Star.
London, England, 1813-10-16 00:00:00

WAS7-INAlit RIPERS.

SIIDGETOWN, (11AltnDOES,) AUGUST Is.
The schooner Vcnus arrived yesterday with letters
from Admiral Sir Francis Latorey, at the Saints.--
We learn that it wts the Rap:d, and not the Ram
tender which was lost at that anchor.tp ; but it is to
be feared, however, that a grate; misfortune has at-
tended the naval service in the fate of the Ram, for
she sailed from the Saints on the lab ultimo for this
island, and as she has not since been heard of, it is
conjectured that she foundered. in the gale of the
1234, and every soul on board must have perished.

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FROM THE ST. EIIRISTOFIIERta ADVERTISER OE AMA 27.

A gale, Attended with very serioug consequences
Ito the shipping in this road set in on Friday ni'4l4.:
ing last, and continued till the next morning. IG the
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ternoon, the wind increased to an alArming degree.
(blowing from the S.E. and the sea raged violently;
and during the evening and night th:rivill, vesseir,
(two ships, four brigs, t3ve schooneis, and '2 siosrc,+
were driven nn shore; and many of them potAily
stroyed. Two seamen, we arse writ to add, were
unfortunately drowned.
ROSEAU, (DOMINICA,) JULY tv.

HURRICANE OF TILE 23D OF Jut.v.—The weather,
!for the few days preceding the 2:3d instant, tcds Apt
very remarkable, except -being rather calm, with an
extreme degree of consequent heat. Ou Satuiday,
the 17th, a very heayy r.tin had fallen, accompanied
by as much thunder and lightning as was supposed
sufficient to clear the air, and for a time at least to
check any accumulation of any vapours likely to bs
destructive or hlutiotts.

Through the night of the 22d, it was showery, and
the wind early in the evening far to the northward.
Soon after day-light of the Od, the lowering sky
and the rapidly flying scud over the hills and the in
announced the approach of a violent storm; and pro-
videntially was it, that the dreailful blow was not
struck in the dead of the night, for had it so hap,
pened, to what more aggravated iltngers and hor-
rors would not the sleeping inhabitants have been
awakened
Tht: King's garrison at Morne Bruce, composed
of the Royal West-India Rangers and a detachment
of the 4th West-lndia Regiment, from the elevation
of the ground upon which the buildings stand, were
assailed early and violently ; and the barracks and
other quarters began to yield to the tempest about
seven o'clock ; they continued falling until between
eight and nine o'clock. The hospital, which had
then above fifty sick patients, the officers' mess room.
and every other building, except one officer's quar-
ters, were eompietely blown down, and by fragments
scattered through the air, covering the tops and sides
of the bill. The losses sustained by the officers, non-
commissioned officers, and privates, must be very
considerable, as the gusts were so sudden and heavy,
and-the place so exposed, that nothing could be saved.

The loss of his Majesty's Government must
be immense, as these buildings cost a considerable
sum in their erection a few years ago. We lament
Ito say,, too, that the pgmber of killed a;4 wounded
is not inconsiderable—six being the number of the
former, and fif,y-three of the latter; and eight Saki,
ing, supposed to be blown over the cliffs. Among
the officers wounded are Major Brerton, by a severe
contusion hi the leg ; Major Jack and Dr. Leahy,
much cut and bruised; Mrs. Alen, wife of Lieute-
nant Allen, of the 4th West-India Regiment, recei-
ved some very severe bruises.
From Prince Rupert's Head, the accounts are also
distressing. The commencement of the gale was
about six in the morning, from northward, and
its extreme violence was not felt until between nine
and ten„ when the buildings began to givp way ; the
' barracks of Fort Shirley unroofed; the house called
Government House, and the Octagon, the same. On
the other cabrit, the quarters of the Commanding
Officer (M•ijor Eden, who was confined by gout)
were about one-half destroyed ; himself unable to
move, bnt luckily not wounded. Two ranges of
officers' rooms were blown over the hill : in these
latter buildings were Lieutenant *Clean, of the 4th
%Vest India regiment; Assistant-;:urgeon,4 King and
Donaldson, and a female, wean unfortunately went
down the adjoining precipice : Mr. Donaldson was
kiled outright; the others,althot:gh miserably bruiSe4
and mangled, miraculously escaped with life. Three
privates of the 60th were killed, tour others wounded,
The fort and garrison of Cachacrow have alto suf-
fered severely, every building being thrown down.—.-
Lieutenant Pilkington, of the 4th West India tie:
ment, was stationed there, with a detachment of the
Royal West. India Rangers, and is not hurt; but his
servant was severely wounded : the rest escap-W with-
out injury. The devastation of Roseau, ana of Char-
lotte Vile, are of the most afflicting kind ; several
persons have perished, and a great number have been
wounded and bruised. The amount oflosses sustained
by the proprietors of buildings which have fallen, and
those falling, qr otherwise much injured, must be yecr
great indeed. It is impossible to calculate those
losses, or to enumerate all the individuals, as we
have not been furnished, with, nor can, we procure
the details.

The destruction of furniture, bedding, plate, li-
quors, china, glass-ware, books, goods, and merchan-
dize of all sorts, must be extremely heavy, the storm
being so very rapid in its advance, as to preclude all
precautionary measures of safety for any thing.
The public buildings have experienced their full
share of this calamity; the King's-house, and erec-
tions at King's-hill, used as the Quarter Waster Ge-
neral's quarters, levelled with the ground ; the Go-
vernment-house, with the out-buildings, and all the
other offices, plpstrate ; scarce a tree of any descrip-
tion left standing in the ground. The loss to his Ex-
cellency, in wines, books, and furniture, must be se-
vere, as there was little time, as before observed, to
remove any thing ; his Excellency, when the house
fell in, repaired with his Secretary, Mr. Bryce, and
Mrs. Bruce and children, to the fort in town, where
they were sheltered. The Court-house is levelled, as
arc also the custom-house aid Post-office; the cow.
missary's Stores completely destroyed • the Gaol un-
rooted ; the Roman Catholic and Methodist Chapels
destroyed is tote, and the Abbe Canavan's house un-
roofed. Indeed, scarcely a stable, kitchen, or out-
house, paling, or fence, remains attached to any build-
ings in any part of the town or country. The Grind
kiay Quarter, it is supposed) gas suffered most 1 but

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ttere it *saia to be tbrotighailt ghat ciesnlatiOn; *larks
and mills deistroyed, canes lodged or 'torn up. and
coffee estates almost completely deprived both of their
old and young plants, and their buildings thrown
down ; ingro-grounds and gardens laid wastes gene-
rally ; plaintatti-walks ruined ; fiuit and other trees,
for fruit or ornament, completely broken, and ren-
dertd for ever useless and unprofitable.
One circumstance above all others astonished the
inhabitants, particularly those in the Bay of Roseau
and New-town, dr Charlotte•vilie, and was the cause
of great and anxious alarm—the sudden rising of the
tea, atter the wind bad veered to the eastward and
Sontliward : certainly nothing could be more fright-
fully awful. The waves curled their monstrous beads
!r. high as the sills of the windows on the second sto-
+ies of houses on the Bay, and thundering alung,
f.,:00k the buildings to ;heir foundation. Many of the.
front walls and pillars of the galleries were destroyed
inn the Bay, and the stores and cellars filled with tim
sea :-- through some of the stores the water broke
entirely, and drove up above 150 feet from high-
water 'nark ; scarce a boat, flat, launch, or canoe,
kern. ains. The ships Venus, Captain Bruce,. and
.Chard, Captain Motherwell, loaded, and in the bay,
ready to sail with the expected convoy, cut early,
aid got out to sea, as did all the small craft. The
ships lost their mizen-mists, but are in other respects
said to have been unhurt; of the small craft return-
, ecl, at present, is only the sloop Lune, Captain Cnn-
/
ningham. Such are our short details of the melan-
choly morning of the i),3d of July, and which we sin.
rerely hope may not be followed and aggravated by
absolute want of disease in the colony. His Excel-
lency, with great humanity and promptitude, assem-
bled the Privy Council, and has opened the ports for
the importation of all sorts of lumber and provisions,
free of duty, by proclamation, for three months; and
we trust the neighbouring islands, which have hap.
pily escaped this deplorable calamity, may have
some powers to relieve us, and will be expeditiots in
succouring our distress.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1813.
44101 OF Si I OCKS THIS DAN AT TWELVE O'CLOCK
Reduced G 6 }}—Coto: 571—10 r ace. SBf-4 per Ct, 71U
5 per Ct. 88 87i—Onin. 6f pr.—Bonds par
BL Lg. in; 141-16th—Exchequer Bills Ss. Se. prem.

Yesterday we announced the arrival of the Dm-.
TATOR, at Portsmouth, with accounts of Lord Wlu.-
LlNorottits actual descent from the Pyrennees into
France. To-day we have but few particulars to add,
for no dispatches have at yet arrived—the vessel which
is to be the bearer of them was waiting at Passages
when the Thomson sailed. In the Mean time, upon
the authority of a passenger by the DICTATOR, and a
private letter from Irun, we learn that Lord WsL.
LINOTON, wtth part of the British Army, had crossed
the Bidassoa, at Irun, on the 7th ins:ant, and passing
through the small towns of Behebie, Urrugni, and St.
Jean de Luz, had taken up a position on the Nive, cr
Nivrlle, within three or four leagues of Bayortv. At
13ehtbie his Lordship rust met the enemy, and forced
their lines, with a loss t 3 them of 530 in killed and
wounded, and .►bout as many prisone•s. The loss of
the British was only 200, and no officer suffered...di.
The enemy fled towards Bayonne.
According to the accounts brought by the DICTA•
ion, his Lordship has only the Ist and sth Divisions
of the British army with him; and a Passenger by
the Dlcrnrtlß describes his Lordship's movement as

a mere reconnsirsance, at the he.id of a formidable
party. The circumstance of the British keeping
clis/ along shore, is, we think, a proof that the above
is the true character of his Lordship's operation.
Those who regard it as the commencement of a
grand and extensive invasion of France) will do well
to recollect, that while Suomi. occupies Catalonia
with a force sufficient to keep Lord WILLIAM BEN.
TINCK'S army at bay, it would be unsafe to trust
the British array far within the French frontiers.
—A demonstration, therefore, upon Bayonne and'
Pau, is all that is wanted : it will probably draw
Suctirc from Catalonia, and the entire liberation
- of Spain will then leave the whole united armies
in the Peninsula to invade France upon a scale of

magnitude capable of calling BONAPARTE and his
Imperial Guard from Saxony. But it is too much
to expect that such a magnificent project can be exe-

cured under existing ctrcumstances, and within the

few short weeks of Autumn which remain. In the
mean time, the winds have been propitious to the
wise and spirited exertions of Ministers to reinforce
his Lordship's army, for the DICTATOR also brings
accounts of the arrival at Passages of 5000 infantry,
1500 cavalry, and a fine train of artillery, from
England.

The PRINCJI REGENT iS expected in town to-mor-
row from Sussex.

The Duke of CAMBRIDGE was so much pleased
with his shooting at Rendlesbam, that he returned to
that place or. Thursday. The pheasant preserves
them are unrivalled in Suffolk.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL, and all the Cabinet Mi-
nisters in town, dined with the SPANISH AMBASSADOR
on Tivarsday.
Yesterday Viscount SIDUOU3H, after transacting
hqsiness at his Office, went to his house in Richmond
Park. •

The LORD CHANCELLOR continues at his seat in
Dorsetshire.

Mr. Comex, the Under Secretary of State for Fo-
teign Affairs, we regret to hear, is confined with in-
disposition at Brighton.

The Earl and Countess of HARRINGTON are ex-
pected in town in a few days.

Mr. SADLER complains that he found great crj►,
but little woo!, at Derby..

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MAiitiEsb bF absAlAlitEis AfTIMPT
TO ENBIIAVE EUROPE.

It is an observation of the celebrated Moi:Tr-sciutEcr,
in his Spfrit of Law:, that uuiversal•empire has never
been able to maintain itself in Europe. Mit.row, in
his History, says, that the English and other Northern
Nations did not derive their liberty from any forms
of Government: they were by nature free men.—
The Romans extended their empire over Europe,
northward as ftic as the Elbe ; but they were not able
to maintain it long after its gradual extension ceased
to be progressive; and in Germany they never main-
tained army other than a tumultuous, turbulent, and
divided empire. BONAPARTE'S empire in the West
'and in the North has ceased to be progressive : this
is a prelude to its declination and fall. The secret
fatal us- himras it was to the Roman power, has been
disclosed. The tiations have been taught, that Bo-
NAPARTE may be resisted, baffled, and put to his
last shifts.

It was observed by a renowned Roman Historian,
that while the German tribes were engaged singly in
wars with each other, the whole of them were sub-
dued by one conqueror. This observation might
have been extended to the whole of the European
nations. Taken singly, they were easily subdued by
the Romans; united (had.it been possible for so great
a number of barbarians to be united), they would
have been invincible, as in fact they were when they
poured in upon the empire'vrithour concert.

The quick communication of thought, and the
practicability of forming a concert of wills among a
number of powers having one common interest, viz.
that of checking and chastening the Corsican, the
usurper, forms more than a counterbalance to all the
wilts and machinations of this monster. The tension
of the cord by which he fastens together different
States and classes of men, must at all events be re-
laxed by his death, or various accidents of health and
fortune. In the designs of a great confederacy there
is something of greater compass and permanency ;
and it is among the greatest, if not the greatest charac-
. teristicsi of the present tra or age—that it unites the
:greatest luxury, with a degree of manly and martial
intrepidity never surpassed, and rarely, if indeed ever
equalled in any age or country.

Our barbarous ancestors were not more courage-
ous, or more patient of hardships and privations, than
the sons of our Gentlemen) Noblemen, and even of
the Royal Family. Our Illustrious C iKstANDEtt IN
CIIIEF has neither shunned the dangers of the field,
nor the fatigues of a laborious and most successful
attention to the duties of his high and important
office. His Royal Highness Prince VitttlAm of
CuitxxsrEtt ha) never discredited the early pledge he
gate to his cluntrfr on his expedition to Holland—tm-,
fortumite in its resat, bin not inglorious to the British
• aims. There is not a s:ngle member or cadet of the
Royal Fimily, • f whose gallantry and bravery the
remotest doubt or suspicion is entertained by any.—
There is also in the higher tanks, and even among
the Princes of Northern Europe on the Continent, a
high, codrageou:•, and daring spirit of military eater-
prise and glory, which ought to make, and, we have
no doubt, does make BONAPARTE tremble. Fortune
may vary, but the unconquered and unconquerable
will, a high sense of honour, and the resources of a
spirit of liberty, are obstacles to the ambition of Bo-
NAPARTE not to be surmounted. It is, indeed, asto-
nishing that a genius so brilliant and profound a-.
BONAPARTE does not perceive the futility of an at.
tempt to establish universal monarchy in Europe
even for his own life time, and the utter madness of
harbouring an idea that it would possibly survive him-
, self, or even the stage of life suited to his designs:

While the fortune of war seems to be somewhat
suspended on the Elbe, we may safely repose our
co'nfidence in the above oinervations, that the final
result will be favourable to the Allies.

It is said when the unfortunate MARIA LOUISA
went to the French Senate ircaused a lively impres-
sion. The business which called her there will make
a deadly one.
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Mr.Tnostas SHERIDAN is not going to the Cape of
Good Hope in .he suite of Lord C. Sosteitscr, or in
any official employment whatever, but solely with a
view to the recovery of his health.
A new Comedy was read in the Green-loom of
Drury.lane on Wednesday. 1
The ancient rivalry between the public schools'of
Eton and Westminster is no longer numerical ' . the
former, it is said, consisting of upwards of tivedhun-
dred Students, the latter about three hundred and fifty.
The Committee upon the price of Bread met on
Thursday, Mr. Alderman BIRCH in the Chair. The
Lonn MAYon laid before them a great number of re.,
marks on the inefficiency of the clauses of the present
Act; after hearing Gentlemen conversant in the Corn
Trade, the meeting was adjourned. A Report of the
investigation of the Committee will be made in a
short time to the Court of Common Council.
Yesterday.se'nnight, at the Quarter Sessions for the
County of Antrizn, Dr.TBIiN ENT was tried, and found
guilty, for an assault upon the Rev. Mr. MAY. The
Court sentenced him to pay a fine of £5O, and to be
imprisoned three months in Carrickfergus gaol. The
assault was committed at a public meeting of the in•
habitants of Belfast, on the 18th of August last.
Bow:G.—The battle between Hichon, the Sarr
butcher, and Burn, the cordwainer, from Margate,
was decided on Wednesday morning at Vincent Farm,
in the Isle of Thanet. After seven rounds, the but-
cher was completely beaten : he wanted both skill
and strength to contend with his scientific and power-
ful opponent.

Nitr;ll, AftELWEATE.

, • FALMCiUtH, &TUBER 1%
No Arrivals. Sailed his Majesty's cutter tAxD
hAtt., with, dispatches for Passage; Lady Louisa
packet, with a mail, for ditto ;• Prince Ernest packet,
with a mail, for Lisbon; Lady Mary Pelham packet,
with a mail, for the Bratils ; the Portuguese Ship
Oceano, for Lisbon'; and his Majesty's ship Euto-
Tus, for the coast of France.—Wind ist.

MILFORD, OCTOBER is.

Arrived the Sarah, MArrirewsom, from Riga, for
Waterford ; Northumberland, NICHOLSON. from Que-
bec, for Milford ; Eleanor, EDKIN, from Riga, for
Cork ; and,Lady Fitzgerald, awes, froM Water.
ford, for Bristol. Sailed the Sarah, Lucas, from
Malta for Bristol ; and pruorsce Custom House
cutter, on a cruize.
PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER IS.

Arrived his Majesty's ship JALOUSE, from Cork, I
having under her convoy the following transports, ,
with the Argyleshire Militia on board, viz.—A.J.
Betsey ; 8.8. Plymouth ; A.Y. Laurie; A.G. Wil-
liam ; A.U. Mercury; and A.N. Henry. Came
into harbour, the Riga packet, recaptured; and the
Portland and the Hind, from Quebec* with timber
' for the Deal Yard. The following are the Convoys
appointed—Rivou, for Spain, Portugal, and the,
Mediterranean ; MEDWAY, for Bermuda and the Ba-
hama Islands ; and the CYAN,' for Madeira and the
Coast of Africa.—Wind S.W. blows strong.