Star.
London, England, 1828-10-02 00:00:00

GALE AT THE CAPE.

Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, 17th June, Me.
Captain Armstrong will be able to give you the de-
tails of the disistrous northerly gale which we have
just experienced; but yen a ill not, perhaps, he displeased
to receive a written account from your old friend,though
a landsman. The gale commer.ced on S .torday night,
and by four o'clock on Sunday morning the Washing.
ton, of London, Captain B. Bourke, was on shore on
the belch, opposite the Atlitary Hospital. Site was full
of water, had lost her rudder, and most of her seams on
the starboard side were open.. At seven I got doweito
the beach, and saw her crew safely landed: She is
thirty years old, and was formerly a Jamaica,paelset.
,Stie lies on the saga', nearly dry at low water, tind
is by smile expected to break up. At two on the same
day (Sunday), I saw the Ada, of Bristol, cut and run for
the beach, close to the Castle, a ith loss cf heeruddet.-.
Crew saved. She soon, however, roiled her topper of.
and is nearly dry at low water. The sea, they say, was
as high almost as it has ever been in tats bay,:and
terrible surf broke over the old Jetty and the Cattle
walls. The slip at the Post Office was washed away, }rid
came on shore at the Jetty; part of the yard of the
shambles was washed away at the same time. lathe
evening the gale and the sea moderated, but increased
in the night, and yesterday morning (Monday). between
six and :even, the Importer, of Londrn. paned and
came on shore very near Vie rein ledge of rocks, a
little beyond the Walsingliam. I got to the berth at
halt past seven and saw the crew landed safe in the La.
mask. The Importer is not dry at lOW water, and it is
feared that her bottom has soffe.ed, as she was heavily
laden. During the day all the vessels in the bay, with
the exception of the Coventry and another, drove ex.
ceedingly, parting their anchors, cables, &c.
The Kerswill has carried away her windlass, and is
now (Tuesday) off the heal of the Jetty. The Henty is
far to leeward; and if the gale had lasted a few hours
longer she would have gone, and all on board you'd
have perished with her. This morning, at about eleven.
the Orange Grove slipped her cable, and came on thore
at the Castle, between the Ada and the Jetty, striking
all the way, and a tremendous surf breaking over her
all the time—crew all safe. So on the small extent of
beach between the jetty and the military hospital lie four
wrecks, the Ada, Importer, and Orange Grove upright,
and tire Walsingliam• on her beam-ends. I was on the
beach the whole of Sunday, yesterday, and this morning;
when the gale ceased, at about noon, a squall if rain
coming on at the same time, put down the swell in a few
minutes. During the whole of this disastrous gale, no
assistance whatever could be given to the vessels naafis.
tress. A whale boat well manned, did reach the Kers-
will, and brought a letter from the mate to Captain
' Armstrong ; but on putting out a second time to to the
anchor boat through the surf, a heavy ,ea washed two
' of the crew out rf her, and the rest of course made for
the shore immediately; no life WA3 lost. The price de-
manded for anchors and cables was very high, but that
for t +king them ootextraeagant, being no less than ninety
guineas. The anchors and cables were with great ditfi.
culty got into a boat in Rocky Bay, and were Al terwards
even dragged to the end of the Jetty, but it was..all in
vain, for the boats inßacky Bay could not be gottheough
the surf, and it was utterly impossible, as you well know,
to get them into a boat at the Jetty, with suche heavy
swell.

411•10111=1..
Letters from Oporto of the 16th ult. have been re.
ceived. Excitement and alarm still exist among the
English residents; bail has been offered for Mr. Noses,
and refused ; his property is confiscated.
A man named Nettle, a well-sinker, being employed
last week on Iffin Downs, heard during, two or three
days the frequent howling: 'of a dog. Ile noise inva-
riably seemed to proceed from the same spot, which
duced him to ascestsin the cause; and, to his astonish-
went, he discovered a handsome poicter dog, in a state
of starvation, at the bottom of a deep chalk hole.-Nettle
procured assistance, and restored him to the owner. The
poor animal had been'tn his dreary abode nearly a fort-
night without sustenance, aniltit is suppooed, had been
idtheutiug.—Kesaish tirktede.


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