The Sun.
London, England, 1810-11-17 00:00:00

TUE STORM.

STAMPottp, Nov. 16.—The tremendous gale kas
done very extensive damage aniongst the timber in
the parks in the neighbourhood of Stamford. In the
• Marquis of Exeter's- beautiful domain more than.
' 100 large trees' haVe been bloWn down ; many of
them in avenues, the regularity of which is of course
destroyed by the chasms.
In Waleot tail, the estate of Nevile Noel, Esq.
400 trees are destroyed; and about the same num-
her in the park of Colonel Noel at Exton, and of the
Earl of Winehilsea at Burley-including in the lat-
ter an entire avenue of chesnuts. In Normanton
Park (`Sir Gilbert. Heathcote's)" 50 trees are blown
up by the roots, and about as many broken in half.
A Spinney below the house is ne'arly annihilated.
At the Earl of Westmoreland's 21 trees are lying
between. the Mansion7bouse and Moorhay-lawn, and
n
a great nmber in Apethborpe Park-sU.at Lutfen-
ham, 13 it BoUrti Abbey, (Mrs. Pochin's), 7 at
Stocken-hall, 300 upon and near the road between
Stamford and 'Leicester. Twelve hoe young elm.
trees on Miss Tryson's estate, at Gaston, were torn.
up by the root; and more thaw 50 ;yards of her
garden wall, which was planted with chOice fruit-
trees, blown down.
Two post-chaises were bloWn over between Slam-
ford and Bourn of Mr. Charles Allen's house,
in Littleworth Drove, blown down.—Scarcely a
-water-engine at D'ennittgton and neighbourhood but
was so much injured as to be now useless.
At Pilsgate, a poor house, the. occupier of which
(an old voman) had left it but a few minutes, was
entirely blown down. Mr. Hill, wooi§taplet,,of Urp-
pinghatn,' bad a fat beast killed;'by a hovel falling.
At BarroWden, a bo, was miraculously prese:vcd,
b) abeam protecting him in a space scincel;c large
enough to told him, whllst he was giving some tod
der to a beast in the hovel belonging to Mr. Shel-
ton. ' The animal was killed by the falling of the
hovel.
A summer-house belonging to Dr. Willis, at
Gretford, was beaten down by. a large tree being
blown upon it.
The chUrch at Sleaforci received so much damage,
that service could not 'be "pet tortned in non Sunday
last, and two houses, near the church .(one of
. them uccupiedi by -Mr. FOrbes) received material in-
jury.
Toe water was higher at Stamford,bridge, on
Sunday nig!it, than it:was in the flood of 1795'.
LOUTH, I 4.-I'he north coast of Lincokshire,frOm
the molitti of the. Humber to Sikegness, exhibits
such a scene of distresi, as has not been witnessed
uefore by the oldest man living. There are 16 vessels
cast on shore within the space of 4 miles, and not
more than two of -them are expeeled to be got oft'
one of them, a Prussian brig, for Lobdon with wheat,
went toipiecegyesterday, and the cargo is entirely lost.
The nuMber of poor souls Who hove pelished'l4 not
yet ascertained, bat every tide increases the awful
spectacle, by driving up several mangled corpses.
In the parishes of Surfjeet and Pinchbeck much
damage has been done : a breach of batik took place
.0 the. out tall of the Verimit's which destroyed
one of the arches, and the drain of course became a
receptacle-for salt water; and roust so continue until
such :lute as the bredci) can be secured; it is above
30 Seel froin'the bottom of the Welland.
Mr;William Beasley has lost many sheep, the
wheat seed which he had comafitted to the rote for
vegetation is destroyed, and
.his farm.reudered for a
long time uinfi: for tillage. His family were corn-
eetted to qiiit their house for Safety : a contiguous
cottage, with a:barn and other buildings, were wholly
swept -away-by the flood.
In the park at Pinchbeck, above 30 oaks have
been levelled with the earth. At. 'Bridgentl, between
Horbling and the . Forty-Foot, many large- trees
were blown down upon the 'road, so as for some
hours completely to intecrupt.passengers in carriages
or on horseback.

The late tempestuous deluge in Devonshire has
been dreadful to its consequences. The inhabitants
of Totness were driven to their upper chambers, in.
the dead of night, and most of the !iVe stock around
it perished. The houses in the village of 'Daglish
were nearly swept away ; and the Clarence stage-
coach found; in its way, the inundation so rapid,
that the passengers had scarcely tune to get out.atd
save themselves, by climbing np the trees -on the
road side;. the coachman, outside passengers, and
horses., were saved b.) turning back.
DOWTON sufficiently recovered to resume his
professional labours. He performed Cantwell on
Thursday last at the Lyceum, and last night Major
&in-geom. • •
Miss BEW, who appeared with so much success
at the Lyceum, as in the. Comedy of John
Bull, performed that charaaer again last night at
the same place, and fully confirmed the favourable
opinion, of the auuietice... .

. ..
It was said that Mrs. JORDAN was again to 'per-
form a few nighis at Coieni-GardenTheatre this
s'ason, but the report is now contradicted. The
public would, of course, be glad .to, see such an
aetiebs any where.

In the Court of King's Bench, Lord Et.Nrso-
ROUGH announced, that the Court had ordered, that
where bail came to justify on a debt exceeding 10001,
the hail should not be held to. justify for more than
10001. above the amount of the debt. This is a
wholesome regulation. His Lordship informed Mr.
WARREN, 'that in the case of the ReV. Mr. POVAH
and the Bishop of LONDON, th 4 Judges, on the
ground of law and precedent, were unanimously of
opinion that the Rule should be granted, which was
done accordingly.
Sir JAMES MANSFtEI4I) informed the Gentlemen
of the Common Pleas Bar, on Wednesday, 'that
the regulation with resped to the sum tor which bail
is to justify on account of costs, recently adopted
in the Court of King's Bench by Lord EDLEN/30-
ROUGH, would be obseflied in the Court of Com-
mon Pleas.

An a& of suicide was committed on Wednesday
last by a young Gentleman of the most respe&ible
connedions in the City. It is said to have been
occasioned by the same speculations in the last
Loan,. which proved SO fatal. to the late Mr. A.
601.DSM1D.

r .!-L&AVI-1 PAPERS,

.4.
PARIS, Nov. s.—ft is reported that his ivAajeoy
will shoitly wake an excursion to Cherbourgn.

[From the Moniteur of Nov. 4.)

" Toulon Roids, iSto.

" SIR,—We have read in Nos. 282 afld 288 of
the Moniteur, under the London head, extraets from
the English papers, containing the very inaccurate
letter of Capt. Blackwood, which has excited the in-
dignation of the whole. They: will all affirm that
only one ship of the line, the Ajax, and the • Amelia
frgate; were able to get within.gun-shot of the.ene-
my's three vessels, on account of the total failure of
the wind at first, and its changing so much alier-
wards, that the enemy were to windward, and of
course had it in their power to begin the attack ; but
so far were they from wishing a renewal of the com-
bat, and bearing down for, thatipurpose or the Antlia
and Ajax, that they made 'all sail.
" The bravery of the sailors belonging to this
squadron is not at all inferior to that of the English;
and the time ✓ill perhaps come, when Captain
Blackwood will have occasion to give, a different
,proof of courage. from that which he has boasted.
It is not true that the flag-ship of 130 guns fired a
broadside upon this, Captain, or the other vessels;
if it had, they would have felt it. It requires the
English propensity to boasting to suppose that the
fire of three ships of, that nation could silence
the fire of six of ours, and oblige theca to make
; •

" There is not otie'of our Captains who does not
wish to be laid alongside. Captain Blackwood for an
hour," for the purpose of teaching him to ;hold his
tongue, or tell truth,. He has already had p-ools of
the superiority of our artillery over that of the En-
glish, since he has acknowledged that he had a Lieu-
tenant and seven men killed, 13 wounded, and that
on hoard the two ships of his Majesty's squadron,
which were cannonaded by the three English ships
of the line, the frigate, and •stoop, under the corn-
naand of Captain Blackwood, there was no one per-
son hurt.

"AN OFFICER of the MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON."

Op the 29th of last month all the men of war and
vessels in Brest displayed their Colours in honour of
the vi&ory obtalned at Co►mbra by the French army
of. Portugal.

BAMBERG, OCT. t3.-All the Colonial produce in
our warehouses was seized yesteiday.

FONTAINE/31:8AV', Nov. s.—Yesterday, SUndap
h's Imperial Highness Prince Louis Charles Napo-
leon, and the children of his Serene Highness the
Prince of Neufchatel, of t heir Excellencies the Dukes
of Montebello, Bassano, Cadote, Count de Cessac,
Dukes of Treviso, Bellurio, and Abrantes, and
Count Dejean, of M. M. Counts Beauharnois, Raw-
son, Daru, Ouchatel, Caffarelli, Lauriston, Lemar-
rOis, Defrance, Turenne, La Grange, and Gros,
Barons Curial, Colbert, Gobert, and Count Becker,
%ere held at the bapiismal font by their Majesties,
the Emperor and Empress, in the chapel of the Pa-
laee of Fontainbleau„ and .baptized by his Eminence
Cardinal Fesch, Grand Almoner,

Darimg Divine Service, M. M. Camw, appointed
to the Bishoprick: of Aix-la-Ch3pelle-..Costaz to that
of aan.cy—and Raillon to that of Orleans-0-took the
oaths before his Majesty. •
It is believed that the Court will not quit Fon-
tainbleau till the 20th or 25th of this ti,onth.

[A decree issued at Fontainbleau the Ist instant,
exempts from Custom-house duties, all colon* pro-
duce brought from the Isle of France, Batavia, and
the other colonies in the East and West Indies be-
longing to France, if they are direetly imported in
French or Dutch vessels.

• Colonial produce imported from the same places,
in American vessels, are only to pay a fourth of the
duties estabiished by the decree of the sth of Aug.
The decree is to have a retrospeCtive effett, and
to be in force from the sth of August, 1816.]
FRANKFORT, Nov. 2.—The measures adopted
here, respeding British metchandiie and colonial
produce, are also put in force in the kingdom of
Bavaria; They commenced.at Ratisbon on the night
of the 26th ult. All the warehouses and shops in
that city, dealing in such articles, were occupied by
soldiers, and shut.

LEIPSIC, OCT. '25.-7-It is reported that a Swedish
Edict will shortly appear, which will .not only adopt
the same theasures'respeamg colonial produce that
the other Powers attached to the Continental Sys-
tem have, but will also contain some very rigorous
regulations relating to British metchandize. Such
articles'are to be put out of circulation in every part
of Sweden.

PARIS, Nov. 9.77Dubourdieu, Capitaine de Va
seau, commanding the naval force in the Adriatic,
to his Imperial Highness Prince Eugene,, Viceroy
of Italy

•', Ancona, Oct: 26, 1810.
" MONSEIGNEUR,

" In Confdrmily to the orders of your Highness,
dated the .17th instant, I sailed from this port with
a naval division, consisting of the French frigates
the Favorite and the Urunie, commanded by M. M.
De la Meillerie and Maxgalle, the Italian. frigate la
2rong, the cart., t es /a Bellona .and Carolina, and
the brigs /ifeiairg and Jena, also Italian, command-
ed V M. M. Paschaligo, Duodo, Rodriguez, Pali-
cuccia, and Baratovich; having onboard a battalion
of the 3d Italian regiment of the line' and Colonel
Gifflingte, Aide•de-Camp of your Highness, des-
tined to command the troops when disembarked. '
" On the 20th, at seven in the morning, the
squadron sailing in two divisions, I encountered a
brig from the eastward, which I discovered to be a
ship Of war; the *itid was westerly, almost a calm
I chased it the whole day, and it owed its safety
only to the calm, and to its sweeps. In the night I
changed my course.
" On the 21st, when off the Isle of Lissa, I met
a second Brig, to which I gave chace; so as to cut
off hercommunication with the land, that she might
not give alarm. In the night I sent a boat to wind-
ward of the island, which took a fisherman, who
told me that the English frigates, 3 in number, were
on a cruise, and that there were in the. port le pri;
steers, and more than 60 prkze-vtaii3els, under the

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care of an En fel Offc'er find a Midshipman, with
about 200, men, out of the prizes.
" Oi. the 2:tcl I was off ,the pot of St. George,
in the Isle ot Lissa, which I en', re.i with 'tie tri-
gates La F,vorite and La Corona, and the cor-
vette La Belloita. I left the ,re.t of my sqiiadrocr
under sail, cruising at the mouth of the haruour.
" I hois,ed the English flag, the enemy's ves-
sels did the same, and a privateer, which sv.ts und(lit
sail entered at the same time with my dit ision.
" Upon the intbrination that there were no ships
of war, I ordered the troops to land under the cum-
[nand of M. M. Ganger and La Bedavere; I gave
to the Captain of the tiigaie, Larneillerie, t i.e charge
of conducting the disembarkation, with my. instruc-
tions and Orders to destroy, burn, and sink all the
vessels, except such as could befitted out and pUt to
sea without delay.
" At a quarter past 12, I anchored ; at the same
instant the troops landed, and the flag of his Ma-
jesty replaced the English fiat. W brought off
30 vessels, 10 of which are fine privateers, carrykg
100 guns ; leiving the ''rest of the vessels a,prey to
to the flarnea. Ihc troops took possession of the
isle, where they met with no resistance. I' Engli;h
garrison has been made prisoners.
" The object' of his Majesty being fulfilled, I. did
not think it my duty to weaken the crews of my
squadron, by bringing off the ten privateers anti
several vessels, though those destroyed were valued
by the enemy at more than 20 millions.
" Monseigneur, the result of this expelition) is
62 vessels burnt, of which 43 were loaded ; to
privateers, having in all too pieces of cannon, and
a quantity of arms of every kind, manned, sent
for Lesina, and concluded here; to vessels restored
to the subject of his Majesty; Illysian, Italian, and
LIN eapoli tan vessels, 14; 100 prisoners, and 25
French delivered, of whom 5 are' cannonieres.
The English squadron, consisting of three fri.
gates, one corvette, and two brigs, has avoided mea-
suring their strength
.with us. I
can assure your
Highness that officers-and crews were in the best
disposition, and very desirous of fighting.
" I shall have the honour of communicating to
your Highness the rnames of the officers who have
the best title to the favour of his Majesty.
" I have the honour to b.-!,
DUBOURPIEU."

Extract of a letter from a British Officer in Pot.-
4.1ga1

(.‘ G-4;veral Silveira has upwards of 20,000 men
under Ins command, almost entirely formed of the
militia. of the northern and centrical provinces,
which are famed for producing the best s :Itfiers in
Portugal : his force is dit ides.] into de,achtnents of
5,000 men each, commanded by British Officers.
Silveira occupies, Viseu, Celerico, ai:d Ponce de
IVlaicella, 'and incereepts. the communtc,tion with
Spain by the north of the E.:arena Mountains. Brls.
gather General Miller is at Leira. 'Brigadier-Gene-
ral Wilson has pushcd on to Thotriar, his left coin'.
•munc3ting with Abrantes, right with POlnbal Le;ra,
and the positions occupied by Silveira ; while Bri-
gadier General Trani is sta!iuned at Coimbr'a, and
observes the fords and passes of the Mnndeg,): thus
forming a complete cordon in the rear of ihe French.
It is nor, therefore, well possible- to conceive an
army in a more critical situation than that of Mas-
sena—in a confined and exhausted district—with
an army, in his front too formidable to be attacked--
and with all the passes in the rear occupied by
corps under the command of the most enierpri4m4
officers. His retreat, there:ore, seems as imprac-
ticable as his being able to maintain and provide lA'
his.army where lie now stanth. In addition to all
this, the rainy season is now on the point of com:-
mencing; when he will have, besides ihe military
combinations made against hitn, to combat toe
effects of weather, the most inclement and t..e•true-
live to;his troops; and when he will find it next to
impossible, in this country, to make any military
movement to extricate himself ; independ?nt of
every bridge and pass in his line of retreat being iii
our possession. Nor is this all; it .is said that
15,00 D Spaniards are advancing from Galicia.. In
short, nothing can exceed the confide,nce that exists
in the allied armies, both. in themselves and in the
Commander in Chief; whose well laid plans of co-
operation are every day developing themselves, and
more and more convincing us, that he has fairly
caught his antagonist in a snare."

It is, we believe,.not generally known, that the
French General, Massena, has lost an eye, and less
so the fad that it was shot out by Buonaparte
hitn-
self.in a ckasse at FOuntainbleath, From 'the easy
manner in whic,h the , Corsica.n Tyrant- expressed
himself on the occasion, the. Parisians did not class
it amongSt the accidents of that day !
Yesterday morning--there was a large Meeting of
the Magistrates for the County of • Middlesex, at
Hick,s's Hall; for. the Eledion of..a Governor of
Cold-bath-fieldS Prison, vice- T. Aris,, removed.
WATsok,. Esq. being called _to the Cll,iir, a
dscuss:on took place, respeding the proprittty of ad-
mitting .Aris as ..a Candidate, on the present occa-
sion, which was negatived on, a division, twenty.,,
eight to tv% 0.: The following three candidates were
then severally proposed, viz: Wm. Anxt Ns, :SAM.
HAMILTON, and HENRY- WEBSTER, and a" billot
commenced soon after eleven, and tinalCy closed.at
two o'clock... On casting up the nuiribeis, there
peared,—
' For William Adkins '
Samuel Hamilton' . • . . • . 16
.. •
Hairy Webster . . . -
When the Chairman &dared that WM'. ADKINS was
duly elected.

•
MANSION4IOI.7SE.-211Qrse, the WArel,ous9mati:of.
Mr. Goodwin, Wood-street, who 'was rxamint:Ost,
Wednesday uon a charge of plundering. h.*
ployer to a very great amount, again bropglitop
tor examination yesterday; when several fresii ‘t it-
tresses, to whom goods had been so Charged, ap-
peared, 'and ptoVed that no such goods were ever
purchased by or delivered to them. The prisop:r
was fully c6mmiited fot trial. Before he was7taken
from the hal, he complained that he L.-id been putt-
licly charged with plundering his employer io'the
amount of 2,5001.; bbt he called upon his employ er
now to state the real deficit; he knew be h.d bun'
guilty of it fraud, and he felt it.