Star.
London, England, 1823-03-29 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Captain SAMUEL STARSIIOTT is appointed to the Preventive
Service at Sheerness, in the room of Captain Km:, who is to
superintend the Packet Service at Falmouth ; Mr.T. G. Aerie-
TON robe Master of the Mares ; Mr.ll. llonnen to be Master
of the Aaaow ; Mr. T. Wirintesaal, Second Master of the
BRITANNIA.
Captain Remus is appointed to command the Hussaa frigate,
at Chatham.
FALMOUTH, MARCO V.—Wind S.F.—Arrived his Majesty's
ship CALLIOPC, from Portsmouth. Sailed the Osborne packet
for the Leeward Islands.
• PLYMOUTH, MARCH 27.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Morning
Star, CURDY, in twenty days, from SG Islichaers, oil Ushatit ;
picked up a pipe of palm oil, many more were seen floating about.
Sailed the Rolla, for Miramichi; and Barbadoes, Lae. for Pictou.
The Fitoete sloop of war is ordered for commission at this port.
The Turns frigate was commissioned on Monday by Captain
Jogs Ptottnioae, C. U.
PORINA1.4:111, MA RCII •28.—Wind Easterly.—Arrived, his
Majesty's ship Tutecta, front the Downs. Sailed, the Nile,
Doss, for licrbice.
Deal., MA *CU 28.—Wind N. F..—Came dawn from the
River,the Robert Edwards, S4TRIIIIIIN, for Cuba; and Etiphe-
mia, Nome; for Montserrat ; and remain its the Downs. with
the Duke of Yerk, CANTRELL, from India; John, TAYLOR,
from Pictou; and VeAal, Rosearsow, front Grand Canary.
larterom, INl.teen .2.7.—The Eliza, lin.Lysv, from this place
to Sr.Thornas's, was wredked en the Horseshoe-reef, at Antigua,
on the Bth ult. the cargo will be got on shore, most part damaged,
but the vessel will nut be got off.
1 LOSS OF THE ALERT PACKET-BOAT.
M tt ulle PARTICULARS.
The followiug account of this most melancholy event is from
a Gentleman, who arrived in town yesterday in the Holyhead
Mail.—lfe left Dublin on Wednesday morning, and sailed with
Capt. Smartt, in his steam vessel, from Howth, at about eight
o'clock, and reached the pier at Holyhead at about three in the
lafternoon. Onlanding, he learned that a vessel had foUndered
!about ten miles from the Head, but no vestige of the wreck was
:visible. Boats were sent out in all directions; when, at about
*five o'clock, be was sent for to Spencer's Hotel, to request he
ould go down to the beach to see some bodies, to see if he
wild recognise the remains of any of the unfortunate sufferers
hos bodies had been picked up. The bodies of about twenty-
int persons, principally fernalet, were landed from the several
oat:, and were stretched in different parts of a held near the
•ater-side.
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to most awful and melancholy spectacle here presented it-
to the view. Mothers with their infants at their breasts,
Hafted the last dying efforts to cling to life ; but. alas, they
peed nothing but their innocent infant, who, with its frantic
:her, so suddenly and so soon was immersed ha a watery
re. Children of the ages of two, three, and four years were
I found near females of between twenty and thirty years of
presumed to be their mothers.
l'he countenances of the few men whom he saw, exhibited a
ng contrast to the placidity which pervaded those of the faces
,or infants, who, of course, were unconscious of the anticipa-
, deaths which the adults momentarily expected.
The only body which had the appearance of a Gentleman,
which had been picked up previous to the departure of the
ail o ach from Holyhead, was that of a Major )(sus, at least
the papers which were found in his pockets led the Custom-
loose Officers to conclude was the Gentleman's name; but al-
tough our informant was acquainted with a Major KZLLY,
rho had been on the Staff of General Eczema, he could not
the upon himself to identify the corpse of the figure he saw,
rhidt certainly, In point of personal appearance, bore a strong
eternblance to that Gentleman. Colonel —, a GentlAnan.
tit° knew him well, and who came over in the same packet with
ur intormant, expressed his opinion very strongLy as to the
kntity of Malor &Lev ; but the fact is, the countenance was
o completely distorted, that it was impossible to trace the re-
rinblance of the Femmes.
There eau be no doubt that the body picked op was that of a
:entleman, for that put of the dress which he had on (being all
wt his hat, boots, and coat), ascertained that point. Upwards
it 2001. was found it• his pockets, which is safe, it is believed,
n the bands of the Custom-House Officers, together with the
htters and documents that were found on his person. Our in-
brume, immediately after viewing as muck of the appalling spec-
kle jut described as he could bear to look upon, endeavoured
it hod nut some of the survivors, who it appears were only *43
lat of 160!
I le saw onc,who described himself to be the only cabin passenger
Aho had been saved. He had scarcely recovered from the effects
si having been in the water nearly two hours, and his answers
bi the few questions put did not give such full information as
pal be desired.
He staled his name to be Nl' )(risme ; that he had lately 'ar-
'jived from someport of Scotland, and had only been a few days
bailie. lie Appeared to he cuiviected with some mercantile
ve.and it is believed had been accustomed to a seafaring life.
le •altl that he had been in his birth at about ten o'clock on the
ing of Wednesday, when, it being a dead calm, with a
roil current tide sowing, the vessel drifted on a rock called 'lie
°L", Hock, neat the Skerries, about ten miles front Holyhead:
I to ?-+ be could learn, the moment the vessel struck the Cap-
in ordered out the boat to endeavour to tow her off. A soffi-
t camber of the crew, with, it is believed, a few passengers
• h" got into the boat, endeavoured to tow her out to sea, and
I hods were applied to tac pump. Although at so early an
'SI,U ten &dock no signals of distress were observed, at least
"tkisiataffortied. The strata-packet which left Holyhead
fight o'clock in the riiorni4g, notes-innately for the unhappy
truth must have passed her by upwards of an hour before
r accident occurreu ; and, Certainly, no kind of Assistance was
°Tdeiluntil it was too late. About an hour after the vessel
rock, the stalk. The death-dealing confusion which ensued,
0,4 be imagined by those who witnessed the spectacle,
hick out informant, an eye-witness of the tragic scene, has at-
mpttd to delineate •
The Captain, it seems, reached the boat, which was, however,
• • full tu take him in, but he clung to the side and reached the
I 44411, land. The cabin passenger, of whom every inquiry was
Silt' could only answer fur himself, that he tad been nearly
: Lours in the water, having thing to a crate, which our la-
, rant °aye It is believed that three other persons endeavoured
are
themselves in the same way, but the crate could scuctity
117" One, and that one was saved.
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mail coach horn having summoned the passengers away,
eY °IQ team no further particulars until they reached Bangor
~,eery, ohm the boatmen informed them that the Captain
• l'hers
way
had come round bfland, and just crossed the ferry,
Ito Liverpool; he had given little or no information
the kook.
°I tilt lafferers, the men appeared, from their dress, to be of
lower
ett.rd
.aesTnhin.
d eefemales and children were all decently
)I•1. °nab') clad. The former are supposed to be the wives

"%GEORGE BA ILLIZ tiAIbiILTON is appointed Pri-
,te JecIetary to Lord Matirtr,i,a, in the rooms of
W. Hay;