The National Register.
London, England, 1822-01-13 00:00:00

GALES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.

Gesma. Dec. 27.—About two o'clock on Tuesday
snoring (2.5 th) we were visited by a gale of wind
from S W , which, I believe, has never been sur-
passed here : it is impossible to describe its fury, or
the sea by which it was accompanied, and its efil.tets
will speak stronger than language. Some of them
are as fidlows :
The Belle, from Liverpool, bound to this place
and Leghorn, was driven on shore at San Pier de
Riena, a little west of this port, about a mile distant,
and gone to pieces. Captain and two men drowned.
A Spanish vessel, loaded with pilchards, totally
lost near the same place, with two other vessels, one
a Genoese. In the part of the quarantine ground,
the General Lincoln, American, (cargo, fish sugar,
&c.), lost; two men drowned.
In the inner port, nut a ship has escaped serious
damage ; among the rest the John, Drumming,
and the City of Genoa, arc much injured, particu-
larly the fbrrier.
Upwards of :30 feluccas, pinks, &c. have gone
from their anchors, and it is said that nearly 50 lives
are lost within the port. All the bridges, moles,
buttresses, &c. of the port have received immense
injury : even Porto Franco has suffered, and a very
great loss has been sustained in grain, by the sea
washing over the warehouses, and destroying them.
(*smmit I.irrEtt, SAM C DATE.)
The most tretnendons weather in the memory of
man has overwhelmed our port a ith desolation. It
commenced on Cluistmas.eve, and raged with great
fury nearly 40 hours. Thirty-two vessels, small
and large are said to have perished. The Manning,
from London, Alert from Bristol, and the Ellen,
from Bergen, after suffering considerably, are got
into the Arsenal. The accounts from the coast, it
is feared, will be very bad.
DEC. 29.—We had last night again bad weather
and heavy sea, which caused damage to another
Swedish vessel, and the loss of bowsprit to the NVel-
lington. At Villafranca, an American, with fish,
has been sunk, and a Sardinian vessel, with brandy,
lost. From Marseilles we have not yet had letters,
but fear mischief also there, as it appears the storm
took that direction. At Leghorn, it appears, they
have escaped ; at least letters (rota thence. of the
25th, do not notice any thing particular.
LEGHORN, Dec. 22 —Arrived, the White Oak,
from New York and Gibraltar ; Diligent, (ruin
Boston, (these vessels have taken shelter under the
Malora,till the gale which now blows, abates); Susan
and Letitia, from Gibraltar.
TARRAGONA, Dcc 26. —I have to inform you, that
for these three days past we have had the most ter.
rible gale of wind ever expaienced here from the
south-west, with a most tremendous sea rolling into
the port : all the vessels parted or cut from their
moorings, and beating one upon another, have every
one of them received very considerable damage.—
The incessant fatigue I have undergone in getting
every possible assistance given to the British vessels,
prevents me from giving you any further particulars
of the damage done.
TRIESTE, Dec. 25.—We had to day a tremen-
dous gale of wind from S.W. ; half of the town
was inundated with sea driven by the wind. Many
warehouses have been severely injured ; the gale is,
however, now abated, and the water diminishing.
NAPLES, Dec. 31.—Since the 18th the wmther
has been tremendous, and there is no appearance of
clearing up.