The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-10 00:00:00

THE LATE STORM.

CRONalt, Nov. s.—ln the dreadful hurricane of last Fri-
day, at two o'clock its the afternoon, the brig Duchess of
Cumberland, of Newcastle, coal laden, with a crew of nine
men, ran on shore upon the out bank, near Cromer light.
Iheboat was directly lowered, into which the capt.:in and
One man jumped, but were instsntly overwhelmed by a
wave which upset it; they were afterwards seen clinging
to pieces of the wreck, but soon disappeared. Several ropes
were thrown from two mortars, which were brought to the
spot with the utmost promptitude, but the vessel being
nearly a quarter of a toile lions the shore, not one shot
reached her. The Life Boat was then manned with a
picked crew of sixteen men, who made every exertion to
reach the vessel ; but such was the fury of the storm, that
they were not able to get more than a few yards front the
shore. No hope now remained of saving the crew, who
took to the shrouds, (for the waves had by this time swelled
to mountains, and swept every thing on the deck;) here
they remained nearly an hour, waving their bats and call-
ing for assistance ; but' human effort nos unavailing. The
spectators on the beach had been waiting the event in
dreadful anxiety, and about four o'clock the vessel began
to break up, anti the shrieks of the poor men were truly air
palling; soon after the mainmast fell overboard. and they
were bottled in the waves. It is impossible to describe the
sensations of those on the beach during this awful sus-
pense ; but soon after it was announced from the cliff, that
two men were struggling with the waves, amid the floating
wreck ; in a little time they neared the shore, and were
cheered anti encouraged by the spectators ; they were
nearly exhausted, bring every instant overwhelmed by the
waves, and by pieces of the wreck ; some intrepid young
then then plunged into the water and brought them an
shore; one of them was quite insensible, but by proper at-
tention he soon recovered. The greatest praise is due to
Joseph Curtis, a blacksmith, for his exertions in saving
the men. Moot eight o'clock at night a large light brig.
the Esther, of North Shields, ran on shore near the jetty;
her clew twelve in number, were taken nut by a Cromer
boat.—Another vessel, supposed to he a Newcastle trader,
went down n Jib her crew a mile from the shore. At Run.
ton one brig went on shore, crew saved—Another vessel
foundered with all hands on hoard.—At Warborne two
vessels went on shore: souse hours after tne master of one
of them returned for his clothes, when the tide coining in
he could not get on shore; the vessel went to pieces and lie
was drowned.
A gale more disastrous in its consequences has not been
known on this coast for tinny years • one-of aSW ofe
300 ships, more than half are supposed to be driven on
shore or foundered at sea. A great number are dis-
masted, se,tl scarcely one of them escaped without some
damage
On Friday se'nnight, during the violence of the storm, a
most singular as well as awful occurrence took place at''
Curpusty. A poor labouring 'man, by his industry, bad
accumulated about 501. with which he bail purchased a
small cottage, which was all lie had in the world. Onrirg
the stsim the earth under his cottage suddenly appeared
to sink to an immense depth, and with it fell the house of
the poor individual. Almost the entire cottage was
swallowed in the earth. Ti- pour man bad left the house
shout ten minutes, and tints providentially escaped destruc-
tion. We understand a subscription has been cowed into
by the neighbours, to enable him in some measure to repair
this loss.
A similar occurrence took place close by the stream at
Saxtborpe, near Holt, last Saturday mnritioig. A cottage,
occupied by an elderly man and his wife, nits perceived by
the Weer, while making a bed in the chamber, to he in
motion, and was shortly afterwards found by her husband
to be sinking. The porde: immediately used their utmost
endeavours to remove their furniture, but they had time
to take out only a bed and a few chairs, before it was so far
sunk into the earth as to render further efforts unavailing.
A spring flowed suddenly upon the sinking building, one
end of which and a chimney top only are now visible above
the surface of the water, the depth of which is stated to be
from 20 to 22 feet.

SPURTING I NTE LLIG ENCE.
HADLEY HUNT MEETING.
The Members of this revived heat mustered strongly on Sa-
turday at Hadley. Bucks, previously to commencivg the sports
of the field. There was a strung competition in the Hunters'
Stake, as follows:—
A Silver Bowl, value 301. by the Members of the Hunt. Two
mile heats. Co carry I Ist.2lb.
Mr. Wrdderburn's Mockery 4 1 I
Major Gee's Philip I 3 2
Mt. Howard's Miss Jane
Mr. L. Bouverie's b. g 3 4dr
Capt. Gilchrist's Peg..
Mr. Oliver's Poff.... •• • 6 dr
After the first heat, even on Philip ; and after the second, 6
to 4on Mockery. Famous running.
Hack Stakes of Five Guineas each, with Fifteen added. Seven