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Ms See, and will probably be lost, with the cargo. The crew is !
saved, exams sou of the Captain.
A letter tom Elsineur of 211 h nrcercber announces, that ie. it
severe storm from the S.W. in the preceding night several ships
had been driven from their anchors, and two Erglish vessels
stranded, vii. the Manchester, banemster, from Nl'yburgh for
Hull, on the Danish coast; the other, ramie not. stated, on the
Swedish 01)111t.
The Bishop Blake, from hull for Hamburgh, was carried into
Cuxhaven latth December' with the loss of two anchors, a cable,
and a chain, by the aid of a Blankenese boat:
The —, Kroger, from Uleaborg for London, is strar.ded on
Aland.
The Christian Wilhelm, Romer, from London, aunt the 30th of
Nov. at Homo. amStrowetad, in 18 radio:v.3 water. Crew saved.
The Jane, Mutereon, tram Memel for Leith, stranded 3tl hest.
on Hillarges Reef, in the district of Ilelsingborg ; it was hoped
the cargo would be laved.
The Nicholas and Jane, Laing, from St. Petersburgh for Lon-
don, is stranded at Rohne„ in Gothlar.d.
The Swan, Wunder, from Lisbon to the Baltic, has put into
Wargo, damaged.
The London, Smith, from St. Petersburgh for Portsmouth, is on
shore near Gottenburgh.
The Solon, front Climbing for London, arrived 22d Nov. at
Hoosbersgrund, in Norway, with the loss of bowsprit, foremast,
and has besides suffered greatly.
The Betsey, Cock, was totally lost 14th at Thysteds ; it we •
expected that the greater part of the cargo, consisting of planks,
would he saved.
The Britannia, Tyrie, from St. Petersburgh to London, hiss put
into Ckristiansand with nine feet water in her hold—cargo des.
charging.
The thmege Wilhelm, Bourke, from Dantaic to London, is to.
tally lost offLeba, with all the crew. The Twee Gebroedem, Bak.
key, from Newcastle to Caen, was on shore near Egmont 2.6 th inst.
and It was feared she would be lost.
The Betsey, Conk, was totally lost 14th lust.near Thystedt.
The Christian Wilhelm, Renter, front London, sunk near Strom.
stack on the With ult.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Wierbtman, master of the Eandon,
from Malta, dated Stangwe'Creek, 29111 inst.—" At 10 n. in. on
the 'lsth inst. I saw the ship Nelson. of Poole, winch had hailed
us the night before : she had her ensign hoisted Union downwards.
I tore down upon her, and tdund alts had struck. and was half full
of water. 1 then lay-to for some time, in the hopes of saving the
crew? but she being untnrinsgealf.e ran foul of us, and carried away
our jib and jib-boom, .s:e. A dreadful sea continued to heave us
towards the shore, and as the wind had got round to the touth•
ward, our only means of "tat), was to make a second attempt to
weather Cape La Vogue, and I was compelled to quit these unfor.
tunate men, for our own destruction began to appear inevitable."

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India noun, when Captain Biden was sworn into the
command of the l'rincess Charlotte of Wales, consigned to
Madras and Bengal. The following commanders took •
leave of the Court previous to departing for their respective
destinations, viz. Captain Alexander Nairne, General Kyd ;
Captain John Peter Wilson Hythe, Bengal and China;
and Captain John Paterson, Repulse, Et. Helena, Ben-
coolen and China.
Loss OF THE SHIP RF,DECCA.—On the night of Tues-
day, the 21st instant, the ship Rebecca, burdened 400 tons,
of and from Glasgow, for Jamaica, Thomas Alexander,
Master, with a general cargo, struck on Blackwater Bank,
and shortly after sunk. The crew, twenty-three in num-
ber, and screen passengers, got into the long-boat, and, we
are happy to say, landed safely at Blackwater. It is feared
that no part of the cargo will be saved.
On Christmas-eve a shocking aceident occurred at Bring-
hung, near Uppingliain. A Faith of that place, named
Wright, aged about 14, was engaged at the church, with
others, in ringing, when his bell overact, and instantly
pulled him up to the ceiling with such force that one of
his arms was fractured, and, in descending from the ceil-
ing, he fell in a dreadful way to the ground, and expired
in a short time after—a melancholy warning to youth of
the danger and impropriety of their engaging in amuse-
ments calculated for maturer strength. A Coroner's In-
quest was held on the body on Saturday. Verdict—Acci-
dental Death.—Lineoln Mercury.
A coroner a inquest was held on Monday at Lincoln, on
the body of William Needham, a corporal in the North
Lincoln militia, aged S 3, who was unfortunately drowned
on the evening of Christmas day; the verdict was to the
following eflect:—" Found drowned in the river Witham;
and in the opinion of the Jury, his death may be ascribed
to the shamefully dilapidated state of the bents and fences
thereof through the city, arid which have been a long time
in that state.' —Stantibed
The inhabitants of Sloane-skeet and its neighbourhood
are at present in a state of painful suspense, owing to the
following circumstances :—One of a new row of houses,
standing at the corner of Sloane-street, has given alarming
symptona of a fall, by detaching itself from its fellow-build-
ings, in which state it overhangs the road, threatening de-
struction to all who may have the temerity to venture
underneath. Under these circumstances all ingress and
e„ gees of carriages is stepped by a barrier thrown serest
die street. The shopkeepers on the opposite side of the
way feel themselves in an awkward situation, not
knowing, should this tottering house fall, whether they
may not he destined to feel its weight. An humble wine
sheet, erected at the foot of the building, scums to have
been deserted in consequence.
Ales-regimes Deem.—On Tuesday morning, at an
early hour, the body of a fine young man, decently dressed,
and apparently but a short time dead, was found suspended
by the neck from a tree, on the lauds of Dangan, county
Kilkenny, between four and five miles from Waterford.
There were no marks of violence on his person, save what
was occasioned by the pressure of the rope; and the sup-
positicn is, in the total absence cf evidence to throw li,ght
on the affair, that he had hanged himself. Its is singular that
there was no appearance about the place where he was
found of his having struggled, or made any exertion to
save himself. One of his feet was found resting upon a
hedge, the other suspended from it. An Inquest was held
the same morning before henry Adcock and Bartholomew
Dillon, Eeqs., Magistrates, which found a verdict accord-
ing to the facts above stated. The deceased appears to
have been a stranger, as the hotly has not even yet been
recognized by any of the numerous persons by whom it has
Leen viewed.—Dublin Paper.
(hi Monday night last, about half-pest eleven o'clock,
as Mr. Richard Meade, of No. 3.5, Castle-street, was walk-
ing aloud King-street, in the Borough, three men came up
to him, one of whom gave him a desperate blow on the
bead, which knocked huts senseless to the ground, when
the villains rifled his pockets of cash to the amount of nine
pound, besides a valuable watch and appendages. Mr.
Mead was disetnered lying completely insensible where he
was knocked down soon after the outrage, and put into a
coach, and sent home, where he lies very ill.
MELANCHOLY Accinzate—On the morning cf the 22d
instant, John Williamson, a bog of eleven years of age,
and Elizabeth his sister, a girl of about fourteen, were un-
fortunately drowned at the Roughfort. John had endea-
voured to cross the river, when he was loudly called to by
Mr. James Ferguson, who pointed 'out his danger. In
consequence of this he was in the act of returning, when
his hat was carried off by the wind, and, in struggling to
save it, he was hurried down the water. His affectionate
sister jumped into the river and caught hold of him, but
they were separated at a by-wash and both were drowned,
it being found impossible to afford them any effectual
aid. The bodies have been since found, and an inquest
L was yesterday held upon them before Henry Allen, Gent.,
t one of his Majesty's Coroners, and a verdict given in ac-
cordance with the above melancholy facts.—lielfiest News
Letter.

RONSKAY BY A SERYANT.-•-YeSterday morning, ct
Queen-square Office, Caroline was br...igh: before
E. Markland, Esq. by Ottaway, a Row-street patrol,
charged with robbing the house of her master, Mr. Samuel
Moguinie, watchmaker, No. 1, Princes-row, Pitr.lico.
The prosecutor deposed, that the prisoner bad been in his
service about three months, during which time he bad re-1
peatedly missed articles of valuable jewellery, a silver
watch, seals, &c. Ile strongly suspected the prisoner,
from several articles of dress that she had recently brought
into the house, which he WA4 positive could not be pro-
cured by her wages ; and yesterday morning he challenged
her with robbing him, but she denied it. He, however,
insisted on searching her boxes, where, to his great sur-
prise, he discovered a part of the stolen property, con-
sisting of a silver watch, four pair of gold ear-rings, a
gold pin set in amethyst, a gold hair broxh, and a variety
of silver article., also some lace, and two new bibles.
The prisoner then fell on her knees, and begged for mercy ;
an of was, however, sent for, and she was taken into
custody. Mr. Moguiniag said, that within the last nine
months be hiffi been robbed by his servants to a consider-
able amount. The prisoner said nothing in her dcfrive,
and wu committed to Ncwgate fix trial.