The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-18 00:00:00

SHOAL IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.

The following communication, respecting a • dan-
gerous shoal lately discovered in the Atlantic Ocean,
has been received from Captain James Porter, of
the barque Science, of this port :
" On my passage to Archangel, I was informed
by my chief mate,- Alexander Munn, that when lie
was master of the brig .Toseph Hunze, of Greenock,
Rattray, master, on their passage from Mobile to
Liverpool, on the 22d August, 1827, they disco-
vered a sand-bank, in lat. 39. north, mid longitude
calculated back from the day on which they sounded
on the eastern edge of the Grand Bank of New-
foundland, to be 64.. 20. west, and that they passed
close to, saw the white sand above water, and
sounded where the vessel then was, and found 20
fathoms, sandy bottom, a quarter of a mile off.
" The mate requested of the master permission to
go for a few buckets of sand, but he would not grant
it. The bank was observed by the mate from the
brig's mast-head to be of a horse-shoe form; the
opening of the shoe facing the S.W. and appeared
in length to be not more than half or three quarters
of a mile. As this dangerous bank lies directly in
the tract of all vessels pursuing a north-easterly
course from the Gulp!' of Florida, I deem it my duty
to give it the earliest publicity, in the hopes that it
will be the means of saving many valuable lives and
much property.
"Many of our vessels from Jamaica, Honduras,
New Orleans, &c. are supposed to have foundered
at sea, when this bank or reef may have caused the
loss of several, as it lies with outstretched arms to
receive them. _ _

" I hope you will lose no time in making this
publicly known, as it is of so much importance to
shipowners and seamen. The longitude here given
cannot be supposed to be altogether correct, as it
was not determined by chronometer or lunar obser-
vation. I think that one of his Majesty's smaller
vessels of war on the Bermuda station could not be
better employed than in ascertaining the true posi-
tion of this very dangerous shoal.
JAMES PORTIR.

" Greenock, 13th September, 1828.
" P.S.—On interrogating Mr. Munn further, re-
specting the above shoal, he stated that they were
obliged to bear up, and sail to the westward of it, in
deep water, and supposed it to be on the eastern
edge of the Gulph stream."—Greenock Advertiser.

The LORD HIGII ADMIRAL has been
pleased to promote to the rank of Commander, Lieutenant
Trios. GOBLE, First of the Britannia,'l2o, flag-ship at
Plymouth, Admiral the Earl of NORTIJESK. A singular
coincidence is to be observed in the promotion of this
officer, as he received his Arst ccummission as Lieutenant
on the 24th December, 1805, as a reward for his services
in the action of Trafalgar, in the former ship of the same
name, which then bore the fig of the gallant Earl at the
mizen.

COlteiNER'S INQUEST.—Late on Tuesday
evening an inquest • was held in the drawing-room of
Mrs. INIATREws, Manchester-square, on the body of Wm.
WARD, aged 16, late foot-boy in the service of Mts.
MATHEWS. The deceased had formed a connection with
some female in the neighbourhood, who- had disappointed
him, which preyed so much upon his spirits, that he be-
came extremely dejected. On Monday afternoon last, his
mistress quitted home for the purpose of taking a walk,
leaving him to take care of the house, having given leave
to her female servant to spend the evening out. On Mrs.
M. returning hotne, she kuocked at the door several times,
but received no answer ; on which an individual got through
the parlour window and admitted her, and on proceeding
to the kitchen, they found the deceased lying on the floor
in his shirt, weltering in his blood, with two pistols by
his side, with one of which he had shot himself through the
heart, and he was quite dead. Several witnesses were ex-
amined as to the state of his mind, and the Jury being
fully satisfied that he committed the act himself while in
a state of temporary derangement, they returned a verdict
to that effect.