The Sun.
London, England, 1814-05-19 00:00:00

THE WILLIAM PITT INDIAMAN;

respecting the fate-of this
Si,i;) beet, eNcited in the pnblic mind, we
atvextract en' a letter. front an (Miser on
ho:itt; Sit.!;..• tg frigate; to his Prieraiin London,.
that seems to fender bitt too probabli tire opinion
that she has btrt lost at sex

• " Cape Town, Feb. it.
" Dear Sir,---1 am ust arrived in the Stag fri-
gate, having been three weeks down the coast
eastward-as far as the Great Fish River, in search
of the wreck of a ship, which' we can scarcely
doubt is that of the William Pitt, Captain BUTLER,
..from Batavia. Prior to our departure, the Mor-
ley transport arrived here trout Algoa Bay, 'bringL
ing,Arit,it her the top of a box, directed to the
Pitt, lit Gravesend, dated Sstinday, Feb.
21-, 1813, to the 'care of Mr. Rusphison,-, Water-
man as also another, directed, " Mrs. Crawford,
and John Crawford, Esq." Mr.'and Mrs. Craw-
ford, and two children, are known to have been
p;tssengers in the William Pitt. There also drift-
ed ashore near Algoa- Bay' a chest, probably that
of the Ciaptain's Steward-, having in the front and
on the centre ;plank- the words NiTilliafn Pitt ;
also some of the;.,pooptleck Plank's, with cot-,.
screws in them, apparently‘ 'tinned la ,to the.
beams with. great violence. •All her .nulk
heads and Venetian. blinds, 'the furniture-
,f
the cabin under ithe•.poop,'-small, bedsteads,. the
remnant of a small boat, together.vrith dead sheep
and pies, hate also drifted-on shore nen. Algoa
Bar- Asa p
ship was seen-assing Algoa Bay to tile
‘Vestward on the 17th of last 'month, and in the
night of the ISth live guns were heard in the Bay
of St. Francis, a .gale blowing front the WcA,
ward, and the night-very dark and raining, it is •
thought she must have been in ihe'Bay,andsuf-
fered this datmige by shipping heavy seas, by.
which
,the- art ides above-mentioned were' washed
overboard. No traces, •lutiverer', appear of a
wreck, as no ropes, mast, Sails, nor casks, have
been seen. I have, however, but littledoubt-in '
my own mind that the ship is lust, and I fear all
on board must have perished. If she were at
chor nein- the Bay when she sulfered•so much !la;
usage, she probably sunk at her moorings ; or if
by ail •ebance she got out to sea, she has proba-
bly foundered i.whi,:b last supposition 1 think
the more natural, from no :human bodies having
floated on shore along with the sheep and pigs. •
" About three days - ago, lOU letters arrived
from Algoa Bay, part of the mail of the
Pitt, all directed for London, in a shattered"Stte,
and some without covers ; also invoices of part of,
her cargo, open without cover, having all been
washed about among the s.and on the beach
duplicates were sent by the Lord Eldon."

•
It is affirmed that DAvotisT's contumacy bad so
highly displeased the. French Government', that
GERARD had received orderg' .to send him home
under arrest ;, and, in comformity with this ac-
count, we are informed that he left Hamburgh on
the 13th inst. as a Prisoner of State.

THOMAS KEmnt.F.; Citizen and Salter, and JOHN
AyTON, Esq. Citizen and' Vintner, -have severally
paid the fine 0f.400/. and 20 marks into the Cham-
ber of London, to be excused serving the office
of Sheriff of London and AFddlesex, to which
they were nominated on the 10th instant.

Early yesterday morning a leather trunk, con-
taining wearing apparel ,n(1 other valuable's, worth
upwarda of 7001. was cut from behind the tra-
• Velling carriage of Colonel STEVEN'S, between the
• Colonel's -lodging, St. James's-street, and the
Elephant and Castle. - •

Mr. LLOYD, a respectable surgeon at floniton,
was severely wouaded in the street, on Saturday,
by a woman in a :srate of intoxication, who stabbed
him with a knife, without any *provocation. She
114 bean culuittitted to the County Prison.