The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-04-23 00:00:00

DESTRUCTION OF TIM TUNISIAN FLEET.

To the account given in a letter from Turin, of
the destruction of the Tunisian tiftt by a storm, we
have to add the following particulars, which appear
in a letter dated Tunis, February 9.4
" It bad bee. twig since resolved in the Council of the
Bey, that a strong squadron should be reedy at the beginoreg
of Spring to sail from the port of the Goleita, to cruise io
the blerleterresean, aed to 'louder the Christian vessels which
might fall in its wsy. blotliiog had been erglecied that could
Insert the swears of ibis formiibble eetrrinise. The squat-
droll consisted of nine vessels, well equipped, and provided
with every necessruy,and with numerous d cress.
The bras, cantina (nut to mention those of iron) amounted to
310. The 6th of this mouth all the vessels were ass. voided iu
the harbour of the Guletta; the Oth was Axed fur potting to
see. The Bey, already devourieg in imagination the riches
of Christendom, set nut from the Bardo (the name of the
Bey's palace), sod beheld with barbarous pleasure the various
manceerres which the squadron performed in his presence.
This review being elided, the vessels received orders to sail
the ("Bowing day. But in the night between the oth and
viulerit 0111000i$111e wind suddenly closed the mouthy(
the harbour, sad increasing io violence lied fury during tin
6th, 71h, mud Sib, raised the waves of the sea, and sunk sort
destroyed that formidable flotilla. The tremendous tempest,
did nut leave any time to guard against it; all the mariners,
erevra, sod subtler, perished • ousel, on tie 9th, the sea still
isgitated,sherred to the assonisliwit epeelleters the brvben masts
and sails, and the flowing corpses, as neorrunients of stsfury.
The Bey sew the lower of his navy sad his army vanish be.
fore his ever. Three th.rusaird mew were submerged in this
dreadful herein's,. It WWI that the storm dierharied
its greatest rags on the sags 1 the borbariseet but the
European vessels, hunter', anctlend Iberia it. reitenattrlY,
all the crews and passenger* ref ustistraned sewed, ewers -
four persons, whose fate is itayit .

A dreadful accident, or rather liilitatiOn of Prowl..
deuce, occurred on Friday sacra:Au on the New.
castle rood from Carlisle, shoat titre miles eAst of
Brampton. • A person nuined :TIMOTHY A RNI,
STRONG, a horse-dealer, residing its Brampton, was,
with his horse, on which he sus sitting, struck dead
upon the spot by lightunig. His clothes were
much torn', and hie hotly di,figured. The saddle
of the home was shattered to pieces.
A few days ago there were discovered in the
neighbourhood of Portobello, seven or eight feet
below the ground, three stone coffins, rudely put
together, each containiug a human skeleton of an
ordinary size. The hones were quite entire, though
rather brittle ; and from their position, it would
seem that the bodies to which they belonged had
hetet interred with their legs across. At the head
of each were deposited a number of sharp Hints ;
from which it is conjectured by auttqueiiima
that the inhutnatiou had token place 'nevi..
ously
.to the use of metal beisg known in this
country ! Above these coffins was • finalitys of
sand; and, what is very remarkable, the roots of
some shrubs, in search of nutriment, had penetrated
the coffins and skulls of the akeletuus, about which
and the ribs they had curiously twisted theinsulve,
The cavities of the akeletous, indeed, were entirely
I tilled with vegetable matter.