The National Register.
London, England, 1808-01-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

gal reginteuts of Militia marched yesterday morning, the
former to Tuam, and the titter to Cbarleville. Wo have not
beard tite destination of the Artillery. The 36th regiment did
Dot arrive here till late last night, having been obliged, in con-
sequence of the ditiiculty of crossing thy ferry from Cove, where
they disembarked, to Passage, to march round by llelvelly.
The rattans of the sick in the fleet front Monte Video, amounted
to 817. The w hole force, ettecthe and nou-etrectise, n hick
arristal iu the transports, was (,3Y94.

NAUTICAL INT LINLIGENCE.

Lord Cardner has struck his flag, and has 'been succeeded,
temporarily, In the command of the Chained Fleet, by Vice-
Admiral Sir J. T. Duckworth, K. B.
Lord Nelson's old ship, the Victory, is fitting at Chatham,
for Sir Sidney Smith's Sag. Sir Charles Cotton, when the
weather shall permit him to reach the Portuguese coast, will
remove his gag to the Hibernia. Sir Sidney's present ship.

LOSS OF THE ANON FRIGATE.
(Fir:Tutu !MCI/ A as.)
She sailed from Falmouth on Christmas five fur herstation off
the Black : as one of the look-out frigates of the Channel
Fleet. In the violent storms of Monday, blowing about W.
to S. W. she stood across the entrance of the Channel towards
Scilly, made the Land's End, which they mistook for the Lizard,
and bore up, as they thought, for Falmouth. Still doubtful,
hoa ever, in the evening of Jlonday, Captain Lydiard stood off
again to the S. o hen a cowailtatioa being held, it was owe more
resolved to bear up far Falmouth. Running eastward and north-
ward, still under the fatal persuasiou thAt the Lizard was on the
north-west of them, they did mot discover their mistake till the
man on the look-out a-head, called out " breakers !•' The
ship was instantaneously broached to, and the best bower let go,
vvtieli happily brought her up; but the rapidity with which the.
cable had veered out, made it impossible to serve it, and it soon
parted in the hawse-hole. The sheet-anchor was they let go,
ss hich also brought up the ship; but after riding end-on for a
short time, this cable parted from the same cause, about eight in
the morning, nod the ship went plump on shore, upon the ridge
of sand which separates the Lee-pool from the bay. Never did
the sea run more tremendously high. It broke over the ship's
masts, which soon went by the board ; the main-mast forming a
flouting raft from the ship to the shore; and the greater part of
those who e,capel, passed by this medium. One of the men
eased, reports, that Captain Lydiard was near bits on the
main-mast; hut he seemed to have lost the use of his faculties,
with horror of tle scene, and soon dhaprared. At a time when
no one appeared on the ship's deck, and it was supposed the
stork of death had ceased, a Methodist Preacher, venturing his
life through the sane, got on board over the wreck of the
mainmast, to see it' any more remained, 'some b rr.ve. hearts fol-
le sed him. 'They found several persons still he fay who could
not get up; among whom were two vi omen and two children.
The worthy Preacher and his party sassed the two womeu, but
the children were lost. About two p. ma. the ship went to
pieces, when a few mare men, who, for some crime, had been
Anitfined in Loos below, 'merged from the wreck. One of those
a... 5 raved. By three o'clock no appearance of the vessel re-
f-aloft'.

Our Correspqndent at Ilaverford West has sent us the follow-
n.: melancholy account of the loss of the Autiot Transport,
Mollenbv, with part of the 9th h Regiuteut on board:--
`• We embarked at Portsmouth 16th of December last, and
• the 40th set sail with a fair wind for Cock. Se had very
pleasant weather for two days, but afrz.r we bad paced Scilly,
-me were becalmed two days. On Chri4tmas Eve it began to
blow very hard, and the gale increased to a hurricane, the sea
running suck prodigious heights, as to alarm the most c,:peri-
enced sailor on board; and which was made still more dauge-
you. by a fog, so thick, that one end of the vessel could not be
discovered from the other; great quantities of water dashing
e‘er the deck and rushing down the hatchways, all hands wet
to the skin And perishing with cold; out pumps choaked below,
our sails cal rigging tearing; it was with extreme labour we
kept her afloat, by baling the water out with the bucket ; the
morning's light afforded us the prospect of the Irish shore,
hut the wind then shifting, prevented us making any har-
bour there. We passed all that night at the mercy of the winds,
and in the morning we saw land about iICO leagues from us, but
dare not approach it; the sea ran ma high, that the captain and
*sew expected every moment to bs dashed to pieces, nor did

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they exactly know where they were ;we put abon g..in and
experienced the most dreadful sea; thus we were for five days,
without change of cloatbiug, starving with hunger, not being
able to serve out provisions, yet this was trifiiug to what we
afterwards experienced—the ship was left to the merry of the
waves—sallors and soldiers fell on their knees to prayers, for
deliverance from their dreadful situation: fortunatel, how.
ever, the vessel was forced into St. Bride's Bay, Pem •
brokeibire, surrounded by prodigious, and almost inacces-
sible cliffs—here we were dashed ou a fork, which is not easily
to be discovered. Our situation here was the most- dreaditai to
be imagined--not a boat could venture to our assistance--hun-
dreds of people were viewing us without possible means of help:
our mainmast fell overboard with a dreadful crash, and su ept over

two poor fellows, who, together with four others that attempt-
ed to swim, were drowned before our cyes. We got ashore ua
the evening of the 29th, without any thing but what was on u.;
a few of our men have saved their knapacks. After we had
quitted the wreck some hardened wretches gof on board and rob-
bed the vessel; the officers lost all their baggage. We are
now in Ilaverford West, in very hospitable and good quarters.
In the midst of this shocking scene, a soldier's wife was deliver-
ed of a very fine boy, and both arc likely to do well."

DREADFUL SUIPWRECIC.—CRptain Russel, arrived at
Salem on the lath Nov. from Petersburgh, communicates the

f.►llow•ing distressing account of the loss of the English transport

Alexander :

Oct. 20, lat. 47, lon. 51. W. we fell in with a boat having on
board 91 Hying persons, among whom were a woman and a child,
in a most dreadful situation. They sailed from Monte Video on
9th Aug. hi the Alexander, Captain Howard, an English
transport ship, No. 421, under convoy of the Unicorn and
Thetis. There were about 110 persons on board the Alexander
on the 20th Oct. the ship being in a very leaky condition, they
were under the necessity of carry ingahort sail, by which means
they lost convely ; and on the te2d the leak so increased, that
with both pumps going, and bailing at the hatchways, they
could not keep her free. The Captain took a small boat for
his preservation, and rowed around the ship several times.
Meantime the long-boat was hoisted out, lint unfortunately
lifted iu going over the ship's side : 11 sailors, 15 soldiers, one
woman, and a child, however, kept in the boat, mid found
'means to keep her from sinking. Thy had not got far off.
when the ship seemingly blew up, and Foundered immediately.
They afterwards spoke with the Captain in the. small boat.
who told them to steer NE. and NE. by N. as that course N 1 ousel
carry them near the coast of England, from which he said they
were but a short distance. They had only four biscuit. in the
boat, three gallons of spirits, and one pound of raisins. They
and been in the boat six days, during which seven soldiers diet
for want ; two of whom ktv dead in the boat when she came
alongside. They had cut one man up, and had eaten part of hits
flesh, some remained in the boat when they saw the ship, but on
seeing her they threw it overboard. Captain It and the Cap-
tain of another American ship took the remaining .utfercrs On
board, and carried them to Willem.