The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-29 00:00:00

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"On Tuesday." uys The "ifkiirol OsootA4
.I)inoinglsans mail, which usually actives I. this oily
at six o'clock in the morsiegVid aotreach its desti-
nation until' are eclat* at eons ; It WO stepped. st
Norton-tallls, between Tewkesbury and Matte titer,
where the water was near de' feet deep; the guide of•
the road being lost, the borers soon get of their legs,
and else greatest danger was. evident. To Increase the
difficulty, Shurmer's stake -waggon bad also bees
stopped in its primes, sod was readered immoveable;
one of the boned of the latter wen drowned, ands*
',other died soon after ; by the great exertions of
the coachman and guard. the passengers, and mail
horses were preserved ; the former were obliged. to, go
beck to Tewkesbury ; the parcels and luggage were
left behind, and the mail of letters conveyed at length
Olonioater, from whith It reached this city, as be.
fore stated, about noon. No other coach reached
Bristol from Birmingbam during the day, and this
*morning (Wednesday) the mail was three.bours after
its dem hang obliged to go round by Cheltenham."
" is cousequnce of almost incessant rains," ob-
serves, The Worcester Joarstal, " there has bees
a rapid succession of floods on the River Severe
during the last few months; yesterday afternoon the
inindation had attained a fery unusual height, though
nearly two feet below the flood of 1795. The lands
on both sides the river are flooded to a great exteot.
Of course travelling has been much Impeded la various
pieta of the country. Teiterday (Tuesday, the 25th
Instant) the coach did not arrive in this city till
twelve o'clock ; this day the waters' bad risen so high
si teimpede the passage over Tewkesbury Bridge ; in
conirquence of which the guard was obliged to take
a boat, swim a horse by the side of it, sad thus gain-
ing the road which was not under water, mounted the
horse and proceeded for this city. So rapid was the
rise of the Avon, at Bath, that by two o'clock on
Sunday, the whole of that large space facing the bot-
tom of the Parades, called Dolemead and Ormead, a
great portion of which has recently been covered
with small tenements, exhibited one wide' expanse of
water, the roofs of some of the cottages being literally
wily just discernable, whilst others were buried mid-
way, and :their terrified 'inhabitants obliged to seek
shelter in the upper apartments, and upon the house
tops, whence many were rescued by boats. The ba-
rometer stood this day (Wednesday, the 26th instant,)
28 3.loths—a very unusual depression. We have at
length some intimation of the approach of winter;
snow fell on some of the hills of this county on Sun-
day, and this morning Fahrenheit's Thermometer stood
at the (reefing point."
The tide flowed so high on Thursday, that many
houses oft the Rotherhithe side of the Thames, have
above three feet of water in the lower part. Surrey-
add Craven-street, in the Strand, also felt its effects,
street, as well as many parts of Westminster.
Thursday and Wednesday the water reached within
▪ foot of the summit of the terrace fronting the new
Custom-house.
The Windsor coaches were detained on Thursday
and the preceding day, in consequence of the floods
on the roads.
The Portsmouth mail was delayed at Kingston yes-
terday morning upwards of an boar, in consequence.
of the waters being out.
'Thursday there was a tremendous storm of thunder,
lightning, hail, and rain at Oxford, which continued
nearly an hour with unabated fury. The rain lite-
rally came down in torrents, the streets throughout
the city were like rivulets, the thunder was awfully
lend, and the lightning extremely vivid.
'4'bm country in the neighbourhood of Chertsey is
so deeply flooded by.the late incessant rains, that the
coaches proceeding thither on Thursday were obliged
to stop at Hampton, and return to town in the evening.
The weather since our last has been extremely tem-
pestuous, both wind, hail, and rain. About three
o'clock on Tuesday morning last, we had a storm of
thunder and lightning, which continued only for a
few minutes. Oa the evening of the same day the light-
ning was also uncommonly vivid, but unaccompanied
with thunder. The fall of rain hu been great, Sc.
cumpanied with strong gales. Indeed the violence of
the westerly winds has compelled several American
and other vessels, after having been at sea some weeks,
to put back. So long a continuance of westerly winds
at Obi season has not been known for a number of
years.—(Liverpool Advertiser.)

. Pmts.—At six o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke
'out in the glass-house of Messrs. Read and Co. in
White's-yard, Rosemary-lane. It began in one of the
nulls underneath the factory, where some cinders,
which had been shot there from the furnace, being ig-
niteil, the fire had communicated with some pieces of
wood which lay close by. It was, however, fortunately
discovered in time, and extinguished without doing any
material damage.