Violent Gale in the West indies.
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The French ship L'Eclair arrived at
New York on Monday last, from Martin
iquc, which place she left on the 30th Of July,
communicates the following


hurricane occurred at st. Pierres on the
2cth. Of that month, and continued from
until O'Clock in the morning The most
severe part Of the gale was at about O'Clock
from the southerly direction. No French
ships were lost. Three American vessels
two brigs and one schooner, were driven a.
shore and went to pieces The Plantations
there did not suffer much.
At Guadaioupc the gale was most violeh'
at quarter past 20. All the buildings oeT
longing 10 government were destroyed.
! At bassaterre nearly two hundred per
sons were killed. In that quarter the plan
tations suffered much. At Point Peter sew
eral American vessels and French coasters
went ashore.-rhe latter sustained more o'
less damage. The plantations there recoN
ed some injury.


All the vessels anchored at RoseauX'
(Dominiauc,) were lost Some vessels, al
so, were lost at Barbados, St. Lucia, ana
Antigua All the islands to windwar,l aug
supposed to have been more or less a.ec'cV
4 by the hurricane.


! DN tle drflNdl CT lne bflp ASt"o. -
tain 'rholnber in 10 days from jamaica us
Public Advertiser Of that place OF iuesoay'
July 22, 1925. has been received, contai'il"s'
the, following information. 49,,
~ French schooner ot war, had lahdGu lu
new Spanish Governor, Don Francisco ii'a9'
at St. Jago de Cuba, but no troops. a aEa''.
ish merchant, who arrived this da,, haa'
however, informed us, that letters hat. - ~"
received at that place from the fla1F,v ~,
stating that the latter city was occnPiN ,,ar
/ 5000 French from martinique, ana '"". ~.
there WAS no doubt of the fact; buy oN ae,,, -,
contrary, the posi-, expected on tne 80


was anxiously looked for to confirm u,


"The French schooner, which mac '".'as ~,
the Governor at St. Jago de Cuba, was 49,
Porto Rico" ,.t


Adviccs as late as the first o. TINS '''el, ~,


have been received by the arrNai u e..
schr. Good Friends, Capt. Mediin' on ,,.n. ,,,,


urday last, from Havana, which do No' ~


tion any thing Of the above.


From 81 lNomas by the BRIG Monroe .rl,,,,
at New York from ST. Thomas, files OF - .;,o
!. as papers to the 10Th ut. have hecn ,,ar
In order to render the intercourse Dct", ,.a a,lt
badoes Demcrara and st. Thomas less al,'eu, Lo,t
it was proposed to establish line OF ste"" n. ~,
to ply between those Islands; tie tu''''s -
