Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-05-04

in sight-hoisted the English ensign
Observation-Disclosures hauled his wind
toward US, and hauled his foresail uv
when ARREST of US, kept his course, about
one mile distance, sci his foresaiI and we
soon lost sight of him; Fl es, breeze, with
little rain--the sea quite smooth, but
he went off, having shown English coli
ours. Had be at this time taken US off,
much of the subsequent dreadful suffer-
ing would have been spared US. March
:, Ills Maiesy's ship Blonde came i've
sight, and to our relief, in lat "A 43, NJ
long 81 81 w. Words are quite inade-
quate to express our feelings, as we'll as
those which Lord Byron and our deliver
ers most evidently possessed, when they
found they had come TO rescue six OF
their fellow creatures two OF them fe-
maIes) from most awful, lingering, but
certain death. Ii came onto blow du~
ring the night fresh gale, which woalds
no doubt, have swept us all overheard
Lieutenant Gambler came in the ships
cutter to bring Us from the wreck. lie
observed to us, You have yet peiceises
fresh mSat;' to which we were compel
led to reply, No, sir, it is part Of mans
and Of our unfortunate crew! it was our
intention to put ourselves on an allow
ance even Of this food, this evening, b d
younot come TO our relief? The masters
wife. who underwent all the most horrid
suherngs which the human understand
ing can imagine, bore them rauch,
better than could possibly have been ex--
pected. she is now, although muf&
enanciated, a respectable, geodooklnS
woman, about twenty five years of age.
But, what must have been the extremity
of want to which she was driven, when
she eat the brains of one ofthe appfen~
tees, saying it was the most delicious
thing she ever tasted! and it is still more
melancholy to relate, the person whose
brains she was thus forced by hunger To
eat, had been three times wrecked be.
fore, but piovidentially picked up by n
vessel, after being % day on he wreck
water logged; but in the present instance
he persisted, having survived similar safe
ierings for the space oil 90 days, and
then became food for his remaining Ship
matesi Ann Saunders the other lie.
male, had more strength in her calamity
than most of the men: she performed
the duty of cutting up and cleaning the
dead bodies, keeping two knives in her
monkey jacket; and when the breath
was announced to have flown, she would
sharpen her knives, bleed the deceased
in the neck, drink bis blood, and cut him
up as usual From want of water, those
who persisted drank their own urine and
salt water: they became foolish, crawl
ing Oh their hands round tire deck when
they eould) and died generally raving
mad"
The editor OF the Liverpool Mercury
, publishes the following relative I, the
wife vi one of the persons lost in the "a
bove vessel
affecting Circumstance.-We yester-
day received letter from the editor Of
the Hampshire Telegraph, requestingus
to pay to Mrs Kelly. 90, Cable-st the
value OF ten dollars, being sum found
, in the pockets of lexander Kell, a
seaman, who persisted in the Frances
Mary. The appalling sufierings and fate
OF whose crew we have recorded at
length in another column. When a gem
tleman from our office, called with the
money, upon the youngwoman, he found
to his embarrassment anG regret. that
she bad not before received any intorma-
ton of her hu stands death.
1t was some time before she could be
convinced of her bereavement, and she
stated that she was in hourly hope OF
seeing her husband or hearing Of bis re-
turn. When assured that he had per-
ished (all the facts attending his fate be-
ing suppre ssed,) she burst into an agony
OF grief, and pushed the money from her
as worthless, without him whom she had
lost When she learns the dreadful suf-
feriugs of her husband, which it is impos-
slble TO contemplate without shudder-
ing, how much more will she require the
consolation of the humane. and the as
istance OF a generous public!
temute Mgennitg A singular in
stance OF the escape ola man from Jail
is narrated in the last Cheraw Gazette,
by a correspondent Of that paper
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