Star.
London, England, 1816-02-06 00:00:00

MORE DES.AtIFUL SHIPWRECKS.

In additiop to the 'melancholy lou of the Seaborne
transport, we have to add the wrecks of the Melville
and iloaditea transports, and the loss of a great num-
ber of brave men. Some of the letters received from
Ireland state the name of one of the transports
wrecked, to have been the Hound t this cannot be
the case-however, for by our Ramsgate letter it ap-
pears that the Hound only sailed from that port yes-
terday for Ireland. The Boadicea ought to have
been•substituted for the Hound in the Irish letters
• " Kinsale, January M.
" Went on shore yesterday evening, about two miles to the
westward of the Old Head, the Lord Melville transport, with
cenipan'es of the 65d Regiment on board. Owing to the
hurry sad confusion caused by the event, ►s of the soldiers took
to the hest, eleven of them were automaton*, drowned. The
reminder of the six companies and the crew of the Lord Mel-
ville remained on beard until low water, and were all saved. The
Deedless crampon, in company with the Lord Melville,' having
en board gee of the Sid Regiment, seeing her companion oo
shore, immediately came to anchor, but the cables were soon
cue through by the rucks, when she cams on shore, and dreadful
to relate, an/ out of the Win perished."
Auothet letter says, " Sixty only have been saved
out of the Boaaitea."—How many cf the crew of the
vessel are included in this statement does not appear.

FROM THE DUBLIN CORRESPONDENT, FEL 2.
It is with deep regret we state another very melan-
choly occurrence of Shipwreck, as furnished in the
following letter, addressed to the Commissioners of
the Board of Customs, by the Collector of the port
of Kinsale.

In a very laudable sensibility for the anxiety which
the intelligence must be presumed to create, the
Commissioners of Customs have hit it to be their
duty to give the letter publicity, es the most authen-
tic statement of a terrible calamity, cud therefore
kindly forwarded it to this Office for that purpose.

" Custom-House, Kinsale, lan. Si.
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" Me Leap MID Orawri.eattn-1 beg leave W Wolin you.
T bad an Etyma'. at five o'clock yesterday evening, from the
Lieutenant of the Signal 'rower a; the Old Had, stating that a
large ship and brig were cmbayed in Counznasherry Bay, and hr
feared, own the doperate state of tLe weather, they may by
ashore; and in halt an hoar user I had an aecuent to say, that
the ship wee on shore mar Carretstown Stried, and that the
brig was lying to an anchor in the Bay; that they were both
ususports trout England, with part ut cue 59th and 52d, I be-
lieve, tied Regiments onboard and that a boat coining from the
ship to the shore, with two °thesis, two Officers' wives, a child,
and some others, was upset, mid ail drowned.
" I lost no time in applying to the Conunailding Dicer Jpere
for a party of twenty soldiers and an °Seer, and althoosh the
night was most desperate and dark, yet with great difficulty t
scut the party across the Ferry here, at ten o clock, with the
Port Surveyor, Mr. Peaty, the Coast Officer, Mr. NIMMII.III,
sod some more Revenue (Accra, to be ready to give every as-
sistance pussible, both to prviect the vessel and save the Byes of
those en board.
" An Berms has just returned to me, with an account that
all the soldiers, and every one on board the large ship, got oa
shore safe (ricer those 1 me:Wooed who were lost hi the boat),
at low water, about' one o'clock this awning ; bat lam sorry to
say, the beg parted from bee anchors about two o'clock, and
went on shore, and 'knout every one on board has been lost;—
there are a few of them that got to the shore with broken limbs,
and the whole is one of the most melancholy sights that ever
happened on this coast, the Woad being covered with dead
bodies. The name of the skip was the Lord Melville, and had
slit companies of the MO, and two of the GM, under the cam-
mandaf Colonel Wttle, of the 62d, and sailed trom Ranugate
on the 25th; Captain Rarroan, of the 112 d, and the wives of
Detains A. Mancoa and Fawsom, both of the Stith, are the
names, I understand, otthose that were drowned. • The brig had
a pert of the end on board, from Dover. This information has
been given me by a Corporal of the 59th, who has just come
from the wrock.—My Lord and Gentlemen, your faithful ger•
vent, in haste, " JOHt4 WADE, Collector."

LOSS OF THE SEAHORSE TRANSPORT.
OVIIITSZIL rAIITICULAfts, /ROM TSB WATIKWOIIIO csaosucts
OW TUC 111 T or FBWIWAILT.
We have now to state the particulars of a melan-
choly and afflicting events
" The transport Oregon, (No. II), Tune, SCOTT Master,
ogled front a port in England, a few days age, for Ireland, (for
`Waterford or Cork), with a large detaclunent of the tifth Rest-
a*. SS board, cousin*/ of about le tracers, 127 men, 33
wain% and St children. On the morning of the 90th ultimo,
the easel was di i ven,loto Tramore Bay by a desperate gale from
the heath. The severity of the weather had compelled her to
cut her miaeu-mast before she came within the Bay. On the
forenoon of the day mentioned, she continued beating off, with
a view to get rowed Brownstown Head, and dim to reach the
harbour in safety, but totally without effect. The foretop-mast
fell, killed the Mate, and broke the kg of one of the seamen.
Two anchors were dies thrown out, but these were.dragged by
the violence of the Marty and rendered totally unavailing. The
vessel was then driven forward to within halls:We of the shore,
in presence of hundreds of people; who could give the unhappy
persons on beard no aid. It was low water at the time, about
nose. se. which on each a beach rendered every chance of escape
almost utterly hopeless. Most of them on board then retired
below, and :I:signed themselves to their awful and impending
fate. !be vessel struck epos the sands, about midway between
Transom sod the farthest end of the the Rabbit &STOW, and in
the course of a few mimeos went entirely co pieces.
* The number of those on, board. as stated by cafe account,
which we regard as accurate, amounted to 894. Or these 303
weer drowned, and 31 only saved! Fifteen of the crew perished,
the Capaut and two sailors having alone escaped; and such is
their distracted situation, that they can hardly describe the 'means
by which they were preserved. one of the ()kers who dung
to 101Mothlog Malin to the vessel, but what he does not re-
collect, had nearly ahaddested himself to his lite, when a coun-
tryman rushed into tlw sea, at the peril of his life, and rescued
the stuager from death. 'this was a noble trait of benevolence;
and greatly would we have rejoiced if we had not been com-
panies throw a cloud upon It, by usstances us a very driferent
condom. Several boxes and chests were thrown oo snore, and,
robbed with a non ateusal ferocity. In this case the Oaten

have bead the chief makers, end the present forlorn condrelrt
of the survivors amongst theist a:itiost heyohil e.e3eription.
"Mr. Wotan, eoast-surveyur, with his accustomed b • ma.. i!y,
the other court-olficers, avid Mr. Kan ts co v, Eta ever).
effort to give assitianee; but ft was nut within lift Ctingpa.ti of
human pow rto p. event di! .ad catastrophe. One serj..ant,
drummer, and is rank and. lal., have been saved. 'I hi -ty ti.rre
persons, and among them :4 children and some woo.eo, i.avo
been buried at Dromcaunoo Church. 140 whet b. 411. s had brto
seen on the beach when the last accounts lett Trainor,' )e,.elday.
The distance from this city is sit miles.
" NeMas oP Orrtcras Lose.—Major Dwight, Ciptalo
M'Gregor, Surgeon biacai. Assistant-Surgeon Lambe, : i:ute-
name Veale, Gent (A !Foam), Scott, and Gi eshir, hnsizus
Koss and bIUI, Quartet-Mayer Baird.
" be dews Of Mr. Baird Wli accompanied loith that of h 4
wife and two cMldEetl The fate or Sorg. stn Haien is par. icu-
larly interning. He was the principal support of a widowed
mother, two siston, and two brothers. To theft his warmest
affections were devoted, and the greatest part of his 144 was ex.
pended for their happiness.
" Yesterday another vessel, sup;osei to be a coal b, iii, was
forced into the Mote dangerous bay, but by skid at,.l o,trs
which astinaisbed the specie:tart she nude her way toss ar,is tis;
place of the bathing boxes, and no doubt was er.tertainett of her
safety. and of that of her crew."
',IIUATIIta PARTICULARS, Irttolll TIME CORK ADVSKTISItit,

RECEIVED THIS MORNING.
The following melancholy .detail of the shipwreck
of two transports, off the Old Head of Kinsale, has
been communicated by a Gentleman of that town,
who had an opportunity of learning the dre .dful par.
oculars stated. No later intelligence has been yt.t re-
ceived, though it is momenterily expected :
“ Oa Tuesiay evening last, two vessels were ob-
serve+) to be embayed between the Old Head of Kin-
sale, and the Seven lieads, the wind blowitia a gale
from thj-S.E. They used every exertion, and aikined
every etpedient to weather the Old Head in vain; the
peril of their situation increased every moment, and
towards dusk, an account was brought to Kinsale,
that the ship would in a short time be on shore, and
that the brig had dropped her anchors in the hope of
riding out the gale. On the receipt of this distressing
communication, Collector bleeps, with a decision
and promptness equally creditable to him as a public
officer and a man of humanity, ordered an officer's
party of the Limerick Whitt, under the directions
of Mr. Pear', the Port Surveyor to the Old Head,
to afford every assistance and ptotectiva in their
power to the unfortunate vessels.
44 Mr. Sleet= Newman, a respectable gentleman
of Kinsale, . who holds a Revenue situation, gene.
roudy volunteered his services, notwithstanding his
labouring under indisposition, and although the scene
of the apprehended calamity was altogether out of
his district, and the range of his official duty, obeyed
the call of humanity, and accompanied Mr. PaArr,
and the military, to the Old Head. They had to cress
the Ferry of Kinsale, and then to march five or six
miles through bye roads, to get to the pl.tre of their.
destination. When they !milted they found that the
ship had been driven ashore among the rocks--that
shortly after she struck, her boat had been launched
:lad manned with five seamen—that two officers and
two ladies, supposed to be their wives, an assistant
surgeon, a serjeant, his wife and child, had got into
her in the hope of gaining the shore—that in a few
minutes she was struck by a wave and swamped ;
and melancholy to relate, every soul perished, with .
the exception of one of the seamen, wha reached the
land scarcely aiive.
66 In a short time the body of one of , the Ladies
was driven ashore, and although her name was suffi-
ciently indicated by some papers fund in her pockets,
we forbear to mention it for the present, from °bevels
motives of caution, and the possibility of mistake.—
All the rest of the people of the ship fortunately re-
mained in her ; at low water, in the course ut the
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night, she was left nearly dry ; and at about one or
, two o'clock they succeeded, under PnoviDeeett, in
getting safe to land, to the number of about fcur hun-
dred persons. The ship, we understand, was a trans.'
port, called the Lord Melville, with detachments of
the 59th and 62d regiments for Cork. At the coin.
mencement of the night, the brig being at anchor,
slid farther off shore, had, to all appearance, much
'greater chance of escape than the ship. She was dis-
unctly seen by the revenue officers and military party,
with a light at her top mast till after midnight. The
light and vessel then disappeared altogether.
66 It still blew a tremendous gale of wind right on
the shore, the sea ran mountains high, the rain poured
down in torrents, and the night was pitch dark.—.
Under these circumstances, the most gloomy awe.
tensions for the fate of the brig were entertained by
the party from Kinsale. When the morning dawned, -
thew apprehensions seemed but too well grounded,
as the brig had disappeared altogether. However,
after a diligent search for some time along die shore,
the fragments of her were discovered among the
rocks, which lie between the two strands of Garrett's
Town, and where she had been driven after parting
her anchors in the night. Upon approaching the
wreck a most heart-rending scene of misery, desola-
tion, and death, presented itself to the view. The
vessel seemed to be a confused mass of timber, plank.,
and boards, broken to pieces and intermixed with
piles of dead bodies, men, women, and children !
Near to the wreck was a rock somewhat elevated
above the surface' of the water, and upon this were
seen about 80 or 90 poor human creatures who had
scrambled to it from the vessel, and were still alive.
as The people from the shore communicated to
them as well as they could, that their only chance
of safety was in remaining where they were until
low water ; but either through impatience of tee
misery of 'their situation, or from the impulse of de.
epair,. near 30 of them plunged ieto the sea, and en-
*avowed to gaip the shore, but in vain, as most of
them perished in the attempt. About 50 remained
on the rock until low water, and were all saved.—
We have not bees able to learn the name of the_brig;
she was a transport, and had a detachment of .the
82d regiment on board, bound for Cork.
61 We have bad different accounts of the number of
this detachment—the Kinsale accounts mike it very
considerable, and other accounts which deserve great
consideration, being from seperson connected with the
Regiment, making it much less. For. die present
while there is a possibility of mistake, we shied ab-
stain from mentioning the particulars, ot either esti-
mate. Suffice it to say that only fifty or sixty escaped
from the brig. We have heard the name of one of
the Officers of the 82d, whet was saved—we announce
it with great pleasure for the relief of bit family and
friends, Lileutenant Srameev.—Yesterday morning
the Sovereign of Kinsale, Governer &tower, and
Collector MEADS; were most actively employed in
prycuring Clothes; provisions, and medical eeeie4.o".
for the poor surviving suffeterw°


GRAJLIAV .P.dPICIS.

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CORFU, DECEMBER U.
. The first newn of the establishment of the Republic
of the lonian Islands was received here in a letter
from the venerable 'patine, formerly Metropolitan
at Asia, written from •Florence. This news was re-
ceived with is joy that is not to be described. The
happy consequences h, will have for us are beyond
all calculation. Delivered from the vexations of our
neigbboors, every where protected by the triumphant
flis of Great Briain against the rapine of the Cor-
sairs, our vessels will cover the Adriatic and the Me-
' diterraneari, and bring us abundance and. encourage.
meat to industry, which our valuable productions
insure ui when once they' can be sent without obsta-
cle to all parts. Closely naked by.a common Con-
- stitution gven us by England, it* blessing of free-
(torn, prosperity, and-Industry. must soon elevate the
inhabitants of the young State to a higher degree of
intellectual and moral cultivation, Willa may extend
• .from hence over the whole Continent of Greece--•-a
place of refuge for every Greek who desires to enjoy
in peace the prosperity he has acquired abroad, or to
withdraw himself from the oppression of the Turks,
increasing in power and populAtion. We shall be
proutrto disphy to Southern Europe the example'
and fruits of political and religious toleration, and
thus to form a link to the chain to embrace the na-
tions of the North and of the South, and brit% them
pear to each other.
NURVABERG, JANUARY 26.
The Nuremberg Correrfaomiene of this day contains a
better from Paris, of which the following is an tetra:A :
IS A few days ago • the Journal de Pali: was sup-
'pressed at the desite of the Duke of Wellington, be-
cause it contained a parallel between the Carthage-
Piens and. the English, which the Duke found offen-
...eilre. In other respects also the English proceed in
Paris as conquerors. For example. they cause plays,
• books and pictures to bit prohibited, which repre-
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sent their nation In a ridiculous light. 'rhos on the
6th of January a book disappeared, written upon
Englard, by one Pellet, who had been a prisoner of
war in that country. All the copies have been bought
up by the Duke, and the author has received notice
not to publish a second edition, under a severe
penalty. .In the same manner all the caricatures
sport the English, which were lately to be seen in
great numbers, have all disappeared."

LAW INIELLIGENCE.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH; FEBRUARY S.
THE KING 4. PARSONS AND KNIGHT.

These defendants appeared to plead to an indict-
ment, charging them .with a conspiracy to defraud
certain inhabitants of the parish of St. James's of va-
rious sums of money, under pretence of obtaining
exemptions for them from serving the office of Jury-
men. They pleaded guilty, and were ordered to be
brooght up for judgment on Friday nee..
THE KING V. 3041 N WILLS.
This defendant suffered judgment, to go by default,
upon an indictment charging him with fraudulently
Clarging George Edwards, the guide, sd. for carry-
ing a letter horn 134th to Kellsham, the regular price
being no more than one penny, he being a servant of
the Bath Post-ohiee.
'll.e Court sentenced him to six months imprison.
nient in the King', Bench.