Star.
London, England, 1816-12-18 00:00:00

TO THE WORTHY AND! INDEPENISENT FIMEMEN
OF THE CITY OF WORCEsTER. _
iptositt, Dsc.l6,

GINTLEUtN,
COLON EL DAVIES', Address has just reached
me, and I loss not a moment in returning Sty Mom grate-
ful j)tanks in the- first place; to all who have on. this occasion
evioced a warmth of feeling towards gth ingrece-
dented,Tbuding forward the supporter of your interests and hide-
pendeulle.....- • • •
Titew,thanks are next due tar my late Opponent, fof lin.—
nourable part be has taken, both as regards himself and the trim"
(Panay of your City. I leave you, My fellow Freemen and Citi-
zens, to judge of my feelings at this moment ; you have in this
time of trial ritifici yutitr firmer call upon me. Yon will,' trust,
place me in a situation trtly enviable, and if I ever forfeit your'.
good opininti, on tinsel: alone will all the regret of so irrelarabic
Iklmisliiiolve. By your free and unbiassed voice, embracing all
ranks 01l panies, do I w sh to be ret netted to Parliament. Then
shell' stead a free and unshackled agent (in every thing but my
gratitude towards you) before the public assembly of my country,
and ()Non other terms would' I accept the honourable situation of
year Representative, because onlio other could I do justice to my
/Um antfiCodstitutiun, and to you his faithful subjects!!
lit assured that the bumbleNt wili have the same chinas upon
roropublic duty a, the wealtiest of my supporters, and that the full
event of my time and capacity shall be exerted to promote the
wcrari of this ancient and loyal City, to' which I (eel so natu-
rally attached and devoted !
To all within and without that City, who have hitherto so
*ably supported me, do I return my warm and grateful thanks,
and have the honour to subscribe myself, •
• • Gentlemen) your devoted and obliged meant,
• DEERHURST.

'LOW OifiiiiILIRPOONZR Tit Alia-PORT.

•
Tine following affecting narrative of tltis melancholy
disaster (of which the first authentic particulars
brown were published in toe Sr*ii), has been given
by one of the survivors :
" On the with October, detachments of the 4th Royal Vete.
• ran Satiation and their families, with a few belonging to other
corps in Canada, in all 380, embarked on board the ship lams-
, °ooze, town BILYANT master, and sailed from Quebec on
the attentoon of the 27th, bound to Deptford. is charge of Cap.
tein Palm c. On the passage to the Gulph of St. Lawrence mo.
derate weather and favourable winds prevailed; but on arriving
in the Gulph the weather proved boisterous and the wind con-1
trary ; not a sight of land, nor an observation of the sun, could
be depended upon for several stays. On Saturday evening, No.
vember 10, a few minutes atter nine o'clock, the second Mate,
on watch, *called out, s !be ship's aground; at which time she
lightly struck on the outermost rock of St. Shuts, in the Island
Of Newfoundland. She beat over and proceeded a short distance,
when the struck again and filled; encircled among rocks, and
the wind Moping strong, the night dark, and a very heavy sea,
she soon fell over on her larboard beanoeuds ; and, to heighten
the terror and alarm, it was perceived a lighted candle had corn.
inunicaod fire to some spirits, in the master's cabin, which, in
the confusion, was with difficulty extingutahed.
" he ship sill driving over the rocks, her masts were cut
away, by which some men were carried overboard. The vessel
drifted over near the high rocks towards the main. In this situa-
tion
foveaeery one became terrified: the suddenness of the sox fuell-
ing ried away the births anti stauncheons betwetu decks,
when men, women, and children, Were drowned, and many
were kited by the force with which they were drivels against
She loose bagg age, casks, and staves, which floated below. Al
that possibly could get upon deck, but, from the crowd attal con-
fusion that prevailed, the orders of the officers and master to the
soldiers and seamen were unavailing—death staring every one in
the face—the ship striking on the rocks as though she would in-
stantly up.et! The screeching and pressing of the people to the
starboard side was so violent, that several were much hurt.—
About eleven o'clock the boats on the deck were washed over-
board by a heavy but even front the commencement of the
disaster, the hopes of any individual being saved were but vet y
slight, and, from this circumstance, combined with is sppearing
that the bottom of the ship was separating from the upper deck,
while the surf beat over her moat violently, it was considered as
Impossible. Front this time uutil Mar o'clock Ow next morning,
all on the wreck were anxiously praying for the light of day to
break upon them; the boat front the stern was lowered down,
when the first mate mid four seamens at the risk of their lives,
pushed off to the shore. They with difficulty effected a landing
upon the main land, behind a high rock, nearest to where the
stern of the vess.:l had bees driven.
" They were soon out of sight, and it was feared they were
lost; but it was so ordained by PROVI3ENCt, these &settling
men, in scrambling up :he rocks, made their appearance ! they
hailed us from the top, and reported their situation, saying to re-
turn was impossible, as the boat was staved: the log-kite was
thrown from the wreck, wl:h a hoiae that they might lay hold of
It, but darkness, and the tremendous surf that brat, rendered it
Impracticable. During this awful time of suspense, it occurred
to the master, the possibility of sending a line to them by a dog:
the animal was brought aft, and thrown into the sea with a line
tied round his middle, and with it he swath towards the rock
upon which the mate and seamen were standing. It is impossible
to describe the senscious whsch were excited at seeing thts latch.
fu
dog struggling with the waves, and, reaching the summit of
She rock, dashed back again by the surf into the sea, until, at
lengthy by his exertions, he arrived with the line ; one end of
which being on board, a stronger rope was hauled and fastened to
the rock, and by this rope the seamen were enabled to drag on
shore from the wreck a number of persons.
At about six o'clock in the morning of the 11th, the first per-
son was landed by this means, and afterwards, by an improve-
ment in rigging :he rope and placing each individual in slings,
they were with greater facility enricated from the wreck; but
during the passage thither, it was with the utmost digkeulti that ,
the unfortunate sufferers could maintain their bold, as the sea
beat over them • some were dragged to the shore its a state of
insensibility. Letitenant Wilson was lost, being unable to hold
on the rope with his hands ; be was twice struck by the sea, fell
backwards oat of the slings, and after swimming for a consider-
able time amongst the floating which he was struck on
the bead, be perished. Many who thew themselves overboard,
trusting to their safety by swimming, were lon they were dashed
to pieces by the surf on the rocks, or by the Stating of the wreck.
" About half-past one o'clock, on the afternoon of the 11th,
about 30 lives were saved by the rope, several of whom were
• ben and maimed. At this period the sea beat incessantly over
the wreck, and it being svideot elm deck was separating, the
only means of saving the distreued sufferers failed: for the rope,
by ednitant work, and by swinging across the sharp rock, was
out in two. From that hoar, there being no means of replacing
the rope, the spectacle became more than ever terrific; the sea
beating over the wreck with greater violence, washed numbers
overboard : their heartrending cries and lamentations were seep
as cannot be expressed—familtes fathers, mothers, and children,
clinging together! 'lite wreck breaking up, stern from midships
and forecastle, precipitated all on it into one common destruction.
Under these melancholy circumstances 406 persons perished, and,
the survivors have to lament the loss of dear relatives and friends.
The Othcers and men of the Royal Veteran Battalion, whotvere
returning hunt atter a long and arduous service in Canada, and
other remote climates, have now lost their alt—the savings of
many years, what they bad looked upon with a pleasing hope of
making themselves and their families comfortable with, on to-
uring trots the service of their King and country.
" By this unfortuuate event the orphan. daughter of Sturgeon
Armstrong lost her fath,r, mother, brother, and two sisters; and
the wife and surviving daughter of Lieutenant Wilson are left
wholly destitute. The disaster was so sudden and unlocked for,
that not an article of baggage was saved; not even money, of
whicA some had considerable sums, the produce of their effects
snist Quebec. which were paid for le guineas, on account of
bills of exchange being attended with a leas of seven and a half,
per cent.—for immediately after the ship struck she bilged and
drowning some who, from motives of humanity, attempted
to secure articles of dress for the distressed females, who were
berried on deck in an undressed state.
so The rock which the survivors were landed upon was about
100 feet above the water, etierounded at the lowing of the tide.
It being high water soon after the latter of them was saved, it I
was found impossible for these distressed objects to be got over ,
to the main land %soul the next morning. OP the top of this rock
they were obliged to remain daring the whole
wind and of the night,
without shelter, food, or aourishnumt, expose tod rain,
and many without shoes. The only comcort that presented itself
was a fire, which was made from pieces of the wreck that had
beeu washed ashore.
"At day-light on the morning of the 12th, at lour water, their
*sued to- the appalls land was effected, some being let does

by &tor, others
they
&seta taller to the bottom. After
tberfra over, they directed their course to a house or falser-
man's distant abotat a mile and a half fro:n the wreck,
whet they retwaluell mild thirsty day": the proptirow of this
iniserable silted ttot haver the means of supplying relief to so
eonsiderablk number as took fetus., a party went over land to
.Tropassy, about 14 miles &stun, through a marshy country, not
libabited by any human creature, and the foot-path through a
morass. This party arrived at Trepasey, and reported the event
to Messrs. Jackson, Burke, Sims, and the Rev. Mr. Brown, who
immediately took measures for alleviating the distressed, by dis-
patching men ita their employ with provisions and spirits, to awls
itf bringing all thoseloratarti to Trepstsy who could walk. Ne-
cessity prompted many to undertake this journey bare-footed .
the hardships and privations ',bleb they were enduring were so
excessively great.
" On the 13th, in the evening, the major part of the survivors
(assisted by the inhabitants, who during thesiourney eluded the
weak and feeble upon their backs), arrived at Trepassy, where
they were billetted by order of the Magistrate, proportionably
upon each house.
There still surnamed at St. Sheets the wife of a seejeant of
the Veteran Battalion, who Was delivered on the top of the rocks
shortly after she was saved; the child and herself are doing well.
A private whose leg was broken, and a woman severely bruised
by the wreck, were also necessarily left there.
" Immediately after the at Mal at Trepassy, tneasures were
adopted for the comfort and refreshment of the detachmeats, boat s
were provided for their removal to St. John's. This being
effected, his 11xcellency Admirat Piekmore, the Governor, Major
King, commanding the troops, the Merchants, and Gentlemen of
Sr. John's, most promptly and generoudy came forward in the
mos• handsome manner to the relief of the surviving sufferers.
After remaining ten days at St. John's refuting the distressed
with clothing and necessaries, his Exceienry tbe Admiral -
tared the Mercury, of Poole, to bring them tp Portsmouth. On
this melancholy circumstance it is but justice to mention, that Mr.
Joseph Bryant, master, Mr. Atkinson. mate, and the seamen of
the Harpooner, deserve great credit for their unceasing exertions :
to their labour those that came on shore by the rope in a great
-*,re owe their safety."

THE EVENING SrAlt.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1816.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK s
Reduced 621 —Cons. mo. shut—Cone. for opg. 631
4 per Cent. 1811-5 per Cent. Navy shut
Esebeitter &ay. 41.65. pr.—lndia Bonds 15s. 16$. pre.

We return again to the question, and it is one ,
great magnitude—What are the means which, at the
present crisis, seem best calculated to meet the dis-
tress under which all ranks are now, more grim,
suffering, and to restore health and vigour to the
resources of the Country—that is, in plain terms, to
our Agriculture and out National Manufactures ?
for while either the one or the other of these is in a
languishing condition, no other evidence is wanted to
prove that the body politic, the general interests of
the great National family, is in a state of derange-
ment.
They are shallow politicians indeed—mere quacks,
who can themselves believe, or who would endeavour
to persuade others, that the interests of any one class
may, or can be promoted, while there is any undue
share of pressure upon the other s and they will prove
but sad physicians who shall pretend to prescribe for
she curt: of Mereantile distress at the expense of the
Agriculturists, or to remove the pressure from the
latter by a prescription to swallow a live weaver or
labourer every morning before breakfast. The pro-
sperity of the Farmer will ever, in a great measure,
depend en the number of mouths which require to
be filled with the produce of his fields; and every
demand for a new hand to carry on our Manufac-
tures, affords to him a near customer.
Let the prices of our Manufactures be such chat
we cannot meet our rivals in the general market of
nations on equal terms, and the number of hands
employed in their production must necessarily be di-
minished. Wherever provisions are high, wages
must necessarily be high—that is, the nation so car
cumstanced must be undersold in every market; the
number of artizans, or, in other words, the con-
sumers of cony will decrease, and the distress of the
Agriculturalist must increase, from year to year, in
the enact ratio that his customers fall off.
It is obvious that wages cannot be low where corn
is dear ; and it is equally obvious that no Farmer
can grow corn to sell it at a loss. Let us apply this
to our own case, and fairly look at the cause, not
merely to cheat ourselves into measures of procrasti-
nation, but to meet the evil with some remedy com-
memorate to its magnitude. It is folly to deny the
fact. A long and expensive war has produced a
load of debt, the interest of which is palsying 'all the
efforts of the most ingenious and industrious people
upon the face of the earth—that is, has loaded us
with taxes which cannot long continue to be paid, to
their present extent, without sinking the nation in
ruin. Their amount must be reduced, not by thou-
sand', or tens of thousands, or hundreds of thou-
sands, but by millions I
We have often urged one efficacious means to at-
tain this—the putting an end, for the present at least,'
to the operation of the Sinking Fund, a measure
which would, at once, add at least a million a month
Ito the productive capital of our Agriculturalists and
Manufacturers.
There is yet another mean for restoring prosperity,
which deserves consideration, but which should not
,be resorted to without the most mature deliberation.
We mean the reduction of legal interest for the use of
,suoney from jive to four per cent, It we may infer any
I thing from past experience (and this is generally
found to be a safe way of forming an opinion on the
',expediency and utility of any measure), the inference
would be, that a reduction would be beneficial. In
la publication of 1698, entitled, " A new Discourse
ion Trade," an account is given of the effects pro- I
&teed by a similar measure in former periods. The I
Author states, that it had given prosperity to Mer-
chants and Landholders, and a great increase of
foreign trade, as proved by the Custom-house books.
It multiplied Manufacturers and Mechanics s it in-
dined the nation to thriftinese, employed the poor,
and gave an interest to the whole commtmitr- The
preamble of the Aet on which he principally dwelt
was as follows For as much as the abatement of
Interest, from £lO on £lOO is former times bath