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was obliged to throw overboard his guns and deck materials- He wac 

 on a homeward voyage from Smyrna, and arrived at Baltimore after 

 having beat about, twenty-four days upon the coast. 



The ship Marmion, from New-Orleans, came into Chesapeake Bay, on 

 the 23d, before the gale began. But she dragged her anchors, and the 

 crew were obliged to cut away her masts to save her from going ashore. 



The schooner Commerce experienced a most severe snow storm in 

 Delaware Bay, on the 23d December; and on the 24th cut both her 

 Cables, and went ashore at Nantuxet, covered with ice. 



The ship George Dyer, Captain Glavery, arrived at Baltimore from 

 Lisbon, on the 19th of February, having took the gale on the 23d of 

 December, when within twenty leagues of Cape Henry. She was 

 driven off, lost two foreyards, sustained considerable damage in sails and 

 rigging, and lost a man. 



I insert the narrative of Captain Jocelin, of the Savannah packet, in 

 his own words. He was bound from New-York to Savannah, and six- 

 teen days after his departure, put into Charleston in distress : " Having 

 on the 23d December met with a most tremendous gale, being about 

 thirty miles to the northward of Cape Hatteras, in about twenty-five 

 fathoms water, the wind the most part of the day being from the east- 

 ward, with rain, but a moderate breeze, and carrying single reefed 

 topsails, at 8 p. m., wishing to be under snug sail for the night, we 

 proceeded to double reef the topsails, and while in the act of clewing 

 them down to reef, the wind suddenly chopped round to north northeast, 

 in a most tremendous white squall, which at first ran the brig entirely 

 under water forward. We immediately clewed up the topsails, lowered 

 down the trysail, and haled up the mainsail, and fortunately made out to 

 get the foresail and foretopsail handed, but the mainsail and mairitopsail 

 split to pieces, nor was it safe, or any way possible, to send the hands 

 aloft ; we totally lost our mainsail and mamtopsail, and received much 



