218] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
At Dover, the indictment 
preferred againft Mr. An-. 
derfon, for killing Mr. Stephens, 
in a duel at Margate, was returned 
by the grand jury, Not found. 
Lieut. King, of his majefty’s 
“navy, arrived yefterday from 
Harwich at the admiralty, with 
difpatches from Governor Phillip, 
dated at Sydney Cove, the 13th of 
April laft. The colony had very 
much extehded its agriculture, and 
in particular the fpots laid out for 
garden ground; but the produce 
had been rather fcanty. Very to- 
lerable harmony had been ‘pre- 
ferved among the fettlers. 
Dublin, Dec. 22. It is with a 
very fenfible concern we are ob- 
liged to announce to our readers the 
lofs of the Charlemont packet. 
This veffel failed on Wednefday, 
and had reached the bay of Dublin, 
when the was driven back by a vio- 
20th. 
zit 
lent gale of wind; not long after a . 
Jarge Weft Indiaman went to the 
bettom with her crew at the en- 
trance of that harbour. On Friday 
the weather became. favourable, 
and the captain again proceeded to 
fea, having, during this interval, 
increafed his paflengers to the num- 
ber of about 120. He again had 
nearly made the port of Dublin, 
when a fecond time he was forced to 
put back. By this time the unea- 
finefs of the people became general, 
and the cabin paffengers were very 
Importunate with the mafter to 
land them at Holyhead, although 
he declared himfelf imperfectly ac- 
quainted with the coaft, and ex- 
horted them to: relinquifh their in- 
fentions. His mate, however, con- 
fident of his own intimate know-. 
hedge, fucceeded in carrying the 
favourite point of the paffengers, 
and- they accordingly fteered thi- 
ther; the confequences were fataly 
the mate, deceived by fome lights, 
miftook his courfe; the veffel ftruck 
on one of the rocks which fkirt the 
Weich coaft, foon after’ went to 
pieces, and fixteen perfons only 
eicaped the mercilefs element. 
Among thofe providentially fav- 
ed is the hon. capt. Jones, fon to 
lord Ranelagh, who, when the vef- 
fel ftruck, fprang from her on the 
rock, and received no injury; 
through the intrepidity of this gen- 
tleman, and at an imminent hazard 
to himfelf, a perfon belonging to 
Mr. Aftley’s company was reicued 
from a moft perilous fituation, be- 
ing caught by capt. Jones on the 
return of the wave which wafhed 
him from the fame rock, on which 
he had alfo leaped from the packet. 
About twelve ladies were on 
board, fome of whom, in expecta- 
tion of affiftance, and under the 
horrors of death impending over 
them. in fo terrible a form, clung 
round the fteward of the fhip, who, 
thus prevented from the poffibility 
of making any efforts for his own 
' hah ays perifhed in their em- 
races.—Among other paflengers 
were two Romith clergymen, one of 
whom efcaped. The captain, by 
afcending the fhrouds, was landed 
in a place of fafety on the heeling 
of the veffel; and the mate has alfo 
efcaped, but, we are informed, is 
imprifoned, for fome negligence of 
information,: fatal, as is faid, to 
many who might have been faved 
on an earlier knowledge of the ftate 
of the veflel, ; 
The circumftances of thofe who 
furvived this dreadful event (every 
article but what remained on their 
backs being lost) were. confiderably 
alleviated by the generous and hu- 
mane attention of capt. Jones, whofe 
bounty 
