Star.
London, England, 1818-01-20 00:00:00

HIGH WIND, IN SCOTLAND.

Gascciw, JAN. 15.—The weather has been very
stormy for some days past ; and the gale is pecUliarlf
Strong. This morning, between 10 and 11 o'clock, a
large granary of four stories, building in Union-place►
the property of Messrs. Campbell and Bennie, had its
'east wall overthrown by the wind. It fell with a
tremendous crash open a wright's shop in the vicinity,
and completely demolished it. An old man who was
within at the time escaped unhurt. In Gallowgate a
chimney was also blown down. The Clyde is con-
siderably swollen; and had not the rain abated this
forenoon, the evening tide might have been attended
with unpleasant consequences. There are a great
mmly vessels Jying at Broomielaw.
JANUARY 17.—The storm noticed continued with

unabated fury the whole of Thursday, and was the 1
cause of much calamity, to the poor families in the
lower part of the town, as the Bridgegate, the foot
of Saltmarket, ke. were under water. The Clyde I
was much swollen during the whole of the day, and
the water was fully eight feet deep on the top of the
breast-work at Broomielaw. No damage was, how-
ever, done to the shipping. Upon the River, which
was swollen to a magnificent size, its effects were
very remarkably displayed ; the wind being in oppo-
sition to the rapid current, the whole surface was
converted into a sheet of foam; and clouds of spraSi
raised sometimes to the height of twenty or thirty
feet, were drive* furioitsly along. At five o'ciock
the hurricane was dreadfully violent, and did much
damage. The roof of a grocer's shop at the en-
trance to the Green Market, was forced in by a
' fall of stones from the top of an adjoining tenement.
' A Magistrate repaired to the spot, and a party of the
40th foot were placed in the street for the purpose of
preventing passengers going too near the building,
part of which had thus fallen. The people in the
shop were just able to get to the street when the roof
was shivered. About the same time the, front wall
of the Granary in Union Place fell in with a noise re-
sembling thunder, leaving only the gables standing ;
.the other wall having given way, as already stated,
in the forenoon. In M'Alpine-street, Brownfield, the
liable of a new tenement on the west side fell and car-
ried with it a large portion of the roof. On the oppo-
site side of the street the gable of a two-story tenement
gave way, and forced in the roof of a one-story house.
At Grerne's-square, a large cone was blown down,
and, although the ruins fell among some workmen,
none of them were hurt. In Tradestown, the chimney
of Mr. Richardson's dye-works was swept down, and
the Engine-man was so near the place.where it fell as
to receive some bruises. ' In High John-street, the top
of a gable of a new building fell upon an adjoining
house, and rendered it uninhabitable. At Port Dun-
das, part of a distillery, and the gable of a house,
were laid in ruins. At the Dye-works of Messrs. H.
Monteath and Co. at Barrowfield, a large stove and
the chimneyof an adjoining furnace were blown down,
with considerable injury to the roofs of the oth.er build-
ings. Much damage of minor importance was done.
Many cans were blown from the chimneys, and a
great many panes in exposed windows were shattered
by the blast. So powerful was the hurricane that
several of the trees in the Green were broken down.
A window of the Rutherglen coach witS broken by
the gale. Excepting a boy, who was injured in Brown-
field, and the daughter of a Gentleman at the west
end of the town, who, in passing np Hutcheson-street,,
on her way to Ingram-street, was struck by past of
a can, blown from the top of a chimney, which cut
through her bonnet and inflicted a severe wound. in
firer head, we have not heard of any person being se-
tiously hurt. In the country many houses have been
completely unroofed, stacks blown over, and trees
uprooted.
Entwaoston, Jar. 15.—Monday night, it blew a
hurricane from the south-west, with heavy rain, and
its severity was not much abated till late on Tuesday
evening. From seem to nine in the morning it was
particularly violent, and did considerable damage in
various parts of the city. All the temporary wooden
buildings on the Mound, erected for various exhibi-
tions, were blown down and strewed in various di-
rections, great part of them being carried into the
North Loch ; part of the lead was stripped off the
dome of St. George's Church ; part of the wooden
paling inclosing the new buildings at the College was
blown down ; and a house near the Archers Hall
was partly unroofed. Shattered fragments of chim-
ney canc. and slates also strewed the most exposed
streets of the city ; luckily, however, in all these ca-
sualties no person received any hurt.
JANUARY 17.—Thursday morning the barometer
had fallen eight-tenths of an inch; it then blew very
hard, and during the whole course of the day slates
and chimney-pots were flying about in all directi-os.
In the evening the gale increased, and about five 1
o'clock it blew a perfect horricane. In houses front- i
ing the west a good deal of mischief was done in
breaking the panes of glass, stripping the lead from.
the roofs, dashing the cupola windows from the!:
frames, and shivering them to atoms. In the •C 01:Tr;
of the forenoon, two of the small minerets on the to 4
of St. John's Chapel, at the west end of Prince',-
street, gave way, and fell without doing any mayo:111
damage to that beautiful building: not so, hi)ISP.!%:',
the effects of the evening the violence of the wind
carried off the whole of the minerets, large and small, 1
leaving the summit of the tower a perfect ruin.—
Such was the force of the wind, that the masses of
masonry v.-ere carried s o feet beyond the bas, of tile
tower, penetrating not only the roof of the el-Ire'',
but also the II-)or, and breaking its way thr,e2gh t!:
vaults to the i;Juldation. The seating and fii;;sllirg
of the chapel was so far advanced that it was intended
service should have been performed in it on Wednes-
day se'nnight. The mischief, therefore, has been very
great, and will take a considerable time to repair.—
One of the solid bars or bats of copper by which one
of the pinnacles was bound to the top of the tower,
was above an inch broad, and t of an inch thick ; and
though the pinnacle to which it belongs was only six
feet high, with a medium breadth of about 8 inches.
so as to expose a surfaze of merely 4 square feet, rt
such was the power of the wind, that it tore the copper
' bar from its place, and twisted one of its arms, which
was eight inches long, through an arch of 90 degrees,
as if it had been a slender piece of lead. This effect.
' resembles more that which is sometimes produced by
lightni,,g than by any other agent. Similar mischief
was done by the falling of similar ornaments at the'
•I lately erected church at Libbertcn, on Monday-last.'
1 Tile North Bridge, the Mouri4 and several parts of

the New Town, Were in darkness during the night,
it being impossible to het the lamps lighted. Thurs-
day ril;zning a lamp-fighter was blown from his lad-
der in Charles-street, and was, so severely hurt that
he is since dead in the Royal Infirmary. A large
tree in the middle walk of the Meadows was torn up
by the roots ; and a tall poplar, at the south end, was
blown down. About seven o'clock the storm abated,
and during the night there was a great fall of snow.
Tuesday the roof of one of the drying-houses be-
longing to Messrs. Leys, Mason, and Co. at Grand-
holm, seas blown down, and falling on one of the
workmen, he was killed on the spot; a woman was i
is._ severely bruised, but hopes are entertained
of her recovery.
1:-.A.so, JANUARY 16.—We had one of the most'
tremendous hurricane: yesterday from the West al-
most ever known. It continued tit.: whole day and
part of the night. We have accounts from different
parts of the country this morning, mentioning that
trees had been blown up by the roots, stacks carried
off, and that several houses had been uncovered. _

1. AHLIM.F: JAN. 17.—We have had stormy weather
in this neighbourkood during last week, which, we
learn, also extended over all the northern parts of the
kingdom, as well as over Ireland. On Tuesday night,
the wind blew and the rain beat with the
.greatest
violence, accompanied by thunder and lightning ; but
• the roaring of the wind almost drowned the sound
'of the thunder. On Thursday night, the wind again
rose to a-great height ; considcrable damage has
done in this vicinity to houses, stacks, &c.

Rio de Janeiro Gazettes, dated the Bth and 12th
of November, hare been received. They are filled
with the most glowing description .of the reception,
at once 'magnincent and enthusiastic, with which the
Austrian Archduchess LTOPOLDINE, now Princess
Royal of Portugal and Brazil, was gre.eted on her
arrival on the shores of her adopted country. The
Austrian frigate with its convoy, came in sight on
the sth, and at sunset cast anchor; but the debark-
ation did not take place till ate next day abdut two
o'clock, when the KlNdand QUEEN; with the PRINCI
ROYAL; went in grand procession to the shore, where
having received the PRINCESS ROYAL on her land-
ing with every mark of splendid ceremony, they pro-
ceeded in the same state through the principal streets,
crowded with applauding spectators, to the Royal
chapel, where the nuptial benediction was pronounced.
The Royal personages then retired to the _palace,
while the people were amused with military specia-
-1 C.2S, theatrical exhibitions, and brilliant illuminations.
The Nobility, Clergy, Freeholders, &c. of Norfolk,
met at Norwich, on Tuesday last, when Lord W4L-
POLE moved, and the Hon. Colonel WC/WIWI:SE se-
conded, Addresses of Condolence to the ReoeNT and
Prince LEOPOLD, on the lamented death of the Prin-
cess CHARLOTTE. The Rev. Archdeacon BATHURST;
in a lor.g speech, declared his determination to oppose
any Address in which the name of the Princess of
WALES was omitted. He wished it to betemember-
ed that she war acknowledged in the records of Par-
liament,: her welfare was also a subject of Petition
in the Liturgy of the Church ; they treated her with
respect before Goa, aad would they deny her beforE
men? In considering the m 011.4 of sympathy for the
afflicted, who demanded' more than tlw Princess of
WALES ? The grief of Prince LEOPOLD was excessive,
but he had consolation in the attentions of family
and of friends, and so had the PRINCE BiGaN2 ;
but the Princess of WALES had no friend ; and were
they to this source of misery to add a nation's ne-
glect ? He conceived that those who entertained a pro-
per respect for royalty, or who felt a genuine sympa-
thy for the afflietal,.must altalike be struck with the
peculiar fate of the Princess of WaLes—bereft of her
mother by death; her father and brother likewise
fallen in those very battles which the Noble Lord
(Lord WALPOLE) had so highly panegyrized—it was
an ill requital to their memory, to pass by the daugh-
ter of the one, and the sister of the other. Mr. BA-
THURST concluded by moving an amendment to the
effect, that to. pass by the name of the Princess of
WALES; would be a disrespect to the memory of her
who was the pride andthe hope of the British people.
Mr. N. PALMIIR supported Mr. BATHURST'S amend-
ments ; but after much altercation, the original Ad-
dresses were carried by a show of hands.
A singular circumstance occurred ou Change this
morning. A Gentleman parading round the place,
was supposed, by one of the bye %tinders to be a no-
torious, character of the name of NVITEELER, he ac-
cordingly communicated his snspicions to Parry,
the Bow-street Officer, doing duty at the Bank ; he
came and requested to know his name, which he in-
stantly told ; but the Officer not being satisfied, he
I requested the party would walk off 'Change ; this the
I..Lcused resisted, appealed to the Gentlemen assem-
-1 and gave reference for his character to a clerk in
the Bank ; a Gentleman well known on 'Change, also
spoke to the respectability of the accused. The Ofli-
cer condticted himself with the greatest propriety,
acd endeavoured to find the Gentleman that had
igiyen him the information, but he was absent, finding.
the whole was a mistake arising from similarity of
oeret:re The accused departed, much chagrined at
rthe unpleasant situation in which he had been placed.
EVC persors, whose united ages amounted to 411
years, accidentally met at a barber's shop in Yar-
n-...tni-.. on Thursday to be shaved, viz.—Messrs. J.
`.4, o:ivcr 84. Scott S 3, Borret 82, and Child 74.

T: make the Rf.rr-nur of a country exceed the Ex-
pe,-.'i!ure is tie desid;ratum in Finance. The same
Apn:iei to private hie; hut the Minister must resort to
Tel to accomplish the means, whilst the private
ruar has only to court a smile from Fortune, who
having row One Hundred Capitals to disperse among
her favourites, she may, by the mere turn of a•Wheel,
on the 4th March, confer upon him One or Two of
the Three Prizes cf I.:30,000, in the present Lottery,'
and taus establish the Ways and Means for ever, in
Sterling Money.

IitTTING AT TA7TERS.%J.L'S, JANUARY 19
DR:111Y, 1413.
in to 1 agst c. by Orvi!e, out of -Allegrztta.
10 to I agst c. by Waxy, ezt of 111thoni.t.
II to I agst e. by Sorcerer, ort of Ilornby Lass.
Taken-14 to I :Isst Brother to Crecy.
15 to I agst c. by Waxy, out of Ilingtail
17 to 1 apt r. by Selim, out of P.sr.tsoL
17 to I apt c. by Marmion, out of Lancashire Witch.
OAKS, to)ot.

Taken--4 to l apt Loco, by lialy—P2 to I agst any other.
R I DDLESWORTH E.T.A KEIL
F.v-n h.•ttirg the field agst the liornby Lass colt, brother to
Crory, and Len-ashfre Witch to 5 offered to be taken.

Hi•r+ton.—Tk^ Nine, Regent's M Meted' wlll meet oa
Friday, at Bracknail, at tea o'clock, it lauatiag weirdest..

SUSPENSIO.V of thi HABEAS CORPUS AM

STATEMENT OT THE INTERVIENE BETWEEN NATI.

CONANT AND THE MESSRS. STANDZ3.

FROM 71111 tuts

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On Thursday, the Ist instant, the above-mentioned
persons, without any prior notice, were taken to fir
NATHANIEL Cuxvir's Office, Whitehall, in custody
of Mr. WALTER (the Gaoler) and a Turnkey. After
waiting a short time, Sir NATHANIEL entered, and,
stepping towards Mr. EVANS, sen. addressed him:
Sir N.—Mr. Evans, I ant happy to see you. I have got all
order for your discharge, on entering into recognixances in the
sum of one hutiilrA poueds, to appear in the Court of. King's
Bench on the first day of next Term, and from day to day, to
answer such matters ant charges as may then and-there be pre.
Unved against you.
Mr. K sen.—For v. ha: ?—I do not know what I may have to
answer for in future: I wish to be Informed whether any matter
or charges can be exhibited against me now? If them be not,
I shall walk home.

Sir N.—l cannot say any thing to that—a have nothing to do
with that.

Mr. F.. see.—Did you not commit me to prison on suspicion
of high treason, on the alleged oath of oonse person? Now, tf
you will inform me who that person was that so ntadt. oath, and
what the act of treason was that, be swore to, that 'I may bring
him to justice, I will give you ample security directly.
Sir N.—l cannot answer your interrogatories. I shaft be re-
sponsible for that; but I have nothing to do with that now.
Mr. E. •en.—Sir, you committed me toprison; nutty you ezo
say who this person was.
Sir 17.-1 cannot be Interrogated. I can't tell you any thing
about it—lndeed, I will not.
Mr.. E.—Then I will give you no bail'
Sir NATIMAISL (turning from the father) asked,
Where is young Mr. EVANS ? walking towards him.
-- • -••- • •

Sir N.—Are yeTi willing toaster into iheseiecokniaaates
Mr. E. jun.—Sir Nathaniel, I have been coaunitted by•war.
rantspnder your band for high treason. It is stated in my com-
mitments, that I have been so charged before you on oath ncov,
previously to my entering into any engagements, I am detenarkil
to know from you who the person was that.has thus Laxly ao-
cused met You are--..

Sir N. (interrupting)—T bavinothing to do with that at present.
You are not In confinement now under any commitment of etie.e.
Mr. E. jun.—No . but I was originally committed by you,
and if it bad not— Sir N.—l almot,—•
Mr. E. juis.—termit me to proceed— .
Sir N.—No ! I will not permit you to—
Mr. E. jun.—Sir, I insist upon-- ,
Sir N—lt has bathing to chi with my present commission.
.. Mr. E. jen.--It has every thing to do with my presunt situat
don. lam now said to be committed on oath.
Sir N.—l sin% hear you.--If you are willing to enter I*.to
recognizance, (turning towards both the Messrs. Evans.. s)
I am prepared to give you your liberty.'
Mr. E. sea.-4 shall give na security, when lam charged wt.tt
no offence. Sir N.—Tnen you muot be sent back to prison.
Mr. R. -103.—1 do not care where you send me.

During. the conversation with Mr. EvANs, jun. a
man employed in the patrol, named Day, entc.red the
Office through .tke same- door as Sir N. Cr.O.NAN
Mr, EvAxs, jun. was going to add some further re-
marks on...the extreme oppression he had endured,
when Sir N. again said, that he would hear no:llitig
which hactnot immediate relation to therecognizances.

Mr. E. gen. then replied.—l have been forcibly dragged from
my peaceable home, without being even accused of any crime.
There is no living being can charge-me with any breach of • lie
la* or with unmoral conduct of any desert;
don ; y;h .ve
been sent:uced to almost a year's solitary imPrizonment, and It
was you forged the commitment to send me to raoL
11,..-1 cuer bear all this (sitting down to his desk in apra-
twat *citation., and writing something.—fle than beekonvd that
Exans, j 4. attankl be taken out of the Office, and road what
be had *Aiken 11110011.)--Tou My, I forged a commitment to send
stor sr gaol?. . •
Mr. E. ses. ((with utrawylsdimeation)--Yes, you did ; for yor
knot, the emrtml=don on oath was false! •
BE. N:---Take him sway. •
Mr. EVANS, sen. then left the Office; but before he
could joirt_his son in the Hall, DAT, the Police Offi-
cer, came out to the foot of the staircase, calliag—
" Young Mr. EVANS is wanted."
Mr. li. jun."-.Well, who wants young Mr.,Erms?
Day—Sir Nathaniel wants to speak with you.
Mr. EVANS, jun. having returned into the Office,
Sir NATHANIEL asked Mm, whether he was willing
to comply with the terms of his proffered release
Mr. E. jun.--I have been since the 9th of February last most
unjustly imprisoned, co a pretended suspicion of high treason;
you yourself committed me, first to Tothilfields Brid‘wcll, and
next to Coldbatbfields, and on both your commitments you posi-
tively averred that I was charged on oath. Ido not accuse yen
of writing an untruth, because, as yet, I cannot ascertain that
some perjurer may not have done as you have a.scrted.
Sir N. here rose from the desk, and walked towards the fire.
Mr. E: inn. continued—By warrants from Lord Sidmcuth and
yourself, I was seized, and have.--

Sir N.—You are mistaken. I inued no warrant for your arrest.
Mr. E. jun.—Let me proceed. I believe you are not
cared in my arrest. Lord Sidmouth enjoys the undivided giory
of that exploit ; but after we were arrested, it was by me m, of
you& commitments • that my father and myself were licld until
the passing of the Suspension Bill. Lord Ridmouth was then
enabled to take advantage of your services. lam entitled to
trace all my sufferings to you. Had you not agreed to count..
nance his Lordship's proceedings, by averring in your commit-
ments that 1 was charged on oath, I should have enjoyed my
liberty, at least till the Legislature had annihilated the p►ttenal
safety of the whole people. Nay, lam of opinion we radii net,
with any decorum, have been seized at all, had it not been
throush the paltry contrivance of arresting us with the :e:is:ers
of the alleged Spa-fields plot. As it is, we have been oppra.s.d
by a flagitious conspiracy without precedent. I demand that
you inform me who appeared before you and charged me on
oath with high treason. If I have nut that information, I will
never compromise my innocence by entering into any ack nowl:dg-
menu which can be construed in any manner to try dishoncer.
Sir Nal-moon here inthrsited that he was responsible for
whatever he might have done.

Mr. E. jun. resumed.--I :on yet young ; but I have resciveJ
never to wear the badge of ignominy. I have been nearly a
twelve Month secretly imprisecei thrrogh your inatrumcntaiity.
You have deliberately and re; eat..!ly gait yot.r hard to an asser-
tion that some prson has made oath before you to an extent
which involves me in Me chorge of nigh treason. You know best
whether your assertion is true I will not euspect you of faint-
hood, uitleu you attempt to screen this rati.pesecipt tam from the
penalties of the law. 1 hava made every t !fort censisteat with
my sense apolitical duty to chini n my deiiveracce from unmerit-
ed incarceration. Every L010:1Ut to 'nuerty was stomped. I Rave
bean calumniated in all modes, and in nil pheet—by they/lea/bra
hirelings of the' most exalt•xl suborners—hy some who shall be
rendered amenable to the law-.by others in .be Serrate • • • 0.
Having endured all these wrongs, I am not of a temper that
would teach me to sacrifice rny r.Tutation for the s tke cf an en-
largement under such condi-knit as arc now insolenth eff.xesl. I
insist upon being brought to tri-I for the offence invited to me,
or being liberated honourably rithc.:t stain cf suspicion. I
cannot comprehend why I ...t‘afal e-Vrf raY ;iherty mere condition-
ally than anotherFatglis iana t. I wil! not sub ••'.*. to such degradation.
Sir N. whit bad I's et d ivith evi tent diti-le afore, now stated,
that his cora Illiscion did not extend to ahy cone:deration beyond this
preient offer, and that he would not treat on any other subject.
Mr. E. jun.—The subject, Sir, is my present situation. I am
now in custody on suspicion of High Treason. and I will natt•
stoop to accept of any conditional ealargemet.t wnhatit a moor.-
ciation of that groundless Italic You, Sir Nat....aril I, hare
again and again put your hand tad se-al to a tolernn legal doclara.
don, that some person has appeared before !mu and accused cite
of bigh treason. Bring that person forth, or I iii.ost
Day, the Officers at this juncture, rutlely iot-ry.eil between
Sir Nathaniel Gomm and Mr. Yves ts, jun. Elting up his am,
and exclaiming, " I will nut alloW you to go ce. I have just
heard your rather tyroisly litsitlt :41e Nathaniel, and I will not
low his son to clothe same.' Mr. F.: jun.. advieid his father :6 dit-
part irons such a lectue, and they quitted the What.