Star. — London, England, 1819-11-11 00:00:00

EAST- INDIES. (FROM THE BOMBAY GAZETTE OF JULY 7.) We hasten to lay before our Readers a selection from the numerous communications we have received respecting this awful visitation. It was slightly felt at Poonah, and we believe it did not reach to the south ward of that city, or extend much beyond the tropic : " Camp Bhooj, June 19. " At seven o'clock on the evening of the 16th of June, an earthquake destroyed the whole district and country of Kutch. Accounts that have been received mention, that from Luckput Bunder to Butchao, the whole of the towns and villages are more or less in ruins. The towns of Mandavie, Moondria, and Anjar have suffered extensively and severely; but the city of Bhooj and the fort of 13hoojia, between which our force is encamped, are reduced, the former to ruins, and the latter so breached as to be useless as a fortification. This, however, is the least part of the evil : at the moment of the crash, it is apprehended, and I fear not any way exaggerated, that 2,000 of the inhabitants were buried in the MISS. " Even now the.effects of this horrible visitation are felt, though three days since ahe first shock, in constant and hourly vibrations of the earth. The in habitants have been obliged to forsake what were once their bans, and enciiinp outside upon smile small hills. Their distress cannot be well de,cribed— bruised, maimed, and agitated with fear, they go daily into the city to work upon their several houses, and try to extricate t h e mangled remains of wives, children, and relations, whilst in their pious labour the putrid stench nearly exhausts then; and cattle, which have fallen in numbers, add greatly to the -noisome evil. The walls, from the sandy natuie of the stone, arc crumbled in a mass, and the narrow streets or Phooj entirely lost, thus adding to the diffi critics of the sufferers. " The upper stones of the Palace fell, and buried, amongst others, the mother of the deposed Rao ; what houses stand are so shattered as to be liable to fall the ruins, and the very complete wreck of the wall oa the Soataern side; as well as the demolition of nearly :ill the towers and gateways, render it im povsible for lillooj to be a city again. " Tha loss of lives cannot be confined to the city. I fear, in all the towns and villages mortality has been g; eat. I am inclined to think, from the circum stance of a volcano having op aced on a hill, thirty miles from Bhooj, that the country will experience a repetition of the evil. " From our camp being in a plain, no very mate r al has been su.tained; the tiles of a few tern , :orary erected, houses v:ere knocked off, and the v, slls shat:eied. " I shall attempt to give you the sensation felt by o.lse both in camp and city. In the latter, was in formed by a Gentlenan, neally suffered by a house falling over him, that, tiding on, without an what was to h.Tp:m, upon the first notice, a heavy app.illin,r deade..ed noise, the motion of the e svalls of the houses on each side of the street 1 tottering and filliee• oatwards, impressed upon him an idea, and ht. call-a oat, that a mine was sprung ; whereas, another Gentleman iina:!ined the bank of -he tank was forced by the water; ' 'these ideas were ac ith an unpleasant giddiness of the head, and sik.kness of the stomach, fio.n the heavin ,, of the ground: In one wild roar expir::d! The shattcr'd town, tit:: thrown down, w;:-:::s a moment hackw4rd bent; The hills twat shake, although unrent, As if All earthquake pused!"—..--- llyron's Sie:, , e of Corinth. " In camp a similar sickness and giddiness was ex perienced ; and, in ignorance until the shock was over, which lasted a. minute, of the rature cf the noise be -Imt the earth, some sat down instinctively, others threw them.elves down. the was paying work people in a circle, and upon seeing him squat, the whole followed the example, and sat round him— the very picture of de pair.' The sensation I felt was a giddiness and horror at perceiving a small hil lock, close to whidi I was tiJiug, a short distance from the camp, completely agitated, and at the same' tune my horse plunged, front the ground moving. 'this wa; the case also with an °dicer I was riding with. I have, en inquiry, ascertained that many years ago, and in the matembrance of the oldest inhabi tants, an undulatitT- ntuti4n has been felt before in Kut,.ll, I.ut never, 1 hope, will again be attended witli such a hprrible catastrophe ; the distress of which J'AS been so great upon the inhabitants, that 1 confess I tall short of ability to describe it." 74t ANSI, VEION OF A LETTeII FROM A PFSPFCTABI.F. .M.:TIVE TO A CORRI:SPoNDENT AT BAHOOA, /JAM]) Ju‘r. 18, FRomisnitu.. ‘• Yesterday, the 9th of .1c .t. Viid, (the 16th of June) in the evening, a nci..e issued from the earth like the beating of the Nohut, and occasioned the trembling of all Cie people. It appeared most won do-Cul, and dcpiived us ull of oar sense!, so that we could not see—every thing appeasing dark beforeus, a ‘Ezziness came upon many people, so that they fell down. The w alls of the fort of Ism is in many places Nvere completely overturned, and the guns fell from the bastions ; the inhabitants ran home to their houses, Inany of which fell down. • For one hour this re mained ; the buildings of the town some fell, and the odiers sweated as it falling ; the walls of the Fort that remained after the first shock, appeared in a ruined state. For an hour and a half the inhabitants did not know each other; after that time all was hushed and still, and we then returned to our houses. At night a trembling seized our bodies; and on Wednes day morning, some horsemen who arrived carre to me and reported, that in the fields the earth opened and threw up water ; to see which I went there, and such was the case, and the water came up from the earth in many places, and it appeared like the rush ing of water when drawn from a well ; I remained all night in the fields, and in three or four places the earth had given way, and sunk 100 feet in depth, which space was filled with water. Many of the wells which had before this plenty of water were left empty, and many pools that formerly were dry were • filled with water. The like of this was never seen before. returned into the town, the inhabitants me, that, during my absence, the earth shaken ; and when I was washing my body (felt two or three violent shocks again, and was in was much shaken. After this peo- ple did not seem willing to remain in toss off. the town ; re therefore, left it, and encamped one ceived accounts from Nowanuggar, that the forts of Balumbo and Arnraw have fallen down, and some people have died, as have likewise some cattle ; the same has occurred at Jankaria. I have received the news from the country round for 16 coss ; and be yond the Ran, at Joo-nah Bunder the same has also happened. This is the wonderful decree of Atm tGIiTY Gov, which Ido not understand. For your information I have written this small account ; all that has oc curred it is impossible to describe. To-day, between twelve and two o'clock, the same has happened. On Wednesday night, some people assert that the earth was again shaken. I have this moment received ac counts from Moorvee, that the same has occurred there : that some of the houses, and part of the walls of the fort, have fallen, and the people suffered great losses. Ido not know to what extent damage has been done." " Camp near Bhooj, June 17. " We are, at present, in a shocking state of alarm. Last evening, between six :And seven o'clock, we were visited by a dreadful earthquake. The wall that surrounded Bhooj is almost levelled with the ground, and the few towers which are left standing arc merely broken remains ; the houses generally unroofed, others in ruins, and most of the large buildings, in cluding the Palace, greatly injured ; the wall of the, Hill-fort is down in many places, and there is a complete breach near the gateway. The right of our camp tests a short distance on the left of the latter, fronting the town, and extends along the bottom of the hill to a little beyond the large tower on the south west point. " I am happy to say, that we have had none ma terially hurt, four Sepoys only bruised, who were on duty in the town ; but I fear that a great many ca sualties have occurred among the poor natives; some hundreds are said to have lost their lives. There is at present so much confusion, that the numbers can not be ascertained. " We had several shocks during the night, and they have continued at intetvals this day; the last one about two hours ago, when I could scarcely keep upon my legs; the sensation is horrible while it,lasts. They have wflered, we understand, in the same way at Anjar. " P.S. Three T. rl.—There is a slight shock at this moment. I trust in Goo they will cease altogether." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A COREEsPONDF.NT AT THE EVENING STAR. I. , h 7 3IOW lined WI ' heard or seer h • reported to 33 u.• , :tin Wm sh: .31 ler WM'S, [ I 1.11, how .1 s BARODA, DATED JUNE ‘26. "On the 16th, about seven o'clock, r. m. the whole of the City,'and arourd it, were thrown into the greatest consternation, by a very severe shock of an earthquake, which continued, without intermission. between two and throe minutes. I was at a friend's at the time ; w e were sitting in his upper bungaloe, which rocked so violently, 1 really thought it would have fallea before we could tics below stairs. The next morning, about eleven °clock, we experienced another, though slighter, convulsion. " On the Itith, we felt two more, one at eleven, A. N. and the other at twelve at night: and on the . 23th, we also had tvs o more shocks ; Con knows it it is yet all over. It appears to be going tiom youth to north. At Palla. pore it was accompanied by a noise in the ca: th just like thunder. " Its ravages at Ahmedabad have been consider able. The two large 'Minarets, near the Junuth Mu seed in that City, are overthrown. One of the gates of the Town has fallen down, and nearly three hun dred houses. The fort of Rampoor, near Pullgarde, . - is nearly demolished." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ANJAR, DATED JUNE 17. " It is with sincere regret that I have to inform you, that this place was visited by an earthquake yesterday evening, at ten minutes before seven o'clock. The effects of the shock, which lasted nearly two minutes, have been the levelling of the fort wall to the ground; riot 100 yards of the wall remain in any one spot, and guns, towers, &c. all hurled in one mass of ruin. The destruction of the town has been dis taessing and awful : not a quarter of the houses are standing, and those that do remain are all in ruins. I cannot yet state the particulars of the losses, but I may in one word say, that a flourishing population has been reduced in one moment to wretchedness and misery. I fear we shall have to lament the loss of upwards of 100 people, besides those hurt. Reports from the country state similar disasters in all the vil• lages sound about; and letters fiom Bhooj inform t - i, that that fort is much in the same condition as Anjar. Slight shocks still continue to be felt, and I shall, on the first leisure moment, report such parti culars as I may be able to collect." An elegant Palace is building for General MAt - r- LAND, to the right of the Fortrzcs, and opposite the Grand Parade, in Corfu. Most of the matarials are brought from Malta. The following is an Extract of a Letter from Cu racoa, dated .September 20 Twelve of the most respectable inhabitants of Rio de la Hacha have been arrested and thrown into confinement, in conse quence of private correspondence they had held with Sir GREGOR MCREGOR having been found in the baggage of that Chief at the capture of Portobello, recommending him, after he should have established himself on the Isthmus, to send a part of his forces to take possession of Rio dc la Hacha, where they would be received with open arms. Cumana has been abandoned by the English, finding they could make no impression, and they have marched to join the main Army under HomyArt. Two trar.sports had arrived from Ireland at Juan Grego, about the Ist of September." More success at Hazard's !—No. 7,370, drawn on Tuesday, a Prize of Twenty Thousand Pounds, Money and Consols, was sold in Shares by HAZARD and Co. at their Offices, 93, Royal Exchange Gate ; 26, Cornhill ; and 324, Oxford -street, corner of Swallow -street, where Ticket and Shares are on Sale for the Second Day of Drawing, when Two More Prizes of £20,000 must be drawn ! • As .as expected ! WEBB sold the first Capital in the present Lottery ! No. 2,370, drawn on Tuesday morn ing a Prize of £20,000, Money and Consols, was sold in one Half, and eight Sixteenth Shares, at his fortu nate Offices, 9, Cornhill, and 17, Ludgate-street.— The Next Day of Drawing will be the 9th Decem ber, when Two more £20,000 Prizes will be decided in the first five minutes, and the chance of Foote more on that day.—Tickets and Sbarg are on sale at both of.WLED'S Offices. LONDON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1819. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ONE 0 - CLCCK : Bank Stock 216 3 per Cent. Reduced 661f -3 per Cent. Consols 671-14: 3i per Cent. 75f 76 75 4 per Cent. 8V 5 per Cent. Navy 103 i; Bank Long Annuities 17 7-1 G • India Bonds 6 8 pre. Exchequer Bills (2d.) Is. 2s. dis. Commercial 20 19 discount Consols for Acct. 67fil. The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday arrived this forenoon The near approach of the Meeting of the Chambers is naturally the source of a good deal of specula tion in all the Journals, respecting the course which affairs are likely to take. It appears, from all we can collect, that Ministers will have a stout battle to fight in defence of their system and their places ; but it appears quite as certain, that it can have no other issue than in another triumph over their opponents. The Ministry have just had a farther accession to their strength, in the election of M. DEVAUX, for the Department of the Cher. M. Dteaux, it is true, is no Ministerialist ; but neither is he a Royalist; and to be a Liberal, which M. DEVAUX is, is to belong to a party u hose comparative neutrality is a real tower of strength to Ministers. The votes of the Ministerial Party on this occasion are a clear proof of this being the case. At the first scrutiny the votes vete, for M. DEVAUX, 221—M. DE PENGY PUYVA Lti, the Candidate of the Royalists, 137—M. BEAU GHETON, the Ministerial Candidate, 1.11. None of the Candidates having obtained an absolute majority, the total number of votes being 495, a second scrutiny took place, when, the Ministerial Party having trans ferred their support to .M. DEVAUX, he polled more than the absolute majority of votes, and was deciarcd duly elected. A traveller, who has recently arrived at nu scales from Port-au-Pt ince, has furnished the foilouing de-, tails respecting tl.is ancient French Colony : The , English ate in high favour. General 13ovan is be. loved by the people and by the troops. Frenchmen arc not permitted to fot m establishments, until they have naturalized themselves as Haytians. BoYER displays great talents for government. By his eco nomy, he has relieved the Treasury from embarrass ment, and been able to provide for the equipment of an army of 10,000 men, which may easily, when re quired, be increased to 20,000. It is believed that Bolan has formed the project of attempting an inva sion of the part of the Island subject to CIIRISTOPHE. The King .f SPAIN, in order to signalize his nup tials by " a trait of Royal clemency," has, by an Edict of the 25th October, pronounced the pardon, first, of all prisoners throughout the kingdom, who have not committed the crimes of high treason, mur der of ecclesiastics, coining, fire-raising, blasphemy, theft, subornation of perjury, and malversation in public office; excepting also such vagabonds as have been condemned to the army or to the hospitals: and, second, of all guilty and rebellious fugitives who shall, if in Spain, within the space of six months, and, if beyond Spain, within one year, present themselves before some judicial authority, and claim the benefit of this amnesty. .Of the progress of the plague there are no farther accounts, except that many of the principal mer chants in Cadiz are numbered among its victims. The King of SWEDEN, desirous of giving a proof of the friendship which is daily consolidating, more and more, between that country and Britain, has ex empted all British subjects from the general obliga tion imposed on foreigners visiting Sweden, of wait ing till passports are received from Stockholm. It is henceforth to be sufficient that they have passports from the Fo reign -office, London, or from the Swedish or English Minister at the place they last left. French Five per Cents, Saturday, 70 1. 10e. A most dreadful earthquake was experienced on the 16th of June last, in the territory of Kutch, a country situated to the north-west of Bombay, by which several towns and villages were entirely de stroyed. The City. Of Bhooj was reduced to a heap of ruins, and two thousand of the inhabitants buried by the catastrophe. Its walls being composed of a stone of a sandy nature, the whole, front the effect of the severe concussion of the earth, crumbled in a mass, obliterating and confounding the site of several of the narrow streets, so that - the wretched survivors knew not where to dig, in order to search for the bodies of their buried friends and relatives. The British troops (we believe, those under the command of Sir W. Kant) were encamped in the midst of this ter rible convulsion of nature, and saw the city of Bhooj on one side of them, and the fortress of Boejia on the ether, wholly destroyed, but escaped, fortunately, without material injury. Among the towns that have suffered, Mandavie, Moondar, Anjar, and Baroda, are more particularly mentioned. - The ,earthqoake extended to the northward as far as the City of Ahmedabad, where considerable: two large minarets, one (.4 . and 300 of its houses, were thrown down. slightly felt at Poonah, w - :)ich is ne:iev 40): Ahmedabad, the devastatiln estk-qlctin; each side of the direct line hem tvn c; shocks occurred for r.veral day iu succe ss , first shock, which tool: place at tween two and three niinwes without one more happened on the for.t.wii% June ; two on the 18th, and two ou the have given, in another column, such rani, have reached us respecting tK, During the tiinc the Lnited such lay at Angostura, a sever in that place and throughout thtt ho% i,, e zuela. It lasted one minnte, a eritid which is very unusual, the shocks be;ni; tre:n heavy: little injury has been su , taille,l, only being thrown duwn, and no lives Extract of a Letter from amerara, cc We had two distinct shocks of an ea:4 yesterday morning, about two o'clock, the lowed the other in quick succession: th.:' motion was not particularly violent. Th e had been oppressively hot for some day; Fi and so calm, that a mass of vapour had c and formed dark electrical clouds, which at illuminated the whole of the horizon." We are happy to learn, by Bermuda Pai arrived this ll:erring, to the 22d of Sepzeni, the fiver there has very considcrabiy atmosphere, from copious show•c:b of !ail?, • panied with ii Boling, b.-come pic,ll brious, and there was a greAt Irchness al country.. The Duke of WELLINGTON is arrived at House, from his seat, Strittiilieldsay, I: tuts. The Ma:quis and M.n chioness C 1 CnoL,tiv and family ale expecte , : to art tvc in to:want: . next, from Cliolmondeley Listie, estii:•e. Lord lls.uv CitoLmosnt.: expected, on Mondav 'text, from Osfo:d. The. Duke and Duche.s of 6Loucrstrit, Si 6E:v. (tints Lax. Wart. and the lion. Colonel E• cioN, are expected to leave town oil Earl of COYENTRY . i Seat, Cioo!ne, Tile Duke of liEorottu l A-. uses to te:i •: , time in Vienna. Ilis (irdLe vAN to be AL hunting party, given. by Couto. tar. beginning of this month. fhe Earl of COVENTRY ha• at this tinN a hunting, shooting, and coot sing party, at Croome, in Worcestershire. The Earl Gt . DARTMOUTH iS :naive,' at h; Sandwell Hall, Staffordshire, from a tour. The Duchessof NIale2utSTER at their house, in Berkeley-squire, from itzim,, The Marchioness of litiektxcHANr, Misses PIGOTT, arrived on Tuesday ev•ning from her Ladyship's seat, Arington, Ham,. Lord RIVERS has left town for his sec', Park, Newmarket. Lady LOUISA FORRESTER has left her Lail:. Earl of DARLINGTON) seat, Raby Castle, icr 7 shire, for the benefit of her health. Sir ABRAHAM BOYD and Lady BEL": 17,: family left town yesterday, for their seat in F; Sir CHARLES ASOIL, Bart. is arrived at his in York .street, St. James's-squ are, from lid! Sir Gaonox Cook, Bart. and family Ic day, for Portsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. PORTLAND and family kilt( terday, for Paris, on their way to Italy. Mr. and Mrs. COOK have arrived from C!: Cottage, Enfield, at Woodbridge House. Mrs. WI-LBRAIIANI has left her house is Seymour -street, for Brighton. IlAttainx MANNIN is arrived in um!! Sir Moan IS XIMENES' seat, in Berk.. The Earl of LAUDZIMALE is now on Lis town, from Scotland. Lord GREY leaves I; next week. The Marquis of LANSDOWN ' from Italy on the 15th, and the Earl (,f Esrs `?oth. Mr. TiEKNEY has been in town these tr The first of the Subset iption Balls, patronised her Grace the Duchess of BUCCLEUCII, was gi‘ Monday evening last, at the Star and Garter Richmond Hill, on which occasion Sir R. B , Bait. and B. BERNARD, Esq. officiated as Stei. The whole of the arrangements were of the first der, and afforded the most complete satis'ac: Upwards of two hundred and fifty of the Nubia: Gentry of the neighbourhood were piesent. Friday, the Tomb of KING ROBERT TILE 138 1 Dunfermline, was, in the presence of an . number of people, opened, and his remain; posited in a new lead coffin provided for the p; The skeleton was found entire, and, after be;' mined by severat Gentlemen of the Facility , the skull was taken out, and a drawing and i•t' taken. A number of leaden boxes were then sited in the coffin by Mr. JARDINE, of the Es; containing the different coins of the realm, the last and present coinage; the Etliabari;lz tory and Alinanack, Life 9f Bruce, Mew e? 1 fermline, a copy of all the Newspapers printed Edinburgh the week previous, kc. After the r had prepared a foundation, the TIM Cain was the same situation as the former, and conn filled with pitch, and the lid put on. 'flue" plate on the lid, on.which was engraved the his first interment, and the present date. 'IN was then built round with brick. The LORD 13anos and a number ef Gentlemen were Friday, as a very large caravan, containi elephant and rhinoceros, coming from Down near Stirling, was crossing the bridge, at liatt over the Great Canal, its ponderous me;ght broh bridge, by which it is so closely jammed that vents all communication between Gtangemollt.' Lock -The caravan was drawn by seven and, with its contents, weighs fifteen tOO5. • tiog°' 'n. !IA s slat Conit. o . l tht t r ot 14,t • so: U. :111: e l ; July, the ph S. mu oo ns' 'alti t • ; ,l ~u n d nly •r, Geort y's ;,, b O4l :11, • P. ,t ten .;n of •I ttt O u. tlte t lti • gu t FN3, nay one . , for Parts rdon, Au !-” a .oert rthriaq'se 111" Ty I the •siol t1:4! c•br• Ther e ~ a t ki pr. had ce r 4: ich at inr. r, Lool a Pacers 'ate epzeinher, its , 0! f lash, . , er t, n.nre ssaaor s•ed at A I: tots. Si: . HOI.:VNn W ':vii f`IITC• ' Pe :. rshire. le tpectcd r .41,J :rstrß, Sir 'nitric] raw Su risay,:. la to te:i he C. e rt.tot 4.LC. 4 e, iy tint.: a ty, als • • , vet] at hai • t tour. . b .:roil v are a.. oni Har - av,z- Mr. an! , ‘4•41 ing ia Hants. his sea', : her falleis astle, lir • Bet, - ;r.Dzre. 1 seat in FN..: wed at his h rorn Bright ily lc.: :vvra lily kit tors, aly. From C l aw' ouse. house is ed in tosvr., t. av on his v leAves DOWN Essix n these tends, .Is, patronised was givea .nd Garter 114 , is Sir It. Bak tted as Stew.o. re of the first ete satisfartio Nobility pieSCrlt. ST TUE BRV:i. of an inon. -email', again • d for the put , ' I, after be.r:, • Faculty ring and car!o were then de of the Eschew e realm, both Eliuturi.; 4.9 n fliewg capers printed After the tra.. ' Coffin Was :aid , and consp.et- Dn• Thele peas raved the year date. The The LORD CHI n were present- as, containing Irons Down Ise, at Bninsf: w eight broke' timed that it i• I angernoutl3 4 . 4 by seven ho.• Rl I(1 P • hi , ~1 I