A CIRCUMSTANTIAL NARRATIVE OF THE WRECK OF THE ROTHSAY CASTLE STEAM PACKET, On her Passage from Liverpool to Beaumaris, August 17, 1831; COMPRISING INTERESTING AND, FOR THE MOST PART, ORIGINAL PERSONAL AND OTHER PARTICULARS NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED; THE WHOLE CORRECTED AND RENDERED AS INDISPUTABLY AUTHENTIC AS POSSIBLE, Under the inspection of some of the Individuals who were unhappily involved in the calamity. ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS, COPIOUS NOTES, ETC. BY JOSEPH ADSHEAD. SECOND EDITION. Ezekiel xxvii. 26, 27. The wind hath broken thee: and all thy company fell into the midst of the seas in the day of thy min. LONDON; HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO. D. MARPLES AND CO. LIVERPOOL. ΤΟ HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT, IN COMMEMORATION OF THE LATE VISIT OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS AND HER ILLUSTRIOUS DAUGHTER, THE PRINCESS VICTORIA, TO THE SCENE OF THE Wreck of the Rothsay Castle, THE FOLLOWING NARRATIVE IS, WITH ESPECIAL PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY HER ROYAL HIGHNESS'S OBEDIENT, HUMBLE SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. INTRODUCTION. Ir may, perhaps, be necessary that I should give some reason for the appearance of such a publication as the present, at a period so far removed from the melancholy event of which it professes to afford a "Circumstantial Narrative." In the first place, then, I am of opinion that it will at once be obvious to those who feel sufficiently interested in the subject to peruse the following pages, that their contents are of a description which could not be obtained until the lapse of time and the occurrence of opportunity had conspired to furnish matter. In the next place, the continued accession of materials, while it swelled the magnitude of the work far beyond my original intention, involved also frequent modification in the arrangement. Many, however, will think that I have been more elaborate than the subject warranted; but, at the same time, the great number of those who suffered - the consequently extensive ramifications of the misery which such |