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The Captain of the Emilie St. Pirren.

--Captain Wilson, the hero of one of the most unprecedented deeds of daring, has returned to Liverpool, after a visit last week to his native parish of Colvend, about eleven miles east of Kirkcudbright. A local paper states that the father of Captain Wilson occupied the small farm of Barcly. He served his apprenticeship and sailed for a number of years out of the Water of Urr with Captain Samuel Wilson Palnackie. We understand that Captain Wilson, before he starts on another voyage to Quebeck, will revisit his native place, where a public dinner will be given him by fellow-townsmen.

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