Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

By this day's Mail.

NEW-YORK, February 12.

MELANCHOLY.

Halifax, January 11.

Extract of a letter from Wilmot, dated the 2d inst. to a gentleman in this town.

"Your friends, Mr. Patrick M'Mahon and Mr. William Harris, have lately perished by shipwreck in this neighbourhood. On the Friday following Christmas, a report was brought of a wreck and some dead bodies being found on the shore of the Bay of Fundy, near to the settlement of Dr. Halliburton's land; on which, Messrs. Woodberry, Moreton, and some others crossed over the North Mountain, to the bay shore, where they saw the masts and part of the hull of a small schooner, near the bank—and at some considerable distance three mutilated dead bodies, which had been hauled up and laid upon the land. One of these unhappy persons proves to be Mr. Patrick M'Mahon.

"The bodies of the other two persons found near Mr. M'Mahon, are unknown. Fearing some of the people near the settlement might have been too attentive in picking up the booty, and remiss in other things, occasioned Mr. Moreton, with a large company of young men, to search the bay shore and the adjacent woods; in doing which, they yesterday found in the woods, at the distance of many miles from the wreck, and at some distance from each other, 3 bodies frozen to death—one of which, by his pocket-book proves to be Mr. William Harris; the others unknown.

"After the usual formalities the bodies of these poor sufferers will be brought to this settlement and decently interred. Their papers, &c. will be kept in safety, till persons properly authorised appear to claim them."