PERILOUS SITUATION.-Extra...
PsRTLOUS SITUATION.-Extract of a letter from the- roprietorof the Ros-al iMarine Library, Sidmouth:.-" On rilon- day evening I went'zo bed, intending to rise early, and prepare ginst the danger to twhich I might be exposed at the next mar of high /water, whish would be at [alf-past seven in the morning. I could not, bowever/ seep after two o'clock, my bed shaking under me at everv surge ef the sea,which wvas lashing thebeach In front svith treenerdous violence. At half.pat five I arose, hnd desired. the cook to light the fire and prepare some tea. It was at thi5 rime dark as pitch. I have before said we anticipated no danger before high water: judge, then, of my astonishment, (en groping my way- into the kitchen, to find it already under water. The servaut im- mediately proceeded to lift the things cff the ground. and plate thearn on the dresser and tables, and was thus ergaged, whenin ninstnt a dreadful wave broke upon us, dashing in at the same moment he kitchen window, the front cellar door, and the kitchen en- trance next the Fort-field ! So great was the rash, that in five- minutes there were ten feet of water in the house. By divine goadaeas we were enabled'to hurry up stairs, where I found -my dear boys dressing in a state of great alarm. Upon our Lnees we now implored t-he Great Disposer of all events to deliver us from the death which appeared otherwise inevitable. I made up mny mind to clasp one in each trra, and when tze foundations of, ny house should give way, to go down tolether. At this in- stant we were surrounded by 12 feet of water, which was increasing UpOn Us, and I again repeated~ 'God alone can save uts,' when an empty boat floated under the wndor oftbe bed-room where we hatl taken refage. 'Ics1ledl upn all to be resolute, and prepared to de- scend into it by means of the sheeta, which I tied together, fasten- ing one end to 'the bedstead. The rain was faling in torrents ; my dear inmates were for some moments too much alarmed to venture in so frail a bark, without oars or any meuans of guidance; but, at length, they consented. The window was thrown up, the sbeets cast eut, and we were on the point of abandoning our tottering dwelling, when we were hsiled by the cry I Stay7 stay I the water is fallingl You aremore safe where vou are!' and the cheering in- telligence soon proved to be correct. 1I havenot power to give any tbing like an adequaite description of the awful scene. The sea dashed through tr.e librarY, breaking down the doors; and part of the ront of the hotise il carried away. Several gerstlemen have kindly received my books into their hous.es Mly pianos, and other heavy articles,are locl-ed up in th e chaurch. General Walker has been so good as to receive my 'bedding;'and my platep with what is more precioUS than all, my dear children, are; t NW. Hodge's. Esq. Thewshole ofthbehousesonth beachhavetheiifrdtt brokeaim, lad tho townpreWtts ill-he apisen3n f Q ibavx3 psieaWn4 &iW