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 violent: in Weſtmoreland, St. Ann's, and St. the canes have received conſiderable damage, the plantain walks, together with the ripening o have been totally deſtroyed; the other pa particularly thoſe to windward, have ſuffered much leſs degree.

Montego B

The ſtorm on Wedneſday the 1ſt of Auguſt done much damage to our ſhipping; it has  aſhore two ſhips, the Chriſtina and Juno, a  veſſel of Niel's, and a brig belonging to Capt. A Hamilton, is totally loſt, and himſelf and  drowned: M'Kay's wharf is carried away: Drs Piney and Ruecaſtle, Meſſrs. Blake and Ingles's houſes and ſtores are thrown down; all the and fine crops of corn are deſtroyed; the  are all laid flat, and there is hardly an eſtate  Weſtmoreland but has ſuffered in buildings,  Ulyſſes. which come here from Kingſton 20,000l. a part of the parliamentary grant to ſufferers by the ſtorm in October laſt, has drove to ſea, together with a brig out of Bluefie and, through the whole pariſh of St. Eliſabeth, proviſions in general are deſtroyed, and the  greatly damaged."

The accounts from Hanover are equally unfavourable,

St. Mary's, St. Ann's, and Trelawny, have ſuffered very conſiderably in their proviſions canes.

On Sunday laſt the ſhip Ulyſſes, Eſq; commander, went into Lucea harbour jury maſts, with the loſs of her bowſprit, being the damage we underſtand ſhe has ſuſtained.

Letters received from St. Elizabeth that the ſcarcity of proviſions for the  is ſo great, in conſequence of the laſt ſtorm,