Star.
London, England, 1807-09-15 00:00:00

EFFECTS OF THR LATE STORM.

DCMIIIIII. &pr. 6.—We have had a Tnne revere
Rom hve wind and rain from the 14. E. which"
cAntinned all hill night and to-day. Several veffelsi
came nn lh ;re nn this email, one of them a large brig
fr,•rn P.tetlb.ttgh to Dundee, laden with hemp, irnn,
pn.l deals—all her crew, ennfilling of five men, are
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fared She came on (home about a mile to the tag-
ward ..f this place. As (he has kept wh .le all day.
and as the pale is falling off, it is probable great
past of her csrgn will be laved. Another. a thy"
from Banff to Lordon, with a cargo of butter and
cheefe, is alfo on (bore below Eatt Barns, about two
miles from Dunbar. There were (even people nn
bo trd her, one of wham was drowned, not wit h ilsosling
every exertion being made by the people on (hare to
five him. • Two tuber veffels are nn (hare at Thorn-
ton Lack, a few miles Int them to the eariward ; one
(if them is a fmack, from Peterhead to Hull, with
kelp. One of her crew, a young man, died delirious
a (hart time after he was brought on (bore; the veil
are all fared. The clew of the other veffel are all.)
fared ; but where the was hound to, or what the was
laden with, I have not yet learnt. It is expetted, if
the form continues to abate, that all their cargoes
will be Paved.

•
KsLso, Sm. 7.—On Saturday evening we exre•
'kneed a Very revere Norm of wind, accompanied
with torrents of raid, which increafed in violence
during the night. la confequence of this, the river s
Tweed and Teel?* were. yeiterd.sy morning. prodi.
gionfly fwnles, nvevikwing the low grounds near their
; banks, altd fweeping off, in their career, great Tian-
lilies of -reaped corn. The farmers on the banks of
the Tevirit; in particalar, have, we fear, severely Cof-
fered as, for foam hours, the finface of that river
was Ilmnfl covered with floating fheaves. "l'he uncut
grain has alfo, we are forry to fay, been much in-
jured by the norm. In this town left damage was
follained than might have been expefted; teveral
chimnies 'were, however, blown down, and Come of
the honfes.otherwife injured. Six (beep, which uete
feeding on.the Mill Ana, were carried down the river,
but were all laved by the activity of the inhabitants.
The wind blew from the N. E. and yellerdayevening
veered by the N. towards the W. when the rain
abated. The rivers have not been fo much fwoln for
feveral years.
CARLISLI, Srpr. Is.—On Saturday morning
commenced here II very heavy rain, accompanied
with a harm of wind. which continued, without in.
termillinn, until Sunday morning. By it, the rivers
Eden, Calder, and Peterill, were confiderably fwoln,
and over fl ming the banks, delugei the low greunds,
lot ming x large and magnificent expanfe of water,
beautifully ("petted with !mall islands A great deal
of cot n has been cart led away ; fume hundreds of
(heaves being teen floating down the river at a time.
Confideralle damage has alfu been done in Northum-
berland The Tyne WAS unufually high, and great
numbers of (heaves were 'coming down, when OLD
coreapiindent clofed his letter.
On Satvrday, the sth Want. at Kendal, fell three
and an half inches of rain in about fixteen hours;—
the river Ken was thereby swollen to a height that
had wit been witneffed for many years, and deluged
the IoW giounds,hy which the graft was much injured
and a great deal of corn has been carried away.—
During the 11.3na1, David Braithwaite, a flout young
man, fun cf Mr. Robert Braithwaite. altar!, Bridge,
ts as dre.w.-eal, at Suavely, five miles from Kendal—
his remain were found, on the following morning,
about two hundred yards bd Arr the place where he
was fuppofed to have fallen in, Slating to a (mall
branch in the centre of the river, which be bad hold
of with both his hands.

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Tbe following is an extra. of a letter from Skye,
dated Augtsfi a I The we:ether has been remark.
ably favourable for the manufnaure of kelp this fea-
f n t and the. p; ices base peen ooeinsenonly high.
In the beginning of framer, kelp was C Id at eight
guineas a ton on the thole, and latterly it has been
fold fo high as ten guineas per ton, or from 131.
141. deliverable at the port of Londta.
" On Monday evening the 34 init. it blew a heavy
gate from the fouthward—about fie o'clock we had
the nloft dreadful norm of thunder and lightning
remembered here for many years, accompanied by
revere thoirees of hail and rain. About liz weeks
ago, a boat with three men left this neighbourhood
for the visit of At gylefkire, to take in haute timber
and wartlings—a •few days after the floras als•ore
mentioned,. one half of the boat was driven. into
Lochrattin, not far from hence, and the other half
into &hunt, where her little crew mull have perilhed,
as two of the men's bodies have fines been found, but
the third. is Hill miffing ; it is fuppofed that the boat
muff have been driven on the rocks of Cairnifh, in
the with of Bramsdale, by the violence of the gale.
Each of the crew has left, a wife and children to
deplore his loft.
" Our hefting filhing has hitherto completely
failedt except a very few by the country people, I
do not foppofe a herring has been caught on the
coatis or in the Lochs of Skye this feafon."

AYR, SIFT. t—The Circuit Court of Jufliciary
was opened here on Saturday lan, by the Right Hon.
Loid DUNSINNAN and Lord CIULIekt4.

Henry
.Greene and Hugh Gawley M'Adoo, both
Of the county of Antrim, in Ireland, had been india-
ektor bottle-breaking and theft ; hut it was Rated to
the Court, that Gawky M'Adoo had been feised with
' a fever, of which he died tome days ago in the jail
of Ayr; and Greene tailik to appear, lenience of
fpgitation was pronounced againtl him.
Ritchie
Andrew Ritchie it:stored of fraud, was foond guilty
1 by his own confeßion, and fentenced to be tranferted
beyond fees for (even years. '
' 1 ,iliti Vila, meiletigei in Ayr ; Mingo Baird, :ref-
* "r'rhere ; John Sytne; Iberia' i &lee in Irvine ;
;DAL! Cniilthard, reliding in ke*ton of Ayr i Jon.
faltd, coal grieve, at Bartonhoim colliery, and James
1
?ether, coal): ewer, at the raid colliery ; were accufed
• t:7l. CtotOili breaking into the dwelling honk of the
liege's, to tfie clinurbance• and breach of the King's
peace. .and the bodily fear of ' perfume dwelling
'thereat After hentiog the Connie! In both fides
at great length, on the relevancy, the diet'againll
Cpulthavd was deferted finficiter, and he was
dillniffed. from the bar. l'he Court certified the
cafe with rerpea to the other prifonere to the. High
Coort of joeitieiarr. to meet at Edinburgh on the
/ third Monday of November tut.
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