Sir, — I received yours, and in answer to it these are to acquaint you, that all the ships in our harbour except two (which were 23 or 24 in number, besides fishing boats) were, through the violence of the storm, and the mooring posts giving way, drove from their anchors, one of them was staved to pieces, nine drove ashoar; but ’tis hoped will be got off again, though some of them are very much damnified: several of the fishing boats likewise, with their nets, and other necessaries were destroy’d. Three seamen were drowned in the storm, and one man was squeez’d to death last Wednesday, by one of the ships that was forc’d ashoar, suddenly coming upon him, as they were digging round her, endeavouring to get her off.
Our peer also was somewhat damaged, and it is thought, if the storm had con
