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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



year 1813, after that hurricane, 

 and wJiich was only averted by the 

 general opening of the ports ; and 

 let us gratefully remember also, 

 by the kind relief of our sister 

 colonies, particularly the generous 

 succour of the inhabitants of St. 

 Vincent. 



Every vessel in the bay endea- 

 voured to get to sea, the surf 

 having risen to a great height : 

 the sloop Retrieve, belonging to 

 Messrs. Curmingham and \'ings, 

 did not succeed, but was unfor- 

 tunately driven on shore below 

 Point Michel, and rendered a com- 

 plete wreck ; her cargo, consist- 

 ing of near .50 puncheons of rum, 

 bound to Roseau from the wind- 

 ward estates, hath nearly been all 

 lost to the proprietors ; the plun- 

 deiing by some people in the 

 neighbourhood, after a great part 

 of it got on shore, was scanda- 

 lously great — %\ retches of the 

 vilest description, who, instead 

 of assisting the suiferers, were 

 actively employed in robbing them 

 of what the angry elements had 

 spared. We sincerely hope that 

 such base villainy will be detect- 

 ed, and the perpetrators brought 

 to condign pimishment. Four of 

 the Retrieve's sailors lost their 

 lives ; two bodies have been driven 

 lifeless on shore. 



A small French schooner from 

 Guadaloupe, with a ca7go of as- 

 sorted provisions, only arrived the 

 evening before, was also driven 

 on shore near the market : most 

 of her cargo floated to the beach, 

 where some plmiderage took place 

 by the negroes. The Halifax, 

 schooner Acadian, Captain Welch, 

 also left tlie bay, but has weathered 

 the storm, and returned to her 

 anchorage. The sloop Mary, Cap- 



tain Watson, also from Halifax, 

 with a cargo of fish, and the Lune, 

 belong to Captain Cunningham, 

 have not yet been heard of: the 

 former is supposed to be lost off 

 Scott's-head. 



The barracks at Morne Bruce 

 are not materially injured, but both 

 officers and men were inundated 

 by the rain, and many of the doors 

 and window-shutters blown away. 

 But this convulsion of nature was 

 stronger felt at Prince Rupert's 

 than in Roseau, and the conse- 

 quences most distressing ; the 

 barrack in the inner cabrit ren- 

 dered totally uninhabitable, and 

 the men's banacks in Fort Shirly 

 with one side of the roof off; the 

 large officer's barrack is also 

 partly unroofed, and the Hospital 

 entirely blown away, and the ord- 

 nance sheds in the yard prostrat- 

 ed ; the officers' stables and out- 

 offices of the quarters in the outer 

 cabrit are all down, together with 

 the flag-staff at Fort Shirly ; the 

 surf in the Bay was so heavy as 

 to carry away the guard-house on 

 the beach, and the gai-rison boat 

 there also totally lost. The officers 

 and men in this place are without 

 shelter, and their situation from 

 want of quarters most awkward 

 and lamentable. A sick man was 

 severely wounded, and another 

 slightly hurt. Lieut. M'lver, who 

 lay dangerously ill, died after the 

 storm. We believe these to be 

 the only casualties among the 

 troops when the dispatch came 

 away. 



18. A new sort of road-way 

 was laid down at the foot of 

 Blackfiiar's-bridge, on the Surrey 

 side. It consists of cast-iron 

 squares, in the form of paving 

 stones ; a stratum of gravel is laid 



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