The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-18 00:00:00

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Nth% "elan week we have been fraquentli
visited with thunder and lightning, accompanied
with a vast quantity of rain. On Friday night
the rain fell in a continued torrent for several
hours, and the morning of Saturday presented a
distressing scene among several of thu inhabitants
in the lower parts of the town. Those in New
Pandon and Cowgate appear to have ,abraded
most, Some of whose houses were inundated td
the depth of from "three to four feet. A boy,
aimed George bum, aged five years (son of (T.
Inoes, smith, Pandon-gate), had a vi under ful
j escape from drowning. Wading among others in
New Pandon, he was swept away by the current,
and carried full 330 yards (230 of vrhich were an
inclosed conduit) dots n towards the river. In the
passage is a water-fall of five yards, directly on.
der that part of the town walls setae,' divides
Messrs. Surtees, Brown, end Head's high and
low raff-yards,• over which the child was it'll:du.
ously forced. A man working in the rail%) art,
With great presence of mind proceeded to•a's open
part of the conduit, at the foot of Pamluti, u here
he fortunately arrived, just in time to rescue the
object of his pursuit from a watery grave. had
be been one second later, the child would have
passed on to the river, and inevitably perished.
Though he had little appearance of life when
caught, In a very shut t time he came to himself,
and was on Sunday perfectly recovered. If any
thin might be said to cause amusement in the
midst of so much distress, it was the escape of
some ladies and their paramour' from a house of
ill fame in Pander,. The water, having deprived
them of their clothes, they *ero forced to issue
from their dwelling, breast high, and almost in a
state of nudity, to the nu smwll amusement of a
number of speetatuis.
In the afternoon of the same day, a man who
had been at the fair, and four horses, were struck
dead by the lightning at the Cutvgate, ou the west
side of the Town Alior, and .a boy and two
other horses scorched, but have since recovered.
A man belonging to Mr. Freeman, miller, near
Busy Cottage, was drowned in crossing the liurn
at that place, in returning with ti laden cart frum
I the market in this town.

On Thursday evening a eo.c litiongine to Mr.
Atkinson, of Fulwetl, was killed by the'
oing, which struck her beneath the breast, rtom
which it burnt all the hair, and perforated the
skin at the point at which it appears to have ea..
tcrcd her body with a number of small h&c,.
The lightning, on Thursliy seanight, struck
the !mine of Mr. 1)11e, of Walker, near New-
castle, threw down the chimney and a great num-
ber of tiles, broke 17 qoares. of g!ass, here tor
the window shutters, and dashed then) egaitist'the
garden pales, scattered the plaster about the house,
and filled the rooms with a solphureous smoke ;
hnt providentially did not injure any of the fa-
mily.

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ABERDEEN, Ana. P:.—Yeaterttay warping we
had a violent thunder-stnrm, wtiu h continued
about two hours, during part of uhieh the peals
were nncommoniy loud, and the lightning very
vivid ; fortunately ais have heard of no serious
accident attending it. A woman,. in going out
early to tether some cows, near the bridge of Dee,
had the hair of her head almost completely singed
off, and fainted from the fright her narrow escape
had occasioned.

IN V Elt N ass, Auo. 11.—On the afternoon of
Friday last came on here a dreadful storm of
thunder and lightning, accompanied by a heavy
fall of rain, and, in several parts of the country,
with hailstones of an uncommonly large size. We
arc sorry to learn, that the corn has consequently
been lodged in many places, and considerable di.
inage has otherwise been sustained. A tremen-
dous water-spout was observed to burst to the
westward of Dingwall ; and we are informed that
about 40 sheep were killed byl the lightning
in A ird, and that from '2O to 30 shared the saute
fate in Urquhart.
AnzaDoua, Avower 19.—During the thunder
storm on the 3d current, at two P. M.-the light-
ning struck two houses, connected by a mutual
gable, near the shore, at Aberdour, in Fife. The.
whole building, shout 7U feet lung, and 21 broad,
was enveloped, fur an instant, in a blaze. An in-
tense part of the lightning, esitering tlie west ga.
ble, about three feet from the corner, proceeded
downward, through Cie hoer( of tle: wall, pass;a:
through an oaken lintel of a wail-press, part of
which appears as if charred, melted a brass can.
dlestick, standing below, in eight diterent places,
and tare the shelves in every d;reCtiefl. In the
middle of the I lidding, a pastitinn wns r,-et
from top to botleei, in two places, so as to ad.•
mit one's hand, and numllerless fragmeitts of the
bricks and lime were found tnt the opposite
window.sash, all the panes ui which u or! broken,
and pieces of the glass forced ontwirtl, 29 feet
from the wall. 04 returning to an upper apart-
ment, which she had nut left five minutes, a W4l_
man found the chair, on which she had set, over.
turned ; part of the lax she had been spinning;
scorched ; a shawl, which lay oh a chest, with a
hole burnt in 4t of fourteen inches diameter ; a
wooden clock dashed on the floor ; a large ob-
lique section of the jamb ia shiver, on the hearth
where her wheel stood ; a linnet, in a wire cage,',
within three iect of the window, and tliiectle ep_
posite to two pants w hick wet... broken, ',coped;
and, front the miikt of dust •awd smoke, serenaded
its owner immediately on her appearing. Of 13
persons in the two houses, all were ass stained by
the lightning, that only one remembered the loud
clap, which appeared simultaneous ; yet, except-
Mg a cut on the hinder part of the head, and a
contusion of the face, occasioned by the fragments
forced from the gable and partition walls, and a
slight strain of the knees, from hating been thrown
violently on the fluor, sustAiiimi by three of them,
no injury was received. A tremendous It iil-
- immediately preceded the lightning. The
baromoter stood at inch 39, and the thermometer
Fahren..at 59 degrees.