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STORM AT CADIZ.
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On the morning of the 7th inst. the Bar of Cadiz
exhibited a scene of the greatest disaster which has
occurred there since 1810. On the 4th and sth the
weather was cloudy, with occasional falls of rain,
accompanied with thunder and lightning, and on the
night of the 6!11, at 10 P.M. the wind rose to almost a
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went on shore on the opposite coast, in different direc-
tions. The Tea Plant, of New York, a very fine ship,
which had but a few days before anchored in the
bay, from Havannah, with a valuable cargo of sugars,
broke from her chain moorings, and went on shore
nearly at the mouth of the river Stn Pedro, which
runs into the bay of Cadiz, between the Trocadero and
Puerto Santa Maria. At five this evening she was
still fast, with a heavy cargo in, and a high sea run.
ning; no lighters could approach her for the purpose
of unloading.
At the same time, and nearly in the same situati)n,
an American brig went on shore; but as she was in
ballast, and the gale setting in at high water, she is so
far beyond the breakers, that it is to be hoped, she will
be got off without much damage. Several Spanish Ma
ni,la tress. is went on shore above Puntalis, and one Ame-
rican brig run nearly into a salt-pit, close to the Isla.
A circumstance m •re unfortunate than a:iy occurred
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Hormones, of New York, laden nritn toci•ti, f ons Ca-
mew. Oft the morning of the gale she had moved up
towards Fantails, there being better anchorage, and
smdother water in that situation, and as the schooner
was short out her first vnyage, the Captain,' an old er-
perie ced sailor of 38 years' standing, loieseeing the
storm approach, made the best point in the harbour he
possibly could ; but, with all human precaution, it was
his f.ite to see his vessel become a total wreck.
At half-past ten at night, heavy rain and lightning,
a squall came, when all hands were on deck, which
sent the schooner in an in taut on her beam ends, and
in less than five minutes more she was keel uppermost.
During this disrter the men regained her bottom, but
the Captain being a little more unfortunate than .the
rest, was thrown with considerable violence into the
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moment would be their last, with eyes fixed upon the
Heavens, and prayers offered to Hist
"-Whose hands the light'ning forms,
" Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms."
The ALMIGHTY seemed, on this occasion, to have
broken through general laws, and to have armed one of
his creatures with sufficient courage to rescue the un-
fortunate crew of this vessel from inevitable destruction.
M. Bezeres, master of the French merchant brig
Constance, not lying far from the scene of disaster, was
anxiously walking on the deck, about one in the morn-
ing, at which period the wind was somewhat abated,
but a heavy sea rolling, perceived at a distance the
wreck of the :schooner, and the crew upon her keel;
the brave Bezeres lost not a moment in calling his men
forward, to induce them to volunteer their services to
rescue their fellow-creatures from an untimely end; the
men, as brave as himself, instantly complied, tk boat
was lowered, the Captain of the La Constance Meted
with his men, fearless of death, and in defiance of the
storm, succeeded in reaching the wreck of the schooner
at two in the morning, to the agreeable surprise of the
unfortunate men, who were now taken into the boat
and arrived safe at La Constance, where they were
furnished with dry clothes,'and entertained in a most
liberal manner during that night and the next day; and
yesterday Ciey were landed at Pantalis, the weather
being less tempestuous. It is not yet known the extent
of destruction, as all the
,vesse:s are still on shcre, and
no appearance of fine wer. her. One of the French
frigates dragged, though she was moored with four
anchors and cables; but, very fortunately, as yet no
accident has occurred to any English vessel in the bay,
though several are full of wine for London, detained
,from sailing by contrary winds.
It was expected here this morning that the sh
lailikessle.muderabte damage during the gale of

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