The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-29 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK.

Loss of the ;ship Sea-Fox, Capt. WYER.—The
ship Sea-Fox sailed from Sandy Hook on Satur-
day morning last, bound to Port-au-Prince, with
a fine wind, and nothing material occurred until
el::ren o'clock ovhen-sha wa4Lstro.c.3:.by ic-sittld"or
squall and capsized.—Mr. DAWSON, one of the
passengers, states, that the dead lights' not being
in, the water rushed with great violence into the
cabin windows, Which filled it instantly ; he im-
mediately seized his sister, Miss MATILbA
DAwsoN, with whom he attempted to get on
deck ; the water through the cabin windows
forced them out of the companion way ; the strug-
gle was, so great, and the companion so very small,
that his sister Sainted, and could not be got up.
Capt. WYEIt, who was still in the cabin at the
time she capsized, reached the deck, but was
instantly swept overboard, and remained in the
water near half an hour, when he providentially
reached the ship again. The following are the
names of the Passengers who were drowned in
the cabin :—Lieut. EASTERBROOK, wife and two
children; Mr. CHRISTIAN F. SPEYERS, of New
York ; Mr. JONATHAN 0. WALKER, of Port-au-
Prince ; Miss MATILDA DAWSON and servant, of
New York ; and the cook and seven seamen were
washed from the deck. The following were
saved :—Capt. Ytil, LEWIS DAWSON, GEORGE
DAWSON, WILLIAM REES, a coloured man, and
four of the crew.

In a Paper of the 27th October, there is a
Proclamation from General JACKSON, in Pensa-
cola, dated the 29th September :

(AnsTnAcT.)—lt makes known to the Spanish
Officers to withdraw themselves, as they ought
heretofore to have done, from the Floridas, agree-
ably to article 7, on or before the 3d of October
next ; after which day, if they or any of them
shall be found within the Floridas, all officers,
civil and military, are required to arrest and se-
cure them, so that they may be brought before
him, to be dealt with according to 'law.
(Signed) ANDREW JACKSON,
Governor Of the Ploridas.

FROM PERNAMBUCO.—We have seen a letter
from Pernambuco of the 23d ult. in which it is
stated that the Revolutionists were at one time
within 3 miles of the town, which they then might
easily have taken, as their approach caused great
consternation, and a large number of inhabitants
deserted the place. Their indiscretion saved the
town, of which the Governor took advantage, and
fortified the parts assailable, as it is supposed the
contest is now doubtful. Business was dull.
There is a kind of Manifesto from General
O'Doso.ru, in the American Papers; on his tak-

ing leave of the South Americans, at the city of
Cordova, dated the 19th August, on his return

to Spain.
In another part of our Paper, we have inserted
from the Irish Journals a report of the Coroner's
Inquest on the unfortunate family of the SHEAS.
Either the interest excited by so frightful an
event as the murder of this large family, is less
intense in Ireland than in England, or the ar-
rangements of the Irish newspapers for satisfy-
ing the curiosity of the Public, are less perfect
than they are in this country. Had a Coro-
ner's Inquest been held in any part of England,
on so great a number of innocent victims to
the demoniac passions of an insurrectionary
peasantry, the London Journals would have
been furnished by express with the parti-
culars, and would have had their columns
filled with the horrible details. The account
from the Clonmel Herald, of the Inquest in ques-

Lion, is, as our Readers will see, exceedingly
meagre and defective ; and we have been unable
to glean any further particulars from the Irish
papers, except that the three unnamed sufferers
were Kerry labourers, hired by SHEA to dig his
potatoes; and, that there was the perforation of
a gun-shot wound through the elder Shea's body,
entering at his chest, a circumstance which alone
proves that the tragic event was the work of the

nsurgents.

The horror of this atrocious deed is not to be
exaggerated. The ruffian perpetrators must be
put down, and put down promptly, or no man in
Ireland will be safe,—no man will have the
power to exert his right of ownership in land, or
to take their rents from his tenantry.

At such a moment of alarm, it is a matter of some
consolation that several persons have been ap•
prehended through the activity of the police, 03
charges connected with the disturbances; and that

the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland have
promptly offered, by proclamation, a reward of twe
thousand pounds for the discovery of the murderess
of the SHEAS, with a free pardon to accomplices
giving information. This large sum is offered in
the proportions of three hundred pounds for each
of the first five murderers convicted of the
crime,—and of one hundred pounds to each Of
the next five who shall be so convicted.
We have not room for the details of fresh
atrocities.— One of the most prominent is the
murder, in his own house, within a mile and 3
half of Tralee, of Major Cocos, & Magistrates
on Thursday night last. A. large party of the
midnight villains enttr4-44Aitunfortunate Getz'
~•
tleman's house, while he was
_in Llovinfo:.
penetrated to his bed-room, they told him that
he remained quiet he should not be molested'
The high spirit of Major Cpws, however, w.W
was a gallant veteran officer, and who had lost
an arm in the service of his country: rejected
such a•compromise, and springing•from his bed'
he. seized a poker, and struck at one of the gang'
The ruffians immediately attacked him ; and one
of them having struck him down with the butt
end of a gun, they dispatched him by firing sevr,
ral shots into his body. The house was. ply
tiered of many valuables, and of about
dred pounds in silver money.
The Magistracy of two Counties have publishej
Resolutions, in which they express their cotric'
tion of the necessity for the re-enactment of Ole.
Insurrection Act. On this proceeding, the' 19°'
Correspondent,fin , though it does not dent tbe
necessity r.or dispute the expediency of resorti4
to this strong measure for the restoration of Vail'
quillity, very properly remarks, that, ".bef°re
their requisition be complied with, Parlianlel't
may ask, what have. you done yourselves,
Magistrates, to crush this rustic insurrectia°,l
Have you vigilantly discharged the trust rePnsel
in you as conservators of the public Pence'
(lave you kept a steady eye fixed on-all the pre;
fatory indications of turbulence, as they sheicee
themselves upon the surface of things ? 113 s
itli
you exhorted, have you menaced, have you,
the wholesome tone of authority, advised or
suaded, when the public mischief was in its
cipient state ? Have you asserted the power °lti,
dignity of the while insurrection was
• roe
vancing towards some maturity ? As a 13.-
tive, why demand the application of such
Act ? It is enough to grant it as a hard if
medy, ellen no other has been found sufficient

effective." 41/
We much fear that Parliament might lithe
equal propriety ask nearly similar questions of
Irish Government. \ while there were oi
dications of disturbance upon the surface cif
things, while ther,l was an ineflicent Magistrooo
and an insufficient police,—did that Govern
suffer itself to be lulled into a fatal sectiriso ti?
Why did It- reduce the military force
o
that are not now troops enough to d
necessary duty in the disturbed districts ;an r
did it permit the Insurrection Act and (Abe'.

—slative measures for the prol-ection of the
public, to expire, i❑ a country which experience
has too fatally proved was ripe for a fe trful