Melancholy Shipwreck.
The Times, 1824-11-15T00:00:00

Ihne Mlaria sailed from Quebec (where she had lantled paesetngers fromn Dublin and the South ot Ireian(l, with timber, on her return voyage, on the 20tlh of' August. Nothlng plrticular hlpperned until he 9th of September, when they experienced a violent gale at noiuth. west, where the sea was running high, ship labourlng and making a good deal of water. Passed the wreck of a vessel, supposed to have been squate.rigged, with nothing standing but her bowsprit. Thley had tolerably fair weather till the 20th, though for 10 dtya the pumps were obliged to be kept constantly going. On the 21st the gate ih- creased, nnd they hove to, in order to clear the deck of as much timber as possible; when in this situation a sea struck her on the stern, carrying away the (lead lights, the wheel, cormpaiiion, and part of the pumrps. At this titme they were what is called scudding, wheni another sea struck her ant! washed away from the helem the Captain's son, a fine young mnan vho was iliate of thic shiip. Whilst the'Captain was in great distress for the loss of his soni, the sea struck him, ant would have waslhed hitm away also, had he rot caugit hold of the main sheet, he sea at this tinic making a clear v ay into the cabin, filling all the births with water. On the 23d, the vale having abated, the men, were employed In getting plank over the stern, antl putting tarpauling over thle companion, &c. On the 26th, spoke the Irg,yli14irc for Pictou. oat sixteen days from Liverpool. AModerate weather till the 4th of Octoher, when it blew a tremendous gale. On the 5th, hove to under a close- Teefedl topsail. A sea struck her, wliclh Injured her counter. Though both pumps were kept going, could not keep her free, and the water rose into the cabin. At five, another sea struck her, carrying away bulwarks,l stanchions, pumps, &c., wounding a number of the per- sons on leck. Dr. Dortnan, a young man who had gone out from Dxiblin with the vessel as surgeon, had his leg broken, and the Cap- tain's hatl(i was severelY injured. Between twelve and one found it ncoessary to cut away the foremast; bat it failing on the wronig sitle, carried away the niainmn,t. Six or seven persons were at this time on the top of the mast; after a good deal of exertion got them all on boartl but Benjamin fiope: a black cook, and a child about eleven years of age, the daughter ef one of the passen. gers, were washed overboard. The eleven survivors on the wreck were now it the utmost distress, expecting every moment the open- ing ot the decks; they proceeded to the bowsprit, abandoning them- selves to their fate, aud driven before the sea, not expecting to sur- vive the horrots of the night, anti witliout a morsel of bread or a drop of fresh water. In this femrful situation the despairing crew and rctntaining passengers were driven before the winid; they wanted provisisns, nor could they In any wvay get to them, and they were distracted to find, when the weather moderated a little, that the wa- ter casks were all stove in, and they found t-hat sails, provisions, &c. hr41 all been washed out of the cabin windows. Having been three days without foot!, they happened to find sn Indian shoe floating, this they (livided amongst them and eagerly devoureL. On the 8tLI, Dr. Dorman died. Two days afterwards they found a piece of beef about four pounds weight this they divided into half ounce pieces, and shared daily this helped to keep them alive, but they were dreadfully distressed for want of water, and tried to allay their thirst by vashing their mouths with salt water. On the niglt of the hlth, oneofthe crew, John Stephens, died, and aboy about 1I, the other child of a passenger named Gibbs. On tle 12th, death also put a period to the sufFeritsgs of an interesting passenger, a woman named Jane Alountjoy, far advanced in pregnancy. These all dild in a state of wilt delirium. Despair now took possession of all, when they, on the 13tlh, found another 41b. piece of beef, which they sbared from tlay to day, anxiously lookinig otit for relief. On the 1I5tit, they raw a vessel about two tiles off, but which did not scene to notice the wreck; but about meridian, same day, saw an.. other vessel, which fortunateth came to their relief. She provedt to be the J'orln ferry, Captain Pollock, who, after muich exertion, got the wretched survivors, six of the crew, an(i one passenger, on board liis ve,sel, treated them with the greatest kindness, paid atten- tion to their wounds, and brought them to Portaferry. AtrLANCIIOtY SHIPIWRECK.