The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-17 00:00:00

LOSS OF i`HE MEDEA-.

The following extract of a letter frets dioact
Murray, of the Medea, dated south Ulst, Dee. 21;
states the melancholy particulars of the loss of that
vessel :—" I am sorry to inform you that the Medea
is a total wreck. We sailed from Quebec on the 191 b
of October : during our voyage we lost several of
our masts, sails, &c. owing to the moat tempestuotti
weather. On the morning of the Yid we saw the lane
of this island ; as the vessel was nearly ungovernalde,
I endeavoured to clear the land to run through
some of the many passages here—but not having
sails or masts requisite, the sea drove her to
lee-
ward, in spite of all our efforts. When I saw my
fate, and the breakers in all directions, I ran to the
clearest part 1 could see, and let.gp fey best bower,
and wore away the most,pf the.adde WI fathoms
water; I found the bottom Anil rikaittafoupA. Mr
the rocks cut the cable nigh, the..stichar, and I. cat
what remained on board, to oar her wear before
the wind for the clearest girt- -the Sound. The
seamen claimed the boat, and could not be prevailed
upon to stop with me till day-light, and their im-
portunity prevailed on me to take My chande with
them. I threw my papers into the boat, wrapped
up in a handkerchief, and only waited a chance td
plget in, when a boisterous sea broke over the vessel,
land buried them all in a watery grave, I alone escapm
and au old man that was below sickly."

DEATH Or ins GRACE THE DcEE or BUCCLEII(
—On the 11th current, at Dalkeith Palace, his Graces
HENRY SCOTT, Duke of Baccleugh and Queens+
berry, Marquis of Dumfriesshire. Earl of Dalkc
Sault'har and Drumlattrig, Viscount Nith, Torthi
wall and Ross, Lord Scott of Eshdale, Doutcar
Kinmount, Middlebie and Dornock Eat
Doncaster and Lord Tynedale in England, Km
of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of the coat
of Edinburgh and Roxburghshire, Governo!
th Royal Pattk of Scotland, &c. His Gra.
was born in 1716, and succeeded his grand,
father in 1752. lie was the only son of Flt.lle
Cli Earl of Dar:act-NI. by Lady CAnotuttc C'
BEL.L, eldest daught r of Joint, the great Duke of .
OVLE. In 1767. h:s Grace married VaLIZABETII MI
TAGU, only daughter of the last Duke of Mobil.:
by whom he has is ue,Ctiaarms WILLIAM, uow D,
of BUCCLEUGH IittEMBERRY, and HENRY Ja.
'Lord MONTAGU, and four duighters; viz. the Court.
Itest of COURTOWN, Conntest of Hour, Marchiov„
of WEENSRErtity, aid CeunfesS Of AatcitM
of whom have families. His Grace is sucdeedi
his titles and estates by his eldest son, CHARLES
LiCki, Earl of D ILKEtTEI, Wiio married HARI
daughter of the late Viscount Sumas', who has
ral children.

Mrs. Jortn ts, it is stated, ha renewed her
gagement at Covent Garden 'Mears, and is t
up the interval till the return of Mrs. SIDiONS,
Easter. Thalia, on this occasi,n, will be an
mirable substitute for Melpomear•
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By the death of the Duke of BuccLxvotts an,
Blue Ribbon has fallen to the disposal of the Pit
REGENT.

Last week a shocking outrage was comtnitt
Alton, Hants. A young woman, who had
with two children to school, was retuning
some liquor for the family with which she lived
rant, when a gang of gypsies, known in that c(
try by the name of the Stanleys, stopped her.
female belonging to the gang first stripped all
clothes off her back, and left her exposed to the
clemency of the weather. The poor gill itt the
tuation begged hard for some part of her dress
cover her nakedness, but instead of compliance
her request, she received from the brutal miscrea
several severe wounds in different parts of her br
One of the wretches threatened to cut off her bn
and actually inflicted a dtvp wound for that purpi
After remaining there in a most shocking stet
considerable time, she was discovered by some
rants belonging to a farmer, and by them court
to her abode in the vicinity of Alton.
Saturday evening an attempt to rob, accdelpa
with circumstances of fereci ty, occurred on the Sti
road, near Canterbury :—Soon after serer, as
Smithett Spain, an elderly and respectable yeoman
Hearne, was on his return towards his home
horaeback, he came up with two men habited as
diers, near the end of Meadow-pastureolane,
forty rods from Vauxhall-turnpike; they were
vided on each side the road : and the one or
right, without any previous demand to step,
het* was made, it was unheard by Mr. Spain,
somewhat deaf, immediately on his passing
at him with a pistol, which wounded him on,
right side. The flash and report startled the her
and it :sprang forward and threw Mr. Spain
it; peck, mho in the impulse dropped his hat and
whip„ but- the horse continued his speed till it
reached Starry; where Mr. Spain having borrowed a
hat, he proceeded to his home, and surgical assist.
ance being obtained, on examining his wound it rip-
peered that a bait had entered between the right gib
and the back, just under the shoulder-bone, and tra.
eersing the ribs obliquely under the arm, had lodged
in the right breast, where it was perceptible,oend
from Whence it was,soen after extracted ; and ale
though he bad.sinimillikered much from the operatiCnn
of probing the wound, in order to discover the 004
pf the wadding and-cletifeti that had been driven into
it, he was not its agy imOlfiate danger. Informs•
tion.wes'cdmmonicated to thi different Wrecks
'the vicinity; and parties ordered oat to ;Wrote, but
the offenders had escaped. Two soldiers bad beers
observed ltrrking about that part of the road her se-
veral nights preceding; and on Friday night, abed*
the same hour, stopped two persons, the one a poor
woman, from whom they toot a shilling ; the other
labouring man, who had nothing to lose.
The Guardians' of thenight talk of *lining for art
increase of wages, if they ate eapectesi to lager smuts
all night.
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