THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAMER: A friend has kindly lent us a copy of the sixth edition of the St. Helena Advocate, the four small folio pages of which are almost entirely occupied with the subject of the arrival of the “Great Britain” at the island. It is evident that disappointment and dissatisfaction exist, naturally caused by the putting back of the ship, and the consequent of loss of time; some anonymous complaints are also made with respect to the accommodations and the provisions, but they are not generally shared in. Amongst 600 or 700 passengers, it is impossible but that there must be many carping, discontented with just so much ability as qualifies them to find fault, lack the temper to bear with unavoidable misadventures. Those who take long voyages in any ship, not to say a crowded emigrant one, must be content to submit to conveniences and deprivations inseparable from their position. On board the “Great Britain” a MS paper, which has reached its third number, is published by some such an individual, and which, cleverly and spitefully written, attributes the putting back of the vessel to the “parsimony of the proprietors in not originally shipping coal enough;” the writer finds no fault with ship or Captain. Amongst a number of other advertisements informing the friends of emigrants in this country and Ireland that they are well is the following: – “V.R. – Our friends in Bristol and neighbourhood. — H. J. Cornier, T. Marks, G. Gobjoy, and S. Wellington, all right and well: To friends at home. “S. P.W.”. Of passengers from this city and neighbourhood, reported to have arrived well, are the following: ‘‘T. O. Pinsent, T. B. Pinsent (sic), O. Fedden, N. Fedden, E. Humpage, Mr. Duffett, Mrs. Duffett, Henry Woolley, Bath; D. T. Perron, E. J. Capron. M. Morgan, Joseph Solomon.
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Referenced
GRO1194 Hennock: Joseph Burton Pinsent: 1806 – 1874
GRO0851 Hennock: Thomas Ogden Pynsent: 1839 – 1864