Star.
London, England, 1826-09-14 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY .ACCIDENT•

The accounts Which have appeared in the Papers of
the lamentable accident on. the River to Mr. Brown,
R.N. and two other individuals, on Sunday last, are in-
accurate in most of the particulars. A Coroner's In-
quest was held on Tuesday, at Padfeet, near Essex,
upon the body of one of the unfortunate sufferers, when
the following circumstances were stated in evidence:
_ _ .

Mr. Lynch, a feather-merchant in Moorfields, and his
wife, had been for some days on a visit to the family of
Mr. Brown, the Master Intendant of Woolwich Dock
Yard, whose son, a fine youtbnf about eighteen, a Mid-
shipman in the Royal Navy, returned to England from
a foreign station, about a month ago, in the Briton fri-
gate. Sunday morning it was proposed to take a sail
in A small sloop-rigged pleasure vessel, of about four-
teen tons, for merly belonging to the Commissioners of
the Dock Yard, and as soon •as the tide setved, Mr.
Brown, jun. Mr. Lynch, and Mr. Burleigh, of Wool-
wich, accompanied by a labouring man who is em-
ployed in the Docks, (an old man of war's man) to assist,
set sail down the river with a westerly wind. Mrs.
Lynsh was to have accompanied them, but suddenly
became rather unwell, and declined the trip. The boat
reached G:eenhithe (where.the writer of this statement
saw them) about twelve o'clock, and after taking some
refreshments at Mr. Sharpe's, the White Dart Tavern;
they again got under weigh, intending to return to
Woolwich to dinner. This was about half-past one
o'clock. The wind blew fresh, and by the advice of the
Greenhithe watermen, they took a single reef in the
mainsail. They turned up as far as abreast of Putfieet,
when the wind freshened still mere, and was very puffy,
and by the advice of the man ofwar's man, they lay tr,
to take in a second reef. Mr. Blown was then at the
helm, and very properly kept the boat's head well in the
wind for some moments; but, unhappily, before the
task of taking in the reef was completed, he put the
helm a-weather, the sails filled, and a strong puff
coming just at that moment, she went on her beam
ends, and sunk almost instantly. The man of war's
man, finding the boat sinking, sprung from her side,
and being a tolerable swimmer, struck out strongly,
and was picked up by some watermen, who put off as
speedily as possible from Purfleet. Mr: Brown and
Mr. Burleigh went down with the boat, and were not
seen after. Mr. Lynch, who lost an arm some years ago
by an accident, and had a substitute of cork, swam for
some time, and then sunk, but having again risen to
the surface, he was taken up by some waterman, and
carried' ashore, life, however, had fled. No medical aid
could be procured at a less distance than four mijes, and,
before that could arrive, all hope of resuscitation was,
of course, at an end. The watermen, and several ships'
boats, dragged for the bodies of Messrs. Brown and
Burleigh during the whole of Monday, but in vain.
The Coroner's Jury returned. a verdict of—Accidentally drinimed.
Mr. Brown was a fine young man, and had just served the usual
time as midshipman to enable him to pass for Lieutenant. It is
rather singular that the Briton, in which he served, after her arrival
in the river, was anchored for some days close abreast at Puriees.
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The Dart, Captain Face, has arrived from South
America, having, amongst other freight, about forty
tons of copper ore from the Bolivar Mines.
Letters from Odessa to the 21st of August, state that
tro favourable result was expected from the conferences
at Ackermann, as the Turkish Commissioners had or-
ders to insitt on the restoration of the Asiatic fortresses,
and the Russian ones were commanded not even to suffer
the question to be raised.
Yesterday, whilst three men were engaged pulling
down some old houses in the Dover-road, Bermondsey,
for the erection of a new Chapel, one of the floors gave
way, and buried them in the rubbish. They were dug
out in a dreadful state, and taken to the Hospital.
Mr. GRERN ascended in his balloon, accompanied by
a young Lady named SPOONER, at Bolton, on Monday,
and descended in safety at Chadderion, near Oldham.
A number of Noblemen and Gentlemen, many of
them married, base been lately annoyed by certain circulars which
are sent to them on their arrival in town. The following is a copy
of one of them

" Should happen to be at this time in town, and tould
make it convenient to condescend to call on the Lady as per en-
closed card, in the courses"( to-morrow afternoon, a communication
to confance, pertaining to another, may be expected of an assured
interestiug, as frtbumed grateful, nature."
" Tuesday evening."
The card Is—" 31. Le Roy, W, Old Cavendish-stmet."
The London Sessions *ere held yesterday, but the
business was confined to one or two assaults not worth
notice.

ILAMSGATE, SSPT. 11.

This plate is quite gay, from the variety of company
and the number of yachts, as well as other shipping,
whlrb have been driven into the harbour through stress of
weather. The most conspicuous yachts are those of Sir
W. Curtis, the Trinity buoy yacht, and Sir Godfrey
Websters. The latter yesterday bade a very splendid
displiy.of Hags in. tbe rigging, which drew down mul-
titudes of the Cockney tribe to inspect it and make their
critic a 1 feiharks.—Lord Harborough left this place last
week in his beautiful yacht; but having encountered
some severe gale;, in which he lost his fore-mast, he has,
been obliged to take refuge in the harbour of Margate,
to repair.

The weather has been so boisterous of late, that the small craft
have been wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, and nothing but peti-
tions are going about, to relieve the shipwrecked mariners. One
vessel (the Eliza and Jane), from Wales, laden with tin and Iran,
was a 'complete wreck ; but fortunately no lives Were lost. The
Captain's wife was lashed up in the rigging fdr many hours, Until
boats went off to rescue her, and many others At the ere*. The
hull may be seen at low water, and every effort is making to rescue
her cargo. Two or three fishing boats, which went off to her as-
sistance, got stove in, and Were lost. Yesterday above 200 men
were working at her, to save what they could. Na less than three or
four wrecks have taken place oh the French coast, near Calais. The
live stock on board the whole appears to have been abandoned, and
yet few boats liked to venture out in pbrsuit of the poor animAs. A
Vessel laden with granite, for the new church at Margate, from
'Devonshire, has been wrecked ; and. I am sorry to say, that all
the crew except one have been consigned to a watery grave.

ALLIANCE GRANITE AND CHINA CLAY
comPANY.
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Yesterday, an adjourned Meeting of Scripholders was
held at Batson's Coffee-house, Cornhill, for the purpose
of taking into consideration what legal proceedings ought
to be adopted against the projectors of the Company and
others, in order to the recovery of the deposits paid.
Mr. CLARK, the Chairman, expressed his regret that
the meeting was so thinly attended, notwithstanding the
importance of its object. Before entering on the imme-
diate subject for consideration, he took occasion to ad-
vert to a circumstance which related to the British Iron
Company. It was said by a certain Gentleman that he
(Mr. Clark) had threatened the Directors of that Asso-
ciation, unless they agreed to admit him as a Proprietor.
Now this was a most unfounded imputation. All he had
said to the person who informed him that no shares were
to be transferred to his name, was, that he would expect
an explanation of the grounds of this refusal, or that he
would call a meeting to elicit one. As to the business of
the present meeting, the facts of the case were too well
known to require much recital or discussion. The most
prominent feature in the transaction was, that property
in Devonshire was purchased by an individual for 1501.
and sold by him to the Company for 2,1001. The
Gentlemen who went to inspect the ground, found it was
nothing but a barren and unproductive spot. In fact the
whole proceedings of the Company were very similar to
those of the Cornwall and Devonshire Mining Associa-
tion. It was even said that there never was a prospectus
issued, but that the entire scheme was set on foot for the
purpose of fraud ; and some of those who concocted it
were concerned in so many other similar transactions,
that they went by the name of the Lothbury Gang,
their house of meeting having been at Lothbury. As
he understood that some of the Directors were willing
to get rid of the business, he would propose the' appoint-
ment of a Committee empowered to confer with the
Directors, in order to bring the matter to as satisfac-
tory a termination as the circumstances of the case
would admit.
After some conversation, it was resolved that a Committee, eon-
'fasting of Messrs. Clark, Scurr, and Chandler, should be appointed
for the purpose of adopting such legal measures as might be deemed
advisable, and that a subscription of five shillings per share should
be entered tato for the purpose of carrying those measures int, effect.