Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1815-10-04

IS 10 be IN grea measure useless and ev
Fers building on the opposite side on the
wharses up To the main or We,bpssct
street from the Bridge to Eddy's Point in
elusive, WIS swept away (ncladine Mr.
ComelI's Meeting House, from their foun-
dalions as well as several dwelling-houses
Oh Eddy's Point which were carried off
without leaving . vestige, behiad--so thai,
all the space, where an hour OF two before
30 msny valuable wharves and stores stood
filled with GOODS and crowded with shipping,
was now one wide waste oftumul,uous wa
ter.
Every part of the town near the river ex.
hihits one Continued scene OF destruction;
but from the hill al the head ofthe cove
such = prospect of vide sp'ead desolaiion
and havoc appears as beggsrs oil desc'Ip-
ton vessels Of all kinds and in every posi-
ton, blended promiseouslY, with carriages,
lumber, wrecks Of buildings of every de-
scripllon. bales OF cotton, ard tens Of thou
sands Of fragments OF all kinds, unite 10
form picture ina sickens he heart
A very distressing scene took place, a
mongst sthossand others, near where Twas
situated, which excited our sympathy in
an extraordinary degree ;---a big loaded
and ready for sea, with stock, Sc. drove
against the end Of the wharf, and her head
rested on il, where She hug and appeared
number OF times as ii She would upset,
and plunge crew. consists 3 Of nlne per-
sons, into the raging food. nese men
were seen hsnging on hsts vssiiiag their
Fate, as no soul could venture to tsei; sue
cour at this time the distance from them
up 20 the houses was filed witt roofs and.
parts of stores tufnbiing siin The violence
of.he tempest. Forg ,uns Tor a wnile our
own perils, We wefe M btho ding these
poor fellows, and expect ng evety moment
10 see them prccipi,a.ed into Inc loren ::
the spectacle was fitted with horror, wnen
OF last they all quilted The vessel and nude
the perllous attic mpt logan the houses, and
who can describe our feelings, While stfug
CLING VITA the violence ofthe gale and the
rolling md bounding materials, on which
they endeavoured 10 gel footho.d, until they
reached tie rear of he houses, where sons
were takeninto the second story oftbe BACK
part,and othe,s unable 10 be reached, plung
ed into the water between two houses, aEd
/ safely swan 10 shore
rhe number OF buildings destroyed, large
and, small, is estimated al Five Hundred !:
the total loss al Fifteen Hundred | thousand
Dollars --lhe number Of vessels wrecked
IN the Cove, fou, ships, nine briggs, sever
schooners and fifteen sioops w omen and
| children wee saved In boats from chamber
windows. 1wo heysoas only were lost
The Stone Bridge which connected
Rhode Island with the main, is totally de-
stroyed.
The third story Of the Washington Insu-
rance Office, occupied BY Mount. Vernon
Lodge, was much injured, being perforated
by tie bowsprit Of the ship Gauges, when,
she rushed with jnpeiuosisy up The river..
This handsome building was otherwise, hus
not materially injured.
The Rev. MIR Williams's Meeting
House, situated In very exposed place.
received considerable Injury, and had the
nd. continued TO rise for few minutes
longer, must inevitably have swelled the
catalogue of devastation. 81.
The Second Baptist Meeling House, in
Judlcious!y located near the water, was total
Iy destroyed by the wind and waves, and the
relics are now 10 be seen in our streets.
Sympathy for Bonapare-- the demo-
cratic editors in the u. States should express a
deep sympathy for Bonaparte, is no way IN
accountble were il otherwise, federalists
might have reason TO suspect, that in accusing
Them, as they have, of being influenced by
Napoleon and governed by wicked devotion
to his views, that they had done them inus-
tice; but as it is, the reason for experimenting
any such injustice towards them is greatly d.
minished, if not entirely removed.
Without stopping to investigate the conduct
of Great Britain in sending Bonapartess to the
island St. Helena, (Which, however, weScon-
ceive needs no defence, either as to the act
itself or the manner OF it) we would enquire.
what is it that excites such sympathy for the
fallen tyrant in the breasts of men styling
themselves American citizens Is it because,
that not long ago, in an official letter to our
minister at Paris, he called the American peo-
pie, nation sginsom filth and aithou honor.
We shall be told, perhaps, that he was in
passion with us al that time, and therefore we
ought not TO be SO cruel as to lay this up a.
ganst him. This must depend upon the oc-
casion he had to indulge inthis passion. This
denunciation against the people of the u.
States, was made while he was erdcavoring
tn seduco the Americas, ,d,,,;,;stra,;,,,, ;,t,>