The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-11-23 00:00:00

L'ITRICAIVE AT ST. THOMAS'S.

By the Danish ve►sel Harr. iett, Lottxxx, master,
winch pat in on Thursday, wind-bound, from St.
Thomas's, in forty-two day., destined to Ham-
burgh. with toborco) we learn the melancholy in-
telligence, that the town of St. Thomas's hes been
wholly destroyed by a hurricane. numbers of the
inhabitants tilled situ wounded by the falling of the
honors, and seventy-Iwo ships, including two Danish
Wen a war, driven ashore or foundered. Tit,
violence of the storm surpassed any thing ever
known in that quarter, and extended to Tortola,
where also it did considerable damage.—(llystowth
74egr0p.4.1
Extract of a letter from St. Thomas's, dated Sep-
tember 24, 11119:—" In the ev,ning of the 21st
inst. it began to blow with much violence from the
W.N.W. attended with torrents of rain. From one
until fuer o'clOck of the meriting of the ettl, the
hurricane was most severe, and blew with a degree
of violence greater than hid ever occurred in this
bland within the recollection of the oldest inhabi-
tants. the wind occasionally slating between
W.N.W. and S.S.W.

A!I the fences have been destroyed, many
Losses unroofed, and some entirely blown down;
itie-! injured in some degree, and many
corned entirely away. Of the numerous tine ves-
sels that floated in our harbour on the morning of
t!.e 21st, not are rode out the gale except his Ma-
jesty's ship Salisbury. Admiral Ctorertt. the
Dacish ship, Harriet Doris. the Danish schooner,
Patriot, and two sloops. The whole of the beach
lit the south extremity of the harbour is completely
tined with the wrecks, but few of which it is feared
will ever he got oft, and it is to be lamented that
wary Lave gone down.
" The works sin! dwellings on rimost every plan-
tation on the island have been materially injured,
'nail, of them blown away, and on a few estates
some negroes have been killed, which, together
with the destruction of the case, has completely
de,tro)ed all our expectations of the ensuing crop.
To attempt to estimate the loss sustained would be
impossible."
(Extratt from the St. Thomas's Times.)
" *T. TUOMAt's, SEPT. 24.
" Since the commencement of our editorial
duties, it has not been our province to record an
event of a nature so much to be lamented, as that
of the hurricane of the 41st and 24c1 inst. During
cie whole of the day of the stet, the appearance
this weather strongly indicated the approaching
storm ; consequently every precaution withiu the
power of human foresight was taken by the vessels in
the harbour to enable them to resist its destructive
•ettects; but the event Liss unfortunately proved how
weak are the utmost efforts of human power. In
air, evening of the 4lst it began to blow with much
violence from the W.S.W. attended with torrents
of rani (which continued to fall without intermis-
sion during the storm) from one until four in the
morning of the '24.1. The hurricane was most
severe, and blew with a degree of violence greater
thou had ever twfore occurred in this island within
the recollection of the oldest inliabitams; the wind
• occasi °Sid ly shifting between W.141.«'. and S. S.W.
At dakilifitobe vitud haviog moderated a little,
our towitAssithstrbour presewted * truly melancholy
and 4+4114' ippearamte; till the fences have
been destroyed.; many house. unroofed, and some
entirely blb*ri deem; 4.erf wharf • injured in some
degree, arid many Litt dors entirely carried away.

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minion of Crest• Britoil/. diet Cutprt 140 gifts natici.i
that these lsiandelinver been placed under the imme
abate aid exclusive protection of his Majesty the
King of Great llrita••t, sod this in cooformity
'with the a;rrangernent concluded between the four
great Powers. In conseqesetice, the Court of Eng-
land has amicably requested, that in future Ins
Britannic Majesty may be considered 84 the sove-
reign protector of there 11.1sads anti their 'nimbi.
hints, as his' protected subjects, and that they be
treated in the same manner as B itish subject•;
that twaisles, these subjects when they visit the
countries of the Outrun:lu Empire, for the purposes
of commerce, be Geed from all constraints, and be
permitted to carry on their business on the same
conditions as are observed its fivour of the other
subjects• of his 514jesty, and that they be per-
'usually treated in a good and friendly manner.
Now as the Court of Eagland Ives been from the
most remote time the intimate friend of our Sub-
lime Order, oe satisfy their blendly request on the
foal tog !Mooted out, In consequence the Sublime
Porte recognizes henceforth the inhabitants of these
also as protected by the• Cruise Of Crest Britain, its
the Instiller mentioned above, &c. The English
Ambassador, Sir Robert Lipton, having engaged to
have the treat• raitti-d by 1114 Court Withill a few
months—it is agreed that no change shall he made
in thew 'stipulations, and that they remain in full
force, as long as nothing contrary to them is done
on the part of Ettgland." 11

A public functionary at Vienna has had the
baseness to forge state bonds, or.cl to borrow upon
them leer rums from individu3l+ iu easy circum-
stances. He then fled to Paris. As he was going
to Versailles to see the gallery, he was recognised
by an otneer, who had him arrested, and be is now
ou his way hither. .

TRANICIPORT, NOVEMBER 13.

In the first sitting of the Central Committee, the
riper, relative to the affairs or Sand were deli-
vered to it. as well as those concerning the inqui-
ries which hare been instituted in several States of
the Gornto') CainfetleThey.--(Geritaft Papers to
Aorember IS

FLANDERS MAIL.

navtims, NOVEMBER W.

A sentence passed last week by the Tribunal of Brussels,
on the complaint of the Ministiv of his Catholic Majesty,
has noliNeil the tair of five hundred florin►, in all ifs rigour,
to Ili; Editor ..f The Journal Genertel des Pays Bas, for
having isircried Vie Proclamation of Melchior, who is nt the
head of a body of milers in Spain. We have mentioned this
piety in one of our preceding Numbers.

sovsmesa 17.

The sentence condemning the Editor of The Journal Ge-
neral, will, doubtless, be followed by as appeal from him,
shirr this appeal is already called fur ia the opinion of many
prisons ; and, in fact, how can it be believed that the father
of a numerous family can remain wider the weight of a ern•
*core, the moor of which would deprive him of his profess
and consegnentlyof the means granted to every indivi-
dual to subsist by the fruit of his Inbenr, and that for having
iti,trted s piece which came from England to our shores,
like SO many other thiugs which came to us from that
country, and which we 1:0 not reject, notwithatanding the
harm they do its; *piece, toe, which he prefaced by vow,
ti )))) , inserted it only as a sinister rroettinent, and
which was read in many journals that have circulated freely
in this soontry before it wan inserted in the Journal General.

'I he sentence states, that M. Weirseubsuck, p-inter to
his Majesty, convieted of being the pi iutcr and editor of
an nitiele inaerted in the Journal Centred of 2211 August,
1819, in which, under pretest of a pretended Proclamation,
issued by the thief of banditti, Mekhior, the personal (ha-
racier of his Catholic Majesty is insnlted and outragcd, hits
inciii red the penalty lid eatened by Article, I. and H. of the
Law of 28th September, 1810. ►o consequence the Court
condemns him to pay n flue of 100 florin* to his Majesty's
Treasury, wills the suppression of his patent, and the pro-
hibition to print or publish any work fur the space of
three years, and to the rusts.

arntiv, NOVEMBER 9.

The immediate Committee of Justice and Police, at the
head of whit:llls Trutschler, President of the Chamber
of Justice, and which is charged to inquire iniu the dema-
gogical intrigues, has ordered criminal actions t, be insti.
toted against several individuals, particularly against Dr.
Jabs, who in consequence has been removed from Cuatrin to
this city, where he is confined in a place of security till his
fate shall be decided upon. The question, whether the Tri-
bunals of the States of the Confederation in the Central
Committee at Metz shall decide on these affairs, in the
last instance; ur lastly, whether a Collet of Appeal shall be
established, will perhaps not be determined spots before the
new Congress at Vienna.

IDUK,

A general report upon all the exiles out of the kingdom,
will shortly be addrevaed to the Kiug, by the Minister who
has been charged with this business. The result will be ex-
tremely favourable to the great majority—most of them will
obtain permission to return to a country from which their
hearts have never been detached. Civil and military fume.
'Jimmies, voluntary emigrants,sho have returned to France,
will all revisit their tiative land, except the writers who
here never erased to publish (whimsies agaiust Spain. The
clemency of the king will even extend to many of those
who are banished to Ceuta; among them uc mentioned
sums Newberg of She Cortes,known by the name of Lawn's.
These measiires, which are now certain, have excited a most
agreralle sensation throughout the kingdom. A small bale
containing a great otonlwr of copies of the Constitutional
aniard, which is printed at London, has beeu lately seised
in one of the passes of the Pyrenees, and sent lo Madrid
Every kind of means is employed In give circulation in our
territory to the isreialiary writings published abroad, but
double vigilance is used, and it is almost impossible liwy
ihnnld find their way tutu the canopy.
The hands of ►obbers in Fstrenumlitra ire totally destroy-
ed or dispersed. Melchior has escaped, Mid is said to have
led to Portugal, disguised as n Monk. hi Valencia, Cala.
lonia, and the whole of the north of Spain, poolroom] tran-
quillity p►ateils.
The south is alarmed only by the dreadful ravagh of the
yellow fever, to which the bpproattsing add whoa and
north winds will put a 'Mg.

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