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;inn, but we ("pose it will 1311140.- short of 80
of 100,0001. It is Inch numb F6:.asure we state,
there have been but two viaini ,‘lii.),have lost their
lives on this occasion. The ono, a white man, who' •

had the command of the prize ship, rOUltg Itv who-
hit: the other, a negro, belo.zing to Douw The-
rouble, Esq. We a;ntost fear to he.tr the accounts
from the neighbouting island., as, no doubt, they
have suffered in proportion. A privateer, belong-
ing to Mr. Dungan, of Tortola,loandered in the
gale—one negro, only, we can learn, was picked
up. She was seen, un'ruesJay, throwing her guns
overboard.

Cll4aLtsrom. SLIT. 10,

On Friday night last, about eleven o'clock, a
di eadful gale of wind came on in this hat hour, and
continued to blow with extreme violence, until
Sunday morning, one o'clock ; the wind was at
first at Nortb.East. In the course of Saturday
morning it changed to East, and in the afternoon
at South-East. It is impossible at this time to
describe accurately the destruaion caused by
this gale ; the whole of the wharfs from Gads-
den's, on Cooper's river, to the extent of South
Bay, have suffered very considerable damage,
the heads and sides of most of them have been
washed away. Of the vessels in the harbour
but three or four have escaped without injury.
Several were totally lost, and many more were
much damaged. At seven o'clock on Saturday
morning, the period of low water, the tide was as
high as it gener illy is at spring tides It appeared,
that during the preceding ebb but little water had
left the River; at I'd o'clock it was two or three feet
higher than it has been seen for many years, and
made a codnplete breach over the wharfs, and drove
many small vessels on them, where they now lie.
On General Gadsden 's wharf, several soles were
washed or blown don it, and their contents of Tice or
cotton much damaged, and 5,.:1 c I ,st. 011 %south
Bay, the whole of the isulwatie male against the
water, is in nine, :end the house tif Mr. W. Vietch,
built on made ground, was sleighed down ; the new
street nude to con:ieue FAA Bay to Whee Point. is
greatly damaged, the sea made n:ssaAtes through
it in many places; on Bleta's ssh.irf, a brick build.
intt oecup.ed as a scale 41. d ui i.aing house, was
beat down by the bowsprit of tke ship Lydia.
In the city no other dem ige is tone than many
houses which were covered wile nett', are, in part,
unroofed, and most ri the tr• es in the street, and
many fences, are blown down Great Apprehen-
sions were entertained for the safety of the families
on Sullivan's Island, but accouiits received from
thence yesterday, were very favourable; not a life
was lost there except a block boy. From fifteen to
twenty houses were undermined by tae water, and
washed away, the outtahitents of which lost almost
every thing that was in them. It is the opinion of
some Gentlemen who wet.• on the island, and who
came up yesterday, that rf the water had continued
to rise for half an hour longer, scarcely a house
would have escaped, and many people must have
perished. What have been the consequences of this
gale in the country, we have not learnt i, but we
tear they will be distressing; on the one hand, it is
feared, that the banks of the river pl intations were
net high enough to keep out the tides; and on the
'.her, that the violence of the wind has destroyed
the cotton plants.
*I here is one circumstance, which took place
during this gale, which we think worthy of notice.
It was Inge eater at the wharfs on Saturday, at
twelve o'clock ; soma after, the tide begin to fall,
and at six o'clock in the evening, had fallen about
two feet; it was then expelled that the neat tide
would be highs: •han the former, as ti,e fall had
been so sm-ill ; eta, instead of ring, it continued
to fall a It.;'e the whole time of the flood, and was
oat as high at tine o'clock on Sunday morning, the
time for high water, as it wag the day before, at six
the time of low water. We supposo that
eis phenomenon was owing to the change of the
wind from E. to S.E. doting that period.
A newt) man was killed by the fall of Mr. Vietch's
chimney, on South Bay, and this is the only life
List in the city, that we have heard of. Mee of use
families residing on Siuth Bay lett their dwellings
in the course of Saturday, expeaing that if the gale
continued, it would be unsafe to remaia in them

Many of the toa.ting-craft and wand-Moats are
driven on shore on the triars• es, :Lid in the heads of
the d.icks, a 41 ale mach
This gale 'v.'s more violent, and of much longer
continuance, than the one waich took place in
1753. From the description given of the hurri.
me in 17.52, we beiewe that to-have been the most
dreadful, though it is much to be teams' that the
lose of property is now much greater than at any
fanner period.

LIST Or VESSELS LOFT Aeon DAUI Allan JIM TY r MILE:

Ship link/eon, Mash, o: Criarleagues, bound kw umirdeaus,
Parch tiamaged, and uoluarlai g.
Shlpeolunius, of Chirlastm,mnikit the white
Brig Conce.4 of Pnrinadmre, sunk at Ptiokaa's whirl; she
is bulged, awl Mr rein has part d.
Ciaistorher, quiii Africa, sunk M a Mart
ling Tartar, lakly (ruin Afraga, gone to oaten.
Ship India, Ilaiwar 1, driven", ign up in Slakes Doek.
Wig Unanimity, %Valenti, oLortu siutua the Illuve.mar't
Yng Ynaf4lk, dittn. dat'o.
Seh,..ner Rising Sun, on Williams'a wharf, much damaged.
s-treanee mary, .:•CliAtie:toa, sunk at Ilan'. we.: f.
Y.rig fbomas, much Uijaired in her u ;per worke and .noe..thi g.
Schmher Eliza Ann, bound far Nassau, in Ashley eta:
crew, seven in numb—r, remained on the: lantern ail night, and
were oaken off ye terday morning.
Reg Nines, driven into little. Creek.
!trig Vomit, albite on St Jaarrs's Wand ; seemd schooners
ate a'm on shore on St Janim's Idand. P. ,:d • t the foregoing,
upw4r are driven awl jammed via sal the *liege they re-
mised consiateratda d image in their tigg,s, spiv., anal tipper
emits.
The Iti? Middieu.n is also agroond in a dock.

The //fertrioui non of war, Sir CuAnt
TON, is arrive.) at Plyrnorth, from our squadron,
off Ferrol, v.iiich she left all we'l on the 27th ult.
The day before she sailed, a vessel arrived with dis:
pitches from our Government, to Admiral COCU.
11,104 g, giving information of the capture of the
Spanish t7izatts. A signal was immediately hoisted
on board the Admiral's ship, for all Captains, and
every person belonging to the British squadron, to
quit the shore, and not to bold any communication
with it till farther orders. Not a single boat was
suffered to approach the ship which brought the di:-
pate. es. that no intelligence might be communicat-
ed fro... it. Sir CUAIII.Zs HAMILTOII sag of :0‘
town immediately tie his Wain.