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194 kirby’s wonderful museum.
t( Having now brought the narrative to a conclusion, we
have only further to state, that the name of the young boy
thus providentially rescued by the heroic interposition of
Carty and his associates, is Austen; that he is a native of
Limerick, and has a brother residing there, who is a chan-
dler. Such is the account the lad gives of himself, and
there is no reason to doubt it. At eleven o’clock on Satur-
day, at which hour the accounts from Oysterhaven came
away, he was better than could have been expected, and
was very voracious for food, which, with the exception of
warm wine, was very sparingly, but sufficiently, given to him,
for his situation.”
A subscription, we find, has been properly set on foot, to
reward the heroism thus conspicuously displayed; and the
Cork Chronicle concludes in the following manner:—
“We shall be very happy to receive and acknowledge at
this office, any sum given by way of donation, to assist in
purchasing a boat for the humane and intrepid fellow, Jack
Carty; and we do not know of a better mode of completely
putting an end to the savage custom of pillage, and fre-
quently of murder, after a shipwreck, than to give very
ample compensation to the men who on such occasions
risk their own safety, to save the lives or property of their
fellow men.” Times, Nov. 26, 1818.
SINGULAR CASE OF OBSTINACY.
The extraordinary case of obstinacy and obduracy, as re-
lated in the narrative of Phineas Adams, see Vol. IV. p. 173,
can scarcely find a parallel. We now present our readers
with another extraordinary individual, whose self-determina-
tion was such, that even at the bar of life and death, he reso-
lutely withstood all attempts made to induce him to plead,
affecting to be mute by the visitation of God, and actually
t( Having now brought the narrative to a conclusion, we
have only further to state, that the name of the young boy
thus providentially rescued by the heroic interposition of
Carty and his associates, is Austen; that he is a native of
Limerick, and has a brother residing there, who is a chan-
dler. Such is the account the lad gives of himself, and
there is no reason to doubt it. At eleven o’clock on Satur-
day, at which hour the accounts from Oysterhaven came
away, he was better than could have been expected, and
was very voracious for food, which, with the exception of
warm wine, was very sparingly, but sufficiently, given to him,
for his situation.”
A subscription, we find, has been properly set on foot, to
reward the heroism thus conspicuously displayed; and the
Cork Chronicle concludes in the following manner:—
“We shall be very happy to receive and acknowledge at
this office, any sum given by way of donation, to assist in
purchasing a boat for the humane and intrepid fellow, Jack
Carty; and we do not know of a better mode of completely
putting an end to the savage custom of pillage, and fre-
quently of murder, after a shipwreck, than to give very
ample compensation to the men who on such occasions
risk their own safety, to save the lives or property of their
fellow men.” Times, Nov. 26, 1818.
SINGULAR CASE OF OBSTINACY.
The extraordinary case of obstinacy and obduracy, as re-
lated in the narrative of Phineas Adams, see Vol. IV. p. 173,
can scarcely find a parallel. We now present our readers
with another extraordinary individual, whose self-determina-
tion was such, that even at the bar of life and death, he reso-
lutely withstood all attempts made to induce him to plead,
affecting to be mute by the visitation of God, and actually