The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-03 00:00:00

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DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.

By a passenger who arrived in a steam-vessel
last night from Calais, we learn the following parti-
culars of a most melancholy occurrence which took
place during the tremendous storm on Saturday
night, within half-a-mile of the port of Boulogne :
" Early in the afternoon of that day—our infor-
mant thinks between two and three o'clock—a
vessel, said to be the Amphitrite, Hunter, com-
mander, bound for Botany-bay, with a 125 female
convicts on board, and several children, grounded
about half a mile to the right of Rarlogne, and
within a short distance of the shore. Assistance
was promptly tendered, but was refused by the cap-
tain in the most positive manner. It is said that
he even carried a pistol in each hand, threatening to
shoot any person who should attempt to come on
!maid. His obstinacy is supposed to have proceeced
from the hope that the ship would be got off on the
return of the tide ; and he is represented to have been
futrher stimulated by the surgeon, who insisted, that
as the custody of the women had been confided to
him by the Government, it was his duty to take
care that no communication should take place 1)-
tween them and the shore. The captain is said to
have been a young man, not more than 25 years of
age, and to his inexperience the fatal event must be
attributed. The possibility of the vessel becoming
imbedded in the sand seems not to have occurred to
him. For a considerable time the vessel lay within
a furlong of the multitude who had collected on the
spot; every individual on board might have been
landed with perfect safety ; and the prisoners might
have been re-embarked next day, if the vessel had
remained safe. The rashness of both captain and
surgeon is, therefore, unaccountable. When the
tide returned, the danger was irrmediable : the vio-
lence of the storm continued unabated ; and as the
ship did not float, the perilous condition of the
crew could no longer be concealed. The women,
who had been shut up under the hatches, are said
to have forcibly burst from the place of their con-
finement, the majorty of them congregating in the
cabin. A little before 10 o'clock, the waves broke
through the poop, and swept away in an instant
every soul in the cabin. The work of destruction
was soon completed; in a few moments the ship
went to pieces, and out of 154 persons on board,
only three escaped to land ! and one of these died a
few hours afterwards.

" The Captain is stated to have got on the same
raft which bore to the shore one of the survivors,
but a wave carried him off, and though he swam for
some time, he ultimately perished. The surgeon '
and his wife ah‘o met a watery grave.
" On the following morning the shore was
strewed with the wreck, many parts of which fur-
nished evidence of unsoundness. The vessel is
said to have been very old, having been built nearly
30 years ago, arid altogether unfit to have been em-
ployed longer ►n any service. A rigorous investi-
gation on this head will, it is hoped, be instituted.
" Owing to the distance at which the British
Consul resides from the port, he was not apprised
that the vessel had struck until several hours after-
wards, but he then repaired to the spot, and doubt-
less rendered all the assistance in his power.
" Toe bodies of 65 women and 1 man were
washed on shore in the course of Saturday night."
—Times.

THE LATE STORM.

" General Steam Navigation Company,
69, Lombard street, Sept. 2.

" Sir,—ln order to prevent any unnecessary anxiety
being occasioned by the late violent storm, I beg to send
you such information as has been received at this office
concerning the differ,nt steam packets, which msy obviate
the apprehensions of those who have friends or relations
on board. The following is an extract from a letter re-
ceived this morning from the agent of this Company at
Ramsgate, dated Sept. I :
" There are now thirteen steimers here which have
taken shelter in this harbour, amongst which are the fol-
lowing:—" The Sir Edward Bsnks, for Rotterdam" ;
the Lord Melville, for Calais' ; the Earl of Liverpool, for
Ostend' ; the Queen of the Netherlands, from Boulogne;
the City of London and Royal Sovereign, Margate and
Ramsgate steam-bolts; and also the Dart, Venus, Mag-
net, and Eclipse, belonging to the old Margate Company ;
and the Royal William, and the Royal George.
" The General Steam Navigation Company's Hamburg
Mail packet, the Columbine*, 1.-ft for her destination this
morning. Three vessels are wrecked on the Goodwin
Sands; two Deal boats lost, with all hands ; one brig a
wreck in Pegwell-bay, and one at Broadstairs.
" All the above foreign packets would probably be able
to put out from Ramsgate last night or this morning.
" The Superb m,il packet, from Hamburg, was obliged
to put into Harwich on Saturday (iron) whence the mails
were forwarded by express.) All hands safe and without
damage.
" It is not considered at all prob stile that the packets
which were to leave Rotterdam and Ostend on Saturday
would put to sea.
" No boats from Ratnsgate or Margate were able to
come up either Saturday or yesterday.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" CHAS. BESSELL, Sec."
• All these packets left the Custom-hoase on Saturday
morning.

Mr. OSDALDESTON'S hounds will hunt
three times a week during this season.

Sir A. CHICHESTER'S stag-hounds meet
on Tuesday the 10th and Thursday the 12th instant at
Dulverton.

MILITARY FLOGGING.—A correspondent
writes, thrt " a few days since a man named Arnold and
another private of the Rifle Corps, stationed at Dover
Castle, under the command of Captain Stevenson, were
compelled to submit to the torturing lash for being absent
from their quarters all night. One received 700 stripes,
and the other 1000." That the men were flogged we can
not doubt, but we think our correspondent is incorrect in
the ❑umber of lashes.
THE LATE STORM.—The fruit-trees about
London have sustained great damage from the late high
wind, and the vessels in the river have been slightly in-
jured; but no accident or loss of life has been heard of.
TORY PRANKS, —A few facts have been re
lated to us, of the general truth of which we cannot en-
tertain a doubt, and which we consider it our duty to pub
lisp, premising that if any inaccuracies may have crept
into some of the minor details of our narrative, we shah
be very happy to correct them. It appears then, that cer
taro Toty electioneering agents have been very busy in
sending printed circulars to the liberal electors of this
neighbourhood, ohjeeting to their qualificition. Mr.
Thomas Attwood, Mr. Hardman, as well as most of his
brother Catholics, have been m tde objects of this extraor
dinary specimen of Tory courtesy. An elector i❑ the
Aston district is said to have waited on one of these agents,
to ask him the ground of his objection. He stated that
he had acted in compliance with instructions from his
client. The elector asked the name of the client, which
he refused to give. The elector then expressed an opinion
that it was some dirty attempt of the Radicals, or Po-
litical Unionists to disturb the harmony of the town,
and that they had marked him because he had
given a plumper to Mr. Dugdale at the late election,
" Oh sir," said the Tory agent, " there must be
some mistake, you are a Conservative man. The mis-
take shall be immediately rectified," which we believ,
was done by withdrawing the objection. We understand
that the same thing has been done in several
instances; we have heard as many as sixteen. An-
other Tory agent, not an attorney, is stated to have
figured away in a similar scene. A gentleman asked him
what was the meaning of this business; the answer not
being very distinct, the interrogator expressed a supposi-
tion that these notices, of which it is said no fewer tl en
240 have been issued, were principally if not exclusively
to Tories. The agent ncould not exactly say that.
It was urged that it was a shabby dirty piece
of ill nature, very unworthy of gentlemen. The agent's
answer was that it was the law of the land. Such is the
answer of Martin and Eaves the informers. It is remark-
able that these notices are all dated August 20th, and not
one that we know was delivered before the 24th. Most
of Mr. Burbow Ilebberes, we understand, were delivered
during the time of divine service on Sunday the 256.
It is evident, therefore, that Messs. the Tory agents, are ad-
verse to the Sabbath evils of Sir A. Agnew and Mr. Peter.
We have received some angry remonstrances upon tht
subject; but really we think it foolish i❑ every one but
the friends of the said Tory agents, to feel sore upon the
occasion. When a man is plunged over head in the recep
tattle of the common sewer, we are more disposed to pity
his mishap, than to complain of the stench which he stirs
up.—Birmingham Journal.