The Favourite Pilot-Boat.
The Times, 1824-12-23T00:00:00

The loss of this vessel, respecting which so general an interest has been felt, is confirmed; but we have pleasure in being enabled to state thiat the passengers arc all saved. The following account ap- peared yesterday at the .Jerusalem Coflee-house :_ " The Favoarilc pilot-vessel is a total wreck; the crew anl pas. sen gets ace all saved.. She got on sbore off Brook's-bay, in the lale of Wight. The ladies werc sent on shore inimediately she strick by a small boat attached to the pilot-vessel. Every exertion proved ineffectual to save the vessel; she shortly after bilged and filled with s;ater; upoi whiich Air. Reynell (the purser of thc Cambridge), Captains Pressiek, Brett Anthony, and Ilieutenant Warlow, were compelled to ejing for saFety to thc masts for one hour, until a boat put offto their'assistance, anl relieved the:mi tromi their perilous si- tuation. 'I'wo-more boxes, containing about 700 letters, have beenl wasiled on shore: A gUarI was placed to protect the packages all night. Aboet 1,700 letters weic picked up. but many are lot. The Company's lddspatclies liave all been safeianded at Portsmouth." Fromil an evening paper.] 1Wec are happy in being able to contradict the rumiouir which prc- vailed very generally on Tucsday afternoirn in the city of the loss of the aboye boat, and all thl passengers ow board. WTC have re. ceived the following conmnunicationi:_ "Ayrived late on Tuesday night, at his father's residence, Grove. hnasr.,DldB ,ovripeo~stain %-Breet,ofthe.8th Hussar., Wbo-sailcd- from Bsombay, on bsatd t.e GCanbridge, thc 8th of A ugust. Some of the passengers were put intea pilot-boat off the l.ile of Wi ht, but by some misrananewnent she struck on the rocks, within 300 yards ob the shore. A small boat was attached to the pilot-boat, into which more than half the ssengers ventured, and reached the shore in safety, leaving the rethainder inma most perilous situation, until they were relieved by thc same conveyance. Shortly afterwards the pilot.boat suink, withb'all the luggage, which was washed on shore the next morning. All thic passengers were most hospitably re- ceived at the house of tlIr. Ilowe, of the Isle of Wight. Captain Brett acconipanicd Captain Duckenficld up to town, who, we un. derstand, had bTrought derslstCles to Gsovernment from the Cape." The followiing is front l.oyd's list:- " PoRT6s10uTIs, )ec. 2I.-It has blown a heavygale all cla from S. W.,to NV. and continucs unabated. The pilot-boat No. 20, reported yesterday to be lost, is confirmed to-day. The passengers, eleven in numnber, faken out of the Cambridge, from Bombay, were all saved by a.small boat belonginig to the pilot.vessel. The purser, Captains Duckenfield, Prissick, and Antony, clung to the mast of the pilot-bbat for one hour till a boat caine to their as- sistance. A guard was sent to look nut for the despatches, some of which have beets saved but the directions are obliterated. The outward-bound remain ali well." Extract Qf a lettr from the agents to Lloyd's at Milford, dated December20:- " It has blown very hard all this morning from N.V. Captain llollan(l, 6omnianding. WHis Majesty's stcam-packet fvauedioe, has arrived this day fromf Dunmiore (W"atcrford): lie reports that lie passed the Saltees this morning, at seven o'clock, and that the lighlt-siip wdsi ot there; and, as the weather ias bcen very foggy, it is feared that she bas been run down." The 'attlmyra, Reynolds, from St. Domingo, is on shore near Dover, and it is feared shc will go to pieces: one thousand bags of coffee saved. TtE FA VOURITE PIL'f'80.4 T.