The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-27


ing the visit of the Prometheus, which
was confirmed by the secretary of the
admiralty. Other important facts have
developed in relation to this treasure,
which, duty permitting, may lead TO
an ATTEMPT to recover the treasure,
backed by authoritative evidence
stronger than usually found in connec-
ton with concealed wealth, over the
attempted recovery of which thousands
of dollars have been spent in vain.
The treasure supposed to have been
on the British frigate Hussar has been
more or less prominent before the pub
lie for many years, and thousands upon
thousands of dollars have been expend-
ed in attempting to recover the wealth
reported to have been on board. The
story of her shipwreck is briefly told
On the 18th of August, $780, the
Hussar sailed from Cork, in company
with the Mercury, for New York where
she arrived on the 2Srd of November
following, conveying a large fleet of
merchant vessels. According to the
New York Gazette, she arrived off
Sandy Hook November Is, 1880. 1t is
stated she had on board e5SO,000 ster-
ling, mostly in British guineaS, and
that to this was added e3S0,000 trans
ferred from the Mercury, and that
with this immense treasure on board
representing $4,000 900, which was in
tended for the payment of the British
troops, she sailed for Newport, r. l.,
then the British rendezvous, taking
the inshore route along the sound
running the perils of He'll Gate, in
stead of the safer. though longer
route outside of Long Island. The
Hussar, at p. m. on the day she left
New York, struck on Pot Rock, swung
off, drifted a mile or more to the bav
called Two Brothers, near where is
now Port Norris where she went down
at o'clock in the evening in seven
fathoms of water.
Captain James E. Gowan, world
renowned for his success in raising the
Russian line-of-battle ships at Sebas-
topol, has stated: "The monumental
fraud in the way of sunken gold is
right in the harbor of New York. l
allude to the British frigate Hussar.
/ thought of applying my system of
raising sunken ships to the Hussar, but
| in undertaking g. scheme of that ma
! ture l always want to make sure that
the treasure [ am looking for is where
l have reason to think it is So | went
! to England and commenced thorough
search through the records with regard
to the Hussar. l hired numbers of
searchers, and made a complete in
vestigation among the papers of the
| admiralty and in the pay department,
and at length satisfied myself that the
100000 carried by the Hussar had
been landed and duly distributed to the
paYmasters."
The amount of treasure stated to
have been or board the frigate varies
with different accounts: but the fact
remains that no court martial followed
the alleged loss of treasure and life
and it may be reasonably inferred
wanting other evidence, that there
was no great loss of either by the
wreck Of the frigate. And yet the
search has been kept up since 1885, al
most unremittingly, with thousands
upon thousands of dollars wasted upon
the wreck of the old frigate, and with
no substantial results.
Cape Henlopen and it's approaches
have ever been pitfalls of danger and
destruction to ship and seamen. Al
the close of the. revolution, a bris
laden with spices was wrecked in close
proximity to the cape, and was fol
lowed soon after by a huge Spanish
government treasure-ship, her helc
we'll ballasted with. doubloons an(
stamped bars Of the precious metal a
Spanish bark laden with the choices
treasures from the land of the Inca:
came to grief ON the treacherous shoals
one dark and stormy night, but three
escaping to tell the tale of horror, from
the fact in that period, of Their
being no lighthouses, no warning t.
indicate the. hidden dangers, may b.
attributed the reason for that par
ticular section having engulfed AM
swallowed up more treasure than othe
portions of the American coast.
The sea front of Delaware suffer
more from the inroads and action o
the waves and is constantly undergo
ing more changes than any othe
ocean beach South of Cape Henloper
the waters of the Atlantic now rol
over localities where large island
; thickly wooded were wont o-rear thei
undulating surfaces above old ocean
llevel. Where large ships once navi
gated in their water is now encom
passed in shoals and shifting bars.
Excited by the undisputed knowledg
of large amounts of treasure lying o,
Henlopen, and encouraged by the oc
casional turning up of the curious, we
nigh forgotten gold coins scattere
along the beach, enthusiastic forum
hunters have, from 1900 down to tn
present time, strove, but in vain,
; compel the ocean bed to yield up il
ill-gotten wealth The treasure
there; it's no wiIl-o' -the-wisp projec
; the creation of an imaginative brail
The existence of the Henlopen bonanz
is borne out by history and substar
; tiated by the Atlantic gales. But frol
the freaks of nature constantly goin
: on there is not the least probability tia
| beyond scattered ancient and late
coins, revealed at long intervals by tt
! longing eyes of the hungry seekers, thu
the hand of man will ever be enriche
: by what the ocean has engulfed an
!, tenaciously ho1ds-H. D. Smith in S
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