The Statesman.
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THE LATE EARTHQUAKE IN INDIA.
The following remarkably interesting details of
the phenomena accompanying the above event,
are extracted from the Bombay Courier :
POREVeNDER, Jima 17.—We yesterday experienced
hi this town and fort, one of the most awful scenes in
nature, that of a violent and destructive shock from an
earthquake!
The weather was close and sultry, the thermometer
ranging at ti. 6 degrees at sun-set, and a scarce perceptible
air was sometimes felt from the southward.
Lieutenant L. and myself were taking an evening's
walk on the ramparts of the fort, and had nearly gone
all round, when at 40 minutes past six, we observed to
each other, " how excessive close and oppressive was the
atmosphere)" and five minutes afterwards' I heard a dis-
tant sounikhoin the westward, not unlike that 4PII
eatmosadrat sea; a thought had scarcely past the mind,
as to what could have given rise to it, when I felt a vio-
lent shock beneath my feet, and instantly exclaimed
" an earthquake !" then looking forward, saw the stone
parapet, at two yards distance, violently bending in and
out, with a quick wave-like motion, and with a vibra-
tion of about a foot : this appalling sight extended as
far as I could see, or about fifty yards in length, and
the whole height of the parapet ; it was attended with a
hissing, cracking noise.
hail the parapet been made of whalebone, and shook
in auger by any power, less than nature, the agitation
could not have been so great, as that which we witnessed.
There was nothing appeared more surprising than
that solid masonry should hare received the pliability of
the must elastic of all substances.
I thought it intpossible that the works could stand,and
expecting their immediate fall, instantly determined on
descending as quick as possible, but as the rampart was
a perpendicular height of seventeen feet, I was obliged
to rue back towards the nearest ramp, which was a flight
of stone steps at the distance of seventy-five yards ; Lieu-
tenant L. followed. As we passed along, at a quick
run, the sensation felt was s •lar to that hazardous and
disagreeable one of running along an elevated and elas-
tic plank, the ends alone of which are supported. I
every instant expected to fall with the works, or to he
precipitated from them ; but reaching the steps, ran
down as fast as I could, each step apparently meeting
the descending foot, which I sincerely believe it did in
reality, and the whole flight was violently agitated. While
passing down, I expected to be overwhelmed by the
work, which were touching my right shoulder, and
were partly above my head.
Although the rampart and parapet are ten feet thick,
and twenty-two in height, yet this wall of masonry waved
to and fro. like a sea.
Fortunately the steps were broad ; had they been nar-
row, as is frequently the case, it is doubtful, so great was
their agitation, if we could have got down without hav-
ing been thrown over their side, for, as they joined the
works, they were not only affected by their own motion.
but also by that of the wall to which they were attached.'
Arrived at the bottom of tbstflight of steps, we ,
not cease running nntil we had got a sufficient length
front the works to prevent their (Allow on us. On stor-
ping, we were surprised to Iliad that the works had not
fallen, after having been agitated by so extraordinary a
violent and sea-like motion.
(in reaching. a spot of comparative safety, for then no
place was safe, the attention was directed to a vast cloud
of black dust, arising at about 3410 yards distances
and from the sea fare of the fort, which ran at right an-
gles from that which we quitted. The danger being
past, for the shock was now over, my curiosity became
excited, and approaching the eland of dust, I found it
to proceed from the fall of nine towers° and large parts
of the curtain,t leaving twenty-one breaches of forty sod
sixty yards wide. This devastation extended for 500
yards, and over a part of the fort which I had been
walking on not live minutes before.
I do not imagine that a twenty-four hours' fire, from
ten pieces of heavy ordnance could have produced so ex-
tensive a destruction as was thus effected in a minute
and a half!!!
We conjectured that the shock bad not lasted more
than the above short period. But its effects were suffi-
ciently powerful to have destroyed the work of ages.
We now directed our attention towards home, and the
first occurrence we met with near it, was the horse-
keepers with our horses in their hands, standing in the
open air, having, as they said, been apprehensive " that
the stables would have fallen and killed them."
On entering my house the servant informed me, that;
while making the bed in the upper apartment, he had
been thrown down on the floor ; recovering himself, he
attempted to escape out of the door; but before he
could reach it, he was thrown down a second time; he
then got up and ran quickly into the open air.
Dr. and Mrs. A., on bearing all their tiles violently
agitated, and cracking as if in a fire, and observing the
whole of their furniture in a rocking motion, imme-
diately
.ran down into the open air, the former with his
infant in his arms. Ile informed me, that though his
stairs are broad, and built of pnkka masonry, yet he
experienced much difficulty in descending, from the
, violent agitation of the steps, anJ that of the house, to
Iwhia they were joined.
Lieutenant L.'s house is a strong pukka stone build-
ing, of about forty feet high : it stands by itself, the
shock appears to have shaken it more than most other
bowies. The sepoys describe it as " having rocked from
side to side," like a " tree in a high wind." On exami-
nation, there were found so many rents in its walls, that
It was deemed advisable for Lieutenant L. not to sleep
beneath its roof.
I believe there are few houses throughout this large
city, which have not been more or less injured: some
have fallen, and blocked up the streets in which they
were situated.
am happy to say, that hut one life has been lost in
this town, a circumstance which appears almost mira-
culous, from the danger which existed.
The Rajah and principal inhabitants are now encamp-
ed outside of the fort, rather than trust themselves be-
neath their unsafe roofs. which, should they fall, would
prove meat destructive, since they are made (as is the
case of all rapper floors also) of a thick terrace, supported
by stone, on large timbers.
The earth opened, and water issued from the cavity,
over an extensive piece of ground, in a plain, distant
fourteen miles hence.
The atmospht.re to-day has been impregnated a
strong. well of stilphEir; and there have been 2014141
oche{ ;boas between spa, A. at. and, twin, v.'s. whisk
broaibt souse old boom down. and violently Afielalko
• mi =ces were 30 and 40 feet high.
f Igo sin ft and 25.

gte under a harder, but a nobler mandate—" Reflect and
labour." The stimulants which have been applied to
their vanity may rouse it for a time ; but those effects,
like all that is in opposition to nature, must have attend.
The very exhibition of the products of French industr),
for the present year, shows how little the comforts of
the people have been attended to, in comparison with
the luxuries of the great ; how little the spirit of soli-
dity and utility has gained over the national taste for
frivolous ingenuity; and bow much greater their wish
still is to dusk titan instruct. No body of British
inanufacturers. we are persuaded, would submit to be
the actors in such a theatrical pageant. The only
exhibition about which an Englishman cares, is the
diffusion of wealth and comfort in all its shepes ;
and he measures it, not by its surface oe its
bril-
liancy, but by its depth and its solidity. He does not
collect rare specimens into palaces, that Princes may
gam it thus spreads out his every-day productions
' over the that he may imitate and enjoy them.
The cottages and hamlets of the peasants, the neat man-
sions of the yeomanry, the larger habitations of the
more wealthy, and al( the gradations of dwellings up
to the palace of the monarch, are the places where the
products of British industry are to be found, not exhi-
bited, but in use ; and where active comfort reigns iii
every due proportion. To a Frenchman, indeed, exhi-
bition is the limit of ambition; and the industry u:
which lie can make a parade, is that which lie will ever
most value. Even while we look back—and forward--
on the changes of empires and the overthrow of state.,
the rise of some upon the ruin of others, and the dread
and interminable rotations of the wheel of fortune, we
cannot but feel that there are characters inscribed on
the hearts of nations which fortune can never wholly
erase.
What has long been among multitudes, has, for the
most part, wisely been ; and it is allowing too little to
habit, to say that it is our second nature. It is more
commonly the symbol of our first impulses, and our
feelings; the expression of an original bias, no matte'
how or when impressed. but continued to our latest
years. Of this kind is the industry of England, toge-
ther with the habit of reflexion by which it has been
matured ; not a result from any of the fortuitous events
which chance has brought to light, and may again °vet -
wham in darkness ; hut a deep and indestructible proili
city, more long and lasting than her power itself. The
splendour of nations may pass away ; their wealth ni.iy
be swallowed up in the vortex of revolutions; and the
strength of to-day may be the weakness of to-morrow.
But their characters are not thus to be effaced, net
their genius to be extinguished. With the power ei
lireece, the characteristic vivacity of her intellect
not perish ; and, when the martial ardour of Home, the
last of the virtues which forsook her, hail become the
dream of past ages, another spirit of glory, more peace-
ful, though not less ambitious, took possession of her
soul ; and the world beheld, with admiration, a su, -
cessive sceptre in her hands. The seat of the useful
arts—of those which mankind bless, and by which they
are blessed—of those which the heart reveres, anti the
understanding approves, is Britain : and, should he:
armies be laid low—should wars or tempests sweep her
fleets from the ocean—should even her star of liberty
grow dini—she may yet hold her empire over the mind.
and maintain a plice among the nations, by the milted
nduence of sense, industry, and beneficence.

• Ta Scnoot.s.—Tide Day was publishes'. price Is.
A KEY To KEITH's TREATISE ON THE
/1. GLOBES; containing near a thousand Solutions,
worked oat to the nicest accuracy, and in so explicit a m
ntan-
tles as to enable the Student to gain a complete and scieific
knowledge of both Globes. without any instruction from a
Baster. By C. VINES.
Mathematician and Nautical Astronomer.
Naiad for the Aulhkr, and sold by Sinspkin and Marshall,
$1167.• :curt. Ludgate-heel.
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f I B) Mrs. RIGHARDSOI.
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NEXT WEDNESDAY,
FOUR PRI2ES of /20,000, for the SM li.f, I.O.TTERY,

TO BEGIN THE NEW YEAR.
TEXT WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12.--Two
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J. and J.SI YEW RIG lIT. Sole Contractors, had the plea-
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the New Lottery, to begin NEXT WEDNESDAY, 12th
tate Movra (January) Two of which must be determined in
tie First Five Minutes.
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In the Lottery just ended, Btsn OLD SIITE7I CAPITAL
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his Arent st Liverpool. lent Lottery. sold part of one of the
ZWLIWO Prises drawn the First Day : end his Agent at
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C.c .I..ae day.

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