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EMIGRATION . "WHERE TO AND HOW TO PROCEED . ; 1 JiOTES OP A IOBB THBOCGB A P 0 HTJO 5 OF CANADA , iSB SETEB . iL or THE STATi-S' OF XORTH AMERICA , PaRTICCLAKLT THE STATES OF MASSACHUSETTS , SBODK ISLAND , SEW TO 1 E PEX 5 STXYAJUA , OHIO , MICHIGAN , ILLINOIS ¦ STJSC 05 S 1 K , A > 'D SETT JEBSET , TNDER 1 A 5 . ES "WiTH A VTEW OF ASCERTAINING THE DE SIRAB 1 X 1 TT , OB OTHERWISE OF EMIGRATION ; XSV TO JUDGE OF THE B ? ST LOCATION , FOB ENGLISH X 3 ai 6 BA > TS , FBOS ACTUAL OBSEBTaHOS . BY LiWREXCE PITKETHLY , of Htddeiifield . f Continued from our last week ' s paper . ) JOURNAL .
Hosdat , 4 ' . h . —Dxk Gordon , one * or the sailors W 23 at the -wheel , where the captain and he had a qrarrsl . 3 > ick J > ad frequently said be should be delighted at the opportunity of giving Mm £ sound beanrg- The sailors complsiEei of the beef ,-and after gome altercation , better -was given them . "What a hwnble man this ojptain must be ! This zncmmg be condescended to speak to me , observing that had I been in America , to-day , 1 abculd have had S fneboliday . it being the anEiversary ot the Declaration of American Independence . I told" Ma I should have been right glad to have been there , for more reasons than one .
Toe night has been propitious , tvd we have kept m enre-jsr&e-Si the rale of from seven to ten knots , with a moderate Bta . I learn that we are about six dewets from tke Banks tf Newfoundland . The Banks arc abtw a degree aerosa ; and from tbence to Boston it IB orly four days sail fur a fishing brat ; so tist with favemable westher vs , ? may expect to be in Bo'lon in ei ^ ht-daya . This account ten-Jed much to draw < ff the gloom -which for somfe days bad pervaded the nrjids of the passengers , created by a statement to the tflvct that ¦ sre ¦ sPcreTery likely to have a sixty tUy ' s passage . TueSdaT , 5 th . —Jfot a sail to be seen this morning . Dming the greater pan of the night it has been a dead ca 3 m . Towards morning a breeze sprung up from the K&rta . -which sent us forward foi a short time , at the rate of nina knots . It veered abont in the afternoon and forced us to tack . >
TneGaptais ' s cmiosity ssemed to have been excited from some circumstance or other . He came and asked j ns if 1 intended to stay in Boston or Jfew . Tort . 1 described my intended route and jetnrn to England , BD < 1 left him "without an opportunity to mate any remark . WedsesdaT 6 th . —This morning Talbot , the second mat * -, sent John Hargrove , a young sailor of small siz ; , aloft to do some Gu ^ y . the doing of "which did not please him He therefore a > --used HarsroTe in very rough langCBCs . aud called him down to give him s rougher bandliix . Aa soon as he reached deck , Talbot eonuneLc ^ d kickin ? Mm , and having pushed him down , he dashed his bead for some time against the dtck . This might hare- endtd in a tragedy , tar the fellow , -who was 3 native of Malta , and ol & ferocious breed , -was in a perfect fary—had not a sailor , named Tom , have ran from the forecastle to the release of Bartrove . and En ^ ceeded
in s ^ paranng the combatants , TaJbot askt * l " If he intended to interftra . * Tom replied "Soj . bnt he thoB ^ ht be had done enough , " Some further altercation ensned , -when Talbot collared Tom ; bat Tom told him to "leave go , « r he "would very soon ^ trve him cnt " T&Jbot "was "wise enough to do eo ; bnt when Ton was returning down the foreasile steps , Talbot aimed a blow at -fcim with a handspike , which fortunately missed him or he would no doubt have been killed . T <> ni returned and asked him " if he intended to strike him with that deadly weapon ?** snd said "he would not do it ¦ with impunity . " Tom and Hargrove were ordered over the side , to sciip 9 the outside of the ship , and , as punishment , "were kept there during their watch- They both swore that Talbot sbonld not go without his reward .
Thchsdax , 7 th . —lbe night has again been calm , and no progress made . Abont noon , a bietzs got -ap . but ne&rly B-head , accempaniei by a thick log , which cati'ed the wet to fall like rain from the rigging , making it V 6 ? y nnesBiforiabie . No sail to ke ss-en . I saw a barrel of far-west pork opened for ths first time . It Weighed 2 cwt , and cost S 5 & at J » ew OrieaES . The hams were mixed with the otter parts . It was large , and appeared to be in good c- > n » iition- It wag to me a proof of the productiveness of the country to wMch we ¦ were bouad .
TiiiDAi . Sib . —Tie breeze has kept np a little during the sight , bnt OBrpn >? res 3 baa been-siow—the same all day . The captain said , that unless we had some favourable wcstLer , we should not reach Bi * ton fuT three weeks . We have been on the rack all -tbe ¦ way , uot being able to ascertain latitude on longitnde ; one saving it was so and bo , and another contradicting . Now it was said we were forty-fo ^ r north , and between fortyfour and forty-six west ; scarcely half-. ray . I now regretted murk that 1 had not gone by the Siddons , at all hazards . Saicbdat , 9 th . —Wind st ill a-head . The mates difikr * d in opinion as to best -course ; one thought it best to run north ; another tbenght south would answer belter . The captain inquired how the provisions "Were . He had net , aa he-ought , had . the previsions of tfes passengers examined before leaving ths puit ; however , Joey stood very welL We ccnld stili hold- out for three
weeks-Tins xoornisg the saQorB were put on shori aHowancs : of water . liey bi « l given a deal to the Irish girls a : n 5 giit 3 , and now beg&n to * xperienee the hardships their concn = t had irliittsd od tLo main portion nl tbe pxs-Ben ?? T * . £ C 5 Bai , 10 ih . —Ihuing the night a strong " breetgot up , bni Dght a-bead , and ccntanued till morning , irten it veeed ronnd to the north , and carried us forward for a few hour *; it however veered UJ the west , and was very weak towards evening , as was tbe case on the two previous days . It was a strange sight to see ¦ P-ipists , Methodists , and eveiy kind of religionist Tr&shiEjf and drying tbeii ciotha today , Sunday though it be .
iioXDAT , llth . —The night has been a perfect cairn and ths day by far the hottest we have bad—not a breath of wind , and the sea quite smoetb . I never Saw * na j&ieisey sit Jj ^ erpool so ssaoolii &s is t&i £ "wide ocean ; of comes we made no visible process . A I « = ar ¦ was cow generally expressed that we thculd run short ¦ of provisions . 2 ^ o sail seen to-day . Thelporpeises rolling around "da in vaBi numbera . As Martin Flinn was carrying coals from below to the cooking place along the deck , one of the sailors , wiio was aloft , let a marliugspike fall from lbs rigging , "which touched Home part of F . yim s clothes and sunk above an inch into the deck Fijun had an hairbreadth escape . The poor feil&"K wept at the very thi > n 2 bt of iL
"We had now been f ^ ar weeks sea . I calculatfed npon "being in Boston , and acre » s were little me » Ihan hsJf-way . Tn * day waj c-r > cdnded vith fiiaging and riairing , a person playing the flute—sailors and passengers all joining . 31 argaret Nolan , a yottog Iridiwoinan , having fini shed ber provisions , applied to the Captain ; he said he was glad that ber provisions were dona , as be sbonld rot be troubled with so much cooking in future . Tcesdat , 1221 . —The night has " been calm , but towards morning we bad a fair wind , and during tbe early part of ths day we got , on -very -srell .
TTedsesdat , 23 th . —T 7 e Jnve been bi ^ favonted during the Tiight , and went on wtll till tsro p . m ., when it kept falling and veering round until evening , when it got Tight a-head . Clouds , black and dismal , collected a-head . The Captain was evidently alarmed ; 3 thought he apprehended tbe bursting of a wattr-Epout upon tib , or that we should have some severe sqjialbj ; tbe dsnds , however , disappeared , but left the wind a-head . We saw a ship in full sail a bead of us this aorning , ¦ With Studding sails Iset , end very soon a steon .-i , in the same style , bound for Earcps , sod soon after this , x third one . They psssttl us most gallantly . How enviable J "We sooa S 3 W two more vessels , but at a « eat distance .
Thcssdat , 14 th . —The night has been very boisterous , with tbe wind a hesd the whole time , and we ¦ were told we bad been drawn back a very lonf way It was not so , however , but : ^ e bad made very litile ¦ way . The day was fair ; and tbe evening broug- t a favourable brts . 23 ; every sail was hoisted , the side sails set , and all prepared to prsceed to Boston , ^ las > . we lost onr mo-ring power almost immediately , and Bgain lay motionless on the . snxiacs . Fbiday , lotb—After a sxill ni ? ht , we have ad a perfectly calm day ; we did feel the air at intervals but it was quite against jib . One g *^ passed this inorniag about six . Sati-bdat . 16 th . —Wiad south west , nearly a ? ainst us . vtsry weak , by tacking we rained a very liitJe way . T-ic Captain laid out some waste potatoes , not fit for bogs , and told tie ^ passengers they might have them . H = al 3 o gave a = vay a portion of salt beef which the Eiiiors hid rtf csed to e « .
__ o , ijjiL—Pavourable tu * . a very Blight bretz 11 increased daring the day and at ni ? ht at ii w * s v = ry rtion ? . Sum * of the passengers were much alarmed * and seme were sick . S 30 SDAT , 18 th . —Dark , and much rain falling . The poor AaHow have iiad to be exposed t o a most dreadful night , but were gratified by the progress we had made for Ibey «« med as anxious as the passengers to get on shore . They did not sing "The more days the more dollars . " At rdse am , tbe rain ceased , and tho wind abated and ^ soon got near a-head , and remained so til ] soon . An Island of ios , 01 an iceberg , was -quite visible but a great distance , to Lhe aorth . I thought it wa » * Mp , but it seemed whiter and lower , Ths Captain on seeing it sent the second mate aloft to look for more a-iiead , but he saw none .
Toil morning , the passengers bad their aUp'WSBM in lain "Wfttei . Thii m very wrong . It h * d wiabed a good j « rt of . tba ship . It might have bees put into < ask < to be ased in case of scarcity , or have be « n osed for -wasMng psrpone . Tbe railou bad waded through It , and the &xtj Captain had been spitting about on allsidaa . Tbe passengers , however , axe no more cared for Ihan pigs . Tke aix is ~ rexy cold and we mxke but little way . Numerous porpoises are rolling around us . TlTESDAl , ISth- —An immense ieebesg was Vb& first thing seen , -about five miles to leeward . It bort the
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appearance oi an immense buUdingtraised to the height rf tbe window bottoms , the comers in Bight being square and perpendicular , tbe height apparently twelve feet , bnt in reality it was not less than one hundred feet high ; the two Bides in Tievr seemed neatly equal in length ; tbe top was square and flit . The Captain called me to " see the like of what I had never seen in my Isfe , "' and said " tbat I must put it in my joumaL *' ta « dm not seem to \ iketb * ** joTarnaL" ^ He went foi the glass to ascertain if there were any people upon it , and evidently wanted to make me believe there was smoke arising from it For race , be was bo civil as to offer me bis glass to look through . This 1 did . It was to me a great natural curiosity . I bad always thought these bergs wara formed of shelves of ice ; bnt neither with tbe glass nor naked eye conld 3 perceive any joints or fissures . It appeared a solid mass of ice .
The night has been still and calm ; the same during the day ; and now , at eight pvra ., not sufficient wind to stretch a sail . In the forenoon we discovered another iceberg in the opposite direction . It bad a most curious towering appearance . Now , at eight pm ., it has assumed tbe appliance of a cottage between ub and the moon ; and it being too dark to abow the absence of windows , it makes the illusion more complete . The flat part consists of three small pieces of snow , on a row , upon the surface of tbe water . A small piece of ice alse rested npon the water , about a mile from the " cottage . " A fishing schooner was said to have been seen to-day . It bow turns uut to be a piece of ice .
" Wedsesda -i , 20 th . —At ten last night , a fine favourable br «* Z 9 overtook ua , and every sail was set wiib all possible expedition . We went at a fine rate all night . Now , at ten &-m-, we are going at eight kaots . 1 ^ m just disturbed in my minutes by tbe cry of ' The carcass of a whale a-bead . " I ran to the side , and saw a large floating mass , which sent forth a most herrible stench . Th * Te was no doubt of its being a « ead -whale ; its colour was a yellowish one , with spots , and its form indiscribaWe . It lay fUt npon the water , and appeared to have bten partly devoured by birds . It was sot on » hundred yards from lbe Bfaip , so that it could be very distinctly seen . The colour was as near tbat of the leopard as anything I cunld imasine . "We next p&w the spar of a ship , and then a very large dead eod-fl = £ , all v « y near os .
At 8-. x this morning , tbe first object which struck my eye was another mass of ice of an oblong shape or nearly square , in sr-z-i a hundred and fifty by three hundred yards , and f&rly feet above tbe surfsee of the water , with an inclined plane from twelve to sixteen f «; t . It appeared aboul two miles distant . A number more were in sight , and one closely resembling a cottage in shape and size , bnt in reality vastly larger ; white my eyes , and those of several who stood by me , were fixed upon it , it disappeared and a cloud of smoke seemed to rise from the water , and a noine , as
of faint j&under ¦ sras heard . From the heat of the sun and other causes it tumbled to pieces , aud seemed to u > im three large and many very Bmalllunips , forming a kind of floating island . The captain came to me and said he had crossed many t ' mes and at all seasons , but had Lever sefoa the quantity cf ic « as at present . He wa 8 lost wbai to do should ii become f osgy- I said , I thought waea we got off the Banks we should beslear ef the ice . Tcs , be said , tut we are just nuw entering the Banks . 1 bad concluded we were joBt about to leave them .
" Hope told a flattering tale . " Many bergs , or islands of ice "were seen during last nirht and many duTing the day . The man on watch at the mast-head has just reported more in view , so that we are not out of danger . 3 The evening brought a dense fog , and one sail and then another was reefed . A man was constantly kept on the "vratch , and the ship moT © d at a very alow rate , althongh the wind -was fair . The danger wo were in of running foul of the ice kept us back . ThcbsdaT , 21 st—We are favoured with a good and fair bretEa this morning . Tbe fog has almost disappeared and £ 0 ice has been seen during tbe night , nor is there as ; in sisht this morning .
Seven jvnx—Tbe breez 9 ba ^ favoured us » y , but tbe sea being rough we have not progressed so well as yesterday . We have just bad a little rain and the breeze has left us with it . The mate cheers me by stating that we shaii very soon bare it from a better quarter . Fkidat , S 2 = d- —TV © were surprised this morning by thi . appearance of ano'hei island of ics ; it passed on the right at a short distance . We soon espi . d another an < i a larger one , a-bead ; it passed us on the left at not more *> iftn a mile distant . We soon after perceived a third . Tne morning was very fine indeed . It has been calm all the night , and has krpt the same during tbe day . Tbe second matt keeps cheering as by saying tbat a more favourable breeze will shortly overtake us .
What bandy feHowB tbe Yankee sailors are . Not one of them has been put to ltam carpentry ; yet they all * ork wonderfully well at it They are now preparing all things for going into port , so that they may look dean and in order . How surprising it Is that tfcw sallow cannot be spoken to by their * ' superiors , " but as a West India planter would speak to hia slavta , before he commands his whipper-in to cut them with tbe lash . N *> t a wonl has been spoken to tfeese fine fellows by tbe Captain , so far as 1 have heard , during the whole voyaae . t-icopt in tne -way of " orders , " and I really 8 hon 5 d not have been snrpriwd bad they thiown him overboard . They certainly txpressed tneii feeling in struft ? terms . Satcbdat , 23 rd . —Abont Beven this morning , a saii hove in sight behind u& which made apou U 3 very regularly until she passed as in fine style- She was from Malaga and bennd for Boston , laden with wine and frniL At dusk shB was considered twelve or
fonrteen milrs a-head . We could not learn her name . It waa calculated she had travelled thnty miles more than us during tbe day . The Captain said I bad better get my luggage ready and go on board the brig ( for such sbe -eras ) as she was making upon us . I said I bad jtut been thinking of doing so . Iinmodiattly after , the Captain asked Charles Earasbaw how tbe provisions stood ; he was answered that they would bold out till we reached Boston if we got along at all . After this conversation with myself and Charles , we expected a signal would have been givtn for tbe brig to lay to , bet no such signal was given , and she patsed close astern , and being spoken with by the Captain , cut throngb the water rapidly , and was speedily out of hearing . We bad calculated on having an opportunity to purchase such things as they bad and which we re * nuired ; bnt this was denied os .
The reason given for our slow sailing was , tbat the vessel which bad passed was light , and the wind just suited her , it being light also . She bad left Malaga on the 28 th , while we left Liverpool on the 14 th , tbe two places being about eqni-tiistmt ; so she bad trained fourteen days upon us , "while tbe ¦ weather bad been more nnfavourable for them than us . Our ship lay like a log upon tbe water all the day . I had porridge and raisins to my breakfast , both this morning and yesterday , for want of other sweetening . I could eat nothing but oatmeal—ro tea , no coffee , nor biscuits . To dinner 1 had a little salt £ sh , with oat « xke . Sitxdat , 24 TB . —No progress during the night ; all was as still as death At four A . M ., a slight bretZ 9 got up , which increased till six , wben we got on at the rale of seven-and-a-half knots ; but , alack-aday , all at once it became calm , and continued so during the whole dsy .
Two sbip 3 , apparently for Europe , have gone on their way to the left . Mr . Bywater , in speaking of the ladder by which we ascend and descend , which is both dangerous and indecent for females , told me that a few days after -we cane on board , tbe captain wished be ( Mr . B . ) might be the first who fell , and tbat be might break bis neck . Mosdat , 23 rd . —A calm ni ght again . Two vessels crossed us on their outward course , lhe first , a fishing
smack , crossed na about two ; at the same time , we ob * saved a ship not twelve miles distant , in tbe hsza ; she kept making upon and passed us at eight It was too dark to ascertain what she was . The crew said she was the Sea . I told them I was certain that although the Sea left Liverpool after us , she was in New York a week ago- The captain exchanged siguala with this ship , bnt bs would as soon have given us bis teeth as have told as anything that would afford us a ray of pleasure . Tbe Sea left Liverpool after us . This ship appeared bound for Boston .
Tne passengers consulted together this morning npon tbe propriety of making a formal application to the captain for & supply of provisions , as many were now entirety out , A person , named William Cummings , went by himself . Tfae captain told kim " he must apply to that power which rules alL' * He also aaid , " he did not know in "what latitude ot longitude we were in , " although be and his brother captain ( Marshall ) bad just been ascertaining the position , with tbe quadrants . Cummings teld him bis provisions were done , as also were those of some others ; indeed , all were nearly without ; and that those who bad any were willing to divide with tbe rest , could they obtain any idea of the time we should be likely to land ; but nothing could be elicited from the feliow , only that be bad nothing to do with the provisions ; Roche , at Liverpool , being the only person to apply to . "
This afternoon , abont three , the beat and fairest bretzs sprung np ; the ship was put in order , and we were going along at tbe rate of from to nine ten knots an hour . A small whale was seen astern , but few passengers bad an opportunity of seeing it . Tcesdat , 26 th . —The wind kept favourable till two or three o ' clock ibis morning , wben it veered and we were driven out of our course several points . A ship which passed but night , is from fifteen to twenty miles a-bead thi * morning . The wind i » sow right against us We obtenred tbe other ship t » efr < "g till evening ; her ma » t « sre ^ oHly visible . : Wbdkbsdat , 27 ja—Wind a-bead duringthe wnole night ; the ship rode bard « pon a higa sea , tacking all tbe time , which is rather dangerous . In changing our course -we bad much spray breaking over the bows , ¦ which continued till -ni gHf » n .
The captain gave away some salt beef to-day ; tbe passengers wanted rice , potatoes , and fresh food of any kind ; salt provisions not agreeing with then . The sailors charged the steward with giving them short allowance of beef and -vinegar : they had it iocreasea . Tbe second soA last pig was BlaBgbtered to-day .
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Only one Bbip seen to-day . The weather has been very dull and hazy . Thursday , 28 th . —We have had a very uneasy night , with a strong wind right a-head ; tbe vessel has heaved very much , and we have had little sleep . A shark bu been seen to-day , and a strong line and hook has been baited and put out to try if it would bite . The captain has given away Borne more sa \ t beef today , and he has given Charles some loaf-sugar . TWb was attributed to my *• journal , " of which we bad proof he was greatly afraid . " mm A British brig was very near ; the passengers applied to the captain to bail her , and see if they would sell us any proriflions , hia answer was that «• h e would rather jump overboard than ask an English ship ; " and assured us that we should meet with plenty of American vessels before night wben we conld be supplied ; and that we should reach the port in three days .
A regular fight to-night , between Dick Gordon and Jack the Stowaway , who , being Irish , some of his conntrymen struck Dick in the fight , which caused some threats of vengeance on shore . The captain separated tbe combatants and threatened Jack with the rope ' s end . , Friday , 29 th—No Bight of land , and very faint hope of a favourable wind . A brig was in sight behind us this morning , making rapidly towards us ; when she came near , she turned off to the i . S . West in the direction of New York . Tbe passengers again appealed to the captain to get her to lay to for provisions . He told them that tbe ship left Liverpool on the Sunday we did , and , of course , was as badly off for provisions as we were . Tbis vessel bad gained upon us , at least , eight miles in a few hours , which proved the statement to be false and a mere aubfli
We have had a quantity of birds about the ship all the , way ; they are called Mother Carry ' s chickens . To-day we have bad an extra quantity . Last night , at the conclusion of the battle between Stowaway and Gordon , tbe Captain called up the passengerB , and told them that if he found any of them beyond tbe long boat after nine at night , he wonld put them in irons . If tbis was a law , it ought to have been enforced from the time of our coming on board , and not sow , because some one or two Irishmen interposed in the fight Satvbiuy , 30 tfe —The night has been entirely to my wish ; going at the rate of eight to nine knots on tbe average , breeze from th « south , which has kept up till bed-time , but veered , and took ua two points out of our ooarae .
Some pork ¦ was given away to-day ; it was very strong , and bad been bought at about a peony a ponnU at New Orleans , where an immense quantity 1 b sold . It comes down the Mississippi in boats , after being shot like game and cured ; it costs nothing but the truuble . Others , of course , are taken , which are kept and killed in the usual way ; bat that is generally fed in the woods upon hickory bush , hacsl , and other roots , with fruit which falis from the totes , or that grows on the ground , or near enough for them to reach . Yesterday we were informed that eighteen hours ' sailing would take us into port ; now we are told that when the brvtE ; got up last night , we were 4 * 0 miles from Boston . Thus we are kept in continual suspense .
Sunday , 31 st . —In the night we had a squall one moment and a calm the next ; on tbe average , however , we have done middling . Bay six to seven knots ; from six to eight this morning she was at ths rate of seven knots ; and what is the reverse of what we have seen during the whole passage , we buve actually passed two brigB this morning since day-light . Two ships in sight this afternoon , but not near enough to know what they are . A fishing smack has gone close past us . We are now convinced that we are about one hundred miles from Boston .
aiondat , a » gdst 1 st . —After breakfast we discovered land . It was tbat famous spot , " Cape Cod . " This head , or cape , is the point of a very long neck of laad , which forms a large bay from Cape Ann , on the north , and named Massachiisset ' s Bay ; an I on tbe left is Piymoutb Bay , Boston Bay , and other small bays . On-Cape Cod tbe first pilgrims from Europe landed and settled at Piymoutb , enduring great hardships . Soon after we saw the Cape , we discovered a numerous fleet of fishing boats within the head , occupied in their vocation . I have just counted eightyfour , but thire must be near double that number in tbe bay . We have had an unfavourable wind—afterwards a calm .
The passengers are busy scrubbing and washing in preparation for landing . One of them took the liberty to loosen a rope to which was affixed oue of the sailor ' s ' red shirts , which had been let down into tbe sea at the bead of the ship , as is the common practice , to soften the dirt before washing—they often have them thus dragged throngb the water for several days . This man thought of following the example , and tied a shirt ef his own . along with the sailor ' s , and let them both down again ; bat not fastening tbe rope properly , both were passing away . Dick Gordon was engaged at the stern , and seeing his comrade ' s shirt in danger of being lost , without hesitation lamped overboard , having his
trousers on at tbe time . I did not know of the circumstance till tbe alarm was given , when I ran to the stern and saw poor Gordon at the distance of four hundred yaids ; the Bhip was put about and a barrel cast overboard , also a rope tied to a billet of woad , which , after a struggle , asci all but going to tbe bottom , Gordon succeeded in laying hold of , aud was dragged towards the ship : in the mean time tbe boat waa let down and sent vS to Oieet him , into which he was got , and thereby saved . A life had nearly been loat for an old red shirt . Tbe Bay appeared bounded by fl it and sandy shores —no rocks ,, nor mountains , or anything to give skelter from the storm .
Tbe evening brought a calm , and we bad not entered Boston Bay . when via retired to bed . Tuesday 2 nd . —Now we had got into Boston Bay , with its many islands , formed by the encroachments ot the sea , as at Bornbea , in Yorkshire , and several other parts of ths English coast . Those islands are so situated , eo numerous and so surrounded on all sides with vesstla passing , to and fro , as greatly to surprise me . We had Boston before us , which in a moment was lost of , * but very soon found it in another direction . We were apparently near the city , when turning a few rounds we seemed to be more distant from it . We confidently expected being in Boston during the night , but the wind headed us and we despaired . Last night , at dusk , a pilot came on board ; he informed us that tbe Onbrka and William Goddard were both in port . One of them left Liverpool a week after ns .
At four o ' clock we run aground at the entrance to one of the wharfs , and had to . wait for the rising of the * water to carry us in . The Custom Honse officers have been on board and have taken the papers on shore . They counted tbe number of passengers . The inspectors , or searchers , or the surgeon have not yet been , and until thsy come we must remain prisoners . We have seen the Bay of Islands , for such it may with propriety be termed . It is beautifully picturesque , and from tbence the city appears to very great advantage . The State House is tbe most prominent of
its public buildings ; it has a most magnificent dome , and is erected on the highest of tbe three mounds of the island upon which tbe city is built To tbe right , and at no great distance , stands tbe noble monument , which is just completed , in commemoration of the memorable battle of Bunker ' s HilL It is 220 feet high . To the left of the bay , and close to the city , stands the House of Refuge , the Poor House , the Asylum for ths Blind—formerly an hotel , the Lunatic Asylum , and the House of Correction , all of which appear very clean , with tbe exception of one . a brick building .
I am informed that persosB found drank in the streets are taken to the workhouse and then before the magistrates , and ff they cannot pay a fine of ten dollars and expences , they are sent to the House of Correction for various periods ; the terms of their imprisonment being in accordance with their habits and reputation . The ground oa which , these institutions stands is the spot where Washington raised bis defences in the night , which drove General Gage and the British army out of Boston . They stand upon a sloping bank , rising to a ridge from the water ' s edge . Upon an island lower down the bay stands the school where indigent and vicious boys are taught a common education and are trained to habits of industry in agricultural pursuits .
Adjacent to these institutions and a little more distant from tbe city is the Castle Island , npon which stands a lofty , strong-built fortification or fortress . On an opposite island is a fort and bastion , and still lower is Fort William , upon which large additions are being made to the strong works , which , with the Bcaffolding and tackle , have very much the appearance of a powerloom factory . The Ohio , which is called a 74 , but I am told carries 120 guns , is here , and is used as a school ship , for drilling and training seamen . She ia a splendid ship , with a covering over her whole upper dsck . Here I saw the first States Boldier and uniform ; the man was on sentry outside the ship , upon a sort of platform , to which the descent was made by a kind of temporary stairs . At tbe entrance of the bay lay a war frigate . A huge Bhip ef war also lay at the entrance of the dock , which is one of the principal in the United States . A sb'p was on the stacks , which I was told was to carry 180 guns .
The Assembly of the States is not at present sitting , I was surprised to find tbat the county of Suffolk , which contains only Boston and Chelsea , —a small township , thinly inhabited—formerly sent fifty six and now sends thirty-seven representatives to the legislative assembly—thirty-six for Boston and one for Chelseaquite Boffldent to make laws foz the whole of the United States . In addition to which , this county sends four or six senators for the State of Massachusetts There are above 200 representatives and fifty or sixty senators . i This is one of the worst watered cities la the Union . Some tolerably bard water is procured from the pomps , and the soft is brought In pip « i a distance of four miles Suffolk county contains a population of 86 , 161 . ( To be continued J
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for its being ft uhded even in probability , but we lay it before the public with the view of eliciting remarks from such as are : com patent to form a correct judgment on such matters , and not for casting a slur upon the memory of Sidd , or of hurting , even momentarily , the feelings of his surviving relatives and friends . We are bound , however , to place in juxta-position with this tbe fact that the principal officers of Ordnance are themselves at a loss for any cause for this Bad catastrophe , i
CORONERS INQUEST . It having been announced that the inquest on the bodies of the deceased would take place at ten o ' clock on Saturday morning , a large concourse of persons had assembled at the station-house , tbe place fixed en for the purpose , long before the hoar appointed for commencing the proceedings ; and when the coroner < , Mr . Lewis ) and jury made their appearance , the place was crowded to excess . Mr . Jessop , ofl Waltham Abbey , deputy solicitor to the Crown , was in attendance to watch the proceedings on behalf of government The first witness called by the coroner
was—Henry Castoll , ' a labourer , employed in the mixinghouse . Knew all the deceased . The bodies which the jury bad seen he believed to be their bodies . He could give no information as to their death , but heard an explosion somewhere about three o ' clock on Thursday last , wben he was at Pain ' s Island , a quarter of a mile from the building that was blown ( up . AJ 1 tbe deceased answered the call at one o ' clock , after which they went in the direction of the corning-house . Robert Walker , carpenter in the storekeeper ' s office—Saw all tbe deceased alive on Thursday at one o ' clock , with tbe exception of Mi » Sadd . It was usunl for witness to call the names over at one o'clock , and he did so himself that day . The reason why Mr . Sadd did not answer to his name w . is that he was a master workman .
The whole of the men who answered to their names he saw going up the walk to the corniog-house , but no further . Tbe six men who were killed were working in No . 2 coming-bouse . Heard the explosien about a quarter to three . ! Went to the spot , and saw the ruins . Sarah Adams—Lives in a cottage about 150 yards from the corning house . About ten minutes past three o'clock , saw Mr . jSidd going across the meadows to tbe corning-houso , abd saw him enter . Believes that was the hour , but she bad no clock . He bad scarcely got in when she heard the first report . The second blew oat the window , and split the door . She looked out and saw No . 1 , coming-house in a bl » z ^ , and directly after Mr . Fiulay came , down and rang the bell . That is all she knew about the occurrence .
Benjamin Stroud , labourer in the powder-mills—Saw all the deceased , with the exception of Mr . Sadd , alive about ten minutes after one on Thursday . Saw them at the one o ' clobk call , wben they went on their way to corning-house ; No- 2 , where they -were employed . About three o ' clock he heard an explosion . He ran out and saw nothing but a cloud of smeke ; but when it cleared away be saw that tbe building was gone , and fetiew the consequences . Wont to the ruins , and saw part of the . body supposed to be tbat of James Luck . By a Juror—Was at P * in ' s Island at the time of tbe explosion , and was painting barrels .
William Adams , workman in No . 1 corning-houee , deposed tbat the deceased Sadd was master woiknian . Ess' -x was frame-house or calling-house man , Luck was pressman . Cole ; Was corn-house man , Newland . was superintending as foreman in tbe reel-bouse in tbe place of Thomas Baldock , Dudley and Brown w « re corn-bouse men ,: the latter doing Bratsroan ' s duty at tba corning-house . Did not recollect seeing tbe deceased alive that day , but they were generally employed in No . 2 j corning-house . Witness was himself
in No . 1 corning-house on Thursday afternoon , with Mr . Austin andi Robert Dickson , when the fliat explosion took place , which shook the building hd was in . Immediately he said , " That is an explosion ; let us make our escape ; " He ran out , followed by Mr . Auslin and Robert Dickson . He looked back over bis shoulder , and saw the fire ( coming in torrents from the house he had left , which blow up is about s third of a w ' wute afterwards , and be saw Mr . Austin . Wben about fifteen yarda ttom th <> house , he turned about and saw o . board knock Mr . Austin down . In a few minutes afterwards .
he went to the rums , and saw tbe shoulders and arms of a man whom he thought to be Luck . He saw another man , whom he took to be Nevrland , in the reeling-house . The other five men were thrown over tbe river , and he did not see them . Saw Sadd about ( tight minutes before the explosion , when he lefp him going towards the corning-house . Cross-examined by Mr . Jessop—Believed Sadd said he was going to meet Captain Tulloh at the corninghoKse . During the whole period that be bad been employed there had never known but one explosion attended with loss of life . This took plane in 1811 , when eight lives were ] lost . There was nothing unusual in the rapidity of tbe works . Had often worked at No . 2 coming-house himself , and knew it to be an
oldfashioned house ,: with nothing about it Every precaution was taken to prevent accidents . Visitors going to see the machinery bad goloshes put on their feet . Sadd generally went to tbat place once a-day , so did Captain TulJob and Mr . Austin . The machinery was ixamined once or twice a-week , and tbe cog-wheel soaped to prevent friction . Was engaged in a building where machinery had been lately erected for gianuiatini ? powder en a new system . Tbis machine was introduced tit the expense of Government , and for tho purpose of saving human life . It was being conducted under the superintendence of Captain Tulloh . Tbe works were ! always carried on , while he had been iu the Ordnuuco employment , in the same way that they were when the deceased met their deaths . They could not bave worked hurriedly , for they were making rifle pvwdr . r , which required a slower process than the
coinmoa description of powder . Every precaution was used to prevent accidents . Visitors coining to inspect the gunpowder \ mills were always supplied with goloshes , which ! they put en their feet when they entered the building , to prevent the possibility of the introduction of grit or sand . Indeed , ever since Capt Tulloh had bad j the superintendence , nothing could exceed the care or attention tbat was paid to prevent accidents . So satisfied was he with the precautions , tbat he ( witness ) * should not have the slightest objection to work in the same mill under tbe same management were the works rebuilt . He was persuaded that there were fewer accidents at the Waltham Abbey powder mills than at any mills in the country . There might have been about 1 SOIlbs . of powder in the reelhouse , 500 lbs . in the corning-house , and 2 , 0001 bs . in the press-house . I
Mr . Thomas Austin deposed that he was superintendent of the machinery at tbe mills . He inspected tbe machinery once a month , under the direction of the commanding engineer . The last time he inspected it was on the Monday week previous to the explosion , wben it was found to be in its usual working state . He heard no complaints from the men at the time , although it was their duty to shut off the machine whenever anything defective appeared in it , and to report the fact to the proper authorities . On tbe day of tx * plosion witness bad gone up to the granulating mills ,
by the direction of Captain Tulloh , to take the -dimensions for a Blidiflg clutch , a technical term for an instrument to throw tbe gear out of work when it was found to be out of order . In his opinion there was no possibility of increasing tbe speed of the machinery in No . 2 bouse , where this unfortunate occurrence took place . He ( witness ) bad been in the service since 1807 . and never knew so much care taken as while it had been under Captain Tulloh . It was impossible for the machinery to go too fast without the men immediately knowing it
Captain George St . Vincent Whitmore , commanding the Royal Bogineers , deposed to tbe fact tbat a formal report was made to hia office monthly of tbe state of the machinery , and the report he received on the 3 rd inst . was perfectly satisfactory . Tbis witness corroborated the evidence of Mr . Austin . Captain Alexander Thomas Tulloh , Royal Artillery , an 4 it sptctor of tbe Royal Gunpowder Establishment at Waltham Abbey , deposed that he was in the corninghouae No . 2 almost the whole of the day previous to the explosion , when everything appeared to be in working order , and the men . had no complaints to mike to him .
aithougb he repeatedly enquired if tbey had any . Had made an appointment with Mr . Sadd to meet him on the very day the explosion took place , and was only prevented doing s « by his being obliged to remain at home te write an official ] letter . Had never heard any complaint from Mr . Sadd of the men not doing enough of work , and there was uo reason in a Government concern to do anything in a hurry , as might be the case in a merchant's concern , where an order might require to be made up within a given time . He considered that an electric shock in passing through might have ignited tbe powder . {
Col . James Coekbura , director of the Royal Laboratory , Woolwich , corroborated the evidence of Captain Tulloh and Captain Wbitmore as to the satisfactory state of the machinery , and the precautionary measures taken to prevent accident . It was his duty to inspect the machinery and premises periodically . The Rav . John Lewis Cupper , resident clergyman of Waltbsm , had frequently visited the powder mills , and deposed to the precautions which were taken to prevent accidents . These precautions were so excellent that he never felt the slightest timidity in passing through the works ; Tbis closed the evidence .
Tbe Coroner then briefly addressed the Jury , who retired for a few minutes , anil then returned with a verdict ol " Accidental death , ' accompanied by an expresBion of tbeir unanimous and decided opinion tbat the manufactory appears to have been conducted by Captain Tolloh , the inspector , with every possible precaution for the safety of the men employed under his superintendence , j The deceased were all married nen . Mr . Sadd had left a widow and . one child ; John Newland a widow and eight children ;! most of them , however , are grown up ; Edward Essex a widow and two grown-up children ; James Cole a widow and four children ; James Luck a widow and one child ; John Badley a widow and oho child ; and Samuel Brown a widow and two children . I '
The interment of the bodies , with the exception of tbat of Mr . Sadd , which was removed to a family burial ground at some distance , took place yesterday afternoon at five o ' clock in the parish churchyard . An immense number of persons assembled to witnesB the solemn scene , and a feeling of the deepest sorrow fox the fate of the unfortunate men filled the minds ol
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all present . The tragical occurrence has made an impression on the people in the place and neighbourhood which will never be effaced during life . The quantity ef gunpowder in tbe place at tbe time is supposed to have exceeded i . OOOlbs . in weight , and the amount of property destroyed is estimated at nearly £ 12 . 000 . The mills are literally a heap of ruins j even the form of tbe building could not be ascertained by a petson . who inspected the ruins . Fragments of the building were blown by the force of the explosion a distance of several hundred yards . The inhabitants in the neighbourhood think they heard three , if not four , separate explosions , though only a few seconds of interval elapsed between them . The death of one Of the unfortunate men CMr . Sadd , the foreman ) was particularly affecting , he having entered the works but a few seconds before tbe catastrophe took place .
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From the London Gasette of Friday , April 14 . BANKRUPTS . James Wilson , of Liudfield , Sussex , cowkeeper , April 21 , at half-past twelve , and May 26 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Mr . T . M . Alsager , official assignee , 12 , Birchin-lane , London ; Messrs . Rickarda and Walker , solicitors , 29 , Lincoln ' -inn-fields ; and Mr . S . W . Bennett , solicitor , Brighton . Jamea Wbitfield , of 67 , Taoley-street , Southwark , grocer , April 26 , and May 25 , at one , at tile Court of Bankruptcy , London . Mr . George Gibson , official assignee , 72 . Basinghall-street ; and Mr . George Stephen , solicitor , Skinners-place , Sise-lane . William Hitch , of Kingsland , Middlesex , grocer , April 24 , and May 25 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Mr . George Green , official assignee , IS , Aldermandbnry ; and Mr . Rutherford , solicitor , Lombard-street .
Thomas Pottinger , Henry Howell , and Alexander Oswald , late of 27 , Austin-friars , City , merchants , April 20 , and May 17 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London- Mr- Lackington , official assignee , S , Coleraon-atreet-buildings ; and Mr . Bentall . solicitor , Coleuian-street , London . Elizabeth White and Elizabeth Leith , of Worksop , Nottingham , machine makers , April 26 , aud May 19 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Leeds . Mr . George Young , official assignee , Leeds ; Messrs . Walter and Petnberton , solicitors , 4 , Symond ' s-inn , Chancery , lane , London ; Messrs . Payns and Co ., solicitors , Leeds ; and Mr . Henry Stephen Wafee , solicitor , Worksop . E'lmund Smith , of Sheffield , innkeeper , May 3 , at ten , and May 17 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Leeds . Mr . George William Freeman , official assignee , Leeds ; Mr . Bromhead , solicitor , Sheffield ; and Mr . W . Sykes , Solicitor , Leeds .
George RatcKffe , of Sheffield , fender manufacturer , April IS , and May 9 . at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Leeds . Mr . Henry Philip Hope , official assignee , Leeds ; Mr . Albert Smith , and Messrs . Haywood and Bramley , solicitors , Sheffield . William Gregson Pitt , of Cheltenham , Gloucester , shire , banker , May 3 and 25 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Bristol ; Mr . Strafiford , solicitor , Cheltenham ; and Messrs . King and Son , solicitors , Serjeants ' - inn . London . Robert Biggs , of Bath , chemist , April 28 at one , and May 26 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Bristol . Mr . E . Miller , official assignee , Bristol ; and Mr . G . Stalland , solicitor , Bath .
Charles John Chussen , and James G » ussen , of Liverpool , corn factors , April 26 , at half-past twelve , and May 26 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liver pool . Mr . William Bird , official assignee , Liverpool ; Messrs . Stockley and Thompson , solicitors , Liverpool ; and Mr . Henry Weeks , solicitor , 12 , Cook ' s-COUrt , Lin ? coln ' s-inn-flelda , London . Joseph Edmund Robinson , of Liverpool , wine metchant , April 28 , at twelve , and May 26 , at one , at tba Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool . Mr . Charles Turner , official aiaignee , Liverpool ; Mr . Hostage , solicitor , Liverpool ; and Messrs . Chester and Tuolmin , soliclton , Staple-inn , London . Anthony Merga , of Nantwicb , Cheshire , Watch maker , May 5 , at twelve , and May 26 , at half-part one , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool Mr . Win , Bird , official assignee , Liverpool ; ilr . Henry Field , solicitor ., Liverpool ; and Messrs . Sbarpe , Field and Co ,, solicitors , Budford-row , London .
William Jones , of Wolverbamptos , mercer , April 21 , and May 18 , at twelve , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham ; and Mr . George Robinson , solicitor , Wolverhampton . John Johnston , of Manchester , banker , April 25 , and May 16 , at one , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy , Manchester . Mr . James Stansall Pott , official assignee , Manchester ; Mr- S . Applet *? , solicitor , Harpur-atreet , Red Lion-Square , London ; and Mr . Alexander Oliver , solicitor , Manchester . Kenneth M'Leod and John Boyle Wood , of Liverpool , ship chandlers , May 4 , at eleven , and May 26 , it twelve , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool ; Mi . John Foliett , official assignee , Liverpool ; Duncan , solicitor , Liverpool ; and Messrs . Gregory , Peters , and Abbot , solicitors , Bristol .
Charles James Morley , ef Liverpool , flour dealer , May 2 , at one , and May 24 , at eleven at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool . Mr . James Cazenove , official assignee , Liverpool ; Mr . John Cornthwaite , solicitor , Liverpool ; and Messrs . Corsthwaite and Adams , solicitors , Dean ' s-courb , Doctors ' -commons , London . James Green , of Oldbury , Shropshire , licensed vi > tualler , April 24 , at eleven , and May 20 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham ; and Mr . Beaton ,, solicitor , Birmingham .
p artnerships dissolved . T . Ogilvy , G . Arbnthnot , G . 0- Gillanders , Bnd Adsm S . Gladstone , of Liverpool and Calcutta ( bo faras reganii Thomas Ogilvy ) . John Seymour Smith and L : owi Simpson , late of Liverpool , merchants . Edward Blase , Sarah Raleigh , and Rachel Raleigh , of Manchester , drapers . William Woodhead and Ezra Woodhead , ot Idle Colliery Calverley , Yorkshire , coal owners .
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From the Gazette of Tuesday , April 17 . BANKRUPTS . Dd 7 id Ellis , Jun ., draper , Haverhill , Suffolk , tofl » render April 27 , at two , and May 26 , at oneatths Court of Bankruptcy . Mr . Penneil , official assfgo «; Mr . Ware , solicitor , Blacfeman-street , Southwark . Henry Waiton , Jun ., wheelwright , Crowiand , V& colnshire , April 28 . at half-past two , aud May 26 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Mr . Belcher , official assignee ; Messre . Watson and Broughton , solicitor Falcon- square , City . William Ponn , cabinet-maker , Canterbury , April s , and June 2 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Mr . Whitmore , official assignee ; Mr . Fiddey , solicit * Paper-buildings , Temple .
Richard Watkius , carpenter , Holloway , April w . at two , and June 2 , at half-past one , at the Conrtw Bankruptcy . Mr . Alsager , official assignee , Bircbfr lane ; Mr . Wright solicitor , London-Btreet , City . William Fuller , currier , Cliffy , Sussex , May 4 , « one , and 29 , at twelve , at the Court of Banking Mr . Graham , official assignee , Basingball-street ; Mean . Sowton and Co ., solicitors , Great James-street . Nathaniel Wegg , victualler , E iat Greenwich , May h at two , and 29 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Mr . Turquaod , official assignees , Copthall-bailding 3 ' Messrs . Parnell and Co ., solicitors , New Broad-street Qeorge Harris , taiior , Dorking , Surrey , April 27 , » two , and May 22 , at balf-past twelve , afc the Cour t's Bankruptcy . Mr . Graham , official assignee , Bssingb * 11-street j Mr . Parry , solicitor , Gsorge-street , Mans ionhousei
. uuuuu , John Prat , surgeon , Adelaide-street , Strand , AP ™ 28 , at two , and May 19 , at one , at the Court cf Bankruptcy . Mr . Johnson , official assignee , BasinghsH " street ; Mr . Pill , solicitor , Hatton-garden . . Jabez Vines , miller , Reading , April 28 , at three , W May 24 , at eleven , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy . Mr . & »* ington , official assignee , Coleman-street-buildingy Messrs . Pain and Hatherley , solicitors . Great Ma ' " borough-street . . John Phillpps Davies , apothecary , Davies-sW Berkeley-tquare , April 29 , at two , and May 30 , « eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Mr . Groom , official assignee , Abchurch-lane . Lombard-atreet ; Mr . C »»
solicitor , Pinner ' s-hall , Old Broad-street _ John Morgan , merchant , Woodside , Cheshire , » V 6 , at one , and May 39 , at twelve , at the ^" f ^ District Court . Mr . Turner , official assignee . Solicitor ^ Messrs . Lowndes , Robinson , and Bateson , Liverpool * Messrs . Sharps , Field , and Jicfcson , Bedford- *)*! London . . Jobeph Edmund , Robinson , wine merchant , Livttpo ° ' April 28 , at twelve , and May 26 , at one , at the W ^ pool District Court Mr . Turner , official ssa S ° j *' Solicitors , Mr . Jenkins , Liverpool ; Messrs . Sba * P » Field , and Co ., Bedford-row , London . Anthony Merga , watchmaker , Nantwicb , GKf * S May 5 , at twelve , and May 26 , at balf-past one , w «» Liverpool District Court . Mr . Bird , official ^ & ~ Z Liverpool . Solicitors , Mr . Hostage , Liverpool ; » bsp >
Cheater and Tonlmin , Staple Inn , London . ., Charles Webb , timber merchant , KingBton-vpon-os May 1 and 26 , at eleven , at the Leeds District Cow * Mr . Freeman , ^ official assignee , Leeds . Mr . Ptt * " Solicitor , St . Paul's Churchyard , London . . William Peate , grocer , Shrewsbury , April J 6 , a * »¦ £ past eleven , and June 2 , » t eleven , at the ^' afs"PS ^ District Court . Mr . Christie , official assignee , Birm" £ ham . Solicitors , Mr . Teece , Shrewsbury ; Mr . Keewi Birmingham . ^ John Parker , cotton-waste-apinner , Bolton-le-M °° ™ Lancashire , April 29 , atone , and May 16 , at t ** ^ the Manchester District Court . Mr . Hobson , «»* - assignee , Manchester . Solicitors , Messrs . Norris , Aiw * and Simpson , Bartlett ' s-buildings , Hoibom ; ana » Glover , Boltou-le-Moors .
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* Almost incredible as it may appear , the report of lhe two explosions was distictly audible in tbe metropolis . In Hyde Park , about ton minutes past three o ' clock , they were beard , and amidst the prevailing stillness appeared so loud that several person * imagined them to proceed from the guns fired in celebration of her Modesty's accouchment .
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The conveyance of tbe Order of the Garter to the King of Saxony cost this country £ 1065 . An explosion took place at the gunpowder works of Messrs . Wakefield and Bainbridge , near Kendal , last week , which did considerable damage , and two of the workmen were seriously hurt . An explosion took place on board the steam packet " Cutter , " plying between Pittsburg and Cincinnati on the 17 th ult . by which three men were killed and tea very much injured .
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THE POWDER MILLS AT WALTHAM ABBEY . DREADFUL EXPLOSION . Da Thursday , one of those mournful accidents oesurred which have from time to time been deplored it every gunpowder manufactory , and which unhappily hurried seven unfortunates into eternity . The gunpowder mills at Waltham Abbey stand at Borne distance out ot the town , on the side of a broad running stream , which branches out of the river Lea , is tbe property of Government , and iB called " Powder Mill River . " Here a series of erections connected with the public service are found . They are built of wood , with slated roifa , and are termed " Coming-bouses , " " Press-houseB , " " Washing-houses , " and " Glazing
Mills . " Four of tbese edifices , about eighty feet in length , and twenty-nine or thirty feet in depth , have been destroyed—eo completely demolished , tbat nothing like the form of any one of them remains ; each is a black shapeless ruin . It is proper to state , that they bad been constructed on a plan which promised , In the event of an accident , to prevent the evil from extending beyond the place in which it originated . Between the oorning-h use and the pressing ^ nd washing houses , & BtTong brick butttsss , twenty feet high , fifteen feet thick , and thirty feet deep , had been built , which it was supposed would have proved an effectual barrier to the progress of fire . The hope , however , has proved
vain . On Thursday afternoon , tbe business being carried en in tbe usual way , about five minutes after three o'clock , from some cause at present unknown , an explosion took place in the more northern corning-house . A few secooda afterwards , the press-house and washinghouse , separated , as already explained , from the corn-Ing-honee by tbe buttress , also blew np . In a minute or two from tbat time , the next coming-house , distant from the former about 200 yards , Bbared the same fate , and that in a few seconds was followed by a fourth explosion and a second press-house and washing-house , separated , as in the other case , from the coming-house , were ia an instant destroyed .
It would be wtll if the ruin of tbe buildings , and tbe destruction of tbe ator « s , were all ; but , unfortunately , in the works wbicb first blew up a number of unfortunate persons were employed , not one of whom sur . vives . Seven men were in an instant dismissed from life ; five of them were carried over the river to a very considerable distance , and fell lifeless fragments in the marshes ^ One corse was recovered from tbe ruins , and one dead body was found out of tbe building , but on tbe same side of the river . It was difficult to recognise the deceased , they were so blackened , shattered , and dlsSgured . The names of tbe unfortunate men who have perished are as follow : —Thomas Sadd , Edward Eases , John Newland , John Dudley , James Luck , Samuel Brown , and James Cole . Mr . Sadd was the master
worker . Oa Thursday he had been in the building but about ten minutes when the event occurred . Tbe victims were all coniiag-houBe men and persons of respectable character . Esstx bad woikud on the establishment for more than half a century . Sadd'a remains were soon identified by the blue coat which be wore , and by tbe loss of one tooth . He whs said to have been carried not less than 130 yards from tbe cerning-bouse , and to have lost one foots when he reached the ground . At a considerable distance from tbe ruins tbe impression made by tbe fall of one of tho sufferers remains very distinct The marks of the head , the shoulder , the hip , and tbe leg , were yesterday most distinctly traced ; and the indentation made by the body was in some parts nearly six inches deep .
Immediately after the accident many hundreds of persons repaired to tbe marshes . Tha bodies wore c « l-1-cted , wrapped in sheets , and deposited in one of the buildings belonging to Government , at some distance from the ruins , there to await the orders which may be given for holding a Coroner ' s inquest . Those who lost their lives were all in the corninghouses , and press , and washing-houses that were first destroyed . The others . were under repair , and contained but little gunpowder , enough , however , to bave caused a melancholy additional Iosb of life bad the inmatea cot Sed from the danger wben the first explosion was heard . Mr . Austin , the superintendent of tbe machinery , with two other persona was thorn . The escape ef that gentleman was almost miraculous .
He was engaged in ascertaining the dimensions of some of the machinery , when the report of the blowing up of the first coroing-hense was heard . The character of the explosion was not to be mistaken by . him or by those who were with him , and they thoroughly understood that the qtwstioa « f life or death was in that moment to be decided . One of his companions exclaimed they must run for it , and Mr . Austvn found himself left alone . He rushed out of the second corning-house , in which he had heard the crash of the first , and reached the front of the buttress adjoining , when the second explosion took place Though bewildered , he felt that his danger was Imminent , and attempted to continue hiB retreat He
passed from the buttress , went through the wash-house attached to it , and had just reached the outside when the second corning house , in which he bad been so recently engaged , and which joined the buttress he had that moment left , became a mass of smoking ruins . He saw tho glar * , and could expect nothing less than the destruction of the building by whioh he now stood . In this distressing situation , when a moment's pause would have cost him his life , ho happily moved from the spot , and had taken but a few steps when tbe fourth explosion occurred . A pieca of wood , as he supposes , struck him whun the bouses blew up . At all events he received a severe blow from some fragment of the building , from which be suffered much paia , but no dangerous consequences are apprehended . The alarm caused by this accident it is not easy to describe . A third and fourth building having been fired , from others that had exploded , distant from them some 600 feet , it was not immediately clear that those which were still further off wore safe . Not only were many windows in the town , and especially in the church , broken , but the effects of the shock wore felt at a much greater distance ? A considerable number of persona yesterday repaired to Waltbim Abbey to view the ruins . On approaching the remains of the werks last destroyed , a man ' s jacket and some other fragment of male attire were seen lodged in a lofty ash tree , the trunk of which bad been blackened nearly up to tbe branches by the blast A willow tree , which had stood close to the building , waa almost shattered , and rafters , joists , blocks , and pieces of machinery , and innumerable slates , bad been carried across the river , and scattered to an imme . se distance in the marshes . fhe last explosion here at all comparable to thia occurred in 1811 . ( From tbe Hertford County Press ) Position of the Buildings . —The Coming-house was built about forty-two years ago , on the banks of a stream which runs through tbe meadows north of Waltham Abbey , its gables pointing due north and south , it ia composed of two parts , separated by a traverse or buttress of solid material , 20 feet thick . In the first of these were , as near as can be ascertained , about 2 3001 bs . of gunpowder , and in the second about 2 , 000 ttts . ; the explosion in the two chambers took place almost simultaneously . It is remarkable tbe buttress was shattered but was not blown away , ivnd it is very feasibly indeed supposed th . it the wind , which at the time was blowing strongly from the north , had . in whiffling round the angles carried
he gas or fUme to the second apartment . The men who lost their lives were all at work in or near these two buildings . At a distance of about one hundred and seventy yards from the southernmost of these stood the granulating house , similar to the one just spoken of , with two parts , separated by a buttress . In these several men were at work ; they bad barely sufficient time , after bearing tbe explosion of the corning-house , to escape from the building into the open air , when flakes of fire ( it was supposed ) fell upon the very roof they bad just quitted , and coming in contact with the powder , of course exploded . Fortunately , those who juBt ran out had got a sufficient distance , before this explosion took place , to be out of danger , with the single exception of Mr . Austin , the superintendent of
the machinery , who was somewhat injured by a piece of solid material ( supposed to be timber ) in its deseent , which struck him on the back ; but we are happy to aay the injury waa not great , considering the risk . At a distance of seventy yards from this last building is the glazing-house , containing from twenty to thirty barrels of powder , and , strange to say , it fortunately escaped the dangerous element that bad been set in' motion by the combustibles of tbe other buildings . The buildings that bave been blown up were built of the slightest materials , as all places of the kind are , or the injury would probably have been felt at a greater distance , had any considerable force been opposed to the exploding matter . Of course we cannot vouch for the accuracy of the rumours , but
there may be some truth in them , and , in cases like the present , involving considerations for the safety of human life , independent of the preservation of property , it would be criminal in the highest degree in a public journalist to suppress for a moment any of the floating opinions tbat may be gathered and promulgated for the information of the public . Some attribute the explosion to a very small portion of stone or grit that might by some means have been introduced into some parts of the machinery . Others attribute it to tha friction of the machinery , supposed to arise from the too rapid revolutions of the wheels ; some again lay some blame to the master worker , the unfortunate
Mr . Sadd , who , in his lifetime , was known in Waltham and among the workmen , as a very severe overlooker , or , as the principal officers under whom he served probably thought , a zealous and efficient servant . Be this as it may , in the absence of any real proof as to the causes of the explosion , rumours are Bet afloat of the probability that the unfortunate men whose lives were lost , acting under the dread entertained of Sadd ' s supervision , tbat they should be found loitering , had hurried their work when they saw him approaching the building , and , Iniodoiog ; had accelerated tbe revolutions of the wheels , and brought on the friction . Again we uy , we give this as mere rumour . We cannot vouch
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 22, 1843, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct478/page/6/
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