May 2017 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 25. HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Hancock Gazette - 1827 14 February FOREIGN By the arrival at New York of the packet


CANADA, intelligence has been obtained from London up to fi rst of January, and from Liverpool to the third – eighteen days later than previous advices.


From St. Domingo. – Captain Oliver, of


the schooner MARIA, arrived at Baltimore from Baracoa, states that the Governor of Baracoa received the day before he left there, a dispatch from St. Jago, informing that the French Consul had arrived there from St. Domingo, who stated that a revo- lution had broken out in the island between the blacks and mulattos, and that the latter had collected in large bodies.


21 February


From the Boston Palladium ICE ISLANDS


The melancholy fate of the ship CRI-


SIS, which vessel was unquestionably lost about a year since in the ice) should be a warning to mariners always to be on the lookout, and to be prepared, in case of emer- gency, to use the most eff ectual measures for the preservation of their vessels. Captain Basil Hall, of the English Navy,


a scientifi c an experienced navigator, has proposed certain rules and precautions, to be observed by Masters of Vessels, when in the neighborhood of Ice Islands. The directions which Capt. Hall has


given, are without doubt, highly judicious, and as I do not recollect to have seen them published in any newspaper, I shall subjoin them to this communication. This gentleman was on a voyage round Cape Horn, in the ship of war CONWAY. The following is what he says on the subject. “When off the Cape in 57 degrees


South, and Long. 69 degrees West, we fell in with four ice islands; two of these were very high and long; the other two were about twenty yards long, and as they fl oated not more than ten or twelve feet out of the water, would, in all probability, not have been seen at night, chilled to near too be avoided. Next day an immense island was seen, which could not have been less than two or three hundred feet high, and a quarter of a mile long. Some days afterwards we fell in with an American Whaler, which had passed more to the southward, in 58 degrees where he not only met with innumerable Ice Islands, but with an extensive compact fi eld, as far as the eye could reach. He found himself in the morning almost beset, and it cost him nearly 24 hours beating among the fl oating pieces and icebergs, before he was clear of them. I examined his chart, on which his track was laid down, and with every ap- pearance of exactness, the ice and ice islands were severally sketched in a businesslike manner on the chart. “There are few things, in navigation,


more dangerous than one of these low Ice Islands, in a dark night, when blowing hard, and with a high sea. In bad weather it would be prudent to lie to. But in fi ne weather, although dark, as it was with us, a leisurely course may be followed, provided uncommon vigilance be used. On this oc- casion, I thought of a precaution, which it may, perhaps, be worthwhile stating. Having reefed the courses, that the offi cer of the watch might have a free view, the yards were braced sharp up, bowlines hauled, and everything prepared for tacking, and always kept so at night from whatever direction the wind might blow. On an ice island being seen a head, and near us, in the case of the ship being by the wind, the helm being put down, she would readily come about. If off the win, she would to with the sails so trimmed, as


to allow her sailing past the danger; or if this could not be, still she would be more ready to come about, and certainly be more manageable, in all respects, than if the yards had been in any other position.”


arrived at New York, brings accounts to the 2nd


From Havana. – The brig PANTHER, inst. The intelligence of the proceedings


in England relative to Portugal, reached Havana by the brig MONMOUTH, from this port. It produced but little excitement, and had no eff ect on the market, as the merchants were or opinion that those measures would not result in war with Spain.


Capt. B. also informs us that, two days


previous to his sailing, a Spanish private armed ship of 22 guns and 60 men, from St. Johns, PR for Havana, was fallen in with, between Matanzas and Havana, by a British sloop of war of 18 guns; the latter took the former to be a slave ship and fi red a shot to bring her to, when they returned a volley of musketry which wounded the captain severely. The British then fi red a broadside which killed the 2nd


Lieutenant, some men,


and wounded several. The Spanish vessel had arrived at Havana. The British sloops of war were cruising off the Havana. – Com. Adv.


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forms that a British brig was taken on the 28th


Capt. Brittingham from Havana, in- of January, at midday, while lying in the


port of Neuvitas by pirates, and the captain severely wounded in defending his vessel – she was afterwards retaken by the U. S. Frigate CONSTITUTION. The Spanish Commodore Laborde, had arrived with part of his fl eet, got supplies, and sailed again for Key West; two frigates and two brigs had also arrived for supplies and would sail soon. Commodore Porter was still blockaded at Key West.


Charleston, February 2


Capt. Easton, of the schooner ANN, of Newport, (RI) arrived here yesterday in the SALUDA, from Havana, has furnished us with the following particulars of the loss of his vessel; and the conduct of pirates on that coast:


port (RI) for New Orleans, was lost on Key Cruize del Padra on the 20th


The ANN, on her passage from New- January. The


vessel struck at 8 in the evening, knocked off her rudder, and by daylight next morning had bilged. The captain and crew abandoned the vessel in their boats, at half past 7, AM in consequence of the approach of pirates; they proceeded in the boats for Havana, and when within 8 leagues of the port, fell in with a Spanish drogger. The wind blowing strong ahead, and falling to leeward, they had to make the nest bargain they could for a passage, which resulted in giving their boats in payment. They arrived in Havana on the 29th


of January. H. B. M. sloop of war


BEAGLE boarded the schooner the day after Captain Easton left her, and took her masts out, everything else had been taken by the pi-


rates; and the offi cers of the BEAGLE supposed all hands were murdered, until on her arrival at Ha- vana they learned they had arrived there. The BEAGLE reported the capture by pirates of a British brig bound for Ja- maica, which was taken into a harbor a few miles distant from where the ANN was wrecked. The pirates murdered two of the crew and wounded the captain; the captain


and mate were confi ned ashore, in separate rooms of a hut. The brig was also plundered, but the timely arrival of the BEAGLE pre- vented the pirates carrying off many of her articles – those obtained by the BEAGLE were replaced on board the brig, and with her assistance sails were bent, a crew put on board, and with the captain and mate she sailed for Matanzas. – Cour.


Loss of the ship BEVERLY of Boston.


The Alexandria Gazette of Friday last men- tions the arrival there of schooner ELIZA- BETH, from Maranham, in 30 days, which brought as passengers Capt. Benj. Moore, Mr. O. E. Macondra, J. I. Howe, (boy) and two others, late of the ship BEVERLY of Boston, which, on her voyage to Valparaiso, was burnt at sea, about two months since, in about Lat. 6 degrees North. and Long. 27 degrees West. Captain Moore, the boy and Mr. McCondra, took passage in the river for Boston, in the schooner ADELINE. The BEVERLY is owned by Israel Thorndike, Esq. of this city. We understand she had on board a large quantity of stores for the American squadron in the Pacifi c. - Boston Centinel


West on the 1st


Commodore Porter remained at Key inst. and was expecting a re-


inforcement of two frigates from Vera Cruz, whose arrival he intended to wait, and then gave battle to Laborde.


The U. S. ship of war on the West In-


dia station, have received orders to touch occasionally at the ports of Hayti, for the protection of the interests of our merchants in that quarter.


Drowned from on board schooner SA-


BRA, near, the Great Shoal in Alligator Riv- er, NC, Rev. Amariah Biggs Minister of the Baptist church. The vessel being before the wind, the main boom jibed over, and swept him from the deck. Notwithstanding his age


and the excessive cold weather, he swam until a Mr. Liverman went to him and the boat, which Mr. Biggs seized, and they both went down together.


28 February The Naval


Bill was subject- ed to a trying discussion in the Senate yesterday, but it was fi nally ordered in a third reading without retrenchment or modification. The point as- sailed was the provision for the


establishment of a Naval Academy. The attack was able, steady, and persevering; but the veterans who conducted it were fi - nally repulsed, by the vigorous, skillful and unwavering defense of their antagonist. We must confess our satisfaction at the success of the bill thus far, considering it as involving a vital interest of our country, and embrac- ing, in one connected plan, all the essential object connected with that interest. – Nat. Int.


DIED Drowned, 15th inst. by jumping over-


board from schooner SUSSEX, arrived at New York 16th


from Carthagena, Asa Ficket,


seaman, of Maine. Since 1819, fi fteen cargoes of fur seal


skins, taken within the southern Arctic circles, have been carried into the port of Stonington, Connecticut, and sold for $277,597. Four vessels from Stonington are now engaged in the sealing business.


The U. S. sloop of war WARREN,


Lawrence Kearney, commander, sailed from Boston 23rd


inst. to join the squadron under Commodore Rogers in the Mediterranean.


Northwest Passage. – In a letter from


Mr. Douglass, the botanist, to Dr. Hooker, dated from the Great Falls on Columbia River, the 24th


of March, 1826, there is the


following curious paragraph respecting the North West Passage: – “There is here a Mr. M’Leod who


spent the last fi ve years at Fort Good Hope, on the McKenzie River. He informs that if the natives, with whom he was perfectly acquainted, are worth credit, there must be a North West Passage. They describe a very large river that runs parallel with the McK- enzie, and falls into the sea near Icy Cape, at the mouth of which there is an establishment on an Island, where ships come into trade. They assert that the people there are very


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