The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-11-12 00:00:00

•••••••••••••7 Immo. ••••••••.anr, -nrmalwarr... •
egoisselsolt. ow ma ' as of wives, chadors.,
and eeketionn, All& in the Inhume the putrid .Lirtch
tway ly catmints them ; cattle, •hich have fallen so members,
add greatly to the noisome rod. l'he wahr,from the rawly
matter of the stone. are ei•iimhlosl in a mass, and the wit.-
row *harts of Shosj, entirely lose, ohms adding ro the def.
fireside, of the stiffen-is. The•w?per stoner of the palace
fell, and buried, amongst other.. (lie rt,olirr of the de-
posed Rau : what hones stand are so shin tere•J as iii he liable
to fall in the ruins ; and the very complete wreck of the wall
on the soothers side, as well as the 4ilmulitioo of clearly all
the tows ra mewl gateways, render it iin:.eassibte for fthooj to
he a city Of aill. The leas .of live* clainot he confined to
the city. I fear, in all the town* and villattes, mortality has
hero trim.. lam inclined to thiliki from the eireuinhante
of A VuiCalla hilVille opened on a hill, 30 mites finny Mum),
that the country will not expel hurt. • reps-let' of the evil.
From our camp bring in a plain, no very material damage
has been sustain. d ; the tiles of • few temporary erected
houses were knocked off, soil the wall. shattered.
I shall attempt to give you the sensation felt by those both
in ramp and city. In the latter, I was hammed by a Gen-
Masan. who nearly antlered by a house fallen' over hint,
that, riding nu without an idea of • hat was to happen, upon
the fie at not lee,a heavy appall iisz deadened noise, the motion
of the earth, walls of the homes on each site of the street
tottering and (sluing outwards, impressed upon him an idea,
and he called out, that a mine 1,1% Npruter ; whereas, another
Gentleman imagined the hook of the took was forced by the
water; them isles. accompanied with an unpleasant giddi-
ness or the [wad, stud sielness of stomach, from the heaviest
of the ;round—
" In one will roar expired
" The shattered towei,—the wall thrown down,
" The waves a moment backward bent, •
" The hills that shake, •It hon.:tie omen!,
" As Kill earthquake passal:'
(Iltrun's Siege of Corinth.)

In camp a similar sickness and giddiness's, re experienced;
and in ignorance, until the shock was over (which lasted a
"'liana) of the mane of the noise below the earth, some sat
down instinctively. miters threw themselves down. tine was
paptsg work.pdryle in • circle, and spun seeing him squat,
the whole followed the maniple, and sat round him, the
eery picture of despair." The seiGation 1 felt was a giddi-
ness and horror at perceivinc a small hillock, char to which
1 was riding (a short distance from the camp', completely
agitated, and at the same tint' my buret plunged, from the
ground moving. This was the ease also with an lacer I
was riding with.
1 hare ton inquiry ascertained that many years ago, and
in the remembrance of the West inhabitniita, an unshilat-
log motion has been felt before in Kutch, lint never. I hope,
will again he attended with such a horrible catastrophe; the
distress of which has been 11.1 great upon the iiihnbitauts
that 1 confess I fail short of ability to describe it.
Tranelation of a letter from a respectable native to •
torreopondent at Barods, dated 11th Jane, from bort& :
" I have *eat you • letter and given you an account of every
thing that ha. occurred here; yesterday the 9th offest.
(the 11th of June.) in the evening, a noise issued from the
earth like the beating of the Nohist, and occasioned the
trembling of all the people: it appeared most wood. ere!,
and deprived us all of our senses so that we cow not
ace; every thing appearing dark before us, a dizziness mime
upon mane people MD that they fell down. The walla of the
feet of Isoria in 'natty places were completely overturned,
sod the guns Ml frum the Mations ; the inhabitants ran home
to their houses, many of which fell down. Fe one hour
this remained ; the !madam iu the town wine fell, nod
the intwrit appeared as it falling; she walls et the fort that
remained ape the first shack, appeared in • suited slate.
For an hour and a half tba Mimi/nests did sot know cads
Miser ; after that times!! was boob and mill, and we then re-
turned to our latinara I at night a trenshling seised our
bodies, autism Wednesday morning same horsemen who as.
rived, enure to me and reported, that in the field. the earth
opened *led threw up water; is me whirl. I writ there,
lead midi wee the cam anal the water ranee np from the
earth fa Many Same.,
mid N appealed like the rookies of
vein whet dming ions $ welt; It onniabard .elf sight
in the /sail and its skis at taw pleas Oa worth had gime