The National Register.
London, England, 1813-01-10 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

An account lons beer. • received tit the East India ships, Ear
Howe and Apollo, arrived at the Isle of F:ance on the Bth of Septem-
ber. The Marchione:s of Fly sepurated from thew on the Pith of Au.
gist. in about lat. 34. S. long. 14 IV. in blowing weather.--Tits
Chapman and Carrington had arrived at Bombay.

Letters from St. Jahn, New Brunswick, on the 6th inst. mention the
melancholy loss of his ALljestv's brig Plumper, Lieut. Bray, at four
o'clock in the morning of the sth lust. on a ledge of cocks near Dipper
harbour. Of those on board, 4'2 unfortunately perished; and among
them, all the passengers, and nil the Officers, excepting a Mr. flail.—
A• 1,0114 the passengers were, Dr. and Mrs. Wright, Mr. Cunningham.
and Mr. Crawford, Commissary Department, and a vet y tine yount;
lad, son of the latter Gentleman.

Arrived in Gourack Bay, Greenock, on Saturday se'unight, the ship'
Hawker, Phillips, one of the Honduras homeward-bound 82ut, which
called from thence on the I'4th September, under his Majesty's sloop
Frolic, but dispersed on the 18th October in the action between the
convoy ship and the United States :.loop Wasp. About the middle of
November the Hawker made Torry, since which she was baffled by
contrary winds, and driven as far north as lat. 39. The crew, from ex-
treme exertion, and the scarcity of provisions,•consequent on this long.
oratracted voyage, were driven to d.•speralion, and the creater part of
:he crew nitinied. A plot was laid to poiso:i the Captain, in order to
;et possession of the vessel, which lin:ve al abortive. A plan was then'
Lild to assassinate him, hut was happily discovered by the revolt of one.
of their number.—From the deplorable cunsiiticat to which they were
reduced, fifteen of the crew died; the remainder c.iiiiists of the Cap-
tain, Mate, Steward, tl.ree men aid tour boys; all of whorzare more
or less in an exhansted condition ; some of them, in Frticular, having
bac!' latterly iicable to assist working the ship. Tne Hawker lit,s
been in the who out lit! days, without inaliing any port until her ar-
rival at Greenock.

Alt rropn, D; c 37.—We are sOrrv-to have the painful duly of relating
a most ni?!aucholy shipwreck, which has taken place in consequence
of the extinction of the Light on the Smalls. Ott the 17th instant, the
brig l'ortittide, of London, John Owen, Master, saib.ul from thence
with a vult1:11)11! carf, o, for liverp,:ol. eiJit in the morring of the
she sailed front and about two the following wonting
struck, in a hard gale, urn th..! smallm, amidst total dailine,i. Finding
the ves,el sinking the long-boat was ttot. out, into which the ALister and
nine ofthe crew %vent six otli;:rs took to the jolly-boat, and juq al the
vessel sunk, •iti,TtTilei in getting clear of her. L'ufuttunately the vessel
fell over be :ore the lung-boat could get at a stancient , and by
the screams and cries of those on ly•ard her, which were heard by the
others in the dm !r., there ii no doubt bul they all perished. The
men who were in the jolly-boat sn,Tet-ded in getting from the vessel
before she souk, and idler h !tea till 11 in the forenoon,
tkey we.We.c picked up hip tlau Diliget.ce Costom-hunse meter some of
them nearly lud:edi a, they Ws re awoke in their beds when the ship
struck. lit the alietnuon 11;:,.v were landed at Milford, were a sub.!
script ion was set on foot for their relief.
Names of thoce who perished,—. John Owen. mahtcr ; Humphrey
nth'e hbit Situ: ii Hugh 11'1Ni:us, S/10111kni J0ue...4
154 vies, Hichard Thomas, Lewis Jones, Michael M'Can, and a
seamen invalid, winig to Livvrpool.
Names of t!tsse picked up by the Diligence.—Samuel I ovclo7,
hard Hese, Williams, Owen Pritchard, Michael Hughes,
and Pioinks Taylor.

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