The Virginia Gazette

St. George's Tower, Grenada, October 25

This island, whose happy situation has hitherto screened it from those accidents which lately befell almost all the neighbouring ones, was on the 21st instant exposed to very great danger, by the most alarming earthquake that has been felt for many years: It began about 5 o'clock in the morning and continued, without intermission, for above two minutes, in a direction from about S. E. to N. W. a duration of which perhaps there is hardly an example. However, very providentially, no damage has happened in town; but the country has not escaped so well, as several stone buildings on many estates, particularly to windward, have been shattered, and others have lost their roofs. On the 24th, at night, two smart shocks were felt here, without doing much hurt. They write from St. Vincent and Curacoa that it was also felt in both those islands, at the very moment it happened here; but the accounts received from Trinidad, by a launch which arrived yesterday, are truly dreadful; the description they give of it is beyond conception. They allege that the face of the island is totally changed, whole mountains being levelled, and that the earth was so strongly agitated as to make it impossible to stand on one's feet.