Star.
London, England, 1826-10-11 00:00:00

FROM THE JOURNAL DES DEBATE.

The Pharo of Havre contains the following details,
which cannot be perused without creating a lively in-
terest :—A ship called " La Mere aux huit Enfans,"
sailed from Cape Haitien for Havre, on the morning of
the 31st of July last, and during a calm, steered her
course so as to pass betwixt the Caicos, and the great
lnague. The day after her departure, the weather grew
gloomy, so as to render it impossible to take an obser-
vation for obtaining the latitude; however, the wish of
passing soon through, induced the Captain to enter the
canal during the night. However a breeze having
sprung up, and veering continually about, and a great
swell of sea setting in, the ship found herself, towards
ten o'clock at night, riven with an inconceivable rapi-
dity on the shoals of the Caicos, and struck violently
upon a rock. Every effort was now made, but in vain,
to extricate her from this critical situation ; and part of
the cargo was thrown overboard, but to no purpose.—
In the meanwhile day broke, and discovered the whole
extent of the danger, and the utter insufficiency of the
means of safety that could be depended on. A hollow
sea, constantly breaking over her, threatened to wash
away er crush the only beat that remained, and in which
the crew might reach some inhabited land. It was there-
fote resolved to abandon the unfortunate ship. The
crew, amounting to twelve men, took to the boat, carry-
ing nothing with them but the ship's papers, a compass,
' a chart, a quadrant, a bag full of biscuits, and a cask of
water. A mast and sail were rigged as well as circum-
stances admitted, and thus the unhappy party steered
for the first land that happened to be in sight, which
was bearing N.N.W. at a distance of six leagues; but
after several hours of dangerous navigation, they made
a sterile land, and therefore set sail again, in the most
terribly cramped situation, as the whole crew were
obliged to remain sitting, and squadded down in the
small boat, without the slightest shelter from the burn-
ing rays of a tropical sun. They now steered for Mo-
gana, for they were then at a distance of upwards ef 40
leagues from the coast of Hayti, and had not the slight-
est hope of reaching that island with a contrary wind,
and in an open boat so deeply laden.
The land which they next made, was likewise un-
inhabited and desart ; crabs and other shell fish fur-
nished them a repast ; but they presently set sail again,
as their stock of water was diminishing rapidly, and
the sea had so thoroughly soaked and saturated their
biscuits, as to render them wholly unfit for eating. They
now shaped the course of their bark towards Aklin,
which they fortunately reached the next day, after a
most dangerous night, pulling between shoals during
a gale of wind. They found there but tuo English-
men of colour, who scarcely could supply them with any
fresh provisions.
They therefore set sail again for Crooked Island, de-
bilitated by the fatigues of their voyage ; their eyes and
lips being inflamed, and their whole face parched by
the sc' rching sun; their feet were tendered sore by the
effects of salt water, and thus they were very appre•
hensive of an immediate breaking out of the scurvy;
for their legs began already to swell, and their bodies
to be covered with pustules.
A solitary human being inhabited Crooked Island.
This man being the owner ef a small schooner anchored
near the shore, was one of those seamen who live con-
stastly on these dangerous spots, awaiting the ship-
wreck of larger veisels, for the purpose of enriching
.themselves by their fragments, when going to pieces—
(n other words, he was a wrecker). The crew of the
ship La mere aux huit Enfans offered to charter his
small craft, to carry them to Providence ; but the men-
tion of their shipwreck made him for a long time
hesi-
tate. He chn'e rather to go in seasch of the wreck ;
and not u,ittl assurei that their vessel was totally lost,
would he clnsent to furnish View the means to reach a
country from whence they might return to Europe.
ey got under weigh the next morning, but still with-
out any fres'r provisions, for the Buccaneer of Crooked
wand et ht r hadnone, did not choose to part with
gaily. At last, on their Ihrival at Long 'shod, t .ey

found some calabashes of milk, a most exquisite beve-
rage for wretches that had -been for more than eight
days exposed to such terrible privations. 'At last they
arrived at Providence on the eleventh day without
touching a morsel of bread during twice four and
twenty hours, and without eatables of any kind for a
whole long day.

BOLTON PETTY SESSIONS.

THE TILDESLEY WORKMEN.

Charge under the Combintion Act, sth Geo. IV. c. 95, and for the
Riot and Assault at Common Law.

SaxuaDay,Ocrusea7.—The presiding 'Magistrates, this day, were
Colonel FLITCH/La, Major WATKINS, and JOSZPN RinowAr, Esq.
At a little after twelve o'clock, James Green, Henry
Pendkbury, Jciery Crank, and Richard Brindle, all of
Tildesley, in this county., cotton spinners, were put to
the bar, charged upon two informations, on the oaths of
Thomas Fulshaw and Thomas Mullineux, with having,
on the 16th day of September last, prevented informants
from accepting employment at the Cotton-spinning Mill
belonging to Mr. Jones, of Tildesley, which, under the
above Act of his present Majesty, subjects the prisoners
to two months' imprisonment.
About a month ago, Mr. Jones gave notice to his
workmen that he should, at the end of a fortnight from
the date of the same, make a certain deduction in their
rate of wages, which the men not agreeing to accept,
unanimously turned out, and left Mr. Jones's employ.
ment. At the time the reduced list of wages was pro-
posed, a good spinner, it seems, could clear, after all
deductions, as much as 455. per week, and, in many
instances, where the family of the spinner were em-
ployed, 60s. and at the reduced list a spinner would get
with his family 40s. The old spinners having turned
out, Mr. Jones found it necessary to supply their places
with new hands, when many poor weavers readily
sought employment, where they could earn more than
double what they could in their own trade. Amongst
this class of weavers were Mullineux and Fulshaw. To
these men, it seems, the old spinners offered every
species of annoyance,- whom they designated by the
appellation of knob sticks !" and collected round
Jones's mill for the purpose of preventing the new hands
having admission there.
Evidence having been produced and examined, the prisoners were
bound over to appear at the General Quartet Sessions at Kirkdale,
to answer any bill that might be preferred against them for the riot
and assault, themselves in 301. each, and two sureties in 151. and the
witnesses were bound over to appear and prosecute.—ln the course
of the day the prisoners found bail.