The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-03 00:00:00

GALLANT CONDUCT OF THE COAST GUARD AT

ST. ANDREWS.
RESCUE OF A BRIG AND THIRTEEN MEN.

We have had several opportunities of remarking upon the
prompt and successful efforts of Lieutenant Cox and his
coast guard in rescuing vessels and men from death and de-
struction, or-in assisting, as on a recent mournful occasion,
to secure property and assist sufferers when a shipwreck has
actually taken place ; hut on no occasion has the intrepidity
and judicious conduct of this humane and highly meritorious
officer been more signally and happily evinced than on Friday
evening last. For many days s dreadful sea has been breaking
upon our rocky and unapproachable coast, and even when
the wind had, on the night of Thursday, shifted to the south-
west, the roll of the sea from the east was undiminished.
Six vessels which were labouring all day in the bay, and now
and then trying to take the harbour, were deterred by the
heavy swell that rolled in the fairway from making the
attempt. It was indeed, about one o'clock, a most magnificent
scene, and witnessed by hundreds of spectators. The vessels
lying-to, or slowly tacking, preienting their broadsides to
the unbroken swell, and sinking alternately so deep as to
render their hulls altogether invisible, and then coming
slowly and majestically into view, and titling lightly aloft as
if in danger of being projected into the air—very much after
the fashion of the sea-fowl which rode the waves in miniature
fashion at no great distance. At this period, and when the
shore was one mass of fermenting turbulence, the life-boat
was seen making its way most majestically through the
ground swell. " taking the ruffian billows by the tops," and
boldly bearding the overtopping and all but overwhelming
surge. It was the undaunted lieutenant and his crew, with
the addition of a few strong and fearless fishermen, resolved
to save from a watery grave, or themselves to perish in the
noble attempt. A brig had been observed for a considerable
time in the neighbourhood of the fatal Broach Bank, near
the mouth
,of the Taw, manifestly in the greatest danger of
strikiugr d,
immediately to le)ieence"s,u:inthtlYtil 40Ufealliaort0712(14.4 Capt.gg
Cox saw and at once estimated the danger—knowing that if
the wind should shift (as, from the run of the waves, it was
likely to ,do) towards the cast, no power on earth • would
prevent the most fatal consequences. About four- o'clock
he and hit brave crew were seen in the bay nearing the poor
vessel, which, on 'aCCOlint of the ebb tide, was now every
in danger of striking the bottom. Their approach,
was not perceived by the captain or crew till they
instant‘h°erw eeevleors'e upon them, and the effect which the discovery had •
upon all on board may be more correctly imagined than it
very feeling gave energy and effect to the
can be expressed. Life was now, in all human probability,
stehceured, and this
etflubirptti;s:hicb followed to save property likewise. With great
James
vessel proved to be the
care, and no little risk, the ship was at last conducted into
,foolrlodwe deedp thel hlifaem-beosatHlay alongsidechinson of
master,he
‘lvsiatbheallacaarigulo Aofmcioaolfs Afrboernrdee
Shields to Dundee. She was
quite new, of 227 tons register, and built for the West India
trade. The crew amounted to 12, exclusive of the son of
onNevoef
ktilLOßn'noterhso,wwho was n board as a passenger.
Humane Society,
this.; but this we are sure of, that if our magistrates and our
matheGovernment of our country, or any
regard or
of may reward such conduct as
leading men out of the magistracy do not immediately set on
Captain Cox, they will lose an opportunity of foot a subscription foyr
Plat, suitably
doing justice
to themselves and to their feelings, inscribed,
.to
and do an injustice
not only to a meritorious .offieer
even to the cause of humanity in geTldratelloi.v.eifde citizen,e.a but

—The
faotifiel‘r I°4.
solitary not more for .tia.liieiilsaitieiuMsicras;
Lewis, and
Ma. IYE CAMP, mu ACTalt.
Charles Kemble was a great favourite
elicited her pal ticular approbation,
talent than for the undeviating modesty of his
He was in the habit of announcing himself by a
at the street-door, a practicce upon which she once tiata rap
proper, good humouredly, to lecture him. " My dear, sir,"us-ai -
she, "1 am told that you, actually come to my door with.da
single knock. Let me beg of you to alter this. You are
far too modest : there are many, I assure you, much your
inferiors, who are so furious in signifying their arrival, that
one is apt to think this is the only way they have of making
a noise in the world. Be assuredrtalent is often overlooked
in this
ttns great town for want'of a little clatter preceding it,”—
Life and Cerretpoudence of M. G. Lewis.