452 SHIPWRECK OF THE ALBION. 
tleman of Boston, who traded with Liverpool. He had arriv- 
ed at New- York almost as the Albion was on the point of 
sailing, and had not time to get hills for a large sum of specie 
which he had. It was therefore shipped and lost. 
Several of the bodies have been washed ashore, and Jacob 
Mark, Esq. the American Consul at this port, having repair- 
ed to the scene where the wreck took place, immediately on 
learning the melancholy intelligence, has done every thing be- 
fitting his situation and a man of humanity, under these cir- 
cumstances. He has provided coffins for the bodies, and caus- 
ed them to be interred with their respective names affixed, 
having first had the mate to point them out, in order that if 
the families of them should wish hereafter to have the bodies 
removed, they may be enabled to do so. 
It appears from a comparison of the several accounts which 
have been published of the loss of the Albion, that, for the 
first twenty days after leaving New- York, the weather was 
moderate and favorable; and that about one o'clock on the 
afternoon of Sunday the 21st, the ship made the south of Ire- 
land. Soon after a gale commenced, which blew the remain- 
der of the day with great violence. About half past 8 o'clock 
in the evening the Albion shipped a heavy sea, which threw 
her on her beam ends, and took the mainmast by the deck, 
the head of the mizenmast, and fore topmast, and swept the 
decks clear of every thing, including boats, compasses, &c. 
and stove in all the hatches, state-rooms, and bulwarks in the 
cabin, which was nearly filled with water. At the same 
time, six of the crew, and one cabin passenger, Mr. Converse, 
of N. York, were swept overboard. The axes being lost, no 
means remained of clearing the wreck, and the ship was un- 
manageable. About three o'clock the ship struck on a reef 
of rocks about one hundred yards from the main land. This, 
as afterward appeared, was in Courtmacherry-Bay, about 
three miles west of the Old Head of Kinsale. In about half 
an hour the ship went to pieces; and all the cabin passengers, 
except Mr. W. Everhart, of Chester, Pennsylvania, were lost. 
It is understood that Prof Fisher, as well as some others, was 
considerably injured when the masts were carried away; 
and at the time the other passengers went on deck, after the 
captain had informed them of their imminent danger, he re- 
mained below in his berth. Whether he afterward came up, 
and what were the particular circumstances of his death, is 
unknown. 
