The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-30 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT BEAUMARIS
REGATTA.
rFrom the Chester Courant.)

It is with much sorrow we announce that Mr. John Pindar
Wright, for two years the editor of the Carnarron Herald, was
unfortunately drowned on Thursday last, at the Beaumaris
Regatta, by which melancholy occurrence an affectionate wife
and six small children, the youngest not more more than ten
months old, were in a moment bereft of their deatest protector
and friend. In the Carnarron Herald of Saturday last, the
deplorable event is thus narrated:—
"If we ever had reason to bespeak the indulgence of the
public we must bespeak it now ; for it has pleased the Great
Arbiter of life and death to remove from our world, in circum-
stances that cannot fail to excite the deepest commiseration
and concern, the respectable individual by whoui, during the
last two years, the literary department of this journal has been
so ably conducted. For some time he had looked forward with
his ch.aracteristic energy, of feeling, and, indeed, with more than
usual delight, to the Beaumaris Regatta; and in the midst of
these festivities he has lost his valuable life. No longer than a
week ago he thus expressed himself in one of his leading arti-
cles - and who can now transcribe, or who can read the para-
graph—the very last that he ever wrote—without emotion ?
'The Regatta at Beaumaris, which commences on Tuesday
next, promises to be brilliantly attended, the country being full
of travelling parties, who are shaping the course of their excur-
sions so as to be present at the eehilirating spectacle. The
splendid and extended Bay of Beaumaris, surrounded by an
amphitheatre of dark and lofty mountains, verging their steep
sides upon its margin, is, perhapg„ better,adapted to give effect
to these aquatic exhibitions. than any other portion of the wa-
tery expanse which encircles our island. Only those who have
witnessed it can conceive the splendid effect to a spectator on
the green, of the picture presented by the numberless gaily-
trimmed vessels studding the surface of the waves; their ex-
panded sails and flying colours beautifully and strikingly con-
trasted with the dark purple background of the mountains.
Independently of the Regatta, which is to be conducted on a
munificent scale, the delightful little town of Beaumaris pos-
sesses many less adventitious attractions, which cannot fail to
be duly appreciated by strangers.'
" Having a boat of his own, he entered it as a competitor for
one of the prizes. The contest was to have taken place on
Tuesday ; but the weather was so tempestuous that it was de-
ferred till Thursday. In the afternoon of that day his boat set
sail, with several others, at about one o'clock. There were on
board himself, his son, a pilot, and a sailor-boy. They had
come, in returning, within less than a mile of Beaumaris, and
were second in the race; when, alas ! just as they were endea-
vouring to make a tack, a heavy sea beat over the stern, filled
the boat, and it instantly sunk. His son, the pilot, and the
boy were soon picked up by boats from the shore; but, melan-
choly to relate, he has perished, nor has the body yet been
found.
" We are only able to add, that no language can do justice
to the promptitude and zeal with which Sir R. Bulkeley, Mr.
Jervis, M.P., and Alr. Boggle, the Committee of Management,
and, in fact, persons of every class, whether rich or poor, ex-
erted themselves, the very instant the awful catastrophe was
perceived."
Mr. Wright was a gentleman of considerable attainments,
whom Providence had blessed with the most amiable of dispo-
sitions, and a clear and comprehensive mind.
"We dare not," says the Herald, "trust ourselves to speak
of his private virtues. What he was in the bosom of his family,
how cheerful, how indulgent, how truly amiable, and how
affectionately beloved, they best can tell whom this sad bereave-
ment has deprived of a husband's guardianship and tenderness,
and of a father's solicitude and example. His disconsolate
widow, with her six children, is left—we have too much ground
for stating it— in an utterly destitute condition. Her case
addresses itself with pathetic, impressive eloquence to the hearts
of the compassionate and humane; and we are persuaded that
the appeal will be generously answered."
We shall esteem ourselves most happy if a few benevolent
and kind-hearted souls in this neighbourhood should enable us,
with our own mite, to remit a trifling sum for the benefit of the
. afflicted widow and her six fatherless children. •