Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

West-India Occurrences,
JAMAICA.
Kingstown, March 1. On Sunday last his Majesty's Packet-boat Swallow, Capt. C. White, arrived from Falmouth, after a passage of 41 days, having been detained eight of them in the Channel by contrary winds. By this conveyance we receive as melancholy accounts of severe weather, and of a violent storm in the Channel, as perhaps were ever brought from England. Besides the dreadful loss of the Halleywell East-Indiaman, and other misfortunes therein related, we learn the loss of the ship Trecothick, Capt. Elder, bound for Grenada, which vessel had made several voyages hither; she was cast away at Looe in Cornwall, when all on board perished, except four hands. At Plymouth no less than 22 vessels of different sizes, ships as well as others, were either totally lost or rendered nearly unserviceable; the barbican and quays were broken down, and numberless boats and wrecks floated about the Parade: the number of fishing-boats and pleasure-boats totally destroyed were excessive, and many ships were wrecked in the Pool. At the Isle of Wight, at Dover, at Granville, all along the coast, even so far as Newcastle (where colliers were rendered incapable of proceeding to the capital with their much wanted cargoes) the havoc made is beyond estimation.

Capt. Campbell was in company with the Halleywell on the 3d of January, when they were attacked by the abovementioned storm; and was afterwards three weeks beating in the channel, before he could re-make Scilly. He mentions, that on the 4th, the surface of the water was almost wholly covered with wrecks, bales of goods, and other insignia of the tempest's rage.

The severity of the winter season has on land, as well as the storm at sea, produced events shocking to nature, as may be collected from letters sent from almost every part of England. By the violent fall of snow, several carriages with their passengers have been lost, many people have been frozen to death, and, to complete the calamities of the country, a sudden thaw occasioned floods equally destructive to the habitations, the lands, the cattle, and the lives of the people.

Several very terrible circumstances, owing to the inclement season, are also notified from Holland.

A very alarming rise, as we are informed, has lately been made in the price of flour; originating, probably, from the report of a total prohibition of trade with America :--Such a cause, however, is merely visionary, which the arrival of the expected cargoes of that necessary article from Europe will soon demonstrate.