The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1780-12-23 00:00:00, page 2

him:: I! thin link commonisy in almdy me well in
found.
'_ . My the Inch inhm :fle'r dly duck,
the wifl'iegan tom tery (te and continued to do'
so until about :- o'clock, when it blew very hard, and
ypcfiosid in in violence un ahoul u'esiloch next mom
mg; {hunt noon on Tuesdny many of die vessel! in
Cu si 7 parted shrir cobin. and "by 3 ?. M. al]
— &" h mlctum remmnc'n amhor (merit ! fed
.' ' in (! schoonen wmch were afterwnrdz driven on
nal wrecknl) loseth" wnh (hose which had '
dristed in the fonnoon, were blown out to sea : Several I
W'es were blown" dowlsin the evening; the gale still
' (eased, and about 9.at night became noon tremen—
__ ' Humane", whicdctushed withoufimermifflon'or
jsinhgbztgmmt till pan 3 the next mmning, wl.tn-ill fury
, Uegassn : little to lubside, afthough it may be bid the
_ ss_ __ wpanotsienlircly onrat goanesihyevsiening.
ct '_ A: we hue alrndy observed, !. give-any adequc
,. _ss., Aesc ' tipn of me m-mulmed harm. of the night in
I imp me, dumb: r g Qf' the tempefl, the mid
l \9ccafiomd by the fall :: whqlc houses, and the roof:
silmsslf'mheq', (he unshle {briek s, criesmnd groan of the
-_ fioyndq- , who Fere lzur! b),-lnd buried under the
:: buim, ! _ incessint flctshtl ofhghtningjnnd unabating
,. lorrepl of rain, lo-mm tugesher such : seeme! um:
_ I: by, we nelieve, seldom been oquaHe-l in my pin
_ss"ot the world. Nor dvd the retain of dq-lighc, which
. had been nnxioufly wdhed for, bring vidlit'my con
Slmon, :: ]: served but so she to m : tpectacle of
sithe mon mehncsshoiy nantu' ,Thomroposso, which
sisibuc : few houn-bojqrehad bci'n onc of the best town
__in th. eD lndin.-,conveflld inmlnle better than
;ssopyc hcteapns ruin, lnd dymntry-al} around
_ hid wist;! gnnch lsiMre—cpnn it mld—Iun been by the
' _-rctnva sct' the mfl cruel enemy. ss
, ' T : de Head, I work of tho utmost utility, md
; which hid cyn mio 'counuy upward: of twenty thou
sand poundl'shslin enuely doflmyed, md the bason
,siasslrrfon filled up wi! sad, stone;. znd pieces of timber,
in luch : winnen" itiamuch wb- feared, will reu
deri; total! ,siufehsa. Thebcaflle, foru,and bmreries,
_ allchroye ; sione wing, aud- nc yast of the other,
of th: in old mlgpificept nildmg, government
7 . LYK wn, and theccnue unweld; th!
si , je Wdingss e coun-housc, lad pris zihkh
sscuctnQ-p,bc unlleclsisiln my put of the W India.
ishndy, !(M iulebemr than : hnp of 11: _ ish, n
sithen reminq but : finally"! of the wall pot have
Edward !:ssdivjdmhm govern]. shned ; duck
__ ter My, as there m not.:bqve zd dwdling-bousn
'Kon'c ' he. in the town, widen havegscnped Mthout
- _ . damagesimdsiot she mantles ct nel! the
' mtu' gumbef use eitbqfeuinly thmu-Ewu, or
liest fn such a smution-n men be repaired. Buti
buongfl all the building! that wan in lhil place, there
fis none that lfiken the Man:- so forcibly n tbn
once noble lssmct St. Michacl'n church !' to see I"
'in swim. ! doi _ to the service of God,
which do! m zfym ago, hld been rebuilt
lnd issnilxed' ' inn, : building of me feet in
, niflsm the walls, exclusive of I
length; and
ver! ] cct ], and "Bich had often held mote
ctuh'n Mssehoqsind (bold, :: one :ime, in-whichsiwn
an " in complete order, worthy of : plsce in the
LM church in the world, :; Reeple ( which continual
,:u'ueucellm} clock and pnlof I bells) whose hi M
sisidni Que'fou _ ' n wn one hundred and twenty (Eu
"fm; to_ behold,, Hiscttumbled inb one heap, angh'n
n' ' ' \ m ' tyhffihz- ground. sdm'bffl'she
,Cm ' fit ss si'e—lhan it can hear; and of "
pa'rish church.- .- sso_ ,chnpell, these. remqim no
more ssflpy St. pm'o I:. the chapel about three
msiil'u pfwindwargl' of it,: ; ss church of Scsihn
di-nv': issn Scytlnnd; we ct _ , 'thlt mostoi the
othen ire essithqsi dqvm hss * '_ We, orin such
' :. .Tbeoxhumun,
a situafion ausio br cnffiely , ,
'sz Oiffim anddrctflgk __ - m med ches"
, :MW,
v'vich this.; sSpei t': m -. _ss , (!
has man to it; ' ' - ct siMy in many
siefshctt [inch nally Wyd.
- ss' we to able to abtzin
tidn. 'if flble, Is
dl'dte bui dingo, sithe
,lml with the end, and
that there in not a single Csifld in the zsiami which Lsi-aa'
entirely esclpel the vimaofshe tdmlkltz and what
adds to their dilirestiilhcsiunl loss of the sum nd pro
visions, which before had a promising appearance; the ]
su gaf mills in Wslsi hnjng had their y-ssims kwvn'ed
" the flmsh'mg qt'_ the;]ut emp. arc preserved, except !
the light covering ovei' sheir round-honfes, which are
blown sway; feathered neck of an kind: with which
this country nbmsiznded, are uow hardly to be seen, and
the working cattle. 83.- in many estate: have sutsuedss
very much, some plantat'tpns having loft by me fall ot i
the bui dinga, Indcontinuedsisain. thirty head, some ;
'more, omeless, and in several etutes many ot'thene
Toes perifind in the-same manner. To ascenainrthe
_ost of the whole number of people in at prcscnt impos ,
'"sible, usiio and about this town and parish, wholejao
miliel have either been ctushed to death in the mits; o:
'lwe t by thetorrem into the sea; mony were dug-sim
of te tubbish four or sit]: tluysnftes, and minymm
thrown on' the heaph by the tide. Some ,sswhwhfl
taken great poin- tecthe informed, say upwards ,siood
have perishtd, oth a. lay more, but lu speak wsi cer...
"tainty cannm a; 'he tinne- ]: is geneiafly si ved,
'that thia vast devathtiun did not entirely wound from
_the storm Me, but must have been accompanied-by
"an earthquflisiej of Which several Gentlemen of {great
veracity deciare that they felt three distinct shockc, and
which declaratfon is ltrengthened by the sea having
risen on that night to an exttaordinary height, all lion:
the soulhem' coast. ahhough the wind dtuing the
greatest part ssof the hucttcaur, ch fn-m the N. Ect
. amr,.'and never ihifted farther to the southward
! n Ssisi E. .ctct
One Gentieman, Mr- T..Shetc, of St. ]oseph'a in
forms us, that not more than 50 yarde fromhisdwel
'lin -house, the earth is opened at lent so feet wide,
an in : direct [in: far 150 feet !ong, sinndot' :! depth
'not less than totnthom. um: there is a large beak of
earth thrown up, and the izhalsim_ fonns a kind osen nn-,
gle, and is—neariyofthe same dimecsiom of the former.
join: Gentlimen, now hewe, and who were :! Lishon
nssfew days nfknss :h'e camzque. desiclsre, that thi
=town in pmponion t6 in sin, but suffered more from.
the late cala icy t'ha- L-shon did at that ,umeu w
m inldmsil: that the pubhck record; of the island
hit be- :" preservssl, or r.: mo'.} but little damlged,
and people in gone:- have been so fortunateas to save
their book- apd most valuable papcrl. One thing
mon we omitdbse :, which in, that another enlamily
in shringmsiin m en, audwisi." am thedivine lflishncc
mul soon follow the ]afl; the word" common neces
suio-ds nm— The small uamitiu of all kind of
provifionl in the him!- of ctt mercham (who have
not inaused thl price osnny one anicle) : great deal
of whib isdmlpd, the ton] los: of our nuing: pray
duce dmdy reaped. the destruction of what wis
grpving in the earth. without any. pmspefi of an im
mediate supply from zbroad, (3. that thrssvssad number
of poor, u also" many negroes lhl'oughmu she who]!
inn:], mufl perish for want of food, ahd should he
have seasons for the earth to bsing forth her increase,
thousando mul fall for lack of: pace to theues them—
solns. No plvvifiom in our rub"; no habitation!
lo zbide in; no lumlm to erect houses with;. nor no
mrkmen, should we huvc ]umbcr sent m; what a
drndful sit tion! Had we nbililiec to describe, lnd
tune to pu , it in not for _a newspaper to contain
the di si , it would fill . volume. Let un
then, mond . Were (hit zracinusGod, who
hnh muviflud m m ct " zvengin; hand.:nercisully
to'look Down ufionsand w forgive on for these thing:
which hume- onedllim that (upon down hi- fury
anon us, and that he will avante impmding cata
mn . '
: Endymicn, Alb'u-simlc, .A1:mcne,.and Am:
:onpnived since the hun-iczne at Antigua; the hire:
almofl : wreck. We are nssured by ulmer from
them, that : fleen-s qwrchmmen umkt the convey
d'tvo ffigam "Lived xi.-o days before the florm, at
When; thinke grencst part oflhem were drinn
out to fen, not the rest forced ashofe; two of the
former wemn by the Ehdymion and Alcmm,
IN carried into Amigua; they were in sight o! ug—
nrds of 30 fail more, but from theT—adnel's oft e
meher it .wn impdflbla nctrnke xhnsszs. We learn
sssialso from 51. Lucssia, she! the Ajzx, Capc. _
lookedinto betin'iquE, find the :cmpect; anW'W
th'at do l'reiossilhe hight of four he: could he [tell."
standing.
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L ;) N Up N,si sioct. i}.
SATURDAXPrivete advicnwcre brought to town
'frum France, lud immediately sum (0 llnc Kinds
at Windsor. We learn that (hc'y contain lsihum !icu—
lars ofssshe amended milirary and- nnvnl reinsnkcemcnl:
goinglohmfiet, um ths! instead of Bd'ail ot the line
and woe Men,, n. sir} of the line and m,oco.ch33c;
stoope arc ordered on that (en'ice. '
Govemmant havereceivid defctpacches smm Genen]
Vaughansidzud at St. Lucia, Wilh accounu Khal th.
army is in lbc—mofi llmgmablc s-tualiun fmm' sickness,,
nen], one half of the numinzl _tmops being, :; shi.
'tctime. totally iifablcd. -*w hat 'is very firi'gqlar, he
upmdons that the ghh rsic'gimene "m pamcu'lfr Land.
! l'o hath, swm prevailing 'cb'nka'giosssi thu
. ,is no man in !. eastnblc of bxarsimssa me.
_._ Fxgamdshwssf'fl :filndaz; ::p. (30.
*" n- _ IM, Cli-si,m-'ein'z'
ssanivsied smm Xmmca in lhc'rZel, and] gsiagoolsy,
silanded two Gentlemen, who, it hmarssi w",
ss Ccpcnh a lesidlmt and secrctnry m— lh 'Con
ssgtcsu. Rome: were ljro'wn IM'WilliAms, and
\ they very Ifflnfisrom tbu'ciay, - on'cbcsiir joni—Iwy u
yDenmlik- tom.? si ss
\ Dispz'whnoi sun consequence m: &id to have at.
{l'ZVOd yefierdq Esogn du contmcfl, supposed to hell
offieid consxqmdon of the Qsiunos Ponugll'kzctead,
ling not qnl , m th- mned nmsiahty, bet to'sinn Mi
[am with ! house)! When; in consequeohe of
} which, ; meednc .! In lp'dgnatwfinn offlazewn'.
ss hcks lzfi nightn Lord llfishmoughfaofius the W-ct
; ticular: of used hue not yet trantpiluss ct
ss The commimnmcssds Mc. law tiNo-v'er
xLondon, by mum- Eccmuiu ol fine, on mal?
lah; runs thnu
"Thus. are in hit w y'e name te nuthorisi: on '
teceive inm your cult ,! the person of Henry LI.," ":
Esqz. sent herewidt on snfpicion os high traisen, g. ho
you are tozkeep ('a! e um}! he nag] ssbe delivemt byctass
coutsc-of law; for lb-domg the to your flstsiassnt'. si_
had a Whitehlli. sim m ctof 03. '173'0.
S-T'O-RM N T', *- -
- 'HlLBSBOR'OUGHo
L, . GE'RM'AlNE. .\_.
4"- Charlee Earl Comufllitsimchzh qs -
lb- chr of Lendnmussflsi) ) *_
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Extract J—a let" sifi-o- Paris Say. 39
" The Prince de Monllbln'y, Minitter nisid been.
[tery of state for_-the "! depmmut; has felt! citculaj
letten to the commandenof "hie French and * '_
regiments-os inflfmy; lequainting them, tpasix it i;
the King's intentionssthat the different cor ; which m
wn- hat required to he sent to Ametiel, {all be cbmtssi
lend; and that cojhid effect, eachsi'regtmene Gan
umish : detachmem, confining of-two sefjunu, due.
eorporale, 75 soldieu', exceptimg only such i-egimgnn.
jet have already .t'um-iflneddetwhmcnu for the seriiss
\ of hi- Najefly's-nuy. and which are now only to find
nish I pr ortionatenumbet' of men. TheMit-iltc: re
comnxen 5 to prefer (belt men as shall offer veiltmm'ilysi'si
\ declaring unto them, that they are to be in age},
into the regimenta of lend et jfiudly seessiagifl
siAmeriu; and ht sutthe'tsi-phikv o; 'that: these ,
ments should-only constfi'Bfmen srthe age :: !!
50, or such II-llch but! it sea. though they lho
happen to do elders bush" if : sufficient npm '
should not osir Wuily. hil- Majefley'lctwfi'].
pleasure was notwithlfing to be eteecuted. -'
si " ctOur letten fron Bed! meanen, that the no;)—
L men in that ponmbufily myloyed in a thme 'fflfi
copper all the ship: that ne denntdfo'r md'Aunsi
l ricact, under the command of Monsicur 6? ]: 'PpW
Treville. The second division of theatmy, under th.
command osCount de RC chmgeau, wind- in to em—
i bark on bond thefaict squa'duon, confifli of the .
; menteof Auvergne, Menhi, Routnqm. lad Anssir;
comnmnded by their Colonelstbe V-u'coum de [An],
Count de Guiherf, Viscount de. (business ud_the*
Countde Wirgenfie'mt's'si '