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where the wreck of the Albion lay, this day, different gold 
coins in a small box, in all, by a rough calculation, amount- 
ing to upward of 3000Z. The coins being many of them fo- 
reign, and of different sizes, prevents me from being able to 
ascertain the exact sum, but it has all been brought up here 
safe, and counted in the presence of Mr. Pratt, the officer of 
Customs, Mr. Lemon, and myself. I hasten to acquaint you 
of this pleasing circumstance. I have the honor to be, sir, 
your most obedient and humble servant, 
JOHN PURCELL. 
To Jacob Mark, Esq. 
From the Cork Southern Reporter of Saturday. 
The Albion, whose loss at Garretstown Bay we first men- 
tioned in our paper of Tuesday, was one of the first class of 
ships between Liverpool and New- York, and was 500 tons 
burthen. We have since learned some further particulars, by 
which it appears that her loss was attended with circumstan- 
ces of a peculiarly afiiicting nature. She had lived out the 
tremendous gale of the entire day on Sunday, and Captain 
Williams consoled his passengers, at 8 o'clock in the evening, 
with the hope of being able to reach Liverpool on the day 
but one after, which cheering expectation induced most of the 
passengers, particularly the females, to retire to rest. In some 
short time, however, a violent squall came on, which in a mo- 
ment carried away the masts, and there being no possibility 
of disengaging them from the rigging, they so encumbered 
the hull that she became unmanageable, and drifted at the 
mercy of the waves, till the light-house at Old Head was dis- 
covered, the wreck still nearing in, when the captain told the 
sad news to the passengers that there was no longer any hope, 
and soon after she struck. From thenceforward all was dis- 
tress and confusion. The vessel soon went to pieces, and of 
the crew and passengers, only six of the former, and one of 
the latter, were saved. 
The mate is among the preserved, and that preservation 
was almostnniraculous. He was thrown on a cliff by a wave, 
and had succeeded in climbing to the top of it, when another 
took him off. He was thus thrown back again, and was 
more fortunate ; but his appearance bespeaks the sufferings 
he endured from the beating of his body against the rocks. 
He is dreadfully bruised. 
The number of passengers, we believe, is twenty-five. Of 
these, as we have already stated, one only was saved, a gen- 
