The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCL.

[Front the Plyrnolith Journal.]
PLYWOVTII, MAY 10.
The Bramble cutter, Llentravell, arrived on Thursday from Falmouth,
with a detachment of the 94th itceiment,from Pendent& Castle, and sailed
again out Friday, to cruise to the westward.
The Trtnculo, IS, was re-commissioned un Friday last for Channel ser-
vice, by Lieut. he Febvre, of the Britannia. Captain Robert Patton is
appointed to command the Trincuto.
The William and Mary yacht, Captain Malcolm, arrived Imre on Satur-
day from DuOn, and sailed the neat day for Portsmouth, where she is to
he refitted. She left Kingstown on Thursday, where she had been at
anchor two years.
The Camelion, 10, Captain Seymour, and Phllomel, 10, Captain Lord
W. Paget, sailed on Saturday, to cruise to the westward.
The Adventure surveying-vessel, Captain P. P. King, arrived here on
Monday from Deptford. She is destined on a surveying voyage round
Cape Horn, In company with the Beagle, Captain Stokes. The former
has a Professor of Natural History on board and, no doubt, the service
on which they are to he despatched will be full of interest to the nautical
and acientific world. Captain King brought home the Bathurst from New
Holland about three years since, where .he bad been employed on a simi-
lar service.

The Purnell* transport arrived on Monday from Guernsey, to em.
bark • detachment of the 6dth regiment, and sailed again yesterday for
Halifax. _ _

In flamoase—Britannia, Windsor Castle Java. Aurora, Blonde, Forte,
Sucre's, Trinculo, and Vigilant; and Itose and Sylvia revenues.
The Divatch navy transport, having been fitted as a sheer- I for
depositing stones on the Breakwater, forming at Bermuda, we under.
stand will proceed thither under charge of the Aurora frigate, which
will also take out a detachment of Marines for ships on the North Ameri.
can station.

The Caledonia, 120, is to undergo a thorough repair. Sbe is now along-
side the north jetty of the yard, discharging her ballast, and will be
taken, the next Spring tides, Into the dock lately occupied by the Im-
pregnable. which fs preparing for her reception.
By the latest calculations, made with the best astronomical Instruments
and apparatus, the difference of longitude between Drake's Island and
Cape Clear was ascertained to be 5 deg. 20 min. 17 sec., that is, assuming
it to be correct, that 4 deg. ii min. W. Is the true longitude 0: the former
spot, Drake's Island.
Mr. Anthony Pike, acting storekeeper at South Down Brewery, is ap-
pointed storekeeper's drat clerk in the Victualling-office, at this port, vice
Robins, superannuated; Mr. W. Mainprize, to be acting storekeeper, at
South Down, vice Pike.
Doctor Eman, hassaretto (formerly Surgeon of the Bag-ship at Ports-
mouth,, Ia appointed Surgeon to the ships in Ordinary there.

XIIIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL, TounsaAv, MAT 11.

Arrived the Barton, Banks, from Barbadoes, In AS days; Henry,
from New Orleans ; Plutarch, Greavcs, from Charleston ; Sir William
Wallace, Wilson, from Sierra Leone ; Olive Branch, Davies, from Lisbon.
The Thorn, Hawkins, from Barbadoes for Liverpool, arrived at Cork
on the Alh instant. _

The Margaret Richardson, Thomas, from the Clyde, arrived at Para In
Xi days.
The Courier, Wilson, from Mobile for Liverpool, arrived off Kinsale on
the 7th Instant. _ _ .

Sailed the Crown, for lifaranham ; Aurora, for New Orleans; Latona,
for New Brunswick.

FA otours, MAY 10.—Wind N.—Arrived the Mary, Quick, from Cork;
and Emanuel, Bredsclorf, from Schlep.
Pavasoeva, MAT l 0 —Wind S.—Arrived the General Blucher,
from St. Michael's. Sailed the Palmida transport, with troop•, fur Que.
bec ; and the Jupiter, Baker, for Schien. Off the port the Charles Brook,
Bell, from St. Vlncent's,. . . . . .

PORTSMOUTH. MAT 11.—Wind S.S.E.—No arrivals. Passed by the
Maria Jacobs, Hart, from Curacoa, in 44 days, for Amsterdam.
DIAL, MAY 11.—Wind E.N.E.—Passed through from the River the
Timandra, Wray, fur India; and the Chieftain, Pattison, for St. Vincent's.
MAROATI, May 11.—Part of the stern of a small vc.sel, with "Four
Brothers, of Aortruther," on it, has come on shore at Reculvera.
Gasysasso, SLAY IL—Arrived the Brothers, Smith, from Lisbon;
Winsor, from Boston ; Aurora, Picket, from Gravelines ; Active,
Croker, from Dunkirk. Sailed the Eden, Anthony, for Antigua; Globe,
Johnson. for Rio ; British Monarch, Pearson, for Demerara ; Calthorp,
Newton, for Elsinore; Caliata, Robertson, for the Cape of Good Hope.

The American ship Young Phcenix, Anthony, from Plymouth, arrived
at Baltimore, April 5.
The Mercury, of Plymouth, from Malta for Amsterdam, was spoken
with In the Channel by a Weymouth pilot boat, May 5.
The Calypso arrived In the Clyde on Saturday bud, from Trinidad, sailed
23d March. The New Pho.nix, White, for London ; and the Mary, Bur-
nett, for the Clyde, were to sail 26th March. The Foundling, for the
Cly le, about the 211th 1 the Trinidad and the Belmont, about the 14th of
April.

SPORTING INiBLI-16-ENCE.