The Sun. — London, England, 1806-12-03 00:00:00

C.IPTUF.E OF THE TP:IRREY HASTINGS. ► 'hi' zen.mast, before unhurt, as Apt thrOugh about ..—......... ten feet from the deck, in. three places, within six , . . . . FROM THE el'. HELENA GAZETTE, S'Er - f, 113.' , inches of each other; and I perceived that the lhie NE‘ V-• 7 .10 11K, "ifO c tr'. t .-6-C:lpt . ., C00*.F.,. of the Sloop of that mast was, very soon; to fait, as it - suffered 'saisfe vine . day'esfeiiii St. Tbornes'e, inferms us, that , TO THE WOR S HIPFUL ROBERT PATTON GOVERNOR, &C. P greatly ; the driver-boom was knocked into splhis i twoestays betbri. his lett that Port a Britisialeet, of i ters; all the coops on the'poop were shatterede only 1 nine Sail, int-hiding- Ships of the Line alte r Vtigatee, WORSHIPFUL SIR,—It is with much real concern' one man remaining at the poopchrronade ; elle after I left iltrbieie,ses, to make. en attack upon .Curaeoas— that I have to inform you of the capturs; of the quarter-deck gun, and tore-mast one cleared to one 1 This etekhe was brought from Btirhadoes to St. Thor _ Honourable Company's Ship IParren Hastings late , • man also. However, with our every dis:eivantage, e miss b apacket Which had enly, two days passage,- under my comets:And, on the 2 Ist of June last, in lat. t , and - (for f 'd•l el d been 'specially d' tisit 1 dat ti nnage, loss of men, every one man rout !anune ea is cle sie time . 26. 13. S. long. about 56. 45, E. of Greenwich, by. so comparatively small a number is missed on these ' the Fleeesaile(t. . . . the French Frigate. La Piedmontese, mounting 46 occasions, and we had by this time 7 men killed and 'Nmient.h.,,Oceptalt 2B.—Captain ROSE', of .the guns, and manned with 395 men, after a very warm j about 10 wounded) I had not the. most distant idea Schobtler Dispatch, who , arrived at Nese-York on 'hnd extremely close action of femur hours and thirty i of giving up so value* a ship while the smallest I :Wednesday morning; in to days from Trinidad, in minutes, m minutes, in which I had seven en killed and 1 8 ' . possible chance remained of defending her. But I forms, that Gen. MIRANDA had been again at that :wounded ; the particulars of which are as follow : another disaster awaited us; which decided the fate I lishind ; that he received a reinforcetiseot•pf British At half past seven A, M. on the 21st - June, 1806, of the day—the mizen-mast fell forward, and block- I o*ers, and three Ships of War, and then proceed, 'we descried a stranae,Sail to the S. W. ,standing to . 0 .ed up every effete gun on the upper deck. The led to the Main. Tiro dayt before Captain ROSE 'the S. Eastward,'apparently a long, but low vessel, gun-room was on fire from a shot that had entered 'I sailed •dispatches had artivi - , announcing that the 'under treble reefed topsails and courses. I continued by the Counter, but which was at length put out by Expedition had effected a I:incline on the Main, and My course, making as much sail as the wind would the exertions of my Qfficers, and men.. My Surgeon that two battles had been fought, in one of which permit of my carrying, steering at that time W. S. had lost every, instrument by a shot that came into . . 400 Spanish soldiers Wel been killed. .It was said, with a very strong breeze from N. E. by E. 'and a the place where he was amputating and dressing the i that the inhabitants .of the country were daily, large sea on. About nine A.M. having. gained our wounded.. The nail of the tiller-ropeon the barrel of .I flocking to MIRANDA's standard, and no doubts 'quarter, she tacked and stood towards us, letting out 'the wheel drew, and the main and main topsail-yard . 1 were entertained at Trinidad that • the Expedition the reefs of her topsails. I lost no time in clearing e caMe•square by the fall - of the miZen-mast, Thuee! would be successful: It is added, that General 'the Ship for action, and placing every thing in a circumstanced, I foresaw that we had no alternative MIRANDA'S brother has been executed and hung: in proper state for defence. About half-past pine a.,m. but to' strike, and, with the consent of my Officers, I t chains. . 'she set her top-gallant sails, main and foretopmast gaVe up what remained of the Warren 'Hastings and 1 • BALTIMORE, Nov. 5:—A letter from Savannah steering sails, tho' apparently gaining on us before, her noble Crew, which took place about fifty mi- i (Georgia) to a Gentleman in New-York, dated 'and at ten a. se. shewed a blue ensign and pendant. I nutes past four P. M. having been engaged nearly 1 October 16, mentions that the Blacks in that city `did'not like her manner of manceuvering, being sen- i yard-arm and yard-arm above two-thirds of the bad organized a plan for the destrunion of all .the iible that an English Man time, from 20 minutes past noon, until 10 minutes ; Whites—several private meetings had taken place. aad is she did: however, I hoisted my colours and before five P. M. , , I They had agreed to march at three diffe rent p oints, made the peivate signal. At eleven A's M. finding she ' • I feel it a duty 'extremely incumbent on me to 1 'and set fire to the town, and then commence their was gaining ens& us fast-, I took in all the steering mention the firm and steady support I received from lebloody purpose. Their intentions were frustrated in sails, stay-sail?; and battled the main-sail up, that I the Officers with whom I had the honour of defend- ! consequence Of a quarrel between elle two chiefs or rnight have nothing to draSy 'the attention of my crew ing the ship ; nor could more zeal or true courage 1 ringleaders. Twelve of the insurgents' are i n cust od y , from their quarters, •Seee the principal sails for ma- , have been displayed, than what animated the gtillaht .! and will be tried in a kw days. s, nceuvering, and hauled -up 'a point to the wind.. HAV • crew under my commend. It will be a reflenion at- I Wesunsueros, they. 27.—1 L is with the sincerest ing made every internal' diStosieion for defending - the ten d e d w i t h th e most heartfelt satisfaction to me, that i pleasure that we armounce to our fellow-citizens the Ship, rove presenter braces, and stopped the topsail every department was filled syith the utmost energy. ; arrival of Cape. Lesels, with his exploring party , at sheets; at half-past eleven I hauled ',lewd The private- The exertions visible on this occasion, to defend the i St. Louis. The President of the United States has signal, it not having been answered, ;and placed every It Honourable Coinpany's property to that point of i received a letter from him dated at St. Louis e Sept. soul at theirrespenive stations to await the 'ceasing contention when defence would have been no longer , 23, at which place himself, eaptain CLARKE, and .up of the enemy (for nosy it could no longer 'remain 'phinicable norjustifiable, will, I trust, he a sufficient 1 their party, arrived that day. They it A passed the a matter of doubt), which she was doing very : fast.— . recommendation of the merits of the Officers and 1 preceding W , ituer at a place which he. called Fort •At noon she was within about a mile and a half 'of uss. Ship's company of the late Hon. Company's Ship 1 Classop, near the mouth of the Colutobja River. `when she took in her topmast steering sails; -stay- Warren Hastings, to the. Honourable the Court of I They set out thence on the 27th of March last,' ; 'sails, and main-sail, . and having neared to a miles Direnors. And although the issue of the engage- -I and arrived at the foot of the Rocky Mountains . hauled down the blue ensign, and hoieted , French co- • ment was unfortunate still when the very superior ! May to, where they were detained until June 24, lours--this was what see eepeCled, and were prepared . 'force to 'Which tine were opposed, added to Other ma- iby the snows, which rendered the passage over and ready to meet and return her tire. About 20 I terial -Advantages on the side of thesenemy, are taken , those mountains impracticable , until then. • He •ininutes past noon she . opened her fire upon .our .i into consideration, :it will, I hope, appear very' (vi- i fottnd it two thousand five hundred and seyenty larboard quarter with a very heavy round, mostly dent, that they did as much as men could do under live miles from the mouth of the'MessOnTi to' the exceeding -large grape, which we returned, as similar circumst Imes. • The following is a return of • I great falls of that river; thence by lend passing the 'soon as our guns could bear, pretty . warmly, the killed, Wotinded, and'stabbed, in tie anion, &c i Rocky Mountains to a navheeble pare of the h„hose and after' •about a quarter of an hoes engagement, Killed—Mr. 101111 Erltvic lt , , Purse \Valiant Aiiiier,ordi- 1 kooske , three hundred and forty wiles , of which the filled and vent a-head, seemingly astonished at n ary seaman ; joint Frost, seaman ; john twin:; ordinary two hundred would admit of good mad i and one -}ter reception. In this we received some damage in i seaman, Phathain Layhounle, seaman i Willialn erice„orai- I hundred and forty miles over tremendous mountains; our rigging, which we. turned to and repaired aswhich, for sixty miles, are. covered with, eternal gar S Y t asbehamedaant:eri°plotsse%l!ioersi'%%(-)attslitnaaLusea-ri;t. Thomas Lar. I well as we' could. After she had reached about a, k4es ComMander ; Mr. Julio Wood', Second Officer ; Joni - 1'; ,snows ; then seventy-three miles down. the Koos mile and 'a half a-head, she tacked - and came down. Barnes, Surgeon ; lathes Bayton, Midshipman ; 1°" 13 e" , i kooske,' into a South-eastwardly branch of the Co on us again, while we were at the guns to receive . ho l a v ts ,, % i s i li t e e ' , l se v sio r net i a ltt s e. Coxwell, ChierOfilter, 'slightly ; I iunlbia, one Inm/freehand fifty-tour miles d i r?wn that lier as before. This onset was extremely w arn a nd Mr. Cdivard Davies, 3d Officer ; Mr. Willtain Hope, 6th ito the - main • river of the Columbia, and then four. lerisk, and attended with loss on our side of killed • Otlicer ; Air. James Greville, Surgeon'l Mate, hioken jaw i hundred and thirteen miles .to the Pacific., in ad, emd wounded; and so near were the two Ships, that r i i ° e l k i " e l Li b s ' t l i r a g i i i i ' seaman; 43°ats‘va i I I ;a s v i Y tSCl‘,l:tatte'Cl^.7t)ailt);":7oiot.Fte(!.e.,: i three thousand five hundred and fifty miles from I was very apprehensive of . our locking yard-arms;, seph Antonio, ordinary seaman; John klockay, seaman, tiol. 'the mouth of the. Missouri to the mouth of the Co ragain she steered off, and made sail astern. Our'da- - le ; chance winianie, or Mary ,ealnao. sliAiitly t • I.elviS i um bj a , In this vast river the tide ,flows one hno •• enage - was greate. the foremast was shot char through I'erraw, s eaman ; Beare chtee,le baker ; George Miller, ! dred and eighty-three M il e 3, to w i t hin seven miles ; seaman. about one- bird from its head; every larboard and • . • ye • • ,p 1 its great rapids, and so far would admit large four of the-starboard fore shrouds cut ; fore topsail- ions 1-10 BURG 13 Slllet - dead of; Ills WOUndS.--- i SIOOpSI and from thence upwards may be navi tye gone, and miaen topsail haulyards, main andanain Howeyer, I am happy to szty, that the other I i gated by batteans and periaugurs. He speaks of this 'topsail braces, mein spring etay, and topmast stand- wounded, mei those Who 'were stabbed, are perfectly , .. I , whole line hirnishiog the most villuablefurs,in the -*none shot away : our ensi - en was likewise cut away -well.follow•ing iseh e force of the French Fri- i the .. -; wpride and 'a short and direct coorse thr them to -- est very soon displayed again at the maintop-gal- gate La Plechnontese: 1 the Eastern Coast of China: but that the greatest Mr. WiesoN and Mr.Weneee moved the rhe.rt 0, lent-mast-bead. On her Main Deck-2S long Erench tB-pounders. • ; part of ,these would be from the head of the Mis- for a Rate to skew cause why a Mandemee should Scarcely lead we time to' sinew the elarouds,. and On het U 'per Deck—to carronades I- tench 36. pounders •, : not issue to the Archbishop of Canterbury to restore 4 . 1011); Engli P sh 9 -pounders ;2, long bi-I s sFrenchB i pt line fs, soufi. He see's, it is fortunate he did not send . " a . fiat .whinit had been signed. by his Grace s -. and in 4Tet , e prevcsner brgces, -before cur attention was 2 mortars, capable of thenving grape and canni:tcr:slKAN of ! back from time head of the ;Missouri ally part of his again called to receive her third :Mack, she hiving French 36 wt. 1 forcv, consisting of thirty-one men, as more than pursuance of which a Cominission was made out to pH C& , ,silt .ill our :.r it e, and was nearly up. This at- In her tops were fifty men'with swivels and rifles., ; once they owed their limes arid the fate of the Expe - Nathaniel ',Higinsiore e Donor of Civil LPN, ape taele was a,warm and as near almost as any e .and by which it will appear that she is a very heavy Fri- . 1 tiition to their numbers. One mats of his party' had pointing him an Advocate of the Court of Arches; Tontiutted-tather longer thanhhe formerebtn - es before gate, .atlel is quite new, havitig sailed Irons St. Me- ; died besOrehe reached Fort Mandan, in 1804 i ev er y and wh ich Commission, havin g been re g ularl y ex.. stie•shoe a-In'ad, indicating most evidently abet she, foes hi •lanreiry last, and had only been out from the e other one is returned in good health. ecuted and sealed, the fiat was, by ,order of the could not lay alongside us, though to all appearance Isle .of Prance ten days when she fell in with the ; Captain Lewis is eepened to remain; at . St. Louis Archbishop, recalled and cancelled, in compliatice p - heavy 'mewl. We nosy endeavotteed to •replace our • Warren Hastings; from what, I Wibi able to learn, I ,sonic days, to settle with, and discharge his Mel', with an opinionalledged by the Dean of the Arches illennige as well as time would permit : I furled the , suppose her . to have had about 12 men killed and 20 ! and would then set out for Washington, by the and the. Judge of the Admiralty, that the adiniesions top-gallant sails and, hauled the foresail up', for the • wounded. We arrived at the Mauritius on the 4th t way of Vineennes, , Louisville, Abingdon, Flneas- of Dosaor Highmore as an Advocate wa fortdde foremast had received another shot in its aft side, J , .tly last, and , obtained permission to preceed to 1 tie, Stauntoos and Charlottesville. He is accotn- hy the'Canons of the Church, be, havinfomerly about oee-tlsird np, width now rendered the state, of ; Fngltind by a Neutral Vessel via Atneriea. With my ; ponied by the great Mandan Chief, who is on a - vi-- . taken Deacon's Orders. Under the great pressure that mast extremely dangerous, and which 'obliged i Officers and Midshipmen, we embarked on board the I sit to Washington. Captain LEWIS .speaks of his ,of business, it being the last day of Tel in, Hanelur -ine likemeise to, 'keep the threstop-sail orethe cap; ! American Ship America, Captain ISAAC STONE , , on . colleague eiipiain CLARKE, in the. 1 . 1)03t aifeEtion- !ordered the arguments on this Motion to sta over dreading to -make sail upon the mast 'from the fresh- i th e ritl ) August. Hoping to find some conveyance I ate terms, and" declares his equal • title to what- j till next Term. . • • ness of the breeze, and time height of the settee- d diten to England, we called into St„ Helena, and I ever merit may be `ascribed to the succees , of, this • - . Herdly had we got the yard tacks down es pre- trust, should you have it in your power to foresard entererize. '` • • ' . • The NJW OXFORD REVIEW is'said tounite (Treater - venter braces, before w-e were again called upon by ; us, that you will exert it in . our favour, being. ex- 1 NAssAU, OCT. I F.----We much lament' the having e „ talents than any similer Work that has for many years liar near approach (she having manceuvred!alhead as I tremeiy anxious to lay the unfortututte news before 'to record another seyere gale, UCCOlnpanied . W Ita a been presented to the public. before) to repel bet fourth attack. • , . 1 the Honourable the Court of Directors, •. ' heavy rain, which visited this plaice on Sunday even- A few days ego Miss Be ATMEY, daughter of Mr. W . (rave her time first :eon this time, and the ziCtion e , - BRADLEY, butcher,' of Market Weighton, York laecarne on both sides 'extremely warm, and seem- of the,Darseishire and Surat Castle, that time Ganges ' 31st . of August, or, that on the 14w tilt," It cern .e shire, wee found drowned its the river at that place. inalv with iecreased fure •; but, as she hid done be- ' had I)l'6c:et:de(' to Bombay in conseqbence of her . induced about ten o'clock, froin the north Ward and rJ . She had only been missing a few minutes befire she 'fore, •she made sail, astern, •haring endeitvonred to .. l e aky condition; and adds very hmrgely to the con- , e aseward, and continued with increased fury until Was discovered in that situation. A disappointment • 'ltty alongside four times without twine! able to ac- , cern which I must naturally feel for the loss of the I about two o'clock On Mooday meriting, W hen it in lose is said to have induced her to take this tne . tomplish herend. I had now only the main-" Lop- - .. ll;nunirable Company's Ship lately under my coin- Lgr l iduilly :Abated: Though a number Of vessels , ,ancholy step. Sail standing;untouched, and defying their worst, but mend, that 'the packets and pulilic letters. entrested I . were driver' arum their aneheeage and vest sin shOre, • . otherwise a most complete wreck aloft. The main-Ito th e charge of Capt. HARRINGTON Wero inVOIVC , i Vet we are happy to find they will be got off with- Ingatestone Fair, in Essex, - was well supplied On . Monday and Tuesday last, with considerable •droves mast shot Otto:seri] the main piece very badly; unseen- in the fate of the IVarren Hastinis,,wil'wh, as weil ! out sustaining much injury, exc4iting the Brig Sheer . top-sail split in two; nearly all the fore-rieging as, every erne under my care, were carefully sunkarici ' wu t er ,, w hich lies O n s h o re, stove t o pieces, bear the of Irish; Welch, and Scotch cattle, which sold freely again cut: but, thank God, below we were as firm 'destroyed., , .; , . i Water Battery. .. , at some advance in prices. . , land as zealous in the cause as at the firing of the first Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, the house You will likewise have been informed, that a distri- 1 e Ocadnee 44.—The following acdbuur of the de- , gun, having nothing to lament, save the very great bution of the Ganaes's ,SL Helena stores was made I struclion of property at Long lslend, by the gale on of . Mr. MLLF.a, in Pond stro.et, Hampstead, was superiority of the Enemy's ship's sailing, which en- , • broke open, and robbed of a large quantity of furni n,evtou. to her departure. f or ens as , an company s ' ' - • .the 13th of September, has been handed by. a Gen *bled her to take her position to advantage, and at- elenvai froin that island : tore. With His Majesty's Ship Sir 14;divant Hughes, tot , tack us at what point she pleased; for as yet we , We are' anthorized . to state, that Sir FRANCIS the Dursetchire and Warren Hastinas • and that, ' About four o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday bad . = the smallest idea of giving her any other sit- • ns consequence of the Surat Castle's ineapa si Ity . i 1 R .s Frioity. • . ceived a Letter from Mr. • P.DHEAD YORKE, CO:lsc .apprehensions could ,have be'en enter- We had now to receive the enemy the fifth time, to take any part thereof, I undertook to carry file N. N. ..E. and continued to inerease in eiolence . , the surplus sal those articles, which I imagined until ten at night, when the gale appeared to be et . (pewits' nO with the main and foremast dangerouly - wounded, would be most wanted on the Island ; and am ex- the height, but continued with little abiltement un- tamed by his friends, -nor any steps taken to rev e r e eery larboard and four of the starboard fore shrouds duel • it' Mr. I:Anie/so Yoite.e. has been arrested tremely sorry that my endeavours have been, ari l s- tit near , day-light on Sunday morning, when the a . e _ . s . . , . - u e and ()biped to find bail to keep the peace, et must cu, with some of the main ones ; not a single brace .. Crated h fthe Honourable'C y theca pture o Company's Wind had veered round to the south. e Captain , - ,, have been at his own particelar request. rove, the yards being kept forward with the force of DEEWoOD'S Schooner drove from her anchors in Ship the Warren Has tings. • , the wind, with scarcely a running rope whole, and Great Harbour on Saturday afternoon, elect went on COEN-EXpITANGE, - DEc. - 3.—Monday's supplies The following a list stores which I received • with two . of my upper deck guns disabled. Still so shore on the Beach at the Salt Pond ; the Ameei- of Wheat being chiefly sold,- and the arrivals toe to from the Ganges: • completely wrecked aloft, I looked to the energy . 'cad Schooner Rattlesnake, of Tombstone, CHARLES day being so few, the prices in this trades are almost T wel v e chests of China-ware, ten chests and two boxespf _. yemaining below as the palladium, of onr safety. considered nominal, fine coletintess much in request ; , Tea, two boxes ofSiik, six Chairs, two chestsof Nankeens, tetssees, Master, also lying in Great Harbour, was ' 'Tis true we had been weakened by five men killed, 24 tubs of Sugar Candy, and 29 bags of Sugar. ' drove from her moorings on the beach, and is bilged there is a demand for good Barley, and the supply, and about as ,many wounded .; yet so noble, so en. By some error or hurry in the transportation, a ' and dismasted ; a Schooner belonging to Mr. D. being very short it is full as dear; Malt and Beans thusiastic a spirit pervaded the 'crew, that I thought receipt was granted by me for five chests of nate- FERGUSON is also on shore bilged, with the loss of of each description keep their- „price scarce any little of the loss or damage sustained. In this state, keens, whetm only two were received on board tit one of her masts. ' White Pease, and the aprihe also Oominal ; t ere and ender these circumstances, we received her fifth Warren Hastings.—l remain, Worshipful Sir, The following is a list of the Plantations destroyed are no fresh arrivals of Oats ; this trade is deem er, attack, and on both sides it was more furious than • Your obedient and humble Servant, in the Southern and Middle Districts of Long Island, .. and a rising article; Rape Seed is cheaper ; the before, and the firing kept up almost incessant. • (Signed) - ' T. LARKINS. viz. Swanson and Miller's, not a house. of any de-. prices of Flour remain without alteration, tine -Seeing, as I suppose they must have done, that I „ scription etanding ; Thompson's Place, the same; AmeriCan at laet week's prices. Dated on board the America, Sept. t;, 1806. eould do nothing but keep the wind With the sail I. , . Gordon's Old Place, the same ; Mr. Mortimer's Wheat 6os a 14$ a $6) od Bems - , 46s a Sts ed ---------.....--------- had set (only the. main top-sail), they backed on i Plantation, Delathount, all the buildings blOwn 1 Fine ditto - Xis a 9)s a,t is 36) a 435 ad my larboard quarter, and kept flees:, without my i Married, en Monday last, at Lambeth Church, -s oil Oats doWn except the kitchen ; Coleraine, All the build- flee - e ees a 4) , Poland ,. . 323 s ais of Barley . - otos 3Oaea . unto • 3-0 a 3.0 od being able to prevent her taking' so advantageous a I• by time Rev. Dr. KELLY, ROEERT MORRIS, Esq. the - Sam a l.sSs od Rape Seed 24!. 2.71. cqn. ell position_ .. I Brunswihk-sqvare, to Miss LESLIE, deughter of tee same ; ings down ; Johnston and Wood's Plantation, the Malt White Pea.= , dos aSU :1* - Fine Flour 7's a' 7 s 0 , .i . , , John Drysdale's, the saint; ; Mr. Ford's; the 1 Here she made ghat havOck and deltrunion; the \ I.ltC JOHN Lesete, Esq. of Buckineham-street. . same ; Burrow's /1 - larbahr, the same e lam - e s Gies tatte ess a Sts od Seconds. - . 65s a 7Cri s a • . :44E - a4k Strachan's . 4 at Little Harbour;-the same 3a. DcaWs; at dittO, the same 3 N. - Mq_atteen's at iditio,' the , Same 3 Janie; Tait's k and Jam es:i.Wallace'S Planta' tions, not a house, standing.; at Clilihage Point', the y Old dwellingihouse is standing, the other buildinv.4 all down 3- 11: Atatiiy's and Role's, alMo belonging to Mr. Dean, all the bulidibgs down ; D. Fer.!. gtison's Smith Plantation; the same ;. Dunmore Park, the , same ;. Mr. Menzie's, all bloWti down, . except one small bnilding ; D. Ferguson's, at Great Harbour, all down ; A. Jaylor's, Mount Albion, all down; eicept part of the wall of the , dwelling-house .; LOchaber; two settlem ,, n - ;, all dOWn, ; J. ,M`Donald'S the same 3 StOnefield, th* Same; NeW Galieway the same; Gibsunlon, all down; except one stone house ; Don Accord, all theltuildingSdown ; New Hope, all down, except, the dwelling-lioUse ;, Dr. Du Buis's, the s an.:.; 1 Stevens's, at Culnier's Bluff', all down ; Halli day's, the same ; Benzie's, the same ; Mount , l Ceres, all the houses blown down, and here Mr. i Strachan had to contend' with the fire as well as 1 the storm ';'Mutiro's, at Turtle Cove, alt down, ex, cept the walls of dwelling-house, Hiddington, all down, except the dvvellifig .house; Hamilton, the ! same.„, From Hamilton Northward, as tar as ivlis. • i Wylly's Old Place, the houses of every description are . blown down, except Mr. Carrol's dwelling house. There is not another house standing in the middle district, except Captain Stuart's, Sa muel Knowles's, and Michael Major's. . . There is not a plantation. on Crooked-island and Atwood's but has suffered in lt:ving their houses unroofed or levelled with the grciund: on Fort une island, (commonly called Long-key), not a house , is left standing ; •the crops of early corn destroyed, and the cotton planted this seMbn much injured : at present it is impossible to Mate the daatige that , has been sustained ,by the inhabitants. _ NATCHEZ, SEPT. 30.—The most recent and ac curate infoftnation from, Nlchitoches states the Spanish force, embodied within our litnits,_ at 1500, Commanded by Governor . HARHARA, who evinces a, spirit of'niarked hostility to the Government Of the United States. .G,neral WILKINSON, WC xi informed, had an interview .with Governoy CLAYBOHNE, at Rapid, in the territorry of Orleans, which resulted in tne re._ quisition of 250 mounted infantry and dragoonS, from. the Mississippi territory, who are ordered to march immediately to Nachitoches, and join 'the regular army stationed at that place. • NEW PARLIAMENT. MEMBERS RETURNED. itEi4FRENV COUNTY—Witliani Maccicr.vall, FAq. R. Mtckenzie, Esq. COUNTY .OF MORAY—James Brodie, .Esq. COUNTY OF DUMBARTON—Charies Edmoostone, E-(1. LONDONDERRi — At` the dose of the Poll, on 'Wednesday evening, the numbers were— sth Day. 911 , Day. 974 784 844 Gen. Stewart - - Lard Geo. Beresford Cul. Ponsonby• - - - 676 . Sam. Lyle, Esq. - 323 7.V3. 3(id LAW REPORT COURT OF KING's BENCH, Nov. 23. ql \° '