The Sun. — 1807-01-31 (London, England)

STORM.  IXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM EXETER. " On Thursday se'nnight we experienced a more 'Violent gale, of wind- tha-u has been remembered for a number of years; it •blew most tremendously about three in the afternoon, and occasioned considerable damage to many buildings in this city and neighbourhood. At the Royal' Oak.; in Butcherrow,., a stack of chimnies was blOwn down, .carrying with them whatever- opposed their fall ; . they. forced their way through two .floors, and killed one_ of the band hAonging to the Royal Montgomery Regiment, who was sitting, in the parlour, from whence seyeral.of his.eoturades had gone but a.few. 'minutes before. 'A woman who . was in the attic story, was carried with the ruins- to the ground, from which perilous.•situatiOri she was. extricated.. Without tile slightest. injury. A •honse. in King's,.i alley, shared- a similar tate to the above, by the filling of a chimney ; and nearly the Whole front of the Theatre, with the piazza, and the pillars on.. which it wa,s ereded, was levelled with the grotifi4, presenting instantaneously to the view a grand mass of ruins. lii the lawn at Cowick, 33. large and beautiful eIM trees were felled by the violence of the bur, ricane. the streets many persons were wounded by slates, &c. blown from the house tops; and in .St. Sidwell's a woman-was blown from her horse, and so severely wounded, as ity tender it necessary to con-. vey her to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. At several places in this neighbourhOod, we have heard of si-.: Milar disasters. Amidst so many accidents, many of which occurred in places .of great public resort, we are happy to learn, that only, one person has lost his life, which was. at' the Royal Oak, as above stated. On Friday se'nnight a Coroner's Inlitest was held at the. Dolphin Inn, in this city, before SAMUEL WALKEY, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Thomas. Humphreys,, one of the band belonging to the Montgomery Militia, who was suffocated in the ruins of theßoyalOak Public-house, which fell during the late htirricane: Vet:did—Accidental I.)ealh.”  A few days ago as somelabourers were digginia drain in the meadow in the parish of Wheothamstead, in Herts, they discovered, about two feet and a half below the surface-of the ground, a human skeleton :—A travelling pedlar , had suddenly disappeared in that neighbourhood about twenty years ago, and some suspicion was entertained .that he bad been murdered : inquiries weremade about it, and two men of bad charaaer absconded for some time I the men soon afterwards returned, and the body not being found, no farther notice was taken of it. Upon this late discovery taking place application was made to a neighbouring Magistrate, who issued a warrant for the apprehension of the two men who had formerly absconded : the suspicion of their guilt was strengthened by such strong circumstantial evidence, that he committed them to the County gaol, until further inquiries can be made into this mysterious business.- It is remarkable that a medical Gentleman who was present at the examination of the Prisoners, gave it as his opinion that the b6nes which have been discovered ,must have lain in the ground for mahy.years. An accident- occurred' yesterday, at Whitehall, which threatened the most- serious consequencesto the parties. As .Mreand Mrs. AuStin, of Billiterlane, was driving through Whitehall, tcwarciB Char-: ing-cross, in their 61e6aut. Carriage, the- spring' of the dickey-box snapped, ands the -foot-stool-falling on the backs of •the'horses, they instantly took fright, and set off in zrvilop. • 'The coachman .I.s;as unable to manage them, and'. inevitable ckstrudion must have ensued, but that at the MoMent, a ney-coach was crossinz the street, and the Itight&l animals ran klire,6tly againSt it ; both the hackneVc6ach-horsei! were throw into throwndown, and the driver,' a • bo.y,, pitched the street, at some distance.. Mr. and Mr4.i.,-Austin were conveyed home in a hackney coach, wjthout any personal injury. , On Wednesday last were lodged in. the Tower fine young Lion and a Lioness,, Sem by his M.je.,ty the Emperor .of. Morocco as a present to his jesty. These hnimals_Were presented to his Majesty by MCiSrS.• and .1). GUIDALLA and MEIR MACN, CommissioOrs and. Agents to the Emperof of Morocco e audit is singular that, whik on their voyage,. they 7 were captured by a French Vessel, but retaken'by,au English Frigate before they had reachtd • . •, the French coast: