Star.
London, England, 1809-06-06 00:00:00

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Several of the largest of the trees in Vauxhall
Garden were blown down, and nearly the whole of
the coverings of the walks destroyed during an
tempest on Friday.—Some embers were conveyed by
the wind into the premises of a wheelwright at Chalk,
near Gravesend, which were totally consumed, witl.
the stock.—A man crying fish at Rotherhithe Wall
was killed by the fall of a branch of a tree ; and auo•
ther had both his legs broken, which were amputated
in the Hospital on Saturday. A large tree was blown
down in Devonshire-square, Bishopsgate-street. Two
of the venerable elm trees in the Orange Grove, Bath,
were blown down ; after having been rooted tenants
of the spot nearly a whole century, they gave way to
the force of this unseasonable tempest. At South-
ampton the marsh was overflowed, which is a very
uncommon circumstance. Much damage has been

done to the fivit-trees.

At Paddington Green, a large beautiful tree, which
had stood there for at least three centuries, were also
blown down.

There was a violent hurricane at Plymouth, on
Thursday night, attended with heavy showers of rain
and hail: several trees were torn up by the roots
during the night, but we have not heard of any ma-
terial damage done to the shipping, although those in
the Sound with difficulty rode out the violence of the
storm. The Harbour and Sound were very much
agitated, nor v. as the surf ever known to run higher.
The air, during the tempest, was nearly as coli as at
any period of the winter. It is feared that considera-
ble damage has been done along the rugged coast of
Cornwall.

BRICIITOI4, JUNE 2.

This has been one of the most tempestuous days
ever remembered here. The number of mackarel
boats belonging to this place are twenty-two, twenty
of which unfortunately were at sea. In the course of
the morning, four of them, at great hazard and diffi-
catty, ran on shore, and were preserved. An equal
number we have since heard were similarly successful
at Lancing. At about two o'clock, P. M. the boat
of J. Pnir..sr,.on board of which were his brother W.
PRIEST, a son of the latter, and two men, of the names
cf William Leech and J. Serjeant, were seen within a
mile of the town, making every possible effort to gain
the shore. Their endeavours, however, were not suc-
cessful ; a tremendous wave upset the boat, and all on
board perished, within sight of hundreds of spectators
on the cliffs. The poor fellows, as the boat did not
immediately sink, but floated keel upwards, were seen
soon after the accident, on her bottom, but the waves
were too turbulent and powerful to permit them long
to remain there, and human assistance could afford
them no relief. One of the poor fellows, J. Serjeant,
partly buoyed up by a bundle of netswhich he grasped,
appeared within about twenty yards of the shore, and .
a very numerous body of fishermen, cnlinked with
ropes, that the sea might not wash away the extre-
mity, or sever the line they formed, tried every possi-
ble means to preserve him. At times they were Within
a yard or two of their object, who,occasionally clasped
his hands together, as beseeching them to continue
their exertions, and which, Heaven knows, they most
ardently and willingly did. Serjeant, however, was
not to be rescued from the devouring element—for
the nets which had previously supported, in the end
twined round him, and he sunk to rise no more. A
more distressing scene than the above was scarcely
ver witnessed. The three men lost have each left'
large families to bewail their untimely end. Another
boat, J. and R. Spicer owners, who were both on
board, and two other men, upset in endeavouring to
get into Shoreham harbour, when J. Scott was drown-
ed. The remaining three, with great difficulty, were
taken from the water alive, but R. Spicer is since
dead. Eight or ten of the boats are still missing, and
the most lively apprehensions are felt for their safety.