The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-30 00:00:00

THE RECENT HURRICANE.

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Accounts continue to pour in from all parts 0f th a
coast detailing the dreadful effects, both on seaand lar:
of the hurricane of Christmas-day and SundaY ist
adding enormously to the long list of catastrophes will
appeared in yesterday's journal. It is gratifying to
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serve, however, that they report a considerable
tion of the weather. The wind remains in the e
quarter, S.S.W. (in which direction it has been for -;
many weeks), but a heavy sea generally prevaile
the whole range of coast.
In the Swin, and almost at the mouth of the Tilniee::
the hurricane was as severely felt as in any other PTh e
For upwards of 48 hours a tremendous sea existed' mat
Mouse light-ship was swept away by its full' 40d
havoc occasioned among the coasters and small era'', I,
a large ship named the William and Mary, from Te:0eI)
driven on to the Gunfleet Sands. She was lietween4l
and 700 tons burden, barque rigged, and in ballast, be*t-ill
to London. Encountering the gale of Sunday night
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the Swin, she brought up with two anchors, and se fl,l
mained until between eight and nine o'clock on the :be
lowing (Monday) morning, when a fearful blast of a
hurricane drove her from her moorings on to the la
about three miles above the Trinity beacon. In vainbet'
the crew try to get her off, the heavy sea carried bet
further on to the shoal, when she fell over on
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broadside. The position of the poor fellows nn be,e.e;
then became the most painful, the boats being stove ',
indeed could they have been launched, their weatheritnbe
such a surf was quite impossible. The crew took to
mainmast rigging, to which they lashed themselves'
this situation, exposed to the violent lashing of the sto
and undergoing the greatest suffering, they remained the
whole of the day. Night set‘in with all its horrore,tiog
poor fellows' sufferings became more severe, exPec to
as they did every moment that the ship would s'o
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pieces. About ten o'clock some smacks came 11P' g
in consequence of the terrific surf which was 'ine, tbi e
could only approach within 200 or 300 yards
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wreck. However the smacks, the Traveller and Vnltrbe
ror, both of Colchester, contrived to cruise ab°ll,t- 'r
spot, and by dint of great exertion on the part of
crews, they, about 3 o'clock in the morning, nee
re
plished the preservation of the poor creatures, who
clinging to the rigging, including the master Mr..o;
As may be imagined, they were in a very exhausted e°o
dition when got on board the smacks. They were takere
on to Brightlingsea, near Colchester, where they Weed,
landed, and received that attention which they reVir
The ship has since gone to pieces. The occurreneem.,
other disasters during the tempest, higher up the e°1_„(1
coast have been recorded, and between Yarmouth 'wo
Flamborough Head much mischief appears to have bee
done the coasters.
The extent of disasters in the Channel is not yet accu
rately known. The ill-fated German emigrant e'-'s
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Louisa Emilie, driven ashore near Dungennees', dye
tween night, has become a total wreck. She e
tween 60 and 70 German emigrants on board•
number who met with a watery grave have been asee
tained to amount altogether to about 40. She str;lld,
opposite the No. 3 Dungenness Coast-guard Stteer
It is supposed that the master imagined himself g
off the English coast than he really was, and that bel,nll
suddenly overtaken by one of those frightful gusts wili
prevailed during the night, she was carried with t
mendous force on to the shore of the west bay.
coast guard had previously observed the perilous P°
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tion of the ship, but could not by any means prevle
the catastrophe which followed. The moment wet
ship struck, blue lights were fired, in order to attlare,
the notice of those on shore and to obtain assistant'
Happily for them, the officers of the coast are
were on the alert. The captain and crew lost no tip
in sending a life buoy adrift, which quickly et,
the shore. The coast guard then attached life hued
it, and signalising the wreck, they were hauled off a°
made fast, by which means 41 persons were saved' ;
eluding the mate and four of the crew. Unfortunate
at this moment the ship yielded to the fearful WY of
the surf, she commenced to break up, and the Avbni,rhoe
the unhappy beings who remained by her perished. '
exertions of the chief boatmen of the Coast Guards 1.0
tion, together with a Mr. Croskey, connected 'vivo.
Lloyds' agent, and the boatmen of Lydd, in restrain'
the poor creatures from the wreck, are spoken of
very high terms. Some of the survivors were in a °el
plete state of nudity when brought ashore. They wets
removed to Lydd, and the inhabitants of the town Ims'f
them as comfortable as they could. A large number
disabled vessels have brought up at Deal, Ramsgate,l4,leA4
and while the storm was at its height a large ship enl'-
the Kitchen, from Antwerp for Liverpool, drove fre-n i
her moorings and went on the Brake Sand. By °kit::
extraordinary circumstance she got liberated from
shoal, and being nearly full of water, went adrift. The
crew abandoned her, but she was got hold of by B°7e
Margate boatmen, who contrived to get her into liarbonf'
The wreck which we briefly reported yesterday
having happened within a short distance of Bolt head'
has been ascertained to have been a barque, supposed
Wanderer, of London, and that every soul belonging t°
her perished.
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Lower down towards the mouth of the Channel, °0
the Cornish coast, much havoc was occasioned. Vetemigrant ships, both bound for Australia, had a most'
providential escape. They encountered the full furl st
the hurricane, and for a time were placed in the grentee-
peril. One of the vessels was the Patrician, Mr. 11°0
commander, bound to Sydney from London. The other
ship was the Sophia Moffatt, Mr. Bell, master,
left the Thames a short time since for Adelaide. she
had nearly made the entrance of the Channel when she
encountered the gale. The sea broke over her Wr",l-
great violence, carrying away stanchions, 80.,,,73,11,11
washing overboard three men, who perished. "41-
much difficulty she contrived to run for Falinam.
which she safely gained. Numerous vessels have either

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been lost or seriously damaged on this range of coast.
Many losses took place during the storm on the n°4l7:
west coast, besides occasioning extensive destruction
inland. A vessel called the Nuova Fortuna, from Wekr,,
pool, bound to the Mediterranean, was carried ashore
the northward of Port Lorgan, Shanear, on Stint
morning, and the greater part of the crew drowned. "1-g
the vicinity of Crookhaven, the Calder, from New -s'9l:f
for Liverpool, was driven from her moorings on to e, red
of rocks to the north of the coast-guard station, 51/
becaine a wreck.

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CORONER'S INQUEST.—Last night Mr. W. Payne 0 "`ea,, erica
an inquest on the body of Charlotte Roffey, aged 67, a tilaP__s arl
the Falcon Tavern, Upper Thames-street. It appe3r.eth tce/iiivva
that the deceased had been spending the Christmas 10' ,
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by the omnibus to town. She got home about fi'y
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o'clock, and appeared in very good health, but between AY' 1
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seven and eight o'clock she complained of having a pte
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in her chest. Her niece, who lived in the same heu'd' %els
4otted
obtained some brandy, which she drank, and afterw3r.o,
some peppermint and water. She continued in Pala' eonntle!
but refused to allow a doctor to be sent for. She „,'" s, Ocean 1
for some time previously been troubled with spas
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Her niece remained in attendance upon her, and betweerit
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who promptly attended, and that gentleman proneunthe l!Ullizire
life to be extinct. When he was questioned as t° °pi' fines
cause of her death, he stated that he could give u1,,.,;(1. . To
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nion. She had never complained of pains in her ."-last
c,elintr,
She had sustained an injury to her leg in February •„(f
bet., wester]
from a mail cart, but had got well of it. There tit,
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no suspicion against any person of improper treatroteio,
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the jury returned a verdict of—" Died by the visitation the 1:
of God."
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other prisoners of having informed against him forcused
ing been concerned in a plan for escaping. The 3c both s
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denied the charge, and, after some bickering, they
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returned to their places on a bench in one of the 9`"1.1110
Ikea,
There the quarrel recommenced, and at last DeTnife ; thee a,
stabbed the other in the face with a shoemakers ~.rther Lein \I
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the adjutant of the bagrne, hurrying up to prevent 7 ano-
.is mischief, was stabbed by him in the abdomen, an Ole th„ 1
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ther officer received a deep wound in the thigh. wbo, am tli sight of the blood appeared to excite Delneull_ikling. tit :eeivei
perceiving the man to whom he was chained le?
_I,- vife, euddi
him with an air of horror, struck him also with tne_t iii# Nize,
as well as two or three others who tried to pr'"e' ells-
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into t,
shedding more blood; then, fearing to be taken repea, that
thi,,
tody for his sanguinary acts, he stabbed himself At lit -vs
edly, crying out—" I will never be taken ! be fel' t°l' tll
one of the blows happening to pierce his heart'
dead across the bench.—Oalignani.
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In that portion of Morecombe Bay which extends t(r
wards Ulverstone, the hurricane appears to have done - .
great amount of mischief. Several vessels were driven
ashore in the bay, but no list has been obtained of thelf
names.

A ship, called the Reine des Agnes, was wrecked ell
Christmas day, a few miles to the eastward of Boulogl3e'
and "Lloyd's List" contains numerous other disaste-
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on that range of coast.
All the reports agree that the hurricane occasialle4
greater destruction to life and property than that which
occurred in January, 1839.
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PLYMOUTH, DEC. 29.—The sea has carried away ab'o
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a quarter of a mile of sea wall of the West Corm'
Railway, at Marazion, and destroyed the viaduct'
Fifteen bodies have been washed ashore from the wreei,
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of the Ocean Queen ; one was that of a black man. A
inquest is being held on the bodies. Two vessels have
just been brought up in the Sound, with loss of nearly
all their upper works.