Star.
London, England, 1823-04-05 00:00:00

- • . N4VA4 1NTF4L1GENCE.,,,4.,,,„ ~, i„ jtisepeople, finding that he retarded
l • . ''J ii. • . . 7"."•••• • the boat's way through the
' Water. the tide then rotdng !strongly against ahem, deemed it
l;4!'varr '4xpeditnt at all risks to take hint in, watch they happily ac-
, Tire Osprey, M‘Guit., arrived at Greenock from &real, 'poi.
,comphtfled. Diteiht the time they were rowing ~,,,,, jt aw.
on the 7.1 of 'February in lat. 20. 7:0. S. long. 1. 0. W. the bora; i
.tatlereagh, from Bombay and the Cape snore, which was attended with great difficulty and fatigue. t
to F'rgianti---- ' aild " kept my eye fixed upon the Packee,rwhitA was driving faq off
die 19th, on the Equator, in long. 20. W. the Seafarth, Captain
IP Dowau., of and front • Liverpool. to Bengal. She had got a i the land. Of the precise moment at which she disappeared, I
new rudder at St. Jagq (Cape Jr Venls). , cannot speak with certainty; but she must, I think, have sunk
The Friends' adventure, DUNN, front Jamaica to St. John't
l'about three quarter,' of an hour after we quitted her, and whilst
(N. IL), was driven oil shore on the Ist of February, at the en-
we were in the act of landing; for whets I looked for her from
!ranee of St. John's Harbour.
the share I could not discover her, and a man who met us when
we landed stated that he had seen her go down. No sooner had
The I Pieter,
,CLEMENIS, from Edinton to Jamaica, upset at
sea on the 11th of February. the Crew landed the passengers who were fortunately saved, se-
veral of whom were in a state of great exhatiniott float having
The Jonge Jan, VittasmaN, from Antwerp to Bourdeaur,
foundered on the coat of Bretagne. been in the water, than they heroically resolved, although the
The Margaret, WA tiff, from Newfoundland to Liverpool, boat was nearly half full of .
water, to return with all exp:dition
was stranded near Pwlheli, on Wto the 'pot where the packet was supposed to have sunk. They
be got off. ednesday, but is expected to .
went accordingly, and succeeded in rescuing three individuals,
The Renown, Naar, from Liverpool to Jersey, foundered
who had sustained themselves in the water by some buoyant ar-
near the Small,, the troth ult.—crew saved. tides from a watery grave.
" It were in vain to attempt to describe the scene of horror
The Mary, W.irrs, from Scilly to Belfast, was driven on the
which the deck of the packet exhibited, when we were on the
North Rock, near Belfast, on Tuesday, and it was feared would
be lost. point of quitting for ever the multitude which , swded It ft
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The Blandford, bound to Newfoundland, was on shore in
Bootle Bay, on Wednesday.
The George, COLEMAN, from Youghal to Liverpool, was on
shore at Southport. on Tuesday.
The Union, Correa, front Londonderry and Bermuda to New
York, was On shore and full of water at Sandy Hook, the Rth ult.
F1:031 THE 1:0.11t11 or THE New ENGLAND COITEE-140lISE.
" Now Your, Masco 15.—A ship is on shore on Long Island,
said to be the Alexander, from London."
" Tax o'Ctocx AT Nloll2.—Since my letter of this morning
Was put in the bag, I understand that the vessel on shore at Long
Island, which was supposed to be British, proves to be a schooner
from Havannab."
Friznotrro, Aran Sea—Wind \V.—Arrived the Duke of Kent
packet (2), from Lisbon in 13 days ; and Iris, Poems, from
Landow.
Px.ratotrwt, Aran 3.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Essex,
Whiz, from Matanzas in 27 days. Off the port, the Seneca,
GRAY, from Fayal.
Ixattaceross, Aran. 4.—Arrived the Sophia, Bocimn, frum
Cowes for Halifax, with troops.
Da.u., autos 4.—Wind W.S.W.—Came down from the
River, the Margaret, nENnERSON, for the Cape of Good Hope.
The wind this morning was inclinable to the northward, which
induced aevetal of the outwara-bound, and all the coasters, to
get under weigh: soon after, it backed again to the S.W. blowing
fresh, wlrth thick weather, and the whole put back again. The
Harmony, (7mm, for Jamaica, drove on board of the William
Mites East Indianian, early this morning, and forced her to slip
her chain cable, broke her spare anchor, carried away her pi-
.boom, cat-head, bodstays, and bowsprit rigging, and consider-
ably damaged her hull ; the Harmony's channels were torn up,
'Ynd her side otherwise damaged. The William Miles has been
supplied with two anchors and cables from hence.— Arrived and
sailed fur the River, the Helen, from Jamaica; and New Pro-
vidence, —, and Union, Cases, from Smyrna.
Conon-House, Aran. 4.—Ships Entered Inwards :—Eliza-
herb, from Charente; Chare::te, from ditto; Henry Stanhope,
from St. Michael's; Favourite, from Liston; Alpha, from
Oporto ; and Union, from Calais. Entered Outwards :—The
Stewart, for Bombay; Lord Castlereagh; for Honduras; Rover,
for Calais; Britannia, for Hamburg!'; and Blossom, for Genoa.
Cleared Outwards :—Charles, for Elsineur ; Accord, for Rouen ;
St. Lawrence, for Quebec ; Sophia, for Madras ; Alfred, for
Rotterdam ; Salmon River, for Philadelphia ; Rover for Calais;
Briton. for Quebec; Lord Wellington, for Nova Scotia; Equity,
for Havannah ; and William, for Memel.
VESSELS sexism; wreu.—The Harmonic,. from Rio Janeiro to
Ilamburgh, on the 23d. Feb. in lat. 1. S. long. 32. W. out 54
days; had lost fore and main-topmasts in a heavy squall, but re-
paired ; Margaret, Took, (rom, New Orleans, with Loss of rud-
der, having been on shore on Florida Ref—the latter by the
Mars, arrived at Liverpool; Corsair, bound to India, oil the 30th
of November, in lat. 3. N. long. 24. W. and the Marquis Wel-
lesley, from London to India, on the 4th of January, in lat. 55.
long. 2. by the Royal Sovereign, which arrived at the Cape on
the 22d.

Altalizo--At Bengal, the Warren Hastings. 31a30n ; Mar-
gins of Fly, Lay; IVitichelsea, Adanson; Minstrel, Barnes;
Providence, Owen; and Lady Raffles, Cozwell, from London.
At the Cape of Good Hope, Nancy, Thomson, and Asia, Lind-
say, from Bengal; Francis, Evans, and Sar. cen, Kerr. from
Timor ; Elizabeth, Douglas, and the Royal Sovereign, Todrig,
from London; also the Kerswell, Artnstrong, from Plymouth.

_ crtn It. .ft
was a scene which would have melted the hardest heart. For
some time before that moment all hope of preservation had been
abandoned ; and the unfortunate ciowd were awaiting, in awful
suspense, the dreadful death which stared them in the face.—
Many of them had fallen on their knees, and were imploring the
mercy of Ilr.avxr: ; whilst others were sending up the most
piteous and heart-rendiog screams, which drew tears even from
those in the boat who had some chance of escape.
" There were many women on board, with young children, to
whom they clung with a mother's fondness in this scene ofdeatln
the frantic shrieks extorted by their maternal agony were most
piercing, and were heard long after the boat had quitted the
sinking wreck. A poor soldier had his whole family on board,
consisting of his wife and several children, and was observed
endeavouring to afford them that consolation in this awful situa-
tion WbiCh was denied to himself. In short, it was a scene of
horror which has seldom been equalled, and such as, I trust, I
shall never behold again."
Twenty-nine of the bodies have been found, and taken to
I lolyhead. Church-yard.

LOSS OF THE ALERT PACKET.
The following painfully interesting particulars of this most me-
lancholy catastrophe, are derived from the oral relation of one
of the cabin passengers, a respectable tradesman in Liverpool,
who was fortunately saved:
"We sailed from the Pigeon-house, Dublin, at half-past eight
o clock on Tuesday evening. There were, as nearly as I can
judge, about fifteen passengers, including myself, in the cabin.
Anwug them were three Ladies, one of whom had an infant
about eleven months old with her. The appearance of the
cabin passengers was most respectable. We had a favourable
breeze throughout the night, and made the Welsh coast early
in the morning. About ten o'clock, however, as I have since
understood, the breeze died away, and the packet was driven,
by the force of the current, towards the West Mouse rock.
Captain Morgan immediately ordered the boat a-head, in the
full confidence that it would succeed in towing the packet
out of danger. But in this he was unhappily disappointed, the
unfortunate vessel being driven, by the strength of the tide,
on the fatal rock. It was about half-past ten o'clock when
she struck. I was in my birth, in the cabin, at the moment.—
The shock, though nut very violent, was sufficient to rouse me.
I started up instantly, and found the passengers in the cabin in a
state of confusion and alarm. I immediately ran upon deck,
and found it in a similar state of confusion. I returned to the
cabin, and discovered, with feelings not to be described, that the
water had, in the meantime, made its way into it. The confu-
sion and alarm among the passengers below increased with the
increasing danger. The Ladies were screaming with affright,
and even the Gentlemen were alarmed at the imminency of the
danger which threatened them. I immediately quitted this scene
of horror, and, making my way upontleck, ran up the shrouds.
At this moment the water had risen to a considerable height in
the hold, and:
.haffied every exertion wtich was made by the
passengers and such of the crew as remained on board, to bale
it out. I now saw, for the first time, the boat a-head, a shbrt
distance from the extremity of the bowsprit, with several of
the packet's crew in it. I came down the shrouds, and making
my way towards the bowsprit, endeavoured to get into the boat.
I was, however, prevented by some of the persons belonging to
! the packet around me, who stated, that if I were showed to get
Loo the boat, there would be a general rush towards it, by which
means it would run the risk of being swamped, and thus cut off
the only chance of any person being saved. Determined, how-
ever, to renew the attempt at a favourable moment, I remained
concealed in the lure part of the stench Espying my opportu-
tiny when the boat was a yard or two from the extremity of the
bowsprit, and when I had seen the last seaman get into at, I ran
along the bowsprit, but in attempting to get into the boat, I
unfortunately fill into the sea. I was taken up by one of the
crew, who pulled me into the boat, being the first passenger
who was received into it At this moment several other passen-
gers made their way along the bowsprit to endeavour to get into'
the boat, some of whom succeeded in gaining it, whilst others
fell into the water and were drowned. The boat still remained
at a short distance from the bowsprit of the vessel, those already
on board deeming it unsafe to come too near, for fear of a
rush being made by the crowd left on board the packet. to get in.
The Captu:n next made an attempt to reach the boat, by plunging
into the water from the bowsprit', and swimming towards it. A
rope was thrown towards him by one of his crew,.which he was
so fortanate as to gessp, and was pulled into the boat. As soon
as he caught bold of the rope, several unfortunate passengers, I
who had plunged into the sea at the same moment as the Cap-
tain, were observed to cling to his boiy, in the hope of Laving
themselves by that means; bat, such was the crowded state 01
the boat, which was already almost levil with the water,' that
the crew dared not venture to take any more into it, and they I
were abandoned to their fate. There were at this moment 17 of
us in the boat. When we rowed finally off, we left four or,live
uuforrenate men struggling in the water, with no chance of escape
trout an untimely grave. A boy, about 14 years of age, and who,
I understood, was the cabin boy, was about this time observed
to lash himself to a piece of wood, mid throw himself into the
sea, in the hope of supporting himself till the arrival of succour.
Just as it was determined to quit the sinking vessel, a mau got
hold :A the boat, to which he clung, earnestly entreating the crew
to take him in ; loit they, tearing that the boat might be sunk
by. the ac.clitional weight on one side, lashed him to its side.—
In this state he remained for nearly half an hour; when