The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-03 00:00:00

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NAY'"AL IRTPLLICENCZ.

PORTSMOUTH, .1. I.
Sailed the Minch, armed en flute, to Le guardship
Lymington.
Accounts were receive here this morning, by a
Danish ship, which passel this port from the West
Indies, of IWO most dreadful hurricaiws in the Lee-

vrard Islands, in which 314) ve►sels, of various de-
scriptions and nations, were lost► about 130 English
ships were of the number. The Dane does not
bring the particulars, as she sailed from St. Kitt's
two days aft.,r the late hurricane, when the loss at
all the Islands could not he ascertained ; hut it is

s4ppose I .1')olit the above number has been lost.
At :h' islands of St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas,
and St. Kite., 15.5 sail were lost ; and at St. Kitt's,
every sessel that lay there.
This morning early, the ships mentioned yester-
day, of Sir John Orde's squadron, sailed from St.
lE:ten's ; but the wind wa; so short, and it coming
on to blow, they were obliged to anchor again.
The 1,10+4 C tptain Hamm-ind, returned this
afrerno in, with the loss of her mizen-top-mast and
main-yard, in the dreadful gale of last night, which
was very severe.
The Bellerophon, of 74 guns, went out of harbour
this morning.
• DRIXII AM, OCT. 31.
Arrived this afternoon, under the command of
Admiral Cornwallis—Pi/%r de Parite San loser,
Prince, Gror!se, Princess Rowel, Britannia,
Trmeenire, Windsor rustic, adinth, Inspeuenr, Dee
flare, and f-enerahl•-, and remain, with the ships I
informed you of yesterday.
HARWICH, NOT. I.
The Lark packet, Capt. Dell, sailed this day with
the Mail% of the 30th ult. for 1-huum ; and the
Dorset, Capt. Hamilton, for Gottenburgh.
IRO/MOUTH, OCT. 91.
Arrived the Terri:Rs:man of war, fri m a cruise ;
Metzell, and the Pen's:, Birch, from Dantzic.
Sailed the dirges sloop of war, on a cruise. Wind

DEAL, NOV. 1.
Arrived the Harp,, and the Or,st,.s slanos of war;
Far,/ Isnrob; 3f,nr, Bolt Trz•ess, S eado,
.s.4arh,T. do-ter, J,ekad, and several other G'.ernsey
eintrr„ Ste. blown from off the Frcitch coast; Car.
kw and f'ians sloops of War from Portsmouth ; And
WM:v:l in the Downs with the rest of the ships as
per last.

FROM I.I.OYIPS LIST.
G vvv Nov 1 -..ta,4,4 by the Eliadbeth, Menthe',
item ; Vrow Tr.d..rick, froei
Stedt 01.1rolture, Hung•san ; and the Twe Gebruder.,
from Varell. the Haaaett; Floyson ; and tile Apollo,
• no Africa ; Mitemuie, R.wd, fit Philadelphia; Pore"
Secuad, St-venaon, for Jamaica; Idle Pon, (jar, for St.
Michael ; He. detch, Goods and the Toe V'reinders, &mai,
fur tmbacn.

MINTVID
In Yarmouth Rnad•—the Libr-ty, Johnsen, from Tr.nrin-
reft ; end the R•Tweerv, Deti,".an, front Petero•trzti.
At Livvroool-.-thc Lpsra, Newman, fmia New-York; and
thn IfigAant, DAL frnin Rid.
At iotudeattA—the nuni, F.Awant , front Nt *-Yo;k.

HURRICANES.

%ITT'S. OUT. 7.

We are sorry it is our poliol task to lay before
nor Realr. 40 Account of a Hurricane of consi-
derably much longer duration, and nearly aufatal

in its eked', as the memorable one in 177'2.
On Monday afternoon, the weather began to as-
sume a very tempest tons aspen, and through the
night the wind int.rensed, and blew with great vio-
lence from the North and North West, accompanied
with incessant showers of rain. Tuesday nprni:.g
held out no heroes of an intermission, as it had wly
changed its tioreaion, and blew with etrial violence
from the S. W. varying frequently to the S. In
the early part of the day, a schooner, belonging t
Dlr. Chadwick, of St. Bartholomew's, was ft r d
on shore ; and between two and three o'clock the ,
"kip Bedford, Clpt. Dixon, having on board 3CO
hogsheads of sugar, and abut Sri pipes of Madeira,
was driven from her anchor, and forced on shine.
near Fort Smith, where she soon after went tot
pieces, hardly a vestige of her remaining: provides-.
tially Capt. Dixon, and his crew, got safe on shore,
and some part of the wine will be saved. A sloop'
belonging to Mr. M'Gie soon followed, and is en-'
tint, destroyed. The American brigs, Ceeire and
Ceres, to avoid the impending danger, if possible,
put to sea ahem this. time ; but the former could
sot effea her escape, as she was forced on shore at
Salt Ponds, and has since gone to pieces. Ihe ap-
proachitig night presented a most gloomy appear-
ance to the other ships in 'he Ro :ds, as every n:ark
asf destruaion seemed to AV•iit them, horn the in-
creasing violence of the wind and swell : 01.1 were
sten before the evening close 3, to labour and t itch
very much. Abut one o'clet k that night get
anxiety rrras kept alivefor the fate of the unfortu-
nate persons an board them, AC it then blew a per-
fed hurricane; aln.nst every face being blown
down, several 'mall houses carried a. as by the tor-
rent of water which was' ed down, eccasa lied by the
unceasing deluge of rates, and many other houses
entirely strioped.
Wednesday me-Ling presented a scene of horror
to the imagination. Not vessel in the Rnad, and
the Beach entirely covered with wreck. The
Wi-
hem Pitt, Capt. Abercrombie, a ship loading here
for London, lay on shore above the Pond ; the Ate-
rem, Cala Thompson,a fine new ship, her first voy-
age, with a cargo worth 40,00 11. sterling, also on
shore I lower down, the boons Na4,dot, the ship
re-captured, and sent in here on the tith ult. by His
Majesty's ship Hippomenes, Capt. Ayscough, with a
valuable cargo of inabegaily and lugwood on board,
Laying on the Bar.
Besides the above, we have to enumerate the loss
of,the ship Nelson, Capt. Lennon, at Deep Ray I
sloop Irtiliaw A.bitor, Capt. Hanit, of St. Croix,
at Sandy point ; and at Salt Ponds, besides the long
above-mentioned. are the wrecks of two Am:tic:in
schooners, Mr. DA ,Aes's sloop, Mr. tiodvts* s Wig
Jean, Mr. Coventry's schoot er. and other ves-
sels, whose names we have not been able to learn.
Atc..unts received from the different quarters of the
Island, detail the many ravages made by the torrent
of water from the mountains, and the dama&a,
r, more or less, sustained in the mills and w.,rks'of
• ev •••• State in the Island. We canna t pre.
Itud w takulate the loss on this distressing acts.