Dutch And German Mails.
The Times, 1824-12-13T00:00:00

Thie Gazette of this date has thc following article:- te" War-Office, Nov. 17. "It lhaving been represented to me that the Captains Joao Jose de Carvalho,.Tacinto Ver,ancio de Menezes, Antonio Mattheus deSousa Raivoso, Francisco Antonio da Casta, the Lieutenant iAlanoel dos Sanros, and the Ensign Alexander .lose Botelho, all of the regiment of Civalry No. 9, neglecting the .scred duties of faithful subjects and theprobity inseparable from the noble professiOeti of arms in which they i had the honoutO serve my Royal person and the State, sometimes by regular discourses, sometimes by uttering unconnected phrases, have shown in the difficult circumstances that havc occurred an entire disaffection to mv Governmenit, ancl to the inteerity of thte inalienable rights of m'y sovereignty, endeavour- ing by this most pernicious example to compromise anti to disgrace the noble corps of the officers of that regiment, destroying by all mneans tie ecrnfitleice indispensable in persons on whose lionour the defence and preservation of the State mutst depesd; and desiring, as iS proper, to niake an exatpiiile of thenm, whicth may satisfy our legal subjects, and serve as a wantting to those who may venture t4 depart f rom the safe pathi wliich loyalty and duty point oFut, 1 thiink proper to tismiss tite above-mcntioned. (Names repeated.) The Council otf War will attendt to the order, anit take the necessary steps to execttte it. Signed by "iHIS X lAJESTY. " Palace of' Bemposta, Nov. 13." (Anotihrr resolution of tnearly similar tenour dismisses Jose Joaquhn Ferreira, Major of the Veterans of the province of Tras- us-,)1ontas.) T'ie Gao:e:te of the 22d contains a long extract fromn a Royal de- cree, relative to the mnanagement of itie roval forests, the deteriora. tion and decay of which are highly prejudicial to the navy. Tite only news fronti Brazil in tite Lisgbon azette consists of articles extracted from tthe Diaao Frarnimtause of Rio (le Janeiro to the beginning of August. ST. PBTERSBURGH, Nov. 19. (EXTRACT PROM A COM5tERCrAL r.ETTER.) " The sufferings which for some months piast have afflicted mzany caulntries, in conseqttence of extraordinary inundations, have not spared our city ; and there has not been in thtc memory of man any example of such a Hood, as we have experienced. The foilowine are somne of thte particulars:-This morning, sbout nine o'clock, the water in the canals, wltieh are sup- plied from the Neva, began to rise rapidly, and coitiinuihg to do so ror some liourse, so that at two o'clock the water was 10 feet deep in the Galeerenhof-street, which is by no tneans the lowest part of the city, and thus the whole city was intatsdated. The inliabitants of tite low houses, of whicit we have a ntmnber, fled with their wives and children to the top of the roors; otlter families, irrer.alute in leav- ing their houses, unhappily perished in them, the watf r rising so ra- pidly that it was impossible to save them. To increase the hiorrors of this drendful scene,a furious storm raged, v hich rolled up tise sheet irots with whicil many roofs were cove ed like paper, tore opern doors and windows, and, utnited with the f irce of the cur- rent, carried away many of the tlight-bttilt liouses. .-kt threeo'clock the water began to fall rapidly, and ntow (9 in the * vening) we can again go itnto the streets. the water having fillen to the usual higbi- water-mark. The frightful darkuess of tite nibrlst, and the continu- atice of the storm, hinder us from learnnig all the particulars of this terrible visitation. All the store-houses, magazines 4f wine, anal by iar the greatest quarntity of goodi, ate in cellars or grottnd-fleors. The greatest usazazine of raw sugar, &c., is close to the Customs- touse,whicl is the lowest partofthecity; andtilus rnillionsin value mutst be washed away or spoiled. Gutard-shotses, bridges, planks, a vast quantity of fire-wood, timber, liottsehold turniture, &c., covered the surface of the water it the streets, and terrible were tlte struggles of issmbers of cattle whicit, having been washed out of the stables, atid unable to find a fionting, perished." Nov. 20.-Most afflictinig is the sightof this dreadful devastation, wlticii has ruineti s-sanv thousand people,and even ttemnostopuleutfa- milies: all the goods in the shops are destroyed; the herring-maga- zines,with nsore than 50,000 barrels ef herrings, are overthrown ; and even the poles on wlsicl the buildings rested areswept away. The streets are coverect with wood, deadi horses, roofs and fragments of hotises that liave been washed awvay, atid of strandetl shiips. Some of tile neighbsuring villages are entirely swept away, and not a liv- ing creature left. To-day nso bread is to be lIad at the bakers'': its sliort, the dlistress is infinite, and we mutst looke with anxiety to the apssroaehing winter. Comismerce is st a stand; nobody thinks of pay- mnent-every one loohing withi grief at the wreck of hIis fornser p.os- perity; and who can avoid being deeply affected at the sigist of such terrible distress "'-Amsterd irm Courant, Dec. 7. (The following seeotnt of the same calamity is from the Ifrarnblrgh Borsen fIlal List of Dec. 2.):- IIAMIBURG(H, DEC. 2. The storn of the 18tls ant 196n November, which raged in Swe- deis, extended to St. Petersburghs, and did terrible damage, aS appears from tie following extract fronm a comtnerclal letter of the 20th of November:- "Our citV yesterday stuffered a dreadful inundatiotn, which las dotte infinite damage, anid ruined many families. Early in the morning tite wind was extreinely high, and soon became a perfect hurricane, the fury of which increased every moment. Unhappily it blew dtrectly from the north-west, against the current of our river, which drove thie water over the ba,nks, so thlat in a few' houts it was three arskeetis deep (abottt 9 feet) in the streets, atsd the inhabitants of the lower stories saved little or nothing. The storm comtstitued till two in the aftermoots, when the wind veered to the Nortit, so that the water ceased to rise, and by 10 at night had run off again. The damnage which the inhabitants ef all classes baYe suffered is itcalculable, and to-day we are able to see the geseral confusion Entire vessels, barges, boats, fragments of houses are lying iD the tsiddle of the streets. In the Custows-housc every tLtifg is in confusion. Sugars in particular are damaged, which flowed, talf melted, through the streets, and two.thirds were supposed to be lost. According to other letters, the Imperial Salt Magazine was entirely under water, aDd thousands of persons have lost their lives. (Gtod grant this latter circumstance may prove incorrect). Of course no business was done on 'Change, and no course can be stated." STOCK1O0LAI, Nov. 19. On the 13th atid 14th the barotneter was lower than ever remem. bered here. T he next day the sky was clouded, and tie weatlter ex- tremnely variable; but in the tslght of the 18th, we had a hurricane of unparal]eled violence, which tore the ships in the harbour from their moorings, and dashed them against each other ; houses were entirely unroof'ed; and travellers who.left this city to-day, have been obliged to be preccded by labourers with axces, to clear a way through tlhe trees that have been blown down atnd blocked up the roads. (We have similaraccounts of the same liurricane of the 118th, from Gottenburgh, Viboy in Jutland, &c.) HlAseXrlraGo, DEC. ;.-It is said that the Russian tariff wiU be changed in nmany particulars in the spring. D(lTCII AND GERMANP ArLS. LISBO)N. NnL,- 2.5-