Star.
London, England, 1831-08-23 00:00:00

ROTHSAY STEAMER.

shout two miles from the place where the resat] sunk.
They were brought to shore alire.but the unfortunate
man had received so much injury from exhaustion
and other causes, that he expi-ed on being con-
veyed along shore. His wife had the melancholy
task of returning to Liverpool with the dead body
of her husband in the Uewellyn steamer, on Friday.
A little child was most miraculously saved on
one of the paddle wheels. The survivors, almost
all, sink the recollectian of their own sorrow in
the untimely fate of a gentleman, his wife, and five
beautiful children. The whole perished, including
the servant who attended them. The children are
described as having clung to the arms, legs, and
other parts of their father, who, being as it were
in imprisonment, was prevented, if be bad
had the power, from rendering them the smallest
assistance. It is said that the gentleman, seeing
his approaching fate, clasped his unfortunate fa.
mily in his arms, and was praying fervently to hea-
ven when the waters closed in upon him, and he,
with his little innocents, was sent into the pres=ence
of Him who knoweth all hearts. A fine child, it
is supposed, trot into a box for safety, for one
WAS thrown ashore, which, upon being opened,
was found to contain the body.
As to the causes which led to the melancholy
catastrophe, a friend (Captain Galt, of the
Eclipse,) informs me, that he has made every
inquiry, and the result is, that the Rothsay Castle
got round the buoy on the north end of the Dutch-
man'. Bank, and had proceeded up the river as far
as the tower on Puffin Island ; when, all at once, the
steam got so low, that the engine would not keep
the vessel in its proper course. Capt. Galt, who is an
exceedingly good sailor, says that Captain Atkin-
son was disobeyed by the man at the helm. Capt.
Atkinson ordered him to put the helm a starboard.
The man refused to do this, and per,isted in putting
into port. The mate perceiving this, ran aft and
took the helm from the man, and put to starboard
again. In the meantime the Captain and some of
the passengers got the jib up. Capt. Galt says, no
doe bt theCaptaaa did this intending to wear her round,
and bring her head to the northward ; but, in his
opinion, it could make no difference which way her
head was turned, as she was on a leo shore, and
there wee no steam to work her off. He then asks,
why there was no steam ? The reply to this is a
melancholy one. Ilse fireman says a deal of
water had been finding its way into thu vessel all
day, and some time before she got into the river tho
bilge rumps were choked. In conseqaence of this
the water in the hold overflowed the coals, so that
in renewing the fires a deal of water went with the
ccals, and slackened the fire, which made it impos-
sible to keep the steam up. Captain Galt thinks
that great blame is attributable to the firemen then
in charge in not giving notice that such was the case;
for it is heart-breaking to reflect that where the ves-
sel then was she conk have been held by anchor in
safety. Capt. Galt acquits in his own mind, Capt.
I Atkinson or his pilot from any blame, as it appears
to him that the vessel came fairly into the Chan-
nel, and had the steam been kept up, she would
have got to her t lace of destination in perfect
safety. Captain Galt took the Eclipse steamer to
Puffin Island on Thursday and Friday mornings,
in order to renclet all the assistance that laid in
his power. He awards the greatest praise to the
Beaumaris boatmen for their prompt and unflinch-
ing exertions in saving the lives of 18 persons.—
Mr. Williamson, a gentleman of fottune, who
owns the Campadore yacht, had the gratification
of string the lives of two fellow-creatures.
They were holding on to pieces of the wreck,
and drifting about in the Bay, and could not have
survived many minutes longer. One of these was
a gentleman well known in Lancashire—a Mr.
Whittaker, of Bury, an ironmonger.
At Beaumaris, Conway, Bangor, and Carnarvon
every thing wears an aspect of funeral gloom. The
yachts and vessels in the bay and in the river have
their flags half mast high. The Beaumaris Re-
pute is postponed this year in consrquence of the
lamentable event. At Carnarvon one poor woman
is in n state of distraction from the effects of grief,
her only son being amongst those who perished on
the Ile() tunate occasion.

Thirty-eight bodies were found along the coast
between Conway and Aber.

LIST OF THE BODIES FOUND, AND DESCRIP-

TIOTI OF THF.III DRESI.

No. I. Male,tlr, vied with brown frock coat, black trousers,
and black waistcoat, Alves watch, James M.linen: maker,
Dublin, aged about 60, black liar :aid round face.
2. Nlale, dressed in black co tt, waistcoat, and trousers,
gray wor,ted stockings, 41Ors, top coat, white cravut,
limn shirt, gray hair, long fur, and ag• d about 60.
3. F:male. black stilt gown, ditto rocking', and straw
bonnet, since known to be Mrs. Wilson, dlauche•ter.
4. Female (young) fancy muslin gown", rid coral neck.
lace, with sitv.r clap, and the name of .ti Lueas.and white
cotton Ain-kings.
3 Female, dark print own, black silk bonnet, wonted
stockings, traitor shoes, gold sing, gray hair, round face,
aged CU.
6. Male. dark brown coat and wo'stcoat, drab trousers,
b:own stockings, linen snirt, and gilt watch, maker Smith
end Co. Dublin. _

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7. ..!le, black coat, black fancy wait•tcoat and breecheo,
black gnitem. =NI with S. M. Carthy, Sharmon.malL
8. Male, hfack !umring mat, wai.towit, light drab
trownters, white ak.cktng., linen Aare. Mitt. W. T. gray
hair, long lace, watchmaker, R. llourtiley, Liverrool, agtd
atty.

J A male inratit, nankeen frock, black petticoat, printed
cotton a;.ron, black tap, ago d about three years.
Id A boy, aged about s. •. n years, grey worsted s'ock-
Mg% bite drelt. light 'lair, and round face.
11. Female, black silk gown, white con, n stoi kings, lea-
th:r shoes, white straw boonet, initials on the stoat: gC.
L. wedding ring, dark hair, round face, ag.d 45.
Female, black silk gown, straw homier, black ►triped
stockings, since known, lira. Hantittan, 51 mama.
13. Steward, Jones, and his wife.
14. Female, dark prim gown, black wor•tcd stockings,
one kit het shoe, wedding ling, one whit: glove, age.. 21).
15. Al al.?, black coat, buff waistcoat, black trowers, white
cotton stockings, leathtr shoes, cuiourrd neckhatitiketehitf.
d .rk brown round face, liver known to be of the fine vt
Boyle and Ca. Chester
IQ 51r. Payne, Manchester.