The Sun.
London, England, 1814-05-07 00:00:00

WILL41111.1;17 EAST

We stated sot to time since that serious appre-
hensions were entertained for the safety of this
ship., as it was confidently mentioned, in a letter
from the Cape of GoOtt,Hope, that she had been
wrecked to•the eastward. of that place in Decem-
ber last, on her passage from Bengal. The fol-
lowing letter, though stpongly corroborative of
the melancholy-fact,- yti it does'ailord a gleam of
hope that she may have escaped total destruction ;
and most sincerely' do we trust that Captain.
Hottsny's conjectures, of the xyreci: being only
hartial,• may he realized. The Willion-Pht is an
-extra ship of,about 609 tons burden, anti com-
manded by Captain ILL TrAlh

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM. CAPTAIN HOIINEY TO

I.EAR-ADMIRAL TYLER, DATED EIS 24 AizESTY'S

SHIP STAG, SIMON'S JIAY, 21ST :lAN. 1814:

. .
" 1 have the honour to inform you of thy arri-
val here this day, and,. pursuant to the directions
.contained in your order of the sth instant, to' de- •
tail to you my proceedings in a nearly unsuccess-
ful search after tidings of the wreck Of the Wil-
liam Pitt ; whit little information I have been
ahle to collect respecting her probable fate, crimes
from the Officer commanding the troops at Algoa
Bay.a. When I first anchor-et' an the I lth, this
OfEcer (Captain E\'att) informed me, that on
Thursday, the Ifith of December last, they hat!
seen. a large ship passing to tke westward, and
that on the Friday night (17th), about II o'clock,
five signal guns, as if fired in distress, were heard
in St. Francis, or Camptors Bay, (which is the
Bay directly to the westward of Cape }Celli t). Ott
the Satutday it blew very bard from the west-'
ward ; and in a day or two after he learned that
touch wreck bad been thrown up over the whole of
the Bay, particularly in one spot near the-month of
the river Camptors. He therefore ordered an Offi-
cer'sparty round to the place, whwremained
'there two or three days, during -which time'wreck
continued to come on shore, but no
,bodies : the
pieces of the wreck thatl have seen (and they
describe there being nothing larger) appear to be
only bulk-heads Pecabins, lids of boxes, furni-
ture, the medicine- chest (marked William Pitt),
pieces of boats, and small spars, and such articles
as anight"be .expected to have been washed Away
front the upper deck and clbin by a heavy sea
striking her. llsher is. indeed one single plank,
as if of the poop deck, with cot screws still in it,
and this is the onl thing that -bespeaks at all the
slain herself to-have gone tO piecee: 1 havealso
seen the sheave of one of hertopmasts; and some
of the p;trty said, that a little distance from the
other piecea of , the wreck there was-what appear-
ed to them the heel of a topmast.
`.` It is cornewhat remarkable, that, if the ship has
beco wrecked- on any part ti!l this coast, none of
the larger timbers have been thrown up, as tOie
must', from the surf, have immediately on to
pjeeesa neither has one bit of rope or sail been
thro\an on-shore, or seen attached to ally of the
fragments pieked,up. About the latter end of the
month the linty seat returned to Algoa Bay ; but '
Captain fivatt having since learnt that- • ome
drowned sheep and pigs had.been thrown up on
the same spot, I was induced to beg hint to send
again roUnd to see if any thing further Could be
gaLacd, in which request he itindly complied,
whilst I in the
,mean time intended going to look
at the Bird Islands : I accordingly left AlgOa. Bay
during the night, in order to read) the Rock by
d light; it, however, blew so strong front the
S*. that I could -not approach them, and there-
fore ran ou, in the hope of gaining,shelter in the
Bay, which•the books describe to the Eastward
of Cape Padtom ; it did not, however, seem to
afford any safe anchorage, and daring the niOtt
it blew very hard, with a tremendous sea, in
whieh we lost our quarter boats. I taut hack to
AlgOellity on the 13th, awl found the party, had
returned from Camptors, without further informa-
tion 5 I again therefore weighed on the morning
of the 14th for the Bird Islands, and was standing
on anti off them during the forenoon ; but they
are so surrounded on the South and South-,east
side with breakerS, that 1 could not safely ap-
proach them nearer than four -miles, and as the
wind was from the Southward, with a direct lee--
shore, I did not venture to send my boats away to
them : I can, however, to a certainty, say, that
there is no human being alive on them, even
should the ship have been lost 'on them; which..
there is no reason- toexpect. l• forgot before t a
state that a bag or letters, which were picked up
in Camptors Buy, and which came, from the
wreck, 1 Hare caused to be forwarded by the.
Reich Schooner; „bound to the Cape, under 'the
idea that she would arrive there before our re-

turn."

OnAVE ROBDERY.---Q9 Wednesday evening. a
hearse, which was returning front attending a 'fa.
neral in the cotmtry; was lobbed (between the
Elephant and Castle. and St. George's Church, in
the Borough) of a bag; containing a Large velvet
pall, some ostrich feathers, and other funeral de-
corations, to the value ot:apwards 0f5.501. , The
villains had to pick the loclt of the hearse-door,
before they could accomplish their object; and it
is somewhat surprisiilg, that at the time they suc-
ceeded in committing thatyobbery and getting off,
wcre• ten perspns tiding on the roof of. the

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Ca'criage. •
SHEERNESS, MAY 4.—Great hopes are enter-
tained of the perpetrators of the horrid murder
being soon discovered. Yesterday, a lad belong-
ing to a public-house, near two miles diStance,
diseovei•ed, in a ditch, a hat, jacket, and trowsers,
such as are worn by excavators,,-.of whom there
are many at.thiS place, on account .of the improve-
ments - carrying on •ih.the Dock-yard. KI,CKERY
continues the-most diligent and active search, in
which he is assisted by it L. LEsTta, Principal
Peace Officer.- The-inari to --whom the clothes
found belong, is said to be apprehended on sus-
•atur to give fuil• explanations as to their
being in such situatiotr. -
Ic is not yet discoVeied mho the unfortunate
swam is. -The COroner has held an -inquest, rod
time Jury returned a verdict. of -" Trafal .31iirder,
ogainst some person or p'ersoo tothioten." The' body
has been interred at 7tlinzi:ek church. -

ItLI .11ENT.

HOUSE OP LORDS, FR Y, MAY G.

Tn the aupeal Cunningham se. Ctinninghami Sir Samuel Ro-
rainy and Mr. Horner were heard for the Appellant.-4urtlior
hearing an Monday.
111(O:hani's Divorce 13111 was read a second time, and or-
dered
to he committed on Monday.
The Simple Cimtract Debt Bill was brought up from the
'Commons by Sir S. Romilly and others, and the Irish .fudges'
Pension 13111 by Mr. Brogden and others.--React a first, and
ordered'to be read a second time.
PANTHEON THEATRE.
The Duke of NoaFoßtt. moved the reading. of
the -Order' of the Day for the second reading of
'the Pantheon Theatre Bill, • with a view to move
that 'it Should be discharged, which motion he"
%vas inducel to make for particular reason.s, lie
added, that be should, "for the• satisfa.ctign of all
the parties interested, give due noticesof the day
upon which he proposed to move a farther- pro-
ceeding on this measure.