Star. — London, England, 1807-05-13 00:00:00

MIUrICAL TORBAY, MAY ti. Lail cycling the wind getting limit nit id Well; the !lett that failed yellerdaP returned again lei night, and are how at anchor, viz. Pawl of Monaackt, Loanny, DRIADNOIiditT, ST GIOILIn t HISILNIA, and Rosa floor of War.— Wind W. PLYMOUTH, MAY tr. Came 111 the Lord Cochrane privateer, from a cruise : Ike has on board tome cloth, taken on board a Spanifh vetel on the coaft of Spain, which, In conjunalon with the Mars privateer, they cut out Villa Garcia : in the attempt. it is Paid that feveral of the privateer's crew were taken by the boats froM she Chore—Alert, French brig privateer, of la. guns, captilred by the PALLAS frigate, of 32 guns : it is laid that the privateer had captured the London, of London, frorn•Quebee, which it is fisppofed is ar end in France: the priVateer had been three months At fed. Sailed the Asses!), of 74 guns, for Portt month;' and IssoisNT, of :6, with tranfports under convoy for Portfmouth. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 12: Arrived his Majefly's fhip SSA GULL, With a fleet of tranfports, with troops, bound to Cork t and the eum.t.anola, from a cruiZe.—Wind S. W. DEAL, MAY ts. Arrived his Majeay's (hips At 'mu, from Ply. mouth; SITLAIIC and EXIRTION, from a cruize, and :main in the Downs with the (hips as per laft. HULL, MAY it. • A convoy is appointed to fail froiu hence for Onega and Atchangel, on the 16th itatant. The veffels bound for Tont.ingen, (sled from hence on Friday evening, and thole for the Baltic, on Saturday even ing and this morning, to join their refpedive convoys in Grimiby roads. Each fleet will be fucceeded by other convoys, in fourteen days after they leave the Humber. ELSTNEUR, APRIL 28. The upward bound are all failed ; the few for the North Sea are waiting the arrival of a convoy. We learn that the Dantsic, Roitinat.a, of Hull, that was on (bore opon Memel Bar, has fence been got off.— Four Englifh veffels in fight below, working up.— Wind S. and S. S. W. LLOYD'S LIST. tiIAva3LHD. MA t rt.—Pa fed by the Trial, Perron, from Wa terford, and the Providence, Dodd, from Cork.=Sailed the Sophia. Savrry, for Guernfey; Thames, Halliday, and Minerva. Hayes, for Tonningen. -- - -- - ARRIVALS. In Stanagate Creek, the Rover, Lelre, from Moitadore: and the Bolus, Angel, from Zante, bound to London. At Pottbnouth, Lord Collingwuod, from Medina. At Falmouth, Jane, from Gibraltar. In the Clyde, Adolaine. Scott, from Charlefton. At Fayal, Sibella, kitties, from London. At New York, Fador, Caldwell, front the Clyde; Ophelia, Waterman, from Briftol; Connedlieut b Matlock; and the Robert Burns, Waifte,frotn LiverpoOL The ELECTRA sloop of war, with the fleet under convoy, which failed from Portfmouth on the zBth of Match, arrived at Gibraltar on the isth of April. GIBRALTAR, APRIL ay. The following melancholy particulars of th^ lots of the Portuguere frigate San Juan Prin,:ipe, in the night of the 4th in(lant, have been communicated by one of the furvivors.— • On the 4th inftant, about 11 A. at. the Pottoguefe frigate called San Juan Principe, commanded by Captain Rodrigo Jofe F Lobo, happened to rave a Daniel brigantine from painting on the Mine of Ceuta, by reafon of the thick weather, as the miftook that mountain for the Rock of Gibraltar, within Ids than gunthot from the point of Ceuta. The frigate continued failirg on s tack to the N. from 12 o'clock noon till Bat night, and Banding to the eaR, E N. E. and E. N. E At the fame hour t h e put about to the S. the wind then blowing from E. S. E. and kept her tack until midnight, when the again put about td the N. with the Came wind; and at 2 A se of the follow • ing day, the sth ditto, as the was putting about to the S the Bruck, ! the weather basing grown more and more foggy, and the wind and tea increafed ever fince noon. The frigate, on ltriklng, im tsediately heeled to port, putting bcr fide under water ; where upon the malts were cut down, which kept her in that pofition until the was all broken to pieces, which happened at to A. N. the majority of the crew holding raft until that moment, both to her fide, andto part of the matte; but at that time every man ender'. 'Gored to live his life, either by rwitriming, or upon the floating timbers. Soarivoes—The Commander, fccond in Command, r Chap lain, t blidthipman, the Porter, Putter's Clerk, the Mate, the Boatfwain, Boadwaites Mate, a Quarter Matter, a Corporals of Marines, a Carpenter, 2 Caulkers. 19 Marines, 31 Seamen, 49 Decknien,2 Cabin Boys, and the Streights 116 per. Cots faved—All of whom +the Officers excepted) were conveyed to the bode of the Portuguese Conful, where the utrnott care was taken of them for five days together, Mr. Parral acknowledging that he has been powerfully :Ailed, in the pleafing difcharge o. this patt of his duty, by Mr. I. B. Da Silva, Commiffary General et the fiiadrone, Losmra6 Navy Officers,' Volunteer, a Chaplain, 4 Officers of Marines. 5 Serje-ants and Corporals. 1 Surgeons, a ApotherArY. Surgeon's Mats, ate &e. lu ail 199 men loft. The Portuguefe fin ffi d no Incient ezpreffions to mai& the charitable zeal and generous behaviour of the Commander in Chief of Gibraltar, the Sparta Commanding Of at the Lines, and Captain But Litt of his Britannic Majefty's (hip Masza, in afford ing the quiche(' and Inca efficacious affi(lance to thofe unfortunate people, as well as the humanity of feveral private individuals on both fides, in laving as many of them as . - they could. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Namur, fur the French line of battle thipi, taken on the lailf November trios, and 13th of March 18w6. will be paid on Used. on Thurfday neat, ..nd recalled at No. 13, Great Ruffill- Eloontffiary. for three months. The )dotefte for the Force, captured on the 57 th of February 406; the Arab, ' for the El Duenda, captured on the t3th of APS ; the Minotaur, for the Concer ion, captured on the Mir/January 18os ; and the Halcyon, and Sophie, for the Po . Abele, captured on the 6th of Offiofser %804. will be paid at No 22, Atundel ftrect, Strand, oat Thurfday next, and there recalled evert day. The Weymouth, for la Been° Ventura, raptured on the 18th N0v.1,98; and the Loire, for le Rhin, ea; tared on the 28th of July 1806, win be yak) at No te, ceeil-ftreet, Strand, on Satur day next, and recelled at the fame plea • The Dragon, fer le Rhin, captured on the 28th July :Rob , will be paid on board on 'her arrittal, and recalled at No. 30 George Item, Plymouth Dock. s The Ltda.for the Phoenix and Twee Vrinden, captured on the lath and ajd of May 1803, will be paid oa board, the 20 th talent, and recalled at No 12, James -facet. Adclphi. The ilaraine, for the Pandour, captured die ad of May , lik‘' will be Paid no board, on Friday nest, and recalled. on Inddays and Thurfdays, at No. 2, Vaulain-buildingst Gray's P.l mbs oir ifts 13rtkiiA'~LL S. . , EXTRACT 0* 1 tarrite 'PROW AM torricsit ow *outs HIE 111.111eSTT * 11 SHIT THE caleorus, AT THE MOUTH Or THI DARDANEY.tes, DATED MARCH 7. ig The public papers, no doubt, have given you information of the fervice the Canopus has been lately 'employed on—a fervice not only difagreeable from the ravage and inhuman conduit and manners of the Turks, our enemies, but attended with the utmoit peril and danger in the execution. I will avoid en tering into the particulars of our proceedings, which I (hall be happy to recount to you on my arrival at Stonehoufe, and confine myfelf foie!, to the events Which happened a neon time previous to the melan choly cataftrophe which is the fubjeet of this letter.— On the loth of February the fquadron, under the ordersof Vice Admiral Sir John ThomasDuckworth, and Rear Admirals Sir Thomas Louis, and Sir Sid. ney Sutith, led by the Canopus, forced the Wiles of Abydos:and Sellos, and the batteries on the coatis of Europe and Arta, and paired the pelage of the Dar danelles : an action thought impracticable, and never before atchieved. In the performance of this fervice we experienced the warmen fire of (hot and (hells poilible ; but nothing could refill the undaunted courage of our crews, dire6ed by fuch officers. Our lob in the conteft was not very great, and my lamen ted friend, Captain Kent, here efcaped with fafety.— From thence we repaired to Connantinnple, and anchored off that capital with (even fail of the - line, two frigates, and two bombs, (the Ajax having on. I fortunately been burnt, by accident, a (hors time be• tore our arrival there.) We immediately began to treat with the Turkifh Minifters, who, by their lan page, induced us to fuppofe our demands would be granted ; this at length we found to be all deceit ; and alto that our force was moll inadequate to at tack Conllantinople, having no troops, and who, fince the arrival of the Canopus, had augmented her forces and fortifications in a molt wonderful degree :—the army rotted and in Conflantinople confining of 200,000 MIMIC troops, and trfail of'the line, effec• five chips, betides ah immenfe population in the city, who altogether, bade defiance to our !mall force in comparifon with theirs. At this time we were lying with the fquadron between Conftantinople and the Princes Iflands ' • and the Turks, anxious to d r ive u s from this anchorage, fent a number of troops to ere batteries. To oppofe Them and drive them off, the marines of the fquadron were landed ; they met with the molt revere refiltance from the Turks, who were in poffenion of a moll ilrong fituation, and I am moil forrowful to inform you that my worthy and lamented friend, Captain Kent of the Marines, after a long continuance of the moll gallant conduit, ion his tile at the head of his men, being (hot through the head, and departed from this troublefnme world without uttering even a ugh ! On the In inftant we left Conflantinople, and paired back through the Dardanelles, by which we have faltered in the fqua dron in killed and wounded—and I believe that their nrength is now to much increafed, that a fleet could not again attempt it." lIXTRACT 07 A WITTE". FROM AN OFfICIR 0111110ARD HIS MAJIISTY'II SHIP THB CANOPUS, AT,THRIOUTH OF THE DASDAIISLLIS, DATID MATCH 7, 1807. IS You will have heard before this reaches you of the lots of the Ajax, which happened on the night of the 14th February. About nine, or a few minutes before, a gun was fired from her, and (portly after another : this gave the alarm, and we foon perceived the was on fire is the after part. Before our boats could reach her, the flames burft out above the decks and through the ports, in fuch a dreadful manner, that the boats could not get alongfide. Numbers jumped overboard at firll, and moil of thofe who (laid to endeavour to extinguifla the fire, or who were too late to get up the hatchways, perithed. It was, my dear Mary, the molt awful and melancholy fpec taele I ever beheld : GOD grant I may never again behold fuch another. We were very near her, and the conflagration canted fuch a light, that we could per ceive the pour wretches flying before the devouring flames, as it broke out abaft : they were forced to run forward, and in a Nutt time the bowfprir, jib boom, fpritfail yard, and all the ropes that were about them were loaded with men ; but they were foon obliged to quit their holds. When the malls and rigging caught file, it foon communicated to the bowfprit, &c. Numbers only efcaped the flames, to drop into .ss watery grave ; by the great exertions of the boats of the fquado on, many were faved: I believe 340 out of near 700. Our boats were particulatly aelive : indeed we were fo near her ; that we had a better op. portunity than moll others. Captain Blackwood, who jumped from the fpritfail yard, was one of thofe Paved by us, when he was almoll exhaufted. Eleven men and a boy died on board of its the fame-night. Amulet thofe who perifhed are two Lieutenants, feveral Midlhipmen, and the Mailer, Surgeon, Captain of Marines, and, I am forry to add, Mr. Dennet, the gunner. He was teen to jump over. board with a piece of a rail, or fome kind of wood in his hand. A fine boy of about twelve years old, fon of Mrs. Denuett, by Mr. Randle, her firft hufband, had the prefence of mind to watch a good opportu• oily and drop ft om the head into a boat, and got fafe on board—the poor fellow had nothing on but his night•fhirt and a thin pair of t:owfers, as he had juft taken leave of his father, and was going to bed when the alarm was given ; he (laid with us a few days, and you may be fore he did not want for any affif tapes and attention in my power ; he is now on board the RsruLse—the gunner of her was an intimate of poor Dennett—l believe you don't know his mother, but 1 could *A you to, find out fome of her friends, and, if the is not acquainted with her loft, they will make it known to her in as eafy a way as they can. A Mr. Roufe, late carpenter of the AJAR, a man two years older than I am, and very corpulent, although no fwimmer, dropped from the head, was picked up by one of the boats, and alto reached us in fafety. This unfortunate accident threw a damp upaa the fpidts of the whole fquadron.: at any time the lots of fuch a Chip, and fuch a number of brave fellows, would have been reverely felt ; but it was doubly diftrefling to our little fquadron at fuch a time, as as it weakened nalsteatly ; to add to out cha grin, the wind wbs a lft ato us, which prevented us getting np the tenet, and gave the Turks an opportunity of getting additional guns to their forts and batteries, and crating new ones. It was I not till the 19th we had a wind to go +littlish—We' • . . . then had a to e breeze, and got tinderway at clay. light. The Canopus led the van, and, as the tailors call it..took off, the fiery edge: the entrance is pretty wide, therefore the Ants from the &II forts, which are very (Tong ones, did little or no execution ; and in gaffing, the bombs threw in a' few 111:11s, which we have reafon to imagine did a good deal of mifchief. There fortO are one on the Afia fide, and one on the Europetin c but Rill we had to pals two tremendous onts at a. very narrow part, exaelly oppofite to each other, that on the Afia fide called Abydos, and on the European Seftos, betides fevers' fmall Mud bat teries, and one Turkith two.derker, five frigates, four corvettes, two gun boats, and other Nall craft, that were moored a little above the Collies. It is Paid that we did not mean to commence hnllilities b as our Ambaffador went up in the . Royal George, we wilhed to bring them to the terms he had formerly propofed to them, but they fired at U.S, end compelled us to ad on the defentive ; the Are from the forts was very heavy, and very much cut us up Ui the rigging way, but th a nk G OD not h a lf f o b a d as " we erpe et e d. The fhipping alto kept up a very good fire, but we loon filenced them; and Sir Sidney Smith, with the fternmoft (hips, fet fire to them, and deftroyed the whole, but one. corvette, which we kept poffetlion of, but left behind when we came down. In this affair vie had but three killed, and nineteen wounded, fome badly, this we confidered as trifling, confidering what we had to contend with.. You , will be aflo nitbed, my dear Mary, to hear what unmerciful (lone (hit they fire from their forts • had I not witnefed it thyfelf, I could not hav e credited it. We received one (hot, which is now in my fibre room, weighs 34.61b5. is 23 inches diameter, or five feet nine inches in circumference, and another of the fame Gze broke in the forecaftle ; we have got Come others Come. thing (mailer ; Come of the (hips have got thofe of a larger fize. In coming down, the Windfor Caftle received one which has wounded her main mail fo badly, that it will caufe her to leave this place ; it is better than (even feet round, and weighs, I am told, upwards of Booths. I forgot to tell you the Glatton remained at 'Penedos to protect fome veffels that came with the factory from Smyrna, and alto we fuppofe to give intelligence of our proceedings to any Englifh veffel that might arrive. On the loth, we anchored dole to a groupe of iflands within four miles of Con flantinople ; the next day flags of truce paffed from Conflantinople to the Admiral, and we were led to imagine that matters would be amicably fettled ; but the wind letting out right againfl us, gave them an other opportunity of encreafing their fortifications and throwing up works in every direction; fo that in five or fix days, the entrance of the harbour was fo very formidably fortified, that in my opinion, it would have been madnefs to have attempted to enter it.— Their (hipping were alfo not to be defpifed. It is (aid,- 14. fail of the line were 'completely ready to come out, with 9 frigates, 6 fire-(hips, and near 200 fail of (mall velfels , manned with volunteers to board us during the allion. Had this been the cafe, it would have been a dreadful fcene ; for the Turks are not accuflomed to give or take quarter : fill our lads were in as good fpirits as if they were in Hamoaze. On the . 26th, we perceived they were making fome movements on an ifland clofe to us called Prote.— Boats were coming from the Main frequently. with numbers of men, and to all appearance, they were going to fortify the ifland. As they would have an noyed us greatly were it Coffered to proceed, on the 27th, the Admiral ordered the Repulfe and a Bomb, with the boats of the fquadron, manned and armed, to go and fcour the ifland : they fent a few mot and fells on (bore, took two (mall field pieces, and flopped 0 couple of boats with Come Turks and Greeks, and then returned on board; but in the evoting we learned from a Greek who voluntarily came on board, that a number of Turks were yet on the ifland, and had taken refuge in a monaftery—a large ignore ftone building. Our own boats were fent to diflodge them, but they loon found they were not force fufficient to died it : their pofltion was very ftrong, and they bad a much greater number of men that we were told of. They fired at our poor fellows out cf loop holes and windows, as they afcended the bill, and Come were killed and wounded in a very few minutes; Rill our people were not difmayed, but boldly ;milted up to the door, and fet it on fire. The . boats from the other (hips were then fent to affill. Their people likewife [offered a good deal on firß going up ; but night coming on, they had orders to leave the ifland, and get on board their refpe&ive (hips, without effecting any thing. Captain Kent of the matines, one feaman, and two marines, were killed; ten badly wounded, two of whom are fence dead ; and I am truly lorry to fay, that James Reiley, my mate, was one of thole two: he had a dreadful wound in the belly, but remained perfealy fenfible. He expired the following evening, much lamented by every body, as he was a very valuable man. I don't exactly know the number of killed and wounded of the other (hips—this you will fee by the public ac courts. Mr. Route, of the Royal George, fon to Mr. R. • the ropemaker, is amongft the latter, but 1 am•happy to add, it is only a flefh wound in the leg, and is now doing very well. Previous to this affair of ibe Wand, the Endyrnion's jolly boat, with a midfhipman, fon to Mr. Harwell, catpenter of the Royal George, and four young lads, were fent to the Wand to purchafe fonsething, as we were in the habit ofgetting fills and vegetables fromtheGreeks. A boat with Turku from the Main was teen to board her and 'eke the boys out. What is become of them, is not yet known to a certainty. The Greeks, report is, that two of their throats were cut immediately, but that we hope is unfounded. I Oft now heard, that Mr. Harwell has been allured by the Admiral, that his fon Is Cafe in Conflantinople. and will be taken care of. I with it may be the cafe,but I should be lorry to have any friend of mine in their clutches. As all negotiation was at an end, I foppore the Ad miral thought it improdent to remain any longer with the fmall force we bad, flsould we get any (hip difabled or drove on lhore, the confequence would be joy tenons. On the ill intl. we got under weigh, and on• the 3d we once more paffed the Celtics and Batte ries, and found them, I think, much warmer than they were before. We again led the van—we had many more (trot (ruck us than we had in going up, but. thank Gov, the people efcaped moil, miracta-. loufly, , we had none killed and four. wounded ; one of thofe large (hot truck us between wineland water, and made a hole large enough'for a man to go into, but did not penetrate qt,iteAtbrough—moll of the (hips have t contrary to as, Catered more in coming down Clict gqiipirup: i reit corrie • .• , 4 This day, liven:Wilt the line ;it'd two frigates (Ruffians) have jnined us,. with a number of,trOops. IVe are yet in the dark reit:telling the futute opera. tins of the fquadron, but I h. , pe we (hall not ;pa n have to encounter none walls. "Fit tirfl unpit , fitable fighting ; and as yet not Much honourgot,by Should there be another oPportunny of writing wind our plans are fixed; I 111411 not neglea it." SITRACT FROM FRiSNO 9 S LITTER. " On the 13th Match we were j , ined /4 the Admiral, when it was thought proper, for the better accom modation of the faelory, to make a difir6vrion Of us among(' the (hips lan arrived it unfortunately hippened to the lot of Mr. Pickering, from Liver , pain, Mr. Farquhar, and my elf, to be feat on board the Ajar, of guns. About nine o'crck the even. ing following we were drinking th e uln a ! toall of Saturday night, when a perfon came running into the Wardroom, laying the Chip was on fire; we 'bon found that it had got fo far, that all hopes of . getting it under were gone. When that was gene rally known throughout the !hip, I leave it to you to judge the Hate the was in, as I think it beyond the power of man to defcribe it, particularly as it was blowing hard, with a very heavy fea, a rapid cur rent, and no !hips near us. In the courfe of half an hour the fmoke became very thick, and the heat in fupportable ; I got over the fide under the main chains, where I hung for a length of time : being a bad fwimmer, and loaded with a great coat and boots, which I could not get off, in this dreadful Hate I remained fome time looking for a boat, and at lan expelled to get into one which the crew were • attempting to lower down, but which Hove on one of the anchors. By the eight of the flames I fortu nately law an oar fall from her, which I immedi ately Zle jumped after. I fuppofe I might be about a quarter of an hour on it, when I faw another float ing pal me, which I bad firength enough left to grafp. Soon after Mr. Armflrong, Surgeon's Mate, came and took hold of them. Upon my laying that I could not fwim, and that my flrength was nearly exhaufted, poor fellow, he good-naturedly left me— he was fared. I remember little elfe that paffed till I found myfelf lying in a boat. I was, with many unfortunate (offerers, put on board the firth !hip we came up with, which fortunately for me proved to be the Canopus, where my old friends paid me every poflible attention. Poor Farquhar and Pickering are no more. On the 19th, we palled the Dardanelles with much lefs lots than could have been expefted. —The Turkilh fleet confined of 14 fail of the line, nine fiigates, and 116 fire•fhips, protefted by a num ber of batteries. On the 'lfl, we returned through the Dardanelles, where we found them ready to receive us : they have done confiderable damage to many of the (hips, and killed many brave fellows.— Captain Kent, of the Marines, is among the killed : among the wounded is Lieutenant Willabay, of the Royal George ; he commanded the boat that fared my life. We have fince been joined by the Ruffian fleet, but what they will now attempt is uncertain. The Windfor Cattle got her mails chattered on re• palling the Dardanelles, and is to go to Malta to refit. The Faftory have got orders to go on board of her.—The Windfor Cattle arrived at Malta the aoth of March." ammo', min- 12. At half pall four o'clock this morning, the Royal Denbigh Militia left Fort Pitt and embarked on board the boats provided to carry them to Sheernefs. The FlintEhire regiinent return by the fame conveyance this afterpoon, and will occupy the barracks which the Denbigh left. The fine rifle battalion of the both regiment, corn poled entirely of Germans, began their march yef. terday from Haflar, for the Kintifir coal, there to be embarked for the Continent with the German Legion. The battalions of the German Legion, now in. Ireland, are daily expeeed in this country, to be embarked for the fame defiination. The ad regiment of . Surrey Militia is expefled here to-morrow. - - . Saturday four companies of Aftillery were em. barked at Woolwich for foreign fervice. Three troops of gunner drivers are alto under orders for embarka tion. Saturday morning a fatal accident happened at the Dock Yard, at the lower part of which tome men were at work, placing and (tearing booms, for the purpofe of preventing timber from floating away ; when one of the men flipped off a man, along which he was palling, and fell into the river, another came inftantly to his affiftance, and while endeavouring to extricate his companion, he alto fell in, a third then came to affift the other two, and he was like wife pre. cipitated into the fiver, the laft, howeter, happened to be able to fwim, and he made to the (bore ; the other two were fucked under by the malls, where they remained, the one ten, and the other fifteen minutes; when firft taken out they both had Come flight ap pearance of animation, and the one who had been under water the ihorteft time, after confiderable ex ertions and attention, was recovered ; but the other, named William Henry Seeth, was too far gone to be reftored by the means poffeffed by the attendants of the Dock Yard Surgery, being unfortunately not provided with the apparatus, generally ufed for re ftoring rufpended animation. A (hocking accident happened near Shakelpear's Cliffe, Dover, on Saturday fe'nnight. A corporal, belonging to the Lincoln Militia, a rope maker, and who had been at work at his trade, during the dinner time, with two other foldiers, in attempting to reach a raven's nett, which was built in the Cliff, fell, at,d was mangled in a molt dreadful manner. He had foaie remains of life when picked up, but died fool after. The diftance he fell is fuppofed to be ne tr coo feet. The remaining two , men were with much difficulty releafed from their perilous fituation, by letting down ropes from the top of the Cliff. People now living recoiled that there has been a nett in the fame place for 70 years back. Tuefday,a gentleman, whole name, we under and, is Newman, refiding in Tichborne•Rreer, fell from a fcaffsild in Covent Garden, while t!•e Candidates were haranguing the Electors, and fradnted. his &ult. He wac conveyed home in a hackney coach. .ip rly, die Is. but of hat r in 4alt tin 4