Star.
London, England, 1820-07-22 00:00:00

TO AUTUMN.

it opythe.fdluuingbvxtifid &onto:from a Piece to AcTVmic,in
Mr. 4\lll. 'Volume of Poem:, just pubished:

Who bath not seen thee oft amid thy store ;
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad May find
Thee sittit:g careless on a granary floor,
'rhy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reep'd furrow, sound asleep,
Drows'd vith the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath, and all its twined flowers:.
And sometimes lite a gleaner thou doat keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours!
Where are the Songs of Spring ? Ay, where arc they ?
Think not of them, thou hest thy music too—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue ;
•Then in a wailiel choir the small gnats mourn
Aniang the river swallows, borne aloft
Or ranking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Ilcdg.scrickets sing; and now with treble soft
The ref-:recast whistles from a garden-croft ;
•And gatiming mall:nes twitter in the skies!

The South-eastern part of the Ccunty of Mayo-has
been visited by one of those awful visitations which
occur but very rare'q in our happy and temperate
climate. Of its (!evastatipg effects we have the fol-
lowing description and appalling particulars from a
respectable Gentlinan, residing in the vicinity of.'
13.111vliannes :—" A shower of ice-stones, accompa-
Med by a tremendous thunder-storm, fell in this dis-
ti ict on the 29th June, and.. in its course has caused
universal destruction. Its breadth did not excee4
half "a mile, which it left a perfect ruin—the potatoe
trop cut cl,• to the earth—the flax bruised as in a
mill—the corn shattered .and blasted, never to rise
again ! All the windows within its limits are broken—
numerous tame and wild fowl-kiled by it. Some of
these stones-were flat, heavy, and :ts large as a watch!
the greater part of the shape,' but of a larger size than
api sea's egg. I have seen a bog turf penetrated
by them as if bullets had been shot into it. How far
this frightful phenomenon may have run its course I
cannot as yet say—possibly into the Western Sea.—
A poor lad, unfortunately bathing, slisregarded its
terrific approach ; his head is dreadfully cut and in-
jured; his body partially quite black, and covered
%%WI contusions."

Much damage was caused by the heavy rain on
Thursday evening at Hampstead. The flood was so
great th.'re, that it swept away a new building •on
the brick-field, and did material damage to many
others. The public-house adjoining was three feet
deep in water above the cellar; the-butts were car-
tied from 4 a the stilling, and the bottles floated up
into :he tap-room. The horses in the stable had to
swim across the yard on being brought out, and the
stages floated in some parts of the road. In the
.house of William Read, the Police-Officer, the water
rushed in so suddenly, that the family, who were
going to tea, had to leave the parlour and run up
stairs ; the furniture floated about, and the fire was
extinguished. The stoppage of a drain at the bow=
of the I Leath, contributed greatly to increase the depth
of the water. Many persons have suffered severely
is their property. The neighbourhood of. Kenning-
ton and Brixton Washway .uffered greatly; the flood
swept away fences, palings, and sheds, and destroyed
some gardens, carrying away the trees, plants, and
utensils, and great portions of the earth ; the brook
swelled to such a height as to have the appearance
.of a formidable river. Iletween Peterborough and
Crowland the water was several feet deep. At Warn- •
ford and Two-Waters the roads were impassable.
CIMTER, JULY 20.—Monday last, this City and
neighbvirhood were visited by one of the severest
storms-of rain and wind, accompanied with several
loud claps of. thunder, that was ever witnessed by
the oldest inhabitant. It came on about one &clock,
and continued with unabating violence for upwards
of two hours. The rain, which fell in absolute sheets,
drifted by the wind, in a few minutes embodied it-
* self on the streets, and spurning the aqueducts, rolled
along from side to side with the impetuosity of a
mountain torrent, ii.untlating shops, cellars, and
houses, and sweeping before it benches, tubs, bar-
rels, &c. exposed for the fair, many of which were.
seen sailing majestically along. It would be endless
to enumerate the streets, severally converted on their
acclivities into finmidable rivers, and where level,
into-lakes. Northgate-street, St. John's-street, \Va.
tergate-street, and Bridge-street, were impassable;
the waters danced along them with the freedom, ful-
ness, and music of the Rapids in Canada, and would
have been as dangerous to the rash navigator. The
spouts were insufficient to discharge the body of
water that pressed into them, and the element fell
from the house-tops in columns that would have
made no despicable figure among the scenery of the
Alps. The people who attended the fair were ex.
pelled from the rows, few of which afforded effec-
tual shelter, and we regret to say, a great quantity
el:goods were much damaged. The losses through-
out the town were numerous. In defiance of the
• handy-work of slaters, builders, and plasterers, the
subtle clement found its way, more or less, into

;;Irrlns!- every house in town, and did much damage
1:1 avid cedars, besides in private dwellings, in
• viany of which the furniture was literally floated
Iron) the floor. In the country, its effects were still
more lamentable; the Dee bounded along with over-
whelming velocity : all the low grounds were com-
pletely inundated, and a great quantity of hay was'
floated away or destroyed by sand and mud. Mol-
lington meadows still exhibit the woeful wreck of
the hay bar ve-,t. A great deal of grain, we are sorry 1
to.say, has been laid prostrate, particularly barley,
owing to the slenderness of its stem. From the
weight of the deluge, however, the injury has not
been so great in the fields as was expected; and it is
hoped that brisk winds and fair weather, of which
we have every prospect, will do much to recover
them. During the storm it was particularly gloomy
and portentous, towards evening it brightened up,
and on the following morning the sup. appeared in
all his splendour, and effectually dispeLed the ap-
• prehensions of some ancient Ladies, v. ho-had enter-
tained the dreadful idea of a second general de-
The storm reached Liverpool at three o'clOck,.
wad is repoacd to have been very scree.