LOSS OF THE ROYAL CHARTER
... The loss of this noble vessel, with upwards of 400 persons on board, including passengers and crew, and a cargo of many hundred thou- sand pounds in value, is one of the most deplorable events in this year of disaster and death. By this melancholy wreck, upwards of 400 persons have been hurried through a death of agony to a grave beneath the waves of the ocean, at the moment when they supposed ...