We will relate the terrible loss of the ship Kent, which sailed from the Downs on February 19, 1825.  As a so-called East Indiaman (a merchant vessel trading with the East Indies), the Kent was bound for Bengal in India, and then China.  She was a ship of 1,350 tons, and aboard her were 344 soldiers, 20 officers, 43 women, 66 children, 20 civilian passengers, and a crew of 148 men.  The sum of these numbers comes to a total of 641.