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LV tvhtr ttwaugja*—Excellent arrangement! no ble institution ! Hour different is this from the condud of my own countrymen; who, ge nerally, leave the distressed and helpiefs, to. the mercy of Heaven ; or of a few miftrables* who have little or nothing to give ? Upon this, I repaired to the Convaloon 7, where I fat gazing in pleating transports, at the profufion of charms which surrounded me. The walls were adorned with inimitable pictures, done by the belt artists. They were indeed, very fine) but at that moment, they could not please. In spite of all the amaz ing, imitative powers of art, still, Nature— flill thou excellent, especially in tbeje thy lovelicft <w(jrkt! After this apostrophe, it was impoflible to look again at the pitlures. So I impnlfively resumed my Soileureis $ > and there I expe rienced, what kind of torture it is, that the senses fuffcr from “ an excess of fwects.” 7 Convaloon. The hall, or apartment where company is entejtained. 8 Sottcureis, Something like our easy chairs. (T 9 be continued.) KINGSTON, (Tamaica) Nov. 10. While we congratulate our fellow islanders on their fortunate escape, this season, from the dreadful effefts of a hurricane, that scourge of the Weft-Indies, the feeling reader will drop a tear, with us, on reading the follow ing recital of the fufferings of the miserable inhabitants of Honduras, written by an in telligent inhabitant of the Bay, aqd brought by the last vessels from that place, Particulars of a mofi violent Hurricane which happened in the Bay of Honduras , on the 4d day of September lajl . ON Saturday the ad of September, 1787, between the hours of four and five in the morning, a gale of wind commenced from the N. N. W. At fix o’clock it came to blow at W. N, W. with great violence, attended with rain; the iky became dark and obfeure, and carried with it a molt threaten ing appearance* At eight o’clock it blew a jnolt violent hurricane, attended with inces sant rain, which fell ver j heavy and ftiarp. At this time the houses on both sides of the river Bellize began to fall, and the branches of the surrounding trees to break, which put the inhabitants into the utmost fear and con flernation. About ten o’clock the wind fliift cd to S. W. and blew, if poflible, with re doubled violence. At that instant the sea began to rife, and continued approaching with such rapidity that the banks of the river were in a few minutes overflowed. And shortly after, the whole furface as the earth covered with water. What houses at this time remained Handing, were toon brought to the ground, and the inhabitants, meu, wo men and children, aged and 1 infirm, were obliged to commit themselves to the mercy of the wind and sea, in momentary danger of being either killed by the branches of the trees every where falling around them, or of having their limbs broken by the logs of ma hogany then drifting with force b* the vio lence of the wind and current into the biifh. In this perilous situation, and having nothing but the profped of death before them, many betook themselves to the trees, to logs of mahogany, or pieces of wrecks then afloat, or t * such canoes, or other crafts, Providence had thrown in their way ; whilst others, after making such efforts for their fafetv and preservation in their worn and feeble state admitted, perished in the attempt. The water at this time being in fomc places tkovit five feet, and in others about (even, above the furfacf of t!»e Cart!), and still con tinuing to rife, the scene of misery and di stress which prevailed, add which was fur ther heightened by the dreadful profpett that presented kfelf, from the mod uncommon violence of the wind and rain, is better to be conceived than expreded, and equalled, if not exceeded, any thing of the kind ever known or experienced i i any part of the Weft- Indies. The cries of the women and child ren, the floating of the dead -bodies amongst the ruins, was truly lhockingand lamentable. To add to this almost unparalleled lcene of misery and dittrefs, the minds of the fuffer ing inhabitants were filled with confternatioa and dread of the water continuing to rife in the fame rapid manner it had already done, an event which alone must have deprived them of all hopes of future falety and deli verance ; for the Iky so obscured, ny the violence of the inceflant rains, as to prevent any bein£ (eeq beyond the distance of 20 yards. After remaining in this uncertain and dlf agreeble situation until near one o’clock, the hurricane abated, and in a ftiort time after the weather cleared up, when it presented to the surviving inhabitants a mod melancholy picture of misery and distress ; not a tingle hoefe, hut, or any kind of habitation, on ei ther fide of Bellize river, Handing; not let's than 500 houses of different conftruftions having been blown down, and the whole re duced to a heap of rubbifti, with the furniture and effects, of various kinds, either totally de^Toyed, buried in the ruins, or carried an uncommon distance into the woods: the dead bodies of tfiofe who had perilhed in their at tempts to gain a place of falety, the cat cases of hous, goats, cattle, and other fpccies of live stock, lying in different parts of the bulb, all served to heighten the diftrefiing scene. Out of 15 square rigged vcfiels, lloops and schooners, including a number of crafts, and other vellels employed in bringing wood from the different rivers, which were riding *t an chor, at Bellize road At the commencement of the gale, not a tingle one was to be seen the whole having either funk or been drove on Ihore, and many of their hands perilhed. Befidcs these, a variety of failing boats, ca noes, pitpans, and dories, were drove out to sea, or walked to pieces by the violence of the waves on the beach. In this dlfcomolate situation the diftrefied inhabitants, without any clothing or other neceftary refreihmcm, almost exhausted with extreme cold, their bodies every where broiled by the blows they had received from the limbs of trees, logs of mahogany, and other pieces of wrecks floating about in the bulb, betook themselves to the ere. .ing of a few temporary ineds, and by digging amongst the rubbilh, endeavoured to find some part of their clothing. In this at tempt but few of them fuccedecJ, as a coufi dcrable part of their moveables were drove by the violence of the wind and sea an uncom mon distance from their respective habita tions, and in many refpetf s either totally de stroyed or rendered ufelels. Upwards of 300,000 feet of mahogany, that was on thore and in the river ready to ship in the different vellels, was carried out to sea, aud totally loft. Among the number that perilhed were Mr. John Leith and his wife, Mrs. Bath, Miss M*Daniel, and Captain Edward Davis, who having received a violent cut in the bottom of his foot with a glass bottle, whilst wading through the bulb to gain a place of fafety, it produced a mortification in the bowels, which put a period to his life. Besides these mentioned, Mr. John Pitt, a moll refpeftabie member of the community, lately arrived from Mosquito Shore with his family, was overfet in his schooner with which he came from Rowley’s Bight the evening before, and perilhed. With them most of the ne groes on board, who composed a part of the tcficl’s crew, vyer© entirely Jolt, there Was a number of t*Q ter perfone, wfofifni&jg are not mentioned* but fuppofedin the whole to be about ioo and upwards. CHARLESTON, January' Yeflerday in the Senate, the committee appointed to confider his Excellency the Go* vcrnor’B meflage, and the papers accompany, ing it, reported that writs tfiould be iflucd for holding elections un the lid and 23d days of Febiuary for delegates tc* meet in convention the 3d day.of March in Charleficm, to cou« sider the proposed Federal Conftitutioni SAVANNAH, January 17. On the evening of Wednesday the pth infF. two men, named Rogtrs and Owning, and a lad named Bennett, were killed and scalped by a party of 13 or 14 Indians, in Midway fertlement, about 1 1 miles on the other fide of Great Ogechee ferry; the horses on which the two men rode were also Biot dead, and two Negro boys are miffing, supposed to be carried off by the Savages, The flop Planter, Capt. Grieve, arrived in this river on Tuefday last, after a paflage of 14 week§ from London, and £ from Torbay, nUGVs Jo#. 26. ~ On Thursday laß the Honorable the Gene ral Assembly of this (late were pleased to elect the Honorable George Handley, Esq Go neinor, in the room of the Honorable Briga dier General James Jackson, who has declined. The following officers weie chosen for the present year; The Honorable Henry Offcome, Esq. Chief Justice. John Milton, Esq. Secretary of State. John Meals, Esq. Treasurer, Thomas M‘Call, Esq, Surveyor General. Reuben Wilkinson, Esq, Collector for the Port of Savannah. And Michael Rudolph, Esq. Collector for the ' Port of Sunbury. The following seven Bates have adopted the New Federal Constitution, viz. New- Hampffiire, MalTachufetts, Connecticut, New- Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Georgia- Extrafts from the Journal of the House of Delegates oj Virginia Monday , Nva* tt f 1787, The Houle, according to the order of the day, ieiolv?d itfelf iqto a committee of the whole House on the Bate of the common wealth, and after forae time fpeat therein, Mr Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr, Thrufton reported, that the committee had, according to order, again had the Bate of the commonwealth under their consideration, and had come to feyeral resolutions there upon, which he read in his place, and after wards delivered iu at the Clerk’s table, where the fame were again severally twice read, and on the queßion being put, agreed to by the House as followeth t Rtfoived v That it is the opinion of this committee, that the free use and navigation of the weftern Breams and rivers, of this commonwealth, and of the waters leading tx> the sea, do of right appertain to the citizens thereof, and ought to be considered as gua ranteed to them by the laws of God and na ture, as well as compad. Rejolvedy That it is the opinion of this committee, that every attempt in Congress, or elsewhere, to barter any furh right, ought to be considered as subversive of juflice, good faith, and the great foundations of moral reftitude, and particularly deßrultive in the principles which gave birth to the late revo lution, as well as Brongly repugnant to all confidence in the federal government, and deßrudive to its peace, fafety, happiness, and duration. Rejoiced, That it is the opinion of tb* committee, that a committee ought to be ap pointed to prepare injunctions to the Delegatee