The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

LIFE ON A DESERT ISLAND.

Captain Bernard, commanding the France et Bresil,
lately returned from Rio Janeiro, gives the following ac-
count of the delivery of four unhappy English mariners,
who had been cast on a desert island in the midst of the
ocean—a deliverance effected through the courage of that
worthy captain :—" On the 30th of November," he re.
ports, "we saw Cape Prio, and on the Bth of December
Trinity Island, having been until then delayed by calm,
or opposed by contrary winds. On the 30th the weather
was fine, a gentle breeze was blowing from the east-north-
east ; I passed as close as I dared to the Isle of Trinity
in order to observe whether any shipwrecked or lost per-
sons were on that shore. About 10 o'clock we perceived
a smoke on the south-east point of the island, and con-
cluded that there must be some one there ; presently we
saw signals of distress. The first object which caught
our sight was a rag tied to the end of a broken piece of
mast and waved in the air. Presently we saw two men
on the shore. Having brought to I approached as near
as possible to the coast. I sent out the long boat, having
on board four sailors of tried courage. I had placed some
provisions in this boat, and recommended the mate, who
accompanied the boat, to use all possible precaution in
order that no person might be too much exposed to
danger, the sea rolling heavily at the time, and threaten-
ing to render communication with the unfortunate mcn
impossible. I watched the boat and the men whom we
were attempting to succour. immediately that the lat-
ter saw the boat their signal dropped, and they ran to
the point for which it was making ; but the coast, bor-
dered by a reef on which the sea broke with force, could
not be approached on that side, and the mate was com-
pelled to look.abcrut for a more convenient access. The
shipwrecked men, four in number, followed the boat
slowly along the coast. Arrived at the south side of the
isle, the mate resolved to effect the embarcation where
rocks afforded an opening. The boat remaining without
the breakers, a sailor named Augustus leaped out of the
boat with a long piece of sail-cloth for the purpose of
forming a communication with the shore. The poor man
was unable to swim ; he was often covered, and much
beaten by the waves, but at last he gained the shore, and
each man having laid hold of the sail cloth the unfortu-
nate men were drawn into the boat, but not without great
as they were so weak iron
could make no moveme

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finger and expo-sure
the water. They

were En-glishmen. The embarcation ended

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he 29th ultimo, at St. Mark's
Rev. St. Vincent Beechey, M.A., CHAI
Esq.. surgeon, Swinton, son of John Lee Farr
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.ch, Mr. MARSHALL HENRY
Hyde, Esq., late of Scarishrick-
y, to Miss ELIZA M`KENZIE.
h ultimo, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. J. S.
M.A., the Rev. OLIVER EDWARD RAYMOND,

Oliver Roprio
to ELLEN JAI'

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