The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-19 00:00:00

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THE LOSS OFTTIE ,-----Vti----AZ 0-N----.
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In.-we:ton:a
THE REV. MR. te
el TEMENT.
thee been made by the tt:'.ll%---The fo ins statement
ated evi'? • cabin to myself,
a passengers,f
t, an accidentalprovidence; for had I taken ce
whin'
to tell the tale. That"
was accommodated
and est' ere were but few
' - tribute to God's
tended, forward near the Illy bert ~ ' I originally in-
alivegi:e, I, 'Fuld not now be
next Saturday night I had a most I tlept well, but the
not of apprehension of danger, oat unaccountable feeling,
Out, be it what it may, it end the but of i know not what;
to lay on my bed with no portion ,
moved but my coat. I slept s my clothing re-
half-past twelve, and awoke °ln d I '', 3m nine till about
certainly was not aroused by anyetl qtt t refreshed, and
sort; on the contrary, when Icc , ar alarm of any
was painfully impressed with wila°t- e. gradd and
be the emptiness, the loneli t'
+ to rite to
of the saloon. Having .'pat nee", ' °ld' stillness
only article of dress I had removed), any coat (the
the saloon, and all was still and ), I walked about
ad-
vanced I heard the voice of thequiett but as I
ing out, " The ship is on fire." stewardess shout-
up on deck, and as I did se, I I then rush®d
flames from the engine, but still, when saw a rush of
deck I saw nobody, and heard no nets en I got on the
that much of the disaster must have beene or confusion so
time. I then saw some men endeavou over by that
of the boats near the paddle-box, and rtng to lower one
meet I became fully aware of my awfulet the same mo-
ment
I had to choose between death by t position, and
unless I made some effort to save tire or by water
conviction on my mind I laid held of myself. With this
myself over the ship's side, and was juettolle and swung
cipitate myself into the boat beneatia about to pre-
then swinging with her stem in the water, which was
In another
moment her human freight were in the d*
in an element not less terrible or dent; u death straggle
from which they had been making suelietfive than that
to escape, and even at this •naoruent their rantic efforts
shrieks, for the moment that they struggled appalling
other and their fearful doom, ring in
ial with each
et ears. Here
again, I think Divine interference was manifested on.
my behalf, for an apparent accident saved me from Lust
• boat Almost crippled as I was, I managed,
by
the aid.
of the rope to which I clung, to regain 'the now flatn-
ing deck, just as some of the crew were endeavouring
,
to release one of the life-boats from her very emb
rassing fastenings. They succeeded. She was turned.
over the the ship's side. . I was in her then, and while
suspended mid-way between firo and water,
and her
keel up,
ears were thrown out. she
righted in.
11 few minutes again, and when she did so I
her,te by what chance I know not, but that thelvas All-seeing etili in.
Eye was still upon me, In a minute or two
was lowered into the sea with her freight of more she
thirteen
eshnm an souls, and amidst cries of " She is leaking,"
h
-e is stove in," "She will be swamped;" bat
same moment one of the crew in her cut the ropes at
the
that
bound her to the blazing ship, and she at once de
astern. We now made the terrible discovery that
she
really. was leaking, and with the apparent certain
ty of
having escaped one horrible death only to perish by
another, we set our wits to work to stanch the leak and
bale out the water. George Webb, one of the sailors,
a man who merits immortal honour for his coolness and
bravery throughout, actually thrust his arm through the
ak to arrest the ingress of the water, while I handed
him
le
my cep, my stockings, and my waistcoat for the
same purposes; others did likewise; and then, with
such
stoppers as these, what with the aid of our boots and
two little empty -casksmanaged to
, we prevent the life-
boat being swamped. While thus occupied, and t
()seed
about without food, water, oars, helm, or compass, totally
at the mercy of the conten '
din g elements, we had dropped
about two miles astern of the doomedship, she
P•p tt-
rently stationary, while the sea continually brokeP
over us, a barque passed us between the blazing;pike and
our ill-omened craft. Her hull, sails, and rigging,l and
were
reflected against that fearful blaze, with a
shadow that appeared to render stll deeper h blackness
1 off
ht e dept.l o.
our misfortunes, and which the morning; l' tnelieited. not
to lessen, for the barque had disappeared.i
like
eque passed us we fancied we sawa boat, somewhat
t ho
our own, close to us, and we hailed her with '
night
and main, for oars and such like assi -
stance ; but she
either heeded or heard us n and quickly disappeared.and the impression was that sae
had been swamped. Our
frail tenement was still knocked about as I have stated,
still within sight of the burning ship, and at about five
o'clock on Sunday morning
she blew
up, presenting to
our terror-stricken gaze a
tattle. Vast beams of timbelest awful and sublime spec-
about in the air, and seemedex.' all
on fire, wore hurled
suspended there for a mo-
ment, and then disappeared
roaring waters—a t with a hissing noise in the
.moment
after, and all that remained
unconsumable by fire of tnh
mercantile marine vabisheat one© noble specimen of our
d like a abet beneath the
waves. And then came upon us that intensity of dark-
ness that lent an additional horror to our truly forlorn
state. However, the Divine
not deserted us; for a Ruler of our destiny had
the
Sabbath morning's light
dawned, the wind abated,
paratively calm, exce t thatend the sea became com-
paratively
swell; but still there we there was still a heavy
were
thirteen human beings, in a
frail leaky boat, without an
atom of food of any sort, the
vast ocean around us, and
as to our geographical in a state of perfect ignorance
position; while our other physical
wants, such as clothes,
boots, Bm, made our case truly
deplorable. By about twelve o'clock at noon on Sunday
we had drifted as nearly
the Amazon had sunk, das Possible to the spot-where
upon the then comparatively
calm sea were strewn about
but toe many evidences of
charred timbers, barrels I:vastation. Immense spars,
We hooked one of the a'les, and boxes innumerable.
it latter, got it on board, forced it
open, and found that
shoes. Of those we each hicontained only a quantity of
then threw the remainder &teed himself to a pair, and
overboard. As the Sabbath
morning advanced toward
burst forth, and appeared 8 nOOll-day, the glorious sun
fortunate release in store f0r134 a happy
US. The weather harbinger of the
still
heisterous—there was a be
was
were all up to our middle javY swell in the sea—and we
fellow, was of no use in th: water. Wm. Angus, poor
ea
self overboard, fell upon his t• He had thrown
head
h him-
severely. He appeared in back, and cut is
the loss of his brother; and a state of despondency' for
whole of the fingers of on another poor fellow had the
At two o'clock the eau shone of his hands chopped off,
By that time we had takene forth in all his splendour.
boards of the boat, and thos LIP some of the bottom
paddles, rudder, and mast. ee we had converted into
off his head his shirt, winch4eieutenant Grylls took from
and made a flag of et, an, he had wrapped around it,
the skirts of my coat, en, c"f in lieu thereof I tore off
Grylls and the other I wade them I gave to Lieutenant
remainder of the coat scull a cap of for myself. The
memento. Those have,arrgeme and will preserve as a
pleted when the thrilling joyful ata had scarce been com-
pleted
burst from the lips of one acclamations of " A
lowed the exclamations ee eioe h°f the crew. Then &l-
ams she hoar us? is she coin.- a' hope she sees ua.
then on the very,verge-of the horizonsl way ?" She was
Mute despair was then plainly p, and disappeared!
I had made up my mind to die eeireeptible in every face.
once been ill in Paris for three rrvation; but having
having tasted a morsel of food of "I'4, without even
whole of the time, I felt now prepared sort during the
the same ordeal. The sailors were rbed to go through
their efforts at the paddles in utter beeginaing to relax
glorious sun was fast fading away, and the The
another night at sea in an open boat staredthe horrors of
in all their ghastliness. I begged, pr us in the face
men to continue their exertions—thattYted, intreated the
light of day we still had hope—an hour with the broad
minutes—may bring another friend' perhaps a few
sail
Alas ! there were four out of the thine' in sight.
helpless, viz , poor Angus, the man who
us quite
fingers, a boy, and the Spanish - had lost his
appeared to have become quite Paralys4entrel°man, who
just about to shed his last ray of light upon eno sun was
hope ou oar hearts when the Dutch galliot Our eyes and
that saved us
hove in sight, heard us, bore down upon,
on board! Had not the Great God sent us end took us
succuur, no account of our fate ever eetildthie timely
made known, for any one of the storms Wbiohhave been
during the following eight or nine days must prevailed
_ have de-
stroyed us. We were hauled on board the
by means of ropes, and stowed into a filthy
boDi utchman
by four; but„,yet what a palace compared to the six
feel;
horrorsh
from which we had just been rescued! The put
had a cargo of sugar, from Amsterdam, consigned°an
Leghorn, and was therefore desirous of landin toa
Gibraltar, it being on his course. However, us
winds set in, the captain of the galliot knew not his po-
sition, he was unable to take an ollservation, and was, in
cooss quence, knocked about for ninedaye, with this serious
addition to his crew. I bad been feasting in the house
of a noble friend but a few w°01" before in almost
regal luxury, but what was it compared to the black
beans, pork, chicory, and tea without milk or sugar, of
the Dutchman! Tae captain having agreed to land us
at some English port on the. payment of 601., he turned
his ship's course accordingly, and 'on Wednesday night
we made for Plymouth. A dreadfully stormy night it
was, and much we suffered thereby; hut on Thursday
we were boarded by the Revenue cutter Royal Char-
lotte, and landed safely here at seven o'clock that
evening. During the eight days we were on board the
Dutchman I had succeeded, with the aid of Mr. iCil-
kelly, though a Romah Catholic, in establishing a
regular form of daily worship, and it began to have its
effect.- 'When we come in sight of Plymouth then the

Mr. Nutburn, a former witness, in answer to ques-
tions put by Captain Beechy, said that it was the centre
bearing of the engines that was heated, and that could
not on any account have affected the woodwork. He
attended to the water gauge, and, according, to orders,
kept eight inches of water to six inches of steam. He
saw the hose of the water engine playing on the fire.
There were two water engines on the main deck.
Attwood, the fireman, was re-examined by Captain
Beechy, and repeated with great positiveness his former
evidence as to seeing the flame rushing out at the top
of the storeroom door. He was on a level with the
storeroom, and he would have seen had there been fire
under it. The empty. coal sacks were not on fire then.
The rolling of the ship might cause the, spilling of oil,
but he had said nothing to the engineer about it, to Mr.

Angus.
John M'llae, former boiler maker to the company,
manufactured the tanks used in the storeroom. They
were perfect when they left the factory,, and were
proved with water. There was no
possibility of their
being cracked or damaged in any way after being
fixed ; and one of them, which was filled with oil in his
presence, showed no sign of leakage. They were very
particular in the construction of oil tanks. Even the
rolling of the vessel could not cause the oil to spill, and
the hole for pumping the oil out was placed on the top,
and fitted closely to the hose. They had made water
tanks and boilers for the company, and never had had

about
ebothuet
any complaints of leakage.
Mr. William Angus, second engineer, was congratu-
lated by Captain Sheppard on bis safety, gave, in a
very
clear manner, evidence substantially the setae as his
is nar-
rative published on Saturday.
the captain and officers having been picked up by .
think
shteh that
barque-rigged ship which passed in the night, i,. the
500 tons burden. He heard the order '
vessel r
wasAng still"a s e
e m e
burning.d to
o
given to lower
the gig. Believed that it was being executed as the boat
in which he escaped was leaving. Th
horrible doscription of one person stsnd'e witliet'B
gave
a
bis face and sideburned, and a huge blisterlPg near the helm;
bursting the skin, was falling away-
boy was also burnt black, and the appeared
d wagto ab
ew t chance 0 r
_ in ribands. A little
him in a similar manner. em skin was falling from
e one asked the witness
if the captain appeared calm- " No C p-
tain Symons was going ab t , . e, a
01.1 the deck with a fire bucket

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nkwveailsrss
basbtyenyhtdGaA lingh noeifostreth.revegemrextrehntpi
chellToetsmach tpexamination
caebonudvsiatnsigbaylltsei.nit.)
trimmer, severely burnt,
George Webb, a seaman, made a
his Tare
fir
,ems
stuchgbwl
the doctor's
belief
cdethat
hacoborttes,
ts.l
state-
ment, corresponding exactly with his narrative e pub-
lished
chances
of
the Saturday.captain's
gig e
survivings po k )
inw unfavourably
slieebthesevrpyr
ii,ot
af
seat h o
hTaishmtshf tbsecytroi rnttaujhnesneyntnrbteiiuoxcdgeakymowijr:i3naii
examination
ih.eowinsnhnioogafewth
Rtnth:feandontachsdroosodnbinsbbwoHeeitgriraieuvfitereyorkradsi.otcs
narrow in the beam, and was more likely to
Charles Dawdney havingubeeephnaatdtebren examined,
fitt .
Michael Fox, a fireman, expressed
of the ' boiler
fit
oah
retehfiberoeri
laweerka a
ns, caused
adnd theig
bebuiytl
ikanhgheoattdh.e
canvasHe pricker,
was
li
onnicarelesslyncgeObne t between
eswamped suspendedpointthe
of placing his pricker in that very position, when fortu-
nately
g Southampton, ihinhaeteddid the p o spiet
ni vt tAer
evidence 0 n
fore boiler and theoibnirnennoultigr:kbahinesaanda portion oefr,thweas
calledn to
3were h
betweenfSthheewas very
rpea,ratinedulator
lining hanging
osltopt,oesaejk, btoutthceoiumldpnot sayetnhemoosnfit
before or after leaving Southampton.
th
loose canvas
boy,
ton, and the chips
entirtheley cleared boiler aonudt
y--." s
was covered before leavin-
bulkhead t
ress direr car
staTthe—is wtehr
on that very point,
fire by it. n had once seen a steamer set on
Saturday, and if the
inquiry is resumed • a London.will be at the company's ffi .
o cis in
Captain Beech- on the
has made arrange."
will be entsby which all the principal wit-
nesses
inetitutin forthcoming in the event of the Govern-
ment Captain Warburtonan independent investigation.
the
proceedings was again present, and. watched
with • '
viable are
, n a far as m
happy to announce that subscriptions to ale-
' which this dread-
fuloney can, the suffering .
shipwreck
hVi caused, are rapidly pouring in, and
are likely to amsunt to
a large sum.
T

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HE NATIONAL DEFENCES.—At a time when this
subject is attracting much public attention and the
possibility of invasion is talked of, it may not be unde-
serving of notice, as showing the spirit of the country on a
former similar occasion, that in the year 1798 a voluntary
subscription, amounting to no less a 50131 than 33,2641. 19:.4.
7d., was raised at Bristol, in individual contributions
amongst the citizens, and remitted to the Minister (Mr. Pitt),
" for the defence of the country and in aid of Government."
The meeting to take steps to raise this subscription was held
at the Guildhall, Bristol, on the 23d of February, 1795, Mr.
Thomas Daniel, the then mayor, in the chair. The object
of the meeting
was expressed by the following resoluton :
"That at the present important crisis, when our national
prosperity and independence, with everything that is valu-
able in life, are at stake, it is incumbent on every individual
who is attached to our glorious Constitution to stand for-
ward in its defence. :A , subscription was accordingly
organized, and amounted in a twelvemonth to the above
sum. The subscription-list includes every amount from
1,000/. down to a few shillings, and contains the names of
persons of all classes,
The number of vessels assisted by the Liverpool
life-boats in 1850 was 20, and in 1851, 25; lives saved
1850,87; ia um, 35,

SUICIDE OF AN ENGINEER THROUGH THE STRIKE.
—Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon as one of the Citizen steam-
boats was proceeding up the river several passengers disco-
vered the body of a man lying in the mud off the Middlesex
side of Vauxhall-bridge. An alarm was accordinglyjraised,
when two watermen repaired to the spot, and with consider-
able difficulty succeeded in dragging the deceased on W the
causeway, where the body was examined by a police-con-
stable, who did not find any documents in the pockets to ace
countfor the deceased's death. A large number of persons
soon congregated on the bank, but a shell having been pro-
cured, the body was taken to the dead-house of St. Afarga-
ret's Workhouse, Dean-street, Westminster. The deceased
was apparently bout 29 years of age, and had a scar on the
right temple. He was dressed in a black velvet coat, mole-
skin vest, cord trousers, Oxonian shoes, black silk necker-
chief, and blue cap. The police authorities immediately cir-
culated notices round the district, and in a few hours a female
identified the body as being that of a man named John
Leach, an engineer, lately in the employ of Messrs. Manda-
lay and Field, of Westminster-bridge-road, 'Lambeth. The
deceased had been missing since Friday from his house, and
the female stated that he had been in a low state of mind
since his dismissal on account of the employers' strike. In-
formation was forwarded by Mr. Crow, the beadle, to Mr.
Bedford, the:coroner, who will hold an inquest on the body.
Thursda
THE BANBURY MURDER.—On the pri-
ol oh
his uncle,
rgo, who stands •
y
Giovanni accusedKale-
saner G ioofvtahnen
bergo; on the night of Saturday last, at Williamscote-hill,
hoßrrriabzleilimi urGdueiriem
about four miles from this town, underwent a second exami-
nation at the Borough Gaol, before Colonel North, the Rev.
Wyatt the Rev Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Norris. No evi-
dence, however, of tematerial nature was taken, owing to the
absence of a qualifiet interpreter, it being deemed essential
that the prisoner should be. acquainted with the nature of the
evidence brought against him. Ile is said to be a Milanese,
and the attendance of a linguist front one of the embassies
has been requested. The prisoner continues in much pain
from the injuries received in his rash attempt to escape, by
jumping from a window twenty-five feet high. The fibula
of the right leg is broken, and the right arm is seriously in-
jured. The. other arm and leg are manacled. On Friday the
coroner's inquest was resumed at the Crown Inn, Williams-
cote, but owing to the very voluminous body of evidence ne-
cessary to complete the circumstantial cliain, it also was
ultimately adjourned.