The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-12-21 00:00:00

IiURRICANE.

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Gteseow,
Dee. It•--Forrly yesterday 'Morning a
violent gale begen'to Woo *lsom the • South _west,
• companied with rain, mike -wes:t, ac-
continued during the
greater part of the days W rootbielt. the B • • ' - • .
ew,seseral
. -vessel, were driien out of the rimer, upon the assay•
Eseepting two, tbey hate - been -. • - - ail .since got off.-
- The Madrid,. froth 4xxiiikat is en shore with loss
of anchors. and esiblee... ' •
• asteemoce, Dste: t&—the wind last night greatly
increstedrand has continued to blow with unremit-
ting violence.• In' t lie morning there was econsider.
able deal of thunder and lightish's, accompanied •by
excessive fails of rain. Shortly' after mid-day the
quays overflowed, and the tide continuing to rise, the
cellar' adjacent to the breast.' of the different har-
bours have been inundated, aid we are truly con-
cerned to add, immense qaantitiei of West India
--mise-_
and other produce deitroyed; much property has The Tragedy
likewise been swept away, or materially injured on of Macbeth was performed last night
at this Theatre, in which Ksmere,•enrivilied is heist
the quays. .
in this part, outdid even himself. I
Those of the ontward.bound Weit- Inch' fleet t was It toaster.
havel drifted piece of art-at nearly faultless
Tiding at anchor at the tail of the performance; but On
merit so well known, established
considerably ; some have parted. their Bank,
cables. l'he oil so broad a hasii
it were needless to dwell—our immediate object li
Pamirs, which, along with Several merchantmen, s
or
parted I the music in Macbeth—music, which- bad Shake.
feel pectoris' in Gourock. Bay, slipped ; spear been A composer, . lie would himself have eit-
her cables this forenoon, and fortunately arrived safe
0
no Cited, so admirably does it fall into the very vein or
in the east harbour, sheaf three 'clock,
. his verse, so appropriate is it to the tenour of his
..str apparent injury than the loss of her bowsprit.
text Grave, majestic, and simple; in solemnity
. eteithstmOdiolt the hirsBool' *ltem!) t of taking
approaching to °acrid' the music of Macbeth
'the beibnui,* in such a hurricane, by the able maim
.will,• as it ought to • do, descend to eternal po-
1n which it was performed, the Only damage which
sterity. , Hilw then 'most oar ' indignation be ex-
she occasioned going ire eas thaSef running down a cited, to find this music (tittered away to mere
*erring sloop *tithe entrance.-- '
• .... , ' non-entity of the compeser, MATTHEW LocK u
u.Al.f.filsT Foba.-01 he tele inciwised a little
Tbe end was deplorable—so would it have been
?
more to the westward. We have just teamed that
the renewing vesselsOn Gourock tasty,
are
on
shore,
the
he lived to witness. this death of his fame in
vie::—Thy Nor", no Ibis side of the Po wder-h-use, murder of his music ; little did we think that
Ind the Junerand Elizabeth, at the New Buttery.—
his strains, simple, yet almost supernatural' would
be sung by such smiling, smirking insipid '
Dale his Majesty's ships -Torforus and Amazon re. , singers ass
were those of this night's representation. That most
main at .anehor.iu onrock Bay. The utmost con- beautiful air, Let's have a Dunce, in the hands of
fusion pvesails great fears are entertained for
Miss Marrnews, was so shorn of its characterisiic
ihe safety of siding at the tail of the Batik. simplicity, that it reminded us of nothing but the
04 be is opporktly ligroand at the Ilill of Ardmore.
Several hastsdrifted up the river past Cardross.
pulings of an affected boarding-school girl over her
,piano-forte, with her misplaced and ill-judged Lip-
. •The jane, from Palermo, has just arrived from pogiaturas. Mrs.
is (as might be expected)
ithararaine station, • Half Lech, basing been blown was much better--she is more a pupil of nature
from thence, with the loss of three anchors and ca.
fell into the spirit of the thing, and did well. The
him.
style in which the principal part of this music it
• At Pqrt,Gtasgow, the damage has been immense
w
from the-overflowing of the tide. .
Iritten, is that of the bass voice ; serious, grand,
?"
; and impressive —digelfied, and approaching to the Dec. 17:—It blew a tremendous storm yesterday'
1 awful—yet was this confided to C. TATton; a
froin W.N.W.the effects of which will be severely
man, doubtless, of ability, but to whom this kind
wed generally felt. It began early in the morning, 1
of music is totally foreign, and whose peiferinsuce
alccomilanied!itth st grant deal of thunder and light-
of it must therefore be defective.—Spcak, Sister,
ninth issereesing in 40 'key until about ten o'clock
speak., to have due effect, -mint be sung by a bass.
in the afternoon, labeis, singings heavy gust, the tide,
Shame on those who, basing such voic,ts, cannot
whieli by this time hist nearly oierfiown the quays,
pluck up a little resolution to exert common sense
rose suddenly (arse say lo less than ten minutes) in the speaking of a few lines, and redeem this
epwatti. 41S'Inelitts, rushing, in withgreat violence,
Heavenly harmony from the foul stigma thus cast
toying parts of ihO. east awl west ends of the town upon it. Of Iscrzeost, It was at least to be
comistetely under water. As the tide had still an, at
expected th,
he would, hy intuition, penetrate
boo to low, the Moat - serious consequences to the , into Cal my-Aeries of Hecate, and forma spten-
vaMinteses with West India produce were apple:
'did exception to the mal-performance •of the
bender!, but fortunately, soon after this hea•y squall,
night ; but, alas ! it was lei such thing : for, with
the water began to recede, not without doing some
litirchior. pin. Ir a
61° °e it recorded, he was the most flag anrcolprit
Wit. Hecate unquestionably should be the
Dosing the gale lit•-•l•lksysh oa ig ships of the t. '
most solemn—even in soiemnity her singing above all
ward bound West India fleet drove on shore this
side
iscrebo
the point Waite F ticl arla:—.ELisabeth and should be grave and majestic ; but l
Jane, for neither, his conception is most erroneous, an was ,
and his ;
Jamaica; and Mary, for Detuararat another of the '
injudicious shake, continually repeated, gave the
het, name unknown, is on shore. near M'Crae's '
having death-blow to propriety. In the, tweet air,
Ferry. The lict-cesies, fur Sr. Vincent's, Dainty Pleasure, he sung so fast that ho
lost herd nchors anti Cables in Goareck Bay, after °lriAlliti
I e succeeding chorus, We Ply by Night.—
breakiuher whittles*, got safe into the New liar. b1)°"
Ile greatly errs if he thinks that even his name can
boor, bat siut.down a small sloop.in coming in. The .
iworar.,
tuna Irmo Quebec, drove (corn her.aochora In sanction such vile singings, this. Sucks performance,
would he stand well with himself, he would otniienee
the roads, 'lnd it on shortest Inch Green, near POit .from his memory—in a word, lie has neither the
Glasgow,' whidi has Aso suffered from- the storm.
proper feeling, -nor proper voice for the part ; for
Several garden wallsevear the sea, at the west end,
mach as he can do, he is not omnipotent. The time
bay. been dimwit down; the foot-path and parapet- almost throughout was ill kept, which marred the
*all slang the old Bay, have been heady destroyed.
performance altogether, and this is, inn re +r own.
A new stearo.lmet and several• pinnaces on the
beach; near the; (AWE) of Newark, were knocked sure, attributable to the pressing into the Witches'
corps a number of pretty, giggling, unvoral girls,
to pieces. A sleep Gent Leith, with the remannier attending to the business of the
a .and the
of her cargo, foundered et the west :rile of the New who, inctead of
Q
~maste •r
and crew isith difficult saved scene, were ogling their acquaintance in the boxes,
their lives. $o completely were the houses on the uy,
arid were worse than nothing, inasmuch as they im.
o
petted and paralyzed the etfr.rts of those wles knew
West Qua), inundated, that the gentle:nen of the
what they were shout. We assert, that at• Drury-
Custom-house had to be castled out of their offices '
lane this was much better managed, as it must be al-
on men's backs. I have not heard that any -lives
lowed that the choruses there were exquisitely got
were lost. up, for they seemed a grand simultaneoui voice,
Dorris* the night the weather was moderate, the
always in camas and time.
wind ?e; W::with n clear sky; -bat about five this .
,tVe should indeed blush for ourselves, did we not
marniagt!, !be wind again came round to the S. W. '
g.e.i• it "w blows a gale again with heavy rain. It expose. the pedant who writes the Theatrical Cri-
lin a eery appearance of being as bad as vesterday, and tiques is the Ilerald—he says, " Never were the
heartaearching harmonies" of LOCK given in-a more
much fens. may .be,entertained for the.ohips at anchor:
, elfechtal style of .captivation—instancing Miss M AT•
A Liverptiol trader was obliged to cut from [lcily
Loeb imedg•the night, end ran for this harbour; ewer, MII. LTITON, SINCLAIR, DURL3SET, and TIN.
SINCLAIR, from false pride, we supeose,
she pitched • her bowsprit
.under Were cutting.— i MIL"
There is a sloop on shore belo*the•Lasaretto. I kept quite behind, and did. not sing six of:Ar—
no more did TtesET in solo ; this is net matter of (Os
Livearpoz..—A teiribte storm took place here on
but fact. Aud the Critic also says, that the cho- 1
Friday, iat isshich the followiug were driven on shore, Dion,
viz. —Mae* from Drogheda, nest the. Mile i rests were so completely managed and ordered
Lady! that the imagination can scarcity embody any ideal
Iterks,•iiiireitiected to receive much insinty ;
I !omens, (rem Drogheda, in Bootle Bay, with sails ; charm that could be superior •, uow the truth is, and
and both top-inehis gone ; the Jente, from Drogheda, Iwe defy one.or all of the band—no mean judges, to
near Crosby;' and the dfcgss,from Dublin, near .
contredict us, that the choruses were never so ill
Fotieby, 30 cattle lola !mei expected to be got off performed, so wanting in their essential, the keep-
next springs withOutdamap ; the Jolla, from Pen-
ing time; nothing but utter ignorance, or what is
,
atone', •fedissieced off the Ileitiss--crow saved. more likely, absence from the scene, could reason-
abl account for this mis-statement, this creeping Op
Hottyss-Thursday forenoon, slier of vessels were
in itntairiedt danger of, seffering damage from a large
ship,they back of a singer, in praising hint for what be
does
snot do ; his whole criticism is so ludicrously
19MA: was moored on the off-side of the har-
bour, heeling upon them, by which a brig near the pedantic, that Lingo would express himself quite as
quay was for a considerable time, as the tide ebbed, ' well, and Pariridge mach better ; for, when speak-
suspended between a Scotch smack and. a mooring
ing of the superiority of Krust,e's figure over that
post, which at 'last broke,, and the brig instantly : of GARRICK, he says that Kemazu excels where the
" fell into the water, forcing overboard a sloop.mast fitness of muscular proportions and local habUler
that was ascending a ladder to get from the brig to . fades" are concerned—meaning by this jargon, that
the quay; fortunately he had the
presetsee or mind . )(EMILE is a larger figure and pays more attention t
to throw himself between two of thel
piles of the. the costume ; yet is this vile compounder of fat-•
fetched epithet, this peritoneal diver into the deepest
quay, and thus was saved from instant death, which
bathos, suffered to vomit forth his sickly nonsense
mast have ensued had be been caught between the
1 daily, nauseating the genoiner;taste of the public.
vessel and the piles.
hstatis•-•-Friday, &ring a violent storm of wind ! ..
with, rain, et Leeds, the steam-engine chimney, at.l The Journal de Paris, of the kfith inst. announaei
tached to the manufactory of Whitehead and Pearson, the sudden death of M.
•Scutaespeen, one of the
•en Bradford-moor, was blown down, and, .falling most celebrated chemists of Viennit He was pre.
upon the building, the roof was forced in with a preparing Prussian acid (act-daunt borrussicum), the
ter rihle crash, and a number of the work-people i most powerful poison that is known, and spilled a
',sty seriously 'Rimed. At the house of John! quantity of it upon his naked arm, .which brought
BlA)cia) ksq. Park-lane, a stack of cbimuies at then on death in a few bourse ,, .
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STAVFORD.--The oldest person living cannot re-
leember more tempestuous and longer 'continued
gales than we experienced on F,itlay. The damage
Sustained by many persons in this town and neigh-
bourhood at present cannot be estimated. Innu-
merable chimnies .have been blemn down, roofs of
houses and ricks of hay removed ; and on the north
road trees have been forcpd down, which have ie.
terrupted the progress of coaches, &c.

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