The Virginia Gazette

Dec. 23. By Capt. Henderson, from Pensacola, we learn that a most terrible hurricane was felt there on the 22d of October, which had done much damage as well on shore as in the harbour. That the gale began at E. S. E. was extremely violent from about 10 o'clock at night until 6 in the morning, when the wind shifting to the W. S. W. it abated. That only four vessels rode it out, not without receiving some damages and all the rest were driven ashore, viz. The brig Rebecca, Robert Craig master, from this port; a brig from the Bay of Honduras, belonging to Jamaica, four of whose hands, and the owner's son, were drowned; four schooners and one sloop, all of which were entirely lost, except one of the schooners (a man of war's tender) that was likely to be got off. That the 2d inst. his Majesty's ship the Ferret, commanded by Captain Murray, came in from a cruise, entirely dismasted. And that five very rich Spanish galleons, from La Vera Cruz, bound for the Havannah, and Old Spain, were drove ashore in the Bay of St. Bernard, W. and S. from Pensacola, some time before the hurricane of the 22d of October, to whose relief a vessel had been sent from New Orleans, but was supposed to be lost; whereupon the Adventure man of war, commanded by Captain Fitzherbert, sailed from Pensacola the 11th of November, to give them all possible assistance.