The Sun.
London, England, 1812-09-25 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYqou-rn, 23.—Arrived yesterday the
brig Orb, belonging, to Scarborough, Wrikt. HILL,
master, from Port Mahon and Gibraltar, with a
cargo Consisting of wine and cork, bound to this port
for orders, and is in was of provisions ; sailed
from Port Mahon on the; sth, and from Gibraltar
on the 18th August ; came' a running ship, and is
under quarantine ; she brought one passenger.

His Majesty's ship Orrsecs, of 18 guns, takes
convoy to Portsmouth and the Down's, and;will
sail on Friday next, the 25th inst.

Arrived the Sam* and' Ann, belong to .this
port, TAPSCOTT, Master, from Jersey ; the renus,
Wrilpu, from Exeter; Fortune,; BAD COCK, from
Falmouth ; the Susan,. INtA:fTnEws, from Pen-
zance ; Friend's Goodutl, Jarvis, from Ports-
mouth ; Susan, 'FULL, from Poole ; _Fortune,
BADCOCK froM Penryn ; l'eung Henry, 'SANDE-
COMBE, from Cardiff; and the Farmer's Adren-
tztre,.LLoyD, from Bridgewater.

Arrived his Majesty's cutter Spria; said to be
from Spain, with dispatches.

FALOUTH, • SEPT. '22.—Sailed this evening
the Cornet (Southseaman) for St. Helena ;
Princess Elizabeth packet, with Mails for Lisbon ;
Tl7cilsingliam packet, with Mails for Corunna ;.and
Hobart packet, with Mails for Jamaica ; also the
Jubilee, BUCKLAND, for London.

DEAL, SEPT. 24.—Sailed 'his Majesty's ship
,1
York to join Admiral YOUNG'S fleet off the North
Toreland. •
1

PORTSMOUTH, SEt,T.24.—Arrived his ?Majesty's
ship Weymmith from the Downs, with a fleet. •

Sailed his Majesty's ship: Saracen for the Downs;
and his Majesty's ship Macedonian, with the Inglis,
HAY, for India, and the Morgiana for the Cape
of Good Hope.

DOVER, SETT. 24.—Can,e in the Robert and
Sarah, of Whitby,'from Corte, bound to London
with provisions, having been captured by a French
privateer off Be-achy Head, and recaptured by
the CardeUtz sloop of var; the Frenchmen escaped
to the privateer in their boat.

SHEERNESS, SEPT. 24.—Sailed the Mercurius,
with convoy, for the Baltic.—The next convoy
will probably sail about the Bth of October:

Extract of a Letter from St. John's, Newfound-
land, dated Ist of September 1812 : - „
Our trade and,fisheries have suffered materially
by American privateers, indeed our protection is
comparatively nothing ; the 4lert sloop of war
was captured by the Essex American f igate, in
lat. 41. and sent here a cartel; the squadron on
• the station hitve been active in catching prizes.
Tuesday
,being the anniversary of his Majesty's
Coronation, at Plymouth the morning was Usher-
ed in with the ringing of bells, and at noon the
ships of war in commission at that port fired 21
guns each.L=The guns on board the. quarantine
brig Orb were also fired at the same time, one of
which happened to be shotted with a six-pounder,
which lodged in the wall of a new-built house on
Cremill Beach, near which the brig lay at anchor,
and did considerable damage,: providentially no
one received any injury, alatough there were many
persons on the beach T' at the time the accident
• happened.
Melancholy Accident.—The following is a dig-.
tressing account of a most tragical event; which
happened on the river Severn, near Chepstow, on.
Sundaylast:—A party, consisting of eight ladies
and gentlemen* (accompanied by a man servant),
who had been to church in the morning; had af-
terwards ridden to Tintern Abbey, .and then re-
turned by water ; it was perfectly calm, and a
full moon : when they were about to land, the
boatman informed them that the best-place was
belowthe bridge, which they were fast approach-
ing, and where a number of ladies and gentlemen
were walking. Before they had entered the arch,
one of the ladies (Mrs. Rothery, as we understand
from the survivors) called out, " There's a rope,
there's a rope !" but it was not seen by
,any other
of the party, being in. *part under the liktrface of
the water. En. an instant all was horror !—the
•moment the boat. touched the rope it was upset !
be 'cries -.of the unfortunate for assistance, the
pushing off of fmats froni -the shore,.nnd the hurry •
of the good people who were anxious to save
them, for Med altogether a scene .of inexpressible
distress: The wretched retnriins of this late
happy party are Miss Eliza Shute, Miss Ann, and
Mr. Rothery, the latter of whom bad been twice
carried down in supporting his wife by struggling
friends clinging to him, and checking his exer-
tions ' • -he at length got her' to the head of the
upset boat, but from, one of the party again cling-
ing to them, they both stuldenly disappeared, and'
it was lot:1g before Mr. Rothery rose. to the sur-
face; when' he again grasped the boat, and was
taken up in an almost lifeless state. Miss Ann
Shute, after long struggling, reached the boat, and
was taken off its bottom ; and Miss Eliza was
taken from underneath, upon turning up the boat.
The unpardonable conduct of the person who fas-
tened the fatal rope to the pier, contrary to
rule, and the regulatiOn of the port, never before
known to be done,' and hy which three females
have been plunged into the-greatest misery, ren-
ders it proper that his,nanie should be niade.pub-,
lic :—the Coroner's Inquest (held on Mary Shute,
'Whose - body is the only one yet found) , states
him to be T. Raiford, of 'Bristol, the pilot who
carried the vessel, to which the.rope was attached,
up the river.

• Mrs. ;Chute, wife of It: Shute, Esq." of Sydenham, Kent,
and sister to Mrs. Langley, of Wilterhouse, near. Bath ; her
daughters Mary, Margaret, Eliza, and Ann ; Miss Fisher,
also sister to Mrs. Langley ; 'Mr. Mrs. nd Miss .RetherY,
of Bath.