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Vortigern

POLPEAR, LIZARD.—On the 6th August, the Life-boat Edmund and Fanny was launched at 9 a.m., and proceeded to the four-masted barque Vortigern, of and from London, bound for Calcutta with a cargo of jute. She was found to be safely anchored ia Pentreath Bay, having narrowly escaped stranding in the fog, but as she'was embayed the Life-boat, at the master's request, remained by her until the .arrival of a steam-tug which took her in tow for Falmouth..