Star.
London, England, 1808-02-18 00:00:00

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THE LATE STORM.

Our accounts from all parts of the coast give me-
lancholy details of the effects of the tremendous gale
on Friday morning last, but its fury seems to have
been most felt on the north eastern shore from the
Note to the North Foreland.
CANTERBURY, Fen 16.—The wind blew from N.
E. to N. N. W. and was preceded by a high spring
tide, which was happily, however, lower by some feet,
and less destructive in its effects than that of the 15th
Jan. last, excepting some farther destruction to Mar-
gate Pier, thrc ugh which the sea has now formed it-
self a channel, separating the head from the other
part. At Margate soon after the commencement of
the gale, two sloops, and the Tiher brig of Yarmouth,
Captain Willock, drove into the harbour with the loss
of anchors and cables. The Governor corn hoy, be.
longing to Mr. 'Swinford, broke from her moorings,
and was driven on shone high up in the bay, but bat
not sustained any material damage ; about the same
tin* the Countess of Elgin hired armed cutter, also
carne on shore close to Little Westbrook Cottage,
the crew ware all saved by the Margate limits, and it
is expected that both these vessels will be got off.
A large West Indiaman outward-bound rode out
the rocks off Margate with little da-
.4. a Swedish ship the Cronenkairg? from
London, but with the loss of her main 'and
, The Blazer gun brig riding in West-
totally dismasted, but luckily held by
ancither gun brig, the Mariner, wr.s
the Ledge Rock, and momentarily ex-
Id go on shcire, hut weathered the gale,
away her maim niast, this vessel repeat-
signals of aistress • and the Lively and
ielsou loggers put off from Margate to her
iien in going from the pier by some un-
Ise, the Lively was run on board by the
ielson, and irnmecliately sunk, and .two of the
tushell and William Morris, were unhap-
drowned. Bushell was master of the British
MAW:elsage vessel, and has left a wife
; mortis has.also lift a wife and eight
bo4y was picbctl up on Sunday near

Lootte_r Lucy and Ands, Captain Cum-
:* coast of Gisinet for London, cut her
sett on &tie in Marsh Bay: the cargo is
jut it the-vessel will be got off.
. -
hprk-whkh had been drawn on shore in the
gaTe near BiichingtOn and got off, was again
4=oo near ,the same place, and tt is feared is now
total' lost. Between Birching* and Reculver,
- ' two sloOps and a brig oNikeve; oneof the
thrrcil:
he Benjamin, *OtAliy , 11. d. laden with
oacOrOte. and On,
..r4.. were found the
hodiefkof 'Mr. 11.iibl • cianeal, and
(*.4106 the fing, the . , COI Halifax,
lara
444 pipe:, and lo •;.' and the other
Thosli s and Judi from Portsmouth.
crews of these vessels hive all pt.
Braitted
t - • •; - ' Captain of one of them, with his
themselves to the Mercy of the
• . . _.
. .sissite of their lives ; they were both
sborp.and taltai up 44e. thottgh n2%0
ancliweyed. to:Mr. Curling s, at 131tu.
&tie .llsstable roof they at gresent re:
: is inentiOnea'as as instance of pureliuma:
worthrof record, that when the Lady Was taken
ly.,nakeai a waggoner stripped himself of
ilt °Sato protect her from the inclemency
weather.
Ink, having on it the name "Captain Wm.
has been washed ashore at St. Nicholas,
some papers contained in it, it would seem
was from Halifax to London.
the Snake, Captain Aydie, with salt fish,
liole to London, about ten in the morning,
shore in the Old Haven, between Reculver
Hearn Bay ; from the nature of the shore no
• could be afforded to the crew, and they re-
on the wreck for some hours, exposed to the
td the inclemency of the weather, till the ebb
ide : when having reached the land, they re.
rcry attention from the humanity and hospi-
Mr
Sayer, of Bishopstone Farm.
:day morning the body of a man floated on '
_ the back of the Chest Arms Tavern, in a
dreadful state : the legs, thighs, and lower part
'body have been either torn or eat away, and
. arm is wanting, the rest of the body is quit
apparently with bruises, and there were no
about it, except a kind of handkerchief tied
the neck. It is conjectured that the unfortunate
been either jammed between two vessels, or
with gun powder.
ITHAM, FEB. 16.—Friday, the tide rose again
unusual height, and overflowed many of the
Several sheep were drowned, and floated
-..e at the New Stairs ; the wind at the same
blew almost an hurricane, and did cOnsiderabki
s ; a very large shed in Mr. Ailienden's tiirs-]
yard, was raised up bodily„ and the roof blownl
completely off, so that the Whole 111,6104 is in ruins."l
A Man was found dead in a field near Northfleet,
Saturday, whose naive, from a certificate which ;
' found on him, is supposed to be JoseFrieth.
, marks of violence appeared on the body,' it is
•. he might have missed his way in a state of
kcation, and perished by the inclemency of the

iIIAbiPTOTI, FEB. ls.—The depth of snow in
a time as in the fall of Thursday night, is
ty not to be paralleled in the recollection of the
persons. It did not begin to snow till between
and eleven at night ; and by two in the 'morning
carriages were prevented from proceeding. The
Manchester Mail Coach was detain-ed at Lathbury,
• mail was forwarded to Noithampton by the
,on a post horse. The tiefiance Manchestet
a was stuck fast in Preston-lane, lour Miles from
Northampton, about two o'clock on Friday morning,
-4 was dug out by the assistance of thirty men about
the afternoon. There wee four ladies inside
passengers, whose situation may be mote easily iniaL
than described, but which they supported With
fortitude and cheerfulness. Mr. "Nzwaralt, near
mansion the coach was set fast, sent his
biiii**ca assist in digging it out. But not to record
thoiametition of Miss Nawasax to the distressed ladies
.a coach, as, amongst the best instances offeminine
goOthiess:olhoart, would be as unjust, as it would be
direlic tia of our own sensibility to kindness.

During the fall Of It ad 'l'lntrsclay eisht out
Friday morning, the was extremely
o hi so
that in many placek,large bran tree%
with a heairy weight of snow, were torn from their
trunks. No coach, upward or downward, has ar:
rived since Thursday night. Neither have the bags
of the Chester and Manchester mail been received.—
We are fearful that we shall hear of many disastrous
accounts. The only one which has at present reach-
ed us, is the loss of thirteen sheep belonging to Mr.
John Collins, of Great Billing, near this town.
Lrvanroot., Fria15.—Thursday, about four
o'clock in the afternoon, the Captain, with two others,
and four boatmen, returning in a punt from on board
a vessel in the New Deep, with the wind at N. it
came on so violent a snow storm that they could not
see which way to row ; the man at the helm, how-
ever, thought it right to keep the wind on his back,
(same as when he hal left the ship) being the proper
direction for the beat to reach Liverpool, but the
wind shifted to various quarters, and after being eight
hours in the boat and beating over alt the banks, they
landed at Hoylake at twelve o'clock at night, with
the loss of one of the boatmen, who died through in-,
tense cold; another of them fell down in the bottom
,of the boat benumbed, and the other two boatmen
were nearly exhausted.
Thuisday night we experienced as heavy a fall of
snow as caps be remembered these forty years past, for
the time of its continuance ; and being accompanied
by a very high wind, that whirled about in various
directions.: the snow was drifted in many places to
an amazing depth, which has ready impeded tree
' yelling, insomuch that some stage coaches from this I
town, were obliged to torn back the following day,
not being able to proceed ; and on Saturday not one
of them left this town : one from Manchester, which
it left on Friday morning at seven o'clock, did not
'reach here until three o'clock the following day. The
fall of snow has been equally great all the way to
r London, though to the northward of Preston little
of it has been seen. The- Liverpool Mail Coach from
London'was left behind at Daventry, and the mail-
bag forwarded in a chaise, which did not arrive here
until one o'clock on Saturday noon, having been up-
set in a snow drift about two miles off. Two wag-
gons going from hence were obliged to have fifteen
horses each to drag them some part of the road.
The London Mail that should have been here by
three o'clock yesterday morning, did not arrive till
half past nine• last night, and the one due had not
arrived at eight o'clock this morning.

A man servant, who was hired to go down to
Drummond Castle, Scotland, left town on Friday,
and was frozen to death on his journey.
An inquisition was taken at the sign of the Load
of Hay, on the road to Stevenage, on Tuesday, on
the body of Miss Amelia Mary Piggot, aged 18, who
met her death on the preceding day.—A Mr. Smith
stated, that he was accompanying the lady from the ,
house of a friend at Merton, to her house at Crolter'i.
End, on Monday, add from the heavy fall of sneer,
'the road being imperceptible, the horse went mit of
his trad.., and the chaise in which they were, was bur-
. ried down a precipice of nine feet, and turned cpm-,
pletely over, and she. was killed on the spot ; isntl fr.
Smith, by holding fast to the vehicle escaped unhurt.
The horse was so much hurt as to be rendered useless,
and was shot.—Verdict, Accidoetal Death.
Friday last an inquisition was taken at Northam..
ton, before Rosser Annum, Gent. Coroner, on vie*
of the body of Susannah Berri!, an infant about twd
years and a half old, who, being left on the preceding
i Monday by its mother in her dwelling-home for a few
minutes, with another child about two years old, r,
on putting some straw on the fire, the flame caught
its cloaths, and it was so dreadfully burnt, that it dtesli
soon after. Verdict, Accidental death.
On Monday se'nnight an Inquest was held on view '
of the body of Richard Andrews, a prisoner in the
House of Correction, at Peterborough. It appeared
that he, about ten months since,enlisted into the Royal
Marines, and was sent on. board a ship at Chatham,
*hence he shortly afterwards made his escape, and
returned to the neighbourhood of Whittlesey, where
he was enlisted : having reason, however, to ima-
gine he was suspected of being a deserter, he wan-
dered about nearly three weeks, sometimes passing
the nights in barns, and sometimes behind hay-stacks,
until at last he was apprehended. The corporal who
took him, perceiving that his legs and feet were in a
very bad state, from having been exposed to the cold,
did not convey him to prison, but hand-cuffed him
and placed a centinel over him. Andrews, however,
found means to elude the vigilance of his guard dur.
ing the night, and crept out of the house to a neigh-
' homing yard, where he lay concealed three days and',
three nights in the late inclement weather. On the
.fisurth day, when found and taken, he was almost',
' starved to death, having several of his toes nearly
-frozen off. On being taken to prison at Peterborough,
Medical assistance was procured for him, but in vain.
',Verdict—Died from a mortification brought on by
4atense cold.
Monday morning last, about three o'clock, a fire
rims discovered by the watchman in a house the cor-
ner of Drury-lane, Liverpool ; the family could not
be awakened, and the watchman was= as force
the window, by which meant he suca with the
assistance of the neighbours, in extinguishing the fire,
which had caught the wainscotting, then in. Baines,
rand communicated to another room, occasioned by
the fire falling from a grate.
A few evenings ago, a decently dressed woman,
.having an infant child in her arms, accosted two little,
girls, who were Sitting on the steps of 4 gentleman's
house in Clayton-square, Liverpool, and requested
them to take hold of the child for a moment, while
she went into a neighbouring house from Which she.
promised to return instantly. lie girls complied,
vtith her *rest, and took hold of the infint ; bunk
having waited an hour, and seeing nothing of the
supposed ilhotber, they began to weep bitterly. Thei
attention of *Nils
_of ‘be haute being at lengt4J
IlttaOtecl, they ettqlaSted into the matter, and ad. 0.0..
the chil&en id be .briiught into the house. Thai
found a 'Veit One tint* -child, about three or fatir!
' weeks old, but lie vbr2 .no inerks about it, except sil
paper pinned to its Ermi, With this inscription :
I am not 14ptittd. The cbild bas been since sent to,
the workhouse, and baptized by the name' of " Wil-1
liam Clayton," in consideration of the place whore,
be was fuuad.

is epectesi tna
A large We
• the gale, near
mate, as did
• Zante f Lori
'ten masts.
gate Bay was
her anchors ;
driven near tl
pected would
;ter cutting
edly fired sig
La* Nelson
assistance, wh
fortunate can:
Lord Nelson,
- crew, W. 4ul
Qay drowned
ueen, Marl
• and two chilc
children. H
the Fier.
The schoo
mings, from
cable and 101
damaged, by
A small lapri
former gaTe i
smaudeil nets
totally lost.
there are twi
slools is thi
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from Pool
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assistance
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waves and
of the tide
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most drea
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