From the moment the vessel struck, the passengers were filled with terror. The greater part rushed upon deck, where the captain continued to assure them there was no danger; but the state of the vessel was now too apparent to admit of these assertions being longer believed. A mountainous sea kept beating against and over her, which frequently raised her in part from the bank, and instantly made the part so raised strike again with tremendous violence on the sand. The moon had by this time gone down, the sky was overcast with heavy clouds over-head, and beneath the pitchy waves appeared as if yawning for the prey which they were soon to ingulf. Prayers, entreaties, screams, and groans were heard in every quarter. The ship's bell was now, for the first time, set a-ringing, after in vain attempting to get at the lantern to hoist a light, but unfortunately, ere many minutes had elapsed, the tongue of the bell gave way, and falling, was lost in the confusion, upon which a person was employed to strike against the side of the bell with pieces of coal, but these substitutes for a tongue proved too soft and light to create a sound capable of being heard at any considerable distance amid the roaring of the waters.

Very soon after the vessel had got with her broadside to the bank, the aftertackle of the chimney broke loose, but was again secured by great exertion. In a few minutes it gave way again, and with the next heavy shock of the sea, the chimney came down, bringing with it the mainmast, and both falling in a slanting direction athwart the deck to the weather side.

The work of death was now fairly commenced. Who, or what number of individuals were killed or thrown over by the shock, when the chimney and mast fell, is unknown; but soon after, about one o'clock, ten or twelve persons were washed off the quarter-deck into the deep. The rudder was next unshipped, and the boat having filled with water, broke from the painters and went adrift. We may here remark that this, the only boat on board of the vessel, was too small to have been of any service in rescuing the passengers, although, if manned, she might by a possibility have reached the shore and procured assistance, at an earlier period.

A gentleman's carriage, on which three persons were seated, was next washed overboard, and two individuals taking hold of the brass drum belonging to the band of music, leaped with it from the paddle box into the sea, in the hope of being enabled, by its buoyancy, to keep afloat till they were relieved, or reached the land. They both perished close to the vessel. The bulwarks on the weather side, behind which from twelve to twenty persons sought shelter, were next washed away, and all who clung to them buried in the deep. Betwixt a quarter and half past one, the weather paddle-box, on and about which betwixt thirty and forty persons were placed, was carried off by a tremendous sea, in which every one of those individuals is believed to have perished. The survivors of this horrible scene all declare that they never can forget the fearful and unearthly scream which burst from these unfortunate beings, during the moments they floated, ere they sank into their watery grave.

By this time the greatest part of those who remained on board were in a frenzy of despair. Yet there were some who still retained hope, and exerted themselves to take such measures as might enable them to float when the vessel broke up. These all lashed themselves to spars, planks, or whatever other substances they could find of a buoyant nature; while others resigning themselves to the fate which now appeared inevitable, turned their hearts upwards in prayer to Him in whose presence they were so speedily to appear.

Before two o'clock the vessel broke in the midships, and became a total wreck. The main-deck burst up in every direction, and the quarter-deck or poop, which was of new workmanship, and raised about three feet above the main-deck, was parted from the hull by the force of the sea. There were at the moment six men, a woman, and a boy upon the quarter-deck, which, after parting, was still held by some of the ship's tackle, until Mr. Jones, the Liverpool pilot already mentioned, with great promptitude and presence of mind, cut the tackle with his knife, and then the quarter-deck flouted clear of the wreck, whereby his own life, and the lives of the other individuals upon it, were most providentially preserved. We may here observe, that no one of the survivors could give us any informa

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tion as to the moment when, and the precise manner how, Captain Atkinson was lost. As long as the slightest possibility of saving his vessel remained, he was seen and heard in every direction; but about the time the quarter-deck parted, or rather earlier, he was lost sight of, and no one of the survivors could give any further account of him.

When the quarter-deck parted from the wreck, there were upon it six men, one woman, and a boy, and they shortly afterwards picked up another man, who was drifting past upon a plank. They then commenced paddling with pieces of timber, and two men held up betwixt them a petticoat, as a substitute for a sail, in hopes of gaining the Carnarvonshire shore. Shortly after daybreak they observed people upon the land, to whom they shouted, but the distance was too great for their voices to be heard, and they continued to drift before the wind, with the sea washing over them almost every minute, until half-past seven in the morning, when they were seen and picked up by the Beaumaris life-boat in a state of complete exhaustion. They had been first observed by Mr. W. Walker, while walking on Beaumaris green, a little after daybreak, and he immediately procured the boat and crew, and went to their assistance.

Numerous other boats immediately proceeded in the direction of the wreck, and rescued the survivors of those who had clung to the masts. The result of their exertions was the saving of twenty-one lives; and the recovery of seventeen dead bodies, and a considerable quantity of passengers' luggage, and miscellaneous articles, which had floated from the wreck.*

(Abbreviated from the Bangor Paper.) Thus, in a moment of time devoted to pleasures and anticipations far removed from an idea of death, have a large body of unfortunates been snatched from the uncertain enjoyments of this life. So unlooked for, and so sudden a call, has something in it indescribably appalling: the mere spectacle of men, women, and children, clinging to each other in hapless despair, surrounded with the ingulfing waters, must have been, in the extreme, heartrending; but the ushering into eternity of so many beings, perhaps-perhaps, we say,-not in a fit state of preparation, conveys to our minds impressions inexpressibly dreadful, and our only consolation is to turn with supplicative hope to our common refuge, the God of mercy and omnipotence.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND deaths.
Births.

On the 24th of June last, the lady of Hubert George Jones, esq. barrister-atlaw, of a daughter.-On the 26th July, at Calcot Hall, Flintshire, Mrs. Mostyn, of a daughter. On the 25th July, at Sealand, near Chester, Mrs. James Gardner, of Llangollen, of a son.-At Cound Rectory, on the 22d July, the wife of the Rev. E. H. Owen, of a daughter.-On the 3d August, at Trallwyn, the lady of John Lloyd, esq. of a daughter.-Lately, at Summer Hill Cottage, near Carnarvon, Mrs. Joseph Haslam, of a son.-Lately, Mrs. Davies, wife of the Rev. J. Davies, Penygraig, of a daughter.-At Aberystwith, on the 31st of August, the lady of Alfred Stephens, esq. of a son.

Marriages.

On the 7th of June, at Efenectid, near Ruthin, by the Rev. R. Howard, D.D. rector of Denbigh and Beaumaris, Thomas Downward, esq. of Bathafarn park, Denbighshire, to Caroline Eliza, eldest daughter of the Rev. T. H. Clough, of Havodunos, in the same county.-On the 13th of July, at the parish church of Llangian, by the Rev. Peter Williams, D.D. John Priestley, esq. of Trefan, to Jane, second daughter of the late Richard Edwards, esq. of Nanhoran.-At Llanllwchaiarn, near Newquay, Cardiganshire, John Williams, esq. of Trecefen, to Mary, fourth daughter of Mr. O. Richards, of Nantybele, both in the same county. On the 19th of July, at Holywell, Wm. Sair, esq. of Liverpool, to Margaret, widow of the late E. Humphries, esq. of Penypylle, Flintshire.-On the 22d of July, at Dolgelley, by the Rev. J. Jones, Mr. Rogers, of Oswestry, to Other bodies have since been found, and parts of the wreck recovered, but the preceding account is materially a correct one. - EDITORS.

Laura, second daughter of G. Jones, esq. banker, of the former place.--On the 6th of August, at Clirow, Radnorshire, Hugh Heywood, esq. of White House, Bath, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Mrs. Maddy, of Clirow.-On the 15th of August, at Oswestry, H. C. Trevor Roper, esq. second son of C. B. Trevor Roper, esq. of Rhyddyn, Flintshire, to Jane, second daughter of the late Mr. T. Cooper, of the former place.-On the 9th of August, at Bangor Cathedral, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop, the Rev. J. W. Trevor, vicar of Carnarvon, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the very Rev. the Dean of Bangor.-Lately, at Llanfihangel Genau y glyn, Cardiganshire, the Rev. M. Ellis Tallybont, to Mary, widow of the late J. Jones, esq. of Llettemsais, near Lampeter.-On the 23d of August, at Oswestry, by the Rev. T. Worton, G. W. Buck, esq. of Welsh Pool, to Miss Williams, of Oswestry.-On the 11th of August, at Llanbeblig church, Carnarvon, by the Rev. Howel Hughes, Edward Hudson Blake, esq. of Harcourt street, to Elinor, daughter of Minchin Lucas, esq. Fitzwilliam square, Dublin.— At Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, by the Rev. David Gryffydd, Captain John Roberts, to Anne, second daughter of the late Captain Hugh Evans, of Bryn Isa. -On the 23d of August, Edmund Kendall, esq. of Lord street, Liverpool, to Margaret, only daughter of John Williams, esq. of Wrexham, Denbighshire.-On the 25th of August, at Trinity church, Marylebone, London, Charles Tracy Leigh, esq. eldest son of Charles Hanbury Tracy, esq. of Toddington, Gloucestershire, and of Gregynog, Montgomeryshire, to Emma Elizabeth Alicia, youngest daughter of G. H. Dawkins Pennant, esq. of Penrhyn castle, Carnarvonshire. -In September, at Margam, by the Rev. T. F. Boddington, A.M. Reginald B. Boddington, esq. son of Benjamin Boddington, esq. of Badger Hall, Shropshire, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Philip Jones, esq. of Underhill, Glamorganshire. -In September, at Henley-in-Arden, by the Rev. S. H. Parker, Henry Still, esq. of the Ordnance, Surrey, to Fanny, third daughter of Thomas Lloyd, esq. of Moelfre, Denbighshire.-In September, at Llanbadarn fawr, Cardiganshire, Wm. Van, esq. late of the 16th lancers, and eldest son of the late Wm. Van, of Whitehall, esq. to Catherine Augusta Marianna, eldest daughter of the late Walter Watkins, esq. of Maeslough Castle and Woodlands, in the county of Radnor, and granddaughter of the late Viscount Hereford. On the 6th of September, at Wrexham, by the Rev. George Cunliffe, M.A. Edward Jay, esq. of Bath, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the late John Burton, esq. of the former place. Deaths.

On the 5th July, at his residence in Portman square, London, aged 89, Henry Grant, esq. of the Gnoll, Glamorganshire.-On the 3d of July, at the Vicarage, Lewisham, the Rev. Hugh Jones, vicar of Lewisham, Kent, and of Talgarth, Breconshire, aged 80.-On the 3d of July, at Gloucester, Edmund Blewitt, esq. son of E. Blewitt, esq. of Llantarnam Abbey, Monmouthshire.- On the 25th July, Elizabeth Fleming, infant daughter of the Rev. John Nanney, of Belmont, Denbighshire.-On the 11th July, William Price, esq. of Erianall, late of Wern, in the county of Anglesey.-Lately, Miss Charlotte Warde, aged 12 years, niece of Mrs. Grant, of Gnoll, near Neath, who was found drowned in an old disused bath attached to the mansion. It appears that she had fallen into the water, probably by overreaching herself in catching or guiding some feathers which she had thrown upon the surface.-At Garthewin, Denbighshire, Letitia, wife of Colonel Wynne, of that place, and daughter of the late Rev. J. F. Stanley.-On the 24th November, at Batavia, Ebenezer Vaughan, esq. formerly of Chirk, Denbighshire. On the 2d July, aged 78, Robert Roberts, esq. of Ruthin, formerly of Chester. On the 22d June, at Cheltenham, Ann, wife of Mr. James Kelly, of Hanmer.-June the 27th, at Newport, Isle of Wight, in his 52d year, Lieut. Col. Robert Anwyl, of Vron, Merionethshire, late of the 4th or King's Own: he was appointed Ensign in that regiment in 1799, and accompanied it to Holland with the army under the Duke of York in the same year, when he was slightly wounded in the attack on the enemy's lines at Zuyder Zee. He afterwards served with the 4th at Walcheren in 1809; at Gibraltar and Ceuta in 1810, as Brigade Major; at Torres Vedras, and the affair at Barba del Puerco, in 1811; at the storming of Badajoz, when he was severely wounded; at the battle of Salamanca, where he received an injury, and his horse was killed under him; at the siege of the castle of Burgos, and in the affair at Villa Mariel in 1812; in

the battle of Vittoria, the storming of St. Sebastian; where he became senior officer of Brigade, the passage of the Bidassoa, and Nive, where he was again wounded, and the action at Bidart in 1813; at the investment of Bayonne in 1814, where he acted as Assistant-Adjutant General to the left wing of the army under Gen. Colville. He then accompanied Major Gen. Robinson to Canada as Brigade-Major, and commanded the light troops of his Brigade on the movement against Plattsbury, on which occasion he drove in the American piquets with great gallantry. He rejoined the 4th in France, and was there during the three years' occupation, and afterwards followed it to the West Indies, where he served some years. In 1827 he purchased an unattached Lieutenant-Colonelcy, and in the same year was appointed to the command of the 95th, which he joined at Malta, but the climate of the West Indies had so materially impaired his health as to compel him to resign in 1830, and return to England. He was honoured with a Medal for his distinguished conduct at St. Sebastian; was promoted to a majority in the army after the battle of Vittoria, and in 1817 to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy (as stated in the Royal Gazette,) for distinguished services in the field. His frank and obliging disposition, joined with his urbanity of manners and convivial qualities, will long endear his memory to his numerous friends: he has left a widow and one child.-On the 11th August, at Newport, Monmouthshire, aged 71, the Rev. Jenkin Lewis, formerly of Wrexham.-On the 13th August, at Montgomery, William Dunne Davies, esq. of that place.-On the 7th August, at her house in Seymour street, Bath, Miss Corbet, daughter of the late Henry Corbet, esq. of Ynysymaengwyn, Merionethshire.-Lately, the Rev. Mr. Rowlands, curate of Penal, and Oliver, eldest son of the late R. Matthews, esq. of Esgir Ilefirim, Merionethshire, who were drowned whilst bathing in the river Dovey.--Lately, aged 39, at Cwirtai, Anglesey, Miss Margaret Owen, of Caergeiliog. At Tan-y-bryn, Bangor, aged 69, Dorothea, relict of the Right Rev. John Fisher, D.D., late bishop of Salisbury.-On the 18th July,at Highfield Cottage, near Wrexham, Mr. Ambrose K. Dickenson, surgeon, aged 27.-On the 21st July, at Branas Lodge, Merionethshire, William Jones, esq. aged 82.-On the 2d July, at St. Margaret's, Herefordshire, Mr. T. G. Griffiths, aged 78.-At Beaumaris, aged 82, Mrs. Williams, relict of Mr. John Williams.-On the 7th August, at Dyffrynffrwd, Glamorganshire, Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Henry Williams, esq. aged 27.-On the 20th July, at Caersws, Montgomeryshire, John Humphreys, in his 99th year.-On the 21st July, at Llanwchaiarn, same county, Margaret Humphreys, aged 98.-On the 23d Aug. at Llanelly, Henry Child, esq. in his 60th year.-On the 30th Aug. at Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, Christopher Temple, esq. in his 79th year.-On the 29th Aug. at Oswestry, Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. J. Jones, aged 48.-On the 24th Aug. Gabriel J. M. De Lys, M.D.-On the 25th Aug. at Gloucester, John Bill, esq. in his 77th year.At Liverpool, in Sept. the Rev. D. Jones, independent minister of Holywell.At Caermarthen, Daniel Williams, esq. solicitor, and for many years chamberlain of the borough.-At Aberystwyth, aged 43, Mrs. Sell, the wife of the Rev. Mr. Sell, of Stafford.-On the 2d Sept. at Ramsgate, the infant daughter of the earl and countess of Cawdor.

PRICES OF SHARES OF CANALS IN WALES.

Brecknock and Abergavenny, 105; Glamorganshire, 290; Monmouthshire, 209; Montgomery, 80; Shrewsbury, 250; Swansea,

FOREIGN FUNDS.

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Closing price 17th Sept.-Austrian -; Brazilian, 49; Buenos Ayres Chilian, 15; Colombian, 11; Ditto, 1824, 9; Danish, 62; Greek, 17; Mexican, 1825, 36; Peruvian, 10; Portuguese, 48; Prussian, 1818, 99; Ditto, 1822, 97; Russian, 1822, 914; Spanish, 1821, and 1822, 13; 1823, 124; French Rentes 88; Ditto, 59.

ENGLISH FUNDS.

Sept. 24.--Bank Stock, shut; 3 per cent. cons. shut; 34 per cent. shut; 3 per cent. red. 824; 34 per cent. red. shut; 4 per cent. shut; Long Annuities, shut; India Stock, 1973.

ERRATA.-Page 298, line 24, dele which.

380, line 13, for in, read is.

385, line 25, for New Holland road, read New Holyhead road.

Cambrian Quarterly, misconceptions
regarding the, 12-the Ultra-Welsh
Spirit of
136 et seq.
Cantrev-y-Gwaelod
Castell Penrhyn; see Poetry.
Ceubren yr Ellyll, a tale,
Ceven y Bedd; see Poetry.
Charlemagne a conspicuous character in
17 et seq.
the Breton plays

467 et seq.

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Chieftain, the Border, a dramatic sketch,
from Welsh history 187 et seq.
Chivalry and romance, Brittany the
cradle of
Clerical correspondents, a word to a
497 et seq.
few of our
Cornish specimens from the Bodleian
503 et seq.
Library
521
Coronation, the
Crotchet Castle, (Review,) 225 et seq.
Crwth, the ancient, Ian Vanderslacht's

letter upon
Cupio Dissolvi; see Poetry.

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