Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-01-23


DRY Of the iamented WIN. LowNDss, i.
AZ honorable to ths feelings of tine
House. as it 10 to tho memory Of the
deceased. The brief addresses deliv-
cred on the occasion. were such az wor
thily became the speakers; and never
perhaps was eulogy moro justly or die.
lnterestedly bestowed.-tNat. Intel.
From the Baltimore .4msyicnn, Jan. &c.
GALE AT MARTINIQUE.
Captain Chandler, of the brig Torpedo, ar
rived here last night in ~ days from st. Bar.
tholome VS., states that on the 18th December,
q heavy gale was experienced at st. Pierres,
Martinique, in which all the vessels in the
harbor were driven on shore, excepting one A
merican, which rode out the gale. From the
18th 10 the twenty fifth of Dec. there was much
bad weather at st. Harts and the neighboring
islands.
A prvateer sloop with one hra-s gun and
bout 40 men, had been detained by the govern
OF in consequence Of the sailing Of several A.
mcrican vessels.
Since the receipt of the foregoing, We have
been politely favored with the Martiniqu NC Jour-
nal of the twentieth Dec. from which we "a.
ther the following additional particulars respeo-
ting the gale at that place.
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Sr. PIERRE, Dec. go, I822.-The fear
OF the renewal OF the fatal event which
took place on the 2lst Oct. 1917, made
US abstain from cempliUealing the colony
10 general, and the city OF St. Pierre in
particular, on the happy manner in which
the winter season has terminated. Our
barbor ter two months past announced the
renewal OF commerce, when gale OF
wind, almost as violent as the one 10 1913,
occasioned the most horrible r.vages.
Monday the lEth,. the wind began to
blow from w 10 WNW the weather ex.
tremely cloudy. raining by intervals; the
sea breaking with force announced hea.
w raz de marse. All The captains imme-
diately took the necessary precautions for
the safety OF their vessels. The l7th, the
wind augmented progressively until the
night OF the l9th-in spite OF the heavy
rain which gave hope that it would change
to the east, but this hope was frustrated
yesterday about five O'Clock in the eve.
Ming it blew with such violence thai the
vessels could DOT resist the swell. which
became furious. OF 40 sail anchored in our
harbor on The morning of the 18th, 8 on.
iy have renamed; 80, large and small,
were cast ashore. The brig Charles OF
Nantz, has disappeared, and another brig,
the VeronIque of Marseilles, got uader way
time enough to escape the danger which
she would otherwise have injured. We
have the consolation 10 announce that the
crews have been saved With the excep-
ton OF two sailors, one a FrenchmaB, the
other an American, We tear that the
wind and swell have occasioned simils,
disasters 10 vessels anchored in the ports
windward Of the island, and in that o.
FUt Royal
We havd not as gel received intelligence
from the interior Of the colony but We
presume the country must have suffered
considerably, # we are TO judge from hat
we have experienced Ia this deplorable
circumstance, the civil and military aulbs-
rites, the sea captains and Inhabitants Of
the town. rivaled each other in zeal to
save the lives Of the crews, and maintain
public tranquility, which was not Tor a
moment disturbed
List Of French and Foreign vessels dri-
ven ashore IN the harOor OF ST. Pierre,
Martinique, in the gale OF the 18th Dec
1899
FRENCH.
The brig Achilles OF Rouen-Sbips
Cornelia, Elizabeth, and Felicity Of tiavre
-Arathusa, and La Basse- Terre, OF Nan.
tes- Alfred and Anto,nstte, OF Bordeaux
--'Achiiie, aud Ia freterce brigs 'la>
treplde, Victor ct Fencie, lie Saint Honore,
lie Fabricius, PTesIdent and lie FIls>UDlque,
Of MarseliIes sCbrs l'AIalante, EDter-
prize, Two Cousins, sloops lie kequin
and commerce, OF Martinique.
AMERICAN.
Brigs Agile, Carabie, OF Portland Pa.
ramaribo, Presson, OF Boston; Mary Jane.
Dunbar, Caslins schrs. Nancy Ann,
Morgan, Boston, Elizabeth, Brakeman, OF
Boston Mouat Vernon, Howell, Port
land Richmond Packet, Boardnan,
Wetbersield; sIoop CosmopOlits, Lind
sey, Bristol, K. |.
ENGLISH.
The schr. Whim, from St. Vineents.
Vessels remaiaing sgfe at anchor IN the
hor6or.
The droger Dunkirker, OF Dunkirk !;
ship CIementine, oil Bordeaux; briggs Har'
mony and Amity, OF Marseilles brig Ae,
tive, Hubbard, OF Middleton, Conn. En-.
gIish sloop ST. Joseph, and Two sloops be-