Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-05-12
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VIC ',nu-en'p.oJ FP Geliyfg what IW iil
lbs. oi bread, and lbs II cheese which we ~. "a
IN the ioain top got thu masters wife and Yale
passenger up, whilst WE were clearing away below
hStening the ship; most of the people SLEPT OF the
top at day light found Patrick Cooney hanging
by his legs TO the catharpins, dead from fat que,
committed hisbody 10 the deep. Feb. Is, at S a.
m. saw strange sail standing towards us; made
signal OF distress stranger spoke us, and remaiaed
twenty four hours but received no assistance, the
American making excuse that the sea was .rn-
ning too high, made tent of spare canvas the
iorecasle; put the people on a short allowance of
quarter OF biscuit day.
FEB. s, saw brig TO leeward-sirong gales.
FEB. ., 10, A. NJ. observed the same vessel to
wihuward made signal of distress; stranger bore
up and showed American colours Feb 10, he
spoke us asking how long we had been in that siiia
uon and what we intended to do If we intent cd
IeaVinS the ship: he then asked if we had any rig
9nS - answered yes; night coming on and blow
Ing hard, saw no more Of the stranger. Suffered
much from hunger and thirst. On about Feb. Ilth,
saw large ship TO the northward- did not speak
her wore head 10 the northward. At this time al
our provisions were out. suffered much from hua-
ger; having received nourishment for nine DAYS,
Feb Il, departed this life James Clarke, seaman;
read prayers and committed his body to the deer.
ewcre at this time on half gill OF water
day and suffering much from hunger. During TIE
whole period of being on tie wreck, we were wet
from :op to toe Feb %, John Wilson, seaman.
died at 10 A. NJ; preserved the bod, OF the de-
ceased; cut him up IN quarters, washed them over
board, and hung them on pins. Feb. "a j. Moor,
died, and was thrown overheard, having eaten mart
OF him such the liver and heart From this date
10 Saturday the 9Th of March, the following num-
Der persisted from hunger:- Henry Davis a WEIGH
ooyi Aieh'r' Kelly seaman; John Jones, Apprentices
BOY, nephew OF the owner; James Frier, cook
Daniel Jones, seaman; John Hutchinson. seaman
and John Jones, boy: threw the las, named over.
board, his blood being bitter: also James Frier.
who was working his passage home under promise
OF marriage to Ann Saunders the female nassenyer
VINO attended on the masters wife: and who when
she heard oi frer's death, sbrel,ed loud we'll
then snatchlng cup from Clarke, (,uate) cut her
late intended husband's throat, and drank his blood
Insisting that she had the greatest right to il.
scuiile ensued, ana the heroine (the words of the
naraior) got the better OF her adversary and then
allowed him TO drink one cupt her two!
Feb. 20.-Cn or about this day an EnylisI, brip
hove in siGhl-holsted the English ensign down
ward-stranser hauled his wind towards H.. and
hauled his toTesail up when abreast of us ken, his
course, about mile distance set his fore.ail and
we soon lost sight of him; fresh breeze with n,
Tie Iain-the sea quite smooth, but he went of.
having shown English Colours Had he AT this
al he hca
quent dreadful suffering would have been spareJ
us.-MaTch Z. His AIajesty's ship Blonde came
In sight, and to our relief, in lat. Al 49, NJ lon
Il 81, w. Words are quite inadequate To eypress
our feelings, as well as those which Lord Byron
anu our deiIyerers most evidently possessed, when
they found they had come 10 rescue six of their fI
low creatures 1.-TWO OF them fenales) from n nost
awful, lingering, but certain death. 1t came ON 70
olow during the night fresh gale, which ond,
no douu', have swept US all overheard. Lieute-
naHt Gambler came in the ships cutter 10 brir H.
from the wreck. He observed 10 us. sYon b,ye
yet, perceive, fresh meat;' 10 which we vysro
compelled to reply, No, sir, it is part of "A man.
one OF our unfortunate crew! il was our intention
10 put ourselves on an allowance even OF this food
TINS evening, had no! you cone 10 our relief =
The masters wife, who underwent all the mos,
horrid suferinSs which the human understandipo
imagine, bore them much better than could nus
sibly have been expec ed She is now, although
much emaclated, respectable, good-looIxing wo-
man, about % years Of age, and mother, of a bow
z years OF age. But, what must have been the
extremity of want 10 v hich she was driven, when
she eat the brains OF one of the apprentices saw
Ing 1t was the most delicious thing she ever tasi,ssl
and 1t is still more melancholy TO relate tie person
whose brains she thus forced by hunger to
eat, had been three tines wrecked before but pro-
videntlally picked up toy vessel, after being %
days on the wreck wa logged; but in the pre-
sent instance he persisted having survived similar
suferings for the space of 20 DAYS, had then be-
came food for his reunining shipmates! Ann Saun-
ders, tie other female had more strength in her
calamity than most of he men; she performed the
duty OF cutting up anu cleaning the dead bodies
keeping two knives in her money Jacket; and
when the breath was announced to uaye flown. she
would sharpen her knives, bleed tie deceased in
the neck, drink his blood, and cut him up as usual
From want OF waite those who persisted drank
their drink and ,at yaTer; .hey became fool
lsh, crawling upon their hands round the deck
(when they could) and died generally ravine mad
The editor OF the Liverpool Mercury publishes
the following relative o The wife Of one of the
persons lost in the above vessel:
AFFECTING CIRCCMsTANCE.-We yester-
day received letter from the editor OF ii. Hamp.
shire Telegraph requesting us to pay to Asrs KeI
ley, % Cable-st. the value of ten dollars being a
sum found In the pockets of Alexander Kelly, a
seaman, who persisted id the Frances Mary, the aH-
paling and fate OF whose crew we have recorded
at length in another colpmn when gentleman
from our office, called With the money, upon the
young woman, he found to his embarrassment and
regret that she had not before received any inor-
nation of her husbands death.
IL was some time before she could be convin-
ced Of her bereavement, and she stated that she
was in hourly hope of seeing her husband or of
nearing OF his return When assured that he had
persisted all the facts attending his fate being sun
pressed she burst into an sgony of grieJ, and
pushed the money from. her as worthless. wilbou,
him whom she had lost When she Iearns tho
dreadful suffering of her husband, which it is i'm
possible to contemplate without shuddering, how
much more will size re,tiire the consolation of,bs
humane, and the ASSISTANCE of a generous rublici
PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY.