Star.
London, England, 1807-10-03 00:00:00

DEAL, OCTOBER 1.

LA night, about ten o'clock, there was a re.
mailcable flew of water here, which hat' filled the
cellars of the hoofer in Lwer-flreet, and on the
pavement there was above a toot of water; and. the
Mt/flies almoil as far as Worth. tinder water. Such

a flood is hardly in the memory of the °Welk man
in Deal—And had it happened Awn twelve or one
o'clock, when all the people had been afleep, not a
boat on the beach could have cfcaped, but mutt ine-
vitably have been wafhed from the thore.

MARGATE, OCTOBER z.
We have been vitited by a moft tremendous form,
which produced, while it Lilted, confiderable alarm
and devaftation. tin high a tide has not beers Wit.
mired for the fpace of 30 years. AlTurt midnight
on Tuefiay lad, a dreadful gale of wind came oh
from the W. N. W. which incrcafed during the 101-
lowing thy. Towards evening the fifh”rnerr wcre
fully employed in bringing their boats ...Insure. About
eleven o'clock lafl night,-tUe I,:a ran tremendoafly
high, and was hreakiog hors ibly over the Pier, the
Brook!, and the Parade, when feveral fignal guns of
diarefs were 'grad by the gon b'ig, and other fitips at
anchor in the road,:. A boat.front one of thefe v.ef.

fek, in4ttempth.tg ter 'get ee More on the Shingles, I
with feven men In her, a dreadful fea, all foaming,
tiok her in her larboard quarter, and although the
'nen Cheered a weather her helm, the 101 l her dm.
rageway, broached tn, upfer, and overwhelmed, the
fea rolling over and over. The men again regained
the beat,:and by keeping her quarter to the furl.,
notWithflanding a dreadful hollporr broken fea was
running in every direlion, and continually burying
them in the waves, they were at lad providentially
Caved.

The fea ran irountains high about one o'clock
this morning ; the Meets of water not only ran in
floods over the Pier and the Parade, but they like.
wife poured in torrents over the Cullom koule, and
the other buildings crated on the Pier ; the boa:s
placed there were (hated down to the entrance into
the Duke's Head inn. One of there boats was welted
from the Pier, round the Cuftom-houfe, and from
thence into the fea.
On the Parade, the water was at one time almoft
knee deep. The flood poured down the narrow ftreet
adjoining Wdattt ra and WIT HEROIN'S Printing office,
and inundated the ffibterraneous apartments of all
the bottles. Malta asses was in the fame (tate.—
The Market was expefted to be overflqwed ; but the
principal damage was dons in the vicinity of the
Brooks.
Weahrook Honfe is placed in a peculiarly critical
fituation, id confequence of this event. This houfe
flood very near the lea, previous to the tempell, it
having had only a grafs.plar, and the flot.path in
front ; but to render the cliff leen., , piles of oak,
and likewife a Itrong barricade made of the fame
materials, were ufed to break off the waves. The
tempekhas carried away the whole of the footpath,
and the greater part of the lawn, leaving the hotife
expofed to the effects of the firit inundati3n that may
happen. Although the fituation was fo very critical,
the owner (a Captain in the Navy) did not quit it
during the night.
The Jetty, near Hazardous Row, has fuflained
very great injury. HUGHES'S (tabling is in part
waffied away, and the footpath to Dandelion, next
HUGHES'S, has totally difappeat ed.
All the low grounds are under water at this time,
to the depth of about two feet ; men are at work
digging channel. to carry it off.
At three o'clock this morning upwards of Soo
people were walking on the Cliff and the High.ftreet,
having affembled there to behold one of the molt
awful and fublime fpeetaeles ever witnefted. The
phofporic light, emitted by the fea water, as it (lathed
over the Pier, &c. and the faintflallt from the guns
in the offing, were objects of terror as well as admi-
ration, the darknefs of the night giving full effect to
the grandeur of the fccne.
The damage (Whined at Broadllairs was more
confiderable ; part of the Pier there has been wattled
away. BaarieLD's bathing machines are totally
detiroyed.
At Ramfgate one'or two lugfail boats were flayed
to pieces, hut the tempell was not fu feverely felt
there as with um..