln's
Inn ; and Mr. T. Williams,' Winchcomb.
W. Balster, Sherborne, Dorsetshire, maltster, Dec. 14, 21,
and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. At-
torney, Mr. Nicholls, Great Winchester-street, Broad-street,
London.

P. C. Hawkes, Little Abingdon-street, Westminster, coal-
merchant, Dec. 17, 21, and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Court
of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. Orchard, Gray's Inn-
square.

J. Shackle, Milk-street, Cheapside, hosier, Dec. 14, 21, and
Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies,
Messrs. Pearce and Son, St. Swithin's-lane.

DIVIDENDS.

Jan. 8. R. Lucas and H. Lucas, Southampton, linen-drapers
—Dec. 28, G. Daniel and W. Cross, Birmingham, merchants.
—Dec. 28, J. H. Sniiffi, Bristol, auctioneer.—Dec. 28, J. M.
Fuller, Worthing, linendraper.—Jan. 18, J. Turnbull, J.
Forbes, R..A. Crawford, and D. Skene, Broad-street, London,
merchants—Jan. 21, J. 'Williams, Comb',ll, London, stationer
—Jan 18, T. and R. Wood, W. Troughton, Smitham Bottom,
Coulsden, Surrey, brewers—Jan. 3, W. S. Horton, ROchdale,
•Lancashire, woollen manufacturer—Jan. 4, P. C. Fletcher and
T. Fletcher, Queenhithe, London, coal-merchants—Jan. 18, G.
Whitehead, jun., and G. Clarke, Basinghall-street,, Blackwell
Hall-factors—Dec. 31, W. Chafer, Kingston-upon-Hull, gro-
cer—Dec. 17, S. Palmer, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucester-
shire, mercer—Dec. 28, D. Stevens, Harlow, Essex, linen-
draper—Dec. 28, W. Lloyd, sen. and W. Lloyd,, jun. Lower
Thames-street, slopsellers—Dec. 31, J. Johnson, Sculcoates,
Yorkshire, corn-factor—Dec. 14, N. Bliss, Water-lane, Fleet-
street, London, printer.
CERTIFICATES, DEC. 28.
J. hewer, Little Windmills-treet, Golden-square, Middle-
sex, carpenter—J. C. Howarth; Bristol, dealer—G. H. Ed-
wards, Craven-street, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, wine-merchant
—J. Beley, Birmingham, dealer—J. G. Bidwell, Exeter,
wine-merchant.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. H. Walters and. H. Neale, Fleet-street, warehousemen—
M. A. Goeity and S. E. Reed, New Charlton-street, Sent,
ladies boarding-school mistresses--J. Palmer and R. Knight,
Wood-street, Cheapside—B, Butler, sen. and H. Powell, Bir-
mingham, rule-makers—W. Linton, Waterloo-place, Com-
mercial-road, St. George's, East, and .1. Fitch, Old-road,
Stepney, auctioneers—J. J. Cole and S. Green, Pye-gardens,
Bankside, Surreys sawyers—W. Field and J. Reeve, Red-
ditch, Worcestershire, needle-makers--W. Allen and S. Hard-
grave, Greenwich, Kent,' coal-merchants--H. Wheatley and
Co. Gteat Garden-street, Whitechapel-road, silk-dyers—J.
Salter and J. S. Foster, Kington.upon-Thames, Surrey, ale-
brewers. •