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of ettieftsinship, and of merit On the rlesersitig. the
more interesting part of the Crirlllolll, took place ;
this was the introduction of the Native lo3titution •
into the circle% where they were sliewn to their re-
latives hod friends, am; gave specimens of their
progress in reading, writing, aril tfrawilig ; this
hitter acquirement seemed to delight the elder La-
iives beyond any thin yet presented to them ;
which was lomat-Merl by bursts of loud laughter.
leaping upwards, soil other wild gesticulritioirs, the
spoiii;thetnis offer iii sof uucultivatrd torture.
When these ceremonies had passed over, the
whole of the native party were regaled *Oh roast
bet-f awl plum-poildiag, and a fair proportion of
exhilarating beverage.
Oa the Governor's retiring front the circle, they
with Otte accord. and f one 11111 poke, rose, and
gave his Excellency three cheers, which they felt
as the only mock of expressint,• their sense of his
kiialiiess to them, and gratefully to acknowledge
the protectium of time British Gureripuent.

WEST INDIES.

IT. THOMAS'S OTTO/ITR 20.

Front five o'iloek Tuesday afternoon, until the same
hour on Wednesday morning, it blew with such a degree of
violence that nothing could withstand its farce. Men,
women, and children, bereft of shelter, .witls not a single.
suit of linen to cover them, nor any thing to satisfy their
bunger—trees torn up by the roots, houses blown from
their foundations, some of which were blows into the
sea; one house, in particular, situated over a road,
was taken up whole by the wind, wherein was the
manager and several negr.ws ; it was lifted from its basis
upwards 20 feet high. and fortunately on its descent full
into a spot which had been originally a cellar, anti ettalletill-
ed three or four feet of water, ill consequence of which those
in the horse sustained no injury. An iron six pounder,
with iron carriage, was blown from Fort Amsterdam half-
way to Fort 'William, the distance of about three quarters
of a mile ; a cart, with iron saeltret, was blown from Go-
vernor Rich's estate to Mr. Drucker's, almost a quarter
of a mile. Simpson's Day was almost entirely destroyed,
there reinitiating in that town hut five houses ; sine of the
buildings washed away by the sea contained nineteen per-
sons ; in the middle of the (oiling! lowa !Isere is a channel
left of about thirty feet in breath and seven feet deep. Dur-
ing the gale there were three shocks of an earthquake, which
is supposed to hive dune equal damage as the a tad or sea.
A Proclamation, dated the 12th (Motor, of Charles Wil-
liam Maxwell, Governor of the Islands of St. Christopher,
Nania, and the Virgin klands, •uthoriees the importation
therein, fur the pca iud or sax ths, from the 6th October,
in all vessels of all nations, Hour, brad, biscuit, rice, beans,
oats, corn, meal, live stores, horses, mules, See.
The privateer selivenier Aimed:a, of nine guns, George
Wilson, Commander, under the Venezuelan flag, arrived at
Norfolk on Monday last, from a cruise; had a severe en-
gagement with a Spanish atop, a King's packet, of 16 galls,
as we understand. of 136 mem. including sonic troops, whirls
she was catrying lavas Vera Cruz, to Havaunah ; after an
action of two hours, tbst Alniedia was obliged to haul uhf
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FOREIGN INTELLIGE.VCE.