Star.
London, England, 1828-08-26 00:00:00

DISASTROUS SHIPWRECK.

A narrative fuller of painful interest than the sob.
joined has seldom been perused. The heroic devotion
of the fisherman who was instrumentrl in saving so
many liver, and his generous sacrifices afterwards for
their comfort, cannot be too highly extolled:
His Majestyh ship Tyne, Halifax. July 26.
SIR—I have just arrived at this port, with 152 pas-
sengers, men, women, and children, saved from the
wreck of the brig Dispatch, of Workington, commanded
by the late William Lancaster, who was drowned shortly
after the vessel struck on a rock, three quarters of a
mile from the main, and IS miles to the eastward of
Cape Ray. The mate (a brother of the Master), and the
crew, nine in number, were all saved, and are with me.
From the statement of the Mate it appears, that the
brig sailed from Londonderry, with 200 passengers. on*
the 29th of May, bound to Quebec ; that from the 19th
until the 29th of June, they did not see the sun, and
from the 30th to the 7th instant they could not get an
observation; on that day they made the land, which
they supposed was Cape Chapeau Rouge. From that
time they had constant fog, but having flirt with a S‘E.
wind, till it was supposed they were abreast of Cape
Ray, the course was altered to N.W. N. abbot 5 p.m.
on Thursday thsiblOth. At 6* p.m. a rock was dis-
covered three point on the let bow; the helm was put
down. but the brig struck almost immediately and filled.
An attempt was made to land the passengers from the
lower studding sail boom, but it failed. The pinnace
was got out, and instantly stove ; the jolly boat was
,lowered to try 84 save the women, but the surf was
too high, and after hanging on by a rope roc three
hours, the boat was thrown over the quarter, and the
Master with two passengers who were in her drowned.
The Mate succeeded in getting the long boat out, which
fortunately sweng clear of the brig, with about thirty
passengers in her: they held on all night by a rope
from the bows, and the following morning, the male
and three seamen dropped from the jib-boom with two
oars into the boat, and landed on the main those in her.
The stern of the brig fortunately fell on the rock when
she parted, and the majority of the passengers got to the
rock by a rope from it. From Friday till Tuesday even-
ing was occupied in getting them off in small parties,
through a tremendous surf, to the main. Four men and
ten cnildren perished from fatigue on the rock, and
between thirty and forty were washed off, or tell be-
tween the brig and were drowned. Those who were
saved are indebted for their lives to Vie exertions of
a fisherman named Harvey, residing with a wife
and eight children on Dead Island, about tour miles
from the spot where the accident happened. He had
picked up on Saturday evening a keg and straw bed,
close to his house, which led him to suspect a ship-
wreck. The following morning (Sunday) at daylight,
he suited in a boat only 12 feet long, with his eldest
girl, aged 17, and eldest son, only 10, as his crew, and
by six o'clock reached the spot where those landed at
first in the long-boat, and only six others who had been
.got off the rock, with the wreck of the jolly-bult,which
had been thrown on shore. ilarvey's know ledge of the
place and tides enabled him to direct the exertions of
the mate and three seamen in placing the boats. On
Sunday evening, at six P.M. 60 men, women, and chit-
, dren, were saved that night; during Monday, SO; and
on Tuesday all who were alive: the whole were obliged
to strip, to enable the seamen in the boats to drag them
with a small line through the surf, and were afterward;
barely covered with clothes washed on shore. Harvey
during each night had conveyed to his house those most
in want of support, and shared with them half of the
stock of provisi-os provided tor the support of his fa-
mily till the autumn ; the other half he gave to those on
the beach. Alter all were saved, he made two trips to
Port aux Basques, with the first party, and was about
to return to the wreck for the remainder when I arrived,
in consequence of intelligence he forwarded to Cape Ray,
where this ship was.--I remain,Sir, your obedient servant
R. GRANT, Captain.
Ti JOll3l Bennett, F.sq. Seeretary.lLloyd's, London.

The following intelligence, dated Alexandria, Jose
26, has been received :•••••44 All danger of blockade and
w..r is now apparently at an end, the PACHA having
got his fleet and transports in readiness to bring back
Isammi and his army. His Highness is on good terms
with the Allied Powers—so much so, that the Russian
flag still floats here as in time of peace.*
A letter from Sierra Leone, dated the 15th of June
last, gives an account of the illness and death of the Go.
vernor, Lieutenant Colonel DANHAM. The Governor,
it appears, had been on an excursion to the Bights and
Fernando Po, about the beginning of May, and bad
.eever been quite well efter'his return. Two days before
his death he was attacked with serious illness, which
increased till it terminated his mortal career, on the
morning of the 9th of June. Although Col. Deanna',
along with the lamented CLAPPIRTON, bad travelled
through the interior of Africa, he is represented as not
having had a strong constitution. His death is most
unfortunate, as the Colony was never more healthy than
at the time he died—only two white soldiers out of a
garrison of nearly SOO men having fallen sacrifices to
the climate since the Ist of January last—and not a
single Officer, civil or military, nor merchant, bad
suffered.

THE EVENING OTAR. 4

LONDON.

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TUESDAY. AUGUST 26, • 186 r.

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STOCK RECOANGF, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A very curious picot of loformation km seep received this mon-
ists at Lloyd's, and which greatly pussies our City politicians. It'
is a. follow s -4 Their Ageut from Gibraltar writes, under date of
_the 7th of August, that a preen has arrived at Gibraltar, who oar
he left Mabee nine days age, at which time that bland, as well as
Majorca, were in military possession of the French, that a con-
siderable naval force was laying at Mahon, and that a division of
French troops was repeated treat C,adis." Should this intelligence
prove correct, it must* the French squadron before Algiers who
have taken possession of them islands, as they are right opposite,
and excellent poets foe in. winter, shosild the Algeria's not make
peace : also the French Government nsigfit have received these
Islands as a security from Spain until their debt was paid. Upon
the whole, the above circumstance is nitwit locredable, without
k is sanctioned by the British Government.
• Brigadier-General Pegmatite, who was sent by the Governor of
Madeira to a* assistance of the &shah Government, states, in a
letter from Exeter, that he could not succeed ; and he met with
the same opposition from all the foreign Ambassadors, eteept that
of France, who gave him a polite reception.
Comas opened at aTi a for the Account, but soon after receded
to ayj a. at which price they may be quoted at present, with little
or nothing doing.

CITY, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

The report at Lloyd's.oi Mahon being takes by the French is
not credited by the Public, u accounts of web an important event
would certainly have 40111 e from other quarters in the Mediter-
ranean : at all Units it has caused some sensation in the City, buti
had ao +et on the Toads. which have remained steady at 117 C
eitereately buyers and sellers ; at present they may be quoted eni,
'eta fir nett time •7 j. No speculations of importance have taken
place; they are buy in making up their accounts for Thursday.
Which is settling day. The Exchange comes lower from
burgkby the letters this morning; Russian and Danish Such, and
also Coro, has got up on the Continent—a feature in the Foreign
Market worth notice.

PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
Baal Stock 1134 India Bonds NO 91 100
3 Per Ceps. Rad.42l I 1 South Sea Mock
Spar Ct. Cons. 474 4 4 ON Anindties
El per Cent. 964 f ' New Ditto
34 per Cent. Red. 944 I 41000 Escheq. Bits 75 4
4 per Ct.• New, 1014 II 1 i 4500 Ditto 73 4
4 per Cent. 1826, 1054 4 4108 and 4200 Ditto 73 4 4
Long Ann. 20 146 Bank for Acct. •
India Stock 249 Congas for Acct. 471 I I
FORRIIIN FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK.
Brasilia's DU SpCt. 424 Ruse. Dial 822.5 pee Ct. 961 4
D knish lids. 3 pet. 424 4 Do Acct. 964 64
Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct.l7 Spanish Ms Sp Ct. 11
Greek 84e,1014.5 pCt.lo} is ' Fr. Bente,. 5 p C.107f
Porteg.ll6.spC. ischange ssf soe
IMAcet 534 1 Breech Renter, 3 p Ct. 72f 75c
Pram. Bonds 4 p Ct 1034 Exchange. 231 50c
BRITISH AND Ft/WHOM SHARKS. TWO O'CLOCK.

nuns. PAID.
. •
United Widen 40 18 11
Alliance lititiskand Feeeign 100 10 ••:
The Jeornal des bebats--o—rv—ie should *rather" sak
perhaps the Viscount de CIIIITZAUSehteO). is indets•
• tigable in its efforts to enlighten. our • Ministers me 40
what should be the peaty of iffiglAud at the preicut
abetment. We take it very kindly our Parisian *ail.'
temporary, that he atmenliebts such a schemes;. 4. dry
ieunested enziety for ass welfare; and we deism* his
Grace the Duke of Wes.taaorost feels equalty graters*
We know it is declared, by bighead classicallinhority;
(side Pon Giammar, p. 36.) that fas eh h4scedoesrirl
het somehow or other, we have a Inrkihg partiality fo,
native' teaehing in cases of this kind. We have DO
doubt the Jour:sal des Dents is sincerely desirous of
promoting oar prosperity, and advancing our national

glory; and when we are duly satisfied that we cannot
°'-do either foe ourselves, we shall be ready to say, io the
language of an eteentOsynary petition, the " smallest
donations will be thaukfu,Uy received."
'The last shock given to the sensibility cf the Journal
des Dallis is our official recognition of the blockade of
Mildeirs.. It was bad enough in us to recognise the
blockade cif Oporto, on the Aims} ground, as our moni-
tor aSetteade. that Don Mzouat was the legitimate
Regain tit Poittsgal,Mting in the name of his brother,
DerePtitd; but to acquiesce in the blockade of Ma-
„l
awl%
.sow that LAM JIIGUILI4 the Regent, is trans.
ferMedi
.itsto• Don•lthaver. I. is a degree of national
posillanimity.. which is, quite distressing. " It is no
lehger.ll4we are tolds « a legitimate Regent by whom.
thi! 'blockade ii &Clara: it 'is a crowned Usurper,
wiese treason has Ciotied CO fly from his capital all the
repeesestatives of EuroPe, including that of England."
How. them. stands the case, even upon the showing of
theJourned des Deets itself P Why, that England has
dew ju4 as much as all the other Powers of Europe to
matk her disapprobation of the conduct of MLGU&L,
and we would fain know why she should do more
why. to use a homely phrase, she should be made
a " cat's-pair of," to waste bleed and money, fot
interests not exclusively her own ? If it can be de-
monstrated. upon any clear principle of international
left .thot either of these blockades affects maritime
rigbcs !which are worth asserting at the point of the
Amid. let France herself, or • let Russia. or let the
144terlands' Government, dispute the question. As for
°oriel ves, we shall know whist and how to move, without
ptossptiog. But, there is another consideration, which
no prudent Statesman will overlook—a consideration
fit:tided upon the difference between the possession of
a right, and the expediency of using it. Iris all very
well for these political He who *mild "coin on
the ninth part of a hair," to Ise a quarrel into flame, and
look on while it rages: but they who have to fight it
out, will think a little before they begin, and reflect
whether it is absolut:ly necessity p fight at ell. •
We ceo well understand, however, why not ooly the
reasonings of the Journal des Debars, but those of the
other ParisJossraals which have discussed this question
in the same tone. should be a little tined with sar-
castic exhortations to the pride and power of England,
is what relates to Portuguese affairs. There are per-
goes who would rejoice to see this countiy. precipitate
discussions which might prepare an arena for ether in-
terest! to tense into play, without the necessity of re•
soltlnit to intrigues of i Ilaehiavelian thaiacter. Thep
will be disappointed. Without receding' one inch from

Otlt just positimr—withoit compromising in the slightest
degree ouelegitimate *Tendency, or relinquishing one
iota of our undeniable • prettitssfnus, his AlAjesTy'sMj.
sister! will know how to avoid; at thy 'same time, all
rash *interference, all assumption of questionable autho-
eity. Nor will they, io calmly pursuing this dignified
eottrse,exhibit either that "political decadenee,"which the
Journal des Debates so gratuitously ascribes to our pre-
sent situation, or 4, blot out" their country from among
the influential nations of the earth by ig voluntary hu-
miliation: The energies of England do not require per-
petual flutter and bustle to keep them, as it were, sup-
ple and ready fot actions in the majesty of their repose
they ate as poteettlal, as in the vigour of their exercise
they are terrific.
The Journal des Debuts is no less &fortunate in its
(acts than in its reasonings. The o LORD Hum Ad-
xraatx," it informs us, so the Presumptive Heir to the
Crown, resigned his post on the very day that the official
regulation of the blockade of Madeira was announced ;"
ergo—cause and effect—the one was the consequence
of the other I We dare say, for half a crown, something
nearer the truth night have been obtained from the
porter at the Admiralty.

We received last night the Path Pipers of Saturday,
and the Gazette de France dated Sunday, extracts from
which appear in our front page.

The intelligence respecting the operations at Schumla
is of the less interest, as the more recent intelligence in the
extracts from the Prussian .State Gazette, in the. Dutch
Papers, contradicts the reports of Turkish victories.

It is stated from Constantinople that the Porte had
been informed, by the Minister cf.the' Netherlands, that
the efforts to induce Mr. STRATFORD CANNING tO re-
turn to his post had failed. This communication is
stated to have greatly disappointed the hopes of the
Divan, who assembled on the 18th to deliberate upon
the subject, and to take into consideration all the docu-
ments relative to the negociation—a circumstance which
was justly considered as a proof of the importahce at-
tached by the Porte to the sentiments of the British
Cabinet.

We received last night Dutch Papers to the 23d of
August, containing some very important extracts from
the Pratssiaa State Gazette. A series of Russian Bul-
le,ins, to the 29th of July inclusive, have been published
in the Gazette in question. which discredit the reports of
a victory gained by the Turks, given in the Paris Papers.
The latest of the Russian Bulletins is dated Camp before
Schaal; 29th July. It appears that on the preceding
day (the 28th), the Imperialists made an important
movement on the side of Slistria, in which they had a
most determined opposition to contend with. A formi-
dable force of Turkish cavalry;, supported by the re-
discibti erected before Schumla,. and by some pieces of
fying astiliery, made vigorous effort to dislodge the
Russians from their advantageous position in that dime-
tutn, and attempted to get possession of their artillery, but
ini:aits,for they were repulsed stall point 4 with the loss
of ipo killed= the Russians admit thata.they only lost
akk4led and 50 wounded.- • :
.``*-7
.:That the-Russians have great difficulties to contend
frith at- Schurala, from the nature of are place, is ob-
vious frhm the length of time they have been detained
before it. ,Hitherto they have merely succeeded in taking
various along positions in the neighbourhood ; and they
make it a' matter of boast that they fortified, on the
29th, the heights taken the preceding day, Win spite of
the fire of thrq enemy's redoubts and entrenchment; and
repeated attacks of his sharp-shooters." In all probe-
baity Scbunsla will cost them many lives, but we see
no reason to doubt their ultimate success.

The probable evacuation of the Morea by IBRAHIM
PAcMi and his troops is contradicted in the accounts;
we hive received chip morning by the Hamburgb Mail.,
his stated from Constantinople, that Count Guntasst.
trot's letter had so incensed the Divan, that it has advised
no further step towards conciliation should be taken, add
that the above order has been issued in consequence.—
This Ig:inflation is corroborated on the authority df the.
neraece Gaseite, which contains advices from Alet-
andria of as late a date as. the 6th July, stating that the
VICZROT bad resolved his tr6lss should not leave'
Greece without absolute necessity, and that Jima-
tux has been instructed to this effect. The French
troops, now on their way to the Morea, will therefore
find more obstacles to contend with in taking possession
of that country than was at first anticipated. The fol.
lowing are attracts :

CONSTANTINOPLE. Jutv U.
The Sultan has mat a relatimt of the Viceroy of Egypt to Ale:.
andris, to order that instructions may be given to Ibrahim Packs
to lima et an tstgociations with the European Admirals for the
evacuation of the Mena, and not to leave en any terms that scene
of denied's. It appears that Count Omilletainot's letter bu so
incensed the Divan, that it has advised that no farther step:towards
coseillasioa shall be taken, old that the above order has been called
for la consequeoce.
Perhaps the Divan again bop's, by pursuing its old system of
opposition to the Treaty et London, to create dilemma between
the Miles. However this may be, Ibrahim will not leave the
Morn unless be is compelled by force. The reachable map give
rise to some discussions between the three Powers, as two of them I
seem unwilling to employ farce. The following is the number of
ship that Arrived here tram lel to Ssth July :—Austrian, 13—
Sardinian, to—Paglish. P.

HERMANSTADT, Ave. S.
Accounts/rent RtKbarest announce that a large corps of the
Russian Guards (55,000 men it is stated) is expected shortly to
irtive there. A park of twelve pieces of battering woos arrived
On the slot (bit 'loath, at Persaljeuy, on the ►anks of the Argil,
'aide) be intended to boenbard.Gbiurgevo.
The method .t the authorities have at tenth succeeded in stop-
ping the progresi of the plague at illocbarest ; and it is said, that in
ether parts of Walbehia, where the disorder bad appeared, there
'had been no deaths far several days.

On the 26th ot last nienth the ResdeeZewoefieret State, Count
Bulged, and the Antic Counsellor, (`.OM Nall, toeing from
the Rambo heed quarters, waived at the L 404414140 a the Red
Tower, whales, as soon as the loarandise is ended, they will pro-
em' with their sok! 40 1,140041 and thaw to the Asdpipelago.
rpiont Wiwi is said to be appointed Ftwalpoteradarr to die Greek
c;oesenoieou For seine dew's* the forest near Jassy has been
infested by a bend-of robbers, width has plaellered many 0110411.11,

The Russian Genital, Prince Lebanese ltoettotsbY. wba la‘l7
passed through this fora!, was also attacked by these robbers, but
he and hie servants being wed armed, kept the hindini in awe.
and got date to escape by the swiftness of their hoists.
AUGSBURG, Ass, ts._ _ _

The Florence Casette has a letter from Ancona dated the 6th of 1
August, which says—" Letters from Alexandria of the 6th of July,
entirely differing from preceding accounts, say that the Viceroy is
resolved that his troops shall not leave Greece without absolute
Necessity, and that he has sent instructions to his son to that effect.
On the other band the Porte presses him for assistance of all kinds,
so that be disposed of his goods to all merchants, in order to pro-
cure some money to meet the most urgent demands."—Aigemense
Zeitung, Aug. 19.