The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-27 00:00:00

WRECKERS

The :scandalous system of the plunder of wrecked vessels,
carried on in various parts of this country, calls for the Inter-
ference of the legislature, in the shape of some more severe
penal enactment than anything now existing. to check a prac-
tice of so disgraceful and demoralizing a character. The fol-
lowing letter, from a respectable person in Carmarthenshire to
a gentleman of eminence in this town, details some abotninable
proceedings referring to the loss of the Brothers, from Bahia to
this port, which was wrecked on Thursday, the 19th instant,
on the Welsh coast : for obvious reasons the names are sup-
pressed :

" LLaarui..t.y, 23d DECEMBER, 1833.
" Being the only gentleman of Liverpool with whom 1 am
at all acquainted, I beg to inform you that a vessel of Liver-
pool, reported to be the Brothers, from the Brazils, was, on
Thursday, a wreck on Cyfiu Shidan Sandbank, upon this coast,
from which only one man (it is said the carpenter) out of six-
teen
was saved. The cargo is cotton and buffalo skins, but it
is thought the latter may belong to another vessel. The agent
of Lloyd's was engaged with another wreck near Swansea, and
from, his home to this would be about twenty miles. _Persons.
who remember the trade of wreck-plundering here for fifty
years, never
.saw a finer specimen of it than the present. I
should here •kate, that, whenever strong westerly winds prevail,
this neighbourhood is the acetic of more wreck of Liverpool
vessels than any part of the coast; and the idle people and
small farmers trust not a little to them for a living. In the
present case, they had what they term the best fair play from
*those who ought to• have placed centinels along the beach to.
collect and watch the property. It is said there were certainly
fifty carts in motion, night and day, at the property. The hags
of cotton were cut open and scrambled for, and the parts of the
vessel broken up and carried away, so that tbere ie scarcely a
house in two or three parishes without a share.
" Mr. has written to an underwriter at Lloyd's and
approved my writing to you. The question is, -wheth,r the •
merchants of Liverpool will or will not appoint a person k take
charge in such cases; one who can command a number of men
sufficient to keep off the depredators.
Should you take the trouble to forward this to the owners,
theyt will certainly Move as to the property being got together;
for it .is now in every house in the neighbourhbOdin bulk or
sample; or should you think proper to fOr'ward thii letter to a
Liverpool paper, it might be the more effectual in respect to
future occasions.
"The letter-bag was picked up by a freeholder here and
taken to KidweVy and opened. It contained letters from va-
rious parts of South America. The end of this affair (if it ends
as usual) will be a paragraph in the paper, drawn up by some
' good neighbour,' or wrecking brotltei, stating that every ex-
ertion was made to save the property,' but onsitting. the two
•
words—'for themselves.'" . •

THE WARRINGTON DISPENSARY CHARITY BAIL

(FRONT A CORESPOi6ENT.)

The spirit of liberality and general good-will was.never better
displayed than at the ball given here on Friday last in support
of this excellent institution. Never was there seen he Warring-
ton a more select and elegant assemblage of beatify and fashion
than that ofwhich_ to boast on ihatntt<svhnn it seemed
as if the witches of Lancashire, and the sylphs'uf Cheshire had
met to prove the omnipotence of their charms. To see these
accomplished and high-burn ladies, as each with her partner
went "lihnd in hand" through the ".confustiellriegular" mazes
of the dance in all ihe innocence and loveliues; Of their youth..
ful charms, was a sight that would have warmedthe heart of an
anchorite, if not to love, at least to unbounded admiration.—
Quadrilles, waltzes, gallopades, and the good old English coun-
try dances formed the chief amusements of ilia evening. The.
refreshments provided were on a
.liberal scale, and the music
was excellent. Amongst the band of beauties we particularly
recognised Mrs. P. Bold, who, retaining al the vivacity that
belonged to her in "days of Lang syne," lives but to convince
that the English lady loses her power of pleasing only when
the hand of death' haslaut an end to her earthly career. There
were also present the Prince sapieha, Viscount Molyneux,
Lord Loftus, Lord Hervey, the Honourable Mr. and Mrs. 'Wil-
braham, the Honourable Henry Powis, Sir John and Lady
Gerard, J. W. Patten, Esq., ALP:, Sir Thomis Hesketh, Bart.
and daughter, Major Corbett, the Honourable Henry Stanley,
M.P., Thomas Lyon, Esq., Rev. —. Blackburne, J. I. Black'
burne, Esq. and Lady, Mts. Patten Bold, Miss Patten, Mr'
Hughes.Sheadly, Mr. and Mrs. Weburton, Sit' 'R. Brookes
Bart. and Miss Brookes, Misses Clegg, Mr. Egerton, Miss He-
ron,_ Captain and Mrs. Clare, and the Misses Clare,-Messrs. J.
and G. Greenalls, —• Eaton, Esq., —. Aston, Esq., William
Flulton, Esq., J.. 1-1. Legh, Esq., Mr. Parr, Miss Gaskell, Miss
Dorman, Mr. Knox, Mr. Maddock Driukwater, Sir Thilip and
Lady Egerton, &c. &c.