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London, England, 1825-10-14 00:00:00

port ; but I hope that the highls respectable merchants who
have long known his worth, will institute a subscription on
their behalf, and thus console, so far as a generous sym-
pathy and pecuniary assistance can console, the fatherless and
widow.

" Mr: Holkirk had two sons at school in this country, but I
believe they will have competent fortunes, and they have two
paternal uncles, whose bounden duty it will be to comfort, pro-
tect, and guide them. Of the families of the other sufferers I
know nothing.
" After remaining nearly half an hour on deck, I felt ex-
tremely cold, and retired to my bed-room, Mr. Morales and
young Peasly accompanying me to prayers. In the meantime
the carpenter succeeded in stopping up the two starboard dead
lights, with the beds of Mr. Morales and myself placed against
the windows, and propped by boards from a beam in the roof
of the cabin. In about two or three hours the cook, a black
man, above 70 years of age, and the infirm steerage passenger,
having crept from their births in the forecastle, on their hands
and knees, joined us in the cabin e the for Mer, who had been
60 years at sea, and the latter more than eleven, had never wit-
nessed so terrible a storm before, and both despaired of safety.
About eleven o'clock the wind somewhat abated, but the sea
continuing dreadfully high, a small sail was set to steady the
viasel. Soon afterwards, however, the storm returned with
equal, if not increased violence ; the sail was quickly rent to
pieces, and the mate and carpenter both said that now " no-
thing but a miracle could save us." The sea passing right over
the brig in all directions ; and although the utmost exertions
were made with the pump (we had but one pump-break, and
coukl therefore use but one pump at a time), the water was
rapidly gaining on us, and the vessel becoming logged and set-
tling. In the evening, through God's mercy, the storm entirely
subsided, but the maddened sea still continued rolling heavy
waves against and over us, the brig often trembling violently
from their shocks ;
.and the carpenter, on sounding, found that
we had 12 feet of water in the hold. All hands were employed
in pumping for our lives, but without causing any perceptible
improvement in the vessel during the night, as she lay like a
log on the sea. Three considerable leaks were, however, for-
tunately discovered and stopped.
AUGUST 13.—Happily this day there was not much wind,
and the sea, though still of terrific violence, obviously abated ;
but the sugar having been principally, if not wholly, wasted
away from its hogsheads in the lower part of the hold, the
vessel fell on her starboard side, the waves going over her nearly
half-way of her masts. The most vigorous exertion was still
used.at the pump, which was kept unremittingly going : and a
quantity of logwood, with a few barrels of coffee, thrown out of
the waste, but without much apparent relief. During the night
there was rather more wind and sea, and our fears consequently
increasing, but without dismay.
" AUGUST 14.—At. day-break, we perceived a vessel a-
head ; but she was at a great distance, and steering from us,
most probably without having observed us, was, to our great
disappointment, soon out of sight ; but the morning was plea-
sant and tranquil, and we bad the happiness of finding that
the water, in our hold was perceptibly decreasing. Our •cop-
pers were re-erected and we enjoyed a delicious breakfast of
hot coffee, our first meal since the evening of the 11th, though
we had been supplied whh biscuits and ruin and water, by
snatches during that time. A bower anchor on the starboard
side was heaved overboard, and shortly afterwards the brig
rolled on the larboard, which lay level with the water, when
logwood from that side of the waste, and our two remaining
bower anchors ( the two kedge anchors having been wash-
ed away on the 12th), were thrown into the sea, by which
the vessel was much relieved and became nearly upright,
whilst on each succeeding sounding our spirits were exhilarated
by finding the water in her hold, which fon a long time had
been completely saturated with sugar, and resembled thin mo-
lasses in appearance and consistence, was becoming gradually
less and less, till at ten o'clock at night, after sixty-three hours
of incessant and strenuous labour, three hearty happy cheers
announced the -air-sucking of the pump.
" During these 63 hours of toil and peril, the promptness,
activity, and intrepidity of the mate, who bore his full share
of labour with the common sailors, and kept up their spirits
by his example, were most conspicuously displayed; and
his conduct was nobly emulated by our small surviving,
crew, not one of whom was in the slightest degree intoxicat-
ed, though all of them had rum of their own, to which they
had uncontroulled access; but all (with the exception at the
beginning) were zealous and instantly. .obedient to command,
working to the utmost with minds undismayed and bodies in-
defatigable.
" Aug. 15.—At dawn of day the crew began to bend a new
foresail, all the canvass which had been up during the storm
having been entirely destroyed, when we saw a small boat,
with a lug sail, rowing towards us, and by seven a. in. to',*. on
board Capt. F. 111`Cubbin, and five sailors, the crew of the brig
Nancy, of Maryport, of 194 tons, which sailed from St. Johns,
Antigua, July 27, laden with sugar, and bound for Liverpool.
She had sprang a leak in the gale of the 12th, and thundered in
the evening of the 13th, the men escaping into the pinnace, two
of them by swimming, -not more than two minutes before the
vessel went down ; ono person only, a passenger, an old and
infirm man, of•the name Of Harrison, lately mate of the West
Indian, of London, being drowned. They were distant about
500 miles from Newfoundland, to which they were steering,
having only the clothes on their backs, with five gallons of
water, three gallons of brandy, a small trunk of biscuit, and a
bucket full of pork on board, when they providentially descried
our vessel.
" Although the Wel)ington was now perfectly tight, with
an excellent, and, thug reinforced, a strong crew, under a mate,
whose conduct had proved him well worthy of command,
yet there were four very cogent reasons to render the de-
parture of at least part of the persons on board more par-
ticularly the useless mouths, extremely desirable :—lst, Lime
sugar having been mostly, perhaps entirely, washed away,
the brig had become " very light and crank, exhibiting a
large surface of hull to the wind, and liable to be sent on
her beam ends and founder, from a sudden violent gust of
wind, or from a strong sea striking her under the bilge. The
brig is destitute of anchors and boats—most dangerous defi-
ciences on approaching land. It is true, that she has the
Nancy's boat on deck, but it is not capable of carrying
more than twelve men with safety in a heavy sea, and the
Wellington has twenty-thur on board. 3d. Her masts and
rigging were so much injured that she could make but little
sail in adverse winds, and the time of her arrival might,
therefore, be very greatly protracted. 4th. illost of her biscuit,
which was kept in lockers in the cabin, was damaged by salt
water, and a great part spoiled ; whilst 11 puncheons of fresh
water, all nearly, if not quite; full, having been replenished by
rain collected from the round-house, had been washed away
from the deck, so that a scarcity of bread and water was already
felt.
" AUGUST 20.-LOn this day, and for two days before, the
sky was gloomy, and the wind high and adverse, about eight
A. at. a large ship under great press of sail was seen steering to
the westward; but she flew by at a distance, and the sea was
so high as to have rendered communication with her by boat
extremely dangerous, if not absolutely impracticable. Soon
afterwards we saw a brig to leeward, on the sane course with
ourselves, on which we hoisted our ensign, the signal of a de-
sign to speak, and bore down upon her as well as we could,
when she hoisted Danish colours and lay to for us. As the
sea, though still very high, had considerably fallen since the
morning, she sent out her boat, and about four a', at. Captain
111‘Gubbin, Mr. Morales, and myself, were safely conveyed on
board the Danish brig Sophie, of Altonis, Captain Erck Pater-
son Klien, by whom we were most kindly received and very
comfortably accommodated.
" the Sophie sailed from Havannah July 24th, having a
crew of 14 men, incluning the Captain, with eight guns, and
a full cargo of sugar, coffee, and a little dye-wood. By the
Wellington log, at noon this day, the latitude was 29. 46.
longitude 46. 50. By the Sophie's, lat. 39. 38. long; 45. 33.
" With no slight emotion did I take leave of Mr. Keller and.
his brave crew, though all were convinced of the propriety of
our-departure. If wits his intention, if possible, to carry the
WellingtOn into Cork, where her owners reside ; and if the wind
would not permit him to make that port, to run her into any of
the western harbours of Ireland or England, as, in her present
disabled state, it would be extreme rashness voluntarily to sail
far up the English Channel. She was in sight on August 22d,
in lat. 39. 55. long: 45. I). God grant that her fearless hardy
crew may crown their meritorious exertions by carrying her in
safety to some British port.
" When the huge wave which cleared her deck, struck the
Wellington at seven o'clock in the morning of August 12, she
was, as before stated, in lat. 30. 9. lon. 52. 44., and must have
been nearly in the same situation at noon, at which time the
Nancy was in lat. 37. 12. lon. 53. 30., or about 120 nautical
miles distant; the storm with the Wellington blowing S.S.E.,
with the Nancy from S. E. to N. W. At the same hour the
Sophia was in lat. 38. 40. long. 60. 35., or about 420 miles dis-
tant from the Wellington, and 450 from the Nancy, the wind
being from N. to N.N.E. with heavy rain, but no gale.
" SEPT. 12.—This afternoon about four o'clock, the Mary
of Cowes, Isle of Wight pilot-boat, No. 6. Mitchel master,came
alongside a little to the south-east of Portland Bill, and con-
veyed my two fellow-passengers and myself to Weymouth, in
Dorsetshire, where with heartfelt joy and gratitude, after an
absence of exactly two years and nine months, I again stepped
on my beloved native land. We were 57 days on our voyage,
34 in the Wellington, and 21 in the Sophie.

To the above interesting narrative, we regret to add, that no
tidings of the Wellington or her crew have hitherto reached the
metropolis. 'We fear there cannot be. rationally entertained
any hope of their escape from the dangerous element they so
manfully braved up to the moment the useless hands were
transferred to the Sophie. Too much praise cannot be given to
Captain Klein, of the latter vessel, for his humane attention to
our fellow-countrymen,