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The schooner that came to the relief of the shipwrecked, 
at such a propitious moment, was the Major G. Howard, 
Captain Sylvis, accompanied by Captain Seaman, of Staten 
Island, who, with a generous humanity that cannot be too 
highly appreciated, and under circumstances that would have 
intimidated many from such an attempt, rescued, at their own 
hazard, a number of their fellow beings from a watery grave. 
Gratitude for such acts of disinterested humanity and kind- 
ness is lasting. Every individual who has thus been rescued 
from a death which would have been inevitable in a few more 
hours, but for such benevolent and generous exertions, is 
deeply impressed with a sense of the obligation they owe to 
their deliverers. 
The individuals rescued from the wreck by the exertions 
of Captains Sylvis and Seaman, are — The pilot ; Mr. Neale, 
the mate ; Lieutenant John Pickell, U. S. a passenger ; J. W. 
Wilkinson, Charleston, S. C. do. ; J. Lewell, New-Brunswick, 
do. ; J. Carr, do. ; the steward, and nine of the crew of the 
ship. The passengers and crew were all safely landed at the 
foot of Roosevelt-street wharf. New- York, in the steam-boat 
Bellona, which was met on her way to the wreck, at 8 o'clock 
en Monday night. 
A TRAGICAL TALE OF THE SEA. 
The following dreadful tragedy is related in the SeamerCs 
Magazine, and Church of England Guardian. 
I COMMANDED the , WO Sailed from , intending to 
call at , in order to take in passengers, and then proceed 
to . We arrived at , as designed, and I went ashore 
immediately, in order to make arrangements with the parties 
that desired to go with us to . A gentleman and his lady, 
and another gentleman in an exceedingly weak state, slowly 
recovering from a malignant fever, composed the party ; and 
being informed that the former had boxes of dollars, and plate 
to the amount of thousand pounds, which were to be ta- 
ken on board, I made every necessary arrangement, and re- 
turned to my ship. 
I had on board a mate, and men ; and deeming it ex- 
pedient, I called my mate privately into my cabin, and in- 
formed him of the large quantity of money and plate about 
