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London, England, 1814-12-28 00:00:00

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Rollmam Dac.2o.--Some mitt:fiats having cons
ion shore at Mount Stewart, opposite Largs, it is,
'feared that one of our Rothesay vessels sunk there on
.Saturday night, coal ladened, from Treon. Two,
men, brothers,- who were en board, it is supposed,
perished. We had the' highest tide hem yesterday
that has been experienced these eighteen years ; our
quays suffered much, and some vessels a little.
Ara, Dec. 22.—Friday last, we had a tremendous
storm here, accompanied by a very high tide, and a
flood in the river, by which * great many houses
were inundated and much damage done; besides the
dikes on each side of the entrance into the harbour
being much injured. Most fortunately the vessels in
the harbour kept firm to their moorings, and are all
quite safe. Considerable anxiety was excited by a
brig and galliot passing at the time the storm was at
its height : the melancholy fate of the former will be
seen, in the accounts from Troon ; the latter WAS
driven. on Black Rock, and went to pieces nest day,
before any person could venture to her assistance—
all hands lost. The Grace of. Irvine was driven on
shore at Duaure harbour, but the crew were saved,
and the vessel is expected to be got- off. Very consi-
derable damage was done to the vessels and harbours
of Irvine and galtcoats.
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,Titoon.-011 the morning of Friday se'nnight, the
wind blew from the South West a sharp breeze ; to-
Words mid-day the gale increased, and the tide rose
Very rapidly.. Although it was not high water till
*bout three o'clock, yet, by half--past twelve, it was
about three feet high& thin bur high spring tides—
about two o'clock the Wtil Shifted round to the north
west, and the storm became . violent, which acted
strongly upon our parapet wall, or break-water, and
made it give way ip several places. Except a. small
part of the Railway bank,. which was broken down,
little more injury of any consequence was done to the
works. A galliot, the Adventure of Irvine, being,
laid up on the beach for repair, by the highness of
the tide was drove off from her holdings, and carried
round to a different part of the beach, without much
damage. His Grace the Duke of Portland's small
cutter, being laid up, was also drove up to alongside
of the Railway bank, opposite the old houses of
Troon, without receiving any material damage. A
small smack, the Alice of Rothesay, was also drove,
from the beach, and broken to pieces. The sloop,
Scotia, of Saltcoata, came into the bay about one
o'clock, and, being. unable to make into the harbour,
slipped her cable and ran on shore, without receiving
any damage. The Eliza brig, of Derry, arrived in
the bay about ten o'clock, and being unable to make
the harbour, came to an anchor ; she rode out the
storm very well through the day, only having drove
some distance; but through the night she struck the
_ after cutting
.cables, she upset, and
several passenger:: in the cabin. No assist.
given them through the night, but
morning several boats went from the bar.
assistance, and found that twelve were
survivors were brought on shore, some
weak. Amoog the passengers drowned
a Corporal of the 72d regiment and his
body of the corporal was found on deck;
tpers. nor any thing about him for infor.
is about- 24 years of age, five •
fair complexion, high brow and pock-
; wile and two children of a weaver at
.ho were over paying a visit to some
Ireland, are drove ned. The two children
washed on shore the next morning—the
body of the mother is still missing. Ihe bodies of
the persons found dead are, the above Corporal,
Hugh Cala,ghae, belonging to Glasgow, and two
children. Those still missing are, two women, Wm.
Dennissonk sailor. one private soldier, and four men,
steerage. passengers. Saved—the Captain, Mate,
eight seamen, and four passengers. Robert Kerr,
herd to Mr. James Carson, in Starr, parish cf Strai.
ton, went out from his master's house on Monday the
.5111• lost, with a. view, as was thought, to look to the
hill. He did not come borne that evening, nor on
Tuesday or Wednesday. Mr. Carson being•alarmed,
went out in searefint him, when he found him lying
dead at the foot of a very high craig, which it was
sueriefl- he.bad fallen over and was killed ; and
what was remarkable, his dog never left him, but
was lying by him, and it is supposed he would have
staid with hint' till he died hinisslt. It was by his
means his maser's body was sooner found, he being
seen first.,,
Dunue, DIG 19.—We have heard of several dis-
asters on our coast since our last publicatian. A
schooner was driven on shore between Howth and
Rush, and every person on board perished. Two
fishing wherries from Beldoyle, it is said, have met
the sane fate. A sloop, called theWicklow, belong.
jag,to that town, laden with mahogany, iron, tea and
Sugar, bound from Dublin to Wicklow, was driven
shore near Howth, and the principal part of the
eargo destroyed, but happily no lives were lost. We
dread the many other inisfortones that must have
ulted from the storm, which continued with vie.
e to a late hour last night.
.• CORK, Dec. 17.—The Apollo, of London, with'
bale goods for Bermuda, is ashore in Cusquenny
Bay. The Fame and Oporto packets are similarly
circomstaseed in the same place. A brig with fruit,
;bound from Malaga for Liverpool, drove from the
quarantine ground, and is ashore at Ahada. The
brig Patriot, from St. Übes, with salt fur Cork, has
yen feet water in her hold, and is ashore on Cus.
Irclayßeacon—cargo will be totally lost. The
or. Portuguese schooner, lost her bowsprit.
-Considerable damage, loss,of anchors and cables, its.
=anted to several other vessels. The Eliza, bound
for Bouideaux, parted two cables at Passage, and
,wonld bite been on shore, but for the exertions of the
Moms. Burp at that place.
SWIM?, Die: 17.—0 n Thursday night, wail
during the whole of yesterday, it blew a tremendous
• aja Awns the N. W. and considerable damage was
done to many of the houses in town ; it was even
*norm'. to walk the streets,- from the quantities of
':dsinliiefteps "and Slates that were falling in every
.direetias." The extensive and commodious building
.is Brown's-squaw, which was so far erected as to . be
its part slated, and was intended for the charitable
education of the poor children at present taught in
Union-meet, Smithfield, was unfortunately -blown
down in the burrow& From differentsarts of the

' Mint* our ;dried mention that many cottagOWA
beetiantoofed, and corn and hay-stacks blown dowel
A Correspondent at Bangor informs us, thit bei
taint The hours of Melee -and one on Friday, tidbit
the trelneadees pie from the N. W. *Lain, OA
of Belfast, biought the Russian ship Gaslar Pawlo.
witech, of Riga, from Amelia Island, laden with
cotton and tobacco, in perfect safety within Bangor
bour. The cool; skilful, and intrepid manner in
which MdLifintooducted this foreign ship, was the
admiration of several hundred persons assembled on
the shore, and who for some time awaited the moment
of expected destruction with solemn awe. Would
that we could say every thing else had escaped as
well! With the gale the tide vise 'to an enormous
height, and at about two o'clock completely over-
powered a, temporary work, which had stood well
for three winters, resisting some severe gales : that of
yesterday was not to be withstood ; and to repair the
damage done at Bangor in two hours, would require
at least two thousand pounds, and it is to be feared
more.
LIMERICK, Dec. I.—Tuesday evening a large
boat belonging to Denis Malcahy of this town, was
driven on the reeks, of the shore of Kilkeran bat-
tery, the tide at the same time setting in with such
rapidity that the boat filled with water, and one of
the crew threw himself overboard and swam ashore,
leaving two men and a boy on the wreck ' • when in
this awful moment, one of the workmen belonging
to Messrs. Mackay and Ryan, plunged into the
water and swam to the boat•made a raft of her oars
and spars, to which he fastened a rope, and swam off
to the length of it—the remaining crew clung round
the raft, and in the presence of a number on shore,
were towed in, and thus saved from .a watery grave.
Thomas Gleeson, a mason, who thus so humanely
ventured his life to save that of others, which PRO-
VIDENCE enabled him to effect.
&too, Dec. 17.—We regret to find, that the
Taunton, of Cardigan, Evans, master, bound for
Greenock, which lett this harbour on Tuesday last,
has been totally lost in Donegal Bay—crew saved.
In the severe storm of yesterday, the Hibernia, and
Swallow, both of this port, have been drove on shore
in our river, they are expected to be got off with
little damage. The latter was on her way to Killala.
GREENOCK, Dec. 23.—Wednesday forenoon, the
outward-hinind ships, so long detained here by ad-
verse ittnds, sailed' with a fine breeze from East, in
company with his Maesty's ship TARTARUS ; we have
'sincc.learued that, after passing the Cumbraes, they
were Obliged, in consequence of the wind blowing
again from the South, to anchor this forenoon in Old
'Kirk Bay. The Montreal, Jane, Elizabeth, and
Mary, that were driven on shore, have not yet been
'got off.
DUMFRIES, DEC. 20.—The storm on Thursday
was extremely violent in Dumfi ies. A vessel laden
with wood from America was driven from her moor-
lings at the Carse, and bilged on the opposite coast of
Cumberland; and another vessel bound from Lisbon
to Ireland, with bay-salt, /cc. was cast on shore at
Glenstocking, near the water Urr, and a great part of
the cargo destroyed. From Kirkcudbright, and other
parts along the coast, we hear of similar calamities.

LINLITHG9W, DEC, 20.—FATAL CATASTROPHIL••••
This afternoon, about four o'clock, produced a scene
here truly pitiful. John Grant (commonly called

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ner for some time past, upon a warrant of his Ma-'
jesty's Justices of Peace, accused, with others, of as-
sault and. robbery, of Charles M'Brierty, travelling
merchant, effected his escape from gaol ; and being'
immediately pursued by a number of people, as weW
on horseback as on foot, lound himself so pressed and
hemmed in, and likely to be taken, that he rushed to-
wards the lake on the north side of the town, and
having plunged himself into the water, had nearly
swam to the opposite side, a distance of about five
hundred yards, when he sunk in presence of his put..
suers, never to rise again ! The body has not yet
been found.
CORON Elea INQUEST.—Saturday an Inquest was
held at the Crow, in Mow-lane, on the body of a
young woman, name unknown, who was run over op
Thursday evening, by the Manchester coach, at the
end of Redcross-street, Barbican.—Mr. Plumpton,
pastry-cook, in Barbican, deposed that he saw de-
ceased, as well as several others, between four and
five o'clock, on Thursday evening, attempting to
cross at the end of Redcross-street, when the Man-
chester coach was passiug. He heard the coachman
call out, and at the same time the deceaied was
knocked down by one of the leaders. The horses
were immediately pulled up. The stage coach was
endeavouring to avoid a hackney coach when the ac-
cident happened.—Miss Roby, milliner, in Redcross-
street, was passing at the time, and was next to the
deceased when the coach was coming up, and she
had scarcely time to escape. The deceased was
taken up apparently lifeless, and carried to the house
of Mr. Senior, a surgeon, in Beech-street, who said
that the scull of the deceased was crushed to pieces,
and that she died in consequence of the accident.—
Verdict--Accidental Death, and a deedand of Five
Pounds on the fore-horse.
An Inquest was lately taken at Rodborough, on
view of the bodies of Thomas Golding and Edward'
Herbert, found drowned in the Thanies and Severn
Canal. It appeared, they bad been walking together
(supposed to be arm-in-arm) on the towing-path, and
carrying a bundle, when, from the darkness of the
night, they unfortunately fell into the Canal lock, op-
posite the Ham Mill, and were drowned. They have
each' left a wife, the farmer with ten, and the latter
with six children ! Verdict—Accidental Death.
MARLBOROUGH•STREITo-•••••Mknati Newland was
yesterday re-examined, before G. Him, Esq. on va-
rious charges of swindling. The prisoner is the per-
son who having been metamorphosed from a parlor's
labourer to a fine gentleman, and accompanied by two
females, who called themselves Lady and Miss
Price, contrived to get property of different trades-
people to a considerable amount. The Ladies gene-
rally travelled in a carriage, and the Gentleman, on
those occasions, accompanied them on horseback.—
Unfortunately so much ingenuity had been used that
the cases of the tradespeople duped amounted to
debts only, and the prisoner was liberated on the as-
surance of 'Mr. B 4ARY/ hi; Counsel, that be should
appear again on Thursday next.
Francis &dolman was charged with intermarrying
with Elizabeth Kealtch, his former wife, Amy Petty,
being still alive. The prisoner was fully committed.