The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-14 00:00:00

EARTHQUAKE DI INDIA:

[From the "Bombay Gassite of July 1.).
We hasten to lay before our readers a selection'
from the numerous communications we have re.
ceived respecting this awful visitation. It Wll5
slightly felt at Poona'', and we believe it did not
reach to the southward of this city, ur extend much
beyond the tropic.

CAMP, 81100 J, JVNI 19;
At seven o'clock on the evening of the lath of• June, an
earthquake destroyed the whole district and country. or
Kutch; accounts that have been received mention, tilt:
from Litekput Busier to-Bittchao,the•wlsole of the towns
and villages are more or less in rules. 'l•he towns of Man.
daviey Muundtia, and Anjar, have antlered extensively
and severely; , but the city of filloojond the fort of lluojia,
between which our force is encamped, ate reduced, Ike
former to ruins, and the latter so breached as to be oselew
as a fortification. This, however, It the leovt pall of the
evil; at the moment of• the crash, it is apprehended, and I
tear nut ally way exaggerated, that ;000. of the Whilst-
lams sere 'paled in the IMASII.•

Even Imre the etlecta of this horrible visitation are felt
'.(though three days since the first shuck) in constant and
hourly vibrations of the earth. The inhabitants hare been
obliged to forsake what were once their hallo, and encamp
onside upon swine '411411 bilk. Their distress cannot he
.well described ; brimmed, maimed, and agitated with fear,
they go daily tofu the city to work upon their.several
houses, to try and extricate the mangled reillaitia of wives,
children, and relations, whilst in their pious labour the
putrid stench neatly exhausts them ; cattle, which have
fallen in 'mothers, add greatly to the Mistime evil. The
walls, from the sandy nature of the 41.0 aw, ate ci 'ambled in
a Mass, and the narrow streets tit llhooj, entirely lost, thus
11 adding to the difficulties of the solterers. The orris
ketones of the palace fell, and buried, ausionast others, the
1-mother of the deposed Harlia what aunties stand are so •
shattered as to be liable to fall iY the ruins; .and the very
complete wreck of .he wall on the nowhere side, as well
,as the deitiontimi of nearly all'llir tossers arid gateways,
-resider it nopussible for Bliouj to be a city again. The
lossof lives Contain be confined 4t) lint city. 1 tear, in all
the towns and villages, mut tality has been guest. I mu
incliued mr think, films the eircmustatice of a vol lino liar.-
Mg opened on a mill, a 0 miles Irons Shoo). that the COM.
try will nut capes truer a repetition of the evil.
Front out camp being.. in.a plain, no vary .neaterial da....
mage has hero sustains. dt die- tiles of a few temporary
erected houses were knocked sill, mid the walls shattered.
1 wall attrirss to give yon the seissattou left try those.
both tit eiaatp and city. hi Ilw WWI, l was Infos sued by
Gent Irman, wins Direflyalitthied, uy a house fail.ita over
him, that, tiding oil 01111001 i all adra of what 5.i. 10 hap-
pen, ilie dist notice, • heavy attpalting nini..ened
...Ise, the 11101101. of /lie earth, WaYoOf . 1.. sialaiseS nil each
side ut the Aimee: loitering and fauiug.initsvma., insvrtssed
lttmWl imet.au idea, and lie milted out„ total a mitt. was
'prima; wurteas,anolhei Gentleman laideal.d lite bank
ut the tank was forced by the waters , accuin.
;melded with an tar head, lila
siciairm, 01 -.wniarm ill uai me n.-• • iimg of l..e.rotnud—
'• In one wild roar expired!
" The sauntered town,—the wall thrown down,
" The waves a nittiaera haritiiiau bent,
" The hills mat shake, awiawilia unrent,
" As if an earthquake passed.
(lb " Siege of .Corinth.'')
In Map a sim.lar sickness amid giti.l.i.eas sure esp.—
rielieed ; and in ignorance, until the sou. I, was over (which
Lasted a ilitifille) of time nature tot tite liuthe below the
earth, some sat down iiistinctiem , utheia sinew them.
selves down. One was paying wurkvi.Ople 111 a circle,
and ii; seeing him squat, the whole followed Ilie
round lam, " time very plelitt• of despair."
Inc sensation Lfelt was a giddatess and horror at perceie.
ing a small hillock, close to winch I was tiding ma short
distance horn the camp). completely agitated, and at the
same time my boom plunged, from the Kimmel moving.
This was the ease also with au officer I was tiling with.
I have, on nights y, ascertained that really years ago,and
in the remembrance of the oldest inliauitants, au usnidulat-
ing notion has been telt before in Kutch, but never,l hope,
will again be attended with such a burl dile catastrophe;
the distr.'s, Of which has been so great upon the inhabi-
tants, that LCOllll'66l fall short of ability to describe t.

Camp near I.llaaj, Jnne 17.
We arc at present. in a shocking sta;.• of alarm. Lad
evening, hetvi ern sis and seven o'clock. we were visited by
dreadful earthquake. The wall that surrounded Moo.) is
almost levelled with the ground, aud the few lowers w hies
are left standing are merely briskets sestains ; the houses
generally utaettifeel, uthent w ruins, aud most of the large
buildings,including the palace, greatly injured ; the wall of
the Ilill-fo,iisdiwitin many plat es, and there is a com-
plete. breach Ileilf the gateway. The right of our sump
rests a shod distance on tile left. of the latter. fronting the
tuna, and extends along the ',idiom of the hill to a little
Layoud the Large tower otsthe fotAllit.%4C,t point. I son happy
that we have had none llllltersully hail, four Seapoys
only bruised, who were too duty in the town; hut I feat that
a great many casualties have occuried g the poor
wildest same hundreds are said to have lost their lives.—
There a at present so much confusion that tne numbers casi-
no he tut-en:tined.
11e had several shucks during the night, and they base
cuulinrard.tt Mit rvals this day; the last one about Iwo hours
alp', a lien I could )..arctly keep upon my legs; the seam, ion
is loirr lite a bite it lasts. 'lltey„liave sutfered, e uuderstaml,
in the sante wry at Stijar.
. P S.— tier. sp. m. There is a slight shock at tills moment.
A tru,t in Cnid they wit' tease altogether.
0444 ant al o Lcticr
_lrvin a e wreamone I fin,nola,

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