Star.
London, England, 1824-11-27 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTU, NOVEMBER 25.

The gale has totally sub.,ideJ, and the ships on shore
are respectively getting their cargoes and stores out.
preparatory to attempts being made to get them off.
The water is slowly ebbing, but so great was the inun-
' dation, that the disastrous effects will be long telt. It
may be said that the morass next the town, :he marshes
near the Castle, the Salterns and Farlington marshes,
almost form a connected shcet of water. The damage
at Farlington is incalculable: all the embankments are
washed away, and the greatest devastation has been
caused. To term some idea of the rush of water that
entered these marshes, it is only necessary to say, that
the engine-house attached to the water-works was com-
pletely surrounded.
Two vessels were driven over the banks, and several
boats passed over the marshes. The gale lasted, it may
be said, nearly 30 hours. Its parallel is not remem-
bered by the oldest inhabitant.

The Madras, on shore in Stoke's Bay, is very much
damaged, her main keel being beaten out, and the tide
flowing as high within as it does outside; cargo dis-
charging. The Doncaster, of Newcastle, Marshall, dis-
charging timber in Portsmouth harbour, from Quebec,
was forced on shore by the :hip Spring, and is now on
the ground.
RAMSGATE, NOVEMBER 25.

The Harmonie, Voss, has been got into the basin,
after being sufficiently lightened. The Cornelia, Sypkes,
remains at the back of the pier, where she will be
wrecked; her cargo is landing in a very damaged co,i-
dition. The Fortuna, Wicklund, and Camilla, Hende-
lin, sustained damage during the gale, and have been
got into the basin to undergo the necessary repairs.
About eighty fathoms of one-inch chain, without
anchor, said to have been lost from the Mary, of Poole,
have been picked up about two miles to the S.S:E. of
this harbour, and landed here.

SIDMOUTiI, NOVEMBER £3.
The dreadful storm of last night, the wind blowing
from the southward with a spring tide, has, I fear, reined
this beautiful little place, and plunged 'whole families
into the deepest distress. There is not one house on the
beach which has not been broken into by the sea, all the
lower parts being destroyed ; the doors, window•frames,
and inner partitions carried wholly off, and the futni.
ture ruined. Wallis's Library and billiard-room cons-
pletely destroyed, and the lower part of his house one
bed of shingles. Marsh is also, I fear, ruined. In short,
the whole Marine Parade is now a beach of shingle, up
to the first Roots of the houses; and the sea rolled with
fury about five o'clock this morning into the town, so
that the main street, as far up assilartis, the grocer's,
was only accessible by boats for some hours. The trades-
people in that street have had all theirgoods destroyed,
the water being over the counters. The silk-shop on the
Parade was cat ried away altogether, and the small
houses belonging to the poor fishermen, just under the
cliff, opposite the Chit Rock, were swept away, and the
unfortunate inhabitants only escaped with their lives:
these poor creatures, to the number of 18 (13 of whom
are helpless children)are totally ruined. All tLe boats,
fishing-tackle, and bathing-machines, were carried off
to sea, except one machine, which was driven up near
the Fort-field. In short, it is one heart-rending scene of
misery and ruin. I never witnessed anything like it.