The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-08-29 00:00:00

afELANCHOLr SHIPWRECK.

Foundered in the tremendous gale of wind on Saturday,
the 13th inst. the schooner Gipsy, of this port, John Chris-
tian, master. The above vessel sailed from Warrenpoint
on the 12th, for Chester, with a cargo of cattle. During
the gale on Friday night her sails were split, when ae, of
comae, was left to be bulfetted by the hand of that dread-
ful storm, and on Saturday night, with its force, driven on
the West Hoyle Bank, near Liverpool. 'While the vessel
'was dashing to pieces at this awful gate of death, the crew, ,1
three in number, launched out the boat, which was imme-
diately taken possession of by the passengers, seven in num-1
ber, when, melancholy to state, she upset and engulfed
the whole (many of whom, we believe, have left families to
lament their untimely fate), in the fathomless deep, where
the tide, we are told, runs at the rate of ten knots an hour.
At this perilous moment, when the vessel was separating
with every coming wave, the crew, with great exertions, re-
gained their boat, and in it were tossed to and fro over the
waves for seven hours. The reader may fancy what must
be the feelings of those men, when every Coming roaring
wave seemed to be the awful messenger to demand their
presence at the bar of God. However, their sand of life
had longer time to run ; and after encountering all the pe-
rils of a dark and stormy night, on a veil dangerous sea,
they gained the coast of Wales, where a Clergyman of the
Established Church, with the kind spirit of his great
Master, reached out the hand of charity and benevolence
to the exhausted mariners.—Newry Telegraph.

COMMERCIAL .ICMBARRASSMENTSIn addition to the
heavy failures we have already had the pain of announcing,
we have now to record the stoppage of the extensive
home of Messrs. Tetley and Company of London and
Liverpool, and Messrs. Wainewright and Shiels, of the
latter place. The failure of the former of these concerns
is said to have been occasioned by the refusal of a party or
parties, for whom they had made heavy purchases of cotton
at the East India Company's sales, to fulfil their contracts.
The purchases on these occasions being constantly made in
the name of the broker employed, he, we understand, and
not the principal, is held responsible to the company. The
consequence of this mode of transacting business, in this
instance, has ben to fix an enormous loss on innocent par►
tics who arc not able to sustain it. Whether sny mea-
sures can or will be taken to entl...avour to compel the prim-
cipals to make it gr.od to them we have not yet heard-2lf an-
chester Paper.
SOICIDE.—Wc are sorry to announce that on Thursday
evening last, Mr. Cobbham, in St. Ann-street, Liverpool,
shot himself with a pistol. lie has left a widow and family
to deplore his loss.
In Turkey, the Grand Seignior, every morning in his
progress from the apartments of his favourite Sultana to
his morninr, prayer, receives in person the petitions of the
meanest of the faithful. In the year 1695, Yamause, the
t :rand Visier of Nlustaplia IV. and the son of Fatima, his,
favourite mistress, was empaled, because he stood between
his sovereign and the petition of a poor shoemaker of the
Crimea.

On Monday morning, the 22d inst. about five o'clock, a
stout man attending a mill in lialdock, Hefts, grinding
malt fora large brewery, *as caught by the machinery, and
forced into a perilous situation between that and the wall,
whin the horses stopped, and the sufferer having of course
cried out, his fellow servants flew to the scot; finding him
in an erect posture, no means remained of liberating him, i
but by flogging the horses on when he fell. Mr. Hicks,
jun. a surgeon, who lived close by, was sent for, and shortly
arrived, and on the following day there was a probability ,
of his recovery.