Star.
London, England, 1809-01-30 00:00:00

E INUNDATION.

1,1, • ire Duke of YORK waited on the KING,
ci l•asiness with his MAJESTY. His Royal
c gild hardly get to Windsor for the flood,
,„ !'rent at Eton, that the College is nearly
wcd ; the water came into his Royal High-
, s c.,rriage. He was obliged to get out, and get
a ort, to be brought through Eton. On his re-
he rode his horse as far as he could, when he
:.•,,,veyed to his carriage in a boat. The inhabi-
ci Eton are obliged to live up stairs, and provi-
c: ar.,• conveyed to them in carts and boats, as is
in all the villages round. Saturday night,
•ee:•h arch of the bridge, which crosses the road
1,1,,n to Slough, was blown up. The stages
c• me into Windsor, and are obliged to put their
rc'asseners and luggage into boats and carts, to be
Conr:Yed• A private of the Stafford Regiment
Fa, been drowned.—A farmer, going from Windsor
-aka to his home, at Stoke, was washed away into
relds, cart, horse, and himself ; and, had it not
,1 :,)r the boats which went to his assistance, he and
Liili.orse must have been drowned.
Y,!sterday his
LI MAJESTY, d
MARY, an witb the P
the Duke of CAM-
rincesses SOPHIA,
ik,:c,c,rA, AMEA, And
f3h/DGE, accompanied by Lady THYNNE, and Gene.
rods CARTWRIGHT and FITZROY, went to St. George's
where a sermon was preached by the Rev.
Gape',
RATER, from St. Matthew, chap. xxii. verse 14,
.:Mauy are called, but few are chosen."
Yesterday, the floods having subsided in the Great
Park,his MAJESTY, with the Dukes of YORK and CAM-
Bina, and the Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and
Amci,i,s, took an air ing on horseback.
A very distressing nccident happened early on Fri
day morning, in the vicinity of Stoney Stratford, in
consequence of the unusual height of a brook on the
Bain I)ad to town. The driver of Mr. Pickford's
waggon, which comes to the Castle inn, in Wood-
greet. supposing he could pass through the water
pith his team, made the attempt, when the waggon
was overturned, and the driver and nine horses were
drowned. The depth of the water was so increased
by the flood, that not a vestige of the waggon was to
be seen above the surface, and it was upwards of six
hours before the accident was discovered. The wag-
gon contained,besides various hosiery and other goods,
a ton of cutlery from Sheffield.
The general thaw which commenced on Sunday
selnnight, and has continued since, accompanied at
intervals with rain, has occasioned so copious a tor-
teat from the hills, that the vallies and low lands in
Kent in the course of the rivers are completely inun-
dated. At Maidstone, on Tuesday, the Med Way
rose so high in the High-street, as never before was
known in the memory of the oldest inhabitant ; and
the water of the Otham branch of that river, which
intersects the lower part of the town by the end of
Mill-lane and the bouom of Gabriel's Hill, rose to a
height which cut off all communication with the op-
pdsite sides.
In consequence of the accumulation of snow, and
the rapid thaw which has taken place during the last
few days, the waters have increased to such a degree,
as to render many of the roads in Oxfordshire utterly
impassable ; that from Oxford to Abingdon, is in se-
veral places from three to four feet deep • in the pa-
tis;:, bt. Thomas, the village of South Hinksey, and
many other places, the inhabitants have fled to the
urper stcrics, and the only means of conveying them
sustenance is by boats.
The appearance of the immediate suburbs and the
lower streets of Bath, at noon on Thursday, was
equally novel and distressing. The sudden thaw of
alleary accumulation of snow, accompanied by a vio-
lent raa, produced a flood of greater depth and extent
than has occurred there for the last forty years.—
Many accidents may naturally he expected to have
happened in consequence of the sudden rise of the
water; a•td we sincerely lament that it is our task to
enumerate the following.—Three houses in Bedford-
street were washed down, and seven lives lost; all the
cellars and store-houses on the low ground adjoining
the river inundated, and considerable quantities of
11,:,uors, &c. injured or destroyed ; timber to an im-
r..ense amount in value, and horses, cattle, hay-ricks,
waggons, carts, &c. carried away. The London Mail
was detained at Chippenham ; and the Exeter Mail
Coach was left at Batheaston, and the bags conveyed,
to Bath by a circuitous route, by the guard, on foot.
The Volunteer Coach, in an attempt to force its pas-
:age through the waters, unfortunately lost two horses.
elate as yesterday morning a number of wine and
beer cellars were flooded with water in Lambeth-
street, Whitechapel, and other streets in that neigh-
bourhood.

HIGH Wixn.—The wind blew a hurricane yester-
day afternoon between three and six o'clock from the
south and South-west, and much damage was done
In several parts of the metropolis. A woman passing
?log Hayes's-court, Scho, was killed by a tile strik-
ing her head. In Oxford-street also, a woman was
!o much hurt, from a similar cause, that her recovery'
is doubtful. A large stack of chimnies were blown
&yin hi Folic-square, carrying with them part of the
reef of the house, but fortunately no one was passing
at the time.

Thursday last, a debtor in the King's Bench,
• .ned Williams, who had been confined six years for
:, was told by a fellow-prisoner that the plaintiff
A teen to the Lobby, to give him a free discharge,
finding it untrue, the opposite passions of joy .
and.
~;:f had such an effect on him, that in the course of
1 1 .: hours he went to bed, and was found a corpse
in the morning.
CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, JAN. SO.—There is
Et:' an inconsiderable supply of Wheat arrived to- i
G:ri, the samples chiefly of second and inferior qua-
I:ty, which is extreme dull sale, and rather cheaper ;
but F. melkeeps its price—Barley in tolerable supply,
but is quoted lower—Malt likewise—in Peas and
Lans but little variation—of Oats there are many
I:esh arrivals, and sales thereof are quoted cheaper—
Flour as last week.

GENLRAL CIARENCT ASUNDER:
Them, 655. SOs. 90s. Beans (old) 665. 75.1.0 d.
Fins ditto, 925. 96,
. Tick ditto (old) 635. 695. Od.
r•ic, sbs. 635. Oats, 345. 38s. 41s.
.., 'V, 425. 495. Od. Poland ditto, 425. 435. 6d.
t. ' 744.825. Potatoe ditto to 445. Od.
-- Pas (boilers), 140 s 155 s Rape Seed, 501. to 541.
' j ‘ltto, 525. 575.
line Flour 801. to 85s.—Seconds 755. to 803.

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