The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-18 00:00:00

THE STATERM4

7 HUNDER-STORM 4ND HURRICANS.
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Tftuao, Sipr: 14.—The following accounts of the
effects of the tremendous thunder-storm on the night
of Thursday the 6th instant,• have been transmitted
to us:—

Ansysta..—On Thursday night this place and
the adjacent parishes were visited by one of the most
tremendous thunder-storms ever felt in this county ;
the lightning descended in streams, and in such rapid
succeuion, as to illuminate the whole bovines and
render objects clearly visible, with scarcely any inter-
mission, for several minutes together; the peals of
thunder were tremendously loud and the rain fell in
torrents, as though a vast body of water had bees dis-
charged instantaneously from the clouds. The fol-
lowing are amongst the accidents occasioned by the
storm in this neighbourhood. A mow acorn in afield
belonging to Mr. Kendall of Bodriggan, was set on
fire by the lightning and wholly consumed; another
mow of corn, also in a field,--belonging to Mr. Peake
of Tywardreatb, was set on fire and entirely burnt.—
A horse belonging to Mr. Heat, of Lostwithiel, was
killed in a field at Trenarren ;—come other animals
have been killed and others entirely deprived of sight
by the lightning. The house of Mr. Harris of Luxillian
was struck by the electric fluid, and severely injured;
the family who were in bed, sad escaped as if by mi-
racle, whilst the walls, furniture, &c. were rent and
scattered in various directions.

LAUNCESTON.--Irbill neighbourhood was visited by
a most tremendous thunder-storm, on Thursday even-
ing last. The lightning continued m fish with awful
brilliancy for several hours, accompanied by loud peals
of thunder and torrents of rain. During the continu-
ance of the storm, three oxen belonging to Mr. Par-
sons, of Werrington, were killed by the lightning ;
as was a horse belonging to a farmer of Egloskerry.
The Tamar swelled by the rain, overflowed its banks,
and the corn which had been cut and placed in shocks
on several fields along its coarse, has been carried off
by the flood.
CAMELFORD.—Duringtbe tremendous thunder-storm
on Thursday night a mow of barley belonging to Mr.
G. Hocken, of St. Tudy, was set on fire by the light-
ning, and entirely consumed. The evening amusements
of our fair which was held that day, were wholly de-
ranged by the state of the weather.
PENZAN cc—We ex perienced a dreadful thunder-storm
here on Thursday evening. Daring its continuance,
the lightning which was most vivid, struck the gable
of an out-house belonging to Mr. Edward Pox of Alter-
ton, burnt part of the thatch, killed a cat which lay
there, and shivered several !pokes of a cart wheel
to atoms ; it also entered the dwelling-house, and
knocked down two children, but without seriously in-
juring them ;—happily no other &wage was done.
Lewes, Seer. 10.—About one o'clock in the af-
ternoon of last Monday, Seddlescomb was visited by a
kind of hurricane which passed through a wheat field
and a hop plantation belonging to Mr. Mercer. In the
former it caused the sheaves, as it were, to dance the
bay, and left them in the greatest disorder; in the lat-
ter its violence proved in'esistibbee aellreitra slay*
pole being left standing, which would hien inbjected
Mr. Mercer to considerable loss, had not the bops
been in a state fit for pitching, a work which com-
menced on the following day. From Seddlescomb it
moved on to Brede, and left similar marks of its rury
in the bop garden of Mr. Adds; but missing that of,
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tne pm or Mr. Bourn, it took the direction of his
farm close, where it carried away the top of a wheat
stack, forced in the window of a contiguous milk-room,
and caused great apprehensions for the safety of one
part of the dwelling-house. In the close is a pond,
from the water of which it is asserted, that some geese
and ducks were literally blown, and with so much vio-
lence, that one of the latter was killed. Its effects,
we hear, were extended to Udiniore, where, it is said,
a large tree was torn up by the roots.
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BEIGHTON, SEPT. 16.:—About twelve o'clock on
last Wednesday, it blowing a strong breeze from the
S.W. and that hour being the time of high water,
about forty feet of the Black Rock Groyne, gave way.
The piles, eleven in number, were by the force of the
water, broken off close to the rocks into which they
were driven. The break commenced about seventy
yards from high-water mark. By this disaster alone,
the Contractor will, 'tie said, sustain a loss of 3001.

On Sunday afternoon, three young lads hired a boat
at Strand-lane, to row a short distance, when owing to
their unskilful management, she ran foul of a barge
moored off Waterloo-bridge, and one of the party, H.
Deloffe, a fine youth, 17 years of age exerting himself
to get her clear, unfortunately fell overboard, and
sunk to rise no more. His companions in endeavour-
ing to save him, had probably shared the same fate,
but for the providential interference of a waterman
then passing, who brought them safe on shore. The
body was picked up yesterday, on the mud, near the
above bridge, at one o'clock, as was also that of a re-
spectable looking man, 30 years of age. They ware
both conveyed to Lambeth bone-house, to waft the In-
quest of the Coroner.
NEU CASTLE, SEPT. 14.—0 n Monday last, about
12 o'clock, John Wilkinson and William Surtees
Hetherington, convicted at the late Assizes here, of
highway robbery, were executed at Morpetb, pursuant
to their sentence: they were taken from the gaol in a
chaise. On arriving at the place of execution, (a
little below the tcwn) they joined in prayer with the
clergyman, and seemed very penitent. Just before
the caps were drawn over their faces, Wilkinson said,
If I bad taken my wife's advice, I should not have
been brought to this ;" and Hetherington said, "Now,
my lads, I hope this will be a warning to you all, to
mind what company you keep." They died without a
struggle. After the bodies had hang the usual time,
they were cut down, and delivered to their friends,
who were in waiting to take them away."
Canasta, SEPT. 15.—WONDERFUL PRESERVATION.
—On Thursday, as W. Burgess, a person employed in
watering horses, Ike. blind of one eye and nearly so
of the other, had mounted one of Mr. T. Wilson's
horses, at the back of the West Walls, in this city,
the animal made a plunge, and, being as blind, if
not more so, than his rider, leapt clean over the wall,
and fell from a height of five or six yards.—Notwith-
standing this extraordinary leap, the horse lighted
steadily on his feet, and the undaunted rider kept a
firm possession of his seat; by which moans no other
injury was sustained than the destraction of a few
cabbages in the garden into which the plunge nas
made.

MIbDLESLX SESSIONS.

THE RING V. WHITS •ND OTHERS.
This waste indictment at the suit of the parish of
Paddington against the defendants for keeping a
house for the exhibition of unlawful gamer, such as
dog fighting, monkey fighting, badger baiting, &c. in
Harper's fields, Edgeware-road, to the great annoyance
of the neighbourhood. At the suggestion of Counsel,
they pleaded guilty, upon condition of being only re-
quired to enter into recognisance, to appear before
the Court to receive judgment when called upon, in
case they should be again guilty of inch offences.

James Thornton was put to the bar to receive the
judgment of the Court upon his conviction of perjury
which took place last week. He was recommended to
mercy by the Jury, as having a good character in
other respects, and was therefore only sentenced to im-
prisonment for six months in the House of CorigLOon.
Nothing else of any interest occurred. The sons
terminated at 4 o'clock. One hundred and seventy-
seven prisoners were discharged by proclamation from
the New 'rison, Clerkenwell, and ten from the House
of Correction.

POLICE.
MANSION HOUSE.-•••MELA.NCIIOLY EVPECTS OP .TEA•
Locer.—Yesterday morning, soon after 5 o'clock, the
neighbourhood of Bishopsgate-street was thrown into
consternation by the report that s man had been mur-
dered in Hose-alley, a narrow sequestered place; newly
opposite Bishopsgate church. Gregory; the officer,
havillig been informed of the circumstance, ran to the
spot, where he found a crowd of persons in great con-.
fusion around a young man named Kelly, who lay
bleeding in his shirt on the pavement; he had a des-
phate wound in the back, and appeared to be in the
last agonies. A young woman who was present, be-
ing questioned as to the particulars of the calamity
said, that she believed a man named Farrell, who re-
sided in a house in the alley to which she pointed,
bald stabbed him with a cutlass, for she had seen Far-
rell with a weapon of that kind in his hand, and be-
traying such symptoms of embarrassment as led her
to suspect that he was the assailant. The officer im-
mediately went to Farrell's room-door awl knocked,
but no answer being returned, he broke open the door,
and putting aside some chairs and a table that had
been placed against it, entered and saw the wife of
Farrell in bed in a state of great agitation. The un-
happy woman was reluctant to answer any questions
which might criminate her husband, but the officer
having satisfied himself that Farrell was the person
who had committed the violence, determined to obtain
a warrant for his apprehension, and to bring the wife
before the Lord Mayor in order to have a part of her
conduct, whisli appeared to be rather equivocal, ex-
plained.
The poor woman, with her child in her arms, was
placed at the bar of the Mansion-house, and the evi-
dence of the officer was taken down.

Soon after the application for the warrant was made,
a message was brought to the Lord Mayor from St.
Thomas's Hosikkipsepting that Kelly wu in a dying
state, and that he wished to make his deposition be-
fore a magistrate as to the melancholy occurrence
which had take. place.
The Loan MAYOR directed that the worthy Alder-
man who sat In the Borough should be informed of
the circumstances.
The Loao MAYOR dismissed Farrell's wife without
ailing her a single question.
Alderman J. J. Smith being the sitting Magistrate
at the Town Hall, Southwark, was applied to to take
the deposition of the unfortunate young man. The
Worthy Alderman proceeded immediately to the Hos-
pital to the bed-side of Kelly, who is a tall, powerful
looking young man, apparently of about 28 years of
age. He was extended on the bed, in great agony,
groaning heavily l his shirt lay beside him, covered ,
with blood.

He made the following deposition :
"My name is Michael Kelly; I reside at Rose-
alley, Bishopsgate-street, and am a labourer in the
East India Company's warehouses; Simon Farrall
and his wife, who lodge in the same house as I do, are
always at variance; I used always to be trying to
makepeace amongst them ; they quarrelled last night,
and Simon Farrell slept upon the stairs; I sat upon a
chair in their room, and fell asleep ; we wete both, the
worse for liquor ; I meant to have gone to my own
bed, but by mistake went to the bed where Far-
rell's wife was lying ; she called out, 4 you are
wrong, Michael ;' I said ' I beg your pardon;' I
thought that Farrell was in bed with his wife,
but I found he was upon the stairs; he came in
and took an old sword which was hanging in
the room, and without saying a word to me ran it into
my back ; I had got into my own room from Far-
rell's; be had followed me there; 1 was in my own
room at the time; after he bad wounded me, be as-
sisted me to open the door to get out; I was just get-
ting into bed at the time be came; I did not suspect
that he was going to du me any mischief or was be-
hind me ; Farrell's son, a boy of about 13 years of age,
cried out—, Shame, father.' After I was wounded I
came down stairs to call the watchman, to get some
assistance ; I was so weak that I fell down in the dirt
outside the street door ; while I was lying in the street
I saw Farrell run away with the sword under his arm ;
it was in about five minutes after I bad fallen down;
at the time he stabbed me, he said, You blackguard
take that;' I never had a word with him before; we
bad been spending the afternoon together at a public-
house ; I never gave him cause for jealousy, nor-know
that he was jealous of me." Kelly then signed the
above deposition, and declared that he bad nothing
further to add ; it was the truth, and be had nothing
to say more that he knew of. 'I he wound, it is stated,
had penetrated the lungs.
GUILDHALL—A CURIOUS Cutevwsratses.—This
justice•room was more than ordinarily crowded yester-
day to witness the examination of the notorious Chas.
Crowder ! whose exploits have frequently graced the
annals of the police.
The charge against the prisoner arose out of the ex-
amination and consequent committal of a fellow of the
name of John Beavan, a well-known character, and an
acquaintance of Crowder, so far back as the middle of
august. On that occasion, William Reynolds, a con-
stable of the ward of Cripplegate-witbin, who appre-
hended Beavan, stated that at about 4 o'clock, in the
morning, while on his duty, he observed three men
lurking about in Gll-14ill-rOW; and perceiviog ore of
them to be Charles Ciowci;,r, whOse periuri andxharac-