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NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PENZANCE, DECEMBER 7. • :Arrived the Benjamin, Malmo', front Waterford, with provifions, Sce. for London, in order to flop a lea. Alio the Lamb, of and from Truro ; the Ca hdonia, of Peterhead ; the Peffeirerance, of Milford ; the Trinity, of Swanfea the Sifters, of Fowey ; the William. of Penzancepthe Petty of Great Yarmouth; the Daniel of St. Ives; the Hou ND floop of war, and an armed dip; alto a French ketch rigged privateer, of 14 guns, out fix days from Brea--had taken a For toguefe !hip add an Anglia brig, but was at laft fortunately captured by the Semipros (loop of war, Captiin STANT' ILO ; and the SWALLOW, from a mite, +which remains. The wind-bound vetfels have failed for their refpeBive deftinations—the pri. ratter for Plymouth, and the Forty regular tin thip for Falmouth, to join convoy for London. PLYMOUTH. DEC. I. tame in a line of battle fitip, Paid to be the AUDA• dot's, of 74 guns, from a cruise. Sailed his Ma jeayis fhip SwirTsuas, Admiral Sir J. B. Wassail, for Halifax. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 9. Arrived, feveral fail of ontward•bound from the Downs ; among them are the Alfred the Great, Atlas, Triendlbip, Economy, Pinto's', Dela. ford, Caroline, Satyr, and TruQy—bound to the Well Indies. Sailed, his Majefly's !hips POMP'S, to the Eaftward ; the NEPTUNE, for the Channel fleet; Ind the RISISTANCI, on a cruize. His Majeily's lhip Astrutos is appointed convoy for the Well In- Indies.—Wind E. DEAL. DECEMBER 9. Arrived the SpFcoLavoit lugger, from a cruise, and remains in the Downs with the (hips as per hill ; alfo the Phcenix, —, for the Eall India. Wind N. CHATHAM, DECEMBER 9. The ',lnuit:ins failed from hence on Saturday.— The GiJEKRIERE was alfo fame day put into commif Son, and the command given to Captain SICE/Itt ; the pendant was hoited by the Marquis of Hoer- LET, who is here with the Captain, and has been inking this adenal. The °atom was taken into dock a few days (ince, under her pendant, and it is expec ted Ste will be got ready to be put out again neat Spring tides. The hassirriaLa is• fitting for the teception of Danifh prifoners, and is for that purpofe brought alongfide the Jetty Head. The Mawr an4tiarualum are nearly complete for failing. HARWICH. DEC. 9. V Aides& this day the Pa/ NCH* A 11017111 TA., and • Sae NaLsor cotters, and Harnett gun•brig.— ihnied this Vtistr gunbtig. The SIA LARK Moon*, Captain Dna., has not yet failed for Got teebtsrgb.=The brig Sunnyfides, of Sunderland, ttiai laden, has been captured, recaptured by a gun !trig, gad has attired in Hofely Bay.—Wind FROM LLOYDS LIST. Oa Avestan), Nov. co.—Paired by the Two Friends. Prom Dublin ; Gainfbro, Parkins. from Waterford; Union. Ra iser. !Vona St Michael's . and the Jane. Brown. from Rip.— Sailed the Haddock , Redman, for St. I.ucie ; Hunter, Anfell, for Sarbadoes ; Intrinfic, Phillips, for Grenada; and the Tarktoss. Parka, for Jamaica. Prise it D, DEC. 4 !peening the Hibernia arrived from Riga, With the Isis of her bovrlprit ; came through the grounds With the Spitfire !loop of war, and t Cutter brig, and has failing brdtra li•om, Hebe armed !hip for Long Hope. That Sip failed from Helfinburg before her, as all the Sips were obliged to cut their cables. The Hibernia and a great many more came down the DUE day with a (hip of war. Four Sips were taken about the time Ilse left Helfingburg, November a 3. t Wet., Asc. 7—The Charles, William, i Underftand from a arrived here, has proceeded no further than Copenhagen, and will return to London with the file convoy. The Pero Sitters, Park, from Memel to London, is on there On Lilla Ground. The anod Intent, Clark, from Peterfburgh for London, is re potted to be captured near Ellim ur. The Aberdeen paper Rates, that a French privateer has taken (even Ibips off the 'recs. The Good Intent, Clark, from Pcterfburgh to Loudon, is re ported to be taken near Ellineur. ARRIVED. In the River, the Neptune, —, from Dublin—hi the Dawns, New Concord, —, from Cork—At Porthnuutb, Eliza. Rew, from Cork—At Liverpool, Branch, Holmes; and the Friend., —, from London—in the Clyde, Thomas and Sarah. Sands, from London; Maid of the Mill. —, from Newfoundland; Margaret, Coward; and the Hope, Henry, from ()lichee—At Cork, Sarah, Diteham, from Q2cbco ; and the Pifquataqua, WU lianas, front Philanclphia. HULL, DEC. 7. The Providence armed fhip, Captain Rya. failed from Elfineur on the aoth, and arrived in the Hum. bet. on Tuefday afternoon, having parted with the greateft part of the fleet off the Schaw, in the late heavy gales. Upon intelligence being received of fo valuable a fleet having parted convoy in a gale, a petition was ant to the Commanding Officer in the Humber, requeliing that he would immediately. if in his power, fend out what veffels of war might be in the Humber, to cruise between the Dogger Bank and the Humber. A communication to a fimilar of ea was alto made to Admiral Ross's., at Yarmouth, by Alderman Boomers'', in the abfence of the Mayor. The following letter was received here this mot.. ming, by J ,, ssrit Eceatirox, Efq. from Vice Admiral Wow-As, at Yarmouth. in anfwer to the above ap plication, dated North Yarmouth, Dec. s, 11107: ~ Sir, I have the honour to own receipt of your let ter, dated the Id inftant, and have in eonfequence ordered the Vulture to proceed to tea, for the pur. pole of proteaing and convoying the difperfed 'hips and veffels to which you allude ; which you will be 'leafed to communicate to the merchants and fhip owners of Hull.—P. S. Exclufive of the Vulture, I have five or fix cruizers between Newcaftle, Humber, Flamborongh Head, &c. &c." Extra& of a letter received here this morning from Captain Jacesom, of the Alfred, of this port, dated Helfinburg Roads, t9th November:—" On the 16th inftant we were attacked by three hoop cutters, off the North end of Bornholm. With great diffic ulty we kept them off : We had them firing upon us, within thoikct (hot, two hours. From the failing of the Alfred, and brave eivirtiona of they leered off from us. lam afraid they will pick op slwreat many (hips: I obferved a thaaber of [hips hi Ear tbolros as I paired." GREENOCK, DEC. y. The Hope, Hawley, arrived here on Saturday lafl from Q2ebec, after a pairage of 39 days—left the following veffels loading for Clyde, viz. Paragon, MILLER ; Anthorn, SCAM, to fail in five days ; Dunlop, M'Ewew, to fail in eight days—..fpoke the Neptune, Nati, of Ayr, on the 3oth Odober, going up the River. The Ocean, WiLsom, from Quebec, arrived at Ayr onWednefday fhe failed on the zoth of OElober. Sir James CRAIG arrived on the 18th, to take upon him the military command of Canada. On the 19th, eight tranfports, with zoo° troops on board, arrived from Nova Scotia. The toth battalion i of veterans had arrived a few days before. The Elizabeth, *Con Noe HI a, of Ayr, was afhore in Car. digan Bay, on the night of the 19th ult. but get off; the crew were Caved. The Fame, in the gale, got alhore at Donaghadee—fbe has receivedfome damage in her keel. The Adventure, M'Batos, of Ayr, was totally loft on the 4th of ORober, on the ifland of Cape Breton, the people fared—fhe was bound from this port to Nova Scotia. The Captain mentions in his letter, that the crew were robbed and Aided by the inhabitants. LIVERPOOL, DEC 7. Captain MAIM', of the Columbia, that arrived here on Thurfday from Savannah, (poke on the 28th Oftober, the (hip Mary, from Peter (burgh to Bolton, and on the 29th, (poke the 114 Clinton, from Li. verpool to Halifax, lat. 46, 43. long 45, out 28 days, all well. The fleet which failed from Cork t tth ult. for the Weft Indies, was all well on the 14th, in lat. 45, long. t 4 ; the John Bull, Asatw ; the Lan. cafler, —, and another veffcl had joined. The fleet which failed from Co: k the 3orh Auguft, for the Welt Indies, under convoy of his Majelly's (hips Savage and Druid, was left all well the 21 a Sept. in lat. 29. 55, long. 16. 41, by the Druid, which is returned to Cork ; 14 fail in company. A veffel from Wexford, fuppoled to be the Henry, is loft near the Land's End, and it is feared the crew drowned—upwards of Soo barrels of butter raved, and landed at Padllow. The Alexander, SMITH, from Jamaica for thi s port, p u t i nt o B r ift o l the 23d ult. with confiderablt damage, failed ft ran Jamaica, the 2111 September. The Fanny, Calort.l., from Faro at this port, after 43 days paffage, (poke the Columbus, from Charletton to Liverpool eight days ago. The Swedifh brig Union, one of the Lifbon convoy, has been taken by a French privateer, and afterwards releafed and arrived at Cowes ; the fame privateer had taken the Rambler, Southfeaman, in lat. 48, long. it, the crew of which they put on board the Union. The Indian (loop of war, put into Ber muda the (6th Oflober, from Newfouridland, from whence the failed with a fmall fleet from the Well Indies, which were difperfed the end of September, in a violent gale, in which the Indian was diftnaßed. The nest day the Indian faw a veffel bottom upward, fuppofed to be one of the fchooners of her convoy. COLDINGHAM, NOVEMBER 24. In the late (dere norm, which commenced on Thurfday evening, the r9th innant, and continued until the following night, the Ceres of Peterhead, Amnesia, Mailer, was driven on chore on the rocks to the cat of Coldingham Sands, and literally dallied to pieces. Out of the crew, con fi ning of the Mailer, four men, and a boy, with three panengers, only the Matter and one of the paffengers were Caved, and that alone by the perfevering humanity of the tenant of the farm on which the vefrel was wrecked, who, along with his &mettles, in defiance of the Ram, and after more than an hour's labour, extri. cited the Halter from his perilous fituation among the rocks, quite disarmed with fatigue. .The vat' failed from the Orkneys, laden with flaws (by the Matter's account), at eight A.M. on the t9th, and was wrecked about nine P.M. of the zoth, sunning, in that thou fpace, the whole length of the can coati of Scotland. Four r f the crew, and two of the paffen gets (one of them a young woman from Orkney, faid to have been going to Leith to get married), were ail buried yelterday, in one grave, in Coldingham church yard. Report lays another veflel was wrecked the fame night, to the eaftward of Eyemonth, crew Caved ; and another to the weltward of St. Abb's Head, only one Paved. Biz Sam having quitted the Rage of life, the enfu• ing Pant. mime in Drury lane will introduce to the public favour a great performer of the other rex, a Lady fix feet high without her lh vs, who has long been in training by that Maitre de. Ballet D'Egville, and in whole favour he calculates upon prodigious applaufe. Friday night, between eleven an,' twelve o'clock, David Wood, (idler, a native of Dunfe, fell into the Moletidinar burn, a little below St. Andrew's-fquare, Glafgow, :.nd was drowned. His body was, with difficulty, got out, after a confiderable time had elapfed. Evety neceffary means was ufed for his tecovery, but in vain. He has left a wife and four children. Saturday afternoon a fire broke out in a houfe in George greet, Edinburgh, which at firß had an alar ming appearance. Several engines were loon on the (pot, and the fire was extinguilbed without doing any material damage FIRS AT FIEOBILICKSIBURO, VIRG tmtc—Extraa of a letter from Meffrs. Thomas Seddon and Co. dated Falmouth, Oftober 190.—" We (ball probably be the fug to communicate to you a dreadful calamity which this day befel Frederickflsorg, at t t o'clock, and dur. ing a fevere Rorm from N.W. A fire broke out in the large houfe upon the hill, formerly occupied by Mrs. Carter, nearly oppolite Mt. Patton's fore, which loon communicated with the main lbw, and burnt every houfe on that fide of the Rivet, at the corner below Rofs's large brick houfe, and deßroyed every houfe on that fide of the greet, down as low as J. 1-1* Rawlin and Co.'s It burnt all the honfes on the river, as low as the bank, which is now in flames, with the exception of James Brown's dwelling boort. Great fears are entertained for a great deal of paper in the vaults of the bank, which was not removed. It is impogible at this moment to fay the damage that has been fußained ; 200,000 dollars is not perhaps too large a calculation—a great fum for Frederickt burg ! Adam Coak and Hendeefon. we are informed, ate =tone the greateft (offerers."' ' • COMMERCE. • The following Mauro on an article which appeared in Mr. Cosnapr's litogifter,are tratiflated front the Courier Jr Mni. 0 Without going to the bottrim of the lueftion, we think it becomes us, as Ruffians, to examine thefe polka's, viz. whether England has the power of rail ing the price.of foreign merchandize tenfold ; and how far the nations of the globe could communicate wit 4 each other, if tht paths of the ocean were for bidden them. The folution of thefe two queleions depends on Come local knowledge, which is not very common. The fill and important thing is, that merchan dim may be embarked at Brzelc on the Bug, and may, without touching land, or changing its vefl'el, arrive at Bremer Forden, within three polls of Bre men, by means of the canals of Bromberg and Havel. This way may therefore be made ufe of even for the moll bulky objeets ; and we doubt not that it would have been ufed, but for the toll duties in Germany, which arc a bar againft all Continental circulation. 66 But let us fuppofe this obftacle removed, and conlidering Amfterdam as the emporium of Conti nental merchandize, let us fee what a Dutch mer chant will do who is defirous of fending cloth into Arta Minor, and of receiving cotton in return. He will certainly be able to embark his cloths upon the Zuyder Zee, and, always protated by the files, will carry them into the Wefer, where he will have to tranfport them three polls by land, which will bring him to Bremer Forden, whence, in the way above mentioned, be will carry his cloths to Brzefc, even on ftreams as eafy to afcend as defcend. 4 ‘ At Brzefc he will find a canal begun, and, for the prefent, a thort paffage by land, which will bring the wares into the Pt ypec, and from thence into the Dnieper. If the Dutch merchant willies that his cargoes of cloth fhould avoid the paffage of the ca taraes, he will have a further land carriage of Tome leagues : then the cloth will have only to traverfe the Black Sea, and go to Trebifonde. The return of cotton, tee. may be made in the fame way ; or, Ihould the Dutch met chant prefer it, he will find at Odeffa waggons belonging to the peafants of the Ukraine, which return empty, which will perhaps coil lets than the vette'', and which will carry his merchandize to Brzefc. " Should the fame Dutch merchant be defirous to tranfport his cloth intoPerfia, and join to it tbelopium of Alia Minor, he will caufe it to afcend the Don up to Zit izyn : there he will find a• land carriage much employed, which will colt his goods not more than at the rate of three kopecks each poud. He will go into the Volga, and thence into the Cafpian Sea. " Mr. COIIIIETT lays 6 we hold the keys of China;' ' but this expreffion is not true in refpeet to Raffia.— Rudia not only has commerce with China, but this commerce would be fufceptible of a great extention, were Ruffia to tranfmit piaftres, as other nations do. i A thoofand pialtres would colt but tix roables to tranfport, and the returns would be made by water; for the Selinga is navigable even to the frontiers of China. It may be defeended as far .as the lake Bay kal, where the Argoun is entered, and thence in the Jenittey to Jennifeytk, where there is a land carriage of too vet fts to Ket ; and by that river, the Irtis and the Tobel, the frontiers of European Ruffia are reached. This road is much ufed. Thus among the nations of the globe, there are many communica tions altogether independent of the " Let us now enquire what are the articles of merchandize which might be made tenfold dearer at the good pleafure of the Lords of the Ocean. Let us begin with coffee. All who have been at Veoice there ten years or more, know that nothing is drunk there but the coffee of Arabia ; dearer, it is true, than the c. ffee of the Hands, but it alto pays an enormous conttibution to the Beys of Egypt. Pal ting by Aleppo, Orfa, Ergerom, and taking the road of Suez to Trebizonde, it would amount to tacro werfts. Betides, the coffee which is bought at St. Peter tburgh goes by land to the extremities of the empire without being much dearer to the la con turner ; and the carriage on the back of camels is not in general dear. It refults, therefore, that in Ruflia, Arabian coffee might be bad at the pr ice for which it was had at Venice. " Sugar is unqueftinnably the article, in refpea to which Mr. Coulter is neareß being in the right ; and in fat he is in the right altogether as thing. are now ; but this Rate of things may very &By be changed, by a. free and lure communication with the Indus, in order to attain which, nothing is wanting but the content of the Perfians and Af gans. In fad, the Englifh have no eflohlilhatent on the Indus. which belongs to the independent Rajah of Tatta. Our Tartars of Orembourg, who fometimes proceed In far, agree in laying the price of Inger at the Indus is below what would be imagined. There is a difiance of isoo wertls from the Indus to the Cafpian Sea. Sugar, candied after the" manner ufed in China and Egypt. might be feat there Isoo wet Ifs without having its price doubled, I mean, the original price, which is exceedingly low. The camel colts abfolutely nothing to maintain, and hence it happens that tranfpos is may be made in AGa very cheap. " Finally, fpiceries excepted, there are few Mimic articles which cannot in time be brought into Europe through Ruffia, and this Ruffle itfeif is, during half the year, an ocean, being covered with water in the form of fnow. All the horfes which cannot then be employectin the labours of hulbandry, may be ufed in the tranfport of goods, and that at a very cheap tate. In fummer, numgerlefs rivers. bearing their waters into the Volga and the Calpian Sea, thew Ruffians the direaion they ought to give to their altivity. _ _ _ 44 It is beyond a doubt, that England confames for its marine a great mats of prodnets, and has hitherto given Ruffi4 advantages which fhe can expect from no other commercial nation but if the menace of Mr. Cobbett were put in execution, Ruffin, though the might lofe at &A, would perhaps be a gainer in the end." Monday a labouring man was terribly wounded at a public houfe in Little Britain, by a ferocious dog. The animal, accompanied by his maßer, went Acre,. lihetka difpute arofe, and the latter received a bhiw, whiCh she dog perceiving, kized on the man by the leg, and nearly tore away his calf. He was taken to St. Bartholomew's Finfpiral, where it was thought the limb muft be amputated. thr INDIB CALCUTTA GAZETTE, MAY 23. On Monday the Dattith {hip Elizabeth, Captain litutdforr, bound to Serampore, arrived off Calcutta, from Batavia direa, whence (he Ailed on the i rtlt ult. Saw nothing during the pattage. The cartel from Ceylon, with Dutch prifnners of war, had arrived at Batavia. Admiral Hartfink was refiding on (bore; the few Ships of his fquadron being laid up, difman tied, for want - of people to man them. A number of American veffels were lying at Batavia. No accounts there of any French cruizers. BOMBAY, MAY 14, 'BO7. On Sunday lag anchored in the harbour the Ship Diamond, Captain WbBSTER, from Bufforah, from whence the failed the 6th of April, leaving at anchor the Company's cruizer Prince of Wales, and Prin. cefs Augußa, and the Forth country (hip. The Diamond touched alfo at Mufcat, where flue learnt the arrival of his Majelly's (hip Fox, Capt. Cocalama, in the Gulfuf Perna, with her convoy, the Arab (tip, having on board the Perfian Ambaffador. A few days previous to the arrival of the Dia. mond at Mufcat, a party of the jofeom Pirates, amounting to the number of 22 boats, landed, and made a furious attack on a village a little to the fouthward of Mufcat, but they experienced fo warm a reception from the inhabitants of the village, that after a long, and for Come time a doubtful conßift, they fucceeded in driving them back to their boats, it is faid with the lots of 4.00 killed, and great num bers wounded during their re•embarkation. Two of the Sultan of Mufcat's 'hips had failed in purfuit of them during the time the Diamond lay at Mufcat; two Dingey's arrived from Cutch, who had fallen in with three of the pirates, and after a long and Smart engagement, they fucceeded in linking one of them, and the other two made off very mach (battered. MARQUIS WELLESLEY. NUMBER XVII. SlR—The intention of thefe letters being folely for the purpofe of giving to the village politician fonts general infprmation relpe9ing Britifh India, I ►all endeavour, in the fame unadorned language, to con• tinue the fubjea, by a !ketch of the prefent {fate of the Protsftant Religion, in fo far as relates to the Britifh nittivc fubjedts in that diftant part of the Globe. The firfi Preteßant nsiffion from the Dania fettle rnents of Ttanquebar into the Tanjore country, took place about the year 174.0, under the fanaiun and encouragement of the Court of Denmark. The mif finnaries were mea of the molt unblemilhed charac• ter, who, in the firfi inftance, made themfelves com pletely acquainted with the language of the country, and the peculiar cttfloms of the inhabitants, which, added to a general knowledge of the fciences, and their earnelt defire to inculcate the principles of Chriftianity, without a with to infringe on there judices of their flock, as regarding their fuod, cloath ing, and cl ,, meftic avocations ; by fuch gentle means, and by praaifing the doarine they taught, the mit . - finnaries, by patience and perfeverance, ingratiated themfelves, not only with the lower claffes of the na.. lives, but at length obtained the liermiffion of the Rajah to preach in his own palace, by whom they were alto occafinnally cnnfulted on temporal affairs, particularly on the politics of the different European powers in Ir.dia. It does not, however, appear, that any very great progrefi was made by the miffionaries, until the late Mr. Swartz fettled at Tanjore, when the church vas built under his own immediate infpeslion. Front that period the - congregation became fo numerous, that many fchoolmafters were employed by him in teaching the Catechifm and the general principles of the Chrinian Religion, both in Tanjore and the adja cent countries. In the courfe of a few years the milEonaties ex tended their inftruflion to a fee of people called Col ivies, who had been long noted for depredations on travellers, and were thieves by birth and profeiGon. After encountering many difficulties, the Light of the Gofpel was at length received by them, when a gene ral reformation in their manners took place, and a (pi ' rit of virtuous indullry is now prailifed in a country, where, before this event, no perfon could retire to ref with fafety. . _ The Native congregation became fo numerous un der the foperintendance of the late Mr. Swartz, to whofe fupetior abilities, unalluming manners, cor reftnefs of conduft, and unwearied attention, the principal merit is due for inflilling correft ideas of the real duties of a Chriftian into the minds of his profelytes, that the Rajah granted his permiilion for a chapel to be erefled within the premifes which had been previoufly allotted by the Rajah to Mr. Swartz for the purpofe of enabling him to retire to his de votions. A provincial fehool was fubfcquently efiablifhed at Tanjore, for the purpofe of teaching the natives she Englilk language ; but the plan has been lately altered, and it is now fupperted by the Britifh Go. vernment, to fupply profelfors to intim& Gentle. men in the Civil Service the Tamul, and other native languages. A feminary was alto infiituted by the late Mr. Of.sir' Is, for the infirudion of native teachers, from 'whom the bell informed are related to perform the duty at the churches ellablilhed at Bamnad, Ma. demur*, Palamcottah, Vipery near Madras, under the late Mr. Gerike, snd other fubordinate places. There is alto a large fchool at Tanjore, in which the orphans and delicate children of Protefiant parents are maintained, and where all the children of the congregation are daily fent for their education. The fuccefs of the Denial million may be princi. pally attributed to the zeal and uniform good con. duet of the pallor., who praEtice the doctrine they preach from the pulpit, of induftry, frugality, tem. perance, and every other virtue becoming a fincere Chrillian—and to their honour, it may be added, that after the moll diligent enquiry, it was generally admitted, even by thofe who objected to the motives 'of the milEonaries, that the protelytes were more faithful fervants, and better farmers, than any other defeription of people in the Tanjore and adjacent countries—in fltorr, a native rroteflant is held in elleem, while a Roman Catbolic and a Hog, from their filth and debauchery, are generally confidered as tynonimous terms. ?LAIN VAC? 3. ‘,.