Star.
London, England, 1825-01-21 00:00:00

'ISTRESStiIG .thIPiVRE6r.

FROM A NEW YORK PAPER.
Captain Archibald Hall, in this State, called oti ns on
Writ, 1 -t, and gave es an account of his recent sui-
tor by shipwreck, from which we have prepared the
;(„ii,; statement:—" Captain Hall sailed from Bus-
lon the 22d of September, in the sloop Sally, of St.,
bound to Machias. His crew consisted of two'
0Z lads, 17 or 18 years old ; and he had on board
°female passengers belonging to Machias. After
,viog Boston, they soon experienced very rough and
• anus weather, and after being out 26 days, while
, ding under bare poles, in a violent gale, they lost
their mast and rudder, from which time they drifted
the mercy of the winds and waves 21 days longer,
,tree they were taken off from the wreck. In a few
ps their state of provisions was reduced to nine bis-
6. Upon this morsel five persons lived so s:aringly
,to make it last 11 days. At last the biscuit failed,
•J no help appeared. Their only sustenance now was
!nei tin ee rats which they were so lot Innate as to a:t-
oby means of a cat which they hapi on board; and
sly they feasted Their famished bodies on the cat hers
These means of sustenance finally failed them,
d still there was no prospect of relief. They had hi-
. to been obliges to keep ene hand at the pump most
'ale time, to prevent the vessel from sinking. But
had now become .s 1 weak as to be scarcely able to
k. Three days longer they survived without the
tist sustenance, save v hat they obtained from an old
get hone, which they boiled over five tinier, and drank
liquor, which became slightly nutritive by means
:the mil-row and fat of the bone. Toso days before
.1%./ere relieved,abi ig hove in sight—their dying heats
„.!ed within them, and their half-gllzed eyes beAmed
.hr•pe. Tne hi ig drew near ; she was not mote than
. a mile distant ; she hauled to the wind, threw back
,t,ip-sails, and appeared to' be wazching tore wreck.
;:ih longing ey es the clying sulFereis waited to see tilt
lowered into the water. But whilst they watched,
uld the brig filled her sails, kept cm her course, and
a soon out cf sight. Hunger had now driven them to
:elast resource. One must perish to preset ve the lives
t the others a little longer. %Vim that one should be
ey solemnly agreed to determine the next day at 12
bclock, if PROVIDENCE should nut sooner interpose, in
;seir behalf. But they were not left to this sad ewe-
pity. About three o'clock in the afternoon, the brig
Dark], Captain Lawton, of Dartmouth (England), ap-
peared is sight, came to their relief, took them from the
rrcck, and carried them to St. John's, Newfoundland,
likre they were trea•ed with the greatest possible kind-
red by the citizens of St. John's, as well as by Captain
ilwriar. They were fuinished with an abundance of
and money, and after their strength was SU&
Willy restored, they took passage for their homes in this
Ate, w here they have safely an rued."

1: is st.tted in the Pluniteur, that the Duke of Non•
1:111N1131:11LAND is 10 be the Ambassador Exttaordinary

vnt to rtTresent his BRITANNIC MAJESTY At the Cort)-
Minn of the King of FRANCE, and that his Grace will
,;;,play great magnificence on the occasion.
Accounts trona Berlin, Hamburg!), and other towns in
it Ntitth of Euroi,e, announce that the late storms and

muodAlio: $ hal been I,llowed in many places by

Isiocks ..f eirthqoakes, which had, however, not been

Isufficiently violent to occasion much mischief.
Another brig for the Colombian Pea-r 1 Fishery Asso-
ciation was launched yesterday, from Sir Robert
Wigrani's yard, at Blackwell; a great concourse of people
assembled on the occasion, not so much to see the launch,
as to witness the exerdsing of the diving-bell, on board

the other b, ig (Colombia), fitted out by the Association,
and now lying off that yard, ready for sea. his Excel-
lency General Micheleua ani suite were there, and were
received by the Directors of the Association, on board
the Colombia, where an elegant dejeune was provided
for a numerous assemblage of Ladies and Gentlemen,
who had come on board to see the operations of the

diving-bell, which equalled their most sanguine expec-
tations. Several Gentlemen went down in the bell ;
amongst others, Mr. Rocafuerte, the General's Secretary;
and when his Excellency left the vessel, he was saluted
with the honours due to his rank.

FlKE.—Yesterday morning a fire broke out in the
house, No. 8, Vine-street, Saffron-hill, chiefly recopied
in separate tenements by lodgers. The fire was dis-
covered by the watchman; the door was immediately
burst open ; the inhabitants, men, women, and chil-
dren, appeared at the windows, crying out for some
means of escape, the stairs having given way almost
at the commenceenent of the file. One young woman
jumped from the secon4 floor window (a height of
about thirty or forty feet), and was received in the
arms of a watchman; both were knocked down, but
neither received any material injury. A man, his wife,
and three children, were taken down by ladders,
which were with great difficulty thrown up against the
windows, the flames then streaming forth at every
aperture; others of the inmates had broken through
the roof, as in their hurry they could not oven the attic
window, leading out on the gutters. One young wo-
man, in an advanced state of pregnancy, was missing
when the roof tumbled in, carrying with it such part
' of the floors as had hot been previously consumed.
There being a good supply of water, the conflagration
was greatly abated by the continued exertions of the
engines. The centre house, in which the fire origi-
nated, is razed to the ground. No insurance, as far as
we could 'cam, was effected on it. The-young wo-
man, for whose safety some apprehensions were enter-
tained during the progress of the fire, had escaped over
the leads at the instant the roof went in, and made her
way through the attic window of one of the neighbour-
ing houses, much scorched. Though the property ac-
tually destroyed is not of much value, yet to those poor
people it is an immense loss, being their all.
SHOP•LIFTING.—Yesterday, a smart-looking woman
was brought up to Hatton Garden, in the custody of
Colton, a constable, upon the following charge :—Col-
ton stated, that he observed the prisoner go into a
haker's shop, where she asked for a penny roll, but con-
trived to carry off a quartern loaf; from thence she
vent to a hair-dresser's, where, after examining some
ringlets, she secured a comb ; in this manner she went
into five different shops, closely pursued by Colton, in
each of which she was successful in smiting some ar-
ticle, though her labour only lasted half an hour; at
length she went into a hooksellei's shop, and asked if
the could be provided with A Companion to the Altar;
0:, is the constable, with some propriety, if not good
pronunciation, called it a " Companion to the Hatter;"
ik°r!nllnediately as the shopman went to look for the
00K. required, she seized a volume of the Aetogate
.&e,dar. In order to give her an oppoi tunity of add-
log her ow n memoir to this valuable work, she was
ulimnittsd for trial. •