The Sun. — 1835-07-23 (London, England)

LOSS OF THE ELIZA, CHINAMAN.  Intelligence of the fate of this missing vessel, respecting which such apprehensions have been entertained, were received on Saturday, and they are of a nature to fully bear them out. The following is a copy of the major part of a letter from the Captain, Follins, dated Singapore, March 8, 1835 :—" I am sorry to have the painful duty to inform you of the loss of the Eliza on the Paresela in the China Sea, on the 23d of January. We left Macao on the 21st, in company with the Planter of London, and the ship Mermaid of London, the former bound to Liverpool, and the latter to London. The day after I left I fbund chronometer was wrung, 'and signalled the Planter to show me his longitude at noon, he having two chronometers on board ; he showed his longitude 110 27 E., and made dead reckoning 111. 30 deg. At half-past ten o'clock at night the ship struck. The Planter was close to us, and must have wore off and cleared the shoal. The night was very dark, and we could see nothing but broken water. We bad not been on long when the rudder unshipped, and the counter stove in. We remained until daylight, when we observed an island to the N.E. of us, distant about a mile and a half, and got the boat out, and landed all hands of us on the island, which is called Robert's Island. There were no inhabitants, or fresh water. As soon as the weather moderated, we lost no' time in saving provisions and water, which. we succeeded in . getting, as well as, our clothes, &c. On the fourth day after, a Chinese fishingboat made her appearance, but we could not understand a word the people . said, nor they us. However, we thought they were harmless, and would take us off; but, on the contrary, as soon as they had got everything they wanted, and all my instruments, chronometers, &c., they knocked us down with bludgeons, and hove us overboard. There were two of the men and myself on board her. Fortunately we could all swim, and were picked up by our jollyboat. They then made sail and set off. We manned both boats and went after them, but to no purpose ; the mate, carpenter, and four hands in the pinnace, and the boatswain and four hands in the jolly-boat. The jolly-boat returned the following day, but the pinnace we never heard of while we remained on the island. A few days after two junks arrived and landed about twenty men, who commenced plundering and stealing every thing we had saved. We found all they wanted was plunder, and if we attempted to stop them we should be murdered. I considered it was no use stopping them, and took the jolly-boat with six of the crew, who volunteered to come with me, leaving four. on the island who would not venture. We were forty-eight hours in the boat when we were picked up by the ship Susanna, bound here, and were kindly treated and landed here, and since my arrival, the pinnace's crew were brought here o:n Borneo ; they were picked up by a Chinese junk and carried to Borneo, from thence sent here in a Dutch ship. It is to be hoped the four who were left on the island are taken off by this time ; they had plenty of provisions and water to last them six months. I have lost all my papers, books, ship's register, and everything I had, and when I arrived here had only one shirt and one pair of t rowsers."  The late Countess of Mensdorf, who expired on the 9th inst. at Mayence, was eldest daughter of the late Duke of Saxe Coburg, and sister to the reigning Duke, the King of the Belgians, and the Duchess of Kent. Her Serene Higkness formed a matrimonial alliance, 24th Feb., 1804, with Count Emanuel de Mensdorf, Field Marshal in the Austrian service, Lieut.-Governor of the fortress of Mayence. The Countess paid a short visit to her illustrious relatives here in the summer of 1833.  We are approaching the fittes of July, says the Cliarivari, and a dozen persons are made prisoners daily. It has been remarked that during the last four years, the 9th of August invariably prepares to celebrate the anniversary of liberty by making a multitude of prisoners.  'nisi'