Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-11-05

teflStlc fortitude, and some of them shined
as Christians, hoping cseadfastly in Cod
Our sense Of com mon danger gave US kind
oil family feeling, a kindly and generous
sympathy, whose impressions will outlast
the High, of years, as consecraled BY senti-
ments of religion, and deepened by the SOL
emn nearhes Of apprehended death / never
shall forget that night. 3, ,,l .et 81 q! aaycsj
[aolihe next'day was the punctual equi-
box Inc sun crossing the line on the 23d
OF sept, and rising precisely at six. At
au0te hour i had veHlured to retire to
my berth, and very early arose and look
gu through the state room into the sea-
And what a scene! It was brightning
towards day. The tide in these seas rises
and sets rapidly and to a great distance
owing TO the f1ux northward and SOUTH
ward at the same time the Northern
Ocean and The vast Atlantic rushing and
meeting to fill or to empty the Channel
simultaneously. Hence The water around
our ship now, was less than a yard deep,
and still receding. she having grounded
az nigh water, and men were wading by
hundreds IN the sea, some with their carts
10 receive the passengers and take them
to their dcsolate shore near in sight
almost never saw SO many, at once and
together OF ragged and wretched, looking
human beings, with horses, harness and
carts all SO poor and miserable and hun
cry and craving. They were alas right
specimens Of Papist peasantry of Ireland,
only that millions ofthem are worse con-
ditioned, presently and prospectively,
than they were. ~, -. go. t,f
The order was given that we all mus.
go ashore. The Captain thought, with
reason that with so huge and heavy
mass high and dry, and Sc narrow base
rs that Of her keel sunk slightly into the
dense tenacious sand, standing now erect.
she nigh. by rising wind, or returning
tide, or the joint action of both, cant over
and make a more perilous desolation.-
We all acquiesed, and hastily prepared
for debarking. On deck-oh--how alter
ed There was more misery, confusion
and dismay, the relies of the storm. New
er shall / forget the drear sensations that
came over me, though unuttered, as we
began to descend on her side, the vast
distance, to the sea below. Her length
of stairs was passed, then ladder, al
most perp sndecular, RENTED US 10 the
shouldersof men, who carried us about
hundred yards through the water to the
hard sand from which the sea had just re-
tired. It's surface was roughened and
singular. 1t was about as compact md
unyielding as hard clay, and of the same
kind with that in which the ship was pre-
cariously imhedded. There we stood
and reconnoitered the Incompatible Wis
ion. Our noble ship showed like the
Ia -, SC II
tremendous, a great sea monster, moor
ed in the lnoveless earth, and her tenant
ry all ESCAPING, in most unwonted and
comfortless disorder, from her pleasant,
but impracticable apartments. And
where were we to got The shore seem.
cd dreary as the sea- inhospitable and
shelterless. There was no leader, coun
selor or guide TO be seen. The harpies
that thronged US, were all rapacious and
fierce for money. They were exOrbitan',
inexorable, cruel. Some poor ladies,
with no male escort except strangers,
were treated most inhumanly. For ex-
ample, one with young daughter of alb
out twelve years Of age, had her parcels
of luggage borne ashore, each by one to
make division TO get more and because
she had no change at hand. they refused
to surrender one of them unless for gold
sovereign, when sixpence was ample pay
tor each Generally, there was some
one 10 inierpose, and a gentleman from
Philadelphia, a layman, was So indignant
on one occasion, that he would have en-
countered the vampire with his fist. and
given him, he said, some deserved recon-.
pense, had not the mans own discretion
come timely 10 the qualification of his av-
aricious valor. Several similar scenes
occurred. And yet remember rs Write
what poor, and especially very poor hu-
man nature is the world over. 10 these
wreckers, paupers and sharks, it was
glorious windfail. A lady remarked to
me with tears, "if they had found our
dead bodies with our purses, they would
have been better, pleased" am sorry
10 say there was too much probability,
justifing the reflection. Cruelty, then
and there seemed cruel indeed. n g-u7t
After a great detail of similar trials we
procured miserable cart, with miscra-
bic horse, and q miserable driver and
down we went, or up TO iDownpatrick, ab-
out FIVE or six English miles 10 the north
Of Dundrunl Bay where we went ashore.
The ride was rough AMI romantic, posi-
bly,. We stayed at a very unattractive
hotel tall next day. and paid high price
for poor Accommodations. Some paid in
other botcIs-hotels indeed Ia guinea
for bed On Thursday, we came by
private conveyance and at great cost TO
Belfas, about twenty five English, oreig.t,
cen Irish miles distance aud there watt
ed for our friends, and anxiously for
the res: of my Luggage. which ! oblalned
through the the kind care of my friend,
Simeon Hyde, Esq, on Saturday, nearly
all oft.
Here we were received and entertained
with ali the genuine sympathy and ap.
propriaie hospitality Of IrishmeD and
Christians. Oh, how grateful, how balmy
how different from what preceded /
thank God on every remembrance of il
and thank those Beloved friends whose
houses received us generously, and with
unfeigned tenderness, service, and lave.
My friend, the Rev. DR.. Edgar, whose hos
pitality and large heartedness had fully
proved before in Sept. 1888. when came
there Of my Own, accord, undriven un-
wrecked, bat never unweicome. ordered
as from the Hotel Imperial, to the better