The Sun.
London, England, 1821-04-20 00:00:00

SHIP NEWS.

DEAL, APRIL 19.—Wind S.—Arrived and sailed . for the
River the Flora, from Cadiz; William Manning, Smith, from
St. Kitt's; and Union, Cowling, from Lisbon. Sailed the
eineinnatus, Cbagiplin,. for New York, and several others.
About 50 sail -of -outwardLbound vessels tot under weigh at
Dungeness this morning...
PORTSMOITTII, APRIL 19.-Wind S. S. W.—Arrived the
Grenadit. Donald, from London for' New South Wales ; Glut-
ton, Henry., from Honduras ; and his Majesty's ship-Redpole,
from a cruize. Passed by the Mary, Donaldson, feom Lisbon
for LOntlOri.. ' _

MARGATE, APRIL 19.—Arrived a Dutch frigate (reported
the Ceres) bound to Batavia, and an outward-bound East
Indianian. The 'Jane, of Sunderland, with loss of 'foremast
and bowsprit, is off this place in tow of three smacks ; she was
-run foul of by a foreign ship,' and will proceed to Ramsgate
Harbour.

Algur."lB.—Wind W.—Arrived the 'Wild-
ing, Boyle, from Sierra Leone, in 66 days, and sailed again for
London. Also sailed the Nautilus, for Prince _Edward's
Island Hebe, Rixon, for Malta ; .Trio, Bextield, for Leg-
horn ; Nary, Brown, for Tencriffe ; Eweretta, Stodth.rt ; and
William Parker, Pringle, for Montreal; Choice, Hurry, for
Quebec; and Sisters, Dorthwaite, for St.. John's, N. B.
FALMOUTH, AI'RIL W.--Arrived the Lady
Wellington-packet, with' mails from New York • sailed the 13th,
and from Halifax 23th u":„ Also sailed the 'Blucher packet
for the Brazils ; and Duke of Kent, do., for Lisbon, each with
mails; also the St. Laurence, Douglas, for Quebec ; and Del-
phina, Leedvigsen, for Naples. .A ship, under juiy masts, has
hove in sight from the westward in tow of two Pilothoats, sup-
posed. to be the City of Edinburgh, Godby, from Scilly.

SHIPWRECKS.
DEA> APRIL 16.—Aerived this morning, and sailed for the
River Thames, the Lapwing, Captain GENTIL, in twenty-
seven days from Saint Domingo. On the 2d instant, in lati-
tude .36. 50. longitude reo. 42. the Lapwing fell in with the
schooner Three Brothers; Capt. IV: Hu T curers, ofSt. Andrew's,
from_lndiana, bound for Berbice, laden with staves. At the
time the Lapwing fell in with. the Three Brothers, the latter
was a complete. wreck, and had on board one individual. J. Mun-
son, whose situation was. one beyond the powers of human
description. The account which he has furnished will in souse
degree enable you to 'conceive the horrors
to which he and his
fellow-sufferers were exposed. The Three Brothers sailed on
the 22d of February, and proceeded smoothly in her course
until the 2tl ofillarch, when she experienced a dreadful squall
early in the morning. The violence of the stores increased so
rapidly, that in less than two hours the water was upon the
cabin floor, and shortly afterwards the staunclieons were all
carried away. The exertions, of the crew from that time to
day-break, on .the following morning, were all that could be
expected from men who had no prospect of life but from
the most unwearied labour ; but, alas ! all were useless ;
the light, of the Connnon day only served them to dia.
cern . their fate, And render death .more terrible. At this
awful moment a tremendous- sea burst upon . them, and ere
they could utter. a prayer to God, the vessel ' capsized, and
was soon filled with water. The Captain, who was at the time
endeavouring to right the ship, was washed into the sea, and
sunk for ever: The vessel then lay on her beam ends, and
her mast and, boWsprit were instantly carried away. There
remained from the wreck six persons, one of whom was the
Captain's son, a fine youth, whose situation may be easily
I conceived. This young man survived. until the 23d day, dur-
ing which the crew were just able to keep life within them
by means of some beet-root and bread, half a barrel of flour,
•art of a cask of water, which they had been able to keep by
Lem ; but, unfortunately, the water got mixed with sea water, and
they suffered exceedingly by that circumstance, signs of ulcera-
tion soon beginning to show themselves. On the 25th of March,
ituiit as they were ruminating on their fate, and mourning the
loss of the Captain's son and the Mate, Sir. Neil, who had
died ' • when, us fact, every; hope had escaped them, and they
were looking upon each other with horror, their chance of life
was revived by the appearance of a brig. As this vessel came
near them their hopes increased, and they hailed her as long as
their strength .would allow them ; indeed she came so close to.
ttlem at one time, that they were fully convinced that they were
seen; but they must have been mistaken, for she passed by
them without notice, and they were plunged into all the hor-
rors of despair. It would be any thing but Christian-like to
suppose that they-had been discovered by the crew of the brig;
for what man could have seen and not relieved them ? Previ-
ous to this time all the provisions of the unhappy crew were con-
sumed ; and such was their state, that they came to the melan-
choly agreement to cut, up thebody of Mr. Neil, the mate,
part of which they were under the necessity of eating for the pur-
.pose of prolonging their existence, in the vain hope, as it turned
out to all but one, of assistance. On the following day, three
more of the little'crew died, and one was washed overboard,
leaving only James Munson, who, by an extraordinary provi-
dence, remained alive until the 2d instant; when the Lapwing
fell in with the wreck, and brought him to this place to relate the
melancholy catastrophe which befel his suffering companions."
The melancholy and heart-rending spectacle of a vessel
wrecked upon Whitby Rock, with the greater part of her crew,
was recently witnessed by several of the inhabitants of that
town. On Saturday week, about one o'clock, the brig Janet,
of Lynn, coal laden, came on the rock, and was discovered at
day light; having beat up a considerable distance towards the
foot of the East cliff. Capt. Manby's apparatus for the pre-
servation of ship-wrecked seamen was conveyed to that emi-
nence with all possible expedition, and tried, but without suc-
cess. The first shot fell short, at the second the rope broke, but,
before the preparations could be completed for a third attempt,
the vessel went to pieces and put a period to the sufferingi of
the unhappy crew. A considerable surf upon the shore ren-
dered the approach of the cables which went out to their assist-
ance extremely difficult and dangerous; they succeeded however
in rescuing three of the people in a completely exhausted 'state,
from the jaws of death ; the remainder, five in number, includ-
ing the master and mate, perished in the waves. Two men
were seen for tome time floating upon separate fragments of the
wreck, but before any coble or boat could reach them, they
were overwhelthed by the waves, and sunk. to rise no more.

MUTINY AND DESTRUCTION OF THE SHIP
KATE, OF LONDON.
_,
The following• are theTarticulars of the mutiny and destruc-
tion of the British ship Kate, of London, furnished to Captain
Jones, of the brig Diligence, from Guadeloupe, referred to in
yesterday's Gazette.
" The crew (eight in number) of the ship Kate, Captain.
-George Purdy, landed about four miles to windward of the
Mole, oil the 24th of January, about five o'clock P.m. They
slept on the beach that night, and next morning a planter
in the neighbourhood came to.them and brought them to his
house. A brother Of the said planter went to inform the
Commandant of the event.

" Their story was agreed "on oath between the, crew ; and
they all said they belonged to the Ameriean ship Retrieve,
Captain Jacob nawes, belonging to "Messrs. Suydain and
Wyckoff; merchants, of New York ; that after six weeks
boisterous' weather, not being able to keep the ship. free, :she.
being very leaky, the Captain had given orders to get .the.
t i "boan readiness, and that they were so doing, and getting
into the boat about ten o'clock at night, when the Captain's
son, about ten years old, fell: overboard in trying to get into
the.boat, and that the captain threw hithself into the sea to
try.to save him, but they both perished, and the ship wedt
down ; that after "being two days and a night in the boa';,
they. reached the beach near the Mole, with groat hazard 7of
their lives.'

• " The Commandant sent militia dragoons to escort them to
the Mole. They had a breakfast at the plantation, for which
Thomas Murdock, calling himself Mate, raid •one dollar :a
head. At the Mole they. were kindly treated—the Mate put
up at the TaVern, and the rest in the Gaol. They st9pped
there six days ; after which, five came to the town of Point
Pare,' escorted by an unarmed man. They arrived about
five o'clock P. as. at the Point, and the Pitlice and King's
Attorney, assisted them to get lodgings for that night. Next
day they were interrogated by the Judge and Interpreter, in
presence of te King's Attorney; but they persisted in the
‘el
same stor . A few days after, three others were brought
frc4n-lite' ole, and interrogated in the same manner, one
of whomturned State's evidence, and declared, apparently,
the truth. Next day, a French lad, 15 years old, who had
told the first story, and did not know the truth had been re-
vealed, sent word to the King's Attorney that he had a wish
to speak to him. He was brought before the Court, and the
lad told the real story also. Be, with two others, came from
the Mole in three different vessels, at the same time, and di-
rected to the King's Attorney. They. had with them all their
baggage, and a good many dollars in their bap.
" A.. Bible was found in their baggage, which the Mate said
was given him in Nivi, Vorkt by a fellow lodger, about eleven
'months ago. There was printed, as a seal, in an oval form,
the following words :_' Presented by the . Merchants' See-
men Auxiliary Society of the Bible, to the ship rate, of
' London .' dated, ' Gravesend, May 11, 1818 ;, . and in-
side ,of the binding, was written .in large letters, • ' Ship.
Kate.' , . .

". NOIV, the Judge availed himself of this circumstance to
interrogate Thomas Murdock, and the rest, e second time. His
Honour tells the sworn Interpreter to say to Murdock and the
others, as they are called in separately—' There is the Bible
belonging to tile ship Kate,_ of London, Captain George Purdy,
and upon that very same Bible you swear to tell the truth, and
nothing but the truth.' Murdock is very much ernbarlassed;
says in broken words that he is not a.ccuatOmed to swear on the
Bible, and resists some time when the Judge observes to him

' that he is going, to mention his refusal in the interrogatory;
that yesterday he took an oath without difficulty, to tell ' his
story,' and that in the New York Custom-house, he would take
several oaths, as customary. The Judge added, ' thiit, if he
would not answer to the questions he should put to him, he
' Would pronounce him guilty immediately, for to refuse answer-
ing
.the questions of tne Court was declaring himself guilty.
Murdock then kissed the Bible, and, since I have takcii an oath
said he, on the Bible, I will speak the truth ; and he told the
real story, which is in substance :—That ' they belonged to the
ship bats, of London, ('apt.. George Purdy, which .ship had
been Chartered in August last, at Halifax, by • the house of Ilel_
cher Binney, and Co. fur a voyage to Berbice, and back._ to
Halifax.: the ship took a cargo of fish, beef, and some lumber,
consigned to the house of Robert-Rite, of Berbice : ' they reach-
ed Berbiee, where the cargo was sold for cash—the proceeds
were put on board in two boxes, iron-hooped, marked Nat. 1
and 2, containing 5,80 dollars. The ship -sailed for Halifax
in 'ballast ; the mate had been discharged at Berbice, after hav-
ing had some quarrel with the Captain. Six weeks after sail-
ing., finding constantly heavy winds, and in want of provisions,
the water .nearly consumed, the crew asked the Captain That
he intaided to do—the Captain told'. theta he had still some
coll'oe, which he would give them for ' their support, and that
he would try to get to Bermucla but after 2=l- hours, the winds
against them, they tried for Now York, but without success.
. Nex morning, at ii o'clock, the Stir January, three of the crew
went and seized the Captain, as he leas walking on the deck,
and tied him ; then they said that he- and those that lived in,
.
the cabin, must either jump overboard, or go
.in the joli'y-boat
alongside. They then - embarked ' the t'aptain, who wished,
and asked to go in the cabin for his cloak and boots, but he-
was not allowed ; he earnestly, requested a contpass ; his lady
also went on her knees, and begged for a compass, but-this was
refused also. His lady, with their two children, one a boy two
years.old,_ the other a: girl. four years old; Mr. Robert Mere-.
dith, a passenger; .and a mulatto boy, named IVilliani,' steward
in the cabin, were forced' into the boat, with twenty pounds of
bread, twa trunks belonging.. to the Captain, and Mr. Alere-
dith's trunk, and two oars, and .s.2lii achifi.- The crew were. ig-
norant of their latitude at that time: •
iiii
" After ten days' sailing for t - West Indies, Deseada is
the first lan,! 'they discovered, i, two of the crew went be-
low and scuttled the .ship—they ' ad ri;geel'the'long-boat as .a
sloop, put ine their baggage and money, which had been equally-
divided among ' them, excepting the
.two lads, •who had one
share fiat them both—they landed,- as stated above, near dip
Mole, On Wednesdiy, thce24thiJanitarY. - •• '' '•
." All have confessed their crime.. About 1400 dollars have
been-found, and lodged at the Register's.ols,..e. . Murdoek says
he buried in the yard of the taveril'at ' the Mole, .lit) dollars,
but the money cannot be,found. ;!Murdock 'haS an American
protection, saying he. was born in Now,.Brinisveick, State of
New Jersey, ' and has 'papeis frdm, the 'Grand and Private
Lodges of New •York. Tile toOk is a ntgro,.6f.' Philadelphia,
from -whence he went in. a schooner to Halifax; his name 0,
Philip F ' iSher - has an impediment in . his speech: T a There is
French Lad, a London bey,. one. Welchnian 5 an Irishman, and
two Seotehmen. It is supposed they willbe:satit to 8art...J.0;4
for trial."—(From an American Paper.). •