Star.
London, England, 1819-11-11 00:00:00

EAST- INDIES.

(FROM THE BOMBAY GAZETTE OF JULY 7.)
We hasten to lay before our Readers a selection
from the numerous communications we have received
respecting this awful visitation. It was slightly felt
at Poonah, and we believe it did not reach to the south-
ward of that city, or extend much beyond the tropic :
" Camp Bhooj, June 19.
" At seven o'clock on the evening of the 16th of
June, an earthquake destroyed the whole district and
country of Kutch. Accounts that have been received
mention, that from Luckput Bunder to Butchao,
the whole of the towns and villages are more or less
in ruins. The towns of Mandavie, Moondria, and
Anjar have suffered extensively and severely; but the
city of Bhooj and the fort of 13hoojia, between which
our force is encamped, are reduced, the former to
ruins, and the latter so breached as to be useless as a
fortification. This, however, is the least part of the
evil : at the moment of the crash, it is apprehended,
and I fear not any way exaggerated, that 2,000 of
the inhabitants were buried in the MISS.
" Even now the.effects of this horrible visitation
are felt, though three days since ahe first shock, in
constant and hourly vibrations of the earth. The in-
habitants have been obliged to forsake what were
once their bans, and enciiinp outside upon smile small
hills. Their distress cannot be well de,cribed—
bruised, maimed, and agitated with fear, they go
daily into the city to work upon their several houses,
and try to extricate the mangled remains of wives,
children, and relations, whilst in their pious labour
the putrid stench nearly exhausts then; and cattle,
which have fallen in numbers, add greatly to the
-noisome evil. The walls, from the sandy natuie of
the stone, arc crumbled in a mass, and the narrow
streets or Phooj entirely lost, thus adding to the diffi-
critics of the sufferers.
" The upper stones of the Palace fell, and buried,
amongst others, the mother of the deposed Rao ;
what houses stand are so shattered as to be liable to
fall the ruins, and the very complete wreck of the
wall oa the Soataern side; as well as the demolition
of nearly :ill the towers and gateways, render it im-
povsible for lillooj to be a city again.
" Tha loss of lives cannot be confined to the city.
I fear, in all the towns and villages mortality has
been g; eat. I am inclined to think, from the circum-
stance of a volcano having op aced on a hill, thirty
miles from Bhooj, that the country will experience a
repetition of the evil.
" From our camp being in a plain, no very mate-
r al has been su.tained; the tiles of a few
tern,:orary erected, houses v:ere knocked off, and the
v, slls shat:eied.
" I shall attempt to give you the sensation felt by
o.lse both in camp and city. In the latter, was in-
formed by a Gentlenan, neally suffered by a
house falling over him, that, tiding on, without an
what was to h.Tp:m, upon the first notice, a
heavy app.illin,r deade..ed noise, the motion of the
e svalls of the houses on each side of the street 1
tottering and filliee• oatwards, impressed upon him
an idea, and ht. call-a oat, that a mine was sprung ;
whereas, another Gentleman iina:!ined the bank of
-he tank was forced by the water; ''these ideas were ac-
ith an unpleasant giddiness of the head,
and sik.kness of the stomach, fio.n the heavin,, of the
ground:

In one wild roar expir::d!
The shattcr'd town, tit:: thrown down,
w;:-:::s a moment hackw4rd bent;
The hills twat shake, although unrent,
As if All earthquake pused!"—..---
llyron's Sie:,,e of Corinth.

" In camp a similar sickness and giddiness was ex-
perienced ; and, in ignorance until the shock was over,
which lasted a. minute, of the rature cf the noise be-
-Imt the earth, some sat down instinctively, others
threw them.elves down. the was paying work-
people in a circle, and upon seeing him squat, the
whole followed the example, and sat round him—

the very picture of de pair.' The sensation I felt
was a giddiness and horror at perceiving a small hil-
lock, close to whidi I was tiJiug, a short distance
from the camp, completely agitated, and at the same'
tune my horse plunged, front the ground moving.
'this wa; the case also with an °dicer I was riding
with. I have, en inquiry, ascertained that many years
ago, and in the matembrance of the oldest inhabi-
tants, an undulatitT- ntuti4n has been felt before in
Kut,.ll, I.ut never, 1 hope, will again be attended
witli such a hprrible catastrophe ; the distress of which
J'AS been so great upon the inhabitants, that 1 confess
I tall short of ability to describe it."

74t ANSI, VEION OF A LETTeII FROM A PFSPFCTABI.F.
.M.:TIVE TO A CORRI:SPoNDENT AT BAHOOA, /JAM])

Ju‘r. 18, FRomisnitu..

‘• Yesterday, the 9th of .1c .t. Viid, (the 16th of
June) in the evening, a nci..e issued from the earth
like the beating of the Nohut, and occasioned the
trembling of all Cie people. It appeared most won-
do-Cul, and dcpiived us ull of oar sense!, so that we
could not see—every thing appeasing dark beforeus,
a ‘Ezziness came upon many people, so that they fell
down. The w alls of the fort of Ism is in many places
Nvere completely overturned, and the guns fell from
the bastions ; the inhabitants ran home to their houses,
Inany of which fell down. • For one hour this re-
mained ; the buildings of the town some fell, and the
odiers sweated as it falling ; the walls of the Fort
that remained after the first shock, appeared in a
ruined state. For an hour and a half the inhabitants
did not know each other; after that time all was hushed
and still, and we then returned to our houses. At
night a trembling seized our bodies; and on Wednes-
day morning, some horsemen who arrived carre to
me and reported, that in the fields the earth opened
and threw up water ; to see which I went there, and
such was the case, and the water came up from the
earth in many places, and it appeared like the rush-
ing of water when drawn from a well ; I remained
all night in the fields, and in three or four places the
earth had given way, and sunk 100 feet in depth,
which space was filled with water. Many of the
wells which had before this plenty of water were left
empty, and many pools that formerly were dry were
• filled with water. The like of this was never
seen before.
returned into the town, the inhabitants
me, that, during my absence, the earth
shaken ; and when I was washing my body
(felt two or three violent shocks again, and
was in was much shaken. After this peo-

ple did not seem willing to remain in
toss off. the town ;
re-
therefore, left it, and encamped one
ceived accounts from Nowanuggar, that the forts of
Balumbo and Arnraw have fallen down, and some
people have died, as have likewise some cattle ; the
same has occurred at Jankaria. I have received the
news from the country round for 16 coss ; and be-
yond the Ran, at Joo-nah Bunder the same has also
happened.
This is the wonderful decree of Atm tGIiTY Gov,
which Ido not understand. For your information
I have written this small account ; all that has oc-
curred it is impossible to describe. To-day, between
twelve and two o'clock, the same has happened. On
Wednesday night, some people assert that the earth
was again shaken. I have this moment received ac-
counts from Moorvee, that the same has occurred
there : that some of the houses, and part of the walls
of the fort, have fallen, and the people suffered great
losses. Ido not know to what extent damage has
been done."

" Camp near Bhooj, June 17.
" We are, at present, in a shocking state of alarm.
Last evening, between six :And seven o'clock, we were
visited by a dreadful earthquake. The wall that
surrounded Bhooj is almost levelled with the ground,
and the few towers which are left standing arc merely
broken remains ; the houses generally unroofed,
others in ruins, and most of the large buildings, in-
cluding the Palace, greatly injured ; the wall of the,
Hill-fort is down in many places, and there is a
complete breach near the gateway. The right of our
camp tests a short distance on the left of the latter,
fronting the town, and extends along the bottom of
the hill to a little beyond the large tower on the
south west point.
" I am happy to say, that we have had none ma-
terially hurt, four Sepoys only bruised, who were on
duty in the town ; but I fear that a great many ca-
sualties have occurred among the poor natives; some
hundreds are said to have lost their lives. There is
at present so much confusion, that the numbers can-
not be ascertained.

" We had several shocks during the night, and
they have continued at intetvals this day; the last
one about two hours ago, when I could scarcely keep
upon my legs; the sensation is horrible while it,lasts.
They have wflered, we understand, in the same way
at Anjar.
" P.S. Three T. rl.—There is a slight shock at this
moment. I trust in Goo they will cease altogether."
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A COREEsPONDF.NT AT

THE EVENING STAR.