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

WRECK OF THE EARL OF WEMYSS.

LEITH PACKET.

Mr. Editor,—Reading in your paper of the 4th inst. a
'letter, signed " Andrew Horsburgh," giving an account
of the above vessel, permit me, through the same medium,
and in that gentleman's absence, to request thv agent, Mr.
Malcolm Macnaughtan, of the Leith Wharf, to whom that
letter was addressed, to inform the public for what reason
he has suppressed part of the said letter, and inserted a
garbled statement. As the affair may lead to further in.
vestigation, it will merely be sufficient to state, that all
the passengers who have survived the sad accident, includ-
ing A. Horsburgh, EN., attribute the melancholy affair
to the neglect of common precaution on the part of the
Captain and seamen ; and, as the minister of the pari%ll,
I cannot help expressing the regret, not to say indignation,
at the entire want of feeling and liberality displayed since
the sad affair by the Captain and agent of the vessel—the
latter considering it an act of great liberality even to re-
turn the passage money to those unfortunates who have
lost their all ; but, Sir, if the sad sight of eleven corpses,
now lying in my church, will not move their flinty hearts,
I am fearful they are dead to all that censure they so richly
deserve.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,

H. HOLLOWAY.
Rectory, I3rancaster, Sept. 5, 1833.
P.S.—lf it may be so termed, these poor females were
drowned on dry land, as the ship is, and then was, on the
beach. This statement I have shown to Mr. Gooch, one
of the survivors, who corroborates this account in toto;
his address is No. 33, Nicholas-lane, London. Names of
those lost :—Mrs. W. Pyne, daughter and son; Mrs.
Juliana Cormac and son ; Mr. W. Brown ; Mrs. Hamil-
ton, daughter and son; Miss Susan Roche and nephew—
all cabin passengers.

A letter from Boulogne, of the 3d instant, contains the
following:—" The interment of the 65 bodies thrown
ashore took place yesterday. They were followed by
upwards of 2,000 persons, beaded by the English Consul,
and were deposited in two trenches. At eight o'clock
another body was thrown on shore, but it does not appear
to have belonged to the Amphitrite. This morning those
of a woman and three men were picked up. They were
buried at four o'clock this afternoon. Owen and Towsey
determined to go and view the bodies of their lost
companions, and were followed by a crowd of the popu-
lace, whose curiosity overcame their discretion. On their
return they declared that amongst these five bodies they
recognised the surgeon, the second mate, the cook, and
one of the sailors, but could not say who the woman was.
Towsey dined yesterday at General Maxwell's, who has
taken him in charge. He has been a Midshipman for five
years, and belongs to a respectable family."
Extract of a letter from Boulogne-sur-Aler, dated the
ld inst. :

" The wind has abated, and for the first time these
four days the packets have ventured to sea. We are under
apprehensions for the fishing-boat No. 71, and for the
yacht of Mr. It., an English gentleman, which sailed
three days ago, and has not since been heard of. James
Towsey, one of the men saved, contradicts the deposition
of Owen as to the conduct of the surgeon, and states that
in his presence, the surgeon's wife said to her husband that
she would get into the boat. The surgeon replied, Do
so, but I shall remain at my post. I cannot quit my
pirsoners.' Upon which the poor woman said—' Well,
then,
,we will die together and she threw herself into his
arms.

Letters from Dunkirk •
bring accounts of disasters from
the storm on Saturday. Between 12 and 1 o'clock the
King's cutter, Vigilant, Lieutenannt Dary, having broken
given
nprfeoparing to run
.
her chain cable and lost her rudder,
gi
for the harbour, and orders had beenwu
remaining cable, when the man employed inr cutting
the
was caught by the coil and drawn overboard. It wsaesrliimce
possible to save him. The cutter got safe into port. P.
quarter of an hour after, the Couziot, Captain Roux,
bound with a cargo of coals from Sunderland to Bordeaux,
having missed the entrance into the port, struck within
ten cables' length of the stockade, to the eastward. The
Captain, in passing, happened to throw a rope to the
stockade, which was fortunately caught on shore, by means
of which the crew, consisting of six men, were saved. The
last
.was scarcely upon dry ground, when the ship went
0 Few; and her fragments were oven Win may by the

waves. Between '2 and 3 o'clock the brig La Jeune
Celine, Captain Gillard, from Brest, with cannon,
destined for Dunkirk, was stranded off Leff.
rinckhouke. The whole of the crew were saved, but
the vessel and her cargo were lost. In the course of the
night and following day, many other disasters occurred.
The Albion, Newcastle collier, bound to Jersey, was cast
on shore near Gliy'.'elde. The crew escaped, and the
vessel may got off. The Swedish ship Helda, Captain
Heitman, with timber, for Gibraltar—the Prussian brig
Casus, bound to Bordeaux, with timber, from Dantzic ;
the Fortune, galliot, laden with hemp, for Saint Servan ;
the English sloop, Lively, Captain Cobb, from Hull, in
ballast, and the Newcastle collier, the Royal Oak,
Captain Morrison, bound to Ramsgate, have all been
stranded on the coast near Gravelines. The crews of all
these vessels have been saved, but how many of the ships
are expected to be got off is not yet known.
The advices from Ostend continue to give disastrous
Recounts. On the evening of the 2d the sloop Alexandre
of that Porte, coming from Marennes, laden with salt, was
stranded at the entrance of the harbour. At high tide on
the 3d, attempts were made to get her off, but in the ope-
ration she with all her crew, the pilot, and several
sailors belonging to the port, who were assisting. All
perished except the captain, who saved himself by swim-
ming. The whole of the coast, from Calais to Flushing,
is covered with wreck. On the 2d the Nathalie, which
had sailed from Ostend a week before for Liverpool, re.
turned, bringing the crew of a ship she picked up at sea,
which is said to have belonged to Naples.
The Jeune Aurelie, which left Dunkirk for Rouen on
the 27th ult. with a cargo of coals, has been lost at a place
called Le Marche aux Chevaux, on the coast of Belgium.
The captain, his wife, and three men, were drowned.
Three sailers reached the shore, and on the 3d instant
arrived in a naked and destitute state at Knocke, a
village near Blankenberg, in the arrondissement of Bruges.