The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-30 00:00:00

GLASGOTV, DEC. 25.

SINCE about six o'clock this morning It has blown
a tremendous storm from the solth-west, accompa-
nied with heavy rain. A •riumber of chimney tops
and .came -have been blown down, by which several
people have been hurt. In the High-street, above,
Duke-street, a stack of chimnies fed down upon a
low house, drove in the roof, forced out the front
wall, and dangerously hurt an old woman and a
Child, who were immediately carried to the Infir-
mary.

GEEEIVO CK, DE C. 26:

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• YESTERDAY morning it blew a .tremendous gale
from the W. S. W. and continued with little bate-
Merit during 'the whole of the day. There was not
a single Vessel in the Roads. which did not drive.
The Independence, W A LE:En, was put on, shore at
the Hill of Ardmore, and has lost her fore and main
topinasts. The Diana,' RoxßuliGn, was driven up
as far as brumfork, and has lost her tbremast. It
is feared that much damage will be sustained along
the Coast: The- tide also, rose to an extraordinary
height, the water being upwards of a foot deep in
some of, the houses on the Breast.

The melancholy event which recently took place
at Bangor Ferry will most probably accelerate the
plan suggested in Parliament last Session, of opening
a new road, by which all ferries in that quarter 'will
he avoided, and, consequently„travellers be secured
against such fatal accidents ; a matter of consider-
able importance iii point of interest, as well as hu.
manity,

AMERICAN EXPEbITIO.Nv OF DISC6FERY,

In our Paper of the ad instant, we inserted_some
observation& in regard to the success of the American
Expedition of Discovery,un der the command of Car.
LEwx s. We.were yesterday favoured with the follow-
ing copy of a letter from Capt. CLARK; the second in
command, to his brother, General CLARR, received
on the same day ; which, to the improvement of geo-
graphy, and the satista6tion of the public at large,
sets the qUestion suggested in our former publication
al_rest, inasmuch as it ascertains that that Expedition
did succeed in penetrating through the Continent
between the rivers Missouri and Columbia, and in
navigating the ,Columbia down to the Pacific.
" St. Louis, Sept. 23, 18c6.
"- DEAR BROTHER,

" We arrived at this place at twelve o'clock to-day
from the Paoific Ocean, where we remained during
the last winter, near the entrance of, the Columbia
River. This station we left on the 27th of March
last, and should have reached St. Louis early in Au
gust, 'had we not been detained by the snow, which
barred our pas Sage across the Rocky Mountains until
the 24th of June. In returning through those moun-
tains, we divided ourselves into Several parties, di-
grossing from the route by which we went out, in
order the more effe&ually to explore the country,
and .discover the most praaicable route which does
exist across the Continent by the way of the Missouri
and Columbia Rivers. In this we were completely
successful, and have therefore no hesitation in-declar-
ing, that such as nature has permitted, we have dis-
covered the beat route which does exist across this
Continent of North America in that direction. Such
is that by way of the Missouri to the foot of the
Rapids below the great falls of that flyer, 'a distance
of 2575 mites ; thence by land passing by the Rocky
Mouutaias, to a navigable part of the kooskooske,
340 ; and with the lk,.Oskooke 73 Miles, Leivis's River
H 4 miles, and the Colitglbia 413 miles to the Pacific
Ocean, making the total distance from the confluence
of the Missouri and Mississippi to the discharge of
the Columbia into the Pacif4c Ocean;3s's4 miles. The
navigation of the Missouri may be deenied good—its
difficulties, arise from its falling banks, CI-111)er em-
'bedded in the mud of ifs channels, its sand-bars and
steady rapidity of its current, all which May be over-
come with a great degree of certainty, by using the
necessary precautions. The passage by land of 3-10
miles, from the falls of the Missouri to the Koos-
looske, is the most formidable part of the tray pro:-
posed across the -Continent. Of this distance, 200,
Wiles is along a good road, and 140 miles over Ire-
Mendous mountains, whiCh for 60 miles are covered
with eternal snows. A passage over these Mountains,
is, however, practicable from the latter part of June
to the last of September • and the cheap rate at which
horses are to be obtained from the, Indians of the
Rocky Mountains, and west of them, reduces•the ex-
pences of transportation over this portage to a mere
trifle. The navigation of the Kooskooke, Lewis's
River, and the Coltinibia, is safe and good, from the
Ist of- April to the middle of August, by making
three portages'on the latter river ; the first of which,
in descending, is 1200 paces at the falls of Colum- '
bia, 2151 miles up that river; the, second, of two
miles,' at the long narrows six miles below 'the
falls; and a third, also of two miles at 'the great
Rapids, 65 miles still lower down. The tide flows
up the Columbia 183 miles',,and within seven miles
of the great Rapids. Large sloops may with safety
ascend as high as tide water, and vessels of 300 tons
burthen reach the entrance of the Multnomah river,
a large southern branch of the Columbia, Which.
takes its.rise on the confines of New Mexico, _with
the Callerado and Apostle's rivers , discharging it-
self into the Columbia 145 miles from its entrance
into the Pacific Ocean. I consider this tra&
across the Continent of immense advantage to the
fur trade, as all the furs collected in nine-tenths of
the must valuable fur country in America, may .be
conveyed to the mouth of the Columbia, and shipped
from. thence to the East Indies, by the Ist of Au-
gust in each year : and will of course reach Can-
ton earlier than the furs which are annually export
ed from Montreal arrive in Great Britain.

" In our outward-bound voyage; we ascended to
the foot of the Rapids below'. the great falls of
the Missouri, where we arrived on the] 4th of June;
1805. Not having met with any of the natives of
the Rocky Mountains, we were, of course, igne-'
rant of the passes by land which existed thro' these
mountains to the Columbia river; and had we even
known the route, we were destitute,of horses, which
would have been indispensibly necessaryto enable us
to transport the requisite quantity of ammunition and
other stores to ensure the remaining part of our voy-
age,down the Columbia ; we therefore determined to
navigate the Missouri, as far as it was practicable, or
unless we met with some of the natives' from whom
we could obtain horses. and intbrmation of the coun-
try. Accordingly,' we took a most laborious portage
at the fall of the Missouri, of 18 miles, which we
effected, with our canoes and baggage by the 3d of
July. From thence, ascending the Missouri,we pene-
trated the Rocky Mountain at the distance of.7l'miles
above the _upper part of the portage, and penetrated
as fanas the three forks of that river, a distance of
, 180 miles fm then. Here the Missouri divides into
three nearly equal branches at the same point the
two largest branches are so nearly of, the same dig-
nity, that we did not -conceive that either of them
could, with propriety, retain the name, of the Mis-
souri ; and therefore called the:-;e streams Jef-
ferson's, Madison's, and Gallatin's rivers.. The con-
fluence of these rivers, is 3848 miles from the mouth
of the Missouri by the meanders of that river.—
We arrived at the three forks of the Missouri the
2,7 th of July. • Not having yet been so fortunate as
to meet with the natives, althengh I bad previously
made several exertions for that purpose; we were
compelled to continue mit- route by water. . .

(To be contivued.)

It is not true that the Duke of BRUNswICK•, in
his last moments, or that his son, solicited permission
that. his corpse should be ,deposited in the•tOmb'of
his ancestors. In his will the Duke desires to be
buried in the place where he may happen to die.
But the request to bury his body at Brunswick was
made by the States of Brunswick ; and BONAPARTF,,
enraged that the people should evince any affeecion'
or attachment to their legitimate. 'Sovereign; return-
ed_ that insolent and unmanly answer which has
been published in all the Papers. ,; 7
Diody on the 26th inst. at Penzance, the infant
son of Capt. SAMCEL LIoon.LINZEE, Royal Navy,
01 an irruption, in consequence of vaccitiatiutt.

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