Star.
London, England, 1822-11-27 00:00:00

THE ELIZABETH.

On the. night between the 30th of November and
the Ist of December, 1821, a ship, called the Eliza-
beth, was driven on shore .in the mouth of the rit•cr
Mersey, and wrecked on some rocks on the!Chehire.
side, called the Red Roses., In the morning a tar, nrc,
resident.in a neighbouring village, called Wallasey,
of the name of. Eaton, accompanied by Samuel Fry,
brought down his cart to. the coast for the purpose of
carrying away a, cask which they had observed in a
large hole in the sand made by the wreck, the ship's
bottom having .paraed from her upper works. I. ap-
peared that . kbis cask, which was marked " Rice,"
but had several seals upon it, hid been stowed aw:y
for greater safety in the run of the vessel, as it is
called, under the slanting*part of the cabin, and alaive
the ballast, which consisted of paving stones. It had
been washed away into the hole in question, and was
partly projecting out of the sands when these two in-
dividuals, who appear before this Court in the cha-
racters of salvors, first found it. They, with the as-
sistance of a man and a boy, hoisted the cask, tviiich
was exceedingly heavy, into the cart, and were in the
act of driving away, when W. Dean, a riding officer
of the Preventive Service, happenitig to pass by, in-
sisted upon seeing what the cask contained. They
told him rice ; for it was marked " Rice." With the
assistance of a ship's scraper that had been taker from
the wreck,.and was, together with some old sails and
cordage, put into the cart, Deane succeeded in opsnitig
the cask, when out tumbled a large, hair bag, .full of
gold pieces of the coinage of England, America, and
Portugal ; in weight 29'25 oz. and in rake about
£lO 000 Deane said he must have the property ;
but Eaton swore with an oath that no man should
have it from him. It was at length agreed bets een
them that the cask, with its valuable contents,should
be deposited in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Campbell,
a neighbouring Clergyman, and a Magistrate of the
county. The Master and the surviving pail of the
crew of the Elizabeth were at the Magazine in Wal-
lasey, in bed, and severesufferers by the wreck, wlieti
it first °Canned to the Master to send the pilot to
search on the shore for the cask in question ; but he
arrived just after Eaton and the others had loft,- and
too late, consequently, to recover it. The whole of the
money has since been returned to the consignees.
The KING'S ADVOCATE and Dr. ADAMS opposed
the grant of any salvage to Eaton and Fogg, on the
ground that it was extremely questionable whether
or no they were not intending to carry away the pro-
perty, and convert it to their own use when overtakta
by Deane.

Dr. JENNER and Dr. LUSHINOTON were heard on
behalf of the salvors. •

Lord SrowELL observed, that there was •nothing
that tended in any way to attach just suspicion to
the motives of these parties, who had morecver the
very strong evidence of the Rev. Magistrate, Mr.
Campbell, in their favour. There was little difficulty
or danger, undoubtedly, in the salvage they had ef-
fected ; but through their instrumer.taLty the money
had finally reached its rightful o•.rrets'; and he
should, therefore, give to Eaton, by way (4- salvage
allowance, £lO5 ; to Fogg, £2o, and to both timir
costs. It would certainly have been more graref,l,
and less invidious, in the owners to hare made some
offer of the sort, at least, to the parties, before they
brought the matter into Coutt. :

. • MARRIED.
, Nov. 10, at Cork, John Weitrop Carey, E. late of the 30:11
Regiment; to :Margaret, daughter of the Rev. !Lula 51•CLLfthv.
In 'Dublin, Henry Geoghegan, Esq. of Lresm.strtet, tcr3its.
Heffernan, relict of James C. Harman, libq. a the 'ROYAL
County Limerick 31i ItLa.
At ltathonan Church, county of Tipperary, the Rev..G. E.
/Eagle, only son of Dr. Eagle, of Lite 111edlcal Staff in Irelatid, rts
Mary Frances, only daughter of .Vichsel Hamerton, Etq.

IPt E. D.
Nov. 2!, at his house, Dine-stile, Greenwkh, in the ..IMh year
(KM, age,. John Fielder, Esq. Purveyor to his 5! tjesty's' Forces.
Nov: is, aged. 57, 51r.. it. C. Andrews, of Twilit idgc-grrtt,
i!New-ro.iiki, late Artist of the Theatre Royal, Drury-I.:me.
,Friday se'nnight, at Glasgsw, Mr. William Pylitock, teacher,
'Lime, eldest con of Mr. Dymock, Grammar School, OlasS".•

:11AILS.

ARR. nu E.
1 0

♦ Kit. 91;16
France 0 0
Hamburgls 0 3
Randers V 0
Malta 0 0
Gibttenburgh 0 53
Brazil 0 0

Waterford . 2 1
Guemey and Jersey 0 1 -
.I.ighon 0 •0'
Rolland 1 o
Leeward Tslands 0 0

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