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Elizabeth and Cicely, of Guernsey

The brig Eliza- beth and Cicely, of Guernsey, ran ashore off this place about one o'clock on the morn- ing of the 16th Jan., and soon began to break up, the crew of 8 men being forced to take refuge in the rigging. When the perilous position of the poor fellows was seen, the rocket life-saving apparatus was got out, and a line fired on board ; but the shipwrecked men were too exhausted to use it. The Solicitors' and Proctors' Life- boat, Storm Sprite, was then taken along the shore to windward, launched, and sue-cessfully pulled off to the wreck, when the 8 men were saved, and brought ashore in a very exhausted state, they having, unfortu- nately, been exposed to the inclemency of the weather some time before their danger was known..