The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-18 00:00:00

THILVDER 3Z'OLMS IN SCOTL.I.NI).

ABERJSOUR, AUG. 12,—During the thunder storill
on the 3d curr.nt, at t M. the lightning st:ock
two houes, connected by a mutualgable,tkr the
.shore,
,at Aberdour, in Fkle. The wholes brilildhk,'?
about, 70 leet long, and .e 4 broad, w.as enveloped, tot
an, instant :ill a blaze: An intense part of the light-
ning, entered the west gable, about , tin ee' feet toohl
; the corner„ proceeded downward through the heart
of the p issedAhrough an oaken lintel of a
wall pre43, part of which appears as if chaired,
melted-a prass candlestick, standing below, in eight
different places, and
.tore the shelves in every di rec-
Jinn: In the middle of the building a partition was
rent from top to bottom, in two places, so as 10
admit one's hand, and numberless fragments of
bricks and litne were found on the opposite window
sash, all the panes of v hichwere broken, and pieces
of the gl4-ii torced outward 20 feet (runt the %AL.
' On r,eturning to air upperapartment, which she had
not left, above hie wittu4es; w-oroan fbinfd the chair
on. which site had sat overturned, part of the flax she
id been spinning scorched, a .cotton shawl' whicb
lay on a chest, with hole burnt in it of 14 inches di,
qiineter, a wooden clock dashed on the ,fionr, and a
.largl,oblique section of the jamhin shiver:l on the
hearth where her wheel stood; a linnet in a wire
cage Within three fret of the window, and directly'
opposite two pates which were broken, escaped, kind
from the midst of dust and smoke, serenaded its
owner immediately on her appealing. Of 184e;.-
sons in the Iwo houses, all were so stunned by the
lightning' .'-.nit oily one-rtnetulrered the loud, clap,
IA hich appeared simultaneous; yet, excepting a cut
on the himier part of ii.ehead and a ,contusion of her
. face, occasioned by the fragments forced from the'
' gable and partition-walls, and a slight strain of the
knees, frorn.having been, thrown vio:ently on the
flour, sustained by three of them, no injury as re.
ceived. A tremendous hail shower immediately
precc:ef.A the ligh:ning,,
.The baro`meter stood at
inch Qgi, thentameter, Fahren. at 6g de°
grecs._

.../VEEabErtc,, AtTG. 12.-7-Yesterday morning we
hdd a violent thunderstorm, wh;ch continued about
two hoUrs ; during part of vs/ 4ich the peals were
un-
counuonly fond, and the ,lightning, very vivid; fop,'
t ungely: Aye have heard of no serious accident attend-
ing it. A wonmn, in going.9tr.-,‘..:3r1y to tether some
cows„ near the bridge of, ,Dee:,. had the hair of he
head 311110,2 completely singed off, and fainted froas
the fright her narrow escape,bbd eccabioneci.

INV Rtr.ss, A.(;G. 1 .—..oa the afternoon ofTii-
d.74.-.s! came on itere a dreadful storm at thofifkc
and lightning, nccompanied. by 2 heavy fall of rain,
and, in stNeral,payts of the country, with,tiail-stotles
of an unchnunonly largesize. Weare Sorry to learn,
that the corn has conscauently been lodged in nony.
places, and that considerable damage has.otherwise
been sustained. A tremendous water-spout was oli-
serVed to burst to the westward of bingwall ; and Ivo
are inforMed that about 40 sheep were killed by ti)
lightning ro the Aircl, and that tram 20 to 30 shale'
the same fate in UrqUhart.

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SHIP NEU'S.

GRAVESEND, AUGUST 16:

Arrived—the Pulius -Ca2sar, Fold, 'and Aeadne,
phreys, from Charlestown; -Woodman; Armstrong, ham
Quebec ; Llleu, 'Watson, from tIo Brazils ; Frances arid
Eliza, Gibbon, Maria, Jacob, and fren
Lisle n ; awl the Three Brothers, Kay, from Malta.'
Sailed—the Lady Carrington,-,----,,t0 the Cape. •