The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-28 00:00:00

COUNTRY NEY'S

LEEDS, JAN. 25.

EAS-LV in the morning of Thursday last, it blew
the most dreadful hurricane, accompanied with rain,
that was ever remembered in this or any other part
of the county; The damage done is very consider-
able ; chimnies, roofs of houses, and even houses
themselves in some parts did not outs-6nd its fury.
At the entrance into the town of Wakefield, a large
barn was rased to the ground ; the garden walls, and
several of the largest trees at Seacroft House, the
residence of Charles Clapham, Fci. the newly-ered-
ed wind mill upon Yeadon Moor, a dwelling_house
nehr Hunslet Turnpike, and two at Beeston, met a
similar fate. Within two miles of Halifax, the
York and Leeds mail coach was blown over and
broken to pieces ; ar Manchester, we hear, a house
was blown down, and five persons buried in its
ruins. To e -.limerate the different places where
damagohas been done, woul'l be as impossible as to
compress in our limits an estimate on the subject.

LIVERPOOL, JAN'. 25. -
On Thursday morning, betW-een one and two
o'clock, the most dreadful storm of wind arose from
the Westward ever remembered by the oldest inha-,
bitant in this town or neighbourhood, and conti-
nued with equal or increased violence until three
o'clock in the afternoon, in which many sloops,
some laden, others in • ballast, were sunk at their
anchors between the Old Dock quay and the Foet ;
boats beaten to pieces on the beach, as %veil as larger
craft; the sloop Peggy, of Greenock, Capt. McLean,
laden with provisions from Cork, was driven on
shore dear the Half-mile House, ;here she went on
lie-: beam ends and soon filed with water, the crew
(six in number), with a gentleman and six soldiers,
passengers and the Pilot, lashed themselves to the
mast and rigging, and remained there a consider-
able time; not fifty yards from the shore, in sight
of many spectators, who, in vain, attempted relief,
but were unable to afford any, from the violence of
the storm and tremendous surge of the sea, and me-
lancholy to relate, the pilot, passengers, and crew,
were all unfortunately drowned, except one, who
was washed on shore-nearly exhausted, but was hap-
pily' recovered. The tide flowed near six feet
higher than mentioned in the Tide-table. The de-
vastation.committed by the storm on the houses in
the town is beyond description, scarcely any but re—
tains some marks of its unprecedented fury ; fifteen
new built small houses in Chissenholme,street, and
others in the neighbourhood of Vauxhall-road, were
levelled to the ground ; the roof of a gentleman's
house in Bold-street was beat in, by the stack of
chimneys falling, which broke through the roof and
floors down to the tea-room ; another house in
Price's-street, suffered the like disaster, in which a
woman in the last stage of pregnancy was killed by
the ruins whilst in bed with her husband and two
children, the latter escaped with some contusions :
a gentleman in Ranelagh-street had not quitted his
bed many minutes before it was completely covered
by the chimneys, which falling, penetrated through
the roof; but the most wonderful mark of preserva-
tion was, that of a gentleman in his bed at Everton,
who, by the falling of the chimneys; was entirely
overwhelmed by them, but, as if by the special
care of Providence, two of the large coping stones
from the chimney top fell in such a manner as to
form a kind of arch over his head, and thereby
preserved his life; a contusion -and several bruises
were the unavoidable consequence, but we are happy
to say that he is in a fair way of recovery, though
the weight of the rubbish was so great as to break
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thebedstocks on which he lay, and to force a pas-
sage through the floor into the room below ; the
houses in Bedford-street, Harrington, Edge-hill,
Low-hill, and Everton, and their neighbourhoods,xu
have suffered severely in their roofs and
many ofzhem being completely uncovered, and the
garden walls levelled with the ground ; indeed there
is scarcely any part of the town that has escaped its
fury : the same, we learn, has been the case in all
the neighbouring townships: in Halewood many
trees torn up by the roots, and barns thrown down
or uncovered; in Simondswood, a new Luilt brick_
house, and many other houses, barns, and shippons,
thrown down and completely destroyed ; in Down
Holland, we also learn, the like disaster took place,
as well as at Crosby ; and the venerable church of
Sefton, that has stood upwards of iOOO years, has
lost about 5-feet of its spire, with the weather vane,
which is blown down on the body of the building.