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fired on the crew , some of whom f _ dl > others in dismay leaped overboard , who were also fired at , whilst others cut away theboat lashed to her stern , and took refuge in her by escaping through the cabin windows , leavingthe Captain and the rest of the crew endeavouring to quell the insurgents , by discharging such arms as are usually kept in cabins ; but upon the Captain ' s observing that some were in the boat , and about to desert the ship , he remonstrated so warmly as to induce them to return ; but they , perceiving that they were overpowered , and seeing no possi-r bilily of escaping the danger that awaited them , again secured the boat , and quitted

the ship : of these were twelve . ' Having fled from the fury of savage ferocity , they now became a prey to the winds and waves , to hunger and thirst , and after having suffered tbe horrors of these for some days , they providentially took a small turtle , whilst floating asleep , on the surface of ( he water , which they devoured ; and again being driven to distress for want of food , they soaked their shoes , and two hairy caps which were among them , in the water , which being rendered soft , each partook of them . —~ But day after day having passed , and the cravings of hunger pressing hard upon

them , they fell upon the horrible , dreadful expedient of eating each other ; and to prevent anv contention about who should become the food for others , they cast lots , when he on whom the lot fell , with manly fortitude , resigned his life , withthe persuasion of his body becoming ihe means of existence to his companions in distress , but solicited that he might be bled to death . ' No sooner had the fatal instrument touched the vein , than the operator applied his parched lips , and drank of the blood that flowed , whilst the rest anxiously watched his . departing breath , that they might satisfy the hunger that gnawed them . Those that glutted themselves with human flesh , and human gore , and whose stomachs retained the unnatural food , soon perished with raging

insanity , from putrefaction , as we conceive , superseding digestion , \ lhus the dreary . prospect became the more so to the survivors from seeing their fellow companions . expire before them , from the very cause that ravenous hunger inir pelled them to imagine would give them existence . Those that remained aUv _ - bute the preservation of their lives lo having rejected following the example of their fellow-sufferers . Our narrator , a Mr . Farmer , residing near Joe ' s river , whose veracity , we are informed , is undoubted , has not furnished us with the time when the death of

the others took place , ' but proceeds in stating , that , on Tuesday morning . the 10 th inst . ( being the 38 th day ) the lonely travellers descried the shore ; but , having no helm , ' to guide their little poat , despair took possession of their almost exhausted spirits , and , being hopeless , resigned themselves to death . That Providence , . however , without whose knowledge a sparrow doih not fall to the ground , ami . whose gracious interposition in favour of ihe two has been apparent , became their helm and guide , and directed them to the shore ; which , whenhavmgappvoached , worn-out nature could scarcely permit them to leave the boat , and embrace the

earth so fervently wished for ; tbe boy having fallen into Ihe surf , and unable to . make an effort , was drowned . " ' The remnant of the Woeful twelve , exerting their little strength , crawled on . their bellies to the mouth of Joe ' s river , where they slacked their thirst , and being discovered by Mr . Mascoll , then in the bay house of Mr . Haynes , he hospitably gave tliem thai assistance which humanity dictates , and such extreme distress required ; but , hearing of two coloured men having taken possession of the boat , he left them in charge of a Mr . Mayers , a neighbouring indigent shoe-maker , from whom they also received that generous hospitality which his circumscribed ability could admit of . '

BILLS OF MORTALITY . The number of persons who have died ( within the Bills of Mortality ) of Con-Sumptions , in theyeari 7 p 7 , exceeds that of the year 1736 by 502 . The number of fatal Asthmas was also greater in 1797 than in the preceding year , by 212 5 and the mortality of aged persons > vas in the proportion of 128310537 .