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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
^ MADRAS , Jan . 21 . ON the night of the 28 th of November , a violent gale from the N . E , attended with rain , commenced , and continued till ten the following morning , with considerable violence . AtArcot , the whole of the-lines and cantonments were FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE .
carried away , together with the houses of Colonel Young , Major Dallas , & c . and not the least vestige left remaining of the village which stood there . The ground was torn up , and nothing but chasms and quicksands were to be seen . At Wal- ' lagahbad , the river rose sixteen feet , and inundated all the adjacent country . Many houses were washed away ; several natives , a Serjeant ' s family , and two privates , of the 73 d regiment , perished . The storm at intervals continued till the 19 th of December , having , in every direction , occasioned considerable damage .
On the 13 th of December , the Boddam and Perseverance were driven from Madras roads , and on the iSth , the Barrington , Henry Dundas , Earl Fiizwilliam , Rodney , and Fort William , East Indiamen , which had arrived two days previous at Madras , were obliged to slip their cables and put to sea . The Perseverance shortly returned , and the Boddam made Cuddalore . Some of . the others had regained the roads on the 26 th . The remainder were known to be in safety on tho 2 d of January , and had arrived at Madras previous to the sailing of the Chichester . The garrison at Chingleput suffered greatly ; ancl all the adjacent country
has been entirely destroyed . In many of the paddy fields , the water rose to the amazing height of 25 feet . Whole villages were swept away , and the wretched tenantry consigned to a watery grave . The prospect from the Fort , which was insulated , was awfully grand . As far as the eye could extend was an universal sheet of water , except where the tops of trees and hills varied the scene . Such were the dreadful effects of this tempest that many of the trees have been washed away , and the few which remain are all stripped of their leavesand their branches black and blighted if by
, as lightning . ' . The panges rose higher than it was ever known to have done before : the coast and adjacent sea presented a most distressing spectacle , being covered with trees , fragments of buildings , and dead bodies .
QUEBF . CK , April S . By the shock of an earthquake , in March , part of the rock . which forms the Stupendous fall of Niagara , was broken off " . The possibility of the rest of ihe rocksinkingi 5 feet lower by a future earthquake , has already created much alarm : as the consequence , say the affrighted people , would be to empty Lake Erie into Lake Ontario ; by which the banks of the river St . Lawrence would for a thousand milqs be inundated . Upper and Lower Canada were in the most flourishing conditio ^ .
CONSTANTINOPLE , April 9 . The Porte continues its naval operations , under the direction of the famous marine architect , Le Broil . He has constructed them a very fine 6 4 gun ship . The crew of this vessel are chiefly Europeans , chosen by himself , and dressed in a very well-fancied uniform . The new Beglerbey of Romelia , who commands in the camp of Adrianople , sends daily various heads to Constantinople , which he says are those of the rebels ot Bulgaria , whom he incessantly pursues . That , however , of Passovan Ouglu ,
the arch-rebel , he has not yet found it convenient to send . Madame Herbert , with all her family , left Constantinople for Vienna on the 4 th instant . The Internuncio himself is expected to follow in Ihe course of the 3 K 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
^ MADRAS , Jan . 21 . ON the night of the 28 th of November , a violent gale from the N . E , attended with rain , commenced , and continued till ten the following morning , with considerable violence . AtArcot , the whole of the-lines and cantonments were FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE .
carried away , together with the houses of Colonel Young , Major Dallas , & c . and not the least vestige left remaining of the village which stood there . The ground was torn up , and nothing but chasms and quicksands were to be seen . At Wal- ' lagahbad , the river rose sixteen feet , and inundated all the adjacent country . Many houses were washed away ; several natives , a Serjeant ' s family , and two privates , of the 73 d regiment , perished . The storm at intervals continued till the 19 th of December , having , in every direction , occasioned considerable damage .
On the 13 th of December , the Boddam and Perseverance were driven from Madras roads , and on the iSth , the Barrington , Henry Dundas , Earl Fiizwilliam , Rodney , and Fort William , East Indiamen , which had arrived two days previous at Madras , were obliged to slip their cables and put to sea . The Perseverance shortly returned , and the Boddam made Cuddalore . Some of . the others had regained the roads on the 26 th . The remainder were known to be in safety on tho 2 d of January , and had arrived at Madras previous to the sailing of the Chichester . The garrison at Chingleput suffered greatly ; ancl all the adjacent country
has been entirely destroyed . In many of the paddy fields , the water rose to the amazing height of 25 feet . Whole villages were swept away , and the wretched tenantry consigned to a watery grave . The prospect from the Fort , which was insulated , was awfully grand . As far as the eye could extend was an universal sheet of water , except where the tops of trees and hills varied the scene . Such were the dreadful effects of this tempest that many of the trees have been washed away , and the few which remain are all stripped of their leavesand their branches black and blighted if by
, as lightning . ' . The panges rose higher than it was ever known to have done before : the coast and adjacent sea presented a most distressing spectacle , being covered with trees , fragments of buildings , and dead bodies .
QUEBF . CK , April S . By the shock of an earthquake , in March , part of the rock . which forms the Stupendous fall of Niagara , was broken off " . The possibility of the rest of ihe rocksinkingi 5 feet lower by a future earthquake , has already created much alarm : as the consequence , say the affrighted people , would be to empty Lake Erie into Lake Ontario ; by which the banks of the river St . Lawrence would for a thousand milqs be inundated . Upper and Lower Canada were in the most flourishing conditio ^ .
CONSTANTINOPLE , April 9 . The Porte continues its naval operations , under the direction of the famous marine architect , Le Broil . He has constructed them a very fine 6 4 gun ship . The crew of this vessel are chiefly Europeans , chosen by himself , and dressed in a very well-fancied uniform . The new Beglerbey of Romelia , who commands in the camp of Adrianople , sends daily various heads to Constantinople , which he says are those of the rebels ot Bulgaria , whom he incessantly pursues . That , however , of Passovan Ouglu ,
the arch-rebel , he has not yet found it convenient to send . Madame Herbert , with all her family , left Constantinople for Vienna on the 4 th instant . The Internuncio himself is expected to follow in Ihe course of the 3 K 2