Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

JEFFREY.--Mention was some time since made of a seaman that was left on the uninhabited Island of Sombrero, by capt. Lake, and of the English government having sent out a vessel, to his relief, but that he had previously been taken off the Island by an American vessel. A London paper of the 24th of October mentions Jeffrey's having arrived there on the preceding Monday, when the Lords of the Admiralty gave him his free discharge from the service ; and, the friends of capt. Lake made him a liberal compensation for the hardships he had sustained. He is a good looking young fellow- and confesses he made the X for his name, though he can write ; but he says it is common among sailors to use the cross for shortness He says he was eight days on the Island of Sombrero. during all which time he had nothing but rain water to subsist on. which he drank out of the crevices of the rocks--that several vessels passed within sight, but he was too weak to hail them : and that he was in the very last stage of starvation when the American vessel touched at the Island--He left London in very high spirits, with his money, to see his mother. Some people were after him, to make him exhibit himself for money ; but he got his discharge from the service expressly on the condition that he should quit London immediately.