Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-03-01
LATEST FROM FRANCE.
NEW YORK, JAN. 81.

| NEW YORK, Jan. 81.
The ship Howard, Cap. Holdrcdge,
arrived here last night from Havre,
whence she sailed Oh the 18th ult. Our
| French papers contain the following in
tellIgence:
A most distressing and melancholy
event has occurred at St. Petersburgh
occasioned by The overtlowlng Of he Ne
Wy, in hurricane. The bodies OF screen
thousand persons have been found in The
houses, ann eight thousand persons are
siil missing, Nearly all The provisions
OF the capital have been destroyed, and,
as the winlef is al hand, it IS to be feared
that the population remaining will suffer
the horrors OF famine.
! The same hurricane has gone over the
northern 1oasr oil Jntlanu,. passed Gotten
burg ard St1eknolr, sweeping every
| hing in is course. The whole regl-
ment OF lmpcrlal carabaoier guards, IN en-
and horses, ave perlshed A vessel Of
! 100 guns das completely disappeared
and all the imperial vessels in The har.
! Dor OF Cranstadt are lost. Rurying
grounds haze been washed away, and the
dead bodies were floating through the
streets. W 1Gte stoP"s OF ,cffee and SUI
gar have ben destroyed these articles
have risen SO psv cent,
i've leagues f0und the city OF S Pc
tersburgh, have all been destroy Cd
| Within few years. it is remarkable
fact, thai Russi4 h.s seen both Der capt.
ais destroyed, one BY FIRE, the other by
water,
| According to private letter OF the
23d uii. tfom Stock holm, The same bur
rlcane Whi-h did so much damage 81 St.
Petersburgh, ragged with equal fury i'll
tenbursh, Vbourg, ju'land, &c. A,
| Stockholm, vessels were torn trcm their
moorings, and driven against each other,
the roots OF houses were carried away,
aud the roadswere SO completely block
ed up with rees, torn up by the roots,
that travellers were under the nee essity
OF cutting lhsir way through with hatch
| els Twenty Ave vessels, near the bridge
Of Munkbroe, upon the lake Maeler,
were carried away with the bridge and
much damaged.
Tue storm comm enced on The 18th, 10
the evening, wind west, and confirm d
50 until the morning OF the 18th; he
| Neva, then raised nearly evel with the
streets A half past s, sudden rise of
the river took place, which il > few mi
nu.es OVERLOOKED the streets O. s.. Pc
tersburgb; The people who lived on the
! lower floors r'n up stairs Tor safety.
The water cane up to the top OF the
lamps, aud tue great bridge was carried
away al once, 2 the bridges are de-
siroyed, or very much injured. A half
past 8 in The afternoon, the water began
10 fall, and a, 9 o'clock in the evening
the streets wefe dear. All the cellars
are filled, an goods destroyed, even
those in the Exc hogs.
The gale began upon the shores Of
| Engla land and Irela0d, and after having
wrought into fury be Northern Sea and
caused numerous shipvrecks upon the
Northern coast of Jptand, passed by
Gottenburg and Stot holm, continually
rising more and more rom Southeast to
Northeast. In trayersing Sweden, it
swept away whole forests; but it was ma
lurally in the Gul OF Finland thai its ra-
wages would be most severely felt, lis
violence having kept up to ,is, spot. In
an instant, it drove the waters of the Bal
tic into the Gulf Of Finland, which, being
terminated by point towards the east,
must have experienced, particularly to-
wards that extremity, sudden and i'm
mense elevation of its waters This
line, which appears to form a double
curve, determined by some lofty lands,
presents upon the map Development
OF $40 to 400 leagues, over which the
hurricane travelled in few minutes,
and perhaps even in one minute; for we
have no. ye. precise information upon
the exact moment when the phenome-
non burst upon the different countries
which it visited.
!. Portugai.-M. Hyde de Melville
had lef, Lisbon Tor Paris.
: Approximations existed as to Portugal
1t was said the King proposed to abdi
cate the ,hrone.-Much jealousy existed
in England Of the Influence of France If
the Portuguese councils 1t is reported
that the King of Portugal has refused II