The Sun.
London, England, 1811-11-22 00:00:00

LOSS of tlie, PRINCE of TALES PACKET.

The,packet of /Va/es,'Captain ProrSior,witht
mails and . pasCengels front the Ilthamas and Great
Britain, left. Port, Royal on the Bth July, under con-
voy of his Majesty's schooner:Barbara, Lieut. Dou-
glas. In the night of t6th same mouth, she lost
sight of: her convoy; and about half.after ones a. in.
cu Friday following (the toth), having been dri-
ven .fietu her course by a strong current, while going
at the rate of five &Ind six miles per hour, she unfor-
tunately got on 4altpond Reef,, on the south-west
stde of Heneogua, one of the Bahama. Isles. The
wind abating nothing of. its violence, she dtd not
stop there, but passed over two other reefs ; and,
after beating against the rocks' for about half an
hour, disengaged herself, :and once more floated':
meanwhile the sails were taken in, and the anchor

let nut. •
There being now little wind, and the night some-
what dark, it was deemed prudent; under ail the cir-
cumstances, to await the returrimt day-light. The
spectacle, which resettled itself bet wren the hours
of 4 end, b. was truly awful and sublime. The moon,
which. was seen at intervals, through hazy clouda, .
afforded t.ufficien, light.. to discover .rock? oti
.every
side; and that all attempts 'to extricate the vessel
from tins dangerous situation were rendered abortive.
On., board an awful silence preVailed, every one
dreading lest the next moment should sacrifice us to i
dle fury of the element.
The. Captain, coot and colle6ted, assembled the
crew, and exhorted them to persevere in their duty
and endeavours, and we were saie. Signal guns, ot
distress were fired;, and to complete this awful
4cene, the pumps were at work, throwing out more
than two feet water per how from an increasing
leak. .The long' and anxiously wished for day at
length dawned, but to afford no chance of escape,
at least for the packet..
There being no alternative, measures were
'in-
stantaneously planned, and as speedily adopted, for
the conveyance of every thing practicable to the
shore and this,.although uncertain whether an in-
habitant was to be found of island. Amidst the
gloom . that hung over us, a sail& aloft descried ;
house and-a Sag-staff at some distance.
boat was lowered 'down, and the mails and
passengers,conveyed in it to the shore. The, specie
next occupied the attention of all on board, almost
all of which if not all, was saved; not so the pas-
sengers luggage, and very little of the provisions,
of, which there was saved not as much as would
serve for a week's subsistence, Providentially not
St life. was lost. The leak in6reased ; and, before
the day closed, notwithstanding every exertion wa'
made, the water rose to seven feet in the hold.
It.was considered no longer safe to approach her.
' Perceiving her, however, the next morning, with
the stern fixed upon a rock, and bilged, a last effort
was made with the boats IQ bring away what re.
stained, :but in vain, no more could be dune.
_Tents
were formed of the fde „sails that werepreserved on
the shore as a tetnporary shelter. The only person
resident on the island had it little in his power robe
of service to us : his exertions were therefore feeble,,
and of little or no avail.
Finding- that we were on a side of the island,
where there appealed nothing bet ,reefs and rocks;
and where no vesSels ever approached but such
met with a similar 'fate, atr.l that vessels Passed
on the west side only, which was accessible, we
removed thither to a position (the house and .fl ig-
statfruentoned), where we were likely to be seen,
and where we shouldhave to etnbatk.
The exertions of the officers and crew
,of the
pe'ekewassisted by the passengers, were very great
le trensporting the specie in hots about six miles to
the place of :embarkation.
We.were fortueate enough, soon after hoistieg
the signal of disu's'e, to be pet ceived by the, schooner
Paragon, Knowles .of. Long Island,. then passing,
which anchored off the spot where we then welts;
and in the course of the day the Spani4hlchooner
La Perla, Pedro Blanco Casariego, inaster,troit
Cmlliktgena hound tor Cadiz, put in fur a supply. of
, •
Tilefie IWO attorded accomniedat ion fir
,t he
whole : Captain ,Prottor, site surgton, eass,mgers,
together with the toads and specie, and some Ow of
the crew, ernbteked, un bold acid the
'rest in die Paragon, and set,. sail on the, ;lad for
Cioeked Island, where. we arrived, the l'orrner
about five, o'clock P.M.. on the 24th, the latter this
day, the 'Atli, ,

The Carlisle Journal says,—" A fill), with fea.
ther,s growing front its back, was lately caughl near
Mar) putt, Its now in Mr. M. Broughatn's Museum
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