Star.
London, England, 1801-12-30 00:00:00

COUNTRY NEWS-

Lewes, Dec. 28.—The late (heavy rains on
Chriftmas day occafionod fuch a fudden and ra-
pid rug of water from the country, That our river,
at Cliffe-bridge, exhibited a (well •more confider.
able than the °Weil inhabitant remembers ever to
have witneffed before. The et.114-s, kitchens, and
even parlours of fome of the huufcs in the Cliffe
were inundated; but what is perhaps Rill more
ctraordinary in this haftyllood, it Aimed the
power of an oppofite element, and adnally fee fire
to a building m Swing-ptunp•alley, whofe flames,
had they not been timely difcovered and extinguifh-
ed, might, in fpite of the deluge, have produced a
very ferrous and dreadful conflagration, as the
building is contiglums to many old houfes, fituate,
nearly in the centre of the fireet. To reconcile
this feemingly ftrange occurrence, it may be-ne-
celratry further to obits-we, that the fire was caufed
by-the water's coming in contaa with a quantity
of unilaked lime, which the building contained ;
and whilft blazing, it exhibited fuch a formidable
appearance, that it was afterwards deemed pru-
dent, in point of fafcty, to keep a watch over the
premifes the whole night.
Mr. Sazby, of Northeafe, loft eighteen fine
Bleep, which the flood bore away from a field, into
which he had caufed them to be driven, udder the
fluid/ confidence that tl ey wou:d have remained
fecure from the danger of the water. They all pe-
Tithed, and (even or eight of their careales have
been fence taken up by fume poor men.
Mr. Blackman, furgeon, of Boreham-ltreet, was,
with his horfe, foreed-offthe turnpike road into a
ditch, by the violence of the water that oveflowed
it near Rorie-Midge, and narrowly efcaped with
his life.

Ems avaore, Ore. 26.-L•Our market is very
well fupplied with excellent haddocks and cod.—
The haddocks are taken jut off Newhaven, and
arc in fine condition.
Year:relay, in Haddington market, what and
oats declined in price, bailer.was Ready, pcafe
and beans advanced. •

HULL, r.—ln the night of the 13th inf.
Tome incendiary put a letter under the counting-
honk door of tMelfrs. R. Balmer and Co. fhip•
builders, in South Shields, addreffed to Mr. Jo-
feph Balmer, threatening to take his life, and burn
is houfe, unlefshe advanced the (hip weights' 01a
A reward of too guineas is offered for the difet cc
very of the author.
Since our lag was committed to York Cagle, for
trial, Richard Rhodes, late of Buraall, cloth-d re ifer,
Oharged with (leafing from the different gable* of
the Rev. Mr. Came, and Thomas Prentice, of
Aberford, a dark brown mare, and one (addle and
bridle, their property.
About ten o'clock on Wedne(Jay morning
a fire broke out in the malt kiln belonging to
Meffrs. Sellers and Liddle, brewers', in Sculcoates;
but through the timely affiltance of fever al refpec-
table perfons, together with the Eaa York and
147-rrthumberland Militia, the fire was got under
without any material damage, more than the roof
a the kiln falling in.
Asa en E eft, Dec.a3.—There have arrived from
the South, about 500 of the regiment of the files,
and the remainder, about 200, are hourly expeet-
ed. Their route was for Fort George; but we hear
they arc to,remain here, for fome time at leall.—
And when the Perthfhire Militia, who are now on
their way, arrive here, we fhall'have more than
sOOO of the military in town,threo-fourths of which
are quartered en the inhabitants.
The tall of fnow fence Wednefday lag, has been
fo heavy, and the roads Co blocked :up, that the
communication with the country is alma entirely
intercepted. The mail coach has not been able to
come here for a week pail, and the bags are
brought on horfeback from Montrofe. Some Gen-
tlemen from I-I untly, and that neighbourhood, who
came to town to the term butinels, had the utmott
difficulty to get in; and required the aid of the
country people to (hovel a kind of path. At the
water of LTry, the Ilreans was In gorged with (now,
and the ice not (rang enough to bear, that one
fierce was in imminent danger of perifhing ; and
it was only by the labour of a great many men in
cutting the !how and ice, that a pafrage Was made
over what is in other fcafons but aninfignificant ri-
vulet. This morning a thaw is begun, with a',
heavy rain and wind from fowls.

Tv r r,Dsc. t 9..0n Sundaylafl the I th, about
r 5 minutcs before elev en, forenoon,we were alarmed
with r .I.lfli of lightning from a cloud of fleet and
fucceeded by a loud peal of thunder ; about
three minutes after, another more vivid flail', foi-
-1 'wed by the moll tremendous dap of thunder
ever hear,: here. The lilt flinek (truck the !wore
of Wm. Nichi,ltim in Eatier Whiterathes in this
parith. AU the family were from home, except
himfclf and a dAtighter of about 17 yirArs'of age.
She was in the kitchen, and the lightning burnt
her face, neck, and erns,. in a dreadful manner,
but there at e hopes of her recovery. The dog was
killed it the kitchen fire. The farmer hinifelf was
in a room About forty feet from the kitchen ; the
floor where Le lifßod wax driven to Splinters ; one
of his Shoes AraS torn, the upper leather from die
fole, and his foot confidcrably hurt ; the cieling of
the room broke to pieces ; in the adjoining room,
rte clock-cafe, bcd-fleads, and every article of fur-
niture, except a tact of drawers, either Shivered
or hurled from their places. The glafs of the win-
don s was broke into fmalt particles, and the
frames drove to a conf.der.able diflance. The pot-
hook of the kitchen wAs divided into three Places,
andthecopperkettleperfuratetl in a hundred places.
About sixteen feet of the kitchen roof was blown
• and the reit took fire, but VMS loon extinguilh-
el. AU was dune, and all silent, in lets than three
fe:oncts!

81),41: NAVY. 11, Dic. ty.—This day came on be-
fore the SLetift of Kinca!•.linefbire, and a refpec-
tdble Jury, the mat of D.trid Lyall, lately rub-
tenant at Newton, in the parith of Nlarykirk, and
county of Kincardine, on a criminal libel. at the
in lance of the Procuratot Fiscal, for theft or re-
fer of theft. and being habit and repute a thief.—
ke JJ ry laving rtturned a vwditt finding the li-

bel not proven, he was affolaied, and di/ruined
from'the bar.
On the fucceeding day, James Rait and John
Fairweather, farm lervantw at Honey-hive, in the
parifh .aurencekirk, were tried before the
Sheriff, at the inftance of...the Procurator Mal,.
'for affaulting and deforcing David Palmer, Mel:
fenger at Arms, in the execution of apoinding, in
virtue of a precept from the Sheriff, in the month
of Aoguft laR. After a pretty long trial, the Jury
returned a verdict, nnanimoufly finding the pri.
Inners guilty ; in confequence of which, they were
fentenced to pay a fine of ten pounds each, and to.
be irnprifoned in the tolbooth of Stonehaven for
•
eight days.
BURNTISLAND, Dec. 24.—This evening two.
boats crews, from Nairne' maflersnames Bartitox,
joined together, and with their traul nets, brought
upon the long bed of fand betwixt the Petty Cur
and Black Rock, above 400 cranes of herrings,
zso cranes of which were brought fafe to Burnt-
ifland in their boats and by-carts ; and the fea
flowing fall., a great number were carried off.—
The nets, with the remainder, to the amount of
forty cranes, they were obliged to put into another
boat and brought to this place.
Eitimating each crane at nos. the produce will
Thew a very good day's work.

Two very melancholy accidents happened at
Plymouth, in the gale of-wit,d of Saturday lA--
About fun-fet, as a Swedith and two American lea•
men were rowing up Catwater in their (hip's boat,
with a cable and (pare. anchor to pay on board
her, when off Deadman's bay, a sudden fquall
came on, and the boat (hipping a heavy fea, the
poor fellows could not cut, or had not the pre-1
fence of mind to cut, the (topper of the anchor,
and the boat went down Bern foremoft, which acci-
dent unfortunately launched them into a watery
glare. Their bodies floated afhore Sunday fore-
noon on the Cat-down fide. In Hamoaze, a man
of war's boat, with fourteen people on board, up-
fet in a violent fquall at N. W. and eleven of the
fourteen were drowned. _

Friday as the Mate of the Indufry, timber-fhip,
for the Dock-yard, Captain SuLtivam, lying in
Catwater, was going up the (broods, he flipped
his foot, fell on the deck, and fractured his fkull
fo violently, that he expired infantiy.
The following is an extra& of a letter from an
Officer in the Toth Regiment of the Indian Army
employed in Egypt, to his f.iend in Leland, dated
Camp before Rufetta. Sept. 4:
" After our embarking in the Bay of Bengal, we
food down the Bay, no: a flitil knowing where we
were defined, except Capt. MALCOLM. of the Sur-
rota, who was to convoy us. He ordered ns into
Trincomale, in the Wand of,Ceylon, whore the fleet
arrived on the 14th of September, and continued
there two months, for t!.e purpofe of watering, and
collecting more tranfports from the coall. Previous
to our failing frc..., thence,ourfin ce was augmented
by the Both regiment. and joined by Col. WE eiES-
tar, who affumed the command. We paired along
to Point .le Galles, the fouthernmoll part of the
ifland, where we took in the 38th, and part of the
regimeuts, that had been fent down from Bonn-
bay.—The feet left that on the 18th February, and
fleeced along the Malabar Coati, at times dole
enough to difcern the towns of Cananore, &c. fill
ignorant of our dellination, until our arrival at Bom-
bay the 23d of March, after being four months shut
up in tranfports, in a tropical climate, which was
fatal to a number of our men. On board our (hip
the officers continued in health : but it was !hock-
ing to fee the poor fellows of my company dying
two at a time, and they fo much wanted. The
vegetables at Bombay loon refored the furvivors.
Here General &Tao took the command of our little
army, now sew Prong, which put us into fpirits,
and we were fupplied with provifions, ece. afre(h.
Our pafage to the Straits of Babelmandel was not
of the pleafanteit in the world to us, confined as
we were Co long on board tranfpOrts. and fo late
in the monfoons, which made our pafrage up the
Rcd Sea extremely difficult and dangerous, to Mo.
cha and Judda, where our part of the fleet waited
the arrival of the ref. _

" From thence we beat up againfl contrary winds
towards Suez ; but not being able to reach it, we
put into Collier, a (mall Arabic town on the coal
of Africa, where the French were building a fort,
and intended to makait a fea port. They evacu •
ated it, and we landed on the silt May to collet
the fleet, and wait the orders of the Commander in
Chief of the Engin army. The firli-difpatch
brought an account of the battle of Alexandria,
end the lots of the Commander, Sir. R. Assa-
taomsir, which made our little army doubly
anxious to join their efforts with their countrymen;
which the elements forbade. There was but one
way by which to reach them, and that was by trott-
ing ago miles of a barren defart, where human na-
ture was put to the fhifts to &Emit us cal our
march; yet every individual it with the
greatell refignation. At Collier we dug wells, the
waters of which were bitter, and gave oar men
bowel complaints ; yet we were obliged to few ox
hides together, to carry Come of it on camels for
our ufe, over the defart.
,'s Our corps, which marched Sell on the zin of
June, foon found our (kips leaked the water; and
but for our camels, we never (hould have furvived li
the march over burning lands, as by their agi (lance
we made forced marches of," miles a day ; when
the men dropped from fattgme and want of that
necelf.try, and here invaluable article, we put them
on the camels and pufhed forward. After each
day's march we dug for water, but could only fuc-
eeed in three places, on our way to Upper Egypt.
I have Peen a dollar paid for one draugbt of water.'
Some few of each corps, who could not keep Op,
were loft in the parching feuds. After 54 days
march sterol's the defart of Thebais, we congratu-
lated each other on Peeing the long-wilted for wa-
ter. of the Nile at Rene. _ _

Our regiment that arrived firft with the Ma-
melucks, were marched 6o miles along the river to
Girge, to provide boats to tranfport the army down
to Cairo. This was efeifted in nine days, by the
rapidity of the *ream, a diftance of Soo miles ;
the French evacuating their pofts on the river, as
we advanced, until they collated at Cairo."