The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-05 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

To the Officers and. Crew of His Majesty's Ship-
__Spencer
for the re-capture of the Castle' Doullas, the lath May iSo4,
and the Lord North, the Erich June 'O4, distribution of Sal-
vase on board the said Ship, on her arrival at Gibraltar, or
during three years at No: il, Cecil-street, Strand.

The fate of the American' Ship CanstroN, off the I
. Banks of Newfoundland, was truly lamentable--
After experiencing-dreadful weather off the , Banks
of‘Newfoundland, she started a
,plank, and went
down so suddenly, that the master, a passenger, and,
.
.the crews had just time to take out a little wine,
;get into the jolly boat, which was.leaky, and corn,,
mit themselves to the mercy of the waves. After
'beating about the ocean for• twelve days, and being
ainsosr,exhausted, having had nothing to subsist on
but a •little wine, mixed with salt water, which
brought on great debility, the .master, a passenger,
and one seaman exired, under .the pressure of bun.
-ger and inanition, the' boat having been half full of
water from the time they left the Schooner, besides
being nearly
swamped from several heavy seas,
which kept them constantly; employed in bailing
the water out. The remains of their companions
wete committed to the deep. On the- t 3111 day, al-
most perished with . cold, weak with hunger and fa-
tigue, the surviving mate, and two men gave them-
selves up for lost, and were perfectly resigeed to
Weir melancholy fate, as the boat was filling'fasts
and they had scarcely strength to bale out the water,
.o.t Itog. t.Altrif
ang a sigoal as, well as they coltitrVi
kerchiefs, the vessel bore down rewards Atm ; the
boast was hoisted out immediately, and' hey were
with dillicultyigot onboard theship„whicti proved to
be • the Rowir Transport,trom jamajci, with French'
Prisoners. gvety cake that humanity cotildsuggeat
was afforded them, and on Monday last they landed
at Plymotolis and are now under the care of the.
American Consul at that Port,
During the passage of the Eurle Fast India.
man, outward.huund to Madras, the following Cu.
rious incident occurred, which is thus noticed by a
Passenger :
" June .290—At 9 A. M. saw a small sail on our
lee-bow.; at to hove.to, and sent as boat on board
with. the Second Officer: he found one man only
on board, whom he brought with him, and turned
the sail adrift, she being quite a wreck. The marl
gives the following very curious account of him.:
self :—That• he sailed from London-as Second,Mat e
of qhe Brig -Thomas, Of London, commanded by
'Captain. Git.R.DINER, and ,belonging to Messrs.
BRODERICK and Co., on' the 4th of March, tios,
bound to the' South Seas,. on the whale fishery ;
' that touching at several places on their out.
ward-bound voyage, they arrived at Staten Island,
where they remained six or seven months, and got.
about seven or eight,hundred skins. in the course'
of that 'rime they lengthened- and decked • their
long-boat, and converted her into a shallop, of,
which they gave him the command, am-I pot three
seamen on . board, under him ; at the satee rime
giving him orders to accompany the Brig to the
Island of Georgia, whither they were bound to ,
procure seals and sea elephants, They accordingly..
:left Staten Island the latter tend, of January, 180'3,
: in company with the Brig ; and after eleven days,
passage, arrived at the Island of Georgia, where
they fcMiliPtit two months, :ma ;eft • it' the begin.,
ning.-of April, the Brig, and another Brig, thelaMis
of Boston, in company, and.stood for the Island of
Tristap D'Quoha.
" On the 14. th of April they were parted {coat
their Consorts, in a heavy. gale of wind, in which
he lost. his,.thrcc hands, who were washed over by,-
it tremendous sea, from which he narrowly escaped,
having,. pay: the Nowa before,. gone belol for,
knife to cut away some part. of the rigging. At
that time be had on hoard only three pounds and a
half, of meat, three pounds of
.flour, sixrpounds oh
.bread, and two hogsheads of water (all, of, which
were much damaged by the gale), some whale 01l
remaining .in the bottoms of a few casks, a :MAI
quantity of, salt, and some bark of trees', On this
scanty pittanqe, and, without any means of oven
dressing that, he had contrived to.support exist.
ence for the' surprising space
.Of seventy:iive days,
for the last thirty of which hit principal means of
subsistence , Was, tobacco, and the bark of trees
soaked in whale oil, When we fell in with, him he
was shaping a course for the (lot of Good Hope,
having missed Tristan 'where he first
meant to proceed to _rejoin his con:tett; his debility
Was 110Wett4r so great, -ON, two or three days more
Want of sustenance
_would have coded his earthly
career, A subscription was immediately made for
the pout invalid, which amounted to trol." -