The Late Inundations On T...
The German and Dutch paper-, which arrived 41l0iun these few dnys, arc filled with accotunts of the Late stormy weather, aJd its eftcts. The foliowingextracm sufficientl show ia violence ;_ ,"U AM 3BURGE, Nor. 18. Theaccounts of the inundztinng In various parts of Germany continueto bc very mclancholy. Though wehave nor had 8uch de_ Structive inundations in our cily, yet we have had this tsonth conti. aued rough and stormy weather, verv h-floods. uach as we hare not experienced for these 30 yeats. On the 3d ef this month, the water rese to the ieight of 17 feet 9 inches, and on the 15th to that. of 19 feet 3 inches, by which a great part of the city was laid. under water. Happily they botl happened in the day time. and the damage done was not considerable; but in tha islands intheElba, very great damage has been caesed, especiaUy by the givng way of the dikes. yb h iigwyo "HAARLEM, Nov. 22. ' The ne:s receired to-day from the lower rivers state the swater to have fallen three inches at Vi3non, and 5i at the Gre$lgi : the account from the upperrivers are morefavoarablr- Thece accomnts are the more agreaable to the inhbitaints of a great p-.rt of HoiAnd and Utrecht, because, thouglh we are well assured that thebr is no itm.mediate fear for the north dike of the Lek, it tnust be owned that a continuance of the high flood might be attended vwith ruinout2 con- sequenceg. A breach in this dike would cause the water to sveHlov the track of land betwcen Donne, on the set-coast, the Rhine, the hillsofAmersfoort,and the V; anditheconsequeocesofauch 2nevent may be appreciated, when we say that the water on the Lek is rOow at Vykby.. u.nstede twenty-8ix or rwenty-seven feet higher than th!e usual water level at Amsterdam, andfrom. forty to fifty higher than the wa.er.mark in many of the 2rainred marshes. There is every reason to hope that the water will continue 'to fall, and at part of the country atd the cty of Amsterdam be saved frora sogreat a misfortune. "AMSTERDAhM, Nov. 2M. Though the danger for this city is not entirely passed over, it appears that the Lek has fallen sensibly. The Governor of Utrecht does every thing to avert the danger and secure the safety of the country." TJIC LATE INUN4rDoAIyS oN THE CO-Vz . l?7.