The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-10 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE WEMYSS SMACK.

The following additional evidence has been trans-
mitted to us :—The invet.tigation is expected to last
two days longer. At the termination, the evidence
will be sent to Lord Melbourne.
Mr. W. Mingay, agent for the vessels of the
Sunderland and Newcastle Companies, deposed to
the Captain of the Wemyss desiring him to take
charge of the vessel, and deliver the cargo; witness
found the deck crowded by 50 or 60 people; be did
all he could to prevent plunder, but he could keep
no regular order.
John Lubbock, of Welk, ship-builder, was em-
ployed to repair the Earl of Wemyss packet; her
ater-keel, about 27 feet from aft, was completely
out, and about 12 or 13 feet further abaft on the
larboard side, in part out ; on the starboard side the
larboard streak out about 27 feet from aft, and many
other planks completely started from their timbers;
the oakum out of her seams in many places as high
as her floor-head, and in many places as high as
her first futteck head ; the main•piece of her rudder
was broke below the trunk, and the seem was out of
her boat, and that was the whole of the damage
that required repair. He repaired her in a tempo-
rary way, sufficient for her to go to Leith and Ber-
wick. Her skylights were off, and there was not
one whole square of glass remaining in them ; he
fist saw the vessel about four o'clock in the after.
noon of Sunday, she was then in a sinking state;
she was settled in the sand about nine, r.st. She

had then been scuttled, the water could not be got,
out of the cabin by any other means. He con,i-
dered the damage done to her was occasioned by
beating over the flats ; about her hull she was per-
fectly seaworthy, when she left London. From the

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injury she sustained in her bottom, he thought that
she would sink in half an hour, or less time. He
was confident that a vessel could not be in that state,
without a great body of water coming it at the bot-
tom. She was copper fastened, and as fine a built
vessel of that description as he ever saw.
William Green, chief boatman of the Preventive

Coast-guard, stared stated that on Saturday night, Aug.
31, he saw the Earl of Wentyst on the scurves,
about 300 or 400 yards from the shore. He re-

naained on the shore in the hope of getting some
intelligence from them. That was half-past ten
o'clock. About half-past eleven o'clock a light was
shown them, and it was kept up through the
night. They observed a light on board the vessel
about eleven o'clock. It did not last longer than
half a minute. About twelve o'clock there were
twelve or fifteen persons on the beach. They
hallooed to the vessel to send their boat. When it
was found that the boat did not come, himself and
two or three others tried to walk to the vessel. It
was then about one o'clock. It was blowing
and raining in torrents. Finding it impossible to
wade to the vessel, they returned to the beach ; they
remained under shelter until some candles were
brought, as what they had were burned; when the
candles came they showed a light ; shortly after a
light appeared in the smack ; this was about half-
past two o'clock. They then expected a boat from
the smack. They then went to the water's edge,
but returned again to the hill. The wind or rain
never abated during the night. He saw John Large
looking steadfastly at the vessel, and on rising on his
legs he observed a boat had just left the vessel;
that was about three o'clock. They then immedi-
ately ran to the water's edge. He pulled off his
jacket, and went into the water to render every as-
sistance he could. The boat was then about one
hundred yards from the shore. The tide flowed
that night about ant hour or an hour and a half ear-
lier. The flood had made two hours before he saw
the boat put off from the vessel. He observed than
all on board the boat would perish. She could not
have come on shore at that time. He v‘ as glad to
see her return to the vessel. They saw no more of
the boat until about four or five o'clock, just at the
dawn of day.

Cross-examined.—lt was not possible at any time
for the passengers to come on shore without a boar.
At daylight they frequently observed persons come
on the deck and look out. If he had been master at
that vessel, and had had five fathoms of ~aver, hi
never should have slipped his cable, unless the ves-
sel had been leaky. lie certainly should not have
run the vessel on shore, however great the storm.
The best time for the boat to have come from the
vessel was between the hours of twelve and two
o'clock. ILO he been well acquainted with the
snore, he should have sent the passengers in the
boat, not otherwise. Why he expected the boa
was, because when vessels are stranded on a lee.
shore, they generally send a boat. They had no
boat on the shore, and it would hare ic.Le.trn three
or four hours to have pr, cured one.
Wnliam Large, of Brancaster, mariner, said,
that he sounded the depth az the spot where the
vessel rode, and the depth at low water was nine
feet ; the vessel was riding between what is called
the roadstead and the beach; there was noi,here
there five fathoms at low water; there might be flirt e
in some places; Ira master of a vessel was ignorant
of a coast, he could, nevertheless, tell whether the
tide was ebbing or flowing by throwing his lead.
Nathaniel l'yne, Esq., of Grosvettur-place, Lot,.
don—Accompanied his brother, Mr. Witham Tyne,
from Hampshire to Braticuster, where they to,
rived on Friday, the Gth of September, at
two o'clock in the morning; about six o'clock they
were admitted into the parlour of the *Ship Inn,
and shortlyaf er wards the mate of the Earloflfrenzyss
came down stairs and pissed through the room they
were sitting in; Mr. W. Pyre questioned him as
ro tne circumstances of the loss of life on board
that vessel, and particularly asked him was it not
possible that as all the male passengers, together
with the Captain and crew, were saved, to have
rendered assistance to theladies in the cabin?
the mate replied that it was impossible, ao the
stqt broke over the smack, and carried away the
sky-lights, and tilled her in an instant; on in-

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wn ; that the storm came on so a enly and
heavily, that they had no opportunity to batten
down or secure the skylights, and he (witness)
was positive that the mate said that the sky-
lights were not even covered; the mate also said
that even if the ladies had been got out of the
cabin, from the severity of the weather they
could not have survived ; shortly after the mate left
the room, the steward of the smack came down
stairs; he was asked the same questions, and he
(the steward) distinctly stated that the ladies were
drowned in consequence of the sea breaking over
her, carrying away the skylights, and filling the
cabin in an instant ; he also said that there was no
Opportunity to bitten down or cover the skylights,
and they were not even covered.
Some further evidence was given respecting the
missing of a box belonging to Mrs. Pyne, and the
disappearance of a Scotch woman, who was charged
by the Steward with having pillaged the luggage.
The captain, it appeared, first gave the woman in
charge for robbing the packet, then said that she
was a great trouble to him, and finally, Mr.
MiNaughten, the Agent, sent her off.
THE BISHOP OF HEREFORDS

Few acts of the Ministry have been attacked with greater
acrimony than the ecclesiastical patronage lately bestowed
on Lord Grey's brother, the Bishop of Hereford, yet the
plain facts of the ease, which would appear not to be ge-
nerally known, or to have been studiously kept out of
sight, do, in reality, constitute a sufficient answer to those
attacks. The following brief epitome of them miy ha
r lied on. When the Ministry went out, in May, 1832,
the bishopric of Hereford being then vacant, the King
desired, as a mark of his personal regard, that the pre-
sent Bishop should have it. Aware that with the deanery,
which the Bishop then held, the living of Bishopsgate
cave him a positive income much better than that of the
see of Hereford, the King desired risri that he should
continue to hold the living in commendnm, as the Bishop
of London had done when B sill) of Oiesier. This 1.444 d
Grey declined, thinking the union of a parish with a
cure of souls with a bishopric improper; but . xpiessed
a hope that he might at some future opportunity have
a stall at his disposal, to place the Bishop of Hereford on
a footing with other Bishops, which the K.ng promised.
After the restoration of the Ministry, a stall b-came vacant
at St. Paul's, to which, un er all the circumstances of the
time and his own peculiar claims, bid Grey thought it
right to appoint Mr. 'Fite. On the late vacancy at
Wes, minster, however, Lord Grey thought himself bound
not to pass over the Bishop of Hereford a second time,
with this ap.a-n.romit odded to his see, his income
will not exceed 3,5001. per annum.
Evu r 3 one of the rine, tor oishoprics has at; adjunct of
this kind ; as, for ex imple :
Llandaff Deanery at St. Paul's.
St. David's
Exeter
Gloucester
Lichfield Ditto ditto.
Rochester rVicar of Bromsgrove and
t Deanery at Worcester.
Bristol Stall at Durham.
Chester
Oxford
Peterborough