The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-12-20 00:00:00

THE ROYAL CHARTER.

A painful incalent in connexion with the wreck of I
ship occurred in Saturday at Brusupton Cemetery.
Among the passengers lost acre a whole family named
Pitcher, consisting of father and mother and two chil-
dren, a ith their num. Mr. Pitcher was brother of the
emilwat simipimuililer bearing his na•ae at Northfieet.
lie v. mos formerly connected with Moots. Gent's house
iu C:nna. but had been for some years resident at Gee-
long, where, althow4li only 42 years of age. be bad
acquired a fortune, mai was -eturu:tig to England for
retir.-ims.:i.t. ilia Will .29 years of age, and hi°
..; the AZeS or three sod one years.
The oliim (a lii O ationi4 thr. first to be washed
"u 'lBu-e
08 the iner"iug of Go wick k, and had medical
assistance been at hand, Im:s Lie, it is stated, might have
heel' apared • for after having been picked op, the little
fellow was oh wrved to s:gli much plmoe his left hand con-
vulsively across his bet-cat. ~
lim such a terrible ~,,, lent
of excitement, however. nothing could be dune for ilium
on that bleak spot. ilia remains acre soon recognised ,
one a the saved pa-swoon, and the body. having
been placed in • coffin. WAS taken charge of by the Rev.
S. .11. the lot inane and highly-respected iucum-
bent of tile Welsh vi11a...0 of Liamiallu. The body of
Mrs. Pitcher came ashore at Mom-Ifni, not far from the
ccene of time Ivrea. and, although the remains had been
in the water iiiii re than a month, her features were
eainly recogniz mble by comparison with a photographic
pmwtrait in the possession of her relatives. Mr. Pitcher's
remains were brought ashore by a &hernial% in Bull
80, A mall creek nhuut two miles west of Almnwich, at
a considerable distance from the wreck. When found
the pot ketsof his trowsers bad been cut &ATOM ciii their
contents abstracted, nothing beim; observed to lead
to blentifiene , the body was buried with two or three
others. as those if ISTSIAIS WASOWW. Suhsequently it
was ascertained from an article of clothing that the
remains must have been those of Mr. Pitcher, and the
placed in charge of Mr.
body having been exhumed, was, with those of Mrs.
eery arrangements for their intenuent in one grave in ,
Griffith.i; tcl apn:lviet4h.ei,rif llitattl.itiolar,,y,who
completed
the
news-
coy
Brompton Cemetery, and hrouclit the remains to
N-m:tt:lmcitY
mi'llmitel about one
nitiruMg. Tim
mtnudnioner.hy.t.,chemzilaeidl train inthr s
~,dock. at WIIICIS I the cotans were brought over
from the E•istin-station tim two hearmies. Titi.e who fol-
lowed. consistin; Monist exchtsivily of the relative, and
fremmmls of the 4leeca.ol lady awl gentleman. occupied
three mourning coaebvs. The only strangers were the
Her. 8. K. Ilmtliva and the Rev. 11. R. llugher,
brothers, and fellow-labouters in the too pAriSIWS 01
I.l.inallgo and Poirlimelligwy, moijoining the scene of the
wreck,
of whose truly Christian tit-times since the oc-
currence of the awful catastrophe it is impossible to
speak too highly. tni time Arrival of the funeral e.rbile
at time cemetery the bodies were removed into time
chapel, aim,re time Rev. S. .R. Hughes readi the ser-
vice Appointed tor the burial of the dead in an burro.-
, sive manner. Each of the coigns bore a brawl plate,
upon which was engrav en the name of the deceased
person, and the date on which the body had been
cast ashore from the wreck of the Royal Charter. The
funeral WAS A.Aldlleted lir privately as possilde, and none
of the cum ~,,, stances having been allowed to transpire
in the nei4himpurliood, the illAU(lleri were permitted to
pay the hod tribute of affection to the aufferers without
any molestation froum the vulgar curiosity of a crowd.