Extract
of a letter from Dublin October 7:
Sunday
last, the Amiable Felicia, Captain de Brosse from Martinico, for Rochelle, with
a valuable cargo of sugar, coffee, &c. put into Tramore Bay, in the county
of Waterford, in distress for water and other provisions, having been at sea
since the middle of August. The crew consisting of 16, besides the officers,
had been at the scanty allowance of two biscuits and four ounces of cheese in
24 hours, for the last three weeks, and had…..weight of any eatable on board,
when they made the coast of Ireland. The master and crew are in miserable
health, and are now supplying the vessel with a sufficiency to carry them home.
This extraordinary delay was the more afflictive to the merchants concerned, as
16 per cent were offered to ensure, but refused at London, and several ports on
the west coast of France.[1]
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