The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1822-11-20


flown to, as o les. resource--the long boat vas
broke TO pieces, in attempting to hoist her
oct, by the ship rolling her broadsidc in. A
small JoIly brsi, which hung over the stern.
wss Immediately cleared, INTO which was pu,
female and child, With 4 or men; bu,
while in the aci Of lowering her, she filed
and csp-if-d, and the unfortunate woman and
child, and Of tbe sesmen were drowned.
A small boat, old end crazy, was now The
only one LETT, in which no ono felt the leas,
inclination to rust their lives. A, last the
second officer and sepoy went into the boat,
when the captain end somo other person cur
the iackles tho whole of the gunwaIe Of the
boat wss sroye in before u could clsor the
quarter OF the ship, % she ws running gun.
wales under. The boat vas soon drh-d a.
stern, when few pumpkins, which were
hanging on the stern, were Cut away, and foS.
tuns,eiy picked up by the second, who soc
cesisd in saving the gunner, q sookannies
aod lille hoy.
AT this time, The boat being a, some dis
isbce from Ihs ship, Dnd there DOT being ths
least possible chance OF saving either the We,
sci or her cargo, the captain jomptd over
board, and swan toward, The boat, the PEI.
sons on board which succeeded, fortunately,
IN picking him up.
A few minutes before 9, 90 the eOth, the
ship fovndered, with 66 unfortunate beings
stsndioe on her poop and in about minute,
sfte wards, every person end every thing On
board bad disappeared! In small and crsxy
bost. q or 500 miles iron, the nesresr i.nd,
with tremendous sea running, and nothing
but few pumpkins 10 subsist on, did these
surv;vors, without q compass, put the boa, be-
fore the wind and sea, and s,ooc 10 tho north.
wa,d, 10 hopes Of falling 10 either with ves.
sei or iend Ths boat contiDued running TO
the ~. until tho c5th, when being near tho
shore, OF he Black psgoda, 10 thar snspask.
ubic i,y, they discovered o sail aud st aoov,
halt pas, II, they succeeded in getting along
Side the French brig Scy,he. They wosc in
such weak and reduced stale, when taken
on board, that mos, probsbly sn,iher day in
the boat, would have o.casioned the death Of
taem sil.''
The above ship wes commanded BY Capt.
Wise, sod hound to the I.ls of Fr,uce. She
went down ia lat. 10, N. lon. 80 l-d--thc Is,
oGicsr wac among lho,e who perI,htd.
CAscurrA, JpcelS.
A noss violent sporm bo,st oves Calcuua
on the night Of Friday last, 7,h insi. which
must havs dis,u bed tho sleep of the soundest.
Accoanrs from Dinsporc mention, that boats
wi,nou, uutnter have bsen lost on tho Gsuges,
and that the PstuA shorcs were covered With
wrocks. SeveraI lives must have been lost,
toouch no particulars have yst reached os
In the lower provinces the hopes Of the indi.
20 planters hasc been bitterly disappointed
These, however, are bbi trivial eject. Of the
hate .,ofus, in comparison with the tremcn.
duous delSi, Of devsstoicn aod misery, which
j. is our poirfui duy to notice. Whist are
We TO expect from the next chipping ,ccoun,s,
when we told thar in one place on tbs
isnd, one hundred Thousand lives have bscn
lost! The snu'ce OF our intelligence upon
the melancholy occasion, Is from the follow
ing ex,ruct OF letter from ycssore
"Trn days reo. my Indigo pro,pscts were
promising beyond sny'hing could have cal.
cu's,eG upon. Since tina, period, the mos,
violcDt hurricane ever remembered in this
quarter, accompanied BY deioge Of csin, has
destroyed Toll one half Of our plants, and rem.
tcred the recovery Of great part cf The re-
Matdcr pteosr,ous. The storm lasted IS
hours, syl swep, houses and every thing be
fore 81. Macy trees we're torn % by Tho
roots and carried 20 o distance of several fee, :.
! ncscr Witnessed such scene of dcvsststioD
as ,hi, place prevented. Tha reiu continued
almo., wi,hou, in,ermissiou sor 4 days. after
DC storm ceased, 90 that the whole country
rs under ws,es.
~ have just s,en letter from ,be acting
Magistrate ~ Bu'riseal, sbnut 100 miles TO
the Eastward oT tbi, station
The Registers and Doctors houses were
cereied away, or a. le,.t fell in from he vio.
isnce of the storm ncacly the whole proper.
~ of the Residents at the station vas destroy.
ed. Had this 5eeo ne extent OF the dsmsgs
however, i, would be Of liule consequences
comparatively .psasing bur, alas the suf
ierings of the ns,ive inhsbisnts are not TO be
described. ", fewer than one Iat Of lives
are se'd TO have been iot on this occasion,
toge,her wih tho vhole Of the cstt,e and
gram OF every description, 10th IN store snd
,whs, was on the ground The dead bodies
were 6oa'iug in every di!eclion, and carried
with the current through the houses. The
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