"Scarcely a dwelling or negrohouse is left standing; the mills and outbuildings either unroofed or razed to the ground; nearly the whole crop of canes torn up by the roots, and the face of the island, which was luxuriant on the 20th, now bears the appearance of an European winter.

"The town of Castrees is nearly in ruins, and the vessels, about twelve sail, are on shore, not one of which is expected to be saved. The whole of the buildings of Morne Fortunée and Pigeon Island were blown down, with the exception of the magazine and tanks.

"His Excellency and family were taken from under the ruins of his residence (the Commandant's quarters) where he remained in the hope that it would have resisted the gale; but he has unfortunately suffered for his imprudence.

"I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient servant,

"I. R. BAINES,

"Colonial Secretary. "P. S. Since writing the above, I am sorry to acquaint your Lordship, that fears are entertained that General Seymour cannot pass forty-eight hours.

"We understand Major Burdett

and family are killed.

"Accounts have at length reached us from Dominica, whence every vessel was driven to sea by the late hurricane, and they had not returned when the Robert mail-boat, that arrived here on Sunday, left that Island. The interior of the country had likewise suffered so materially, that unless

"A French frigate, armed en flute, with troops on board, foundered in Fort Royal Bay, Martinique; every soul perished.

"The Sprightly (mail-boat), Adams, missing; she sailed from Dominica for Barbadoes on the evening of the 20th.

"Col. Brown; of the 6th West India regiment, left St. Vincent's about the 18th Oct. for Antigua, and had not arrived on the 12th Nov."

The Governor of Dominica has issued a proclamation, dated the 29th of October, allowing, in consequence of the hurricane on the 21st, whereby the ground provisions and plantations had been totally destroyed, the importation into that island, for six calendar months, in foreign vessels of all nations and descriptions, of flour, bread, biscuit, rice, beans, pease, oats, corn, corn-meal, live stock, horses, mules, horned cattle, roots and fruits of all kinds, boards, plank, scantling, shingles, staves, heading, and hoops. "And I do also authorize and permit the exportation, in vessels, importing the

sugar and coffee to the value of one third part of the articles so imported, and of rum and molasses for the remainder. Provided always, that the value of the articles so imported shall be as certained by the oath of the master or supercargo of the vessel importing the same, or by the purchaser thereof, before the collector or comptroller, before such vessel be allowed to come to an entry; and the value of the cargo to be exported to be ascertained in like manner, before the collector or comptroller be allowed to clear out such vessel."

Extract of a Letter dated St. Pierre, Martinique, Nov. 10.-On the 21st of October, this colony was visited by the most furious hurricane ever witnessed here. The details of this sad disaster would be equally long as painful. The loss of nearly 1,000 lives, 25,000 hogsheads of sugar of the present and next crop, incalculable losses in buildings, animals, and the necessaries of life, have occasioned a general desolation, independently of the great anxiety caused by 9-10ths of the shipping which were in the different ports of the island, being either wrecked, damaged, or missing. St. Lucie and Dominica have equally suffered; the tempest reached also St. Vincent and Grenada. Its ravages extended to Guadaloupe, as well as Porto-Rico and its neigh bourhood, though in a less degree. The loss experienced by Martinique alone may be very moderately calculated at 25,000,000 of rancs, exclusively of the shipping: the works and buildings of entire parishes were razed to the ground,

with such inconceivable fury, as to produce all these disasters, and to destroy buildings which had withstood all former hurricanes. It will require many years before the colony can recover itself from this heavy calamity. This event has caused the following procłamation to be issued, which opens the ports to all foreign vessels:

PROCLAMATION.

Pierre René Marie, Comte de Vaugiraud, Vice-admiral, Grand Cross of the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis, officer of the Legion of Honour, Governor, Lieut.-General of the island of Martinique and its dependencies, and Governor-General of the French Windward West India Islands, &c.; and Louis Francois du Buc, Knight of the Royal and Military Orders of St. Louis, and of the Legion of Honour, Intendant of the said island, &e.

Considering that the sudden and unforeseen disaster which the colony has just experienced, requires that the most prompt and efficacious measures should be adopted for its preservation:

Considering also, that no hesitation should take place between an end so important, and means which only call for partial and temporary sacrifices :

We, by virtue of the powers confided to us by his Majesty, and in consequence of the urgency of the case, have provisionally ordered, and do order as follows:

Art. 1.The ports of the colony are open to foreign vessels, not only for the importation of provisions, and other articles enumerated in the arret of Aug. 30,

1784, but also for wheat and rye-flour, and for other eatables, and for every thing required for agriculture, and for the repairs and daily use of the sugar-works. All articles commonly comprised under the denomination of dry goods remain excluded, and reserved to the commerce of the mother country.

Art. 2.-Foreign vessels shall in return have the liberty to export colonial produce to the amount of the cargoes they have brought.

Art. 3.-Foreign vessels shall continue to pay the duties of import established by the arret of the 30th of Aug. 1784, upon the articles therein enumerated; and shall pay an additional duty of 3 per cent. on those not enumerated in the said arret.

Art. 4.-Foreign vessels shall pay the export duties established by the arret of the 30th of Aug. 1784.

They shall pay 8 per cent. upon the colonial produce which is permitted to be exported by the present ordinance.

French vessels which may proceed to the United States, for the purpose of bringing back provisions to the colony, shall only pay an export duty of 5 per cent. upon the colonial produce. Their return cargoes shall only be subjected to the duties established in their respect, by the arret of the 30th of Aug. 1784.

Art. 5.-The duties on colonial produce, payable by the seller, shall continue to be levied as at present.

The provisions of the present ordinance shall remain in force during six months from the date

of its being published, unless countermanded by superior authority.

Given at Martinique, under our armorial seals, and countersigned by our secretaries, this 28th of Oct. 1817.

(Signed)

Le Comte de VAUGIRAUD,

Secretaire, Durand Molard. Further Particulars.- Letters received from Barbadoes, (via Demerara) of Oct. 27, say little of the injury there sustained, as it was confined to a few of the shipping: but they confirm in many fatal particulars the deplorable intelligence of the loss of lives and ruin of property at St. Lucie. The governor, General Seymour, survived but a short time after he had been dug out from the ruins of his house. Mrs. Seymour and her children were saved, but all the rest of the family perished. Major Burdett, with his wife and child, were among the number of the killed. The barracks were levelled with the earth. Those of the garrison who escaped destruction, owed their safety to an order to evacuate the buildings before they had given way to the tempest; but every negro house on the island was blown into the air. The town was nearly a mass of ruins; the cane crops torn up by the root, and the country laid waste as far as cultivation extended. The secretary to the governor had written a pressing supplication to Lord Combermere for supplies and assistance, on behalf of the destitute inhabitants.

We have the satisfaction to state, that the Antelope, (Admiral Harvey), whose loss was asserted, had arrived safe at St. Kitt's be

fore

fore the 12th ult.; and that all the other men of war on the Leeward-Island station had escaped the fury of the storm.

22. From a return made by Lieutenant-general Comte de Gerardin, charged with the office of grand hunter (grandveneur) to his Majesty, it appears that, in the 86 departments of the kingdom of France, 2,416 wolves have been destroyed between the 1st of January, 1816, and the 1st of July, 1817. Of these 1,894 were males, and 522 females. In La Vendee 54 were killed, in the Vosges 171, in the Ardennes 119, in the Aude 128, in Aveyron 45, and in La Creuse 94. Out of the 86 departments of France, 61 appear by this list to contain, more or less, considerable numbers of this destructive animal.

24 Dr. Donald M'Askill, of the island of Eigg, was unfortunately drowned off that island, on the 24th ult. He was proceeding from Arisaig to Eigg, in a boat, along with the Rev. Mr. Fraser, minister of the Small Isles, when, by the starting of a plank, the boat instantly sunk, and he and Mr. Fraser, with two men, perished.

25. The Prussian government continues to grant considerable sums towards defraying the expenses incurred by learned men on their travels; and permits them also to draw on the funds of different public establishments, and among others, the Academy of Sciences at Berlin. Professors Reaumer and Vonder Hagen, of Breslau, have made, at the expense of the king, a tour through Germany and Italy, for the purpose of visiting all the principal

libraries and collections; they have both lately returned to Berlin with the results of their researches. Professor Reaumer has made important discoveries relative to the history of Germany in the middle ages, on which he is about to publish an important work. Professor Vonder Hagen has confined his researches chiefly to the manuscripts of the ancient German poets.

Another professor of Breslau, Dr. Schottky, has been employed in making researches in the Imperial Academy of Vienna, and the numerous scientific collections of that capital. Professor Kephalides and Fosther, also of Breslau, are now preparing an account of the interesting tour which they made in 1813 and 1814 in Italy and in Sicily. This important work will appear at Leipsic, in the Easter fair of 1818. M. Germer, Professor of Mineralogy in the Prussian university of Halle, has sent to the press an account of his journey in Dalmatia and Ragusa. It contains very curious details on the present state of those countries, their mineralogy and entomology, and also on the inhabitants.

Professors Becker and Goeschen are travelling in Italy. The former is to collate all the most important manuscripts for his new edition of the Greek classics, and to examine all the ancient inscriptions for a great work on Roman antiquities which the academy of Berlin intends to publish. M. Goeschen is employed to verify the ancient codes, and to make other critical researches on the subject of jurisprudence, which he professes with so much ability.

in the university of Berlin. He has made several important discoveries at Verona, whence he has proceeded to Florence.

Baron Von Sacken, of Berlin, employs a part of his great fortune in literary and scientific voyages. He has already visited the United States of America, and the West Indies. He is now gone to Vienna, to accompany Baron Von Schladen, the new Prussian minister to the Porte, who is to travel to Constantinople by the way of the Carpathian mountains. Baron Von Sacken intends to pass through Asia Minor into Caramania, and afterwards to visit Egypt and the neighbouring countries. He has for his travelling companion William Muller, a young Berlin student, who possesses very considerable philological knowledge, and who is to employ himself in literary researches for the academy of Berlin. Prince Maximilian of Neuwied is to occupy himself during the ensuing winter in drawing up an account of his travels in the Brazils, which he intends to publish in the form of letters.

The following dreadful accidents occurred on Sunday the 20th to two children of a farmer residing at Castledreignog, Cardiganshire: -One of them, a girl about eleven years of age, having used a whip for the purpose of driving away a boar that stood near her, the enraged animal flew at her, and, with his tusks inflicted several deep wounds on her breast before she could be rescued from her perilous situation. While the mother of this poor child was engaged in dressing, in the best manner she was able, her bleeding

wounds, an infant son, not above four years old, took up the whip his sister had just before used, and, in attempting to punish the boar for the injury done her, fell a victim to the fury of the ferocious animal. The boar, before any assistance could be rendered, had torn out the entrails of the child, whose dreadful sufferings and existence terminated together on the following day. The little girl's life is despaired of. The boar was immediately killed.

26. From the Bristol Mirror.It is our painful duty to state, that intelligence reached this city of the loss of the sloop William and Mary (a regular packet between this port and Waterford) and that out of nearly sixty souls on board only nine were saved.

The particulars, as far as we have been able to learn, are, that the William and Mary, Morley, master, sailed from Pill at nine o'clock on Thursday evening last. The night was fine and the wind fair: about eleven o'clock, not far from the Holines, whilst the mate was at the helm, and the master standing near to him on the deck, the vessel struck on a rock, which our informant calls the Willeys. The passengers, who had retired to rest, were quickly alarmed, and many of them proceeded on deck, as yet unacquainted with the real extent of their danger. This state of suspense, however, did not last long; for in fifteen minutes afterwards, it was found that the vessel was in a sinking state. The scene that immediately followed was dreadful in the extreme. The boat (a very small one) was soon filled, chiefly by

the