harmony which nature can display in a human soul, I would venture to say, go to England,-and converse with a well-educated lady, of which there are so many there; and after this proof, if you are not delighted and satisfied, I assert, without fear of contradiction, you have no heart, or that the object of your search is beyond the limits of mortality.

The love of travelling, among the wealthy class, is a distinguishing characteristic of the English people'; in some it proceeds from the desire of information, in others as the means of health, which induces them to seek a purer sky, and a more genial climate; and, finally, in others, from a principle of economy. All these different classes of emigrants visit regularly, as if by established rule, France or Italy, or the banks of the Rhine, and this is generally the extent of their pilgrimage. Should, however, any of these travellers exceed the above limits, their emigration generally proceeds from some very particular motive alien to their inclinations.

Fashion and custom have for a length of time required that an English gentleman should have visited the above countries. Most of these rich travellers, however, if not all, might, without doubt, obtain as much pleasure and advantage as that which they so ardently seek for under foreign skies, without, I will not say, going out of their own houses, but out of their own possessions, there being in fact, within the British empire, places, which, for convenience of position, beauty of sky, salubrity of climate, and all in fact that an Englishman delights to find in the countries he frequents, do not yield to the most delightful of those which form the object of his visits. Hoping, however, that the following opinion will not be entirely attributed to a too natural partiality for my own country, I hesitate not to affirm, that the island of Malta offers to the English lovers of travel attractions and conveniencies as great as are to be met with in Italy or the south of France.

Besides affording an immense benefit to this portion of the British dominions, such visits and residence of English travellers would naturally conduce to those improvements of which Malta is in so high a degree susceptible, and perhaps incline the British Government to bestow upon it that attention which, from its important political and economical situation, this colony is certainly most worthy; and thus the island might be again restored to its former prosperity and importance. By this Malta would obtain a preference from those travellers who seek for health, economy, or a lighter atmosphere. And should the above slight remarks be ever productive of good to the island, and advantage or pleasure to the traveller, I can only add, I shall feel proud and happy in having been in any slight degree the humble means of promoting them.

NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE BRIG WELLINGTON, of cork, JOHN KELLAR, MASTER.

WE sailed on the 6th of October, 1833, from the Cove of Cork, on a voyage to St. Andrew's. During a passage of sixty days, the greater part of which we had to struggle against adverse winds, nothing material occurred, save the shifting of our ballast (limestone), sometimes a ticklish affair, and which in the present instance caused us not a little alarm; but the promptitude and alacrity of the crew soon set all right again. On reaching the ballast-ground we discharged our ballast, weighed anchor, and ran up to a small cove called Shamcook; where, having repaired the rigging, we took in a cargo of deals. Four of our men, in consequence of some dissatisfaction, having left us here, we were obliged to return to the ballast-ground to wait for others. At length our crew being completed, we sailed on the 23d of December on our return to Cork; mustering in all seventeen persons, including one male and one female passenger. With a fine stiff breeze down the bay we soon lost sight of land; and nothing worthy of note occurred until the 30th, when the wind got up from the N.W., and soon blew so heavy a gale that we were obliged to take in all but a close-reefed main top-sail, under which we scudded until the 5th of January.

During this interval it continued to blow a hurricane, principally from the N.W., but occasionally, after a short lull, flying round to the S.W. with a fury that nothing could resist. The sea, as our little craft sunk into the trough or rather valleys of the sea, threatened every instant to overwhelm us. It was several times proposed to lay her to: but the fatal opinion prevailed, that she made better weather of it in scudding. On the night of the 6th a tremendous sea struck her on the stern, stove in all the dead-lights, which were washed into the cabin, lifted the taffrail a foot or more out of its place, carried away the after part of the starboard bulwark, shattered the whole of the stern frame, and washed one of the steersmen away from the wheel. By the most strenuous exertions of the carpenter and crew, the stern was as well secured as circumstances would admit for the night, and on the following morning, the wind moderating a little, new dead-lights were put in, and the damages further repaired.

By this time every stitch of canvass, save the main topsail, jib, and trysail, were split into ribbons, so that it had become a matter of some anxiety as to how we should reach our port even when the gale subsided. But we were soon spared any further care on that head. As the day closed in the tempest resumed its fury; and by the following morning (the 8th of January) raged with such appalling violence, that it was at length deemed advisable to lay her to. From her constant straining the brig had now begun to make so much water as to require all hands in succession at the pumps until the following morning at two, when the larboard watch went below, the watch on deck, by constant exertion, sufficing to keep her free.

At seven in the morning of the 9th a tremendous sea broke over the starboard bow, overwhelming all, and sweeping caboose, boats, planks, harness casks, in short everything before it, to the after part of the deck; even the starboard anchor was lifted on to the forecastle; U. S. JOURN. No. 82, SEPT. 1835.

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and the cook, who was in the galley, washed with all his culinary apparatus into the lee scuppers, where he remained for some time in a very perilous situation, jammed in among the loose spars and other portions of the wreck, until extricated by the watch on deck, who fortunately, being all aft at the moment of the occurrence, escaped unhurt.

Before we could well recover from this shock, the watch below rushed upon deck with the appalling intelligence, that the water had found its way below, and was pouring in like a torrent. On examination it was discovered that the coppers, forced along the deck with irresistible violence, had, by striking a stanchion fixed firmly in the deck, split the covering board fore and aft, and thus the water had obtained access. The captain, now despairing of keeping her free by the pumps, and perceiving that she was already nearly water-logged, thought it was high time to provide against the worst. As our ship, from the nature of her buoyant cargo, could not sink, his first directions were to store the top with provisions. This was instantly done; and all exerting themselves with the energy of despair, two barrels of beef, some hams, pork, butter, cheese, and a large jar of brandy, were handed in a trice up from below, but not before the water had nearly filled the cabin, and forced those employed there to cut short their operations, and with the two unfortunate passengers to fly for safety on deck. Fortunately for the latter, their ignorance of the real state of things but half revealed the horrors of their pitiable situation, and perhaps wholly concealed the relentless fate that so closely menaced them. The poor lady,-whose name I have forgotten,-young and delicate, already suffering in health from confinement below and sea-sickness, pale and shivering, but patient and resigned, had but a short time taken her seat alongside her fellow-passenger on some planks near the taffrail, on which lay extended the unfortunate cook, unable to move from his bruises, when the vessel, a heavy lurch having shifted cargo, was laid on her beam-ends, and the water rushing in carried everything off the deck,-provisions, stores, planks, all went adrift,-and with the latter the poor lady, who, with the cook, floated away on them, without a possibility of saving either of them. But such was the indescribable horror of the situation of those who were left, that had we been able to reason or reflect, we might well have envied our departed shipmates.

A few minutes before we went over, two of the crew, invalids, had taken refuge in the maintop: one of these, standing to leeward, and unable from weakness to shift for himself, was by the fatal shock forced into the belly of the main top-sail, and there found a watery grave. The remainder of the crew, with the male passenger, succeeded in getting on her side. In this hopeless situation, secured and clinging to the channels and rigging, the sea every instant washing over us, and threatening destruction, we remained some hours. At length the topmasts, jib-boom, and trysail-gaff having given way, the vessel again righted, and we crawled on board. But although more secure, our condition was but little improved. The decks having blown up, and the stern out, every thing below, bulkheads, chests, provisions, water, &c., had been washed away; and a small quantity of pork, all that we had time to stow away in the top out of the provisions provided for that purpose, having gone the same way, we had now the prospect, if possible more horrifying, if we escaped drowning, of perishing of cold and

hunger. For our ultimate providential preservation we were perhaps mainly indebted to the circumstance of the carpenter's retention of his axe, which by some means or other he had contrived to save. With this useful instrument we now, to prevent her if possible again going over, deemed it expedient to cut away the fore-mast. While busied about this, we found a piece of pork of about four pounds weight; and as drowning men, they say, will catch at a straw, even this morsel gave a new fillip to our hopes, and raised our drooping spirits. It would at least prolong existence some few hours, and in that interval the gale might abate, some friendly sail heave in sight, and the elements, weary of persecuting us, might relent.

Such were our reflections. Oh! how our eyeballs strained, as emerging from the trough of the sea on the crest of a liquid mountain, we gazed on the misty horizon, until from time to time we fancied, nay, we felt assured, we saw the object of our search. But the evening closed in, and with it hope almost expired. That day not a morsel passed our lips. The pork, our only supply, given in charge to the captain, it was thought prudent to husband as long as we could.

Meanwhile, with a top-gallant studding-sail remaining in the top, which was stretched over the mast-head, we contrived to procure a partial shelter from the inclemency of the weather. Under this, drenched as we were and shivering with cold, some of us crouched for the night; but others of the crew remained all that time in the rigging. In the morning we all-fourteen in number-mustered on deck, and received from the mate each a small bit of pork, (about a couple of ounces,) the remainder being carefully put away, and reserved for the next day. This, and some water, the only article of which (a cask having been discovered forward, well stowed among the planks) we had abundance, constituted our only meal that day. Somewhat refreshed, we all went to work, and as the studding-sail had afforded but a scanty shelter, we fitted the trysail for this purpose; on opening which we found the cat, drowned, and, much as our stomachs might have revolted against such food on ordinary occasions, poor puss was instantly skinned, and the carcass hung up in our larder, the main-top.

This night we were somewhat better lodged; and the following day, having received our scanty ration of the pork, now nearly consumed, we got three swiftsures round the hull of the vessel, to prevent her going to pieces. Foraging daily for food, we sought incessantly in every crevice, hole, and corner, but in vain.

We now approached that stage of suffering beyond which nature cannot carry us. With some, indeed, they were already passed endurance; and one individual, who had left a wife and family dependent on him for support in London, unable any longer to bear up against them, and the almost certain prospect of starvation, went down out of the top, and we saw him no more. Having eked out the pork until the fourth day, we commenced on the cat-fortunately both large and in good condition,-a mouthful of which with some water furnished our daily allowance. Sickness and debility had now, however, begun to make such ravages among us all, that although we had, as I before remarked, a tolerable stock of the latter, considerable difficulty was experienced in procuring it. We had hitherto in rotation taken our turn to fill a small breaker at the cask, wedged in among the cargo of

deals; but now, scarcely able to keep our feet along the planks, and still less so to haul the vessel up to the top, we were in some danger of even this resource being cut off from us. In this manner, incredible as it may seem, we contrived to keep soul and body together until the eleventh day, our only sustenance, the pork, the cat, our water, and the bark of some young birch trees, which latter, in searching for a keg of tamarinds, which we had hopes of finding, we had latterly come athwart.

On the twelfth morning, at day-break, the hailing of some one from the deck electrified us all. Supposing, as we had missed none of our shipmates from the top, that it must be from some boat or vessel alongside, we all eagerly made a movement to answer our supposed deliverers, and such was the excitement among us all, that it well nigh upset what little reason we had left. Alas! no boat or vessel was in sight. It seemed as if Fate, not content with our physical suffering, added mockery to the scourge. It was at length found that one of the party was missing; and from this individual, whom we found without hat, shoes, or jacket, in a state of total derangement, the voice had proceeded.

Despair had now for some time taken such total possession of some of us, that, suspended between life and death, a torpor had seized us, and, resigned to our fate, we had scarcely sufficient energy to lift our heads, and exercise the only faculty on which depended our salvation. The delirium of our unfortunate shipmate had, however, reanimated us, and by this means, through Providence, he was made instrumental to our deliverance. Not long after, one of the men, as if suddenly inspired, exclaimed, "This is Sunday morning!-the Lord will relieve us from our distress!-at any rate, I will take a look round me." With this he arose, and having looked about him a few minutes, the cheering cry of " A sail!" announced the fulfilment of this singular prophecy. "Yes," he repeated, in answer to our doubts, a sail, and bearing right down upon us." We all eagerly got up, and looking in the direction indicated to us, the welcome certainty that we were not again cheated of our hopes almost turned our brains. In a short time the vessel, which proved to be the brig Mic Mac, Capt. Tobias, from Boston bound to London, ran down across our bows, hove to, sent his boats alongside, and by ten o'clock we were all safe on board. Singularly enough, our brig, which had been lying-to with her head to the northward and westward from the time of the commencement of our disasters, went about the evening previous to our quitting her as well as if she had been under sail,-another providential occurrence; for had she remained with her head to the northward, we should have seen nothing of our deliverers. From the latter we experienced all the care and attention our deplorable condition required; and, with the exception of two of the party, who were frost-bitten, and who died two days after our quitting the wreck, we soon were restored to health, and reached St. Catherine's Dock on the 30th of the following month.