Star.
London, England, 1807-06-11 00:00:00

INUNDATION.

The fan ofAsin, at Bury St. Edmund's, on Friday
and SAliifdlayiall. and during the fucceeding night,
Sass.reater than had been teniembered for feveral
VIM In the fame (pace of time ; nearly all the mea-
dows at the South and EAR fide of the town bcing

Banded.
Jtnic 8 —On rriday evening, it he-
pc to rain, and continued almot inceitantly till Sa-
turday afternoon, abott five o'clock. In confequence
of the great fall, the roads in feversl places, became
impaffa-ble. On the road near Kimbolton turnpike,
a man endeavouring to pals on horfeback, the Rream
overpowered his bode, and the rider providentially
caught hold of the branch of a tree, where he remained
till a rope was thrown to him, to which he /aliened
himfelf, and was drawn from his perilous fituation.
At Grent Sloughton, a village about four miles
and a half from Kimbolton, towards London, a
man, belonging to a grocer, at Godmaneheßcr, who
had been to Kimbolton, with articles in that line,'
on his return in the evening, before dark, in attempt.
ing to pat.'s the bridge, the Rream overpowered his
!Imre, and man and horfe were both drowned s—a
.1, 4y paired about the fame time, but, from the fupe-
r clrefigth of the horks, got fate.
Outline coat could not proceed farther than
iiinfurilton, on Saturday evening ; and this morning
waited two hours after their ulual time of letting out
from thence, preceded by a man on horfeback, and
the Matter of the White Lion Inn, leading the fore
bodes. The water at Stonely, one mile from the
town, was foqr feet high. The town of Kimbolton
was nearly ruder water, this morning at fix. It is
£ppcfed a Mr. Palmer, a tanner, in the Back beet.
will Waist damage to the amount of 3001. The
ground floors of moil of the houfes were under water.

Jevcral places Gs the north mad were covered with
water for a mile together; near Girtford Bridge, the
water was, part of the way, three feet fix inches high.
The Oundle coach a•rived at the George and Blue
Boar, Holborn, at twelve at night, five hours after
the ufual time.

It alas reported at Bigglzfwade, that the town of
ledford was nearly ail under water, by the overflow-
pg ct the Oufe, which r•lns through the town.

CAPTAIN PLINDARS.

Extraet of a Letter from Captain Frani:leas, of his Majelly's late
/hip the I NVZ. STIGA TOR. to his friend 111 Jamaica, dated Wilber's
Plaius, In the Ifle at France, July zaoBo6.

" A preceding letter was written, my friend, under
circumfiances very different to thole in which I am
at prefent. You are probably no (tranger to the
change, and its caufes; but I will give you a 'hart
recapitulation. No flip was found convenient to
continue the Invetligator'x voyage, and I embarked
with my Officers, &c. for England, on board the
Porpoife ; we were fhipwrecked in the night upon a
coral reef, aio miles from Part Jackfon ; I got back
in a fix-oatnitliatter, obtained veffels to relieve my
people, who bad remained upon a fand bank, and
fent them round by China, but embarked Enyfelf in
little fchooner, the fize of Gravefend boat, to pals
theungb Tones Strait, direlt for England, to Pave
tinee.•Ny voyage was tolerably profpercus for a long
time ; but the leakinets of the veffel, and bstdnefs of
the pumps, obliged me to (top at the Ifle of France,
where I found war again declared. 1 precasted my
paffport, but was made prifoner, my veffel feized,
and the chart, &c. of my difcoverieF, Chattered as they
had keen lived from the Thipwreck, taken from me.
My remondrances enraged General de Caen, the Go
assessor, and be referred the judgment of my cafe to
nonce, knowing, that whilit expelling their decition,
I Should have a year's imprifonment. The Minifter
of the Marine, it teems, found the imprifonment of
the Commander of a Voyage of Difcuv cry, having
a French Fatima, le extraordinary a eircumfiance—
and between the honour of the French Nation, and
the regard due to their Captain-General, the cafe
was fo difficult to t he-refetiedahe judg-
ment to the Council of .- The Contra has been
to occupied with the great events that have lately
taken placer and with making Viceroys, Martha's of
the Empires and Princes of the Blood, that they
cannot find time to think of an Eagtifh prifoner
jar dittant. Thus two years and a half of the ben
years of my life have been lot' in inaltivily in a prifon,
`my hopes of reputation—of teeing my name placed
by the fide of Cook and Vancouver, cruelly retarded,
if not deflroyed.
" And all this far what? Indeed I fcarcely know :
life proceeding may fatisfy national animofnity, but
certainly can be produCtive of no good to any indi-
vidual upon the face of the earth.
" The fubjeft. as you may foppofe, has been finch
canvaffed, ard is likely to be (till more. The want
of hofpitality. of Office, of humanity, and the breach
of national faith, are too confpicuous in this tranf-
mai= nor to excite much animadverfion. The re-
potation alto of the French nation, as the prote&refs
and enc'urager of science, will be deeply wounded
by it. Even Frenchmen confider the treatment I
have received with indignation ; as a fpecimen of their
fentiments I enclofe a copy of a letter, which you are
at liberty to thew to your particular friends, but it
mutt on no account be made public, kit the writers
be injured in the opinion of the Government here."

NEW PARLIAMENT.

MEMBERS PLECTED.
WEXFORD COLIN rr.—W. Alcoa and Colonel Ram.

CONTESTED E I .ECTIONS.

/Cully CoupryL—StatecftileVil: May 3o :
The Kntgbt of Kerry 68y Colonel Cruibie ASS
Colonel Herbert 68S
The High Sheriff need that Col. Crolbie declined any further
conceit, attd he accordingly declared the Knight of Kerry atol Mr.
Herbert duly elected.

YORKSHIRE ELECTION.
The following are the numbers polled from Ceich
Wapentake in the three Riding
RII)II(G.

W. M. L.
Stratrorth and Tickhill - 641 1898 4R3
Aggbrigg - 755 2421 754
Motley - - 95/ 25.;8 897
Skirack - 704 266 Eal
Stainchff and Ewcrofe - 923 301 1025
staincrofs, OfgrAdcrufa, and/
Bark Ron Ath 929 1064 1042
Ainfty and Claro - 155 337 1073

sBoB 7625 6ios

WORTH RIDING.
Allartanfhire, Subtler, Birdbath/
and Gelling
zolB 771 1134
Hang EaR and Weft. Hallam%
and Rydale 928 408 866
Langhargh, Pickering Lythelandf tyoz
Whitby Strand

icfo

1129

3:46 2::,) 3318
RIFT RIDING.

Hartbill 1147 673 634
Oufc & Drrwent, ticwdenikire.2
998 419 734
Huckruie and Dickering
HoWerner' 614 22t 403

2754 1313 1771
TOTAL OF THI THRSI RIDINGS ImoUGHT DOWN.
Welt Riding - 5808 7623 6toi
North Riding
3246 2239 3118
Ea* Riding 2754 1313 1771

1,8c3 3'477 50,990
Nothing Since the dayVvif the Revolution has ever
pletented to the world, Acli * (vette as has been for
fifteen days and nights ,paffing within this great
County. Repofe or reit bave been unknown in it;
except it was fees in a tneffenger, totally worn not;
ante!, upon his pott hork or on his carriage. Every
day the roads, in every diredion, and to and from
every remote corner of the County, have been co-
vered with vehicles loaded with voters and barouches,
curricles, gigs, flying waggons, military cars with
eight horfes to them, crowded fometimes with forty
voters, haveteen (enuring the country, leaving not the
(mallet chance for the rid traveller to urge hishumble
journey, or find a chair at an inn to fit down upon.
The Stratford Jubilee was only a miciature pi.fture
of it. It is reckoned that one day with another,
about eight horfes a day were found dead upon the
different roads. And every houfe, every room, every
bed in York, by an inceffant change of voters, at the
rate of about two thoufand a day, created a con-
fumpt ion of p:oyilion., that might otherwife Served
the city for one year.
From the hultings and windows of each Candidate's
houfe, Speeches were made each day after the clofe
of the poll, atniclft the huzzas of their refpedive at-
tendants.

A beautiful illumination was given by Lnrd Milton
nn the King's Birth-day, at Etridge's. This contelt
is never to be forgotten—fuck another will probably
vever rccur iu dais County.