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THE LATE GALES. •
'WEYMOUTH, NOVEMBER ea.-.
The Two Sisters, from If _a_aga, at and bound
burgh, laden with fruit, was wrecked in the West lay,*
off Abbotsbury, at eleven o'clock .on Mondify night.
Five hands were on board, one of whom perished ; the
master and three men are saved. The Sally, of Ports-
mouth, is lost in Weymouth Bay, nearly opposite 01-'
mington-mills ; the Captain's son saved• himself by
leaping on board the Naiscy brig, of Weymouth ; the
rest of the crew were drowned. The Ebenezer, George
Pett master, from Plymouth' to Portsmouth, with
King's stores, was thrown by the sea on the .top of
Portland Beach, vs here she now remains. The Captain
is drowned ; the remainder of the cresv are saved. The
Agenoria, Elliott, of Weymouth, from Seville, with
fruit, arrived on Saturday Moran in Portland Roads ;
all hands safe. Her sails and rigging are shivered to
pieces. Seventeen men. belonging to the Colville,
Wilson, wrecked in the West Bay, have been picked
tip. and buried at Portland. One of them, Henry Gos-
ling, a passenger, had the singular presence of mind to
cut off a piece of his shirt, and having written upon- it
his name and address (Loudon), and that-the Captain's
wife lived at No. 53, Mount-street, Whitechapel, the
poor fellow tied the piece of linen round his neck. A
part of the wreck has been saved— namely, eight casks of,
rum, one cask of wine, and fifteen bales of cotton. Thej
hull of a Swee.ish vessel, theWestmor land, E.M.Junker,
1 at.t from London, for Gibraliar, was towed into Wey-
mouth. harbour, on Friday evening, by three fishing cut-
ters.
The bravery and skilful seamanship of the Captain
and crew during the storm, astonished every beholder.
At ten o'clock nn Tuesday, the Captain put out his an-
chors, and finding them come home, he cut away the
masts, and drove within forty yards of the rocks in
Chiswell Cove, Portland, where she brought up ; all
hands were saved. At twelve o'clock on Wednesday,
some Portland men went off to the assistance of the
vessel, and brought ashore two of the crew; but the
Captain expressed his determination not to leave the
ship while she hung together. The number of bodies
already picked up in the Island of Portland amounts to
twenty-five. A Meeting was yesterday held is Ports
land, Iris Excellency Governor Penn in the Chair, to
take into consideration the distressed state of the Is-
land ; when it appeared that the loss of the different
sufferers amounted to 15,0001. The fishermen have lost
all their boats and nets, and they had nothing to eat
until provisions were sent them from Weymouth: We
cannot describe the distress which prevails there. The
tremendous sea, which towered above the Pebble Beach,
swept away, at Chlswell, nearly eighty houses, and be-
tween twenty and thirty persons were drowned. So
distressing a narrative canndt fail to excite the most
powerful feelings in the hearts of the benevolent. A
subscription in aid of the sufferers is opened at the
Weymouth Post-office; and the Benevolent Society at
Weymouth are using all possible means to alleviate
the distress at Portland and at Fleet. At the latter place,
the Church, and nearly the whole parish is swept aivay.