The Sun.
London, England, 1816-07-29 00:00:00

toREADFUL STORM AND FLOODS.

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STArrottp.,----We had in this town on Ytindly
afternoon one of the heaviest showers of rain ever
known ; thi. Consetinencet have been most se-
rious, and the. loss, we tear, Almost remediless.
The tpia in it y of hay earriekl off by the torrent it
Slot to be calculated: and much more hat bcen
entirely spoiled. A laboiirer of Mr. Lyeett, of
§liallowford, lost his life In endeavouring to save
'some hay; and we mach fear that our reports from
different quarters will contain most distressiNg
intelligence di the effects of the lAte treniendoui
Weather. .

This storm has also done greater damages in the
town of Stone anti the neighbintrhood. A horse
belonging to Mr. Styles Was washed down a brook,'..
through it culvert, and was drowned. Messrs.
Brett and Ilulah, Mr. Thkrrnie, and Mr. Butler'
whose respective premises adjoin the brook', which. •
ruins through the-town, have sustained contitivr--
able loss. The streets were, in many parts, loin.
feet deep in water ; and the cellars of many of
the inhabitants were entirely tilled, anti their ale
?hut tuber drink aides lost. A small house was
washed away by the flood, but fortunately its in-
Mates eSettped 'unhurt MAO), iraVellell 10 StOila7.
Metre obliged to stop at lValton, arid get beds
where they contd. •Sevetul milts on the Moilder-
shall stream were much damag'ed. .Theipatititres
of haY•destroyed snit carried off by the tofiviic
nit Inv:deniable; and, at a moderate calculation,.
it' will take 50001. to make good the damages sus
twitted in the parish of Swot::
Tuesday told Wednesday last, an immense
fall of rain was experienced itt Brown Hills,
Norton, and Longdon, near ,Litehheid. Iu the
former plaee, the heather was forced up by•the
roots, on the teuste lands and 'elevations, and csr....
tied by torrents hi ditferent directions. Tile than-
der was Ileavy,,4iecomputiied by gusts of wind,
and partial spouts of 'rain, as though ptinrid front
Solid taat;%eS of water. At Norton • the thontlet•
was the heaviot and most alarming ever known,.
At Longdun, the deltic had all the lippeacunce
Of a water-spout, which cut up the to Ads and
moved masses of eattil. ; and at a re,
cently built hotoe, where a new turf had been
laid, the whole site of a grass-plot was laid
bare as before the work was begun ; and the
most frightful vestige% of its' effects are trace&
through the whole neighbourhood...
On 'Tuesday afteinuon, 'about .six o'clock, the
whole hemisphere, as viewed from an elevation
near Lichfield, preftented one toilookett curtain or
cloud, and rain, but without. being act:await:Cul
with remarkable darkness. A correspondent sari
that, previous to this general aspect of rain, he.
never saw the clouds so low,
We regret to hear that a servant of John Atkio-
Son, Esq. of Maple flays, near Lichfield, teat
killed by the lightning ou Thursday evening at
Lemonsley. The thunder was-tremendously heavy.
and the lightning eftreni4r,ivid,

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Margatc is noW,hvginning to assume its wonted.
gaiety—the few tine ikyl we have lately 11;!(: have
m001)1.4,0 much to increaser the company. jite,
Theatre opened on Wednesday last,' upon relnyth
occasion MiS.S'FoorE, Of Covent-Garden 'Pheatre;
performed Juliano and Rosina, in both eaf whiclil
she was received' with that delight and applause
which constantly attend her perfOrmanees•
houseevas very gn041,, as it will no doubt the three
remaining nighttkofher engagement be, for which
She is announced to 'perform Albina
the Child of Nature, Letitia 11;:rtly; Mardana, and
Marian Ramsey.
On Monday, Miss .STertir,Ns commenced an
engagement at Ealinburen tar a few nights. itt
Rosetta, in
\torein a Village. Oirruesdity she
played noretta, in the Cobinet and on Wednet.
day C/at a, in the Dueana, with the greatest
applat,e.
Mrs. U. llttATHcors, who was a few years ago
the Columbine at Covent Garden Theatre., when
Sitat.zidied the beginning of last week, near
Havre, in France. 'Mrs. MA-MC{ITR was in the
26tli year
,of her age, and has left three infant
children,
Mr, ADEnTT, of Covent Garden Theatre is to
join the Utlitiburgh Company. and pvriorni te hit
Miss O'Netta..
MisS N,ssit, it is sa:d, has 'changed her name,
and retires front the stage, and will be succeed...if
at Drury-lane'Theatre by Miss Mratt.r.
JOsts means to tVastify the citizens of
Lintericis fora few' nights at the ensuing it,,,tizes,
with ii corps Dromatigue; ipcinding
LUTON Mrs. Enwin, a 1 isr Gatot.terri, So%
KEAN was to Elay,Stoartiridge one marning,last
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An accident, which we have toot anticipated,
9iappetted on Friday night at Vauxhall foraell*
Madame S.i.‘tui • •it 3 gin as dancin on the tight
rope, witch i 3 ainhstituteo for the eascatk. the_
(ell, and, 'WC' aft; horly To Say, sn.ntt ut her rib*
are intik t.ll. Arlutlier Paper ,Iys she is Lot sslittlitif
I her', wilt tlaecelily b.: able to tet,01.1.1.t Let d'llll-
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