Tempete Dance ~ Chivers

The earliest version I've found of this actually comes from Germany (I'd have guessed France, given the name). It was published by Johann Heinrich Kattfuß in Leipzig in 1802 Choregraphie Oder Vollständige Und Leicht Falssiche under the title of "Der Tempẽte".

In his Hart's Second Set of Quadrilles, Hart writes:

Form a line of 4, the 2 Ladies on the 2 Gentlemens right, 4 more opposite to the first 4, form lines of 4 behind the 2^d. line as many as intend to dance.

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FIGURE

The first 2 lines right and left, chassez across to the right and left with your partner, dechassez, in returning you go behind the 2^d. Couple The Center 4 hands round, the outside couple's turn and back all 8 Set quite round to the right re set to your places, the top four lead through the 2^d. line and begin the same figure with the 3^d. line & so on to the bottom of the dance.

In The Dancing Master in Miniature, ~1825, G.M.S. Chivers writes his version:

Right and Left lead outsides, the couple at left passing in front — back again, the other couple passing in front — the centre four hands across, and back, while outsides turn with both hands set in lines, and lead through

-- Courtesy of Werner Josten Performing Arts Library, Smith College

Chivers's version is very like Hart's, except that he has the center dancers doing hands across rather than hands round, and the peculiar setting that Hart fails to describe well becomes just Set in lines. Chivers says lead outsides but the following description is so different from any other use of that term, that I'm going to ignore it and just assume he's describing the same move as Hart, which seems likely from the rest of the description. I'm also assuming that right and left means a grand chain.