698 A Sixth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. [No. 127. 



and the following brief particulars have been handed us by a gentle- 

 man, who has derived them from an authentic source. 



On the 27th Nov., which was just a month after her departure 

 from this port for Manilla, the Magicienne encountered a very strong 

 gale in the Palawan Passage, which by the 29th had increased 

 to a tyfoon, in which she lost her masts, and received so much 

 damage in her rudder that she became unmanageable, and about 

 2 a. M. on the same day, she was carried by a strong current on 

 to the Bombay Shoal,* to the N. N. W. of Palawan; and in this 

 state borne on by a terrible sea, was dashed on the reef, where she 

 instantly went to pieces. The crew immediately betook themselves to 

 the construction of rafts, to reach a safe shore ; but fortunately on 

 the third day, the whole ship's company were picked up by two 

 English vessels, the Mysore and Clifford, and the French vessel 

 Favorite, on board of whichthey were conveyed in safety to Manila, 

 where they arrived on the 15th instant. The French Corvette 

 Danaide, left Manila on the 3d instant, for the scene of this disaster, 

 with the intention, as was supposed, of recovering every thing that 

 could be saved from the wreck, and had not returned by the 26th. — ■ 

 Singapore Free Press, 3\st Dec. 1840. 



The American Ship St. Paul. 



The following account of a severe gale, which the American ship 

 St. Paul encountered in the China sea, on her way from Manilla 

 to this port, where she arrived in the course of the week, has been 

 handed us for publication : — 



" The American ship St. Paul, G. Pevice, commander, sailed from 

 Manilla on the 26th November, having fine weather and the wind 

 at from E. to N. N. E. until the 29th, sea account ; the wind then 

 freshened into a strong gale at N. E. Latitude 12° N. longitude 

 112° 23' E. On the 30th at 4 p. m. brought the ship under close 

 reefed top-sails until 6, when she came to the wind, having lost her 

 sails. The sea and wind continued to increase, and at half-past 

 6 p. m. the sea was making a complete breach over her, washed 

 away the quarter boat, and so strained the ship as to cause a leak 

 under her starboard quarter. At 7 p- m » the top-masts went by the 

 * Lat. 9° 264 N. Ion-. 116° 54' E. 



