A Dutch and German mail h...
A Duitchi and German mail have arrived. The Lishon Gazette of the 25th ult. contains a, War-office notification, bearing date the l1tlh of the same monthl, that the KING had dismissed from the military service 4, Captainis and 2 subalterns of the 9th Regiment of Cavalry, for treasonable practices against his Majesty's person and Government. The specific eircumstances and object of the crime are not intelligibly stated. A Major FEIREIRA, of the Veterains, has likewise been cashiered. T'he letters from St. Petersbtnrgh, of the 19tlh and 20th of November, present us wvitlh a dreadful account of the calamities producecd by ani inundation of the Neva, not equalled within the memory of man. In some parts of the town the waters rose to such a lheight, and with so great rapidity, that the inhabitants had not time to save tlhem- selves, but men, womeni, and children indiscriminately perished. A storm accompanied this visitation of the waters, so violent as to roll up the sheet iron which covered the roofs of many houses, as if it ha(d been paper; broke in dloors an(d windows everywhere,and, comnbiningits tbree with that of thecurrent,sweptawvaybodily someof theslighterlia- bitations. Tlhemagazines of wine,sugar, and other merchan- dises, being principally in cellars under ground, and in the lower parts of the city, it is supposed that damagge to the amount of millions has been sustained by the merchants on this melanchloly occacion. The stores of raw sugar near the Custom-house, andt the Herring-magazine, containing up- wards of 150,000 barrels of that article of footd, were irre- trievably ruined; guard-houses and bridges destroyed: the streets of Petersburgb were covered the following day with bodies of aninals which had been drowned-with fire- woo(l, the stores of which ha(l been broken up, and drifted away in all directiens-with ships, wvhich had burst from their moorings-with the contents of ravaged shops, and the materials of which wind and water had overturned. WVhole villages in the neighbaurliood of the Russian capital were, it is said, swept away. No food could be had in any quarter for days after the deluge had subsided-no payments were m3de-no money de- manded; the ordinary transactions and affairs of men being altogether displaced and forgotten amidst this scene of overwhelming misery. The inundation appears to have subsided almost as suddenly as it came on-the 19th being the day on which it began and ended. Stockholm was on the night of the 18th attacked by a hurricane of equal vio- lence, though of less duration, and witb considerable, though inferior, injury. The wind in both instances from the north swest.