The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-27 00:00:00

COWES Novrmata 21.

The Twins pilot-boat, of this port, is come into harbour
with considerable damage, witol:ass broken, boom, &e.
while lying in Studland Bay. Yvsterday, the Ehtleavour,
of this port, parted from lkr anchors, and went on fhnre ;
vessel totally lost, and very apprehensive of the crew. The
Hero, of Southton, parted, went on shore on Christchurch-
ledge, and is totally lost; and the Speedy Jersey packet,
belonging to Southampton, also parted, and has not been
since seen.

PORTSMOUTH, TIITRSDAT NIGHT.

[EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.]
The gale has totally subsided, and the ships on shore
are respectively getting their cargoes and stores out, ptepa-
ratory to attempts being made to get them off. The water
is slowly ebbing, but so great was the inundation that the
disastrous effect.: will be long felt. It may be said that the
moracs next the town, the- marshes near the castle, the
Salterns and Failington marshes, almost form a connected
sheet of water. The damage at Farlington is incalculable:
all the embankments are washed away, and the greatest
devastation has been caused. To form some idea of the
rush of water that entered these marshes, it is only neces-
sary to say, that the engine-house attached to the water-
works was completely surrounded.
Two vessels were driven over the banks, and several
boats passed over the marshes.
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The gale lasted, it may be said, nearly thirty hours. Its
parallel is nut remembered by the oldest inhabitant.

SOVTUAMPiON, Nov. 23.

The storm with which this port was visited on Monday
night and Tuesday morning, if not the most terrible known
in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, certainly yields
only to that of the memorable 4th of March, ISM About
ten o'clock on Tuesday, the flood had reached the limit of
the highest tides, and long before the time of high water
(half past-twelve), it had risen from four to six feet above
it, and urged on by the resistless wind, passed over every
thin,' in its course. There is not a single piece of the sea
wall round the town that is not injured. The sea made a
clear breach over the whole shore from Millbrook to Four-
posts, and also over the I.v.!ach towards lichen Ferry.
Great part of the platfonn has foundered in along with the
large gun that stood on it. The whole country to the east
of the town, as far as the eye can reach, is one 'indistin-
guishable sheet of water, with the river I tchen, and many
cows and pigs have been drowned. There is, fortunately,
but little shipping in the harbour, consequently we have
but few casualties to report. A large collier brig ran on
the Breakwater, and from thence ashore, near the Baths,
in a very bad situation ; she is supposed to be much da-
maged. A small vessel foundered near the Quay, another
at a small distance, and a third ran ashore on the beach.
Out of a hundred and more open boats, &c. scarcely a
dozen remained afloat, and the heaps of broken spars, &e.
which came ashore, tell a sorrowful tale so the owners.
Great 'turnings of tiles and bricks have been falling about
the streets ; we have not heard of any serious accident from
them. Indeed, the only less of life that has come to our
knowledge yet, is that of a poor man, named Champniss,
who was blown off the roof of the London night coach,
at seven o'clock this morning, and killed on the spot; and
a report is current, 'hat several persons have been lost
out of a large open boat which was drifted in, keel
uppermost.