The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-02-10 00:00:00

iVAPAL INTELLIGENCE.

His Majesty's ship Cyrene, Captain Percy Grace, anchored at
Spithead on Saturday last, direct from the western coast of Africa :
she left Sierra Leone on the 27th of October, and Cape Cann on
the 14th or December, at witch time the whole coast woo very
healthy. Sir C. M'Carthy sailed in the Colonial schooner Prince
Regent from Sierra Leone, at the same time as the Cyrano did;
but owing to calms and strong cornets, did not get to (laps Coast
till very early in December. He was then actively engaged in pro-
secuting the .Ashantee war, as well as snaking great and necessary
improvements, and arranging the different establishments. He
was highly esteemed and regarded by all the Europeans, who might
justly look to him more as a father and friend than as a Governor;
nor was he less relpected and revered by the natives., who canal:
dared him as something very 'opener to *hat they hare hitherto
met with; and never did his Majesty's (hreernment show more
judgment in their selection than when the, appointed bin la carry
into execution the change from a Company's Ooveraninnt to a
King's. He has given general satisfaction, and boo dons MR to
improve Cape Coast during the abort perked it babas in the royal
hands than was effected during the merinos SI yews. His arriva
has alarmed the AshanteeS Ibr the fate of their !apical (Cosnassir),
as they dread him much.
The Cyrene experienced the ter" worst desalption of treatbsr4
front her entering into the latitude of the Western Idands--a con.;
stant succession of gales, with heavy rain.
On the 31st of last month, in about lat. 43. 30. N. and long. 24.
W., it blew extremely hard from the S.W. with a high sea. The
wind shifted suddenly to the N.W., blowing with much additional
violence, equal to What proved so fatal to the Ville.cle-Paris, Cen-
taur, and other ships, on their return to England, after 81, G.
Rodney's action in the West Indies ; and the result was very near
being as fatal to the Cyrene, as all hope of sating the ship hid
nearly fled for the apace of four or fire minutes ; and it was only
by the judgment and coolness, and the *Welty and exertion
played by all on board, in throwing her gun& overboard, and ciao-
tngher deck from the quantity of water *Met Ole bad shipped treat
severs/ seas, that the ship was saved from foundering. Most km:
tunately, the extreme violence of the hurricane did neit eontbstsd
for more than four or five hours; but it left so tremendous a say
that it was both awful and dreadful to view it, and required deo
constant attention of the officers and crew during the whole of the
night and the following day, to preserve her, with her mann and
yards, from its effects.

Lieutenant J. N. Janis has been appointed That Liedteinnt of'.
the Pandora, vice Lieutenant J. %I . 11. Handfieki, appointed Id
the Blanche, at Chatham.
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FALMOUTH, Fxs. 7.—Sailed his Majesty's packet Magnet, lie
Lisbon ; Countess of Chichester packet, for Buenos Ayrea• end
Prince Minn packet, far the Mediterranean, and have elegiac*
Polo-mourn, Fyn. 7.—We learn by letters from Poet Royal
(Jamaica), dated Deceniber 21, that Commodore Sir Edward
Owen was waiting the return to port of the Gloucester, 74, Capt.
Lillierap. The Argus, Captain Dundee, had arrived from Bee.
mnda ; the Bellette, Captain ',nth, from Vera Cruz, with MAIM
dollars; the Pyramus and Helicon, from mites. The Thetis,
Sir John Phillunore, had been spoken, bound to Vera Cruz, with
the Comniasioners and Consuls for that place and Ampulla.
This day arrived the Jasper, Captain Arbuthnot from a anise,
and remains with the Phaeton. The Hon. East India Company's
ships Macqueen and Athol, have succeeded in getting out of diet
Channel; but the Castle Huntley, for Bombay and Chins, and all
the outward-bound merchantmen mentioned in our last, have put
back, and remain with contrary winds. Captain Lord Napier is
appointed to the Diamond fr4;ate, at Chatham ; Captain Arbon&
note, to the Redwing; the Hon. Captain George Trefusts, to Ad
Jasper (especially to protect the fisheries near Guernsey end Jera
soy) • Lieutenant Jervis, Pandora; Lieutenant P. J. Bisbee
Tweed; Mr. Williamson, to be Purser of the Prince matt
the Rev.' W. 8. Roberts, to be Chaplain of the Phaeton. Tha
following °Rites are appointed to this division of royal marines,
by the increase of 'even companies to that corps:—Captains Thee.
Mitchell (2), and Thomas Appleton; Lieutenants R. C. Holland,
Win. Taylor, Fred. Hewett, and James Watson. Thursday the
Seringspatam was paid off by Captain Samuel Warren, C.D.,
when the officers of that ship gave their excellent end arch es.
teemed Commander (who is undoubtedly one of the best ogees
and seamen in his Majesty's service) a sumptuous farewell dhmer,
at the Fountain Inn, and presented him with a gold sone-box,,
value thirty guineas, as a small token of their warm attachment
and sincere respect.