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OTTERT, ili JANUARY 13, TOl comTAINO 2 Priz'. L. 30,002 2 2 ^ 3 9 8 20 40 9,100 2 ',fie° Tickets. 4m......... . t. ,Aj r., 1 o Capitate -- first-drawn Ticket. Ist Day Ditto 3d Day Ditto sth Day 3h, Ditto Last Day PRICE. • Ticket - • L. 13 lbs. Half L.IO 2 0 I Eighth - ti 6 • lasaiter - b. 2 0 Sixteenth - I 6 0 TICKETS arid %DARES are 01 Kale at all the LICENSED 11.11111ERY OFFICE..., awl by their Agents in the Country. • • The Awe hernense Capita: Prises are the greatest, in P4erDe of au few Tickets. ewes presented in the annals of ttcry Adventure. This fact is indisputable Sut the Vir , a• of Yortune, to partiripete of such unprecerlentel °potence. .4%lktelett. as. the Drawing cetamences so early as ',January next. WLST. ••••••....p.••••=• • % XEXTttACT FROM THE DOMINICA JOURNAL ] s. 10SZ AU, SEPT. 30. " I ;' We agtu r t . esume our Journal. after an interrup tioes occas d by the confusfen and loss sustained in the Dike dtring the late hurricane; one of the greatest calamities this colony has sustained within the memory of its oldest inhabitants. To give a detail of all the particulars of this disastrous event, Would be a task impossible to fulfil with accuracy, ootil thitses commence to be a little more settled, and that a regular communication with the country should be opened, the roads being intirely destroy ed ; we small, therefore, confine ourselves chiefly to the giving a general idea of matters, as far as thi htelligence yet received from the different parts Of the Colony will enable us. • Oa Tuesday, the 9th instant, about seven o'clock • Is the evening, the sky became totally overcast, and efomendous flashes of lightning, accompanied by Ison'Y puffs of rtind,prelagrd to the moreexperienced part of the inhabitnutta aft epproaching storm ; but few expeded it would have been so fatal in its copeequencsa. The wind continued to increase un til o'clock, when it began to be accompanied by post dreadful fall of rain, the effol of which, ac companied by a pitch-like darkness, each moment illuminated by a sheet of livid fire, and the roaring of the wind. which every instant became louder, was awful enough to impress a dread upon the most Intrepid. Soon after, to complete our misfortune, the river Roseau, increased by the heavy rains, • 1 oberlowed its banks, inundated the town, in AFT direftion, and then the desttuaion botanic general; every house which obstrulted its passage, was thrown down. or carried sway by the stream, and a great proportion of the unfortunate inhabit . mite perished. About ten o'clock, every vessel in the %Worst was driven from its moorings, except a snuff Swedish schooner, which was cast ashore un der the fort a little after midnight; and those which were driven out, generally met with the same fate; amounting, in the whole. to 16 sail, of different descriptions. .No pea can paint the horrors of that dreadful,. night ; the tremendous noise occasioned by Ilse— wind and rain—the roaring of the waters, tosookor.i with the shock of au earthquake, which was sensibly felt about midnight—the shrieks of the pool. suf- 1 ferers crying out for assistance—the terror of thosel who in their houses beard, and dare not open a door or window to afford them succour, and who ex.: peete.l every moment to share the same fate. Pnined a scene Which can hardly be conceived, and i. still more difficult to describe. Fortunately forthe' inhabitant's of the town, and indeed of the whale eolooy, the force of the wind and rain abated about three o'clock in the morning, and near the same time the water began to fall ; it it had continued another hour in its altitude, there is no' doubt but the town would have been entirely destroyed. 'rho speelacle which presented itself on the re tarn of day-light, was horrid beyond every power of description; heaps of mud and sand, in some places lee or six feet deep. through all parts of the tessfn ; the form of a street hardly to he discerned. Five large streams, or rather torrents, running through the town ; ruins of houses blown down, and others thrown down by the Rood, obstrueting every passage; the bodies of several of the unfortunate eietims of this event drawn eut from the ruins, and lying is the streets ; while numbers, almost dis. traded, were searching for some near relation or friend, who had prrished in the storm ; the lament &Noss of those who had lost some of their nearest and dearest c , Asneeions, joined to the despair of those who had lost their little all, formed altogether a scene calculated to draw tears from the eyes of the most unfeeling. From the most authentic accounts which have been gathered during the confusion occasioned by this fatal occurrence, there have been ascertained to here perished in the town of Roseau and its si cialty oath. C.ite pet S:.1171 of different set., and [OOO agei, St free persons of colour, and 05 slave:, foim ing a total of 191 (since found to amount to 23:i) ; besides numbers of others yet missing, and several weundedi On Morne Brute, where that part of the gabiion staticnied at Roseau is quartered, the whole of lfie barrack: wore Islown down excepting one ; 'three uteri and one woman killed, and one man wounded. The planters have equally suffered with the inha bitants of the town ; every plantation on the wind ward coast of the Island, from the River Tabarie to Morne Pair Bouche, are almost intirely de stroyed ; only three mills standing in the whole ex- tent, and those considerably damaged ; no other building left on either sugar or coffee estate, and the numerous inhabitants of that quarter have only for shelter four houses, situated at some distance from the sea, to which most of the white inhabitants have retired. On the different estates on that coast, as far as accounts have reached town, there have perished about thirty negrocs, and upwards of 180 dangerously wounded. Round the coast. from the river Tabarie, by way of La Soye, the estate which bears the name of that river, is, perhaps, the only one that has not received any considerable damage in this general disaster.— All the plantations on the coast, to the leeward of the island, have experienced the effals of the hur ricane; every house s from the river Maliant down to Prince Rupett's, either laid flat, or ' greatly damaged; the town of Portenrouth en tirely destroyed ; the greatest part of the barracks on Morne Cabrit carried away ; and, in general, the whole Island offers a scene of devastation and ruin. IVe learn, that Martinique has but slightly suffered. Orand Terre, in Guadeloupe the same. Maria Galante, and the Saints, have received considerable damage; but that the other islands have intirely es caped. . Though the whole weight of this mi,for tune seems to have fallen on our unfortunate island, we cannot help thinking it a subjea of rejoicing,that the other colonies have been fortunate enough to escape this calamity; as thus, we have a resource open against the horror of a famine, which, without the receipt of speedy supplies, would have been inevitable, the resources of the island being intirely destroyed in provisions of its own produainn, and the greatest part of those in town destroyed or da maged. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Novi:masa t 6, rive Hamburgh Mails become due this day. As the French Papers, from which we made such co pious extras yesterday, do not bring down the ac counts of military operations farther than the 20th last, the arrival of the Hamburgh Mails is looked for with much anxiety. A Leeward Island mail arrived, yesterday, after a passage of 25 days from Tortola. We have re ceived by it, accounts from Dominica to the Ist, and from BArbadoes to the 14th last. We stated in a former paper, that the island of Dominica suffor ed greatly by a hurricane on the 9th of Septem ber. On the night of the 24th, that island was again alarmed by the gloomy and threatening ap pearance of the weather, and a succession of squalls and rain, which did not cease until the night of the 25th. In the interval, the river again overflowed, and took its former course through the town of Roseau, but did no farther damage. A full account of the hurricane of the 9,h is given in a preceding column. Apprehensions were also entertained at Barbados, of a hurticane as dreadful as that which visited Dominica, but we are hippy to state, that they have not been realised. It would appear, from the following extra& from a Boston Paper, of the 22th ult. that the reports of General Merriman having arrived in this country, and afterwards proceeded to the Continent :o assist the Allies with his advice, are without any found ation:— New Ymk, net. IS. General Moreau is emiteethl in town In a few days He has taken a house in Broadway, and intends to malts this city his future residenee. Instruflinns to the Commanders of His MAJ err les ships of war and privateers, and to the Judges of the Courts of Admiralty. Givrn at the Court at St. James's, the 14th day of Nov. 1806, in the 47th year of His Maoa.r It's reign tt 'Whereas we have received satisfactory aonrawes that our Ally the Emperor of R 1144 has pectinated, end nue, permits, h.. subjects tra trade in innocent artieks, with France end her All Our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby order . and eni .in the Commanders of run Stops of War and Privdeetts, that the y do not Wee and deism the enodv of the oultiecta of our Ally the Emperor of Bowie, Urine orent &fume.. On a, count of so trading. And we du (sumer t the intim, of our 11.0 Court of Admiralty, and of our Courts of Vow Ad. not ally, forthwith to release goals, ben.* IninaCtill articles, the property M Russian Subjects, which have nt•VI, nr Olin be de. finned, on accusal of being engaged in a uad. with France, or her Allies. " By IN Haied'y's Command, (Signed) 0 hPiNICER •: The Lade Char/are, from St. Bartholomew's, for Guernsey, is taken, and carried into Sc. Martin's. A letter dated Bithadoes, October 3, 1206, says, " By a cartel horn Martinique, which came in heir for no other purpose than to reconrenitre, it is un derstood that a number ef privateers ate cut of G IAL/up's." .},. • a 011,1,1, V , s • •• • 4 .• ' • ' • • Pur'l; Nh. c 12 1 ilk 1 %. fp 83711, Nov. 24. Fatlay last, Lord John Thynne and Mr. Pal mer gave their grand EleAin.] Diener at the Cold Hall. to upwards of three hundred Noblemen. Gentlemen, and respeCtable Citizens ; among whom we observed, the Marquis of Bath, Lards G. and .1. Thy ine, General Hopkins, Colonel Stroud, Messrs. Dickenson (M. P. for the county), Gore Lang ton, Major Palmer, the Archdeacon of Bath. and a long list of Reverends, and most of the Officers of the Volunteer Infantry and Cavalry. The dinner was provided by the spirited and vigilant keeper of the White Hart, who spared neither trouble or expense to give satisfaSion ; the wines were excellent, the desert profuse and elegant.—ln short, there never was a day passed in more com plete harmony, hilarity, and unanimity. His Worship the Mayor, who pres.ded at the centre ta ble, gave a multiplicity of loyal and constitutional toasts; and the effeS produced by the united vocal exertions of Messrs. Gatt'e, Loder, Richardson, Dickinson, Maliason. Gray, Cook, Ashley, and Webber, the professional gentlemen belonging to the Harmonic Society, and the Catch Club, may be conceived by those happy mortals who have " music in their $01111. " and who are "pleased with a emceed of sweet sounds," but eaanot be described %%kb any tolerable degree of accuracy. The members of the Harmonic Society have their first diner at the White Hart, nest Wedni•s day ; and, on Friday, their regular concerts com mence. The season for eleetioneeting being now pretty well over, I am happy to sav, cur season is daily improving. Last week the balls were tolerably ;4"- tended, and the Theatre, particularly on Saturday night, was elegantly filled. DOCTOR HAGUE'S GRAND CONCERT AT CAMBRIDGE, On Saturday last, was attended by the surround ing Nobility and Gentry. Miss Haaus played a reacerts on the piano-forte ; and Master G +Tx IE the violin. Madame A +'-rll attralted the attain tion of the amateurs, in the admired airs of— 'is " I have lost my Love 0" 0 Where e'er you aralk,'*--hy H ANVIL ; And a Venetian i Canzonet the whole was tecenfea • with great applause. In the brilliant circle averer...• The Duke of Rutland, the Earl and Catintest of Han Niel& /.nrcl Curies Manner., the ktitht Hon. Charlei Yorke, and General Finch. --- - • His MAJESTY it expPiaed in town this day. Lady HAMILTON and Miss HORATIA NELSON have been on a visit to Mrs. LASIIIRT, at flee villa on Kenton Green, during the last week. With much satisfaftion we announce the great probability of the recovery of Miss Clammier, of Bath. The ball was lodged near the hip. Lady ELITARICTIMI MONK arrived, Loa Sunday, at her house in Lower Berkeley -street. Sir WILLIAM and Lady SMYTH left town, yes terday, fnr Brighton, where they intend passing a fortnight, and will then proceed to their seat at Hill ball, near Epping, Essex. 'The Countess Dowager of Set ram is exp.qted, in a few days, at her house in Hill -street, Berkeley atuare, from Windsor. The Duchesa of Roxsucem and Mr. MANNTRS are expeaed at their house, in Portman.square, this day. The Marchioness of A seacoast came to town, on Monday, from the Priory, and returned in the after noon to dinner. Mrs. Thompson had a seleet card party, last night, at her house in Grosvenor-square. ['he present pig" weather is very lavonrable to Mr. KLMSLR'S new-invented elands, for his forth coming rempest, at Covent-Garden Theatre. Sir IA/incisor% HUNLoRe is expetied, in a few days, at his house in Albemarle -street, from Wen gerworth, Derbyshire. A new Farce has been read in the Green Rrom of Covent Garden Theatre, in which Mr. Lewis will sustain the principal charafter. The Duke of YORK was at Covent. Garden Thea tre, last night, to see Henry She Arghth, and the new Melo-Drama. Lady Ponsosse has given up her house in Sep. moor-place. The new Melo-Drawsa at Drury-lane was much, compressed, and went off with great te4.i last night at that Theatre. Lord and Lady Mnrisora are expeete I, in a few days, at theft house in Seymour-place, from their seat at Burton, Lincolnshire. L idy LOUISA MANNERS is erysofted, in a few days, at Moulsey Grove, from Suffolk. Tne Earl and Countess of CliesTlarliall gave a grand entertainment, last week, at BradSy.Hall, Derbyshire. The Countess of CARDIGAN came to town, yes terday, from Richmond, and returned in the after. noon to dingier. The Tteatre-Mayal, in Edinburgh„ will open with The Seidl is Dail:httr; Wain, Cherrhe by Mrs. H. Johriseop, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, her first appearance on tltat stage. Himley Hall, Staffordshire, the seat of Lord and Lady McKee and .V Ago, has, for this week pas., been the scene of much mirth and gaiety. The Karl and Countess of FORTIsCUE'S house, in Hannvermapiare, is getting ready for the reception of the Family, which are soon expefted from Castle Hill. South Motion, Devonshire. The eletlion for MAYOR of GARRETT will com mence this day, at Wandsworth; we understand, Sir HARRY DISISOALII has declined. Mews. Da vits and Biniaxer ate the only Candidates. The Bill at the Castle, at Brighton, on Monday lam, was again graced with nearly all the beauty and fashion in that town and neighbourliood ; and s numerous was the company present, Plat C.e great roam was opened for ildheily, whi`th hat been before customary only during the war n e r A brilliant and nutnerspas auembldge was alto ex peeled. Mor.day everting, sel.eu g - ett room will aptia be ope • C'ONTES : hb ELECTIONS. covsyr or DU•LIN.scTATI or TIE Plitt. 1>;. DAY Weil?. It.rsiltnn F.• tier Mae.. . be ll5 COUNTY O► *AttB?OeD.—srCOND OAT. ekh.r,l 1 (eq....51... J. C hi:reef .rd, E5q....71 Ed we'd Lee, E.q. G 5 7r COUNTY OF LEITRINI.—eLCOND OAT. Clin.efoti Grass • OR W luta 61&Moth. IIITUROLD•••tooe. 25. Lanarkshire-4,mA Archibald Hamilton. County of elaekcnarinaa-.The Muir. Coate Altera , ot deitieriy. Sorlltitk—.'Wee Elliott Lockhart. County of Krlkennye—lion Lieutenant•ColonelJamcv a. lur and Non. Celt. Frederic Purrsonby. Cleureell—Mr. Bagmen. 81/RE wynunr L4CTION. Nawithsttoding the minority in sish;ch Jones was placed, on the close- of the poll, ah produced more i-fral discussion, relative to than any other Eleftion is our knowledge ; he tie. termined to make an appeal to is Committee of the House of Commons ; and, at the pressing solicit:. Lion of the inha'ntants of the town, he was chaired • on Wednesday (the. I 9th), that being the anniversary of the glorious M. nada was Cause, gained by S•r William Pulteney, and there never was known so numerous and so respectable an assemblage of people on any similar occasion. The following was the order of processiga : Tniee Trumnpeters on grey homes Drama all Fifes. Si;k Frameoftdetto) • " tones and Indeimodence—An unparalleled example, 114 Plumper' of hotness Tradesmen and Freemen of this araciu..4 Town of Stsfewsoury " Uri the reverie—" 5.7,1 Invincible Votes." Phlinple4, chive Seel three. Groat Drum, and Ba. d. - - Silk Frame , -;!tiutto) " Jones% Guar& the PeOpirs Altelitton. without Ceostsblei". - Erg tyke Jones'. Arnie, and tetslueamers wife hie Crest. a Silk Frame (Mate) " God save the King And Connitetion--. Without disguise, s Senatsp, show*, tian never bought a Vom, not pad hie turn; NO for Salokre Sighs{ he no. elegat'. Winch males hies shus bolos'd by all hre queer's " de the retinue side—•" The Freedoms or nolo." • • Sir% Wise. retteninf's Flag. _Tmor_oaf the eld-Meedemeees Vetere. Silk Ening...( Stotto) May the glorlotes 19th of November ever he celebrated by • •-ynand of the illusional Pulteney, that unit eupport and de. d the Freedom of Salepiana." Mr. JUNES, fu a superb Chili., with this Irwettption, io gold fenny:- 1 Peace and Unanimity with WI the World— Junes and Independence fur seer." Several Flogs sod Streesnen, Belanging to the daltuattlueorgessiMed Goimpaine4 Ten Forask.s.,o4.atet) " The ludepentimt Mu:tar, to pound the nada of Coalilion and tonne/Mori " " The Mishit Agent, whom ail meanest eumneend-a. lie is tie Laudirmes TresstlN, arid the reisanee seemly Mind ' o ' 1 he !merge ~1 . -st NW:O "The Borough of 51rgesbur., sad the Freedom of • E'e,troo." The Independent Trallt , men. mho formed Mr, Jetties c...oreittee. With the remainder of r indepertleat Vetere, fa ut and four. Drums and Fifes Mather% four and fnu. Fla a arid Music. Iron-founders, four end four. Streamers and Music. Silk Frame—'Motto) " The si ed Supporters of eh' great Entine, of Commerce. Protperny to KUSaid and Uld England, and rn. , ...—Test '.: !!!—for all endue Influence." • The Furs-dressers (row the Linen Manufactory, three end three. • The procession, which far exceeded any thing of the kind ever remembered 17y the oldest inhahiraie•, moved from the Town-hall, at twelve o'clock. through the principal streets, the windows being crowded with beautiful women, who displayed the colours (hlue and white) in every way that fairer could point out, and arrived at his lodgings abnu: two o'clock, amidst the acclamations of thousan.3 of his friends and supporter.. At four o'clock, upwards of one hundred Bur gesses of the town invited Mr. Jones to dine wit;) them, at the Lion Inn, where a most magnificent entertainment was provided. A band ot torr:st played God sir. lie King, Rate n , itannia. and oth: appropriate tunes, duri..g the evening, relieved, al interval', by a Welch harper, and the hand-bells of the U.rkt Society. After dinner, sever al appr( - priate roasts were drark, and the evening passed with the utmost conviviality. -•• Tile Gorelee of last night contains an Order 'o Couocil, prohibiting further, the exportation at gunpowder, saltpetre, or any sort of aims o, ammu nition, for sit months, from the Gth of December next ; that being the date to which the former.pt hilaii inn extended. Among the speCtators at the baiting of the Bache. loss' Bull, at Windsor, on Monday. were the 1.1•• of Let MITSUI. Mareois of Dowesunts, Earl of CY ma meg, FLCTCHIR RCAD, Esq. most of the t% ricers of the Stalord Militia, and a- aumb.r • C the young gentlem,n belooging to Eton School A number of the mo.t celebrated pugilists wee also present ; among them wti:e .he rnwd, Ward, (belly, T. Belcher, C.:1,4 and a number of others. The am-1,1.111C* of !lies . ' professors v.as not merely to behold the bull-hai% but to tricy a more refilled and fethinandle ainusesor).l, a pitched hank having been appointed to L fought upon the Bachelor's Acre, between a fishmonger o f th e name of ,Cisewahe, and a hutch'''. both from Landau ; but the fight was preventi. , : by the interference of the liftyor. Co AOLES Ksioil r. Esq. The amateurs of the at t were nut, however. :• be deprived of their amusement. They remained Windsor during Monday night ; and yesterdi . mincing the parties, with their friends, and a ir,e 4 i • coneouise of vario us d escr i pt i ons o f persias. wxne open Datche: Common, when, after slai , . m asvoi :curds of hard fighting. which Ltitc:d fitoy-fiv'-' minutes. was declared In farrow ; CV . . t h e Fish monger; wax his second. T fie Butcher was seconded by Cribi. The ye der , G ent l en i•ir., raised a err; hteral subisriptif 43 - pu f Uat I se o 'raw. : ic ;;;' I OM of rr I 4 I