The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-12-23 00:00:00

JAMAICA PAPERS.

The most disastrous accounts are given of tho late
hurricanes, both a regards the devastation of pro.
perty on the island, and as regards the shipping..
Of the 20 parishes in the Island of Jamaica,
or more of them, have suffered irreparable injuries,
in houses, risittati ius, end carious other kinds of
property. Rut the most to he regretted is the se.
were less of !ices, particularly amongst the negoes.
The whole island was a complete deluge. Rivers
which have Leen in eaistence for ages past, lu.ve been
driven from iheir natural channels, sweeping away
numerous buildings in their pasage, together with
their uitfort is ate inhabitants. Up to the last ad.
vices coming away from King tin, the whole event
of property ral lives lost in the tremendous hurri-
cane of :he 171 h, had not been ascertained ; but
enough had .ippeared to prove that a more disastrous
storm had w ver been t xpeiieni ed.
At Port Antonia the gale was dreadful. The
shipping .ufferNl severely. ra'sant Newland *Put
on shore. and had her main keel knocked off; the
ship Fox was hJed; the ship Foyle totally lose, the
Captain and two others drowned ;.the Salo, Dick,
from IVilmington, wrecked, aid all lost except one;
the 7';:to Fiends, and Crptain Redman's sloop,
both went on shore; a Spanish brig lost, and all
hands perished.
At Mnrant ray two wheal.' were totally destroy.
ed. The sloop Dart was driven nn shore ; the steno
Enterprise was totaily lost at Ainiat'e Ray. nn.l her
mate drowned ; the ships Janet, Earl f Lonsdate,
and the IVilhart, all suff,redmoie or less.

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Plum Port Ma.ia.—Ship Fife, on share, etpecte.l
to he lost; Lady Banks lost h r rudder, and moch
injured; William and Nancy sloop and riarora got
on the beach. and were totally lost. Several build-
ings were blown down, cattle derroyed, and the
estates much injured. Eliza Ann, Captain Stniqt,
on shore at Oracahessa ; trte ship Ilercnks, bound
to America, on shore near Frankfort-wharf, and it
is !eared for the lives of the crew ; a brig and a
schoor:er 011 shore at Dry :rhour.
to the parish of St. Praia's, the damage by the
storm was immense. The plantations and coffee
were almost entirely destroyed. Numerous negroes'
houses were swept away down precipices '2 and Stri
feet deep, when the ground under the houses gave
way, and the friends and children of the negroes he.
ing involved in certain ruin, the cries of the un-
torunate presented a scene beyond the power of man
to describe; not only was the coffee destroyed hf
the rivers altering their course, but the corn svls
beaten down, and every tract on the plantation tlt-
nvolished.
The Parish of St..Thomas's in the East, all the
hilly estates, I,;antell with sugar-canes, are fondle
detroyed, tint only as regards present crops, but those
hereafter. The grounds in this quarter must be all
re-planted.
Coley, Font-11111, Georgia, Pelmet° River, 11,41
Mullet. hell, have suffered more than any other to
the valley, at least one.fifth of the land is gone in
this quarter ; all the buildings were swept away
and amongst them 35 negro.houses.--
The loss of cattle his been prodigiods. The
great sufferers have been Blue Mountain, Mon ~
Pleasant, Vetersfteld, Serge Island, Middleton, Si:
ton, rnintiroke Ball. Cardiff, Golden Valley, r.nd
Alorairt, in all upwards of 100 miles.
It is impossible to enumerate all the losses sustairt-
ed on the occasion.
11 RIO !bow, the Lady Caroline sloop, and Ano-
ther, were ride, n on shore.

- The regattations ender which the second hattsli,,ns
have been ordered to be reduced, are understood to
he ns follow :—whon lbw regiment could ro.te -
fourteen hundred effective% both 7 attalion• wer-
be continued on the estalAshat. it ;* when r.ilv;
twotre hundred, one battalion, vett. (Meets for sit
additional co apardea) were to tennis fa fail psi.

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