Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-10-22
WELLINGTON.
ST. VINCENT.
PENSHURST.
W YNEORD.


DREADFUL SHIPwREcK.-By a passenger who ar
rived in steam vessel last nigh from Calais learn the
following particulars OF most melancholy occurrence
which took place during the tremendous storm on Sstur-
day night, within halt mile of the port of Boulogne
Early in the afternoon OF that dayour informant thinks
between and o'cockavesse said TO be the Aphitrife
Hunter, commander bound for Botany bay with I25 e
male convicts board, and several children grounded
about halt mile to the right OF Boulogne and within
short distance OF the shore. Assistance was PROMPTLY
rendered. but was refused Wy the captain in the posi-
tive manner.
1t said that he carried pistol in each hand
threatening 10 shoot any person who should attempt to
come board. His obsnacy is supposed TO have pro-
cesded from the hope that The ship would be got of on the
return oil The tide; and lie is represented TO have been
uriher STIMULATED by the surgeon who insisted that as
the custody oil the had been coniided TO him BY the
Government his duty take care that no
cation should take place between them and the shore
The captain is said TO have been young man. not more
than 20 years OF age, and TO his perience the fatal
event must be attributed. The possibility of the vessel be-
coming Embedded in the sand have occurred
10 him
For considerable time the vessel lay within n furlopo
o the multitude who had collected the spot: every i'm.
dvIdu"l on board might have been landed with perfect
safety; and the prisoners might have been embarked
nextday, IL the vessel had remained safeThe
OF both captain and surgeon, is therefore,
when the tide returned, the danger was irrsmediable
the violence OF the storm continued undated; and the
snip dd not noat, the perous condition of the crew
could no longer be conceaed.-The women, who had
been shut up under the hatces said to have forcbly
burst from tie place OF their confinement the majority
Of them cOngregaing in the cabin.
little before 10 O'clock The broke through the
poop and swept away in instant every soul in the ca
BIN The work OF destruction completed; in a
few moments the ship went TO pieces and out OF 5l per-
cons on board, only three escaped to land and one of
these died few hours afterwards.
the Capt'n is stated 10 have got the same raft
which bore to the shore OF the survivors, but wave
carried him of; snd though he for some time he u
iinateIy pershed The surgeon and his wife also met a
waicry grave.
On The following morning, the shore was slrewed with
The wreck, many parts OF which furnished evidence of
unsOundness The vessel is said TO have been very old
having been built nearly 30 years ago. and altogether
tat to have heen employed longer any service. rgo
rous Invesg ion Oh Ibis head, will, IT is hoped be ns
tuted
Owing TO the distance At which the British Consul re-
sides rom The port, he apprsed that the vessel
had struck until several hours afterwards but he then
paired to the spot and doubtless rendered all the assid
snce in his power.
The bodies Of IS women and man we're washed on
shore in the course Of Saturday night
SPAIN.
AN ue private letters lately received from Spain with
p eNeerton) speak Of slnguinary civil war; a.
oIe m 'ha' country the death Of Ferdinand The onIv
nope "al remained to qualify hatmeanchoy anticipation
eseu on we success Of the cause of Donna Mari, IN
Portugal before the demise Of King Fcrdnang sn