and fpreading defolation, did the wind blow until about four o'clock in the morning.

About this hour the wind leffened and altering its course, gradually came round to the fouthward. During this time there was an awful fufpence, for the experienced this climate anticipated a renewal of the work of mifchief, from the fudin abatement of the form, and rom the shifting of the wind. When it had completely veered round to the fouthward, it fuddenly burit into a hurricane, the like of which was ne ver remembered before at Madras.

The canal forced its banks, and overflowed the country as far as the government bridge on one fide, and beyond the powder mills on the other, where the water was three feet deep.-Boats were carried away, and several were found at the burying ground, and one near the government gardens.

The fea rofe much beyond its ufual height, bringing fome of the M folah boats within a few yards of the cuftom. house, and destroying others, to the number, we understand, of about 40.-The furf reached meffrs. Herrington's on the beach, and by its violence exposed tour feet of the foundation of the house; luckily this was not half its depth. On one fide of the adjoining building, the naval office is much damaged.

The company's rice godowns near the custom-houfe, were forced open, and much of their contents wathed away. The fea role clofe to the ditch of the fort, and the furf dafhed with violence over the ramparts. The counterscarp at the N. E. angle gave way, and the water poured into the ditch at every rifing of the furf. The fa has not yet receded, but it may poffibly be ow ing to the spring tide. We fincerely hope that it will in a thort time return to its former limits, or every building on the fea face must be in danger. The baition at the northern extremity of the Black-town will gave way, and two guns are difmounted in to the fea.

It is impoffible to give an accurate or adequate defcription of the mischief this ftorm has occafioned; far lefs can we defcribe the feelings of individuals who witpeffed this work of dearuction. Trees are every where torn up by the roots; the boules of the European inhabitants have univerfally fuffered confiderable damage : they were unroofed, and fome partially blown down. The mud-houses of the natives are in molt places fwept, and with ma ny alfo of their wretched inhabitants. It is apprehended many thousands have perithed, dead bodies of men, women, and children, were found lying in every direc 1.

tion when the form abated; as the fun rote higher, to the wind, and rain, which had all along accompanied it in torrents, gradually abated, and before noon returned to the northward, and by Friday evening blew again teadily, and withou violence, from the north-eaft, where it now conti. nues. During the hurricane there was no thunder and lightning, although fome was experienced on Friday evening.

In relating the account of the great damage (uftained, we must not omit to mention the effects of this tornado at his majef ty's royal hofpital. Some of the wards were partially unroofed, and in fome places the root fell in, to the imminent danger of the fick beneath; fortunately, however, by the officers and men attached to the hof pital, the fick were removed in time to fave them, and we are therefore happy to lay no lives were loft. The wall furrounding the hofpital has fallen in various parts, leaving breaches of 20 feet wide. The trees are torn up by the roots, and the place exhibits one continued fcene of devettation. The extenfive wall of Dent's garden injuret materially, and in some parts levelled with the ground.

Black Town, St. Thomas, and the Mount feem all to have fuffered alike; at the latter place the flag ftaff is blown down. In the roads, carts uplet, and cattle dead, were every where lying; all, the fentry-boxes were blown down; as were the fteps going up to the fignal taff of the fort, and the large box in which the colours were depofited, was thrown on the parade. As no market could be held, many families, European and native, were without food nearly the whole of Friday.

A Paria vellel lying in the roads, was ftranded, and the brig Cyrus, which put to fea on the appearance of the storm, had returned to the roads on Sunday morning with the lots of her inalts, and fuil of water, Some idea may be formed of the frength of the current, and force of the urt, from the circumstance of a large portion of the ribs of a inip, fuppo:ed to be the Fairlie, Captain Elliott, which was borne in the roads in 1799, being thrown afhore clole to mr, Parry's godowns.

To enter into a regular detail of all the mifchiet occationed, would much exceed our limits, or our decriptive powers. We cannot, however, but lament that, among other confequences of the ftorm, dr. Anderfon's beautiful garden has been deftroyed. This we confider a great lois in à national point of view; to the individual it inult be ditreffing indeed to tee the Jabour of year. thus deftroyed in a fingle night.

• Of the mifery in which the natives are involved

involved we can give no adequate idea; un lefs, indeed the following circumitance which has reached us of the horrid refolution confequent on de pair, in an individual, be confidered as a proot of the general tenie in which they view calamities. A naive woman, after the ftorm, raned a pile of Iwood in a gentleman's coach-home, and, getting underneath it with her chilo, had the defperate refolution to fet fire to it; and .thus burnt herfelt and infant to death. Of the diftance the storm reached we are at prefent unable to late. We have heard inat it fcarcely reached to the northward fur ther than Pulicat: to the touthward it had not been felt at Pondicherry, as the Ami can brig Brutus anchored in the roads early on Sunday morning direct from thence, and had not encountered any gale in her 'paffage.

In a western direction, we are informed, it has reached as far as Conjuverain, where its ravages have been much telt.'

MANCHESTER, MAY 25.-Yesterday, and this day many thousands affembled in a field near St. George's church, by Newton-lane, and appointed delegates to attend the magiftrates with a statement of their grievances, which they affert arofe not fo much from a feaicity of employment as from the unparalelled reduction which the prices of their work have recently experienced ; infomuch, that, after labouring for fix days, at the rate of 14 or 15 hours per day, they cannot poffibly earn more than 7s. or 85. a pittance which will not fupport nature. Their employers, on the contrary, inlift, that owing to the tagnation of trade, they cannot afford to pay higher prices, and promile to increafe them to their wonted ftandard, as foon as a refloration of peace thall enable them. Be this as it inay, a very ferious alarm has been excited. The people has this day flocked hither from the cucumjacent townfhips, viz. Stockport, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Ahton-under-Line, Eccles, &c. Land became to formidable, though certain ly at fint orderly and quiet, that the military from the barracks, (4th dragoons) were drawn out, and all the volunteer corps affembled. The magiftrates repeatedly re-quented the people to diperie, and ufed every poßible means to appease them; but as they perfiled in their right to affemble, and remained unmoved on the field, the riot act was at length read, and the foldiery made overal furious charges, merely with a view to enforce compliance, at the fame time carefully avoiding any ierious injury. Notwithstanding this forbearance, however, The nob perfevered, and confiderable mifchief his been done; one man is killed, and many wounded. About zo perions

have likewife been apprehended, and com mit dio pritons- The utmost confternation all (at eight o clock p. m.) pervades the town, and every one dreads the retult.

31.] Dutch papers to the 25th announce the abdication of the king of Spain, and elevation of Murat to his throne!

Such atrocious perfidy never yet founda parailer in the bifory of modern nations! The following extracts ftaties the particulars :HAGUE, MAY 25.

The king of Spain has abdicated his kingdom, with all its dependencies, in favour of Bonaparte. The wrerched Charles goes to Champaigne, with his queen and family, there to live as a private individual, The prince of Aviturias retires in the fame manner to, Valency, The prince of the peace accompanies the king as his friend. There is, but little doubt that the grand duke of Berg is now king of Spain. He has already moed a proclamation ordering 3 forced loan, in order to aim and equip ad the vefiels of Spam againft Britain.' June 2.] Our correspondent from Deal has tranfipitted to us, this morning, the fol lowing letter.-Certainly the late intelli gence which we received from America, gave us no reason to expect that America would declare in our favour against France, At the same time we have long been convinced that there is no likehood of any war between this country and the united fiates.

' DEAL, JUNE I.—Six p. m.

A boat is juft landed from an American 20 gun thip, and I have only time to tay, that they affert that the Americans have declared in favour of the English.-P S. This is the report of the boatmen who came from the up.'

MANCHESTER, MAY. 30.—Since Wednefday night laft, the towns and neighbourhood of Manchetter and Stafford have remained quiet, and businets has been regu larly puriued, and all property secure. The manufacturers of all claffes and defcription purpofe nolding a meeting to-morrow, to take into confideration the neceffi y of a ge neral advance of wages throughout the various branches in weaving of cotton goods in this part of the kingdom.

Yefterday I took a tour of 20 miles through the adjoining villages, on purpose to collect from the cotton-weavers on the fpot their diftreffes, and weekly earnings ; I was informed, that the belt hands by working at their looms fourteen hours a day, could get but from 12s. to 18s. per week; the fecond rate from gs. to 12s. and the third clafs from 7s. to 10s. ail working the fame number of hours.

from three to fix children to fupport. I found in general through this few hours tour, that peace and fatisfaction would generally reign amongst them, provided their industry were rewarded to anfwer the demands of nature, (belly and back) this is all they afk and look for. I have the pleafire to pronounce, that many of the wealthy manufacturers here have promifed the weavers an advance in their employ, which will make their looms refound.

We hoped when we announced the reito ration of tranquility at Manchester, that we should not foon have to record any fimilar movements in otlier places, especially as the manufacturers had agreed to advance the price of labour; but we learn, that on Monday lait, the market day at Rochdale, (12 miles from Manchester) a great number of operative weavers allembled at the former place. A tumult enfued, feveral perfons were taken into cuttody, and committed to the new prion. The mob did not, however, difperfe, and when evening came, found means to fet fire to the new prifon, having firft fet the prifon. ers at liberty. This fine building, we are forry to add, was burnt to the ground.

We have not been able to learn farther particulars; but we hope no other confequences would follow for the manufacturers at Marchefter had a meeting on Tuesday, to fettle an advance in the price of weaving. The meeting was very numeroully attended, and it was unanimously agreed to advance the wages, in two proportions: the firit to take place yesterday, the other the firit of Auguft.

4.] Yesterday fome intelligence reached town from Spain, which confirms the account we fome days ago laid before our readers, respecting the determination of the people of Seville to mantain their independence against the French. They have taken poffeflion of the arfenals, in which there was an immense quantity of arms. The accounts from Cadiz, which came down to the 15th ult. are rather of a contradictory nature. Some of them fay, that no event of importance had taken place in that city; while according to others, the patriots had got poffeffion of the forts and the hipping in the harbour. The British troops did not fail from Gibraltar till the 14th ult. and ií, as we have every reafon to believe, they failed in confequence of an arrangement between the British admiral and the Spanish governor, it is molt pro bable that no measure of importance would be attempted at. Cadiz until their arrival. The whole province of Arragon is stated to be in a fituation of the greatest ferment. The duke del Infantado is believed to have indignantly rejected the proposition of goJune, 1208.

ing to Bayonne to humble himself at the feet of Bonaparte.-To him, fome of the accounts look up as the patriot who is to deliver this country from the French yoke.Would we could fay that our expectations of fuch an event were as ftrong as our wifhes?

Early yesterday, as one of the men in the employ of mr. Rhodes, the cow-keeper, was going to attend the cows in the field at the back of the queen's head and artichoke public-houfe, leading to Camden town, he found a man genteely dreffed, who appeared to have been fhot; he made the circumftauce known, and the body was in a fhort time owned by the difconfolate widow of the deceased. He proved to be a mr. Jacobs, of Pratt place, Camden town, who had retired there, from bufinefs in London with a fufficient property to live upon.

He left his home in the afternoon to vifit mr. Mofs, who refides in Cumberlandplace, Liffon-green, and received fome money. When he left mr. Mols, he faid he was going to Salisbury-place, where he ftopped to fee fome perfons play at fkit. About half after tles till a late hour eleven o'clock, the landlord of the queen'shead and artichoke public-houfe, heard the report of a piltol and the cry of murder at which time it is fuppofed, mr. Jacobs was attacked by fome robber or rob bers, and he being a refolute man, had refifted their attack. In corroboration of this the thick that he had with him was found with large marks upon it as if it had given fome violent blows. His watch is folen, and it is fuppofed he had bank notes about him to the amount of one hundred pounds, which it is conjectured the villains had by fome means got information of. Yesterday morning a furgeon opened the body, and found that a large bullet had entered the left fide through the ninth and tenth ribs, and paffed through the heart.

Extract of a letter from Manchester, June

5. Notwithstanding the general fatisfaction that was expreffed on Tuesday evening laft by the weavers, in confeqnence of the liberal advance of wages offered by the great body of manufacturers, and contrary to all expectation, an amicable arrange ment has not yet taken place. A demand. of fix fhillings and eight pence in the pound increase has fince been made by a party of the workmen ; but many hundreds deem the offers already held out to be equitable, and wish to return to their employment. This, however, they are prevented from doing by the refractory and diffolute mem bers of their trade, who have actually deprived the induftrious and peaceable weavers of their fhuttles.

Thele poor deluded people, there is too 3 B

AFFECTING NARRATIVE,

• Memel, April 12, 1808, N. S. On Saturday, the 2d. inftant N. S. at twelve o'clock at noon, we failed from Liebau, with a fair wind, and ice for about two vers only, after which we got into clear water, and from that time faw no more ice. This fair wind continued for about 24 hours, and carried us within 40 English miles of Carlierona.

When we came within 40 miles of Carlicrona, the wind became direct weft, and blew a gale: we were feveral times to the island of Oland, but could not land on account of the ice; but that would not have preven ted our attempting it, had not the captain faid that there was no place for anchorage, nor was there a harbour; to we tacked about till the 6th, all the time the pumps going, and all hands bailing the hip: but we did not gain on the leak, and had always four or five feet water in