Hurricane At The Isle Of ...
The Times, 1824-07-02T00:00:00

" POItT Louis, MAourTruS, Feb. 28, MM "On the 23d instant this island was assallea by a hmrriccne equalling that of 1818 in its fury and the ravages it hi ca-s ed. The greater part of the vessels in the part are thrown Upot each otber on shore-several literally heaved out of thle wate and cast upon the quay; hardly a ship, boat, or lighter has es caped without damage; many to a great extent. The AThion, Best just come in from New Holland, bas lost all her masts. Thi Danish ship Governor BlUe, from. Batavia, taking in sugar foi Copenhagen, must probably be broken up here; and perhaps somne of the French vessels also. The wind veered in tihne to save the George IV. and Bawrosa; the latter has suffered no inrwry; the former has escaped with the loss of part of her copper, and hei bowsprit carried off by drifting against the Barrosa. Captain Prissic tells me he has nothing damaged on board, and can have his bowsprit put in and other repairs done without unloading, so that he hopes to be able to get away in 18 or 20 days. As to the in- terior, all the plantations are devastated-sugar-houses, mills, canes, aRd crops of every description destroyed: all the coffee and clove trees swept away, so that the colony can produce no more of either for years to come. In the town and vicinity, houses upset, and many persons killed, It is feared they have had something similar at Bourban." ANOTHER ACCOUNT. "M ALasTrUS, Feb. 26. "On the 23d our unfortunate colony again ecrxeienced the fzts'j effects of a hurricane. Alreadv what we know to have occurne in Port Louis. and learn has happened in different parts of the ,r^land, convince us that the disasters cased six years ago by a sunilar scourge, frightful as they were, have been surpassed; ad that the colony has suffered in a manner the most faal botb fo`. its commerce and its agriculture. During the night between the 22d and 23d there were few indications of the approaching tenrpest; bat afiter 12 at noon on the 23d, the mcscury in the barometer began lo deacend rapidly. The hoar before aad the hour after the setting of the sun were the period when the storm was at its utrnost fury. Yesterclay norning the roads presented a frightful epectscler vessels east on shore; others run foul of the bridges anddismasted; and the wholein a state of damage of which there has been no parallel seen here for more than 30 years. The buildings most eaposed totheeffectof the hurricane, were the houses of the Champ de Lort and teheRoyal College. Oae of its most c otrrdinary results was the shock given to the house Lafargnc T5is immense edifice, by the force of the wind, was so nearly overthrown, that it appeared. redy every mo. ment to faU and crush under its ruins forty chihen, and the persons employed iA their instruction. All of thenr., however, had time to escape, forthe building remained nearly in thesarme state during the, remainder of the storm. Though the damage sustained W-. equivalent to its total destruction, the edifice did not ground. A fire broke out at the period when the storm was at its height, but the house in which it occurred being insHlated, no fatrther mischief occurred." HURRICANE AT TlE ISLE PF FRANCE.