The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-11-15 00:00:00

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sheep and other cattle have been drowned. Thp
ruin came so rapidly and unexpectedly, that the
farmers had no time to save their cattle, had the
, thing been predicable: but in some instances the
inhabitants of farm-housex have had difficulty in
'saving their owa • lives ; and one instance is men-
tioned to as in which two persons at Fosdyke
perished by the flood, which completely swept'
away thsit-d wel ling. h nese. •

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At Fishtoft, Mr. Smith Jessop (formerly in trade
as a grocer at Bositon) lost his life in endeavouring
to rescue.. some If hii father's sheep. On Saturday
:eight, • old Mr. Jossop, accidentally looking out of
,his house, and, mistaking the approaching deluge
for a fall of snow on the ground, exclaimed to his
seu that care should be taken of sotne sheep on his
pastures. The deceased immediately went forth,
and before he had recovered from the astonishment
tacked by tl►e scene, walked thiough the water, In
his *Sy to the slieeplinto a pit, where he was drawn.
ed before any assistance could be rendered.
The hotel (Plummer's) at Fricston shore was for
same hoots-in danger of being quite washed down ;
the great bow.window of the diniug.room, al.
>though a ermakkrable• height from the ground, was
forced from the building by the water, and carried
to the distance of several fields.

Dead sheep are seen lying in numbers from every
road that is passable. The roads from Boston to-
wards the sea and Fosdy ke Wash are•nearly Imp's.
sable, being horse.betly deep in water, and the
communication along the sea banks is out off by
the breaches in them ; but the Court of Sewers is
sitting daily at Boston,
,issuing orders for the secu.
rity of. the country.
Stacks of corn, farming implements, and articles
of household-furniture, have been floated away al-
most beyond number. The houses of Mr. Kean,.
and. Mr. Dickinson, of Wyberton, have been neatly
demolished by the flood, and many others much du
maged.: liolbeach Marsh, we are told, 'the
greater part of the estates are three feet under water;
and the town of Holbeub has been much distressed
by the inundation.
Some few farmers are said to have lost nearly all
the stock upon their lands. Names have been men.
tioned to as ; bet, for fear of mistakes, we deem
it prudent to abstain at present 'from publishing
that. Great difficulty will be experienced in aim
porting such cattle as may nut have perished on lip
inundated farms; all the ditches, ponds, aWrelli in
many parishes being filled with salt wateriek it
will take some time to get rid of. The itleearanee
of the cou►:try from the top of Boston steep!** sne.
lanchuly in the extreme. At the seventh -mile.
stone towards Spalding, the water runs over the
road; and the country looks like a seal as far as
the eye, in the directions of the mischief, can carry
its sense.

We are assured thai, from the hour of three on
Friday morning last, till five, it lightened as vividly
and repeatedly as is common in the season when wo
must look for such phenOmena. The flashes were
attentively observed by the Masters of two vessels'
lying in Skirbeck Quarter.
. On Saturday evening, Captain Massam, of the
Jason, accompanied by a man and a boy, went
down by the low road towards Wyberton, with a
view of getting on hoard the vessel, and -giving as.
*tante to`Capt. Barclay. The gale blowing ex.
treasely hard, • the party .by some means lost their •
road. Finding this to be the case, they resolved tare.
t urn and raake for the sea banksbut in this retrograde.
movement were soon met by the tide, which, in the
course of a few minutes, quite surrounded them, atrd
.made them'seek safety on a. hill or tumulus in
fieJdse; In this situation they all three continued uri.,
tit between two and three o'clock on Sunday morn.
ing, when Captain Manful), thinking it possible that
the next tide Might rise so as to drown them all, de.
tcrmined upon adventuring away, with the aid of
some rails which he broke from a fence. In the At.
tempt the boy got. into deep water and wardrowned :
with &it labour the two uthers.gossto ahouse, Mr.
in Frampton, whatethey were kindly treat.
ed, and enabled. to proceed to their ship. The boy
who perished was in the service of Mr. OlarkeOner.
chant, of Skirbeck Quarter.

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LOSSES AT SEA.
The ifosh?er, May, from Loudon to 'this port,
with groceries, drove on the Herring .Sand iu the
course of the night. There is too• mach ration to
believel that the
,whole of her 'crew have found
watery graves. Mr. flay, the master; was an ca.
cellent mariner, and as a man highly respected.
The brig Hope, supposed frotn Sunderland, coal.
laden, came into the Deeps with the Polly, Estill,
ottSaturday morning, and brought up astern of the
Polly in Clay.hole. lii the middle of the gale the
brig foundered at her auchcirs,• and every soul on
board perished. The scene was beheld by the crew
of the Polly Whilst themselves were struggling with
eterilitS; unable 'to think even of aid. Happily,
howevar, the Polly weathered the storm.
A Scotch schooner drifted front the Scalp in the
gale;" aid iipset j three handl, all on board, pc.'
'rished. When the tide left her, loos poor )0 was
found lashed to the windlass ;•whicbilt, is supposed,
be had himself done for safety, nut dreaming that
the %owl would u
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The old ship, the Seii
port of .1V 4iihys .was on I
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Efolbeich Marsh, after having weathered the storms
of a hundred years. She was built in the reign of
Queen A nne (we state this from good information),
and has been a constant trader from Whltby to Lotri,j
,mg 'don, durink the long period intervening to the preil
tent year._ By the gales %Vlach prevailed alortnig*
o she was,'for the first time, compelled to run tor'
'Boston Deeps Land the subsequent tempest has
wrecked her en a new shore The crew, with
great difficulty,' landed on the Marsh from the
boats, almost perished. -*owe
A barge drifted over the bank near the Scalp, and
may now be seen in the midst of the pastures, with,
the sheep grazing round her l
Yesterday evening the bot of Jose Pit Anderson,
late Mate of the Allif4r, wag 'outfit near the yes.
set, which, strangs.t• tell, has righted again, and
is expected to be got of, with part of her cargo on
board. The body was conveyed to the Golden
Lion public-house.
The Hannah, of Sunderland, Robert Tucker,
master, put into Boston yesterday through stress of
weather, with the loss of an anchoi and cable on
entering the Deeps, and having her sails much rent.
The Captain reports that, to the North of lugold-
mells, be passed a vessel unknown, Sunk in seven
fathom water; with her top.sails jest above water,
and a man standing thereon, to whom he was un-
able to reader any assistance.
We are Informed that several wrecks are to be
seen on the Lincolnshire coast, off Theddlethorpe
and Mablethorpe. A' letter addressed to us yester-
day from a friend, at Spilsby, observes-44 The wind
on Saturday has produced such a scene of distress
along the coast between Wainffeet and Salttleet as
is truly afflicting t fourteen wrecks are visible from
the hills. In our tieighboiirhood no material injury
has been done, except that Walton Mill has been
blown completely over. The miller's man, pail.
dentially, had left the mill to fetch a candle from
the house, and was just entering the mill-yard on
his return, when the whole machine was blown
over with a horrid crash."
At Wisbech the gale was severely felt : a cor.
respondent writes as follows:--" The tide rose to
an unusual height, *and II olied.with such rapidity,
that several craft loaded with grain broke from their
moorings and sunk. The banks in several places
were overflowed, and th'r
liatlatcd. Several of
tailed a serious loss, as
buildings, near the river.
I ter.. We fear that great

the banks and enclosures
river, but to what. event is not yet ascent:
From the accounts of the Captains who came in
with the gale, there is reason to belive that, during
the greater period of its continuance, the wind
it sea was South East : if so, there is a strong
probability that many ships have cleared the land.
With this consolation we will close the most•me.
lanchoty account that oar duty,as journalists,ever im-
posed upon us the pain of narrating. Any attempt to
estimate the loss which has been sustained is at pre.
sent unnecessary and impossible : much is still to
learn as to the extent of country in which this se.
vere visitation of Providence hal been experienced;
and our next week's account, it la- probable, may
be even chore distressing than that-which we at pre&
sent have been able to collect;

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A. Council •on the state of his MA jErrn
was on Tuesday, in a very private rower "cc
Windsor. The Members who sat were very fe:11
number. The resultlias not transpired.

. On Saturday, the King of SWFDEN landed
I.:3l.month, amidst a salute of girns, and the eheeti,
welcomes of the inhabitants. He was conducted'
the Angel Inn. He is daily expected in town.
In our preceding columns will be found,
an a
count of an unusually' tremendous Storm oa it
coast of Liucolushire. 'lt is a most niteeestio;
though a most melancholy detail.

be seen, by our Portsmouth Letter,
the Havre Beet has escapea to sca,

The Duke of Kent packet is arrived from Cad'
which she left Osi the 26th ult. In a subset
part of oar Pieper, we have given• extracts f
Spanish Papers, Oxon& by this conveyance.
Cortes bow -to proceed in a very excellent spiii
It appears, however, that doe people de not 04
they make that progress in the higher dßPart
of their duty ; the fixing of theitett land.meeksot
free Constitution, which 00111seest fervently ho
and expected. ' •
On the oth day's sitting, the PILESIOtiT stated,
that he receives' several anonymous Letter
complaints to that effect. Fur our part, sus
present, have much hopes of the labours of this be
lustrious Body. They seem desirous of letting Gs
PEOPLE participate in the advantages of Govern.
tnent ; and have not yet betrayed any wish to let
on the principle which is grown so fashioady
with their ALLY of ENGLAND, that all the blej.
ings of a Government naturally belong oily
the /eve, and that the PEOPLE are Willed only
to the inconvenience and burthens of it. is
events, we shall not prejudge them. And aisle
be observed, that the more unfeigned modermice
they proceed with, the more' stable and benefigig
their work is likely to be. They have, very pm
perlyl'avuiaed to encumber themselves with Mk
The consideration of the means by whide#rvik
principled enemy is to be successfully 104
and finally expelled, is, therefore, referred too
cular commissions. Mean time,Oneof the easdlit
done, has been to refer to a
the considerdtien of the bat

ZING ion. Tea IPiIDT ISSUE 01
CAUbES ; in 'order that, the
.kly be set at libarlys and as*
issinisba This is an object
of true Guist:amts. 14$
us hope, then, thai the Spanish nation will ad
find mock Itepresentatirin in their august Cork!
It appears that General ILLAIIII is advancing (too
Murcia, to co.operate with the garrison of Cadiz
with increased vigour, and to take this favourable
opportunity of driving the assailants beyond the
Sierra Morena.

It is with great pleasure we find, that the epide.
mic distemper in Cadiz has disappeared ; and 'tibia
season of the year no fears are entertained of hire.

appearance.
A vessel (rots' Gibraltar, and wbich left it es&
20th, we ars also happy to say b provided piths
clean bill of health, and the yelloW fever in dick
NO longer prevalkd.

'The following interesting letter we have *ad
this morning. from our Plymouth Correspondest:-.
PLYMOUTH, Nov.l&
" The Nercissus frigite which arrived Wert.
terday, dismasted, met with that accident in Stutoaa
Bay, on the North West coast of Spain, when
she was at anchor with' Commodore Mends's ma.
drug'. At twelve o'clock on the night of the Sat
latent, in a most tremendous gale at wind, Okla
blew into that bay, a Spanish frigaitidrifilati frog
her alschors and cause scrota the .i.Vuicienis's With
bfr which her masts were immediately carried tor,
sad the surgeon and a marine killed,. together gill
eight or nine seamen wounded, by their falling. At,
ter very great difficulty and exertions on the lartof.
the British seamen, the ships were disengaged hi
cutting away the wrecks, when the Spanish hite
drifted towards the shore, and in her course DA
Kush her a Spanish brig of war, and. they kith,
went on the rocks together ; and it is reported, that
the Captain of the brig, together with two SCION
were the only persons saved Of both ships' crews.
Must of the Spanish gun-boats and small vesscli
tached to the expedition, are states! to have 00
gone on shore and totally lost : and the nundyr A
Spaniards drowned is feared to be upwards of 610

men.
" The British vessels, with thne*eptioo of OR
Narcissus, bas suffered very little damage. lied
not the crew of the Narcissus cleared the wreck ig
soon, there is every reason to believe, from the
ria
lence of. the gale, that she must have gone on AO
also, in which case inevitable destruction must hate
followed to the greater part of the crew from the
state of the weather and heavy sea breaking .r 1 thc
rucks. It is reported that the expedition, is cos.
sequence of those disaters, has been abandtmcd.'
The ,Amason frigate towed the Narcissus to tbil.
port, and then proceeded to Falmouth.
64. Arrived a ship Irons Monte Video,:bol can.
not learn her name. -1►
1 164
Arrived the Caraceit hiptireel'
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he lands near the town its. things they have di
lhs inha4itantt aispriso • Committee,
the ssarehoases ant' Sir annVIDIN
,
r, weep filled with salt wa- CRIkINAL
innocent may quid
at &vie has been done tt.;
vs air the outfall of the guilty
it is not yet ascertained." worthy of the labor