Star.
London, England, 1816-04-10 00:00:00

JERSEY, APWL G.

On Saturday, the 23d ult. the French Government
brig, 11. Balance, from Havre and Cherbourg, bound
to St. Alines with several families, passengers, to the
number of eighty persons, besides the ship's couwpani,
who intended to proceed thence to the Island of
St. Pierre Matisselon, near Newfoundland, was
wrecked on a ledge of rocks, called the Dirouelles,
about two leagues Northward of this island ; when,
melancholy to relate, one man and 35 women and
children found a watery grave. The survivors of
this heart-rending scene, among whom were several
women and children, were conveyed from the wreck
in boats, early nest morning, in the most deplorable
and helpless state, to Itozel fay, where they were ac-
commodated in the Barracks, and had the most hu-
mane and unremitting attention shewn them by the
detachment of the Sth Royal Veteran Battalion, now
stationed t here. . .

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Our worthy Lieutenant Governor, upon hearing
the particulars ot this unfortunate event, sent the pro-
per Oflicers to issue what supplies the exigency ot
the case might require.
The inhabitants, always forward in the cause of hu-
manity, also contributed liberally to the relict of the
sufferers.—On this occasion the C:Jmmand‘r of the
Forces has issued the following
GENERAL ORDF.RAt
•• Sr. Helier'. (Jersey), March
" The Commander of the Forels has leartit tl, wi hit fui re
satisfaction, the hunrane care and ready attention :11Firtleil by the
Detachment of the tith Royal Veteran Battalion at lkozel to eL
surviving sufferers ot his Mott Christian Majesty's Ve•S44, la Be.
lance, wrecked off the Dirtituilles on the nit;ht cif the itiatant,
in givieg up to them their nu sses, clothes, mid lie.'.4. lie is con.
(-Arm hum tnity as well as bravery is the dbaracteristic of a Bri-
tish soldi. r; :aid to the seli.approhation of their feeling hearts lie
d. strou • thus publicly to add his own,
_ and requees Lieutettant-
Colonel Co it LA N will dirt a Captain MAc I to iognity the
same to the detachment under his command." _ _

The Prefect ot St. Malees, in a letter to Lieute-
nant Gtneral Sir HILGROVE TURNER, has expressed
the high sense he entertains of the kindness and hu-
manity shewn to his unfortunate•countrymen, and his
admiration ot the beneficence which all clasi,•e,civil
and military, manifested in :.upplying their wants.

We are sorry to announce the loss of the IsTrit fii.
gate with part of her crew, off Cape de Gat.
The Jamaica Mail has brought a conflirratiGn
the intealit4ence that Santa Fe had falicii ifflo the
hands 01 the royalists, :Our t smart actia ; Gene, Al
Nittutuo himself commanded on the occasion, The

insurgents are worsted in every direction, and there
appealed little chance of their recoveting their lost
gtound. Nit:umLa, the Insurgent who w.
taken in Mexico, has been executed.

The iollowing is an extract of a letter from a young
Gentleman at Aux Cayes, to his lather, dated
bruary 10, ISIG
66 You of course knew of my having gone to
Carthagena, in July, 1814., where 1 remained until
the place was besieged by the Royalists, who came
before it in the latter end of September last, with a
force of 51 sail of armed vessels and seven thousand
troops ; we were not at all prepared fur such•an ex-
pedition; had only provisions for IS days when it
presented itself ; and the troops having landed, lock
possession of the intetior of the country, so that it
WAS impossible to receive any assistance front that
quarter ; however, in consequence of the blockade
not being so severe at first, as might have been 3p
prehended, we received by sea some few supplies oh'
flour, &c. from Jamaica, which lasted us until the
3Uth of October ; the blockade, then finding we were
completely reduced, became so strict that inahing
could pass them, consequently we were minced to
the extremity of eating the horses, mules, &c. in the
town ; this WAS a supply only for Q 3 di9s, at the
termination ot which necessity compelled us to cora-
sume even the hides torn from our trunks and chairs ;
nay, rats, dogs, and cats, at last were substituted.
" On the 4th of December last we found ourselves
so completely put to it for subsistence, that the Chiefs
resolved upon evacuating the place, rather than
yielding themselves up to the barbarous General Mo-
rino, who threatened, on his ever gaining the city, to
put every soul to the sword, without any respect to
persons or nations. This resolution being pin into
execution, we accordingly left it on the Gth of De-
cember, in privateers and other armed vessels of the
States amidst the fire of the enemy. My employer,
Mr. Hyslop, who had an armed brig there of his own,
loaded it with all the goods we had then on hand,
giving me a charge of the same, to proceed here,
while he himself proceeded in a privateer; he, I am
sorry to say, was taken prisoner, in consequence of
the vessel being disabled by the fire of the enemy—
what his fate will. be Gon only knows.—P.S. During
the 14 weeks siege. 4600 people died in the streets of
hunger, and 320 on the day ot evacuation."