SHIPWRECK OF THE ALBION. 447 
1 cannot conclude this letter, sir, without acknowledging 
the important advantages we obtained from the valuable pub- 
lications of Sir Edward Parry and Sir John Franklin, and the 
communications kindly made to us by those distinguished of- 
ficers before our departure from England. But the glory of 
this enterprise is entirely due to Him whose divine favor has 
been most especially manifested toward us, who guided and 
directed all our steps ; who mercifully provided, in w^hat we 
had deemed a calamity, his effectual means of our preserva- 
tion ; and who, even after the devices and inventions of man 
had utterly failed, crowned our humble endeavors with com- 
plete success. I am, &c. 
JOHN ROSS, Captain R. N. 
To Captain the Hon. George Elliot, 6fc, 
Secretary Admiralty. 
SHIPWRECK OF THE ALBION PACKET. 
Few instances have occurred of a shipwreck more distress- 
ing in its circumstances, and more calamitous in its destruc- 
tion of valuable lives and property, than that of the Albion. 
It will long be remembered, even in history, from the melan- 
choly fate of two distinguished men among its passengers, 
Lefebvre-Desnouettes, one of Napoleon's generals, and Pro- 
fessor Fisher, of Yale College, who, though young in age, 
had already accc«mplished much in science, and gave large 
promise of future eminence. The following statements, pub- 
lished at the time in the Liverpool papers, will furnish the 
reader a full account of the sad event. 
This fine ship sailed from New- York on the 1st of April, 
1822, with a crew of 24 men and about 28 passengers. On 
the 22d she was entirely lost on the coast of Ireland, ofFGar- 
retstown, near the old Point of Kinsale. Only two of the 
passengers and seven of the crew were saved. All the par- 
ticulars of this melancholy shipwreck which we have receiv- 
ed in town up to the hour that we are writing, (April 27,) 
are contained in two letters published in the Mercury yester- 
day, and which we give beneath; the one from Jacob Mark,^ 
U. S. Consul at Kinsale, to Messrs. Cropper, Benson, & Co, 
Liverpool, the other from an eye-witness of the scene, a Mr. 
Purcell, agent of the gentleman to whom this is addressed 
