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^" renounce all Lepes cf klir| Stccltcte; zrd
and soon brou gbt their sovereign to fee to Chatto
for peace.
Such have be en the ferries of Britain to all these
powers ! Such their return ! - Is England fated to
be forever conn <&ed only with inflates.
From the L andon Morning Post, An|af t:%
AS a loyal American, and a friend to the bell
of kings, I think it my defy through the
channel of your pipe , to inform admini^n
ton, that there are arrived in this city, two Ameri
cans (via Holland) and the one is (on to the rebel
Governor* of Conne&cut ; the latter an inhabitant
of Ballon, Ni# Bigland, and a Major in a rebel
regiamt, by the name of MaffaeWfetuf. If fceb
persons are fafired to be at liberty io England, ano
ther conflagration may soon happen.---A word to
the wife is Efficient
Your humble fervent,
J. — T PL E.
* Mr. John Trimb all.
t John-Steel Tyler.
From the Antigua Gazette Extraordinary, Nov. 7.
Bridge town (Barb,does) O%b°r 28.
Crudelis a^biqne,
Lians üb : que pavor, & plurma mortis imago.
TO give a fall defoription of the late terrible
storm, is not only entirely out of our power,
but Is we believe beyond the abilities of any hu^an
being ; we shill therefore, for the information of
•hose on a motet happy foot, give a short account of
it, as every inhabitant of this little community is al
ready too mll informed.
Oa Tuefdsy the 10 hi&nt, soon afar day bd
the wlad began to bin# Viry frafh and continue! to
do so until IO o'clock, when it blew very hard and
iacreafed in its violence till about 4 o'clock next
snarling ; about noon on Taefda, many of the vef
fils in Carliflt Bay parted their cables and about th ee
P. M. all those which till then remained at anchor
(except a few fliops and fchooa,s, wuch war: af
terwuds drivenon (h)reaid tracked) t gather with
those who had drifttdii the forenoon, were blown
out to fia; several hoifn were blown out to, tea;
the gale Bill encteafel and absut nine at ni*ht be
cams a mol terrible,hurricane which lifted without
interraiffion or abatement till pal three the next
filming, when its firy begana little to fabfiie, al
though it may be said the form was not entirely o
ver at five on Wednesday evening. As ws have al
ready observed, to gift any adequate description jf
the accumulated horretof the night is impoffible.bit
the roaring of the temped, the noise ocoafijned by 4
the fill of whole houses and the roofs of others, the 4
terrible fhrelks, cries arid grains of the wounded, 1
Y,ho were hurt bv andburieduaUrthe rains, the in-<
eeffant fltihes of lightning and aborting torrent of
atin, formed together such a feene of terror 1$ hasl
we believe feldqm been equalled in any part of the
World. Nor did the return of daylight, which had 1
been anxioefly wished for, bring with it any coifo
latlon, as it served but to prefect to as a fytftide of 1
the mist mriancholly nature. The m^oppis, 1
which but a few hours before had been one of thet
bed towns in the W:1 Indies, converted into little 1
better than one confufed hup of ruins, and the ciia- 1
try all around laid wile much more than it could <
have been by the ravages of the mil cruel enemy.;
Tae Mole-head, a work of the utmost utility, and
which had cost this country upwards of twenty,
thoufsad pound Be,ling, entirely detoyed, and the <
bafon almol filed a p with sand, done and pieces of
timber, in fach a manner as is much to be fared
Will render it entirely useless, Thecille forts and
batteries all d&oyri, one wing and a great put of
theother, of that great and magnificent building
government house, are throw 1 down and the centre
unroofed ; thaf valuable building the court house
and prison. which was not to be equalled in any part
of the melt India illnds. is now little bitter than &
heap of rubbish, at there remains bat a fmali part of
the Falls; nor have the hiufes of individuals in ge
neral Shirted a much better fate, as there are not a.
bove thirty dwelling houses, flares, &% in the town
which have efeaped without coafi lerable damage;
end of the remainder much ths greater number are
entirely thrown dowi, or left in fich a filiation as
nottobs repaired. Bit amuigft all the buildings
that were in this place, there is none that strikes the
fprß^or so forcibly as that once noble truaure St.
Michiel's church. To fee all in ruin a building
dedicated to the ferv or of God,which not more than
twenty eight years ago had been rebuilt Ind finished
with elegance, a building of one hundred feet in
length and fix y wide, wihin the walls, exelu five of
a very large chancel,and which had often contained
more tha n^tbree thisafad foils at one time, ire
which mi an erg7.n so cempldh order; 7;o^h, <bf <
place in the lergefl church is the world, a steeple
(which contained an elegant clock and peal cf ei^ht
bells) whefe height from the foundation was trq
fe% tn behold all this tumbled in, a.heap, and in
litany places level with the,round, farms to fill the
chriflian foul with mm than it can bear, and of it
prrlffi churches and two chapels, there remain only
St. Petti's church, the chapel about three, mile
to windward of It, and th charch cf St. Andrew's
in Sectlatd; Blare informed that.melt of the others
are down to the foundations, or-in fach , fixation
as to be intirely ufelefc. Theother town's, viz. Of
tins and the Hole town are much the fame with this,
Speight's town indeed we apprehend, has many of
its buildings Warding entire, and many others but
little damaged, few being totally defircyed. From
the bast ir.Rrotation we have been able to obtain, re
fpeAing the country, its 6taatioQ If pcf&ile a Gill
tvorfe : in meft plantations all the buildings, the su
gar milk exceptedt arc laid level with the earth, and
that there is not a finale estate in the island which
has entirely escaped the violence cf the temped ; arid
which adds to their di&refs, is the total loss of the
ground provifious. which before had a p'omfo%
appearance; the sugar mills in yenered having had
their points lowered at th? finiffilpg of the left crop;
are preserved, except the tight covering over their
round houses which was carried away : feathered
Buck o' all kinds, with which this country abound
ed, are now hardly to be seen: forae plantation#
have loft by the fall of the buildings and continual
rain thirty head of cattle, force more force lefs,and
in several eflates many negroes perilled in the
fame manner. To afeertain the lof& of the whole
number cf people is at prefect impossible, as in and a
bout this town and pariffi, whole families have ei
ther been cruffied to death in the ruins, or swept by
the torrent into the fee, many were dug out bf the
gubbifh four er five days after, and many more
thrown on the beach by the tide. Some who have
taken great pains to be informed, fay, upwards of
3000 have periled, others fay more, but to speak
with certainty cannot yet be done. It is generally
believed, that this va3 deviation did not entirely
proceed from the ftorto alone, bat must have been
accompanied by an earth quake, which belief is
strengthened by the sea having risen to an extraordi
nary: bright, all along the foutbern coa&, altho' the
wind during the grtatrfl part of the hurricane, blew
from the N. B. quarter, and never fhifted farther
southward than S. F
Oat gentleman, Mr. T. Steete, cf St. Joseph's,
informs us, that not more than 30 yards from his
dwelling house, the earth is opened 50 feet wide,
and in a dlreA line for r§6 feet long, and of a depth
not left than 10 fathom; that there is a large bank
of earth thrown a,, and th, chasm forms a kind of
ao angle, and nearly of the forne dimanfijas of the
former.
O 10 thin, mare ws mull observe, which' is, that
another calamity is flaring us in the hire, and
without the divine affiance, mul soon follow the
left --the want of common neceff&ries of life. The
small quantities of all find of provi^ons in the hands
of the merchants (who have not inerted the price
of any one article) a gfeat deal of which w damaged,
th, total loft of native produce already reaped, the
de%ru&ion of what was growing in the earth, without
any profpe& of an immediate fappl, from abroad, Co
that the vast number of poor, as also many negroes,
throughout the whole Iflaud, mufl perilh for want
of food, and mould we have seasons for the earth
to bring forth her increife, thousands muß fill for
lagk of a place to ffitlterthcmfdves. Na provisions
in our wins; no habitations to abide in; no lumber
to erefl houfa with; nor no workmen ffiould we
have lumber sent us; --What a dreadful fruition !
Had we abilities to describe, and time to publish, it
is not for a newfpapc, to contain the dreadful fiery;
it would fill a volume. Let us then, one and all,
implore that gracious God, who hath thus visited
us with his avenging hand, mercifully to lock done
upon, and to forgive us for those things which has
occasioned him thus to pour down his fury upon
us. and that he will avert the impending calamity.
PHILADELPHIA, December §.
Extras of a letter dated St. Pierre, Martinico, Oc
tober'ig, 1780.
" On the loth infta><a fliet cf fifty-two fail of
vessels arrived here from Bordeaux, but last from
Corunna, under convoy cf a fugle frigate. A few
days before they made land they fell in with and
took a I<ct letter of marque w?p from England
bound to Antl#ttig loaded aith dry goods, and car
ried her into Fort Royal. Another frigate that came
out with the fleet givechafe the day before their ar
rival to another targe English letter of marque ftp,
which she tock and carried sto Fort Royal al(o ;
tiris h^ roenfored vc^l ms fi&rNenfouudhnd,
and had 400 hogshead, of ccd-£fh cn board. AI
the merchant ships came to an anchor in this har #
bour. The day cf their arrival a very sudden gale
of wind iprang up at JN. E. and tbo' th* gale in
erased and oentinued without intermission, the ship
pint "pt their Nations, as the wind then blew of
the land, until the nth, when rrany cfjhem weigh
ed anchor and got under way : force flipped theli
cables and went out, and ftvir&l parted with theh
cables and were driven cut by the viclsnce of tin
wind, On the night cf the n<h the wind fhiftk
to the foathward, and |fter continuing there two oi
three hours, veered round to S. W.and blew right
in ffiore; between two and three o'clock in tha
morning of the 12th the sea was thrown into the
rceff violent agitation and raged with incredible fu
ry; many dwelling boufes and Bores, that flood
along the bay, were almost infancy destroyed with
the violence of the wave's, and the peer inhabitants
in raany places, finding it imp ffible to escape at the
front parts of the henfee. Were obliged to break holes
through ^rong flone walls in the back^parts of their
buildings, and efcafe that way with th& lives into
adjoining buildings behind, and leave all their pro
perty to the mercy 'of the fee.
" The Fort, a flrong stone fortification, that
flood near the wafer edge at the north end cf the
town, and has bid defiance to that boiftercus ele
ment for eighty years pafl, war demolished in lets
than three houas, and the guns are either buried in
the sand or have rolled down the bank into the fee.
" A ftiong fiorie tfall, fix feet high and from four
to five feet thick that Wretched along the bay from
one end of the town to the other, with intervals here
and there to admit a parage to the water fide, and
was ere&ed many years ago to defend the houses
from the violence of the furf in the hurricane months
was beaten down in half an hoes'# time, and there
is now not the leaf! veflage cf itvemaining, even its
very foundation is washed up out of ground. Not a
single building that flood in the lower Breet next the
sea but what is either entirely d^fttcyed or rendered
utterly unferviceable.''
Friday left arrived in this eh, the Chevalier de
Chatellaax, Meiecal de Camp, one cf the forty of
the French Academy ; a perlon no left conspicuous
in the repulg of letters than in the profeffion of
arms. The General was attended by his Aids, the
Baron de Montesquieu, grand son of the Great Mou
tefquieu. Captain Lynch, and Colonel Dupleffis.
a he following paragraph is taken from the Virgin
hia Gazette cf November 26.-" Lafi Wednesday
about ten o'clock the whole of the enemy's fleet
weighed anchor and fill down the capes, where they
met two vessel, coming in (fuppefed to be two dif
patebed from the fleet a few days after they arrived
hen) when they ail came too again. After flaying
a while the whole got under fail, and were yesterday
quite out of fight."
Extras of a letter from Major General Gates to
I Congress, dated November 14^ 1780.
I This intent major Bruin, late aid de camp to
major general Sullivan, arrived in camp, and ac
quaints me that general Sumpter, in consequence of
orders I gave him at Hillfboiough to ad upon the
weft fide of the Wateree, had, after a fevete contell
with major Wemyfs, defeated him and his whole
command, having wounded and talen the major pri
fener, with 25 cf his party: many were left dead
on the ground, and a considerable number of fine
horses and arms fell also into the bands of general
Sumpter, In the pocket of Major Wernyfe was
found a lift cf the whigs horfa he had burnt upon
Pedee, which, with all his papers, ax soon a^ I receive
them, ffiall be tranfmhted to Congrefi, The ene
my do not now poflefs a single post east of George-
Tewn, or north cf Cambden : while colonel Marian
and General Harrington command the country eaß
cf the Santee, and are contineail. Interrupting the
enemy's craft upon this river..'
Published by order of Congfefs,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary ,
N EWHAV E N, December 14.
About three o' lock on Sunday morning last, Lt,
Col. Welles of this date's troops, ftationedat Herren
Neck, was fuiprized by a party of about one hun
dred horse and foot, wh f captured Col. Welles, the
captains B gel and Lay, Ifeut. Spencer, Enfigra
Whiting and Biffri, and 24 privates, who were car
ried prisoners to New York. We had three wounds
ed, one it was feared mortally. As the enemy tar
ried but a few minutes,, they had time to plunder
but little.,
N E W-L O ND O N, December j 2,
Last Thursday Capt. House in a small schooner pit
vateer: fitted from Philadelphia, with 19 men, ar
rived here,and brought in a schooner from Madeira,
bound to l^ew York, with 108 pipes o f flufi