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the sioyageinti been piesperous, ina now
within so short a distance from their destination, every
heart was full of happiness—dancing, pleasant stories
and conversation were wearing away the night, when
the awful mandate went forth, and fifty human beings.
in the very midst of innocent gaiety, and fond antici-
pation, were in an instant hurried, unwarned and mi-
-1 prepared, into the presence of the ALMIGHTY.
We have said that description of this scene, by us,
was impossible ; but our immortal bard has furnished
us with one, which we hope our readers will not consi-
der improperly introduced or misapplied.
Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell,
Then sbriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave;
Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell,
As eager to anticipate their grave ;
And the sea yawn'd around her like a bell,
And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave,
Like one who grapples with his enemy,
And strives to strangle him before he die !
And first one universal shriek there =slid,
Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash
Of echoing thunder; and then all was bush'd,
Save the wild shriek, and the remorseless dub
Of billows ; but at intervals there gushed,
Accompanied with a convulsive splash,
A solitary shriek, the bobbling cry
Of some strong swimmer in his agony !
With regard to the cause of this dreadful affair—
though, beyond all doubt, the principal blame lies with
the Master of the Cornet, he not only having no light
out, but his jib sail set—still the feeling is universal in
Greenock, that the Master of the Ayr is in the highest
degree culpable, in deserting, as he did, the scene
where he had made such havoc. It is not true, as
asserted in the authorised statement published in a
Glasgow Paper of Stturday, that the Ayr did not
leave the spot till all traces of the Carnet and her
all.fated company were lost. The Ayr fled from
the spot, while yet the shrieks of the drowning
beings were chaining in the ears of her crew._
She fled and all but lost the only brave and hu-
mane individuals she had on board, the sailors of the
Harmony, who made an attempt to get out the Ayr's
boat to the rescue, but which was pulled under water
by her precipitate flight, and these generous seamen
were only able to s 'ye themselves with difficulty. She
fled—while one of the crew of the Comet was swim-
ming to her, and whose cries for succour did teach
her in her flight—but in vain. The futile pre-
tence that she was in a sinking state, is fully disproved
by her having sailed in safety to Greenock—a distance
of about three miles—while the master must have known,
that, had she been in that state, his greater chance of
safety was, after rendering the assistance he was bound
to render to the sufferers perishing under his eye, to run
his vessel on shore, from which lie was not 300 yards
distant, and which he could have done in comparative
safety, and almost without damage. We can make al-
lowances for the agitation and confusion such a scene
would occasion ; but we can find not a shadow of ex-
cuse for the selfish and dastardly conduct of the Master
of the Ayr. In the judicial investigation that is pro-
ceeding, if he is not so deeply to blame as we appre-
hend, he will have a fair opportunity of exculpating
himself, though we confess, in the face of the facts we
have stated, we do not see how this can be done.
We intended to have made some remarks on the al-
most fiendish levity with which a Glasgow Journal* has
alluded to a Noble Lord and a highly respectable
Memberof Parliament, who were reported to have been
on board the Comet ; but the general feeling of loath-
ing and disgust which these allusions have created
wherever they have been seen, are sufficient, without
our assistance, to mark them with public scorn and
Indignation.

FROM 71r= CALM:IONIAN MUMMY Or silvans'..
The heart-rending accident of the loss of the Comet steam-packs
with its numerous passengers, has excited the deepest agitation in
this place. Those who have friends in the west country, or at
Inverness, are in the greatest distress, being quite uncertain as to
their fate. On Sunday night the Post Office was beset by an an-
lions crowd, eagerly inquiring if there was any farther intelligence
as to the sufferers? We have endeavoured to collect from indivi-
duals connected with Glasgow and Greenock such farther in-
formation as may have arrived. Lord Mc Donald and family were
to have embarked in the Comet, but were fortunately prevented.
One letter received here states, char the Lady mentioned in the
Glasgow Paper, with seven children, is Mrs. M'Leod, of KintaiL
The same letter also mentions a Mr. Miller, son of Mr. Miller, fish-
curer, in Leith, as one of the sufferers. Mrs. Captain Sutherland,
daughter of H. R. Duff,Esq. of Muirtovrn. near Inverness, had been
five weeks married, and not Ave days, as stated in some accounts.
Captain WINTSS ERSICINZ SUTHERLAND, of the 33d
Foot, who was unhappily lost, with his bride, in the
Comet steam packet, off Gourock, en the west coast of
Scotland, was the third son of Captain SOTHSILLAND,
Sciberscross, in North Britain, and only remaining bro-
ther of Lieutenant-Colonel SUTHERLAND, of the sth
Foot ; and a finer young man' whether in personal ap-
pearance or sweetness of disposition, was seldom to be
found in any rank or station in life; he was in his 28th
year. On the 31st of last August he had married,
after a long and singular mutual attachment, Miss
Doer, the eldest daughter of Mr. Dorn, of Muirtowa,
and niece of Mr. Fonaas, of Culloden, an elegantly ac-
complished and amiable young Lady, in her 23d year.
He was onhis way to join the Depot of his Regiment at
Glascow. The affliction of the families of this young
couple, on so melancholy a catastrophe, will be more
easily conceived than described; but to those who
know and can appreciate the ardent attachment that
bound them to each other, it will be some consolation,
under the mysterious dispensations of PROVLEIZNCI4
that they met their destiny together. His Royal
Highness the CoMJANDeR•IIKIIIEU had been pleased
to promote this young man to a company, in October,
1824, in compliment to his elder brother's services on
the west coast of Africa. On the 10th of December
last, he embarked from Barbadoes (where he was sta-
tioned with the 93d) on leave of absence for Europe, in
the Boroding transport, which vessel, soon after leav-
nig Antigua, encountered a dreadful gale, during
which she struck on a sunken rock, where she
fixed for the whole of that night, all on board having
long given up every hope of saving their lives; but at
day-light, as if by miracle, she floated off the rock, and
drifted into Bermuda harbour, whence he wrote to the

afflicted writer of this notice, that 14 to whatever period
his life might extend, he would probably never be so
perfectly reconciled to die as he had been the previous
night."
• It is due to the respectable Journals published in Glasgow, to
state that the.paper hers alluded to, is the Glasgow Few Prerl—
Ea. STAB. •

NEW FLEET Martstar.—The RECORDER, COMMON
SERJEANT, and City Officers, held a Court of Com-
pensation, at Guildhall, yesterday, for the adjustment
of the claims made by the owners of*houses that must
come down for the erection of the new market, in lieu
'of the present Fleet market,