Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-04-24

advice as to loie the confidence in a great
degree Of the men Of talents, refrea ability
and prominent ellaraeae How the farce
is to end I will BOT hazard prediction I
ExtyaR IF a leasr fran fa3f. Robsa SD
pe,, g The Mp Sarhem, ef Poytl4na,
to The Editor Of he Portland Gazstte,
dated
" HoLYHEAp,* Feb. III, 1901.
am unhappy 10 inform you Of my
misfortune in the lois of the Sachem near
Holyhead harbor on the 1itf and nd
January. AS there have been many Il yiing
reports that ths crew Of The ship persiaed,
which cauIed much anxiety 10 their friends,
you will be g kind as TO publilh in your
Gazette that they were all fate. We.
were all well treated by the i,slabitants of
this place. Our thip has been got off
fince Che was wrecked, bur her bottom is
totally our. Her remains lie in the en-
trance Of the harbor. ] have, lens yon
fome lafe papers and incloie you enc
with fome account Of our difaaer.''
The following particulars were in another
letter from Capt. Slower, to bis friend
in this town.
g Twenty. tx days after leaving Viz.
ginia we had mott tremendous hurricane.
We were but twenty miles from Dublin,
VIXEN it came on from w. N. w. at
midnight Jan. II, we lay on our beam
ends "A hours, driving on the coat. Al
10 o'clock en- the zzd, we faw the land
and the breakers under our lee, which
proved 10 BE Holyhead, not mors than a
mile diSaat. We attempted 10 make fail,
but in vain, moi Of our fails we're blown.
from the yards, after being handed, and
fome OF our men were beaten ois, and
gave theElelves up 70 the mercy OF their
maker. Finding that they nlufts perth IN
few moments, or run the flip a.hore,
we put her head towards finall cpening,
furroundcd With breakers, where We let
go both anchors. The Tea broke over
our topnaas head, ard we rode but . isw
minutes before our cables psfre9 and ogt
ihip fell roand on the rocks, and upiet.
A mott terrible iea hove over The reef, but
providentially no one was iweps from the
wreck /; ina few moments fhe fruck a.
gain, when we. cut rway all the mails
ihe. then went down head foTnesi, and
her fern hung by the rocks.
Hundreds Of people were on the fhore
anxious for our RELIEF, but none could be
given, the fea making breach over the
wreck. At s o'clock in the evening
Tome gentlemen on ihore gave 50 guineas
TO fix brave fellows to take US from the
wreck. Their boat took off ten Of our
men who had narrow efcape. / remain
ed behind with my fecond mite and three
feanen, for "a hours, no one daring to ven
ture again for our relief till the next day,
by which time we had alnof perifhed
with cold and hunger. ! then hove a
rope on ihcrc, by which had the good
fortune tofaye myielf, after being nearly /
exhauled. "A boat foon after took the re-
mainirg three alhore.
The form was dreadful. Sixty fail Of
veGeIswere loft leyersl houfcs blown down
trees torn up by the roots land great de-
ifrusaion done in the country"
: HoIybeadis a eapeof fbsjqandof IN
gls/e4; III Noytb- W,alss, pyoiee7iug 1vsf-
acard ixfo ibe Ir9 channel. Ut is IN lat.
So deg. Ign. N. md loug. 4 deg. 45m.
". Ibes<6ors is ttaal and dangerous.
To fbe judged f he Supreme Corr e)e1be
Un;fed States
Having been an active membe. Of the
late fuccefsful revolution from the year
1874, and now advanced in years, I have
retired to country retidence in hopes Of
enjoying Odum Gun d;gnitate.