Star.
London, England, 1823-11-05 00:00:00

TUE STORM OF ALLIIALLi9tVE EVE.

7he Storm of last Thursday night, atiftars to have
swept, from North to South, the whole we%tern toast of
our Island, from Scotland to Cornwall. The northern
coasts of Devon and Cornwall, la))- open to its utmost
fury. From Clovelly, we learn, that the sea poured
over the Pier so furiously, that one-third of it has dis-
appeared, and that the ruins have formed a bar across
the harbour.which prevents all ingress or egress. Fortu-
nately, no fishing boats were at sea, or another catas-
' trophe might have happened similar to that in which so
many fishermen suffered a few years ago.—The pier of
Ilfracombe has also suffered considerable damage.—At
St. Ives, eight vessels were wrecked, and two more on
the Zennor coax, a little farther westward: The crews

of the two latter perished. Four seans that were in the
water in St. Ives bay, and two at New-quay, with pil-
chards inclosed in them, were entirely lost; and eight
large sewn-boats, with their scans on board, driven on
shore and wrecked.—A sloop from Newry for London,
appeared off Falmouth on Saturday, whilst our inform-
ant was writing, in tow of two boats, her mast and sails
blown away. It is to be feared, that this is but a small
sample of the damage done at sea, and which time h
not yet served to inform us of. The shipping in the well-
sheltered harbour of Falmouth, suffered no damage
whatever; but one poor fisherman, out alone, has not
returned. The mail-coach from Falmouth, was abso-

lately blown over, in crossing the line of the storm on
Whitstone-hill near this city; but happily no person was
seriously hurt. Dartmoor, Exmoor, Haldon, and all
our high hills were covered with snow, and continued so
next day. The Ere rose and flooded the low grounds ;
and some of its banks and weirs, particularly the weir at
Thorverton, sustained damage. The floods prevented
many of the usual supplyers of Exeter market, from at-
tending last Friday. All our mail and other public
coaches lost time. From all quarters we hear of house-
roofs rifled in expLsed situations, and trees uprooted.
From Bath, which descelids into a deep valley through
which slowly winds the sluggish Avon, we hear, that
so late as Saturday, the houses near the river were in
the water, and some of them had fallen under its decom-
posing power and pressure. Such a flood had not been
experienced there for twenty years. A child was seen
to pass with the stream, through a window, from whence
it disappeared. A waggoner, who persisted in driving
his team down a. low road near that city, was glad to
halt, and sit on his waggon top several hours, whilst
three of his horses perished. No coach, we are told, left
that city on Saturday; and the horses of a post-chaise
and four, substituted to carry out some mail-bags, ac-
tually swam. A Gentleman who arrived by the coach
on Saturday from town, informs us, that the country
round Salisbury is in a sad state, from the heavy rains
of the past week. Many houses in that city are flooded.
—The Tamer (says a correspondent at Launceston) over-
' flowed its banks, from the storm of Thursday night and
Friday, higher and farther than for the last twenty
years.— Western Luminary.
Captain James Hill, of Deal, master and owner of
the Neath Castle of that port, which foundered off Wain-
fleet on the 31st ult. and who has been for more than
twenty•nine years a sailor, and during that period three
times shipwrecked, asserts that he was never before
exposed to the melancholy effects of a gale so tremen-
, dons as that which so awfully and so destructively swept
the north-eastern coast on Friday last. The intelligence
communicated by Captain Hill cannot but be deemed
highly important by mercantile readers at the present
juncture, for he states that a fleet of merchantmen,
consisting of no less than one hundred and fifty 'vessels,
sailed from Yarmouth Roads on Thursday morning.—
With this numerous fleet the Neath Castle remained in
company, until the rising tempest became so diffusive
and so strong, as to cause their dispersio9 in all direc-
tions. It is our painful duty to add, that this experi-
enced mariner yet further stated, that the violence of
the hurricane and the overwhelming sea, together with
the appalling perils of darkness on a harbourless
shore, to which these ships were exposed, when he
parted from them, had deeply impressed his mind
with a sorrowful apprehension that most of them would
be inevitably lost.—Our Grimsby Correspondent's let-
ter conveys the heart-rending tidings that not less than
thirty vessels are on shore between Grimsby and Tetney
Haven, an extent of only seven miles, aed that the ship-
ping has sustained considerable damage during the late
gale. Fifty-nine sail are stated to be on shot e on the Lin-
colnshire coast—on the coast of Norfolk seven sail are
on shore between Hunston Light-house and Lynn. The
following went down near Wainfleet on Friday last :
John Watt, of Sunderland, light, crew saved ;. Neath
Castle, Hill, of Deal, light, crew saved; Darby, Hunter,
of Newcastle, crew lost; ship total wreck. A brig, the
Jason, belonging to Clay, in ballast; crew and vessel
lost. Two unfortunate seamen, who perished in the
storm, were washed on shore at Wrangle. In the pocket
of one of them was a Bible, with the name of " Thomas
Hunter, Edinburgh, Sept. 1, 1820," inscribed ; which
circumstance, coupled with other memorandums from
Gateshead, induces a belief that the vessel belongs to a
northern port.
The Patty, of Yarmouth, Breeze, master, was found
on the Long Sand on Sunday morning, a complete
wreck, w ithout a single hand on board. Tne schooner
Neutral Fisher, Bawling, of Whitby, in ballast, drifted
out of Wainfleet Haven, early on Friday morning, and I
was driven into Lynn Roads the same afternoon ; she
was boarded by Mr. Mann, one of the Lynn pilots, but
was upset in a squall, and he pilot, with a man and
.boy on beard, were drowned: providentially the master
was on shore, and to this circumstance he owes, in all
probability, his life. A brig, name unknown, also went
down in Lynn Roads ; two others were ashore, one of
them wrecked.—Boston Gazette.
A letter of yesterday from Windsor says:- "We have,
here at this present time the greatest flood that has been
known for many years ; it came very suddenly, and is
supposed to be owing to the great fall of snow in the
low country. Nothing can be seen from Maideabeai to
Chertsey, but water over the tops of the hedges. E:on
is totally surrounded with water, every field is covered,-
and the water runs across the street to such a depth.
that no one can pass except in a boat or cart ; the Little
Park is under water, and part of the Park wall thrown
down by the violence of the water. No carriages caa
come to Windsor by Dacha, the water is so deep round
the wall. The loss in cattle has been very great, because
the flood came so suddenly there was not time to re-
move them to places of safety."
PORT: MOUTH, Nov. I.—Thursday night, and during
the whole of yesterday, it has been blowing a tremen-
dous gale from the N.E. but has moderated a little to-
day. The chimney of Mr. Goodeve's house, in the
High-street, Gosport, was blown down by the violence
of the wind yesterday morning, and carried away part
of the parapet wall with. it into the street. Fortunately,

'no one was pssing at the time but a boy, who, from
being hear the wall, escaped with only a slight bruise
in the face. A house in King-street was also damaged,
and the windows of several houses in Cold Hxibour,
were blown in.
Soo Amrrox, NOVEMBER I.t-We have experienced
since Tuesday successive gales,accompanied with heavy
rains. The whole of yesterday it blew a complete hurri-
cane,
.so as to prevent
.the arrival of any vessel from
Portsmouth, or the mill from the Isle of Wight. Last
evening some chimnies of the Custom House were blown
down, and beat in part of the roof; some chimnies at
the Dolphin Inn were likewise blown down, and two
large trees in the Danery gardens. We are happy to
say no serious accident has come to our knowledge.

The King of SPAIN has pufished the following.De-
tree, postponing, till after his arrival in Madrid, the
adoption of those measures which may be necessary to
blend " clemency" with " justice:"
"Ever since the first moment of friy restoration to
freedom, my paternal mini! has sought to 'fix the future
lot of all my subjects, hi order that they might live in
security; some in the enjoyment of the rewards due tot
their fidelity and loyalty, and others, in the oblivion
accorded to their past errors, that they might render
themselves worthy of the respect of their countrymen
and of my Royal benevolence. At the tame time I have
decided, that the principal delinquents, who had placed
themselves beyond the reach of pardon, should suffer
the punishmeia to which their transgressions had ren-
dered them liable. But a subject so interesting, and
which must form an epoch in the annals of our religi-
ous and monarchical restoration, requires the deepest
meditation. When I shall arrive at Madrid, and be
there surrounded by the lights with which my counsel-
lors, with all their reflection and well-tried wisdom,
will supply me, I will make known my Royal will, re-
gulating that will according to my natural clemency,
to the claims of public justice, to the tranquillity of my
people, the security of the throne, and to those rela-
tions which so closely unite me with the Allied Powers.
This, my sovereign will, shall be made known to all
the people of this Realm, and my Council will be held
charged with its execution.
" October 9.2, 1893."
Some notion may be formed of the consternation
produced by the Decrees of FERbINAND, from the
statement that since the period of their being issued, no
less than 8000 passports have been applied for and de-
livered. It is a moderate computation to estimate that,
upon the average, each of these 8000 persons has three
or four relatives or connexions—wife, children, parents,
brothers, or friends—upon whom must fall, indirectly,
some portion of the penalty attaching to the proscribed
individual. Thirty thousand persons are thus, by the
mere force of circumstances, made to have a direct and
powerful interest in bringing about another change,
and these 30,000, too, comps ising many of the most
powerful and influential characters in Spain. A calcu-
lation like this, strews, at once, the impolicy of such
indiscriminate and comprehensive punishment.
Yesterday, the chief topic of conversation in the
English Stock-market, was a large transfer of Reduced
Annuities from the East India Company to the Bank of
England, in pursuance of an arrangement made be-
tween the Directors of each establishment, and by
which, we understand, the Batik has lent the EaTt India.
Company £2,500,000 at the low rate of interest of 21/2
per cent. according to report, for the space of two
years. The amount of Stock transferred, we under-
stand, is nearly £2,700,000.
The following is an extract of a letter from Gibraltar,
dated Oct. 16 :—" We are crowded with the unfortu-
nate Spaniards who have taken refuge here to escape
the miseries of a dungeon, or the tortures of the bloody
Inquisition. Among them arc upwards of sixty of the
most distinguished Deputies of the Cortes, as Valdes,
Alava, and Infantes; Quiroga, Yandiola, Mauzanares,
and Calatrava, are also here. They seem much at a
loss to select a point of retreat and security. At first it
was their intention to have gone over to Ceuta, and
maintained themselves as Constitutionalists ; but hav-
ing practised a ,reconnoissance, the want.of supplies,
and incapability of the works to -withstand a siege, in-
duced them to abandon the project. We have had
many French men of war lying in the Bay ; on their
first visit they worked in an extraordinary tinseaman-
like manner, but are now improved.—Sir Robt. Wilson
arrived here a few days since from Cadiz and Tarifa;
he was at first undecided as to his future destination,
but has determined at last to return to England, in the
first packet.—There never was such an influx of Con-
trabandistas to Gibraltar; they take advantage of the
disorders which everywhere prevail throughout Spain,
to smuggle with impunity. Freon Cadiz, we learn, all
the old prohibitory commercial regulations have been
revived, and that the French watch their execution, ex-
cepting when it implicates any of their own sessels.
They are also repairing the fortifications with great
activity ; the breaches formed by the sea are almost
closed up, and it is uoderstood they intend to erect a
fort on the Puercas, or rocks at the entrance of the har-
bour. These precautionary steps indicate strongly, that
the occupation is not quite of such, a temporary nature
as many would wish to believe."
Tee of Loons!—a proposition has made its ap-
pearance on the Stock Exchange for one to the Knights
of Malta ! ! The • ingenuity of our -monied men
seems taxed to the utmost to find out persons to lend
their louse cash to. We should as soon have thought of
lending half a million to the Poor Knights of Windsor;
as to the Knights of Malta; but tastes no doubt differ.
The money, it seems, is to be repaid when the Order of
St. John of Jerusalem has recovered its estates in
France; and it will recover its estates as soon' as it has
got " a local habitation, and a name." What it wants
just now with so much money we are not informed ;
perhaps it is to set up again the Colossus of Rhodes.
Sunday laic it was discoyeied that the convicts under
sentence of death in Newgate bad it in contemplation
to effect an escape, by an ascent to the top of the Gaol
from the Press-yard. In consequence, the Governor,
aided by his assistants, repaired to the yard, and there,
discovered that the rugs and blankets of the convicts
had been actually cut into slips, in order to form a lad-
der far their escape. They were all immediately
locked tip for the night. On Monday morning the She-
Jiffs attended the Gaol—in examination took place, the
result of which was, that three of the, principals were
double ironed, and confined to their cells.
The SPEAKER of the House of Commons has been
taking an extensive tour on the Continent, accompanied
by portions of his fatriliy. The Honourable Gentleman
first went to Paris: thence to Geneva, remaining a con-
siderable time in the neighbourhood of the tlcautifel
-Mikes theme; and afterwards proceeded •to Florence,
.where he rentaitied, and *as in. excellent health accord•
ing. to the Matterviast idateeved.ftwa him. •His return is
:expected 1,1 about a foil sight's time.