In the embarrassed circumstances of many of the proprietors, the ruin is, I fear, irreparable .-- At Colonarie the damage is serious, but by no means desperate.

The crop is perhaps injured ten or fifteen per cent.

The roofs of several large buildings are destroyed, but these we are already supplying; and the injuries done to the cottages of the Negroes are, by this time, nearly if not quite remedied.
"Indeed, all that has been suffered in St.Vincent appears nothing when compared with the appalling loss of property and of human lives at Barbadoes.

There the Town is little but a heap of ruins, and the corpses are reckoned by thousands; while throughout the Island there are not, I believe, ten estates on which the buildings are standing.

The Elliotts, from whom we have heard, are living with all their family in a tent; and may think themselves wonderfully saved, when whole families round them were crushed at once beneath their houses.