The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

courage.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the last person on
board was taken off, and Mr. Littledale's yacht sailed for
the Mersey ; the Affonso followed ; the New World and
the Prince of Wales pursued their course, and the Liver
steam-tug remained until midnight, when all that remained
of the Ocean Monarch sunk, the lurid glare of the fire
disappearing in the gurgle of the water.
The following are the heads of " narratives" of the
disaster from the captain, the surgeon, and others who
were on board the ill-fated vessel.

The captain, after substantially confirming the preced-
ing portion of the above a'count, states that in five
minutes after the fire manifested itself the after part of
the ship burst into flames. " The fire produced the ut-
most confusion amongst the passengers—all appeared in-
fatuation and despair,—yells and screams of the most
horrifying description were given—all control over them
was lost ; my voice could not be heard nor my orders
obeyed. The passengers crowded in numbers to the bow-
sprit to avoid the heat of the flames: many. in alarm and

despair, leaped overboard, and, although spars and loose
materials lying about deck were thrown out for them to
cling to, a great majority of them were drowned."
Two boats were got out, but before the lashings of the
others could be cut they were enveloped in flames. He
also states that, " Seeing our disaster, the Queen of the
Ocean yacht, owned by Thomas Littledale, Esq., of Liver-
pool, with a party of his friends on board, bore down to
us, lowered her boat, and the crew, with indefatigable ex-
ertions, were the means of saving the lives of 32. In the
meantime, while the yacht, was rendering every assistance
in her power, the Brazilian war steamer Affonso, and the
Prince of Wales steamer, bound to Bangor, with the pac-
ket-ship New World, sent their boats, and were the means
of saving many that were clinging to the wreck. and float-

ing about on the spars ; their -exertions were great and
praiseworthy. The Queen of the Ocean remaind along-

side till three o'c

was possible to do, set sail for Liverpool. Mr. and Mrs.
Dow, of Glasgow, Mr. Southworth, and Mr. Fellowes, are
amongst the cabin passengers whom I know to have been
saved."

The fire was instantaneous, and in five minutes after it
was discovered the after-part of the ship was in flames.
He concludes by saying,—
" There were. I ealaulata,-About393-coula-alLagpther on
board, but as we had not completed our classifying ar-
rangements, the exact number I cannot positively tell.
There were, I think, 31 first and second cabin, and 317
steerage passengers; the crew consisted of 42 hands, in-
cluding myself."
The mate of the ship has also penned a narrative nearly
to the same effect, the greatest praise being given to those
on board the Ocean Queen, the Affonso, and the Prince of
Wales. He escaped in one of the boats, which he had cut
adrift from the wreck. He says,—" That being without
oars she drifted, with 13 persons in the boat, four miles to
leeward, when a sloop picked them up, and with four
hands, having procured oars, he pulled for the ship, and
picked up in the way a passenger who was clinging to a
life buoy. The boats of the Affonso were out, the admiral
in one of them, using the most heroic efforts to save life.
There were also two boats from the New World, and
others from other ships. At this time all the masts were
gone, all the deck abaft the forecastle in flames, and fire
bursting in holes through the side. There were about
100 of the passengers about the jibboom and the head.
They were screaming deliriously, and a number of dead
bodies were floating about. We at once attempted to de-
liver the people from the head, but there was great diffi-
culty in approaching her. After some time we were enabled
to rescue three, one man and two women, from the rigging
under the bows ; soon after I succeeded in rescuing a wo-
man and a child, but the child died in the boat almost in-
stantly. The Prince of Wales could not approach, but
sent her boats out." She furnished h;rn with more oars
and men, and he saved two persons, and might have saved
many more but they refused to lower themselves from the
bow of the burning.vessel. He speaks highly of a man
named Frederick Jerome, who stripped himself, and by
means of a line rescued 15 of the passengers, at great risk
of his own life. He then proceeds to say,—" Previous to
this the other boats had rescued many, but still several
individuals had fallen over while endeavouring, probably,
to escape from the heat, or to reach the boats. Many
were drowned. The whole of the upper deck was burnt
off, and the fire was bursting through the sides down to the
water's edge. Jerome having lowered down the last per-
son, a man, he descended, and we put him on board the
Prince of Wales, as well as the remainder of the pas,
sengers. I went on board the Affonso, where I expe-
rienced congratulations and every kindness. The Prince

de Joinville, the commander, and the other persons on
board, gathered around us. There were 139 persons
saved from the wreck on board ; many of these Were
women and children, partially naked. I saw all btisy
in clothing and comforting them ; but among the most
zealous, kind, and active were Mr. and Mrs. Lynn, of
the Waterloo Hotel, who were on board. Mrs. Lynn
went over the poor children, seized them in her arms as
they came on board, dried them, caressed them, and
covered them in the best way she could. Mr. Lynn
supplied the fainting with brandy and wine, and the less
helpless, with hot soups, meats, &c. The conduct of
both was the subject of general admiration, and the poor
poured on them incessant thanks and prayers. The
Affonso brought us to the Mersey, and the gentlemen on
board desired us, if we wished, to remain on board all
nio.ht "

The mate concludes his narrative without mentioning
the praise bestowed on himself. We understand, how-
ever, that he was highly complimented by the gentlemen
on board the Affonso, and that the passengers pressed
upon him gratefully with " God bless you I—you have
saved our lives."

Mr. Ellis, surgeon of the Ocean Monarch, acquits the
captain altogether of the culpability which has been
charged against him by a contemporary. In his opinion,
the captain and mate did all that it was possible for men
to do under the circumstances. The captain, in the first
place, took all the necessary steps to check the conflagra-
tion, and afterwards behaved with the greatest prompti-
tude but all his exertions were rendered fruitless by the

contusion prouuceu uy terror wnicn spread among the
paSsengers. The captain stuck to the ship until the frag-
ments of the blazing mainmast were faliing about him ;
,• ,

tie ma not leave until it was an impossibility any longer to
stand the heat between the two fires raging fore and aft.
He had great difficulty, in fact, in saving his own life at
last, and he ceitainly saved the lives of others in his in-

structions to those who hesitated to throw themselves
into the water, and there trust to the spars.—Mr. Ellis
was picked up by a pilot-boat out of one of the Ocean
Monarch's boats (the mate's) almost swamping at the
time by the heavy seas, and was afterwards placed on
board a Wexford smack, the Queen.

Some of the passengers, when rescued, were perfectly
naked. Mr. Ellis, like the majority of the other passen-
gers, has lost everything by the fire. As a professional
man, his sacrifices are even more to be regretted than
those of others : he has lost his diploma (granted by the
Royal College of Surgeons), all his instruments, books,
&c. Mr. Ellis states that the.fire first appeared in the
cabin, and he therefore questions the statement that it

was occasioned by the carelessness of an emigrant in the
steerage. Mr. Ellis was sitting in the cabin reading at 12
o'clock in the day, when the second steward rushed in

and said that the ship was on fire. A lady, of the name
of Andrews, was in the cabin, also reading, at the same
time ; she was greatly alarmed. He believes that this
unfortunate lady, with her daughter, a child nine years
old, has been lost. Mr. Andrews, the husband of this
lady, has been saved. At the time the fire broke out, a
great number of the emigrants were lying sea-sick in their
berths, and he attributes the subsequent confusion to the
alarm produred by these running naked on deck. In this
way many of the children were lost. The tug-boat, which
took them out of the river, had not left them half an hour,
when the first smoke was seen : had she stayed a little
while longer with them, every human being would have
been saved.

The Prince of Wales steamer arrived from the wreck at
this port at five in the afternoon. She had saved a great
number of persons, but had transhipped the whole of
them but fourteen on board the Affonso frigate. They
spoke in high terms of the kindness with which thay had
been treated on board the Prince of Wales ; and we are
gratified to announce, that a subscription, set on foot at
Menai Bridge, on their behalf, realised, in a very short
period, upwards of £6O.

The following statement is from Captain G. Dani, of
the City of Dublin Company's steamer Prince of Wales,
who, seeing the distressed situation of the Ocean Monarch
while on his passage from this port to Beaumaris, in

the most praiseworthy manner bore down towards her.
and was happily the means o! saving the lives of a large
number of the passengers. After the gallant captain and
his crew had rendered all the assistance in their power,
and had seen the last of the people taken from the wreck,
the steamer, having some of the people on board who
were saved by their humane exertions, proceeded to ber
destination, where she arrived at eight o clock :
_ .

" When outside the Light-ship T discovered a ship on
fire, bearing about twelve miles N.W.I immediately
hauled up tor her, and ordered one of the boats to be
got ready. In going along I discovered a boat with four
hands in it. I took her in tow, and in a short time after I
saw a man floating on part of the wreck. I sent a boat to
pick him up, and got him on board. At. this time there
was a great deal of the wreck floating about. I lowered
my boat, and sent Mr. Batty (the mate) and three'hands
to see if they could pick up any one alive. As Mr. Batty
was going into the boat he discovered the body of a child,
not quite dead, but it was too far gone to recover. I
then. proceeded to the ship on fire, and got three more
passengers that were floating. When I came up to the
ship she was in one flame from fore to aft. 1 did not
think it prudent to go alongside of her, but I came to
anchor close ahead of her. At this time the wind was
increasing, and a heavy sea running, and so much of the

wreck haiiging about the vessel the boats could not ap-
proach her with safety. I then got the passengers to
assist to weigh my anchor, and returned to pick up my
own boat. I then returned to the ship, and saw from
twenty to thirty people under the bowsprit of the ship.
I then came to anchor close on her starboard bow, and
got lines attached to the boats and saved every one that
was left on tho wreck-. At this trying moment Mr. Batty
was of the greatest service to me, as well as all the other
hands, who cheerfully and willingly assisted in saving all
they could."

The following account of the frightful occurrence is
from a passenger on board the Prince of Wales :

" About twelve o'clock at noon, when. opposite Point
of Ayr, I got the telescope to take a survey of the coast,
and, turning to the sea, I saw a cloud of smoke. which
struck me as coming from a steamer firing up ; but, as it
continued for some time with the same feature, I thought
that it might be a ship on fire. I went to Captain Dani,
and, on his looking at it, he declared it to be so, and im-
mediately bore down towards her. She then might be
about four miles off. On nearing her a couple of miles,
I was on the forecastle looking out, and heard a cry ; saw
a man attached to a life buoy, the boat was got down' and
he was picked up; and a child floated. past, which was
also picked up, but dead ; floating cabbages and pieces of
wreck came next, and then—horrible sight !—bodies of
men and women, just under the surface of the water, all
the way to the burning ship, which was at anchor.
" The Brazilian frigate Affonso was anchored a little
distance from her, and rendering every assistance with
the boats. On our coming up on her larboard bow, to
our horror it was crowded with poor wretches—men,

women, and children—banging to ropes, spars, and the
wreck of the foremast, crying most piteously to be saved
from their frightful position, the awful element fire lite-
rally chasing them into the equally destructive one water,
which was very rough, causing the vessel to surge ten or
twelve feet at every heave, continually immersing those
who had slid down the hanging wreck of ropes and sails,
on the chance of being taken off by the boats, which, un-
fortunately, dare not approach for fear of being swamped.
Then came a sight, sickening and never to be forgotten :
they one by one dropped off into the water, unable to hold
on any longer, either from the heat or from exhaustion,
we and the boats looking on, unable to render help further
than picking those up who were bold enough to jump.
"At length some twelve or fourteen were all that re-

mained; the sea got a little smoother, and our ship (the
Prince of Wales) went ahead of her, and dropped her
anchor, letting her drop down as near as possible. A
rope was then passed by a boat from us and eased away
to the wreck ; then a man, a credit to humanity, a sailor
from the skip New World, which was going out to sea,
stripped, and took a rope round his body, climbed up to
the bowsprit, and, amidst encouraging cheers from all
about, slung them one by one into the boat, and by that
means saved the lives of one man, aged seventy, four
women, and five or six children, the last on the fatal ship.
All that I saw saved were of the lowest class of Irish and
the manufacturing districts of Lancashire."

It is stated that one female was thrust overboard by
another. woman who was frantic; that she came in con-
•.

tact with another
she breathed het

3 in a dying state, and who, when
in the water_ fr.," na fl bllncr by

All the survivors who were taken on board the Affonso
speak in the warmest terms of praise of her noble com-
mander, and of her most benevolent crew. Everything
that that frigate had on board was liberally and bounti-
fully supplied to them. Biscuit and bread, meat and
vegetables, brandy and wine,• all were handed about with
unbounded profusion ; and we need scarcely say that these
esculents and -drlnltables were -rnost"aCceptable to the
wretched sufferers, all of whom were dre ched with wet,
yet parched with thirst, and most of whom were literally
in a state of nudity. And, talking of nudity, this most
humane crew supplied to the best of their ability, the
wants of the survivors, in this respect. To one they gave
a coat, to another trousers, and to another a shirt, until
at length, in this way, every one brought on board the
frigate had some essential requisite of clothing supplied.
Many of the survivors are to proceed to their destina-
tion in the United States by the Hope, appointed to sail
yesterday. Many were, however, so terrified that they
decline proceeding, and have had their passage money re-
turned. The passage money amounted in the.aggregate
to about £l3OO. The fare in the first cabin was £2O;. in
the second, £l2 ; in the state-room, £5 ; steerage, first
deck, £4 • second deck, £3 10s.
The following is said to be the number of persons on
board the Ocean Monarch, together with the number of
those saved and unaccounted for :

Steerage
Second cabin
First
Crew
Doctor

ON BOARD

SAVED

Queen of the Ocean
Affonso
Smack
Prince of Wales ..

To account for

32
156
13
17

CABIN PASSENGERS.—Mr. and Mrs. Dow ; Mr.
Southworth ; Thomas Henry ; J. K. Fellowes, and Mr.
Gregg,—all of whom are said to have been saved.
SECOND CLASS CABIN PASSENGERS.—Mr. James Sid-
dall, Maine ; Mrs. Howard and child, England ; Mrs.
Reynolds ; Mrs. Roper and two children ; Miss Maria
Bunning ; Mrs. Shaw ; Mr. H. Powell, Mr. Bristow ;
Mr. Murphy, and four others.

Few of the steerage passengers would be known by
name here, and we therefore do not publish them.

August 3, MA

The captain has published a letter thanking the gentle'
Men on board the yacht for their extraordinary exertioost
and expressive of his admiration of the skilful and sea",
manlike manner in which the Queen of the Ocean Wll
handled. - •

The sympathy shown to the poor creatures is creditable
to all concerned. Mr. Lynn, who was on board the Bra'
zilian frigate, as caterer to the distinguished party, Pr°.
vided them with soup and other necessaries.
A number of policemen's top coats, and other articlao
of wearing apparel, were sent from the Dock Police-offi
for the use of Cie unfortunate people, as they were landea
from the pierhead, from the different vessels which COII
veyed them into port.

The same spirit of humanity towards the survivors Per;
vades all classes. Mr. Baker, the comedian, suggests
benefit play at the Theatre-Royal, which will take Wae,i
on Thursday evening, when the amatuers who appeare,7
a year ago in the Twelfth Night, will again perform 03!
piece. The Brunswick Club purposes getting up an amft
teur performance at the Royal Amphitheatre; and 3"
B. R. Isaac has announced the diverting the proceetl the
his own Grand Concert, to come off this evening, Wi
same benevolent cause. When we consider the very ".1e:
pressed state of the times amongst all classes, we are 26,
dined to say (as Cowper said of " England" at largen
" Liverpool, with all thy faults, we love thee still."
In order to ascertain the number of survivors as near
ly
as possible, a meeting of them was summoned., on Su°
day, at Messrs. Harnden's office. Nearly 150 drew apt;
and although clothing had been urovided for manh,_

majority of the poor creatures were in the most pitiabje
and destitute condition. One poor' woman who
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presen

• c V 1 11.C1 taint.. Viler
passengers were teken to the police-office, cohere elotowe'
was provided for them.

Several of the -unhappy beings are in the Northern
Hospital, with fractured limbs and other injuries. Mani
of them are suffering severely from the long irnmerSion
in the water. Some of the invalids were conveyed to Cbe
Birkenhead hospital.
The members of the bar, still on circul, at once"got lIP
a subscription, and raised in a few hours £140.-
The stewardess lost her life in courageously attemptin
to get the powder out of the cabin. She was forced back
by the fumes, and fell dead on reaching the deck. The,
powder exploded with- a report like that of a cannon.
The vessel continued to burn until one o'clock on FrAci
child, and £BOO. It appears from the latest cone
day morning. One person on board lost bis wife an
,tures
that the fire was not first seen in the cabin, and theri was
no smoke there, and that it first showed itself near the
steering-wheel, where the store-room is situated. ilfr•
and Mrs. Dow, of Glasgow,.wererescued by the Affonso,
after being long in the water, and drivel by the waves.
from spar to spar.

A young man named Thompson, a seaman belonging.T
Liverpool, seeing the danger, jumped in the water, with
his child tied on his back, and held on by the chain cable'
also supporting his wife, who was•also in the water. After
the lapse of an hour and a half the child was washed away'
and the wife soon shared the same fate. The young raa°
was saved.

Censure has been cast upon the commanders of the,
Cambria. and Orion, whose steam-vessels passed in sight of
the ship. The charge is a serious one ; and it vver2,
wrong to give it credence until an investigation of the ease
take place: It is stated, that not knowing the extent 0'
the calamity, and seeing (in the distance) other vessels'
and a number of boats round the ship, they did not deera
their assistance necessary. The captain of the Caiobria
says that he had only as much coal as would take him t°
Liverpool, and that he did not know she was an emigral
ship. He had also two hundred passengers on board, an,
his decks werecompletely crowded with live stook, which
would have rendered it difficult to have rendered assist:
ante, with such a heavy sea running. His coals would
have run out, and he must have remained at art'
chor, which would have placed his vessel in great danger'
had it come on to blow. Captain Murdoch also acquit 3
the captains of these steam-vessels of all blame. He sal'
it would have taken an hour and a half after the was cis"
covered by thdm for them to have reached the Ocean
Monarch.

In the House of Commons, on Saturday, the flatlet
lor of the Exchequer promised that the fullest enquir/
should take place into the circumstances. Mr.
alluded to the Cambria and Orion having passed the shlP,
and trusted that Jerome, who had saved seventeen lives'
would be adequately rewarded. . _

The melancholy catastrophe was improved fr3m the
pulpits ofmnst.of the churches, and in,several sag
~collecti
were made in aue. of the unfortunate suffer
The United States Consul has addressed a letter °I
thanks to the gentlemen on board the frigate and the
yacht.

The Prince de Joinville left £lO for two seamen' en
board the frigate, wh) exerted themselves courageoo`4
during the dreadful scene. The Brazilian minister left
£lOO for the crew of that vessel, but on Sunday, when
this fact was communicated to them, they refused, to
receive the money, and wished. it: to be handed to the
surviving sufferers. When only a dozen helpless womenJ
and children remained on the burning wreck, paralYz,e"
with fear and•totally incapable of helping themselves Dr
descending from the tottering bowsprit to the boats which]
in the midst of the heavy sea and wreck, in vain offer
ti • • 1- •

am assistance below, the seaman, Jerome, strippec
self naked, made his way through the sea and wreck,-an`"
with a line in his hand, succeeded in lowering the last
helpless victims safely into the boats-, being himself the
last man to leave the wreck. Onlis arrival on board the
Brazilian steam-frigate Affonso, he was received on. the
quarter-deck by the Prince de Joinville and the Duke
d'Aumale, who, shaking him by the hand, praised, his
gallantry in the most flattering terins, bestowifig al
on Di
an ample gratuity. The blackened mast and so-ine of the
spars of the unfortunate ship, with portions of the rig-
ging attached, were towed into the river on Friday night*
by one of the steam-tugs which found them floating near
the spctwbere the remains of the. vessel went down. Ther
were floated into the Prince's Basin, where they remain.
Mr. Baker, the comedian, was not a passenger hy the
Ocean Monarch, as stated by a contemporary.
The lady of Admiral Grenfell took charge of a,
which was rescued from the burning ship. It has since
been claimed by a Mrs. Roper, who lies at the Norther
Hospital. The meeting between the mother and child
was most affecting, the poor woman having lost all hope
of ever seeing it again. The poor child had the horrors
of the scene so strongly impressed on its mind, that during
sleep, it was evidently, in imagination again amid the ter-
rors from which it had been rescued, frequently starting,
screaming, and muttering exclamations of alarm.
The Journal says :—On Friday we visited Regent street
and the other streets lying at the north end of the town?
massesp
orary
ur ef shi duemn :en s .
where the unfortunate survivors have taken up their ten?:
e Never t
hdid s e ws
survivors
beingsN vwiivtunresssp r
es such..
present,
qlsuleasi
of them are women, some with burns on their necks and

shoulders, produced by the blazing masts and timber 9,
and others with black eyes and contused wounds upoli
various parts of their persons, caused by frequent surge!,
on the tops of the waves against broken spars and the btu'
of the burning vessel. .

The Skerryvore steam-tug arrived on Saturday. morning
from the scene of the late disaster with five bodies (tvi°
women, one man, and two children,) and a quantity of
spars, sails, &c., belonging to the ship. The bodies hat,
been previously picked up. by boatmen, and when brougi%
to Liverpool were placed in the house appropriated for the
unclaimed dead, at the south end of the Prince's Dock
There were several bruises and cuts on the heads and face'
of the bodies, and one of the children had apparently bee°
scorched.

THE LOSS OF THE. SIM

EAST INDIAMAN °I.

FIRE.
The case of the destruction of the " Kent," by fire, i°
the Bay of Biscay, on the 28th February, 1827, bears con-
siderable analogy to that of the loss of the Ocean Monarch!.
although the mortality was not nearly so great, that
supply a few of the facts, by way of historical remio-
cence. The Kent, a fine new ship, of 1,350 tons, (only
50 tons more than the Ocean Monarch,) commanded bY
Captain Henry Cobb, left the Downs on the 19th Febrn;
ary of the year stated, bound for Bengal and China. 5!,'0
had a crew of 148 men, including her officers ; and
officers, 344 soldiers, 43 women, and 66 children, belong"
ing to the 31st regiment ; also 20 private passengers, rnakii
ing a total of 641 souls. The Ocean Monarch had in al
on board 398. being 243 short of the number in the Kent.
On the night of the 28th February, when the Kent Wl°
in latitude 470 30u, longitude 10as a gale came on I.'l°l

which gradually increased till the niorning•
About midnight the vessel rolled alarmingly. Shortly be"
fore this an officer, with the well-meant intention of 15d;
certaining that all! was right below, went into the 130
it
with two sailors, carrying with them a light in a nate,'"a
lantern; but seeing that it burnt dimly, the officer hani'as.
it up to the orlop deck to .be trimmed. He atterwar t
discovered that one of the spirit casks was adrift, and self
the seamen for some billet%of wood to secure it. In thew
absence the vessel made a lurch, the officer unfortunateA
dropped the lamp and,: in endeavouring to recover it', Its
go the cask, when it was suddenly stove, and the slmr..ll
communicating with the light the whole was instantly
a blaze.
As the spot was surrounded by water-casks, they had,
the fire might be extinguished, but it soon gained ii, r„,11
and, succeeded by dense volumes of smoke, ascended e 5
the four hatchways. The cry soon was that the dal' a
had reached the cable tier, and little hope was entertaiura
of preserving the vessel. The alarm and horror on b°B„..
became intense. With great presence of mind the ca'ret.
tain ordered the lower deck to be scuttled, and the I°vj nil
ports to be opened to admit the waves. The sailors
soldiers speedily obeyed, but could not until several
Plea
sons, sick soldiers, women, and children had 'foto
from suffocation. After this there seemed but a
of death—by fire, or by water. The scene was drea",7oo
The upper decks were covered with between 600 anicl.:ost
beings, many of them from sea-sickness and alarm 517n0.
naked. An explosion of the magazine was almost to
mentarily expected. The captain ordered the vessel 0
be scuttled forward to draw the fire in that direction .of
between it and the magazine there were several tie ate
water casks. The cries, the prayers of the helpless or of
meantime heartrending, while others fell into the stuPfroos
despair. At last the'joyful announcement was ma oved
the fore-top that a sail was bearing down, and sheYrntaia
to be the Cambria, a brig of 200 tons burthen, Ca .ere
Cook, bound to Vera Cruz. The boats of the Ken; twit
got out, and the females placed in them first, and e yet
conduct was that of perfect resignation, for they sver_ios
in imminent peril. A number of extraordinary, e'
were made from yawning death. Several soldiers ;06
rished in attempting to save their wives and childrenvba
several of the latter were drowned in the transit. brave
means of rescue taken by Captain Cobb and all the,roat
fellows around were fearless for themselves, and 9te pa'
humanity could dictate for others. Considering the viere.
ture of the circumstances, comparatively few lives -rea'
lb
lost. The captain was the last to escape,_ and at
Ts
baril. The congratulation of friends and relati%.
cor
oard the Cambria may be conceived ; and those °n pith
of her, soon after saw the majestic ship, which 1?_°►
_„rao
them, passed over the waters like a conqueror, Dul'
mighty pillar of fire, in the vast desert of the ocean'