American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-11-07

more, being buried nitantIy in huge bIow She
was native of Owhyhee, and is deeply lamented By
all on board, who had shared in her Kindness, for
she was milk and honey to all during long passage
iron Asia. But what pen depict the mad,
tshrleking SORROWS OF her motheless child, who
I witnessed this sad catastrophe, and who became
poor orphan, dependant the humanity of the cap
tain or owner of the Hamilton! BY force only was
the frantic child prevented from plungng into it's
4 mothers grave. Its agonles made the following
night memorable The gale, too continued with
undated fury ready to blast all hope. AT midnight,
we found ourselves in the midst OF the gulf stream,
La current 60 miles broad and running eastward in
a calm, three miles an hour. Here until and after
the dawn OF day, we experienced severe thunder and
lightning, forming altogether horrible tempest a
perfectly novel scene, such as had never Witnessed
/ Up all night
! Slst.-The morning dawns, with most dismal
frowning aspect the air being full of blue fire and
crashing thunder, and the rising and falling over,
on, and around US, like swelling mountains of LIQUID
fire. The captain apparently bewildered, not know
ling how to act, and seemingly overwhelmed with
doubt and in decision.
| At nine, A. M we tried for sounding, but found
none, the gulf being uniathomable. Al ten, fell a
smothering rain succeeded by short calm, when
the wind veered TO N. w. and the air became sud-
denly cold and clear, though in The gulf it sim
gularly warm and loggy; the salt water there
as warm as milk from the COW, and very steamv and
sparkling like burning sulphur oil volcanic lava, hav
ing luminous particles large as hazel nut but
these when touched by the finger Disappeared
Lat. SO, long 20, So saw pieces OF wreck-This
is the last day Of March, and was expected to be the
| last of our lives.
/ "Apr 1st-Colder than ever felt it in win
ter's day in England. | resume my winter dress,
but cannot be warm. The captain during yes
terday's gale sulked, and would eat nothing
suffer any thing eatable to be cooked; was there
fore pinng "a hours on tea, coffee, wine China
sWeetmeas dry, hard biscuit. These brave circum-
navigaors state, that during The last four years. voy-
age, they met not worse gale than the equinoctaI
tempest OF yesterday; and the captain says thai at
six, A. M. he saw the most dangerous sea he fad
lever Witnessed. II was mounting IS feet above the
1 ship, and ready to burst over her stern a mighty
mass oil water, more than sufficient to have swept
| the deck OF every and beast and mast upon il,
if not sink the ship itself My fears were not great;
but felt rather oath to die without telling my own
tale, or enabling others to tell it for {" The
chamber where the good man meets his fate' SEEM
ed indeed matter OF envy, and privileged beyond
the common lot" desired and prayed il might
be mine, instead of sinking in these dark desolae>
1 unfathomed waters
cat noon, we saw several indications of land /; a
land sparrow on our rigging, and several fat Yam
kee ducks and geese near US.
Il -"2d Fine clear morning in 10 fathoms
I white water, Just on the edge of dangerous wreck
ing shoai, but soon plunged into 20 fathoms.
" at ten, A. M. blessed with The heartcheering
sound of Land, o and saw the island of Nan,uck-
let from our topmast, distant 10 miles, and marked
'lby three windmills and few high white houses.
i -" We hoisted the Patriot colors of South A
merca, the best signal for pilot who soon boarded
.lus, and conducted us to anchorage in the bay,
formed by the above island and by cluster OF other
small isles, smothered with small hardy sheep,
(which Craze all winter upon them. Passed huge
group of wreckful rocks (some in and some out of
the waer) called The Old SoaU and Pigs.
q Sunday, 4th.-At day break passed Fort Inde-
N pendence, Fort Strong and Fort Williams, which
are all founded by nature, and built upon two little
islands,"
: His travels in this country psrtake of the same
lnalrete. One OF his descriptions OF the weather is
y 1.-THE following:
"The air and water warm and steamy, and the
olsky summerish and gloomy, aud ornamented with
huge psr-lke thunder clouds, from which we saw
one small and one very large water spout, about
: one mile distant, and dipping into the 1t was
!, formed like a tunnel, bottom or tube upwards
:" Nine of these phenomena are sometimes seen at
once in this tempesuous latitude, 81, 40, long 76,
} from Greenwich. fine breeze Immediately fol-
lowed the bursting of these two spouts.''
ii $50 * sz-.----
d ,Ne,o Lar, but good togic.-In the trial of prs.
at oner upon AN indictment Tor an assault IN one oil
ID the middle statesthe allegation was, that the as.
sault was committed upon the body OF the defendant
}, e in the fear Of God and the peace Of this state'
ID In the verdict the jury said" that as This the
ALLEGATION, AID whereas in fact the offence occurred
re Gas was proved the traD a, notorious house oil
ili-fame, where the " fear Of God'' is not known,
I'd the peacs Of the state regarded
in the jury could not lind the indictment rue as laid.
is and they acquitted the prisoner HampdeR Journal
lll A learned schoomaser being lately ioterrogated
lhv one Of his schnals with resntct 10 the elYmoorx