The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-16

DISTRESSING SHtFwRECE AND LOSS or LIE
The New Orleans Picayune, of the 4th instant,
contains the following painfully interesting par
ticulars Of the wreck of the schooner Delaware,
bound to New York frem San Luis, Texas:
"The Delaware was commanded by Isaac
Brookfield, who had with himhis brother Charles,
and John w. Hoffman, of Egg Harbor, who were
acting as mates. The vessel was bound from
San Luis, Texas, to New York; and, when com
PEELED to abandon her-shc having sprung a
dreadful leak and capsized-the captain, with
two passengers and two negroes, took to the sea
in one boat, while the brother Charles, and the
other mate, Hoffman, together with two other
negroes, left the sinking schooner in another.
Captain Brookfeld and his companions were at
sea in this open boat one whole week, existing
upon raw ham and brandy, their only provis-
ions, until they at last made the Southwest Pass,
and landed among the pilots at the Balize, to-
wards whom Capt. Brool1fsld expresses himself
in terms Of the warmest gratitude Tor their KIND
treatment. They supplied the poor wretchcd
men with food and clothing Immediately; and
from Capt. Hopkins, also, OF the Prentice, they
experienced the most humane attention. He
brought them to the city, providing them with
every necessary and comfort on the way, making
them, with his gentle courtGsies, almost forget
their sad and melancholy misfortune.
A different fate befel the other boat, which
was capsized and the unfortunate men chung to
the bottom while strength lasted, until one by
one they sank in the sea, and the poor mate,
Breokfeld, the captains brother, was left cling
ing to the boat a maniac When found, his
senses were entirely lost, and he entreated the
people who came to save him, not to take away
his boat, for he was on his way to Galveston,
and was having very prosperous voyage. The
poor fellows intellect was quite gone, and he
could scarcely have survived many more hours.
He was picked up, saved, completely restored,
and brought to the city by Capt. Smell, of the
brig Swan, from Philadelphia, which vessel ar
rived here GA Saturday evening.
The lost schooner was half owned by her cap
tain, Isaac Brookfeld who saved nothing from
the wreck but few hundred dollars, which he
brought off in his pocket.
The SUBLIME AND Observation-Disclosures Dawes,
Esq, a fine poet, and a man of profound philo-
sophical cast of thought, Is, at present, deliver
ing series of lectures in New York on the
& Sublime and Beautiful" A correspondent of
the Commercial Advertiser thus alludes to the
first lecture:
e'I cannot give YOU an ANALYSIS of the lecture
without doing it great injustice, and shall not,
therefore, attempt it; but shall only say that the
lecturer more than sustained his character as a
post and philosopher. He showed in the lecture
that he is competent to the task of treating the
high theme he has chosen, in a manner no less
philos0phic than poetic, and at once instructive
and interesting to all persons of refined taste,
who allow themselves to think. Mr.. Dawes is
not content with dwelling merely on the surface
of things, but is evidently accustomed to think
analytically-to trace events to the ircauses-and
thus is able to show beauty and grandeur more
interior and more exalted than that which meets
the eye, He rises frem the phenomenal to the
real, and does not attempt to explain natural
facts without reference to spiritual causes.
He does not therefore, with the materialist, deal
merely with the objective; nor with the transcen-
dentalist, merely with the subjectivej but, like
a sound philosopher, looks at both
The sublime and beautiful, therefore, when
treated in the manner which Mr. Dawes proposes,
and for which he has shown himself so well
qualified, is seen to be subject rePlete with in
terest to all rejecting minds, having relations
vast as truth and love. The lecturer has GER
tainly opened the gate to a magnificent field;
hope he will be as successful in exploring it. II
he should, (and | cannot doubt it) am sure that
all who are so fortunate as to accompany him,
and who have minds sufficiently refined and
elevated to see truth as beautiful, and to appre-
eiate sublime thoughts, will find themselves
amply repaid for their trouble"