The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-28 00:00:00

DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK.

Mr. F.tlitor-1 take the liberty to send you the fol-
lowing for publication. It is, perhar, die most dis-
tresingshipwr ck that ever occurred on Lake Ontario.
I am, m ith the greatest respect, your's, &c,
H. CASE, Post• Master.

Ids erpool, (Onondaga ('o.) Oct. 16, MAL
A gentleman who arrived at this place yesterday,
from Salmon river, gives the following account of the
loss of the British schooner Asp, of Fort George,
(Newark) Capt. Prossey, from Newark, bound to
Kingston. At day-break, on Thursday morning last,
blowing a gale from the N. W. a vessel was descried
in the offing, from the mouth of the Salmon river.—
At right o'clock she was driven in un the bar, and ap-
peared to be a schooner, with both masts alongside. A
man was seen standing at her night heads, making
some feeble signals of distress. We immediately
manned a bust from the river, and several attempts
uric 111:111e to gain the wreck, but all in vain, the sea
breaking over her in the most frightful mariner. At
one o'clock, the wind having in souse measure abated,
we sin u ceded in boarding the wreck, and brought oil
James Youngs, seaman, and MisaJaue Whams, su hie'
lady, asseuger, the only two survivors out of eleven
souls, a ho left Fort George un Monday morning last.
'flue lady oas found lashed to the windlass, it
an-I in a state of insensibility. Youngs was
apparently in a state of great exhaustion, kneeling by
the h. t- with a turn of sable round his midst :
he had a linger broken on one hand, and a thumb on
the ether, and was otherwise much bruised. Youngs
oas a sCalllall about 3.' years of age. The lady was
Wig min; trues Queenstown, Upper Canada, to Quebec, !
on lure way to Ireland—a gold watch which she ear-
tied in her bosom is the onl) article she has saved, the
cabin being washed open and dead lights stove in by
the sea. All the passengers' baggage is supposed to
have been lust. She stales that she is twenty-four
years of age, that she had been on a visit to her bru•
titer at Queenstown who died in May last, that there
were several other passengers on board, live of tvl ,!
including a man, wife, and child, died in the cabin be-
tore the schooner tighted. She gives the following ac-1
cnn nt of the loss of the vessel :—Left Newark on Mon-
day morning aid' light breezes and pleasant weather.
31on•a) night light air sad calm ; on Tnesday morn-
ing at sun list., a small cloud was seen in the NAY.—
The captain said we should have a squall, and ordered
the sails reefed; at half-past eight o'clock the squall
commenced, with such violence we were obliged to I
!ay to. and did not bear away again until Wednesday
merving about eight o'eock, when it was supposed
the gale uas user; in less than two hours it commen-
ced again, with reduubled violence ; hove to, and co:i-
t:toted to lie by until we capsized. Before noon the
schooner had sprung a leak; the leak continued to
;rain on the pumps until the staves were all ad -at in
the hold. About twelve o'clock at night the cabin
bulk-head started, and the staves floated in the cabin.
At three o'clock 31. the vessel being completely
aterlogged, fell over on her beam-ends ; the lanyards ,
were so at cut away and she righted with the loss of
her masts ; the taptaia continued at the helm, until!
backwater rendered it useless; he then observed, the
windlass was all that could save us; and all that were
on deck immediately crowded round it; but the cold
fresh water broke user us continually; death soon be-
gan to thin our numbers ; Captain Prone} was the
last that died ; about five o'clock he said be was numb
and must die; he soon after observed that land wash
sight, which were the last words be spoke. Ile was
in every respect, as far as I ant capable of judging, an
active skilful seaman, and a valuable young man; he
was married only the neck before to a young lady in
the neighbourhood of Fort Erie.
John MiCollum, John Enoch, passengers, lost; a
man, wife, and child, names not known, a passenger,
do. Captain frassey, Oliver, seaman, cook, name
not known.

The dead bodies, nine in number, were all found in
and about the wreck, and have been decently interred
at the mouth of Salmon river.

[FROM THE BALTIMORE MORNING CHRONICLE OCT. 24.]
The following statement of the present position of
the army of Colombia, we received from our friend
and correApontlent at Angostura, and we can rely on
its correctness:— _

Angostura, Stil Sept.
Ist. The main army, under the command of his
Excellency the President, is at present cantoned in
the neighbourhood of St. Cosar de Caierta, and con-
sists of 10 to I'l,ooo men, completely armed and
equipped ; they are only waiting till the waters retire
from the Savannahs to operate with the army of Apri
decisively against the army of Murillo, whose head
quarters are at the city of Valencia, in the province of
Caraccas, which collectively does nut consist of more
than 6,000 nien, not more than .1,000 of whom are
Europeans ; on the remainder. under existing circum-
stances, be can place no dependence. The gosierals
serving under the immediate orders of the President
are. Hanel Crilannetta, Salm, chief of the StaW,
and the British Colonel Piggot, an officer of great ex-
perience. •
Ist. The brigade of General Munagas, of 1,000
cavalry, commanding the province of Barcelona,
which is now completely liberated, the commandant
fur the Spaniards having within the last month comae
over with the whole of his forces.
2d. The brigade under the command of Colonel
Domingo Montes, operating against the town of Cu-
mans, which lie holds closely blockaded, consists fully '
of 1,500 men. Accounts have just reached us of the
regiment of Carom, together with the inhabitants of
that district, having declared for the cause of the
country.
2d. The army of Apuri consists of fully 4,000 men,
composed of the unconquered division of cavalry, its
i chief, lleneral Pars, and the brigade of infantry under
the command of Colonel John Mosso; of the Beitiab
legion, consisting of 000 British bayonets and SOO
Creoles, disciplined under the direction of Major
Smith, of the legion ; second is esausand. General
Pedro Leon Tures.
3d. The army composed of various division; all
under the orders of General Jose Francisco &resides
and General Manuel Ledero, whose head coulees, with