The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-02-09 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PtYXOtIT , FE*. i.—The Active, 46, Captain A. King, was
paid wages yesterday, and went down to the Sound, in Company
with the Bulwark, 7fi, Captain Dundas. Lieut. G. S. Riehada,
of Torpoint, has been appointed First lieutenant of his Majeatj's
ship Oster, at this port.
The Medina, lately arrived at Portsmouth, reached Gibraltar
on the 19th January, and sailed again the lath. The Naiad frt.
gate, the Hon. Captain Spencer, having completed her provisions
at Gibraltar, sailed thence on the 19th January, with secret ardent,
an did also the Cameleon, 10-gun sloop, Cappttain J. R. Burton.
The 3ledina was released from iluarantine on Thursday.
The Victory. 100 guns, wis commissioned et Portatnouth on
Monday, by Captain Charles Inglis, and is ordered to be fitted as
a guard-ship, for the flag of Admiral Sir Georg, Marin, who will
succeed to the command at this port about the 23th of March.
I Lieutenants J. DlPDonald, S. Kentish, J. F. Appleby, G. S. Dyer,
W. Hele, J. T. T. Dixon, and R. Lawny, and Mr. John Rich.
ants, Purser, are appointed to her.
Captain Sir W. Wiseman, Bart., Lieutenant, W. B. M'Clin.
tuck, and M. T. Bromidic and Mr. B. H. Long, Purser are sp.
pointed to the Semarang, 28 guns, ordered to b: commissioned at
Portsmouth for a foreign station ; Lieutenant E. Handfield is tip.
pointed to the Blanche; Lieutenant P. I. Blake, to the Tweed ; tht
Rev. S. W. Roberts. late of the Seringapatam, ti be Chaplain of
the Phaeton ; and Mr. J. White, to be Purser of the Jasper.
The Menai, 28 guns, Captain H. Stewart, sailed from Ports-
mouth on Monday for Bermuda and Halifax. On Tuesday, the
Starling cutter. Lieutenant C. F. Turner. on a cruire. On Wed-
nesday, the Ranger, Captain Fisher; and on 'I hursday, the Jas..
per, Captain A. D. V. Arbuthnott, to the wcatward, to cluize
against smugglers.
The Seringapatam 48-gun ship, wan paid off it Portsmouth on
Thursday, by Captain S. Warren, and laid up in ordinary.
The Linnet, tender to the Queen Charlotte, 'ailed from Porn.
mouth en Friday, for Plymouth, with money for the Pay-of&e.
PORTSMOUTH, PER. B.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Calliope,

SIIIPR AT SPITHEAD.—Phaeton and Calliope.
Is HARROUlt.—Queen Charlotte, Victory, AVAIL, Jupiter,
Tweed. Sparrowhawk, Pandora, Grasshopper, Amato, Cyroet,
and Plover.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTCISI.IIOUSE, F.
ENTERED INWARDS.
Como. Older (Arnold, broker), from Trieste.
Three Sisters, Frost (Burlett, broker), front Rotterdam.
Betsey, Cargill (Adam. broker), from Lisbon.
Princess of Wales, Gibbs (Batten, broker), from Carthagena.
Rover, Cook (Lamb. 61..4m0. from Calais.
(home, Blau= (Adam, broker), fro n Terceira.
3lary, Parnell (Aston, broker),: from Lisbon.
Desire, Claeys (De Bic, broker). from thdend.
rtiternchmung, Bailor (Cutendieck, broker), from Bremen.
Vrouw Grains, Vos (Jutting, broker), from Rotterdam.
Vrouw Ilannina, Stroillr (Hofinan, broker), from Rouen.
Vrouw Ilaasje, Ouweband (De Bie, brokct), from Rotterdam.
_ Femur/air

ENTERED OtTWAIDS...—The Vine, for Caen; Union and
Spring, for Elsineur ; Esperanre, for Antwerp ; Oporto Packet,
fin Pernambuco; Rambler, for Tenriffe ; Bans, for Demerara;
and Elizabeth, for Dublin. _ _ _

CLEARING bUTW•IIIDII.—The Caroline. for Batavia; Dan. 'or
Sierra Leone ; Sir Joseph Banks, for Jamaica ; (corp, for Ha-
vannah ; Hope, for Barbadoes ; and Reward, for St. I ineett's.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

FAL mourn, Frs. S.—Arrive:l, the Princess Elizabeth packet.
from the Mediterranean ; sailed from Corfu the 21:h December I
Malta, 30th; Gibraltar, 25th January; and from Cadiz, 26th
January.
Pt.vuorTu, Fes. fh—Arrived the Maria, Greenslade; and
Antelope, Farret, from London ; Phyleria, Hill, from New-
castle for ('adis.

DEAL, FEB. 6.—The West India packet, Munro, for Jamaica,
came out of Ramsgate harbour this morning, and has sailed, with
the Henry Davison, Salads, London packet, and several others.
Came down from the River the Wellington, Allen, for Jamaica ;
Hoare, for Berbice; and Nicolas, Carlisle, for St-Thomas's.
Arrived and remain, the Highlander, and Lady Conthermere, from
the westward; Cape packet, —, from the Mauritius; and Henry
Welluley, Luke, from the South Seas. The Alfred, Dominica,
Clarkson, Pyrenees, Topaze, and Sex:ar, remain.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. s—Arrived, the General Brown, Sharp,
from Charleston, sailed Jan. 15; Manning, Short, from Catania;
Petrell, Carr*, from Paraiba; Lady Douglas, 51.Kenzle, from St.
John's, New Brunswick ; Stanley, from ma1..3; and tilaincT.
Kerr, Irons Oporto.
Coats, FEB. B.—Arriired the Rhoda, Bulky, from Buenos
Ayres, in 85 days, for orders.
CAPE or actor) Hors:, Nov. I.—The schooner Jane parted
at 11 p.m. on the 22d inst., blowing very hard at S.E. and drove
; on the rocks, where she is bilged, and her keel knocked off; she
' has since been condemned, per survey.
GIBRALTAR, JAN. 21.—A very hard gale from the eastward
was experienced an the 17th it.st. both in and out of the 51editerra-
, near, as reported by different vessels, moat of which have sneered
in sails, &c. The Diana, Bohn, front slessina to Hamburg's, was
fallen in with at the back of the rock, ware...logged, abandoned, and
only her bowsprit standing, by hit Majesty s ship Altdina, and
brought in here 18111 inst.
NORTH SHIELDS, Fsa. s.—On Tuesday morTlng. the Thin,
ley, Revd, from London, bound here, rim upon `.l'hitburn Steel,
but was got off the following flood, and towed in by a steam-
' boat.
STAVAXGER,JAN. 11!!.—The schooner

tiansand, from liamburgh, has hcen
knd, a wreck, and abandoned.
Aberdeen, from Sunderland, which WI

at anchor in this port.
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