The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-21 00:00:00

are now in Islay, and I don't know whether they remember
the circumstance or not.

Ann Campbell, who is referced to in Miss M'lntyre's evi-
dence, was next examined.
Mrs. Walker's evidence was n ext taken, and acquires ad-
ditional importance in respect of the preceding testimony,
as, in conjunction with that given: by Miss Dykes, it puts
the identification of Mrs. M‘Lachl an with the party seen
by Miss M'lntyre beyond question.
The milkboy, M'Quarrie, and the` milkman, George
Paton, were the only other witnesses exk -mined. Their evi-
dence is already before the public. The ~commissioner rose
at six o'clock.

TILE BRIG SPY.

OFFICIAL REPORT.

TO THE EIGHT HON. THE LORDS OF THE COMMITTEE OF

PRIVY COUNCIL FOh TRADE.
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We, the undersigned, Edward Feri-and Astley and Luke
Smithett, Esqs., two of her Majesty's ustices of the peace
in and for the borough of Dover, is th e county of Kent,
having been applied to by J. Hargrave Hamel, a per-
son duly appointed in that behalf by your ;ordships, for
a formal investigation, pursuant to section 433 of the Mer-
chant Shipping Act, 1854, respecting the stranding of a cer-
tain British ship called the Spy, of the port of Jersey, on the
2d October inst., whereby the said ship was materially da-
maged, did duly proceed with the said investigation on the
15th, 16th, and 17th days of October inst., and have exa-
mined on oath divers persons—to wit, Thomas Thwaites,
Beeching, George William Fleury, John .I'Leod, Richard'
Lark e, James John Erridge, Geo. Browne Raggett, Edward
Pitt, and John Gibant—whose evidence, which is hereunto
annexed, has been signed by us, being assisted in the said
investigation by Captain Henry Harris and Captain Robert
Scott, who were duly appointed by your lordships to act as:
nautical assessors to us, the said justices, and upon such in-
vestigation we find, and beg to report to your lordships, as;
follows, that is to say :-1. That the brig Spy was built at- •
Jersey in the year 1841, and registered at that port as of
the burden of 229 tons. She was owned by George Des-
landes, and was comma/163d on her present voyage by John
Edmund Hamon, who holds a certificate of coopetencYl
dated the 2d December, 1850. her crew consisted of 1(
hands, including the master. 2. That the Spy sailed front
Demerara on the 21st August last, and made the Lizard at
4 p.m. on the 30th September. Nothing material seems to
have occurred till the morning of the 2d October. At mid-
night of the Ist October she was off Beachey Head, and.
shortly afterwards Dungeness Light was seen, and although
the night was clear and the wind favourable, yet about a
quarter past four on the morning of the 2d October, from
what appears to us gross carelessness, the vesse2 was sun
on the beach within 200 yards of, and in a direct live with,
the light. 3. That it appears from the evidence the master
was so intoxicated during the watch (the middle watch
from twelve to four) as to be unable to remain on deck,
and unfit to give proper orders for the navigation of the
ship, and she was navigated by the mate during the whole
or greater part of the watch, until about a quarter to four,
when the master came on deck, and ordered a more
northerly course, which evidently tended much to the
stranding of the vessel. He remained on deck with the
mate until the vessel struck, at a quarter-past four, but no
decisive orders were given to change the course till too late
to prevent the vessel running right on to the beach with
her head NNE, close under Dungeness Lighthouse. 4.
That the vessel was run on shore just at the top of high
water, and some ineffectual efforts were made to back her
off, apparently by the orders of the mate, for it seems that
he master was in such a state of intoxication that his in-