The Late Gales.
The Times, 1824-11-27T00:00:00

Posrsscou'rH, Trnt'E{ ASy Ntor The pale has totlly subsided, aridl the ships on shore are te speetivelv gettin,r their cargoes sazid storeI otAt, peepaeatorv to se.. temapts being made to get thliem off Thew ater is lowly ebbing, but so great was the inunaation, that the disstroeu2 effects Will be long e it may be said that the morass next the town, the marsher near the C tsle, the Salterns and Farlington marshes, aliLOs' iform a connected sheet of water. The damage at FarlingtoR is incalculable: all the embankments are washed away, and the-greatest devastation hes been caused. To form some idtea of the rush of water 4bat en- tered these marshes, it is only necessary to say, that the engine. hoase attached to the water.works was completaly sarrounded. Two vessels were driven over the banks, anid several boats passed over the marshes. The gale lasted, it may besaid, nearlv 8O hours. Its parallel is not remembered by the oldest inhabitant. SIM-1O1TH, Nov. 23. The dreadfulstormoflast night, thewindblowingfrom thesenth- ward with a spring tide, has, I fear, ratined this beautiful little place, and plunged whole fam2lies into thc deepest distress. There is not one house on the beachi which has .ot been broken into by the sea, all the lower parts being destroved ; the doors, wiadow-frames, and inner partitions carried wholij off and the furnitnre ruined. Wallis's Library and billiard-roomn completely destroyed, and the lower part of his house one bed of shingles. Marsh is also, I fear, ruined. In s;hort, the whole Alarine Parade is nowv a beach of shingle, sAp to the first floors of the houses, and the sea rolled with fury about five eclock tnis imorning into the town, so that the main street, as fa.r up as Harris the grocer's, wvas only accessible by boats for some hours& The tradespeople in tbat street have had all their zonds destroyed, the water being over the counters. Thie silk-shop on the Parade was carded away alt^gelher, and the small houses be- longing to the poor fishermen just under the clift, opposite the Cihit Rock, were swept away, and the unforturnateinhabitants onlvescaped with their lives: these poor creatures, to the nurnbcr of 18 (13 of bham are helpless children) are totaUy ruined. AU the boats, fish_ ig-tackle, and bathing-machines, were carried ofifto sea, exceptone miachine, which was driven up near the Fort-field. In short, it is one heart-rendingscere oftmiseryand -uin. I neverwitnessed any thing (Fromi thc Shipping List-) PLYMfOUTEr, Nov. 24.-The dreadftil hurricane which cotn- menred here on Mlonday evenine, and continued until lute last night, has subsided. In continuation of details, the followirg have reached ts --larmnonie. Peterson, Surinam for Mlliddleburg, ashore at Poloim Cove, and will go to pieces; a small part (of the coffee has been saved by the crew of the preventive boat stationed thete, who succeeded in saving the captain. his son, and 'bur seamen; the mate and the remainder of the crew were drowned. The whole of the preventive boats belonging to the different stations within this port, with the exception of the one in Boveysand lZav, have been de- stroyed,and tliC boat-houses washed awvay; the pier it Port 1it'rinikle, in Whitsand Bayf and the boat-hoase on it, were washed away to- trether, by one of the most tremendous seas ever seen. A very large mirchant-sliip was discovered in great distress, about two miles off, with her sails blowing to pieces, she succeeded iu getting out of the bay, and stretched to sea. Nearly the wholeof the fish- cellars in Cawsand and W hitsand Bays, together with many hossew, were washe(d dovwn anci destroved, together with the greater part of their contents, consisting of fishing rackle of all sorts, seans, boats, &c. the destruction amonr the boats belongng to the watermene has been vety considerable. The John, Wills, leghorn for London, ashore on UWemburv Becll, anid itis feared will go to pieces; captain and crew drowned, the captzin's- wife saved by the exertions of the preventive crew stationed at Yalm, wtho found her on board, en- tangled amon.g the rigging, and dreadfully bruised; they also srac. ceeded in stving about one-third ot her carro, and much of there. mainder will be saved. The Wlelcome, Mlorris, from the Canary Islands, is also on shore near Wambury, high an the beach, crew saved: the cargo it, it is thought, has not sustained lunch inj,rs-. Two vessels are reported to be at anchor off i'othecombe, dis.tasteA. Thc crew of the Coromaandel, lost on the Breakwater, we understand are savetd. It is reported that several seamen belonging to the differ. ent merchantmen were drowned. besides tiose already tiamed. The George Canning has been got off, and is now in dock ; her cargo is landed, which mnust have sustained considerable injury. The cergots of rite followitig vessels are lantisig, and much rill be accomplished to-clay, the weather being favourable:-City of Rochester; Percy, Scayer>; Najaden, Masse; Scstia, M'Cormick: Colonist. Smith- Feiiiale, Cliapman; and some otherc. The cargo of the Concordi4 M1latson, is also landing. The cargo of the Eliza, Etiwards, h;asbeeu lhnded, and it is reported has not sustained much injury. Thve Mlargaret, I'l'elfan, for St. Ubes, is expected to be got oai to-day. The Retrench, Ansell, on shore in the Mill Bay, has brok^n ber back. The Nassau, Tretna-ne, for St. Ali- cliael s, has been got off, and must unload to repair. Thea, damuage occasioned in everv part of the port. and on everydescripti.a of property, hlsa been inm`nse. A great part of the cargo of the Mary ElUen, Gitild, fiotn Loftmon for Gibraltar, has been s5^ved itt goodse der. We have just heard that imrnense quantities of irreck have beer discovered fAoatitig in Boveysand and Bigbury Bays: it is therefore apprehendcd that considerable losses have. iaken place thiere. PO RT smo ur tO , NSov.25-The 3.adras, on shote in Stoke'sBa iS very much damaged, her main keel being beaten out; and the sit e flovi,rg.a high s:hitin as it clocs outside; cargodiseharging. Tbe Doncasrer, of Newcastle, Marshall, dischi-ring tinber in Ports.. noutlt harbour, from rQuebec, was forced on shore by the ship Spring, and is now en the ground. RAISGAT1A B. Ney. 25.-The 'larmoine, VOss, bas beea got into the basin, after 1eing sufficiently Uightetied. The Cornelia, Svpkea. reinains at the back of the pier, where xhe will be wrecked - her cargo is landing in a very damaged condition. The Fortuna,W ick. lumd, ;rd Cainila, Hendehn, sustained damage during the gale, and have been got into the Basin to undergo tee onecessary repairs. About 80 fathiems of one-inch cla;n, without anchor, said to have been lost fron, the M ary, of Poole, have been picked uja about tvx miles to the &. S. E. of t is harbour, and landed here. YAUtIGt,'rTT, ISLr. OF WIGHT, Nov. 25.-Captain illazin, of the Nicolac, arrived at C;owes, reports having passed a sihip bottoma itowalds yesterday, and a brig distnasted, apparently an American. The napers of the Salty sloop, Mllatch, fmin Ciierbourg, dated the 22d inst., have bean licked isji; also a boat's stern, marked " John. Dow, (remainder efface?.), and Neptune, of London," a dog kennel, and a handspike, ttttked " Neprutwe." The shIp on sbore. near Bartoni, is the Christina, of Gottenburgb, from Cadiz, and is a; wreck. Crew saved. Thie damage done to this port is very conal.. tderable; the whole of the vessels belonging to it were driven awray, and great part of the quay deisolishQed. The tidewas higherthtan ever reRiensbered; anti it is renmarkable, that the iide at low-water was higher than many tides at high water. Extract of a letter from the agent to LAOydB4 lZaWeymmrth, dated ThATsday :-" It is our painful duty to repart, tlat we have been visited by one oF the most violent hurricanear ever remnerberkd on this ceast. Nothing but ruin and devastztioa sucrounds ns ; one large vessel laden with rum, sugar, aind cotton, camne on shore, about three mniles weest of Portlanid, about twelve o'clock on Mob. day, and in five minutes not a vestige of ber was to be seen. Froma a piece of linen tied firmlvyround the neck of a young man, itap- pearasthat he was a gassenger, the ship's nanse Colville, everysoul on board perished. Seventeen of the dead bodies are alreadytthrotwn upby itc sea. Tbe Collector of the Customs has taken pessessior of thle goods saved frome the Colvltle, on the ground that there is in papers to iden.tiy her. The breakwater, and nearly the whole of the spnatlae, are washed away. The houses near the sea Ba= s four feet water on their basemecnts." The ColeiUe, WVisote, fromn D eerara to leondon, was totallylost near Veymeuth, and allon board drowned. Thec Jolhanner Chiristians,. Wells, fromi Rotterila to Bordeau'r. end thc TTo Sisters, frotu Malaga to Hamburg)s, were totaUy lost near Weymouth; and three' or feur vessels, noames; unknown, were totally ot onothe northsorte-of te By on rTues2day.nO3vr Th~e alrmonie; Peterson, from2 triramt so Bambursh, is ozL The Happy Return, fwron Dublin to London, islost near Padstow. Th2e Sistura, of St. Joha's, New Brunswick,. is a. oshore near The Jonge Richard, and the Batstion, from Rotterdam. to-Lynx, are on ihore neatr Braticaster. The ILetitia, of St. John's, New Bruntlsick, is onr shore at IDabin. The Elizabeth, Brown, anid John and Elizabeth, areuot lsboeenena A mneetiog was held at the Glildhall, Plymnouth, at 12 'Clorwl orw W'Fednes4sy, for the purpose of entering into a subscriptien for the irmediate relief of the sufferers from the storms. Notwitsustandirg the short notite, the attendance was'numerous. and the suntfofr-1. was immediately subscribed. Among thosc preshsut :int the above 'ti3gwas the Lord Bishop of Barbadoes, wh bub8cribvd liberrifi7 The Plytnotiths paper says"; lad not the breakwater reesn:eti a bulwa.rk agalinst the sermific sea and tide comingin fWonss the son ch. ward,, the lowerpart o f Plymouth must have beaur =l ,,o l detanlim-a ends -ecel a shp inport ouldhvestujyedCahue buiaesne'.'. - TJHE LATE GALES.