The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-27 00:00:00

that might pass tis, 'while die iOreck wa3 above
water, and her IIIBIIIIIIASt standing, to which pro-
posal all readily agreed ; we then cut away the
sinitll boot, it being impossible to save her, and
manned oar .Oars ; at six, p. at. we reached her
and made fast to her, and had a tolerable mo-
derate nigt►t ; at eight, a. m. 12th, we hoiirded
the wreck again, and grappled up a small bag of
peas, a new line, a smite of twine, and several
small articles of light clothing, and a rope and a
new top-mast studding sail, and a barrel of
tongues and sounds which we lashed to the
hawse-piece, not daring to take them into the
boat, lest we should sink her, but we afterwards
lost them. Dec.l2, the wind sprung up at S.W.,bICW
fresh and a heavy sea, going so that we were in
danger of swamping our boat, even under the lee
of the wreck ; at sun-set we saw a brig to lee-
ward, standing to the S.S.E, but blowing so hard,
and the sea so high, we Must not quit the wreck
in pursuit of her ; at 12 midnight, came on hard
squalls from the N.W. attended with rain, thun-
der, Anti lightning ; in consequence of the change
oY wind, it was with the utmost difficulty we were
able to keep our boat from being sunk by the jib-
boom and bowsprit, front the extreme darkness of
the night, in which it was impossible to see the
wreck only by the aid of the lightning ; we were
Many times within a foot of being instantly sunk
by them ; the wind continuing to blow heavy we
were unable to board the wreck at all until Sun-
day 14th, when we boarded her several times by
the main rigging, and went to the main-mast head
to look out for a sail, but did not discover any
thing. On Tuesday 16th, ..ve boarded her again,
and with much difficulty we succeeded in getting a
il
topmast studding sail-boom, which we had lashed
across the stern, and lashed it up at the main•mast
head, upon which we hoisted a part of a studding-
sail for a signal ; we daily saw the wreck WAS

s6tling. 17th, commenced with strong gates and
heavy sea, so that with great difficulty we kept
our boat from filling at seven, p. in. the wreck
went down head first, when all our hopes of safety
seemed to perish with her, we expected every mo-
ment to go to the bottom, and sink into an awful

eternity, never More to have been heard of in this
World ; we then put out a rope with a bucket to
It tb serve as a drag, the only thing we had,
Which with the help of our oars and God's good-
ness; we survived the night; the next morning
with it top studding-sail booth, and an oar and a
coil of new tope lashed to them and a bucket,
we made a drag, which helped to break off the
sea, and !seep ber head to win►) and sea; with this
drag, we lay until-Sunday 28th December, except-
ing a fevi, hours at different times we had tried to
run to the-southward and. westward, it being' our
wish to get out of the Gulph, and into warmer
weather; at one of these titnei, while sailing
we caught another dolphin; which we found
excellent food in our distressed situation. --

On Sunday morning the 28th, at day• light, the
weather being clear and moderate, to our great
joy we descried a sail to the N.W. standing to the
eastward about 6 miles di Lance from us; we bawled
in our drag and manned our trarsiand made all the
exertions in our power to get to bet. Forttinately
tlke it'd proved baffling and light ; when ite were
within a tulle of her, she hoisted English colours
it is impossible to describtoni joys and feelings on.
this occasion, as we knew by the signal they.bad
seen us. About 10 o'clock we got alongside of
ber, and found it to be the brig Cam'rian, of
Liverpool, .21 days from Berbice, bound to Lon-
don, commanded by W. atson Sheriff, Esq. ; we
were hospitably and kindly received on board by
Captain Sheriff, and every assistance and cernfort
administered to us to refresh our bodiei and
soothe and comfort our minds, which a friendly,
kind, and humane heart could devise. We leer
ourselves under .obligations to Captain Sheriff'
which we feel sensible we can never repay ; but
we pray that God, who wade him the means of ac-
ccimplisiting his designs of mercy towards us, will
reward him, and who has said in his holy word,
'Blesied are the merciful, for they shall obtain

nmei•cy." - On board of the Cambrian was the Rev.
John IVray,'Missionary at •13erbice, going . pas-
senger to England, who), after we had received
suitable refreshment for our feeble bodies, read to
us the 107th 'Psalm, and made :likable remarks

from it, in. particular front the 23d and the eight
following verses, and then offered up appropriate
praYers and thanksgivings an our behalf, and has
rendered us every spiritual and temporal comfort
and consolation in Iris power, for which we sin-
cerely hope his Divine Master will reward and
bless him, and who, in the days of his flesh, said
to the Wind and sea, be calm, and they obeyed
bin), and who now, by'the same almighty power,
caused a calm, the first the Cambrian had had
since she left port, or she would have passed us in
the night, duping which, and the day before, they
bad light baffling winds. But, through the
goodness and mercy of our God, after the most
severe.sufferings which it is possible for human
nature to endure, front hunger and thirst, wet
and cold, and anxiety of mind and fatigue of
body, during more than nineteen days, in the
middle of .the WcsternOcean, in the most incle-

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Anew, season of the year, in a bad constructed
b0at,..16 feet in length, 6 feet wide, and '2 feet 3
deep, we were miraculously delivered, for which
we desire to thank and praise God, our Saviour
and deliverer. The exertions we had made this
Morning, and our anxious fear's and hopes lest
wt should not succeed in getting to the brig, had
so exhausted the little remaining strength we had
left, that not a man was able to stand after we
got on board the Cambrian; myself and the
greater part of the others were obliged to be
hauled on, board by a rope ; the Nate seemed to
be the strongest of any of us, and had exerted
him Self while in the hunt the most of any one,
yet he, was so far exhausted that be could not
stand for several hours after we got on bOard ;
all our hands and feet were very much swollen
from constant wet and cold, and my own in far
titular so much so, that 1 had not been able for
nine days previous to our being taken up to use
them at all, not even so !midi as to feed myself
with the small allowance we had; and if it had
been the means of saving my own life, and that
of all my fellow-sufferers, 1 could not have shut
or opened them ; in fact, I momently expected
they would burst, which eventually proved to be
the case with my right hand. To describe our
sufferings in all respects is more than I can do;