Star. — London, England, 1808-01-05 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. - *Rt. ala i . , All. DI.It. I I l Cottenburgh 0 0 Dublin o S • Waterford • • , 1A2 4 0.T4R 1( - A heavy gle...cerste . on at this place on.liscedny-afel ternoon, and frOrn six to eleven in the evening it hlew• tremendously hard. .About seven o'clock,. the .piles which form,the ..east end of the Coffer-dam, at the entrance of the New Dock, were discovered to have given way, owing to .the violence of .the wind and tide. Fears were entertained for the safety bf the works. A number of workmen were collected, but it being nearly high water, the waves broke so furi ously over the tops of the piles, that it was almost impossible to approach the place where their assist ance was most wanted. By the great exertions of the engineers, and the rest of the people employed, seve ral supports were fixed during the night, between the walls of the bason and the inside of the piles ; and the works were thus effectually secured before the morning tide. Other precautions have since been adopted, against the danger with which they were threatened. In the same evening, the piling on the fbreshore of *the Humber, on the ground belonging to Messrs. ENGLISH, EARLE, and Co. on the west side of the Dock, and a large quantity of earth which had been thrown up for the purpose of making a road, were carried away. About forty yards of a very thick brick embankment, in front of Mr. Anrilomy ArKiNsoN's premises, a little distance from this town, was thrown quite down. The lead covering of St. John's Church,. about thirty feet long, and twelve or thirteen broad, was also stripped off, and carried into the yard of the Waterworks. Part of the roof of a malt-kiln in Trinity-house-lane, was also blrown down.. TORBAY,] ANCARYi. • Yesterday e vening the wind got round from S . to E. and blew very hard, and about ten the Ville ' at -is, Royal George, Saint George, Dreadaught, remeta tre, Tonnant, Neptune, Saturn, Lavinia, ank 4 i mtv a, got under weigh, and proceeded to the* restwar d. This morning the wind got round again o t h e westward, when the Roy al George, Saint korge, Dreadnought, Tonnant, and g e ptune returned again, and are now in Torbay. The Vile de Paris is gone to Plymouth,. and th e s awn . a cruia. PORTSMOUTH. JANVARY A rr ived the Peirsons, Ro&0N, and the Cove, Roa m t wo of the fleet which sailed Prom hence on the 18th ultimo, for the West Indies, having parted the on yoy on the 31st, in a gale ; the George Hibberts,. vtain HEAD, one of the same convoy, had lost her ito eisprit, but had got a jury one oat. Arrived also; he Tiber, SIMPSON ; Apollo, CHAPMAN' ; and the kph Nicholson, FINDLAY, (transports) having se from the Expedition under command of Sir .i.rsCOTTO ; also, the Pallas, RicustoNn, from l o n ' s . His Majesty's 'ship Contest has re-ciP - - hrotight into this port the Portuguese ship from the Brazils. Sailed his Majesty's Ship Eury'alus to the westward. WindS.W. DOVER, JANUARY 4. Sailed this day four sail of the Danish prize ships London, to be sold. Came in the French privateer - . captured by the Lion. Passed by this cky the -, of and from Quebec, bound to London i n w ith: in a gale, about eight days since,- a \ the loss of her topmasts and boats, from had parted from the convoy two days .heavy gale ; she had received no damage in did she require any assistance. The :slow Captain Scorr, also from Demerara, is • by this day for London, having parted corn fleet.—Wind W.S.W. and moderate. DEAL, JANUARY 4. • Arrived, the Eclipse. sloop, from Shetiness ; and 7 urrous gun-bri;;, front a. cruize off (;steed.- 7 t h e Arniston, Pei-Set/ 4 02*e, and Cirencester - for the Riv‘r•i- C9e Aurora ligale Sprightly cutter, for. Portsragaith ; the Blood. : a 'Ciaizc. otßouli l, gne.—Arrived, CaYenne, tiOnr . Portsmouth. :AIN IN TIM POMVS. , • Rowley ; Cumberland iytille, • aadClyde frigates; Clsal.. ,Royalist,.•PonsioisiTrompeyse, Pearock, WtatigitS,::fltAsker, entice!, liavr ttittspori, and se- AVind,N.W, witK light H+)ilt In* Cepttin PKINGii, sailed The Atifttekit,' 7I•, was docked on Dictator was docked on %the" Ist . ,r.defeets•ntidegotack The Cuer r. , train SKENE, ksilled on Saturday to. 'here she will take in her guni and 1 . immediately to Ptircsmouth.. The • 'aptain !kit( riob, dived on Sun`- arrived yestOday-, 4nd is ordered Th• Canada is wypectsd to be paid . The Hypttripn hal' her jury masts. lay, preparatory to her being Ipered. The Aurora is ordered to be The Victory was undocked last masted k she imrdered to be rig 'le dispatch. The ResolutiOn was week, and is to be fitted fOr sea int: The Britannia, • HAY,* 'of Newcastle, from Stock holm, for this port, with iron, whose capture and re capture we mentioned a few weeks ago, arrived here on Tuesday. She sailed from Heligoland on the 10th ult. under convoy of the Lord Keith cutter, in com pany with the Andalusia, of Whitby, re-captured at the same time with the Britannia, and arrived at Yar mouth on the 16th ult. A neutral vessel arrived at this port on Friday last from Riga, after havir.g been detained by the Dane; both at Borahohn and Copt-i -uagen. The Captain's papers were ail opened ai.d examined, but as the vessel was neutral property, he was suffered to depart, on the principle of free ships making free goods ; but he was strictly ordered to clear out at Elsineur. Ten dollars a day were allowed him for every day he' was detained. On the morning of-Sunday last, a lugger privateer .captured a ketch rigged vessel and a brig, off Whit by ; which she sent off to sea. About noon four Leith smaeks, which proved to he the Queen, Nesbitt; Hope, Hutton ; Swift, Ord ; and Alexia, Sanderson, heaving in sight from the northward, the Trial, Re venue cutter at Whitby, put to sea, for the purpose of ,giving these vessels information of the circumstance, and to join in the pursuit of the prizes ; which they came up • wi:h before dark. The brig, which proved 'to be the Andalusia, Wilson, of Sunderland, coal laden, with the Trial, put into Bridlington. The ketch, which .was the Berry Castle, Brant, of and bound to Dartmouth, with coals from Newcastle, with the smacks steered away for Scarborough ; where they arrived on Tuesday. The master and five of the crew of the Berry Castle, were put on hoard the privateer, and seven Frenchmen left in the Berry Castle. . The lugger which captured them is called la Glaneiar; of Dunkirk, bad been four days froth Flushing, and had only captured the above vessels. The fhccnix, Harrison, sailed from Scarborough on Sunday for Shields, in ballast, and fell , in with a pri vatee. r, supposed to be the above vessel, on the North cheek of Robin Hood's Bay, which chaced her back as far as qoughton Wyke • and tired upwards of one -liundre4 musket shot, one Of which went through the -calf of one of the boy's legs. S:-,e arrived safe at . .Scarborough or. Monday last. The . ships from Surinam were at Tortola on the 1 24th of' November, under convoy of his - Majesty's ship Cygnet. It ii-st:pr used the . Berbiee ships were in company.—N: B. The Cygnet sloop of war is ar rived in the DOwns.—Parted from her convoy on the 17t11 December in lat. 40.1. lung. 45. 44. in a gale. The Swallow, Captain MILNFR, reported to have perished in the storm, is safely arrived at Liverpool. We are coracerned to learn the loss of the Pert brig, formerly the Bonaparte French privateer, of 16 guns, Captain Dossi.n CAmpunt., on the 16th of October, on the Island of Margarita. Mr. STROUGHTON, mas ter, and ten men, were drowned. The accident hap pened in a hurricane, in which she drove from her 'anchors. She had taken, the day before, the Spanish jacket. Alarm, of six guns, from Ferrol, hound •to -.the-Spanish Main. Captain Campbell obtained pos •Session' of her mail and dispatches, hut they were after israids unfortuirately lost in th 2 Pert. Captain Canip bell came home in the Alexandria arrived last week at Portsmouth. . lOUTH, JANUARY 4. iled the Ariadne frigate, and Sap- The Stately, Nassau, Lynx, aiuliri i lue-peter flying, and are expected .. to Ships here, Vanguard, Admi nick, A4rniral DoriaAs, Nassau; 1 Lynx, and' V-ixen.-The ship; in" the Beach; 'arid is in p9:rt 6 . 3 . be kek ied the Jenny - of Boston, kniN Mu.. London to BOsion, with,:gcjods. are stated to be crui7ing off Flan ad that they have been too success.% To vessels have been retaktn•by the ;hieh were captured off the Head, .—Wind W. by N. AI. AYPOINTNIENIS. * _ The Otter, BOURDMAN i from the \rest Indies for : Liverpool, sprung a leak, and was burnt at sea on the .15th ult.. and not the Lady Hoot!, ashefore stated. The ; flettor,.--. 7 ., from Nev.-ry for London, 're :ported to be lost in the late gales, is safe in Thurso. The Hercules, GoCLD, from Antigua for London, foundered at sea on the 19th ult.—Crew saved. The.Couritess of Darlirigton, MUNRO, from Wil mingtantis put into Dingle in distress. pnintotilito a Post-Captain; and to toltf• , dmirel•CMhranr'a flag ship. romottd to a-Constnanditr, and to command _ . On Tuesday morning, a sloop laden with cheese, salt, nails, &c. Matthew Brown master, from Gains ,borough or Hull, was by a squall of wind, of Oys kerness, laid upon her side, and the mainsail filling *WI water ; occasioned her so suddenly to founder, that with the greatest difficult} , the master, his wife, ' iwd :- meo got into the boat, and were saved. Part of the cheese has been found upon the shore between Hessle and Hull. . A letter from Thurso has communicated the fol lowing distressing:particulars of the loss of the Ram bler—" We have just received the melanchilly ac 'count of the loss of the brig Rambler of Leith, .I•AmFs Nonnis master, cleared out at this port in Sep tember last for Picton, with emigrants. They left Stromness the Ist of October, and on the 29th of the same month were totally wrecked near the Bay of : Bulls, in - Newfoundland; When the ship left this port, she had on bo . ard.„l l 2o passengers : the crew contested of 14 seamen, besides the captain and sur geon. Of these the only survivors are three passen gers, the second mate, and four seamen ; so that, melancholy to relate, 139 persons have perished on this unfortunate voyage." • promoted to a Commander.' - '• ' appeintedßegulating*O/ficer 2t Limerick. • be Purser of the hirtne. Purser of the Aurora. ARRIVED. the Vestal, Gritrwm, from St. Domingo.; Of, from St. Thomas's ; Alfred, Coulson, from To the Pallas: Robinson, from New Brunswick—At Phobe, Hemp ten, from Baltimore ; and the Cato, bee —At Lochryan, the Lily of the Valley, 4 the Clyde, the Paragon, Wills, from Quebec; ler, Butter, from Picton—At Poole, the Benjamin, and the Mary, Boggs, froniNewfoundlandAt Ho t Coed Intent, Seymour, from Newfoundland:—At the 7 homas, Brown ; Thomas, Archibald ; and the er, from Antigua ; Hope, Cole, froth Charleston ; Mary, Ssv sin ; and the Summer, Malcolm, from Hull, t h e Pilgrim, Stevenson, from Mafts--At k s ° ll , Stevenson, from Monte Video--At Charies "ad°, burns, from Monte Video—At St. Domingo, lberland, --, from Newfoundland—At Ss cergia, Pearce ; Plant er , P earr i e ; ... Charit.l, from Liverpool—At Philadelphia, from Liverpool —At Africa, the Princess from Liverpool. . :- • DUBLIN, DEC. Si. , 4se .. 1' • " • TNE.ATIte.k. ':• • -. '-•• ' . - 7 Latifitight, airDrutly Lane, Mr:l'4mm); resumed' MITI: house of M. Coogan, of Tennde, contr? o' -hispart of Romeo, in the Tragedyof Romeo and Juliet, and Wicklow, was entered by a number of aimed men on was admiral)ly-supported by Mrs H. - SIM l ONS, in the Monday evening last, at so early an hour as six o'clock, gentle love-sick Juliet. Mr.. limuitsme played Mir- f and plundered of cash, plate, and v::::iring apparel to cutio with Spirit ; and the whole performance went off i the amount of four hundred pounds and upwa r d s .— with much eclat. The Pantomime is much improved. Two young men, sons of Mr. C. have, we understand, The house was well filled. been very roughly handled by this banditti, one of whom had the audacity, in a very deliberate manner, The Mountaineer: was performed at Covent Garden, 1 to dress himself ,in one of the young Gentlemen's with great effect. The noble and generous soul of Oc was i clothes, and, Ater'viewing himself in the gla s s f or tavian, amid his violent and struggling passions, sc.nne time, decamped with the rest of party. delineated by 'Cramp.: in the most masterly style.— 1 • Mary Camoll, a very handsome girl, daughter of a Miss &Num, -in her male attire, as the faithful Flo wealthy farmer, was forcibly carried off from the city ranthe, presented a very handsome. and interesting .; of Waterford, on the night of Saturiay sennight, by figure, though we regretted that : the character did not afford more room for the display of those superior 1 t one Damphey, the son of an emine n t b u tch er , ass i s t e d powers which this actress possesses in•no uncommon tby a party of five or six men. They b ro ught h er to degree.—The beautiful Zorayda was well sustained 1 the house of the cousin of Damphey, in the town of by Miss NottroN.—Mr. BIANCIIARD'S Sadi, and I Carrick-on-Star, where the parish priest, who resides WADDY'S Kilmallorl, afforded much entertainment.— I in the adjoining house, having got intelligence of the The new Pantomime, at this Theatre, is become an outrage, effected her rescue. Except the outrage in immense favourite. c arrying her off by force, no violence had been offered to her person. The ruffians at the same time carried • off :smother girl, with whom Miss Carroll was on a visit at 'Waterford. Examinations have been sworn against the parties, who have absconded. The wreck of the Prince of Wales packet still con tinues upon the sands near the ladies bathing place at the Black-rock ; her hold is nearly choaked up with san, in which there still remains undiscovered the bodies of eleven officers and above one hundred priva'e soldiers. Of the many persons. who were on board rue above vessel, when she was wrecked in the late tre mendous tempest, only seventeen persons were saved, consisting chiefly of the crew, two soldiers, and a wo man and child ; the bodies of seven men, and four wcmen, arc all that have been since taken out of the aly,ve wreck. We have been informed by letters from Cork, Li merick, Newry, and Galway, that the inhabitants are highly gratitil with the copper coin which has been sent by Government for the payment of the troops, as it will be a salutary check on the issue of small notes, which are highly disagreeable, and only tole rated from necessity. Thursday evening, about the hour of eight o'clock, four armed ruffians remarkably well dressed, and of • , enteel appearance, took post on Louisa Bridge, on the Royal Canal, beyond I.eirlip, where they conti nued for upwards of an hour, indiscriminately robbing the passengers. The unfortunate victims who came in their way, they bound with curds, took them down to the Spa Well, at Rye Aqueduct, where they were detained and searched. Much praise is due to Mr.. Rose, of Collinstown, and Mr. Abraham Goodhall, who, on the first alarm, immediately set out in pur suit of the miscrean:s ; but we are .:rry to say, they were unable to do more than to prevent further mis chief. A L'ANGLETERRF. The post boy conveying the mail from Lismore to Tallow, was stopped on the night of the 23d, at a place called Battle Hill, by three armed men, who robbed hint of the bags of lettc-rs, which have arrived at the Post Office yesterday morning, from the fut. lowing post towns, viz. Cappuquin, DungarTop, and According to the last accounts from Candahar, it appears that 'some Persian enthusiasts have entered into a solemn engagement, not to rest till they have exterminated the growing heresy of the Wahabees, which threatens to overwhelm some of the fundamen tal doctrines of the fltithful ; for this purpose they have again rallied round the standard of the present Pacha of Bagdat. The Turks are said to have broken the truce, which was lately made with the Wahabee Chieftain, in consequence of one of the adherents of the latter having assassinated a Turkish Officer, who had been dispatched to his camp on a special embassy. The dispute is said to have originated in a religious argument. The Arab is recruiting his forces, laying all the villages subject to his influence under contribu tion!, and obliging them to furnish their quota of men. All the camels in the country have been put in requisition. Thursday night a boat was upset in Portsmouth harbour, in going on hoard the Frtd , Tickstein Danish ship, when Mr. Co'lint, the Purser of that ship, was unfortunately drowned. Last week the lead was entirely stripped from the Baptist meeting-htlise, in Heavy Side-lane, Chatham, by some villains who have not yet been di: , covered. About fourteen .n( nibs ago the same meeting was robbed in a similar way. Wednesday two boys were drowned in Cowes goad, by a boat upsetting in a gale. Wednesday evening a tire broke out in a belonging to the White Lion Inn, at Chelmsford, which entirely consumed the same. This is the third fire which has happened in the same Inn within these twelve months, and strong suspicions ; re entertained that the whole have been - wilfully at d maliciously produced: On Tuesday last there was a tremendous storm, ac companied with thunder; lightning, and rain, at Oxford. It lasted from eight that monik until three o'clock the next. Several chinwies were blown down, a great quantity of tiles were thrown from the roofs of houses by the force of the wind and rain, so that the people were afraid to pass along the streets ; and the lead on the roof of the Theatre was torn from its fastening, and raised seven feet high above the roof. Much damage has been done in the neighbourhood of Leicester, by the high wind on Tuesday night ; some new buildings, in Granby -street, were materially injured. Upwards of 100 yards of a lofty new built brick wall, in Land Pit-lane, was blown down, and a poor man passing at the time, was killed by its falling upon him. A woman was blown down and broke her leg ; and several other accidents occurred. • By the high wind on Tuesday one of the-turrets of Fonthill Abbey was blown down. The fallen ma weighing two tons, considerably injured the magnificent building, both internally and externally ; fortunately no one received personal injury, though two men servants had just passed the foot of a stair case as it was beat down. Preparations have already been made to take down the remaining seven, and re. build the whole upon a plan of greater security. • The Cliffs at Brighton have suffer_td consi deta der e fl iw i during the late gales—an immense piece was on Tuesday last. • rated froni the La FIARLFSCOTTO!,: ; a J o hn's. • His Ma , and brought ini e mura, from the lit ~/ a ndril and Eury' DOVJ Sailed this day fou London, to be 'sob y . captured by the iip Quebec, of and r e ] i n with: in a g g with the loss of ...erara ; had part. •iti aheavy gale hull, licir did she r erculesp Captain S. .ne by this day for . 7 with the fleet.— , DEA: Arrived, the Eclii • .furious gun-bri•s t h e Arniston, Andin ships, for .d Sprightly cutter • . gtkn.! rg, on a Majesty's ship Cal 11:4A1 r PAM d Charge, Vi • • of, Tegti SO, SYril • ;CTlllet s Pautina,A • - , sad Eclipie s: snd TirklOr PM*? I • datwit‘bound.-4 CHAsrH • •: 1- role sPirtvw 11 0'• t , the 29th nit. Th 31at'ult: Thel t; to hav e her • • frgate, Captair Little Tore, whet proceed its 98 guns, Ca) The PorOpet s be paid off. Thi a this week. The en out yesterda) ked and coppered of at this poi t. K I, and has been r t with all possible t , unduCked last we [sly. • ce YARmei Is corning saile xi sloop of war. *] to have • Blue-pt in the morning. Rcasui, Roebuc ifs eiY, Quebec, I,y ea last, is got riff a d; she is calit . d its rraitef, from L. as• priv . ateers are ugh Head, and 5 Ottsitl, 'two Icy .• . lot traderi r ;chi sevaal other S— . . NAVA/ 3 i 2 •in Meru; is pn t‘e P. &isle, Admi• 2 : r t: it Diz is prim ban ''' e n 47l HODGE is pi ith• ..s_Nusurnxi r. is op . [at. I•GILLItT T s tO bt RIAD to be Pto ate ter' Pqlsrr•outh the ' beir 'l'3 Cos, fro 'r l tit tilts and the pa,; , •' F hey t r hr Phbe, Herr also ;12::Qoehtc—A ! c o the ('h +l et by :and the Mat :toe ter Cood Intent . : the h ()Inas, ,: , ,Sollter, from A r•qth uy, sw, 50 At Hull sh l :ded Cla Ason, ' stoo }urns,. each ,:: tb ss e c ot Cumb e rt lar• and th, e tt P r srF Latil —a r from PAR LP MARQUIS DE PI I.VP. ("est x toi,genereuse Terre, Que de nub jours je dois la.ratx. Cependantonalgre tes bi ! mtaits, Tu ene..7e i rangire. • Mak dans ton sin,quand dr ir , ,n R ct Y vient 14 i'...rsonne cht:rie, Rien West phis stranger pour mei ; Et je vois en toi ma patrie. A translation of these elegant and feeling Lines is requested. SH.IKSPEARI.IN. (No. 4.) _ ANNOTATIONs ON THE. TEMPEST. Page 2.l.—The r../plague rid you. 'rr. STEEvio:s observes, the rod plague and erysi pelas were anciently ynonyntous. Rid means destroy; so in the third part of Henry the Sixth, As cleathsrnen; you have rid this sweet young Prince. Page I:8. My prime request, Which I do last pronounce, is, () you nrondis! If you be Irak, or no? Much discussion has prevailed with respect to the phrase made. On my first mature reading of this sen tence, the clear interpretation struck me to he as fol lows.--' are you a treated b e ing :''—dool,l.;tig whether Miranda was not an airy, inccrNroal :orni. This question, and her answer, No w.y•hirr. ; But rcrtainly a taken connectedly, simply display one of those fru de mots so familiar in oar Puet's writings. and which were the literary vices of the times. The more 1 have con sidered this passage, the more has the* first impression • oa my mind been strengthened ; and I am now con firmed in my early opinion. Pag: 39: My :angua::.e ! Heavens ! I am the best of them that speak this speech, Were I but where 'tis spoken. • Speech here means dialect, namely, the dialect fa miliar to Feidinand's native kingdom, Naples. Sup posing his father drowned, Ferdinand would say, if he was at the place where the dialect which Miranda has • delivered was spoken, he should be the best, ur must distinguished personage there. Pkge 30:-- • Thou dolt here usurp The name thou ow'st not. • Mr, STEEVF.NS observes on a passage in page 27 ' the earth own'—that owe, in that place, and many others, signifies to own. These wants of emendation in the modern Editors argue, methinks, a nicety whi,•h would be " more honoured in the breach than the ohsevance." Page -Is.—Beseech you, sir, be merry: hare cause (So hare we all) of . !oy ; for our escape Is much beyond our loss. In other words, our escape is ftr mere surprising, than our loss. Ibid.--- Onr his: of woe Is crlmml Mr. STEEVENf, on a passage in page 13, where lifl randa says— . . It is a flint That wring mine eyes tort, intimates that hint is suggestion. 1)r. JortNEo.l inter prets the expression to intend that which recalls to the memory and he renders the first-mentioned passage thus—' The cause tied fills our minds with grief is com mon.' I have endeavoured to nroncile the following extract from Otielle with either of those authorities : Wherein of mires vast, and deserts idle, ' Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch Heaven, • It my Alas to speak— But I cannot exactly suit my fancy to the ideas of those judicious commentators : neither can I, with any thing like positive confidence, oppose the reading our hint of woe.' The word is obsolete in its intended acceptation, and the exact meaning, in my opinion, as yet undefined. I think, however, that the word stint by Dr. WARBURTON merits atten tion. Stint, or limit of woe, is clearly understood, and the phrase was familiarly applied by &UK SPEAR, though perhaps not precisely in the same sense as in the present extract. The following are amongst the instances.—And stint thou too,—l pray thee nurse, say I, ( Romeo and Juliet). We must not stint our necessary actions—(Henry the Eighth). Make peace ; stint war—(Timon of Athens). He can at plea sure stint their melody—(Titut Andronicus ). The combatants being half kin, hall stint their strife before their strokes begin—(Troilur and Cressida.) A new Opera, in five acts, was yesterday rehearsed at Drury-lane Theatte. A private of the Horse Artillery, lying in Christ church Barracks, being with a party on trulay night last, on the look-out for Smugglers, in attempting to leap his horse over a gate, was thrown off, and killed th espot. Letters from Cork mention the arrival there of a valuable Danish brig, with 200 tons of gum onboard, prize to the Lion privateer, of 12 guns, belonging to Plym,3tteh. I