brig Nelly

Intelligence:—
The Nelly spoke the brig St. Lawrence from Demerara.—There are five vessels bound up off St. Anne's, and about 8 vessels bound up off Cape Chat.
Captain Collier spoke the Royal Union, bound to Quebec.
The Loyal Sam, from Quebec to the West Indies, was spoken about the 20th July— all well.

Public Health:—There does not seem to be sufficient attention given to considerations of the public health. Dying and dead emigrants, afflicted with typhus fever, are thrust into houses in central parts of the town, to the imminent danger of the spread of the disease, particularly in this very sultry season. Can no apartments be found on the skirts of the town to form hospitals, less dangerous to the society than the centre of the garrison ; particulary in houses where there are a number of work people, all connected with families?

New-York, 28th Aug.
Latest From Europe.
By the brig Wilson, Capt. Briton, in 34 days from Dublin, the editors of the Daily Advertiser have received papers from that City to the 22d July....
The distress continued in Ireland, many person were dying of hunger, and the hospitals were crowded with the poor sick. The subscriptions continued in England, and upwards of 200,000l. had been already subscribed.

Total Loss Of The Packet Ship Liverpool.
The Captain and Crew of the Packet ship Liverpool, and Mr. Samuel Wright, one of the passengers, arrived off the Hook, in the British schooner Eliza, 21 days from St. Sohns, [sic] Newfoundland; and came up in the Pilot Boat Ulysses.

The Liverpool sailed from this port on the 16th of July, with the following passengers, for Liverpool: N.T. Heard, Mrs. Heard, 3 children and 2 servts. of New York, Mr. Wm. Christie of Jamaica, Mr. J. Simpson, of London, R. Marther, of Liverpool, T. Wright, of Yorkshire, G.A. Northedge, of London, Robt. Castle, of the British army, and Mr. Samuel Wright, of Savannah; and after a pleasant run of 9 days, in lat. 43, 45. N. long. 48 W. in a thick fog, run foul of an island of ice, which carried away the bowsprit, cut water and started her main stern; but notwithstanding both pumps were going, she went down in less than two hours.

The crew and passengers, (36 in number) took to the boats, and after being in them seven days, reached St. Johns, Newfoundland, where the whole of the passengers, with the exception of Mr. Samuel Wright, of Savannah, took passage in the British Brig Dart, for Bristol, Eng. and sailed on the 6th inst. in company with the Eliza.

Capt. Lee regrets to state, that not even the letter bags were saved, as nothing was saved except what they stood in.--N.Y. Com. Adv.

submitted by Dennis Ahern

From The Constitution or Cork Morning Post, 6 September 1822

LOSS OF THE PACKET-SHIP LIVERPOOL We have already announced the loss, on the banks of Newfoundland, of the packet-ship Liverpool, which sailed from New York from [sic] Liverpool on her first voyage on the 16th ult. The whole of the passengers and crew are saved, though their sufferings must have been severe, as they were exposed to weather for five days in open boats, when they were taken up by a fishing boat, and conveyed to St. John's, Newfoundland. Captain Lee and the crew, with one passenger, have returned to New York ; and the other passengers have come to England in the Dart, which arrived off Bristol on Saturday, 24th inst. The only particulars yet known of the lamentable event, are contained in the following extract of a letter, received at Liverpool on Monday last, from one of the passengers. "Brig Dart, off Bristol, 24th August, 1822. " The Liverpool was lost on the 25th ult. on the banks of Newfoundland, by running foul of an island of ice, but all hands saved and put into St. John's ; thence most of the passengers proceeded hither in the Dart, of this place, but a passenger (an infant child) having died on the passage, we are compelled to wait here the visitation of the quarantine officer, which must delay us from landing until to-morrow. "Captain Lee sailed on the same day with us (6th Aug.) in a schooner for New York, with the whole of the crew and one of the passengers. "The vessel only floated two hours, and nothing was saved except the clothes we had on and a little specie. We were five days in the open boats, and on the 7th arrived at St. John's, having been taken up by a fishing-boat on the fifth day." The following is a list of the passengers: Mr. N. T. Heard and family, of New York ; Mr. John Simpson, of London ; Mr. Robert Mather, of Liverpool ; Mr. Wm. Christie, of Jamaica ; Mr. Samuel Wright, of Savannah ; Mr. William Castle, of Montreal ; Mr. Thomas Wright, of England, and Mr., G. A. Northedge, of Montreal.

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas, by an act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the sixth day of May last, it was provided, that, on satisfactory evidence being given to the President of the United States, that the Ports in the Islands or Colonies in the West Indies, under the dominion of Great Britain have been opened to the vessels of the United States, the President should be, and thereby was, authorized to issue his Proclamation, declaring that the ports of the U. States should thereafter be open to the vessels of Great Britain employed in the trade and intercourse between the United States and such Islands or Colonies, subject to such reciprocal rules and restrictions as the President of the United States might, by such proclamation, make and publish, any thing in the laws entitled, ‘An Act concerning Navigation,’ or an act entitled, ‘An Act supplementary to Act concerning Navigation,’ to the contrary notwithstanding.

And whereas, satisfactory evidence has been given to the President of the United States, that the ports hereinafter named, in the Islands or Colonies in the West Indies, under the dominion of Great Britain, have been open to the vessels of the United States, that is to say, the Ports of Kingston, Savannah Le Mar; Montego Bay, Santa Lucia; Antonio St. Ann, Falmouth; Maria, Morant Bay, in Jamaica; Saint George, in Grenada; Rousseau, in Dominica; Saint Johns, in Antigua; San Josef, in Trinidad; Scarborough, in Tobago; Road Harbor, in Tortola; Nassau, in New Providence; Pittstown, Crooked Island;–Kingston, in St. Vincents; port George and Port Hamilton, in Bermuda; Any Port where there is a custom house, in Bahamas; Bridgetown, in Brunswich; Halifax, in Nova Scotia; Quebec, in Canada; St. John’s, in Newfoundland; George, Barbadoes; Saint John’s, St. Andrews, in Newtown, in Demarara; New Amsterdam, in Berbice; Castries, in St. Lucia; Basseterre, in St. Kitts; Charlestown, in Nevis; and Plymouth, in Montserrat.

Now, therefore, I, James Monroe, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that the Ports of the United States shall hereafter, and until the end of the next session of the Congress of the United States, be opened to vessels of Great Britain employed in the trade and intercourse between the United States and the Islands and Colonies hereinbefore named; any thing in the laws, entitled “An act supplementary to an act concerning navigation,” to the contrary not withstanding, under the following reciprocal rules and restrictions, namely:–

To vessels of Great Britain bone fide British built, owned, and the master and three fourths of the mariners of which, at least, shall belong to Great Britain; or any United States, built ship or vessel which has been sold to, and becomes the property of, British subjects; such ship or vessel being also navigated with a master and three fourths of the mariners, at least belonging to Great Britain; And provided always, that no articles shall be imported into the United States in any such British ship or vessel, other than articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the British Islands and colonies in the West Indies, when imported in British vessels coming from any such Island or Colony, and articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture, of British colonies in North America, or of the Island of Newfoundland, in vessels coming from the port of St. Johns, in that Island, or from any of the aforesaid ports of the British colonies in North America.

Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this twenty fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and in the forty seventy year of the independence of the United States.
By the President: James Monroe.
John Quincy Adams,
Secretaray [sic] of State.

Quebec, September 12.
John Stewart, Esquire, nominated on the part of the government, and P. De Rocheblave, Esquire, on the part of the North West Company, left this city yesterday, in a North West Canoe, manned by Indians from above, for the post at the mouth of the Saguenay. We understand their object is to determine the value of the Indian debts now held by the North West Company, prior to the final transfer of the posts to the new lessees, who are a company of gentlemen in Quebec. [North West Company merged with its rival the Hudson's Bay Company]

Vessels below,—
bark Sir James Kempt, 20th August from Cork—ship Hannah, 52 days from Plymouth—ship Westmoreland, 17th August from London—brig Ann, 31st July from Glasgow.—schooners, Newfoundland.

Vessels below,—Five square-rigged vessels.
Total No. of Vessels, 556
Total No. of Settlers, 10,455