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f 7rreck ct sea.-The following is ta- ken from letter from an officer on board the United States iI'igate Brandy wine, to his friend in Fredericksburg, dated Gibraltar, December l, IS30;

 "An object of gloomy interest pre- sented itself, a few hours after despatch

 ing my last letter to you; it was the wreck of avesselat sea. A handsome and entirely new hull, lay bottom up wards, washed by the surf of high and broken swell. We lowered boat, and took her alongside with a stout rope, in hopes of being able, by taking the end back to the ship fo heave the lost yes- sel upright; but finding 1t exceedingly dangerous to the boat to attempt that experiment, directed one of the car pentcrs 10 leap on the wreck with an axe. The intrepid fellow succeeded. and in despite of it's tumbling and toss ing, cut a large holein the bottom, from which issued a current of confined air, 'so very fntid as to indicate but too plain y, that some of her unhappy crew were still inhabitants of their faithless bark. " ( hailed, but no sound was heard, but that of the disturbedsea among her shat tered timbers. Night, and an approach ing gust obliged us to desist from farther efforts; she had barrels of flour in Der hold, and we judged her to be BBaiiti- Biitii more brig of about l50 tons burthen, and apparently capsized ten or twelve days. Some of her spars were taken on board tie Brandywine. We then stood on ourcourse, and the briefrecord on our fog probably the only one ever made of her fate.n