MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK.-(Fu...
The Times, 1824-01-16T00:00:00

M11 ELANCH OLY 'HiiPW ir E6Xc.-( Further -particulars.)- We had last veek the painful duty of recording the total loss of the Horuby, Captain Wilade, from this port for Rio Janeiro. The fol- lowiny is the account of the catastrophe frdni John Williams, the individual who v-as so miraculously ireserved. IHe states, that thevl wereat onetime sofar down as PoinLt Lnas, another atBlack Comb, and on Thursday morming at Puffin Island, where, after making a stretch to the northward with the wind west-north-west, they put back with the wind north-west or west-north-west. The Captain intended to keep an offing, and to run for Liverpool in the mor.ing: they did not think they were so near the land until about ten minutes before she struck; when they pefteived it, they were standin,e in with a close reef maintopsail, foresail, and trvsail. he (John 'Wtilliams) was then ordered out to loose the jib, to vwear her when lindinghimrselfover the shelfot' arock, le dropped upon' it, and seeing no more Of tiLe vessel, nor hearing any noise, he supp3osed she had backed off,and he did r,otknow thevesicihad goneto pieces tillthle ulomring, by whicl time he had managed to rcach the top of the cli-, where his story was for sonic tine disbelteved, norc rom the im- possibility they thoughlt there was of his getting up the precipice hanfrnm-the way he mentioncd beinp thrown upon a rock. Nonc of the bodies'baiveyet bletn fbnnd. - he eargo, we understand, is valued at froin 50,0001. to 60,01., very little of which has been saved-even the few snmall packages which had been cast ashore have been for the most part plundered bv the country people, hundreds of them- flocking to the coast, anl carrying off-all that could be found. It is inrpossible to fild terms strong enough in reprobation of sucl conduct;. b'ut.we hope, for the sake of justice, that some of the micereants will, be detected ang punished. We trust that this inelancholy evett will add:a further stifmulas'to the exertions which are now so5-actively inakting by MIr. Janses Harris; the agent for Lloyd's, in promoting the erection of a light -on the- coasu of Pen. mlon: -had therc becn such an erection now in opbtatxin; the whole of the lives would- probably-have been saved, togethir witli property. to a great amour t-Liverpoid Advertiser. . PiROBERT,-(froU) an Evening Paper.):-Wc have tcen much pains yesterdayand this morning,, to trace,. if possible, the re- ported -apprehension of- Mr. 'and Mrs.-Probert yesterday aternno3, - to its source, with a view to giving it confirinaton or contradiction. Probert has certainly since his- liberation -rrom-Hertford gaol, been lodging at the Rose and cnpwn public-house, in.Saville.row, 4am- betn-walk, thelandlord.of which (MLi fobbr) wus oneof the bail for Mrs. Probert. -Mr. Hobbs, however, denies ever havihg sen Probert since he left 'Hertford, and wkhich circumstancehas,at lWfea something ve'ry mysterious abbot it, as we'haye been credibly in- formedl to the contrary, by perzons who asseritlat they have seen him in'the hdose during t4e-last threeor fourday s. We have traeed the-propagation of the 'report tbrough least a dozen clannels, and at lengtht - being assured that,the apgreheasion had taken place yes- terday, in the house of-,iabighly rcspectable professional gentlemta in Lambeth road, we inquired at this gentleman's -residence, and were informed by hil#- that he onlv knew Probert professionaUy, and tbat he had neitlfer seen nor heard of him since his apprehension on tle late charge, otherwise than throiugh the public papers. The report to whbcsh wehave Allided has eikoited-unmsqal iutrerst; P N -oLo GsrsI` -The dabbilers in tlho Qdienee of Ohre- nology aYb-notv bksj, inw their -pursuits ;' but their theoiy .s not likly to be long in fathi-i. Al th;ir'antifipationi of indi ions and -discoveiiet in th` ldad"of Thurtell 1have-failed. Some time ago a g6iulolapn found a: large turnip in hisfield, the shape of a man's head; and. with the- resembilafice of- the features of a niaja. Struck withrthe c0rosiiy, hehadacast made from it, and sent the Cast to a Society of Phrehblegists,< stating,- that- it wa- taken from thmheaiUV6f'Baron'fui npqu4tz; acelcbrated.Polish profe&sodt and requestng:their opiuon tnAreon.--er- sitting in judgmn'nt, they scientifiealexamined- flueeast, -inwhich -they declared thAt-dtey- had in nich teiatlie was- a manx ot' an acute mind and-deep research, thab he bad -the oran of qoick.peTrceptson Ond ariasonf perseverance; wdith. another thatindi cated eedufityi -'th. rlie iiatisas'fFansmlitte4to the owner' Df-thbe castt with a 1 req, aeigsi-par icidar:fdvVdr that'hewould sena them thbe * to this hegoTely re led, " that lie woula wi Ilydo so, but was pevente' as he an a f=ffy had ceten OR4XfW -&rs :-'