Star.
London, England, 1828-07-10 00:00:00

DUNIFRI hST JULY 8.

GA MlL—The crop of game, 1828. promises to be is
plentiful a• the crop of grain. Tree moors are already
eedolent' of •' cheepers," and we are acquainted with
i,ideviduals who have cnunted len grouse, and at least
twelve hlackcock pellets, following a single old pair. In
a lea, days, partridge pouts •• ill be running about
among the co'n, and rue only regret that the earliness
of the hay harvest shoold have fee •sinned so much
-Loth among the parent birds. In many instances they
'lave been wounded and killed by the unconscious
scythenian, and in others frightened to suer a degree
that they forsook their eggs when on the point of being
hatched. Hut amidst all this pat tal damage, the crop
ore the whole will be very large, and the coveys nu-
eseeiout beyond example, and to City. sportsmen, of all
degrees, we may safely convey the vi elf: me • neelligence
_that thee e well he famous peppering on bill and dale,
bent, heather, and stubble field.—from and alter the
l'.at► of August acid Ist of September.

DREADFUL THUNDER STORM.

BATH. Jena, 9.

A tremendous storm. accompanied with thunder and
liTthtning, commenced her; last evening at eight o'clock.
The hi,uses in Widcomh, at the bottom of Clavett.)n
Hill, were inundated by a land flood to the .tepM
same instances, of 12 fret, and so rapidly, that Jamrs
Moody (late a letter carriPt of The Bath Chronicle) and
his wife, occupying a lower apartment in Chapel-row,
leading to the canal, were drowned in their beds. The
soil and trees on several parts of Brechin Cliff have been
displaced by the violence of the tempest and swept into
the valley beneath; and at Weston, by the sudden rise
of the brook, a chairman, named Kenr, was drowned.

' TAUNTON, JULY 9.
Yesterday afternoon, about tour o'clock, a storm of
wind, rain, and hail, accompanied with thunder and
lightning, broke over this town and its vicinity, with a
degree of violence never before remembered by the
oldest inhabitant. The thunder, in heavy peals, was
heard simultaneously from the east and went and the
wind at one period of the storm blew a perfect hurri..
cane. The streets here were in a few minutes impass..*
able, and the wat•T kept pouring down them for some
time in onebroad continued current. The inundate ns in
the lower parts of the houses were very great and ge.
neral, the effects or which have been lamentably inis-
chiewons'in many instances. At North Town, where a
pleasure fair is held on the day succeeding the regular
fair, where booths were erected for the vending of fruit
and confectionary, they were all in a few moments
prostrated by the violence of the wind, and under one
of them some children, who had taken shelter from the
rain, had a narrow escape of their lives. At Kingston
the banks were thrown down for several miles. The.
coin is sadly levelled by the storm; various st tremebts
of mischief have reached us from various parts. all e
which correspond in representing the it.cii.to to beim•
beau of unequalled violende.

We regret to announce the death of the Dowoper
Countess of SUFFOLK, which inelanchply event occt► red
at one o'clock yesterday morning, at- her Ladyship's
house in St. James's Palk.

So callnpletely dead to the world are. the Monks of
'La Trappe, that they do not heir even or the death, of
their nearest relation,. The Superior aunouncts.in the
Chapel; that. the father or mother is deed.. but witbout,
mentioning the name; and the whole Society.is 'heti'
agitated at once with the grief which 'bogy brlotig to.
an individual.
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Yesterday a ballot was taken at the Eastlll otife,
fn the determination of the following queition, vii
" That the Court of Proprietors fully Approve of she.
measures adopted by the Court of Director s, *bringing,
the case of an abuse of pan 6414Lbefore • legal tn.::
bunal ; and although Captain tt appears to hare
acted incautiously and imprudently, yirtairing been
acquitted by the verdict of a Jury of thiihurge pre-
ferred against him. and the Proprietors being'ilso satis:
fled that he was not actuated by any corrupt rnotiveo
they are not disposed to withdraw their nfidence front
him as a Member of the Exec ut; we Body." At six o'ciciek
the glasses were closed and delivered to the scrutineers,
who reported the question to be decided in thf aillrumi
tive. The followii.g were the numbers:—For the quot
tipn, 408—Against, 40—Maj brity, 368.
Barns's Musa/mi.—Tilted waggons, loaded wits
the late King's library, are daily arriving si.t the Mu-
seuM; the books, as they arrive, are deposited in the
eastern wing of the new building; the students and
other Gentlemen frequenting the reading rooms will
not, it is under-trod, have access to toese books for
several months, and then only under certain restrictions
to be framed by the trustees; these restrictions will
apply only to the King's borc..
DEATH PRODUCED BY THE THUNDER-STORll.—Toes.
day evening an inquisition was taken at the Crown, at
Uxbridge, before Thomas Stirling, Esq. coroner, on the
body of Mrs. Wary Saunders, aged 62, whose death was
produced through terror and alarm, caused by the
thunder-storm on Friday morning last. Mrs. Ann
Bond stated, that the deceased was a widow, and resided
in witness's licit e. On Thursday nit( last she 'upped
with her, and she was then in good bodily health ; but
at about ten o'clock a dreadful thunder-storm came on,.
and the'old lady Became terribly alarmed, and was re-
Jectant to go to bed ; consequently witness sat nif with
her till between twelve and one, when tre storm haring
in some degree abated, she retired to her chamber, and
witness went to bed also; about three she was awoke
'by the Thunder, and knowing the.fear the old lady en-
tertained, she got up and went to her chamber-door,
and called, without receiving an answer; she conse.
nuently went to her bedside, and was surprised W find
tile poor creature labouring under a strong fit. She
alarmed the house, and a medical Gentleman was sent
for, but all his exertilns to prolong her life proved
unavailinq, and she expired shortly after. Mr. Ray.
ner, surgeon, at Uxbridge, deposed, that whew he saw
ihe deceased, she WAS id the situation. described•by Ulu
lAA witness. She was always an awing WOllll4O, and
had for some time been ;n a very weak state.uf health,
nu: it was his opinion that her duals. was acceerated
by the flight she experienced Gene the violegee of the
thunder. The Jury returned .4 vesiii`Et. ...That die death
(*.the deceased was caused by terror and itlarntettititri
y the thunder-,corm on Friday, the 4th of July." .

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