Star.
London, England, 1818-03-09 00:00:00

NORTH SHIELDS, MARCH 6.

The brig Piece, COOPER ; and the Juno, Srovax,
are on shore, and the Mate of the former drowned ;
all hands else are safe. The Lady Jane, FLEMING,
sailed to-day for Davis's Straits.

HARWICH, MARCH 8.
Sailed the Castlereagh packet, with mails for Cux-
haven ; and the Lady Nepean packet, with ditto, for
Holland.

SHEERNESS, MARCH 8.
Sailed to-day the Isabella, WALLIS, with convicts,
for New South Wales.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, MARCH 7.

Snips Resew Istweitee —The' James, Harvey, from Wa-
terford; Rover, Harmer, from Tarragona; Churning Molly,
Ferrier, from Calais ' • Churchill, Pancher, from Lisbon ; the
Nhorn S, Young, Demerara; Ross, Harrison, from Jamaica;
and Two Brothers, from iv;alaga. °emcees—Young
Arlon, Hawkins, or Madeira ; Phcenix, White, for India; the
Leader, Smith, for Boston ; the Eire, Capp for Gilboa and
Bayonne ; Antelope, Bryan, for the Cape of Good Hope;
Wood, for Rotterdam; and Dart, Sibly, for Newfoundland.
The late storm appears to have commenced in the
North. On Tuesday evening it blew at Edinburgh
a most violent gale from the westward ; chimney-
pots were tumbling down in all quarters, two hack-
ney-coaches were blown over, and all the gardens
in the neighbourhood were more or less ravaged.
The following are a few particulars of the storm
of Wednesday in the country :
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At Bath and its vicinity the gale was very violent. The vane
on the Abbey Tower was blown down ; a new wall, 130 feet in
length, near the road to Claverton Down, was levelled; the river
Avon had risen above its banks. In Melts and Orchardleigh
Parks, numbers of trees have beta uprooted. Fairnborough
Church was unroofed, and two turrets blown down. The Ports-
mouth Coach was overturned near Salisbury, but no serious in-
jury occtirred. Near Caine, in Wiltshire, a large elm tree fell be-
tween two stage coaches at their meeting, but no other mischief
ensued than by the delay occasioned in removing the obstruction.
The roads were impassable on Wednesday from the heavy rains.
—At Hnniton's Clyss the water was breast high to the horses,
and many trees were prostrated on the road. The stage coaches
and mails were detained for several hours beyond their usual
time. On the way from Exeter to Bath, not less than 200 apple
trees, and an equal number of other trees, many of a large
size, were found thrown down on Thursday morning. The
horses of Mr. Bard's waggon, from Exeter to Bristol, took
fright at the lightning, and the waggon was precipitated over the
bridge on the river Cullum, a mile from Collumpton ; one horse
was lost, the other seven saved ; but a roans his wit:, and son,
passengers in the waggon, were unfortunately drowned. The
waggon was carried by the current under the main arch of the
bridge, and soon sunk, about nine o'clock on Wednesday even-
ing. Next morning part of the waggon and the drowned horse
appeared above water. At Canterbury, Wednesday evening
commenced with boisterous wind and dreadful thunder. The
lightning struck the summit of Ash Church spire, which was
set on fire, and menaced the destruction of the church and vil-
lage ; but an engine was procured from Sandwich, which, with
the assistance of the inhabitants, soon stopped the conflagration.
—Accounts from Norwich are of a similar description. At
Hempnall, the top of a new mill, with the four sails, were blown
off. On the Yarmouth road to Norwich, the wind was very
destructive. At Mr. Loess's, at Firby, a tree was snapped,
asunder close to the ground. At Burlingham, a pole was blown
through a large barn. Four trees at Lakenham were torn up
by the roots. In Norwich, many chimneys were thrown down;
all of those at Mr. THOMPSON'S brewery, which received much
damage by their on the roof. Part of the city jail wall was
damaged. At Leicester, the storm was severely felt. At
Loughborough the shock of an earthquake was experienced, as
well as in the surrounding villages, between one and two on
Thursday morning, which, with the wind, destroyed a new
rreetiog-house of Methodists, called Ranters. A great part of
the banks at Southend, Essex, have been washed into the sea.—
On the roads in Berkshire and in Hampshire, on the Portsmouth
road, vast numbers of trees have been overthrown, and the win-
dows and roofs of many houses, cottages, &c. have been greatly
damaged. At Margate, part et the Customs watch-house was
washed away, several of the groynes were torn up, and great
farther danger apprehended. The mail-coach from Portsmouth
to Bristol was overthrown between Pareham and Southampton.
The guard conveyed the mail part of the way on saddle-horses
and-post-chaises by a circuitous route across fields, in consequence
of the trees blown across the road.

One of the chimneys of C'arli.le Gaol was blown down by the
violence of the wind, whereby ore of the debtors was severely
injured on the head. Thursday morning, about seven o'clock, a
brick wall, forming part of the Circus, near St. Cuthbert' Church,
%vat blown down by the high wind. Mr. Wilson's coachman and
four horses bad just passed the wall, followed by one of the per-
'on, employed in the •!able, when it fell ; some of the bricks
touched the heels of the latter.

An inquest was held on Saturday night on the bodies of John
Draper and Thomas Page, bargemen, in the employ of Mr. Rod-
gers, Lit-en/ford, who were drowned on Wednesday night last,
doling the tempeoduous weather, by the barge sinking which
they were on bored of, near Ilorse-shoe-alley, Backside, South-
wark. The deceased came from Brentford oa Wednesday to
the wharf of Messrs. Bishops, Bankside, with a barge load of
iron ; they unloaded the barge at the stern, but not at the head,
and went to bed on Wednesday night in the cabin. In come-
pence of the hurricane of Wednesday night it stink ; the un-
fortunate persons (it is conjectured) finding the barge sinking,
ran out of the cabin quite naked to ende-vour to save themselves,
and wee drowned. Verdict—Food drowned.