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situation of the brig. Shipwreck. – Schooner OLIVE


BRANCH, Capt. Adams, of and from Bath, with a cargo of wood, hay, butter, leather, &c. struck on the Devil’s Back, yesterday morning at two o’clock, running into the Sound, under bare poles, having previously split the topsail and foresail to pieces. She beat over and immediately let go both an- chors, set the pumps going, and hove over the deck load. About seven o’clock she fi lled and fell over. The captain, crew and passengers, except one of the latter, took to the rigging for safety, and remained until the pilot boat FAVORITE, Capt. Coombs, took them off . A Frenchman, lately arrived from the West Indies, (a passenger) perished in the rigging, the sea continually washing over them, and expired about the time the pilot boat went to their assistance. Mr. David Brown, a passenger, of Bowdoinham, took to the quarter deck, and was washed off and drowned. Capt. Adams and crew, four in number, and Messrs. Harrick and Rogers, of Bowdoinham, and Williams, of Lisbon, ME were saved by Mr. Coombs, and brought to town in his boat.


* * * * * Schooner WM. BAKER, King, of Pitt-


ston, for Boston, cargo wood and hay, went ashore yesterday morning on Nahant Long Beach, with loss of both masts and all her anchors – crew and passengers saved. It is suppose she will be got off without much injury to the hull.


* * * * *


Porter. By the COLOSSUS, arrived from Havana, at New York, on the 21st


Charleston, (SC) April 20. – Com. inst. we


learn that Commodore Porter was still at Key West, and that the Spanish and Mexican squadrons lay in sight of each other. The Commodore’s force consisted of a ship and two brigs, as formally: the report conse- quently by the vessel from Xibara, relative to the capture of the latter, must be unfounded. The account of the capture of Commodore Porter’s fi rst offi cer, however, appears to be confi rmed. He had taken a coaster, and was making for Key West, when he was pursued, and was compelled to run his prize vessel ashore. With fi ve of his own men and fi fteen prisoners, he got into the long boat, when the latter rose upon him, overpowered, and took him. The name of the offi cer is Thompson. The above intelligence relative to the


safety of Commodore Porter’s force is still further confi rmed by the SUPERIOR, Capt. Saunderson, arrived at this port yesterday, from Key West, which left part of the Com- modore’s squadron at that place, consisting of the LIBERTAD, a brig, and a schooner and does not bring a word relative to the capture of any portion of his force.


MARINE LIST Port of Belfast Arrived


May 14 – brig PHEBE, Coffi n, Castine. May 15th


– Steamboat PATENT, Cram,


Eastport. On her last trip to Eastport she came into the harbor but left without giving any notice of her arrival, leaving several passengers, who had been waiting two or three days for her arrival, at the Eagle Hotel. A little more attention on the part of the man- agers would be of service both to travelers and the steamboat line. Sailed


May 13th Boston.


JUDITH, Parker, Boston. ROB-ROY, Donnell, Newburyport. Sloop BRUTUS, Clark, Boston. May 15th


Stonington. May 15th


, sloop HARRIET, Holmes, Cleared


, brig VENUS, Tilden, Castine. * * * * *


Arrived at New York, 8th inst. brig


ELBA, Wooster of Camden from Rochelle 45 days. At Fort Royal (Mart.) 17th


April, schoo-


ner MAGNET, Emery for Hampden 10 days; at Havre, 16th


Castine for New Orleans in 7 days; arrived at Havana 10th


ult. ship ATTICUS, Dunbar of ult. Brig MARGARET and


AMAZON from Castine. To the editor of the Southern Patriot IMPORTANT TO MARINERS


I beg leave through the medium of


your paper to communicate, for the good of the public, an interesting incident which happened on my late voyage from hence to Havana, in the KATHERINE under my command. I sailed on the 4th


of March last,


and on the – I was in latitude 26, 2, with the wind at WSW and I steered NW during the afternoon with clear and moderate weather. About ¾ past 5 PM the mate went aloft to look to the westward, as I expected to make land shortly, and to my astonishment he an- nounced a rock and breakers ahead, and not far of. I went immediately on the fore topsail yard and was confi rmed in what the mate had related. The rock was as large as a ship’s bottom, and plainly to be seen whenever it was in the hollow of the sea, with breakers about 30 or 40 yards from it, over which there appeared a strong current setting. The color of the water was much darker than that of the ocean off soundings, and I inferred from my latitude at Meridian and the course and distance that I made, its situation to be about E by N forty fi ve miles from the south Point of Abaco, or what is commonly called the Hole in the Wall; the same no doubt re- ported to have been seen not long since by the Captain of the brig CLIO, and published in some of the American newspapers. That so important a fact should be withheld would be criminal, as it laced rectally in the tract of vessels intending to make the Hole in the Wall, bound to the Coast of Cuba and into the Bay of Mexico. The danger must there- fore be great to all vessels bound that way. You are therefore at liberty to make use of


– schooner DIANA, Otis,


this information in any way you may deem proper. – Charleston, April 21st


, 1827. 23 May From St. Helena. – We learn by the ship


SUPERIOR, Captain Smith, from St. Hel- ena, that the establishment intended for the residence of Bonaparte is shortly to be con- verted into an extensive silk manufactory. A large number of mulberry trees had been imported for this purpose, and a number of French artizans had arrived to superintend the business. We also learn that the present Governor of the Island intended to return to England in the course of the present year. – N. Y. Gazette


Frightful Shipwreck. – The brig


ROB ROY, from Belfast for Québec, was wrecked in a violent gale on the night of the 30th


ult. on the shoals of L’Islet. The


number of passengers was 151: – Of these were drowned, 19 children, 3 women and 2 men. The WATERLOO brought away 27 men, 16 women, and 27 children – in all, 70 persons – the rest had proceeded to Québec by land. The survivors were loud in their praise of the inhabitants of the country near where they were wrecked, who treated them with the utmost kindness, slaughtering their cattle to give them provisions. The cargo of the ROB ROY is valued at 30,000l., which is almost all lost or damaged. One man lost his wife and three children; another, out of four children, lost three: the survivor is deaf and dumb. A Mrs. Lamb lost her husband, one child, and money and property to the amount of 700l. and is now with six children, left destitute. The vessel is a total wreck. A letter from a person near the scene of


the wreck, gives the following melancholy account:


only landed on the 1st


“Those who were left on board were , about three o’clock


in the afternoon. Of these, some were dead and others dying. There are at this moment seventeen dead bodies in one house, men,


women and children, but chiefl y of the latter. These will be interred tomorrow. At another house there are seven other bodies. It is impossible to describe the heart rendering scenes which have passed before us. If these unfortunate settlers had disembarked at low water, when the vessel fi rst went ashore, not one of them would have perished. One woman had lost her fi ve children, and she and her husband are in a state of delirium.”


Steam Ships of War. – There is in the


April number of Blackwood, a letter by two captains of the British Navy, in which it is contended that owing to the great im- provement and more general introduction of steamboats – they must henceforth consti- tute the effi cient arm of naval warfare – and recommending it therefore, as an obligation of duty on all the offi ces of the British Navy, to make themselves practically acquainted with the power and nature of steam engines, when used to propel vessels. The writers of the letter state, that they themselves have made it a point to perform several voyages in steam vessels, and have in so doing satisfi ed themselves, that both as against seen risks, and those of naval warfare, these vessels may be made more safe and more effi cient, then the largest line of battle ships – which latter indeed, the writers say will, under the new system which they refer to (and predict the adoption of) – only be useful as coal carriers to the steamers. N. Y. American.


The Argentine News gives the fol-


lowing account of the commander of the Brazilian squadron, now blockading Buenos Ayres.


Commodore Charles Prytz, the present


Commandant of the blockading squadron, is said to be of a respectable family in Denmark. He is now about forty years of age. He entered when very young into the Danish Navy, and served as a midshipman when Lord Nelson made the attack upon Copenhagen on 2nd


of April, 1810, which


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