Star.
London, England, 1825-10-25 00:00:00

WHALE FISHERY.

Tuesday, the Princess Charlotte, Captain Anausos, arrived at
Dundee from Davis' Straits, with ten fhb, which, it is said, will
produce about 112 tuns of oil. the vessel left the ice 27th ult. at
which time the weather had become stormy. The Thomas,
Tnoats, arrived on Wednesday night, with six fish. The Captain
reports that be left the ice on the 2d instant, along with the Fairy,
which had only one fish. We are sorry to learn that fears are en-
tertained for the Active, of Peterhead, which ship was beset at the
time the Bon Accord came away, with little prospect of getting
out. Two of the other Peterhead vessels were to remain near her
for some time, in order to save the crew, in case it should be neces-
sary to abandon her.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, OCTOBER 24.
SHIPS ENTFRRD Inwaans—The Perseus and Cadmus, from
Quebec; I lebe, Unanimity, and Richard, from Dantzic ; Express,
front Gibraltar; Friends, from Ross; Neptunus, from Wismar;
Cecilia, from Christiana ; Thirza, from Hamburgh ; Jonge Jean,
from Worcum ; Rockwood, from Davis' Straits; Charles and Ellen,
from Boston.
ENTERED OUTWA Eas—The Rebecca, for Seville; Commerce, for
Calais; lirahles, for St. Vincent's; Jonge Joanna, for Antwerp;
Nesbitt, Wesibi ook, Demerara Packet, and Friends, for Jamaica.

This day a Meeting vas held at GREEN'S Hotel, to
consider of opening of a New Street to Lincoln's Inn Fields from
the Strand. Sir J. PAUL, Sir F. Oihisrmoory, Messrs. TWININGS,
and abort sixty Gentlemen were present, when a Committee was
formed to mature the plan, which is to be taken into further con.
sideration on the sth of November nest, at a Public Meeting, to be
held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern.
The Worcestershire Magistrates have decided that
an apprenticeship does not entitle to the freedom,
should the apprentice, in the course of it, change or
follow a different trade to that to which he was or:gi-
, 'rally bound.
At the Kingston Sessions, yesterday, David George
was indicted for riot. It appe +red that Mr. Odling, a
surgeon, in the Borough, had attended prisoner's wife
doting her acconchemcnt. Fio.n some casualty, George
accused Mr. Odl!ng of neglect and bad treatment of his
patient, and para.led before Mr. Odling's door with a
pole, inscribed, Whoever wants their wile destroyed
by child•bir,h, apply to Mr. Odling, &c." and this af-
t.:r he had obtained an eminent surgeon's opinion in
favour of Mr. Odling's treatment; but the Court hold-
ing that the prisoner ought to have been indicted for
libel instead of riot, he was acquitted.
At the linrsear,mger-lane Sessions, yesterday, Thos.
Welch and James Mitchell %Ace feloniously indicted for
,tealing a quantity or ontins from the grounds of Mr.
George Car ter, a mai kei gardener, of Battersea. This
teas a maiden c.ie under the new Garden Act, and the
Counsel argued for an acquittal, on the plea that gar-
den ground claiming the pro.ect on of the new Act
must be inclosed. The Court concurred, and acquitted
the prisoner-, on the ground that they had been wrongly
indicted for felony, Carver's Quad". being ur.inclmed.

PP""roir

COURT MAR rim, 0,1 CAPTAIN lIOPPNER.
SHEERNESS, OCTOBER t 4, 18:25.
A Court Martial WAS held this day, nn boat('
Majesty's ship Gloucester, for the trial of C
Iloppncr, who c, mmanded the Firy, in the Lite Arct:c
Expedition. .

The Court assembled soon after nine o'clock—Preii.
dent, Vice• Admiral S,r R. Mari sou, the Commander.
in-Chief at this port. It is usual to try all Officers sells
may happen to he in command of any of his Ni4jestr.i
ships when they are lost, from whatever cause, or under
whatsoever circumstances. Captain Henry P. Hopp.
ner was therefore put upon his trial, for the loss of the
Fory discovery ship.

A long and very interesting narrative of the suffer.,
ings of both ships was first read, by the intrepid and
distinguished navigator, Captain Parry, of the Ileda,
which occupied several hours—the fearful accounts nr
the numerous icebergs with which they were surroundel,
frequently jammed in between them, an I every no.
ment expecting to be crushed to pieces, and the great
exertions of the crews, under such trying circumvances,
called forth feelings of deep sympithy and admiration,

Capt. lloppner also read a very affecting narrative of the
Several witnesses -were called, who corroborated the 4.cir-
statement of Captain Parry. The principal witness was Licv:a.n:i
Joseph Sherer, of the Ilecia.
By the Couirr.--Could the accident of the Fury getting ix A„,
have been possibly avoided ?—1 should think not, b! .t I
board spy own ship the Ueda, which was also aground.
Was there anything, in your opinion, left undone by the Crt,i,
and crew of the Fury by which his Majesty's ship might have bcsu
saved?—l do not think that there was.
Were the Inmost exertions used ?—Yes.

Lieutenant Sherer further deposeJ, that the greater
part of the ship's keel was knocked off, and she hi
several holes low down in her bottom, by which sU
was exceedingly leaky, four pumps being consta
going ; the men worked from five in the morning to
eight at night to keep her free from water. The shuck;
the ship received after she struck, for several days, wear
so violent as to lead those on board to suppo,e that her
bottom was on the point of being rent off. The ship%
stores were landed with the view to lighten her fir t!:e
purpose of examination, but the Captain and (netts
lost most of their own luggage and clothes, &c. Tae
Fury was abandoned on the 26th of August, at which
time there was nine feet water in the hold. Tae
stayed as close to her as possible fir several days, hit
at length she was obliged to stand off to prevent beias
cloced in by the drifting ice.

Other witnesses corroborated the evidence of Lieut.
Sherer in every leading part.

Captain Parry was then examined by captain Ifoppner.
Is it your opinion, that the accident in the first instance could
have been, by any possibility, avoided ?—Certainly no:.
Were the exertions of myself, Officers and crew, to save her
equal to what you bad a right to expect ?—They were.

Captain Hoppner in conclusion said, that even alter
the saving of the ship was hopeless, it was inconciouhle
with how much ardour and indefatigabie
and at the same time with how much cheerfulness, the
Officers and men performed their duty.
The severity of the cold was such, during the err,•
antis of the people to save the ship, that it was in a for
instances difficult to make the men comprehend the
orders given, their intellect; seemed as it were frozen.
Captain Hoppner was most honourably acquitted of any blame
whatever, and the Court broke up at half-past three u•cioci.

LOSS OF THE COMET.

GLASGOW, SATURDAY, OCT. m

Early yesterday morning, between two an/. three
o'clock, the Comet steam boat was careeting proudly
on the waters from Fort William to Gla,g w, between
Greenock and the Cloch Light-haute. T e Ciptain was
engaged in some light conversation, relating stories to
amuse those who were listening to- him. Oa the deck
the warm-hearted Highland lads and lasses ssce
dancing, every sound on board was revelry, and no-
thing could be seen or heat d, but what was
to inspire a kindred feeling of joy. At once, in a nion,eia
when rounding the Kempock Point, a horrid crash I,v,i;
heard, a terrible collision had taken place. Many rushed
to the deck, but it was in vain—a minute or two elapsetl,
the sea burst in with one fell horrid swoop— a bubble
took place on the spot—the ConpA dis 41,peated, and left
net a wreck behind." The collision was instantaneous
and fatal. No human help could be given ; after a fee
minutes, the sea was foaming on, and vessels and ris•
sengers had sunk for ever. There was n ► vestitZ 41: a
living thing then seen on the face of the waters; a deehir
mist than usual appeared ; the steam made a light lei
but the ocean swallowed up the whole. Between so
and 90 persons, we understand, were on In,aid, and n;
these, only eleven, it is said, have b:en;Saied.
Among the sufferers, according to the statement of
Mr. Cohn Anderson, the cabin passenger, was C iptain
Sutherland, of the 33.1 Regiment, and his Lady, re-
cently married, the latter the daughter of H. It. Duff,
Esq. of Muirtown, near Inverness; Mr. Nl'Alistel.
tV.S. Edinburgh, with a relation of the same name,:
Mr. Graham, of Corpach ; Mr. Campbell. a merchant
the son of Mr. M•Braine; a Mrs. Wrigh4 widow, and
her servant, all four of Glasgow.
The body of Mr. Grierson, the steward of the Come,
has been washed on shore, with upwards of 70/. in
pocket, also two Ladies and two black servants.
Some of the passengers hadalmost miraculous escape,
One woman got ashore by clinging to two tables atter
she had lost her child. A man from Fort William lest
his senses by the fright, bus not his life. The CAP")
pilot, carpenter, a young girl, and Mr. Cam:ron, jor-
from Fort William, were among the saved.

Gamma, FRIDAY NIGHT, 11 OTI.OcE•
The greatest anxiety still prevails here, and ill the
neighbourhood, regarding the unhappy sufferers in Cie
Comet, and every face bears the aspect of woe. A
Mr. Hamilton, an English traveller now here, receive.'
letters a few days ago from the North, stating that two
Gentlemen would arrive in Glasgow this week by e
Comet. These two individuals are nearly related, I,'t
yhether they have perished or not, is not yet
tained. It is a fact, however, that four E (lea'
tlemen who were on board, weie lanJed at Itozlis-ii :3'
previous evening. We of the passengers, a fern'}',
escaped a watery grave in a very surprising nlaiinc-.
On being plunged into the Witte'', she sill k,:et
hold of her infant with her left atm, while with
rill t hand she graspei the handle of a large trJ

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• 1,! as record from bet danger by the Gourock
The child is since dead.
Tee Captain of the Comet is still living. It was with
t:te %most exertion that he esc sped from the vessel, in
c.,osequence of the passengers clinging to him. A
c passenger, who was saved, states, that Mr,.
side/land, in the agony of depair, caught hold of
Lau, :thi clung with a desperate tenacity to his clothes,
but :he •aging ocean conquered, and she perished. Her
bows!, Captain Suthesland, sent down s ith the other
n g ers. The engineer of the Comet also classed
;.inn him with force which be could not overcome:
L,Ol sese on the point of sinking when the vessel's
,as: bore in sight, to which they clung, and %vete
;,fed. A letter to Captain Su- herland, congratulating
nis his union with Miss Duff, was picked up this
Tile bodies of Mr. Graham, and Grierson,
,iewaid, have been taken to the Hart Hotel.

fRoNI THE GREENOCK ADVERTISER OF FRIDAY.

The Cornet steam-boat, on her passage from Inverness
r.-:Lis port, had reached the Point of Kempoch at nearly
..,.o'clock, when she WAS met by the steam-boat Ayr,
J, of Ayr, ra Inch was on her way to that port
ro Gs eer.or k. The two boats going with consider-
velocity, were vet y near each other before mutually
,•-erred. As soon as perceived, the person on the look.
..1; on bard the Comet cried to the pilot to put the
A starboard, which order the pilot of the Ayr
:rni!e;stood to be meant as instructions to him ; both
V.'S,' is sere in oomequence directed towards each other,
end before the u fortunate mistake could be remedied,
tiny came in contact with such violence, as to stave in
1;:e stir: hoard bow of the Comet, which vessel in a few
tritit;tes sent doss n, and the whole of the passengers,
mite tl.e exception of nine, and the master and pilot of
r!re vesiel, %%etc drowned I Two of the latter, a Lady
ard add, have since died.
the total number of passengers on board are es•i
ortal to have been between 60 and 70, but we are
arable to obtain any certain account. The most prompt
:red humane assistance was afforded to the few survi-
vors by Mr. Andrew Rankin and Mr. Glen, of Gourock,
and Nlr. Robert Mai•lankl, of this town, who are still
actively ergaged in securing the property, which, to-
gether with the bodies of the sufferers, is hourly coming
s`rote. We are unable as yet to furnish any account
•i the names of those drowned on this melancholy oc-
casion, but from a gold watch with the name " Archd.
•Grahan e," engraved on it, and several bills drawn in
tavoar of Archd. Grahame, Corpach, being found on
ine person of a young gentleman washed ashore, we
Lae little doubt of his being the person of' that name;
r.!•r) Mrs. Wright of Glasgow, whose body has lrke-
to.e been got. A Captain Sutherland and his Lady,
!tom Inverness, were on board, whose bodks are Jr t
1e: fouod.—There have also been washed ashore, b -
Ides the two above named, the bodies of four men, fou
:Torten, and two children, wl:ose names we have not
li:he:to been able to learn. Too much praise cannot
tr bestowed on the people of Gourock, generally, for
the readiness with which they gave their assistance and
the honesty which has been shewn in delivering up the
property picked up along the be sch, one instance of
•.r::ich deserves to be mentioned. A young girl, daugh-
ter of James Mains, of Gourock, found a 501. Batik of
Li4ind note, which was instantly, in the most praise-
uoithy manner, delivered to Mr. Rankin. Great
Ilite is attached to the Captain of the Ayr, for not
.;tempting to afford assistance; lie almost instantly,
rutLe catastrophe occurring, put about and made for
Givenock; had be en the contrary stopped to pick up
tho,e sho were able to struggle for a short time on the
smiler of the water, the chance. is, that many might
!rase men saved who have now met a watery grave,
a:.d lin vessel might have been run ashore at Gourock,
Lai he tonna her so leaky as to be unfit to proceed back
our port. Those saved were chiefly rescued by
srerries brlogging to Gourock, which instantly put
alien the alarm was given.
We could have wished that no cause bad existed to
ropect depredation of the property cast ashore, but
%cur the circumstances of a trunk being carried up to
an adjoining field by two men, who have since ab-
sconded, leaving the trunk open, which was found by a
yarn who brought it to Mr. Rankin, containing some
wearing apparel, it is strongly suspected that money
had beta abstracted.

Ti:,information of the accident was speedily made
kionn here by the arrival of the Ayr, and, both before
and since morning thinned, the most active assistance
..is been supplied from hence, for the purpose of re-
coveling the bodies, collecting the property cast ashore,
,:. 01 the latter a great quantity has been safely
'!,,ied in the cellars of Mr. Rankin's house. Toe
i.oney found is likewi,e in safe custody. C. Marshall,
=cl. Sheria Sabstitute of the Lower Ward, went down
rely this mocking, as likewise several Gentlemen in
the Conamssion of the Peace, to render every assistance.
Ilelis have been ordered to be prepared for the bodies,
s also the costum.iy appareling t f the dead, and the
teess bodies have been conveyed to Gourock Church,
_ .

' avian being claimed by their relatives. In shott,
'hatever sympathy, humanity, and the most liOnoure
ie mid judicious letlings could devise, has been re-
to, en all hands, to pay respect to the remains of
n se v. ho have so suddenly been called from this scene
vansitory esivence.
'higtro'cLocc,—ise have just learned that the Captain of the
t." 11,,t, corroborated by one of the other survivors, states it as his
▪ Iniou, that there were not more than sixty iiicliviChials on board,
"•Im 'he Went down. Four English Gentlemen had been landed
it"llisay last night. Theie were twenty-six cabin passengers. At
two &clock only twelve bodies bad yet been recovered.
Ile•liles those lost whose names have already been mentioned, are
the t.'ll"wing : Mr. M Allister, writer, Edinburgh; Mr. )'Allister,
• to he 3 relation of the above ; Capt. Campbell. Mr. Cameron,
Vt.rt William, saved.

ALARMIAG DIRE.

Soon after three o'clock this morning, a fire broke out in the
...wee part of the house of Mr. Alridge, cheesecnonger, of Stafford-
''rert' St. i'ule3's• The alarm soon aroused the inmates, and
hey escaped uninjured, with the exception of one of the shopmen,
_.lnn dept in the back attic, and who, in endeavouring to get across
,he root, his foot s!ipt, and he was precipitated above twenty feet,
ad alighting on the lead gutter of a lower building, he was
,und stretched ne;.rly lifeless. Ile was taken to the Hospital
4c,la injured, but it is ascertained that no bones are broken. The
n
r• contiourd to rage through the lower part of the building,
.: %tn.. gultdued iti less than half an hour, through the activity of
-e neighbours, Ike. It is supposed the fire originated in the escape
!,arivartity of gas from the main pipe in the cellar. Mrs. Alridge
n tiltl I front the effects of the fright, that serious apprehensions
i tr recovery are entertained.

ale
understand that duri g the late Northern Espe-
"'..:"oll. once very ihtcresting and valuable discoveries have been
ehi magnetic attraction, which will completely change the
ttatl.rie‘ on i his subject.
It •s • lard in the City, that a large steam-bJ.it,
31d I'ven idTcrud to the Greek Deputies, li.id at rived at
•=:•ted:ia, hying been purchased by the Paella id
t. ar.d had been seta aga,ni.t the Greek fleet.

DREADFUL FIRE.-DESTRUCTION OF