Star.
London, England, 1803-12-05 00:00:00

CORN ILII?KET, MARL--LANE, DEC. S.

The importations of Wheat for this day's market
are very large—The trade is confidered dull, and at
a reduction of is. and as. per quarter—New Baricy
continues to attire in immenfe fupply, and is 3s. lower
than this clay fe'nnight—Malt at lefsprices—Peashave
little variation—Old Beans fupport their prices : in
Rye little doing—There is a continuance of large ar•
rivals of Oats from the North, with a few foreign,
and they are as. lower than laft Monday—Flour
plentiful and rather lower—Fine American 33.. tc,
365. per barrel of 1 cwt, and three quarters.

I.Vhcat, sca. 575. per qr.
fine Ditto, sCs. 39e.
Rye, 3:s. 325.
Barley,ats. 261.
Malt, sos. 575.
Pine ditto, 58s•
sos. 365.
Hog Peas, 33c. 335.
Bears, 365. gra
Tick Ditto 335. 375.

GENERAL. CURRENCY AS UNDER:
Oats, 243. 265. 2%1.
Fine Flour, Sts 30e.
Second ditto, 4C.S. 457.
Rape Seed, 361. t.t 391. per 1-0
Carraway Secd, 544. r.
Coriander, t3s. 16s. cwt.
Canary, 6cs. 659. cwt.
White Multard, 7!.. to I ts.buth
Brown ditto, t 4•. to
Tares, Ss. to 7s.

FROM THE LONDON CAtEI-IE. SATURDAY, DFC. 7.

Average F./ice of Corn in England and Weft, from the returns
ending the 26th of November, t
Wheat. I Rye. I Batley. Oats. Ream. Peale.
1. d. a. d. a. d. a. 4. a. d. a. d.
S 4 8 37 e 26 3 24 7 39 2 41 3
The average Price of Sugar, computed from the Ri.turns made
In the Cheek ending November 30, is 41s. Bd. per hundred weight.

INSPECTOR'S RETURN AT UXBRIDGE, DEC. 1.
Wheat per load zal co to 151 cs
Barley per quarter II Gs to il 8a
033 per ditto zI Gs to 11 Los
Beans per ditto 11 as to al 21
Peale per ditto al as to 31 6s

Royal. Hum r.—On Saturday morning Ms MAJES•
iTY the Dukes of CAMBRIDGE and KENT, rode to
Afcot Heath Race Ground, for the purpae of hunt-
ing a fine young hind. About elcven o'clock the
(port began. At Barring the hind took by Ingram
Pond, acrofs the Camp Ground towards Warfield,
by Mr. WELCH% park, making a double back by the
Dog Kennel, acrofs the Race Ground, through Sun-
ning Hill, taking the right through the Bogs for
Sy/alley, where (he got into a herd of deer, from
which the Yeomen Prickers foon got her out, and
the chace was refumed to the right of Tower Hill,
and was taken after a hard run of near two hours.
—The hind was a prefent to his Majelly with feveral
others by Mr. PAINTS.—•Miii DuFFIL is ufually at
the head of the fportfnten.

Couastac.—The Lovers of this (port were highly
entertained at Epfom Downs, on Friday laft, when
the following matches were run :

Mr. Buckler's Claret againft Mr. Nicholl's Black Dog, mot
unknown ; match not decided.
Mr. Nichol's Pelter againit a Gentleman's Blank Dog, name u*.
kaown ; won by Palter.

Mr. Durancrs Lader bat Mr. Caltar's Hatar,
Mr. Wawa 's Smoker, againft Mr. Hareley's Black Blab, not
decided.

Mr. Durand's Needle againft Mr. Mumfred's Black and White
Dog Norman ; this match was far so guineas, and was won hollow
by Needle.

Mr. Durand's Johnny beat Mr. Nichol's Black and White Dog,
the match for an 'ruinous.

Mr.Tanneis 'Backend White Bitch againft Mr. Gardner's Ref
Bitch ; the mztch not decided.
Mr Durand's mode-coloured Bitch TroDop, beat Mr. Nlchol's
White Bitch.
Mr. Mot 's Whilkey beat Mr. Newman's Fly.

Several tither matches tock place, and the fatisfac-
tion which all parties received, would have been com-
plete, had not confiderable damage been done by the
fpatators, who Teemed, for the moft part, regardlefs
of the intereft of the peifons whole crops they tram-
pled over, as well as the remonftrances of Mr. Du-
whole endeavours to prevent the injury not
having met with that fuccefs, which on every account
he was entitled to, we fear, will deprive the Amateurs
of Courfing of thole future treats, which might have
been expeCted from the means and inclination of Mr.
DURAND. •

The fleet which failed from Elfineur the silt ult.
under convoy of the CLICDt frigate, arrived at Sheer-
nefs, confined of 283 fail, of which t 14 were bound
to London, and 54 for Hull ; were feparared in a
violent gale off the Scaw,the 23d: many are arrived.
and, it is hoped, they will all reach their dedinations.
as his Majeily's Ihips Dm:Glace, Locust, and MAL.
LAID, have tailed from the Nine, to cruise ten days
for their proteetion.

GAILNERIN, in his 3sth accent from Morcott?, law,
for the firli time, an image of his balloon formed in
the clouds in very bright prifmatic colours. When
at the height of ta,noo feet, he Galvanized himfelf,
and obferved flafhes of light. While hovering over
a wood he was fired at by a hunttman, who with
the peafants, on tieing him defcend from the clouds,
contideted him as fupernatural.

Law.—SEWARD V. WILLIS —The Plaintiff in this
caufe obtained a verdia of fol. at the Sittings after
Eager Term, at Guildhall, London, againft Mrs.
Willis, of Alton, Hants, widow, for certain words
alledged to be fpoken by her of the Plaintiff.—ln
Trim), Term, Defendant moved the Court in arreft
of judgment, and the cafe was then moil ably argued
by Mr. PLOPS Elt for the Plaintiff, and Mr. Lsvcssrsa
for the Defendant, and the Court took time to con-
rider the cafe. On the laft day of Term judgment
was pronounced in favour of the Defendant.
A Court Martial was held at Portfmnuth on Fri-
day on board the GLADIATOR, to try William Mor-
rifon, a marine, belonging to his Majefty's (hip Eur. r.
TUISN Be on the feparate charges of quittin* his poli,
running away with a boat, and of defection. The
prifoner has ferved in the marine corps 24 years, and
several officers (poke as to his general good charatfte.
before this unfortunate circumilance, but from the
magnitude of the offence, he was adjudged to fuffcr
death. John Charter, a (Taman belonging to his
Majefty's (hip Isis, was alfo tried for defection, which
being proved, he was fentenced to receive fifty lathes
on his bare back, and to be muffled of his pay.
In confeciiience of the Capital Prizes being fo
flared in the two lall Lotteries by linassay and Co.
the demand at their Office, No. 26, Cornhill, has i
created beyond their moll fanguine expetßation :
As
filch they requited their friends will make an earl,
pitrchade. there being no doubt but 'rickets and
Shares will advance confiderahly before the comet
mencemeot of the Drawing, which begins on the
of neat month.

LITER.ITURE.

NR. GODWIN'S LIFE, AND AGE OF CHAUCER.

.1 In a former Paper we noticed this admirable work I
till the time when Chaucer entered into the fervice 1
of King Edward the Third. Mr. Godwin's criti-
difm, however, on the 7 reilas and Crefeide, was but
nightly mentioned. Toward its dole be becomes a
Commentator upon Shalcfpeare, and proves inenn-
teltibly• that, in the Play which bears a fimilar i
name, Chaucer fupplied Materials to the tragic artift. I
The criticifm is ingenious ; and gives rife to a corn- ;
pardon between the general merits of Chaucer and i
Shakfpeare, in the refpettivc produEtions, finifhing
with a few particulars in which, as Mr. Godwin
thinks, the former isfuperior.
The caufe of Chaucer's rife in the fervice of his
soverieign, it (tem% is to be fought in no other prin i
ciple than his Literature. In the early ages of Eu-
rope, Learning was the pathway to preferment ;
though,,in later times, !ince Literature has loft its
rarenefs, talents in the general way, are left to Fa. j
bricate a fortune for themfelves. The Court Poem:
of Chaucer-fulficiently :indicate the principle from
nvhich we are to date his rife ; and the firft patronage
be received was the °ace of Comptroller of the
Cufloms. .
The opening of Chaucer's political life is rightly,
prefaced by a non furvey of the Englifti Court, as
it appeared in IssB, principally confined to the mem.
hers of the family upon the throne. Among there
John of Gaunt, his friend and princely patron. ap-
pears to great advantage. Nor is the heroic and the
good Philippa overlooked. •
The next objet confidered is Chanter's poem en-
titled the Parliament of Birdr, followed by the Dream,
which is confidered as an Epithalamium on the mar-
riage of the poet's patron.
The next fcene in which Chaucer is engaged was
Edward's grand invalion of France, in 1359:—but
be was not led to the fold of battle as Paulus Jo-
cius was by Charles V. that he might be the better
qualified to be the poet of the fcene. He went on
the expedition as the friend and confidant of John
bf Gaunt, then Earl of Richmond. He went, that
fuch a proceeding he might acquire a clearer and
blare honourable hone among the Courtiers of his
. MOO. Military atchievements were the paffion of
the age t and a man, whole deftiny, like Chauceec,
led him to afrociate with foldiers and Princes, could
fcareely avoid making his appearance in arms, and
trying the fortune of the field.'
Having already fern Chaucer, after a thou cape.
throwing off the garb of a lawyer, we thall
tot wonder that he did not perfift to cultivate the
military profelnon. ‘‘ With the peace of Bretigne."
1363, " Chaucer deed his military career. The
war with France was not renewed till after the lapfe
of nine years ; and. neither it, the expeditions of John
of Gaunt, hi, patron, during that war, nor in the pre-
vious campaign for the 'vibration of Peter King of
Caflile, in 1367, do we find any trace oihis having
been accompanied by Chaucer." If his foul had
no delight in the alarms and enterprizes of the field :
tut the craitrary, while his patron was abroad in
thee employments. Chaucer appears to have remain-
ed tranquilly in England :-=and it is fingular, that
although in compliance with the mode which uni.
Weeny prevailed, he has oceationally introduced
feats of Chivalry among his poems, he dwells with no
partiality on the fcenes of war.
Early in the year 1361, John of Gaunt became
fiddenly the wealtbieft landholder in England, and
fo intimate was the fliendltip between the Poet and
his patron, that Mr. Godwin has very propetly com-
bined their hiltory. Thus far have we exhibited the
outline of the firft volume of the work before us ;
whole clearnefs and eloquence of nyle, and luminous
arrangement, are only equalled by its copioufnefs and
accuracy.
The fecondrolume opens with the biographer's ob.
fervations on the Romance piths Rafe, a Poem of which
Petrarch was known to fpeak with fome degree of
contempt. Petrarch, obferves Mr. Godwin, under.
flood the Rotten* lit la Refe no better than Voltaire
underftood Shakfpeare. Compared with the Ro-
mances of Chivalry, this offers to us the molt ftrik-
ing improvements;—and prefents us with a finifhed
pitture of the manners, in many refpeas. of indivi-
duals in private fociety. as they exiled in the 13th
century. The fira part of it may challenge a corn-
pardon with molt of the happier effufions of poetic
genius. It excels, not only in the richnefs of defcrip•
tire painting, but in the fpirit and force of its alle-
gory. as well as in the amen obfervations upon life
sod manners. The futire it contains upon the men-
dicant friars is commented upon at large by Mr.
Godwin, and afford% a curious view of the efforts
which were made. even at that early period, to raife
-the drooping fpirit of the Catholic Church.
The Life of Chaucer now becomes gradually
blended with the political hiltory of his time ;—and
the Court of the Black Prince in Aquitaine. and the
heroic condua of that Prince when he rellored Cal
tile to its lawful Sovereign, form a fingular and in-
terefl ing :elief to the pitture.
After a kw remarks on the Poem called the Boa
If the Dueheli, Chaucer is teen, though long thwarted
in the protraltion of his courtflip, in the pail:lion of
connubial comfort :—and was fent ribiagne year,
1370, on a fpecial million to the Continent.
The aftions and hiltory of John of Gaunt form
cow a more immediate pirt of Chancel's life, be-
eaufe the political conchs& and proceedings of the
martial hero cannot he treated of without decanting
upon matters in which Chaucer was deeply concern-
ed. In the convulfive and turbulent reign of Ri-
chard 11. Chaucer invariably role and fell with the
interchangeable vicillitudes of suthoi ity and dilaters
of his mailer the King of Cathie.
The rife of Wiclife opens a new fcene. He was
a man of humble birth, but molt tranfcendant abi-
lities. and was the firft who broke the chains of fuper-
Pitiful. In a thoit time after his appearance, his
c.ntreSion with the Poet's patron became both ftrift
and intimate; and gives rife in the work before as,
to a full and deliberate detail of all that can throw
material light upon his life and doftrines.
" Without regarding Vs'icliffe," lays Mr. Godwin,
as the objett ,:f our unmingled admiration, it is
rdiy to perceive that his views were of the grandeft
• and that he was fubfiantially and eminently the
I 4.tflor of mankind. He aimed at producing a
Yavolution in the murals of his country and of Eu•
t! ;le. Sy this purpok be invited men to hake off
tialuonft at implicit kWh apd 41.) judge far

thenstehret. He infirm:4a them to look beyond the
ourfide of things. He taught them that they were
to be acquitted or condemned, not by the cenfures,
the excommunications, and abfolutions of another,
but by their own charafter and aflions. He pointed
his &tire agaiolt religious arrogance. oftentation and
venality. He recommended fimplicity of judgment,
plainnefs in conduit, and purity of heart."
In 1373, Chaucer was nominated Envoy to the
Republic of Genoa. Narrow as this Rate might he
in its domellic territory, it was great and formidable
by its foreign fettlements and po/Teffions ; a confider.
ation which will lead us to ellimate with propriety
the dillindlion he received. But there is another
point of view in which every reader will congratulate
polterity, that the Emboli./ was bellowed un Chau-
cer. When his miifion was concluded, he made a
tour to the Northern States of Italy ; and the chief
incident of his journey was a vifit to Petrarch. Pe-
crotch was at this time nearly feventy years of age ;
and be forvived only by twelve months the vifit of
the Englifh Poet. It is the only circumilance of his
journey which Chaucer has himfelf tranfmitted to
pollerity.

In 1377, Chaucer was employed upon another
Embaffy to France: he was fent to treat foecially
concerning the marriage of Richard, who after his
father's death had been created Prince of Wales
This embatfy was fpeedily followed by the death of
Edward 111. whore charafter is given by Mr. God-
win, with the ariftet judgment and impartiality.—
The unpopularity and misfortunes of the King of
Cable were now increafing, and the anxieties he fuf-
fered at the time of the rebellion under Wat Tyler,
were of a far different nature to any he had under-
gone in the reign of his father. His political power
was now little ; and he even withdrew his fupport
from Wicliffe, though he had once flood manfully
forth in the caufe of reformation. Yet, though he
withdrew his fupport from the reformers, he was not
an indifferent freflator of the perfecutions which
were carried on againft them. No Englifhman was
put to death for hcrefy during the life of the King
of Caltile

The early and profperous part of Richard's reign
is next conlidered : accompanied by the farther pro•
grefs of Wiclilft, and a review of thofe particular
Poems which promoted the caufe of Ecclefiallical
ReiOrmation. Among the lall the Fijians of Pierre
Plowman, one of the moll curious and early tatires in
the Englifh language, receive. particular attention.
The more critical•period of Richard's reign is after-
wards reviewed : when Chaucer taking fide with his
illultrious patron, fled for fafety to the province of
'Zealand. Till then, he had been a ftranger to mil
fortune. He palled feveral years in adverfity and
diftrefs, not merely (offering from the common lot
of exile, but from the villainy of thofe to whom
he had intrufted his affairs at home. do 1386, he
returned, but was feized by Richard's Milliners and
committed to the Tower. Here, under a cloud of
peril and adverfitv, he wrote the Tfllanient of I.ove,
and gained his liberty only by impeaching his former
affociates. He was now appointed Clerk of the
Works, and was employed in the repairs of St.
George's Chapel at Windfor About this time, 139 t,
he is laid to have paired feveral years in his houfe
at Woodnock : a circumftance which has occafioned
his biographer to exhibit the lirikinz contrail be-
tween the feelings with which Chaucer firft entered
it, and thofe which accompanied his return.
The merit of the Cesiterbry fake is too well known
to need the (lighten mention here. They form a
piaure skilfully varied, cse figures of which are
drawn from the different claffes of (Gaiety.
From Woodftock we trace Chaucer to Dnnnington
Cattle, in Berklhi:e, and once more find him engag-
ed in the bury cares of public life. His fortune, it
hems, had dwindled, and John of Gaunt, whore
friendllip for our Poet never ceafed, purchafed for,
and bellowed upon him the ettate at Donnington—
Having married to his third wife Catharine, Lady
Swinfcrd, the filler to Chaucer's wife.

The hiftory of Chaucer's life now draws very ra-
pidly to a clofe. Thomas, of Woodliock, his
great enemy, had been affailinated; his patron died,
and his fovereign was.depofed. Chaucer having been
favoured by the new King, Henry IV. removed to
London; hired an houfe of the Abbot of Weaminfter,
on the fpot where Henry 7th's Chapel has been lance
ere Bed, and died on the asth of aftober, 1400. To
follow Mr. Godwin through the charaaer of Chan-
cer, were furely needlefs : it is drawn with a bokl
and mafterly pen, and exhibits him dillinaly and in-
tereftingly, in every fitnation he alfumed.
Each volume of the work has a copious Appendix,
containing fuch original documents relating :o
Chaucer, as may tend to gratify the curious reader.
Among the articles in the 6rll, are a colleCtion of
hints for a catalogue of ancient Portraits in Eng-
land ; in which tafte and judgment are united with
refearch.

Among the engravings, is a copy of an original
Piaure of Chaucer, lately difcnvered in the houfe in
which Cromwell was born, at Huntingdon. It is,
unquellionably one of the aloft ancient pietures in
the kingdom, and is in the opinion of Count Truck-
fefs, Mr. Taffaert, and uthcr judges, coeval with
the time of Chaucer. It was dilcovered by Mr. Phi-
lips, whole property it now is.
Of the whole we null obferve. that we do not
believe any fimilar publication has been produced, of
clad merit, flute the hittory a Charles the Fifth,
by Dr. %Amnion.

DELUGE AT Manruta.—The accounts of the cala-
mity with which the Wand of Madeira has been suited
are (Lill contradielory, and the reports from perfons
on the (pot vary confiderably. The following letters
are from Gentlemen refident at Madeira, and contain
many interefting details of this dreadful accident
Ocr. 15.—The weather had continued
fine with us till the end of September The wind
then changed to the fouthward and weftward, at-
tended with much rain. On the 2d Oflober the ma-
jor part of the veffels were obliged to put to ka.—
The weather continued bad, with occafinnally fair
intervals, till the 9th. On the morning of that day
I took a walk up to a place in the neighbourhood.
and returned about it o'clock. lip to that hour
fcarce any rain had fallen ; but it then came on yin.
lentl. and rained incelfantly for the remainder of
the day. While it was light no accident happened;
but in the courfe of the night the rivers (welled pro-
digioufly, overwhelming in their progrefs a confider-
able part of the town.
'use tits of Sc. John's, after 4c4roying ever: Wig

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in its courfe, carried away the upper bridge at St.'
Paul's, and rule to loch a height as to throw down
the cyprefs trees at the church, carrying away'the
travendas as far up as Capm. Memucl Henriquee's
houfe on the afcent from the bridge. Luckily
bridge at the Beco Jas Arenhas efeaped, About
thirty perfons are fuppoled to have 101 l their lives by
the ov.:rflowing of this river, which carried out fuck
an immenfe quantity of Roues to felt as to form a fort
of bay for Eoats to the weftward of the Trantes, and
fheltered frrm the wind in that direlion. A remark.
able circumflince happened on this river. In flying
from one of the falling houfes, a maidlervant drop-
ped an Want from her arms, which was (impacd to
have pet ifhed. Next day, however, it was found un-
hurt on a dry piece of ground, along with a lap-dog
belonging to the fame family. The dog was clofe by
the child, and it is imagined that the child was kept
alive by the warmth of the animal's body. The river
of St. Lucia, or the Praca, came down with the ut-
mofi violence. At a (mall quinta, near the Dean's,
Ivladamnifelle Lucia Velpa and eight perfons were
drowned*; the current of the river proceeded with
the utmoll impetuofity, fortunately, however, leaving
the buildings (landing at Pontlyal and Porta Nova.
The Valle Verde, the bridge at the Recedes Ferrieres,
were (wept away with the greatell violence. From
thence it rolled with increaled impettiofity, (weeping
away in its courfe the whole of the greets. Tinneaos
Piquina, the back part of the houfes on the weft fide
of the Rua Direda were destroyed, and the flream,
after carrying away the Ponte da Placa, a great part
of Mr. Cock's, and fcveral other adjacent hook.,
difembogueil itii.lf into the lea by its old channel.
A new channel was formed clofe by Mr. JAMES
GORDON'S houfe at the Piaca. The number of per-
fons who perifhed here cannot be accurately alcer•
tained. Among the perfons of molt note were the
family of Jere Ignacio de Sorias, confining of 18 per.
font, of whom only one was raved. Rata, Feller's
relation, who, a short time ago, had been married to
his fon, alfo perithed. Her body was afterwards
found at the Varadoveres, buried amid,l the boats,
with all her trinkets and other valuable articles in her
pockets. The Morgada de Palhas's daughter alto
fell a viahm, and many other individuals. A boat
hasten with wine from Machito, with ten men on
board, anchored off the Nam and was never fees
after dark. It was if courfe deflroyed with the crew
and cargo.
The river of Joao Gemes diflended with, if polll-
- Ilia greater violence, carrying with it &ones of
an imnsenfe lize. A little way above the bridge near
the Roxenha, it broke through the town wall on the
right, currying with it every thing till it joined the
main branch, which keeping to the lett steeped to
fuels a degree as to level the parapets of the bridge
and the fides of the road, feveral feet above ic, in the
direCtion of Mandel de Santeago's houfe, ;hough
the arch of the bridge did not give way. It then
carried away almolt the whole of the Rua des Pan-
goinos, not long fence built, the walls keeping off
the water alma the whole length of the Hofpital
Velpo, the church of Noltra Sacra Calhao, except
the tower, and Pedro Mendanaa's new granaries and
stores. The bridge likewife giving way, a houfe
built by him Come years fence, and occupied by a
Mr. TATLOCK'S family, was fwept away, and every
one of the family perifhed. A part of the fort, and
all the adjoining fmall houfeswere either carried away
or greatly damaged. The Rebecccnho (welled prodi-
gioufly, and, joining the former river, contributed
to encreafe the mirchief, though its bridge flood.—
The bridge over the river Gencalo Ayres was partly
defiroyed and rendered impafable. The villages of
Santa Crux and Machico were more than half (wept
away. At the former three or four, and at the lat-
ter twenty-three perfons periflted. Crifleras de Emb-
doe's houfe was carried away. Other accidents of
the fame kind happened in other quarters, and
though it is impoffible to form an accurate climate,
I think I may fafely fay, that two hundred perfons,
at lea), have loft their lives in the ifland.
The Britilb that perifhed ate—Mr. and Mifs TAT.
LOCK, Mr. and Mrs. Mout: and child, and Mr.
RICHARD SCALY. The effeas of this dilater were
extended to the North EMI parts of the ifland, but to
the Weltward, were not much felt beyond Magda-
lena. Betwixt that place and Funchal the rivers did
much damage, hut only nine perfons were drowned.
The friary at Serros de Deos was carried away, but
the church flood. It teal require many years. and
all the attention of our Government to repair fo dread-
ful a calamity.
FUNCH•L ( MADIIRA), OCT. 15:By eight o'clock
in the evening, the three rivers which pals through
the City, had increafed far beyond what was ever
known, and made a moo tremendous noife, with
vett times continually colic/ling and coming down
rapidly along with them. Four of the bridges out
of liven is the town, gave way nearly at the fame
time with a dreadful crafh. A church, with whole
greets and rows of houfes, exclufive of many detach-
ed buildings, were alma inftantaneoufly (wept away
or laid in loins, with whole families and all their
property and aids. The deltrudion has been
dreadful, and the lots of lives etiolated at so• in
the town and its vicinity. It appears by the accounts
from the different parts of the ifland, that this cala-
mity has been general, and about the fame dose,
though the extent of the damage is not yet correelly
afcertained.

The Engli(h refidents who loft their lives are, a
Mr. TarLoc IC, late of London, his fecond daughter,
fon-in-law, and child, with fome Portuguefe &met
tics in their hnufe, which in one in*ant wu fwept off
and not a vellige remains of even where it Rood.—
Alfo a Mr. RICHARD Sums- and child.

Several have h.d loffes in their property, the wa-
ters having carried off every thing that was in their
dwelling-1204m arid with difficulty laved their lives.
We have been very fortunate in having no lots what.
ever in honfes or toles, and only a few hundred mil.
rtes in dry goods, which were in the (hops for (ale.
Our quarter of the town, St. Peter's, was only Caved
by the bridge of St. John's river giving way, carry.
ing off bottles and plantations with it entirely. Oor
wine tater loft his brother, and his wife and five
children ; his daughter, fon-inlay, and three chit.
dren, their habitations being contiguous to that river.
Half of the Vintage i. deltroyed, or rendered unfit
for shipping from the continued rains,
We have lees another letter, which saint/des the
number of (offerers at nearly moo. Probably that
Aim= is oonfiderably exaggerated.

• Tim obi (avant Gob riiiibed bows.