The Litchfield County post., 1828-10-30

spcuouS places IN he vessel, to avoid If
possible another collision like the last.
Was nearly deatened by the coustant roar
OF the thunder. The gale whIstled wildly
through onr cordage, and the shriekS of
The drowning Greeks were Vet ringing IN
my ears, when we perceived low flash,
and the quick report ola cannon came in
upon us, distinct amid the din. "TIs the
Spanish vessel" said the Greek sailor,
"She has lost her moorings," said the cap
tam. He sprang with an axe .owardS the
cable. 70 take to sea before her seemed
to be the only way Of avoiding her. But
we had dragged our anchor some distance
to leeward, and so far approached the
north side of the channel, that there was
but Itue room left between us and the bea-
con rock. We could see the white crest
of the breakers on the ledge of rocks of
which the beacon formed the point, and it
appeared almost at our side. L was not
safe therefore to cut loose, and our captain
ordered gun to be fired, in order to give
the Spaniards better warning of our altered
location.
The report of our gun had scarcely died
away, before we heard The distant dash
and increasing murmur of some large YES
sci. A broad flash of lightning, succeeded
by peal Of thunder, which seemed to rid
icule our feeble artillery, showed US the
Spanish ship coming down the bay at rate
which even tide, wind and storm, seemed
scarcely able to produce. But what as
tonlshod US most was, that wild as the
storm ragged, and high and light as she Sat
upon the waters, sill the broad sheets of
canvass were stretched over her in style
that seemed TO dare the tempest and defy
its power. Nothing 'ha | have ever seen
has eqnalled the su Unity of the sight, as
she came down upon us. Her battle lam
terms all ranged, shed sickly Give over
eher decks,-her large sails bending till
they almost burst, and her masts yielding
like saplIngs. The noise was horri 6c. L.
Swelled from murmur, until it drowned
and swallowed up all other sound. The
vessel kept to the windward of US until a.
bout abreast of our anchor. We then heard
the captains speaking trumpet, aud in AN
~ ant she bore down directly upon U.S.
The current, however, which was now at
the switest, carried her astern of US, and she
was heading directly on the beacon rocks,
when the whole seemed at once to vanish
from my sight. We rushed astern to See.
The waves appeared as c. describes them,
to be carpeted with canvass. The huge
hulk was still floating next US, but she had
capslzed, and in that state was hurled upon
the breakers. A few forms seemed to be
almost walking upon the waters:-and then
mass of timbers, beams, cordage, ant can
vass, was dashed over the rocks into the
deep sea beyond.
Our vessel rode out the gale of that
night with little farther damage. The NOR
ming broke and found the captain, mate, C.
and myself, eagerly looking towards the
north for the wreck. Not trace or ves-
tige of the Spaniard remained. A sullen
swell was chatting and foaming on the rocks
where it persisted. Whence it came, or
why it thus wildly aimed at our destruction
with its own, none could tell. The Turk
sh officer would make no report of her,
and lost his place, and some say his head,
for his obstinacy; and to this day, the
Greek sailors, in a gale, pray to heaven
to keep them from the Spanish Storm
ship. P.