Star.
London, England, 1817-09-01 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, AUGUST
.28.

, Tuesday evening, about 1.1 o'clock, this eiry was
visited by a tr.menJiius torrent of hail an! rain. pre-
c.ded by several ices loud p •als of thunder. During
!!Ir storm, she hig .; win. s ruck tln srirti g, r whichnpo
,•eloses the Earl f Nlonme, plu Mire •
r the notch r,.d ot C. arlotte.street. It pasted un iR
a-. easterly directi c trrying off the and
till it carne to a stone pillar. where. h wing
urterrupted, it see•bs to have exploded. and ra•••d t' •
patapet wall to its foundation, carrying the railing
.and stones, in fragments. into t•e policy, and di.
sttoying the shrubbery. The railing awd cop -stone,
for the first eight •-r ten yards. are swirly carved off
the wall, and placed inside in a vertical posture; tats
may have arisen 'from the easy otduci that the iron
afforded ; but ti ken the fluid met opposition, it seems
to have exploded with, trernetsJous force. as the wail
is there razed to the toms lation kw mans yards, a
considerable part of t'le street • arried away, and the
iron railing shattered to pieces. T• e efricis of t:.e
shock exteil.:ed to at least f 4-ty yards.
The vi lebt ram fortunately W 4, 'Mt of coml.
nuance, otherwise much damag, might have been
sustained in the lows r parrs (tithe city. As it was the
Cowgate was for time time t .e w•itt I ex-
ten • tog the futl breadth o: the street ill mai.y ;laces,
and presentin the appearance of a rapia aura nt. A
most remark •ble and Interesttog occurrence rock
place at the foot of St. Mary's Wind ; 4 boy. about
stuck tic eight years a age, was cartied away by t!.e
torrent, and swept into the common sewer, th" gral.
tug of which had been lilted to c not elf the water.
All hopes of his recovery seemed hist. The mother
stood by (encircled by a prodigious crowd) in the
greatest agony of grief ; when a countryman driving
a flock of baths, came up, and learning the circum-
stance, hollowed an umbrella from the bystanders,
and descended into the sewer. The boy had rear).
vered himself while in the sewer, and aurae ed by
the voice of the countryman, laid hold on the hooked
end of the umbrella, by which he was dr *wit t swards
his deliverer, who produced film alive to the over.
joyed mother, and the astonished spectators, after he
had been upwar.lsuf 20 minutes in the sewer.

IPSWICH, AUGUST' 29.

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LAUNCH OE SIM 611 WELL INDIAMAN. —The influx
of company to thisitosiest; from iii parts ot the coun-
try, to be present on this occasion, was perhaps greater
than ever before remembered ; but at 12 o'clock it
seemed literally deserted tor the shores ot the Dr well.
At one this beautiful ship ( 1350 tens butt! silvered
her proper element in vi ry gesind style, alliltht the
.iveliest shouts, cheers, and firing ot guns, wh, n she
wIS named the Orwell by Mrs. Is iacs, the lady of
the principal owner. The vessel went through the
dock to the main channel, aboo, 300 yards, without
a check, but grounded at the sdAe for some minutes;
stiil, as she was launched before hi h water, she wore
round, and three sm ill square sails being hoisted, she
glided majestically down die river her about a mile
and a halt. It is computed that a number not tar
short of 20,000 pets ini were spectators. The great
variety of canna some at anchor, and otners sailing in
the river, from the tall merchant-ve►sel to the small
pleasure boat, all in their best trim, with choirs
ing, and crowded with company, was in happy uni.
son with the animated and brilliant scene which each
b nk of the rive, prectitiiil, whilst the whole formed
one ot the most Fr flaying sights ever beheld. The
bells of the chunk; hear the river rung in honour cf
launch. There was a Ball in the evening at the
Assembly-room, which was cry genteelly attended.

II Lord COCHRANE should Rive op his scat G. r
Westminster, •nd Mr. Rocca O'Cottsoa be elected
as his successor, the Electors will certainly be able to
boast of their attachment to hied men.

BONAPARTZ.—One day BONAPAKTE, seeing near
his person one of those beings who know not a pot-
tare sufficiently bumble by which they can obtain
any favour, said to those who surrounded him, " 1
know not how it happens that, in order tai und.:rttard
this mad, who is eight inches taller than myself, 1
am obEged to sioAfiviely time he speaks to me."
INQUEST,.- ,The to:Lasting have lately been t •ken
bylidr. Gomm.- on*.of the Cororers of Oxf.rdsbire
At fslisbury, on view°, the body of El.: abeth B.lT-
tau, who had beemlinithe geld at Lay work, and G.,
her returning home to her mother's firms!, dropped
down and suddenly expired. At Deddington, on
view of the body of Jonas Burrows, an elderly tunn,
who was found dead in his dwelling hoase.—At
Eu-
stone, on view of the body of lhomas Fatilkiler, a
child, aged about ten months, whose mother was go-
ing out to reaping, and to compose the child sent for
some laudanum, and gave the infanta tea-s2or‘nftl,
which caused its death. Another of her childrr.n
wonld have shared the sane fate, the person un-
der whose care it was placed gavJ it a violerit shalt.
ing, which caused it to vomit, and saved its life.—
At Stratton Audley, on vic,.7 of the body of Thomas
Ellard, who was riding in a milk cart into a cow-
house, and in passing under a beam received a vio-
lent concussion on Its forehead, which caused instant
death.—Verdicts accidental death.