Star.
London, England, 1828-10-11 00:00:00

MANSTON-IJOUSE.

Mr. Hnbler, the Chief Clerk, yesterday called the attention of
the Lard Mayor toe case of great misfortune, to the truth of which
be bore testimony himself, as well as to the worth and respectability
of the sufferers. He then read a letter which he bad received from
Yarmouth, from a widow Lady, named Meal'. and, which, he said,
repeated facts he was already acquainted with. The late husband
of Mrs. Mean, it appeared, bad been brought up to the sea, and had,
from his early youth, high expectations, all of which were frus-
trated, notwithstanding the incessant exertion of great talents. The
only thing, in fact, in which he could ever be said to have been
fortunate. was his union with a woman of the most amiable dispo-
sition and the most extraordinary intellectual attainments. The,
had been ntartied eight years. In the first year be was wrecked;
in the second he went out in the hope of redeeming his loss, but in a
gale of wind the ship foundered; in the third he made another
attempt, but he was a third time the sport of fortune—his ship was
lost. All the property he and his father (a man 84 years of age,
and now living in an almshouse) were po.sessed of in the world
were embarked in those se:ssels, and all was lost. His wife then
prevailed upon him to quit the element on which be had been so
unfortunate, and she undertook to give lessons in the different
branches of education she was competent to teach. Her health,
soon after she commenced her new avocation, became very bad.
She was compelled to relinquish the exertion of attending pupils,
and her husband, whom calamity was still hunting down, failed in
some commissions which he was employed to execute. After having
suffered infinite trouble and privation, he obtained charge of a
fourth ship, bound to Sierra Leone. In a heavy gale of wind be
lost his first mate and four men, and in exerting himself to save the
vessel he fell from the rigging and broke an artery. The distress of
his mind,tbe fatigue be had undergone, and the poisonous nature
of the climate, presented a combination which he was unable to
withstand, and he expired without the consolation of knowing that
his wife and children had a friend in the world.

Mr. Hobler stated that the afßicted widow was now in a most
precarious state of health, being attacked within the last two
months with an intermittent ague—she hut f..ur children, the
youngest of whom is a few months old, to support without any
means. Her deceased husband had been highly respected by
those who employed him; and if only ordinal), prosperity had
attended the zeal, perseverance, and talents of this child of mis-
fortune, bis family would not only be con.fortable now, but in-
dependent. As for the widow, she had borne up against such
an accumulation of evils, with singular fortitude and resignation;
and if her health was restored, would nu doubt he able to sup.
port her children without much difficulty, so eminent were bet
qualifications.
The Loan Mato said, that the case was one of those instances
of bad fortune, which w. old not fail to excite public sympathy.
He would take care that his exertions should not be wanting,
and he gave Mr. Nobler some private directions upon the sub-
ject of the application.