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London, England, 1822-06-06 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLIMOUTIB, JUJU 3.
Arrived the Superb from Portsmouth, to be paid off.

DIAL, JUN E 4.
• elirtieed sad sailed foe the River the Sarah, Thacker, free
&a/Any; aed Prince Repot, ♦sderwa, (ism Betsey Bay
and the &ugh Sean.
The Wise, Juncos, lion Leaden to Riga, rse en shore
near Demurs. receives to the 13th tilt., but it wan expected
would ►e got off.

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(From Mr. Gale. now Novel of 4 The Prorost."

11 was la the C 0.,.. of the winter. after Ilia decease of
Bailie 11141Larere, that the Erbil less of lives took place, which
every body screed was else of she meat ealemituus throw
that had for many a year befallen she town.
Three or fuer vessels were coming wish tangoes of grain
fro. Indeed; *somber from the Billie, with Num.& deals;
sad a third from Bristol, where she bad been ou a charter foe
some Greenock wierebseia.

It ►append that, for • time, there bad been contrary
winds, against which so vessel (weld enter the port, and
the ships, whereof I have been ►peaking, were all lying
together at anchor in the hay, walling a change of weather.
These lee vessels were owned among ourselves, and their
crews consisted of (when sod suns belonging to the place,
so that both by reason of interest and affection, a more
than ordinary concern was felt fur them ; fur the sea wee as
rough, that no boat could live is it to go near them, and we
had our fears that the men on board would be very ill of
Nothing, however, occurred, but this natural ansiely, till
the Saturday, which was Yule. la the moraine the weather
was blasly and sleety, wallies more and more tempestuous,
till about raid-day, when the wind checked suddetity round
front t►e wor.east to the sue•wset, and blew a gale, as if the
prince of the powers of the air was Moire ►is utmost to work
mischief. The rain blat,ered, the wiedows clattered, the
shop-shutters flipped, pigs from the loos-heads came ratifies
down like thunderclaps, sod Use skies were dismal balk
with cloud and carry. Yet, for all Hist, these was i• the
'meets a stir and a busy visitation between neighbours, sad
every one went to their high windows, to look at the he
pour basks, that were warsling against the strong arm of the
MUM and the ocean.

Soli the lift 'loomed, and the wind roared, sail it wu as
doleful a sight as ever was sees in say town 'fitted with
calamity, to fee the sailors• wives, with their red cloaks
about their heads, followed by their hirpliog and dieeoueo.
Isle bairns, ruing one after another to the kirk-yard, ha look
at the vessels where their helpless breadwinners were bat.
sling with she tempest. My Mart was really weermefel, and
full of a sore aextely to think of wriest might happen to the
tows, whereof so many were in peril, and to whom so hums*
magistracy tumid emend the arm of protection. Seeing no
altatrmeot of the wrath of heaves, that howled sad roared
around es, I put on my big coat, and taking my stag in my
heed, having tied dews my bat with a silk Imoikerchief,
bollards gloaming I walked likewise to the kirk•yard, where 1
beheld such ass aoseenhlage of sorrow, as few man is situa-
tion have ever been put to the trial to witaess.
Is the lea of the kirk many hundreds of she towol were
gathered together; but there was no disesteem anon thew.
The major pawl were sailors• wives and wean,, and at every
new thud of the bleat, s ash rose, sod the mothers drew
tkdir bairns closer is about -them, as if they saw the visible
hand of a foe r.iited to smile them. Apart from the multi.
lode I observed three a, fuer young lasses, standing
the Whyseibill families' tenth, and 1 jraloored that they
b►d jues its the ships, for they often looked to the bey, with
lung seeks sad sad faces, from behind the monument. A
widow woman, °De old Mary Weary, that was a lameter, and
dependrut nor her sun, who was on board t►e Looping Meg
(as the Lovely Peggy was nicknamed at the shore), stood
by herself, and sway now sad them wrong her heeds, cry.
lug, with a woful vain, " The Lord giveth, and the Leta
taketh away, blessed be the noose of the Lord ;" bet it wu
wmaifest to all, that her faith was raising within her. Bet
of all the piteous o►jects there, or. t►at doleful evening,
wane troubled my thooghts more than three motherless Chil-
dren, that belonged to the mate of uue of the vessels in Me
jeopardy. Ile was an Englishman that had here settled some
years is the town, where his family bad neither kith nor
kis ; aud his wife having died about a month before, the
baits', of whom the eldest was but nine or so, were friendless
emug►, though both my gade-wife, sod other well•drapoaeJ
ledges, paid them all manner of attention, till their father
would come home. The t►ree poor Yule things, knowing
that he was in one of the shipe, bad been oftee out sod
auxious, mid they were then sitting under the lea of • head-
stone, Ile&T thew mother's grave, rbittering sad ereepirg
closer and closer at every squall. Never was such au orpham
like sight see*.
Who it began to be so dark ibnt the vessels avoid no
Isomer be dlsenmed from the chnrel►ysrd, many went down
ui the shore, sod I took the there babies home with me, and
Mrs. Pawkie made tea fur them, and they soon began to play
with our owe younger children, in blythe forgetfulness of
the maim; every now and then, however, the eldest of t►em,
wises the shatters rattled, aud the lom-head roared, would
pause in his innocent dean& aud sewer tit towards Mrs.

The day being mow Sabbath, and the whole town idle,
evi ry body to a manner was dose ow the botch, to holm end
mourn as the bathes, one offer another, were east o•t 1.,
the waves. Alas! few were the better of my provoke. pe-
roration, and it was • 'hied not Is be described to are f.r
more this a mile along the coast the New mode widows as.l
fatherless house, mourning and weeping over the corpses
of those they loved. Seventy.. hodies were before ko
o'clock carried to the desolated dwelliugs tyr their familiee
•nd when old Thomas Pull, the briber, , went to ring the
bill fur public worship, such was the sum. rsal sorrow of the
town, that Naos.. Donsiet an idiot natural, sat sip the
street to stop hits, crying, in the voice of a pardasabio
desperation, .• Whit, in sic • time, can praise the Lai. >"
The calamity of the storm opened and disposed the
hearts of the whole lows to charity, awl it woo a pleassre
to behold the manner iii which the tide of sympathy Booed
towa:ds the sufferers. Nobody west to the church to the
forenoon, but whea 1 bad isturised Imam from the shoos
several of the council met at my house, to sager seat
the desolation ; sod it was concerted among se at my Svc.
gentian, that there should be • meeting of the inbabitsais
called by the magiatrates, for the tossl day, in order to take
the public compassion, with the tear is the eye ;—whicle
was accordingly dune by Mr. Pilaf himself from the psi.
pit, with a few judicious words on the heavy dupes's-
lion. And the number of folk that came forward to sub-
scribe was joist uoadeiful—lVe got well on to • hao-
dred pounds, in the first two hours, besides many a bundle
of old clothes. But one of the most remarkable this, in
the braises., was done by Mr. Macwolor. He was. in his
original, • Ind of the place, who bad gone into Glasgow,
where he was he • topping liar, and happening Is be os •
visit to his (needs at the time, he ease to the mooting, awl
pus down his name fur twenty goisteas, which he gave me to
heck notes. A soot of such libeiality as had amok bee+
given to the town from our iodirrhina mats, since the morti-
fication of Vey pomade that we got by the will of Maine
Bravery, that died in Cheltenham, ie Estglowl, after making
his failure is Isdia. The seen total of the subscription,
whets we got my Lord's ive.aad.twealy guineas, wee bettor
thaw two leuisilreal pomade sterling; for eves several of the
country geodesics were very generous coutributors, and it is
well ham.' that they are sot inordinatoly charitable, espe-
cially in town folks; hut she disse.bos loss of k was no easy
task, fur it required • discriminwion of character as well as
of necessities. It was at first proposed to give it over is the
&foie.; I knew, however, in their hands, is would So so
good, for Mr. Pattie, the Misister, was a vain sort of a
bodie, and easy to be areehed, and the bold and the hardy,
with him, would be sure to come in for • better share, has
the meek and the modest, who might be iu greater want. S.
I set myself to consider what was the brat way of proceed.
lug; and Italy, upon rtflection, there are few crests ia my
history that 1 look back open with more satisfaction, than
the part 1 performed in this matter. For, before going into
any division of the money, I proposed that we should allot
it to three classes: those who were destitute; those who
bad some help, but large families • soil Home to 'lsom •
temporality would be sufficient ; and that we should make a
visitation to the houses of all the sufferers, in order to elms
theirs under their proper heads aright. By this method, awl
together with what l had done personally in Ilse tempest, 1
got great praise and laud from all reflecting people; sod
it is not now to he told, what • consolatioa was brought
to many • sorrowful widow, and orphan's heart, by ohs
patience wed temperance with whirls the food of liberate.
sy was distributed; yet because • small sum was rentreed,
to help some of the more helpless, at another time, sod the
same was put out to interest its the town's books, there
were not wanting evil.miuded person., who west about whit-
perm( inrendos to my disadvantage; but I him., by this
time, the nature of the world, and how impossible it is to.
regime with such a seven-headed and ten-hurned beast nil the
multitude. Sy. I said nothing only I got the fowls-clerk's
young man, who acted as clerk to the committee of the soh-
scriptiow, to make out • fair account of the distribution yf
the money, and to what latest the residue had bees placed is
the town.t rrrrrr er's 'mode; and this I sent mato a kited is
Glasgow to get printed for me, the which be did; awl ober
I got the copies, I directed one to every individual sab-
tschreimber, a .
whatehd
was
silt,
the optiohwent -adr ummer as
proceeding e.d'h
atsteerral w
hed ith
exactness so by common, that it nut only quenched the easy
of spite utterly out, but contributed more and more to give
me weight and authority with the community, until I hod
the whole sway and mastery of the town.

Pittimint, Jugs 5.—A few da the Minis- lee rope iin• tom nu power. intolerant bigotry alone would with a quoi•lion coneerninir Mr. who- -
ys ago in these cloys make religion so excuse for their injostiee, Perfurme) Isis put
if, of Sisseton Nolen bring in his church, observed and their injustice the measure of their desires! Smell bi- With gud.lihe genius sad as bootee heart."
*large stone lying on the pavement, which, by some 11067 erpresmils relights ss • Arebraud., and !eel as • fory, The snarl wa• dra•k Irish skive Innen three. "1
eitcrable mi•creaut bad been thrown through the Marownhdilst tspariesateandxsumho raeutisotoColl'sle isenivula°,:o.'7:lll.ll dam of she Piers, and may it be vire for the welfr
irigdom"—`4 Lord Liverpool." Glie—" Whew
beautilul window at the east end of the building. theni do unto )ou." The work terror" wiitt""which these k
whereto were some very curious Specimens of painted !riots surround their tepidity, the bugbears with which they flits laved
re": hi".14.7:11W—."“ Liestrossi•Colowel Sir
glow A reward of a guinea was immediately offer- scare err, to use the words of I:Estrange, I.ke • painted hos Malmsey, K.L.B. °MI Duke of Wrlaisigtua
•cl for the discovery of the person who had comasit- 644 Ms !---f h'xsts* PAM. Onlnaore"--threa times Ikea.
teal the above diabolical act. The only General TERROT returned thsaks.
queuce was, that before the following Sunday, the COAL MARKET, Jetta A. The Rev. Mr. VICAR propurd—° Liestewsa
Ships at Market. ships sold. Prite, flisadling, and the Northumberiami mid Neweasil
tt waiiile of the window was entirely demolished,
634 Newcastle ..
•••"elf • vestige of glos. fooloitiing..--(Bory Ga- 1 Sunderland lOl ISa. Od. so 37. lid, any paint it' was in his power to give iMra.' esfOr.l
11 Smirk Coal
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