The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-05-01 00:00:00

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hood were visited ley a tranquilities' impost free the.
Seals, which lard from aloe a 'tarter past silt
o'clock till nearly half past eight. The lightning ,
was uncommonly and the bill ashes which fell
were, at some places, of very large dimensions, yard-
calorrly Is the vicinity of Emit Farielgis. Its biale-
som of the fruiterer less bees meets at by the hail-
stones, and some windows were ',rebel' at SOWS Var
lenee. The lightning struck a was at Dental Farr,
near Rochester, who terrines% 1911,1111111111 for some
length of time, but at last remitted. La amulet
large elm, at Hadlow, was also struck by also electric
Acid, sad shivered to pieces.--(feeatiok Giesetie.)
Last night (Friday) this city was visited by the
most hark' " %rafting of the elesseats " we have
witnessed for many years. About seven o'clock it
commenced, "in thasder, lightning, and in rain,"
and continued, at short intervals, through the greater
part of the night ; loud peals of thunder reverbe-
rating from the surrounding bills, and the strong
glare of tivid forked lightning illumining the dense
atmosphere with terrific grandeur. We feared that we
should bare W retard some serious effect' of this
steel visitation, bat are happy in stating that sot a
single calamitous instance Ms yet necked our Whoa.
Herald.)
Yesterday afternoon (Wednesday, the flith into tat,)
about two o'clock, this town and aeighbourhood were
visited with a tremendous shower of mia, accompanied
with peals of thunder, and lightning, which 'track
a house at Edge-hill. A young lady received consi-
derable injury in one of her legs, and mother was
much stunned ; the other, we are happy to say, soon
recovered.—( Liverpool Adrerliser.)
NtwcasTl.e, AFOUL 28.—0 n Wednesday evening
last, this district was visited by an awful storm of
thunder and lightning which continued for several
,
hours tbe lihtning was surprisingly vivid sad bril-
liant, especialgly to the westward ; we have sot heard
of any damage.
The storm was tremendous in the North Riding of
Yorkshire, at Bedale. Catteriek, Northallerton, Yarn,
he. accompanied by a most sudden heavy rain. (heat
damage has been sustained by the sadden overflowing
of the Tees and the Sw‘le ; a number of sheep were
ro
swept away and dwne& At Staimirop, a stack of
bay, belonging to Mr. Budded:, was destroyed by the ,
lightning,
On the morning of the 26th ult. considerable damage
was done amongst the loaded keels lying at the differ-
ent staiths in the Wear, by a sudden fresh coming down.
Four were turned bottom op, and others much damaged.
There was a great fresh in the Tyne at the same dime,
and a number of small craft broke away from: eire
moorings. There also was a great flood ith

Coquet.
A storm of thunder and lightning which for vie-
lenee and duration has net been known is the memory
of the oldest inhabitaat of Ipswich. was experienced
there on Thursday last. it continued with very
'hide intermission from about half-past eight o'clock
in the evening until two o'clock in the morning.
ACCIDINT DURING TIII STORM Or FRIDAY WEEK.
—At Northwink Park. is Worcestershire, the bodies of
[live deer (four oat .t, was six yore old backs)
were sees lleatiag in.fheWirr sheet of water in the
Park ; it is probable they were stricken, and blinded,
or stupihed by the lightning, and their course being
bent intrude the water, they lost every faculty of sav-
ing themselves. The accident is more singular, as
deer swim very well, and, under other circumstances
are frequently seen traversing the lake.

A Meeting of the inhabitants of Watt awl its
neighbourhood is appointed to be held *memoir,
to take into consideration the propriety of ad-
&ening the imperial Parliament' on the subject of
Serjeant Otsalow's Bill for repealing the existing Laws
against (Nary ; and at all classes of the Mercantile
' and Landed interests must be interested in a particu-
lar manner by the propelled repeal of those laws, no
doubt the Meeting will be numerously and respectably

lAsy.

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attended.
A novel niaehine. Invented by a gentleman of
Christ College, Cambridge, was tried last week at',
Newmarket. In shape it is nearly that of as isoseelesl
triangle, and moors with the broad end forward, on 4
wheels. It has a boom 32 feet long, and a very high
mast. It will carry 12 persons at the rate of 30 mike
an boor. To the ails of the hinder wheels is Axed a
rudder. It can go on a wind and tack as a vessel at
sea, and is capable of being so correctly guided, that
the pilot at pleasure can run the wheels over a stone.
Swallows were obserted on Wednesday the 25 h
ult. at Canon Mills, in the neighbourhood of Edin-
burh, for the first time this season. About the
same time they were also teen la the neighbourhood
of London.
A cow of the short-horned bried, which had not
been fed more than twelve months; was killed laft week
at
2v h Shropshire, end' wan. Wilt NI-weigh 172
Ostone five pounds t the rough tai
“ shoo one pound,
and the hide 94 pound. The tra the brisket —a.
eared upwards of six inches iosSichstoss.
An animal nearly erseisblieg the description of 114
unicorn, as given by Pliny, is now on its way to. dog
country from Africa; knurly resembles the horse in
6gure, but is much smaller, and the single hint pro-
jecting from the forehead is considerably sh
neationorter
of that
than
la given in the real or supposed deli
*sinful creature.
Wm. Rnblin, a small farmer, about three stiles from
flaverford west, was found guilty at the Pembrokeshire
Orelli Session. of the murder of a young man who had
.been his serrint, by shooting him in the head, and
suffered the sentence of the law on the *3rd Inst.
i Snail WI IS* .W 1 Sala rAe it KT.—This vessel sailed
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from Tower-stairs on Setneday moralng, and reached'
a Milt below Woolerieh4 assn it consequence deem,
tvcentring fo **vetoes of the steam4eginee
EnWingers (who before had despaired of pews.,
g the voyage, in consequence of the slowness of
working of the vessel) became dreadfully elarise4.
hogged tab* put ow shone. Their terror increasing.
pas sat sigmas of distress, and basis from shore ;
lereee sett to their &tiniest% some of 'high were alp
ly
sank by - the ititsettmelty of the'passei aed *s
gere,l
anxiety to get Into them.. 'The boatmen. refused
tte
take more titan eit,prraons• at alias, and by din ot
*mortise prerentea away hens getting ista the boas.
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The weather his bees variable darieg the pima
soak baths peeesat *Moots mid waroult, altar e.
Mae, will 41,61010 w have a sudden and forciseergt
reireloirs, wig& hie rot hitherto boa
lb* late owe aid tishi Wheats begia to dm
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phise Lest nova crops 11 the early dieerfets, ash
wooed slow, sad the wed mesas *ill looa be liaidisg
ii Ilhilhoetb. All the spondees of basbafidet oh
tatektity forward. ilsould the wars weather
the grass seep will be general sad elooomiale. aragaa.
fw
and lass bow tie vase stocks, an st lued
prices, and the oesatry is simply supplied wilt I 2
pigs, pork, sad buss. •

NAUTICAL LPITHLLIOENCIL
The sloop An, Crabford. two Walk to .01mgoic
me on shore on the Hetd Sind, on Satatday, that sus
got off with assistance. 7
The Neath Castle, Jensen, from Pommes* so
Deptford, gronaded on a slip way at Dover, on lianday,
and nearly filled with water.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Meson 14.—Vert active exertions
are making to prepare the Turkish felt for sea.
The Supply, Lindell, from London. which was asi
shore near Robsnont, has been got off, leaky, and sailed
she 18th instant for Memel.
Lesson, Aram 21.—The &pedarte, which sailed
from thence on the 9th instant, for Saint bliclisek Alas
returned, basing been plundered by an lasurgent
ratter: sod there appean some grounds to suspect that
the bas capttared the Lositana, from Rio Jamsrato this
port. Orders were given for the Perols frigate to be
got ready in 48 hours, and she Is to sail tomorrow
morainic on a emit's.
&inserts. Aran. 29.—The Elisa Ann, 0411011,
from Honduras for London, has lost an anchor in Mar.
date Reads; another has been sent off to her this mars.
tag from hence.
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On Sunday last, at the Parish Church of St. tog,
(;evens-garden, a converted Jew was eirolaiacd lard*,
Right Bev. the Lord Bishop of St.'David's, is
presence of a very large congregation.
A young man of the name of Skeels, of Marekill.
Northamptonshire, undertook last week, for a wageas
lamp at a single jump twenty feet, which he amid
by three inches to the astonishment of the spectates.
Sunday morning an elderly female, who held do
• tuation of lady's maid in a family in Russell-even,
found in her chamber suspended by a silk-haei•
kerchief. Every.ezertion was made to recover*
but in vain. •
Sunday morning a young man threw himself hie
the Regent's Canal, in the City-road, but was takes
• and conveyed to a public-house and recovered;
flowerer, went again to the same spot, where he
his throat, and threw himself into the water. He
zot oat shortly afterwards, but was then Ole
dead.
belt week, as one of the sons of John Kerr, farmer
in Bush of Hoddant, was at work with his plough is
a fallow field, his progress was arrested by the imam.
meat coming in contact with a stone of coarlierable
size, which it was found necessary to take oat. Oft
removing it, it was fouled to be one of the covers et a
regular built sepulchre, of about four feet keg by two
in breadth, and about eighteen inches deep. Is
the
centre was a small urn, six inches deg, et ear*
ac clay, severed by a flat stone, and at one ealllag
NO pardon of bones, la a tideland .111141.
was entire, but empty, its contents having.
II evaporated. The bones and urn were be*
on the natural soil (a dry gravel), and probably
placed there during the occupation of the coin
the Romans. It appears from the inscription oa meat
relies, that a cohort of Tuogri were long statieaml Is
the vicinity. The vase is now in General Starr,.
possession; but it bas cracked and part of it cremblid
eir, from exposure to a drier atmosphere. The fed
has been in regaiar cultivation for many yells, pate
bably half a century, and it is therefore singuleteki
this sepulchre was not sootier discovered.
FIRIL—Aa alarming fire broke out en Sunday
at Craansore Villa, Herts, the seat of C. R. id
Is. in the absence of the family. It was oc
by lie boiling over of some combustible materials,
preparing for the repair of the house the nett mem
low. The flames spread rapidly: in less than as hear
,It was a ruinous pile within the walls, and not a vestige
of furniture was saved. A poor boy of the name el
illoldsworth, who assisted in the stables, and who slept
the kitchen, broke his thigh in escaping friar*
wiadow ; and a maid servant who was in bed at the
lege of the house, was seriously burnt in making he
escape. The loss, with the stabling consumed, WOO
to 3,000/.
hwsxets 1111LINQUIINCT.—The subjoined table,
formed from ** Cilendarof the late Warwick Awls"
shows site abanniag proporion which the masher al
jevenileilfestbers bears to. those of a more matersege.
rho *hada. anemias the names of 226 prisesers,
whom it appears that 110, or nearly tme-half of the
whole Dumber, .are betweaa 'The ages of 13 and 30
yeari......bebag sae-third more than those beim "' the
area of 21 sad 30, and more than double the esabir
of these %gird from 31 to 40 and upwards :
Tears No. of Tears No. of Years N 0.4
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IS .......... 18 81 • •
17 .......... 13 20 .. 6; 99 ..........• !
18 .......... 21 24
19 .......... IS 97
Ord; itbu •••••• 114
. . ...... 720' Sr:
and .......................
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MARRIED.
Yesterday. at St. Ann's Church, Mr. Jobe OM. 11.*
bins, of Oosver-stroet, Bedford-square, to ttopMe. MOW
of inserts Aldridge, Esq.. of Golder's-hill, lisivitsad.
Yesterday. the 30th ult.. nt St. George.' lifseilP
severe. Sir Clotho Ora one of the Judges of the 1104.110
Coed at Madras. to Elisabeth. second demises, ri 1111
Sassed Clerk J ersoise. Burt., of Ta sworth-park iientri.",
OR thellethlestent. et lit. Andrew's, Mr. 11:Secrplet."
T 4041411111“, to slliss Lewis, of Devonsbirrstress, Qtlese
imilare•

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00 Saturday. Ste SOth ar: at Hominy. Thoots, Ode°
sou of the tats
S. Whitehead, Esq., of Baaksidn, 04141111_
Oh •sLiaT• die Mb ult— at his• house, la blehiliatre;
War aid U sir itre oofmth"e Court of Kia;'s leachl,
Oftthe 2alt.• at bis house in Melior-stra •i, eit"'
111r_t_440404101 sea•• aged I*/.

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