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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1S14. 



forenoon, and forlunately arrived 

 safe in the east harbour, about 

 three o'clock, with no other appa- 

 rent injury than the loss of her 

 bowsprit. Notwithstanding the 

 hazardous attempt of taking the 

 harbour in such a hurricane, by 

 the able manner in which it was 

 performed, the only damage which 

 she occasioned going in was that of 

 running down a herring sloop at 

 the entrance. 



Half-past four, — The gale in- 

 creased a little more to the west- 

 ward. We have just learned that 

 the following vessels, in Gourock 

 Eay, are on shore, viz — The 

 Mary, on this side of the Powder- 

 house, and the Jane and Elizabeth, 

 at the ^ew Battery. Only his 

 Majesty's ships Tartarus and Ama- 

 zon remain at anchor in Gourock 

 Bay. The utmost confusion pre- 

 vails, and great fears are entertain- 

 ed for the safety of the ships rid- 

 ing at the tail of the bank. One 

 is apparently aground at the Hill 

 of Ardmore. Several have drifted 

 up the river past Cardross, 



The Jane, from Palermo, has 

 just arrived from quarantine sta- 

 tion, Holy Loch, having been 

 l)lown from thence, with the loss 

 of three anchors and cables. 



At Port Glasgow, the damnge 

 has been immense from the over- 

 flowing of the tide. 



17. It blew a tremendous 

 storm yesterday from W. N. W. 

 the effects of which will be se- 

 verely and generally felt. It be- 

 gan early in the morning, accom- 

 panied with a great deal of thun- 

 der and lightning, increasing in its 

 fury until about two o'clock in the 

 afternoon, when during a heavy 

 gust, the tide, which by this time 

 had nearly overflowed the quays. 



rose suddenly (some say in less 

 than ten minutes) upwards of 

 eighteen inches, rushing in with 

 great violence, laying parts of the 

 east and west ends of the town 

 completely under water. As the 

 tide had still an hour to flow, the 

 most serious consequences to the 

 warehouses with West India pro- 

 duce were apprehended, but fortu- 

 nately, soon after this heavy squall, 

 the water began to recede, not 

 without doing some mischief. 



During the gale, the following 

 ships of the outward-bound West 

 India fleet drove on shore this side 

 the point White Farland: — Eliza- 

 beth and Jane, for Jamaica; and 

 Mary, for Demarara; another of 

 the fleet, name unknown, is on 

 shore near M'Craw's Ferry. The 

 Hercules, for St. Vincent's, having 

 lost lier anchors and cables in Gou- 

 rock Bay, after breaking her wind- 

 lass, got safe into the New Har- 

 bour, but ran down a small sloop 

 in coming in. The Montreal, 

 from Quebec, drove from her 

 anchors in the roads, and is on 

 shore at Inch Green, near Port 

 Glasgow, which has also suffered 

 from the storm. Several garden 

 walls near the sea, at the west end, 

 have been thrown down ; the foot 

 path and parapet wall along the 

 old Bay have been nearly destroy- 

 ed. A new steam-boat and seve- 

 ral pinnaces on the beach, near the ' 

 Castle of Newark, were knocked 

 to pieces. A sloop from Leith, 

 with the remainder of her cargo, 

 foundered at the west side of 

 the New Quaj', and the master . 

 and crew with difficulty saved 

 their lives. So completely were 

 the houses on the West Quay 

 inundated, that the gentlemen of 

 the Custom House had to be car- 



