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kletiellETO INWARDS.
Yerwagting, Deirrisa (Jutting, broker), from Hilidliven.
Lively, Bay* (Hofsima, f)roker), from ditto.
Marshal Blucher, Pound (Symonds, broker), from Ranged:6M
Prince of Saxe Coburg, Treinarse (Phis, broker), from Rt. MO
amis.
Margaret, Hart (De Ble, broker), from
GRotterdam.
Fame, Hamilton , broker from ottonburgh.
Nelsoo, Burn ( ker), ditto.
Ajax, Watson (Mut, Itroker), Iron, Petersburg!).
Pereeval, Forrest (Waltham and Co. broker), from ditto.
Duke of York, Finlaysoo (Burnett, broker), from Seville. • •
George, Sibaton (Batten, broker), from ditto.
Amos, Jainson (Chapman, broker), from Peters/so:0.
Friends, Barrett (Smith, broker), front ditto.
Lively, Taylor (Powlei, broker), firm
Centurion, Barker (Beaton, broker), from Quebec.
Igggintro, Wilson (Lowther, broker), from Fietersburgh.
Margaret, Wetherell (Nelson, broker), from ditto.
Abilene, Davison ( Powles, broker', from Gottenburel.
Providence, Wilson (Nielson, broker). from Petersburgh:
Elisabeth, Sedition (u Burton, brdker), has ditto.
Ruby, lien (Butcher,itrokerl. front Mond.
Charming Molly, Farrier (Simon. hioker), from Calait...
Jonge Ilenaana, Patentee (Benham; beseiret), from
FROM LLOYD'S LlBlt. •

pr *tame. JAN. 5.—A passenger Bolded here this day hell
the Lonach, Wildridge, from Batavia, tbr London.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 6.Arrived the Brian, —, flow
far the 3feditetranean. Sailed the Trusty, and Newt, for St. Ms.
elmers ; Thetis. for Seville; Sisters, Icy Naples; II sad Yasuo,
for Seville and Prince Coburg, for Liston. Remain the Blow.
for Jamaica; Jane, fee Naples I Int Lund, rind Ifetteeek honks
llediseetimen*.
Potoz, Saw. 7.:-.Airlyed the Harriet, MUM* Wm New-
fdhedlead : in Wog. 14. spoke the American Wlg Paula% AIM
I Richnsond (Virginia), bound to Leaden, erith lo* of hilt
tain, washed overboard. The Harriet experiented very bed wee.
therstraid, Jitte.6.--Aaired the Eldweed, Deb", hese Lateders,
Ifor troops for the West Indies.
Poarsnotreir, JAN. 7.—Solled La Belle Allamem Half;
York, Who; and Clyde, Driver. for Madras ; Ceashridgmiies-
ker, for &mbar ; Renewal. for Antigua; Lenin msil *sweet-
shin, for Jamaica; and the whole of the outward-bound SW their
different deetinatkins.
DEAL, JAN. 7.:-Cadre down from the River and mdledgthe
Underwood, Rimingtoo, for Demerara ; and Printmat:,
Lamb, for Cork. Arrived and remain the Princess
—, from Ceylon. The *hole of dl: outward bound soil this
morning ; and a large fleet from Ramsgate Barbera ponied
through.
GRAVESEND, JANUARY 7.—Arrived—Regent Packet. Collins,
front St. Michael's; Prince Coburg, Tremayne from ditto; Duke
of York, Finlayson, from Seville; George SiLson, from Seville;
Lively, Hays, from Harlingen ; Cyrus, litc;l:eruy from the Cape el
Good Hope ; Maria, Warren, from Compeachy ; WilNns, fthort
from Riga ; X 11' Z, Fothergill, from Rigs ; Courier, --, Ron:
Riga; Centurion, Banks, from Quebec; Aurora, fkalleet, front
St. John's, New Brunswick ; hoed Nelson, Dunkin, hem Got.
tenburgh ; Zephyr, Sanderson, from Gottenbunth ; LandMe, Mor-
rison, from Gottenburgh ; General Elliot, Wnght, too Oettos-
burgh ldes, Reed, front Sweden; Ceres, eviatow, bean
Memel; Aurora, Dixon. horn Memel; Matilda, Smith., hens
Memel; Earl William, Marchand. from Maud; Edward. Sea-
man, from Memel; Ores" Nicholson, from Petersburg's;
herb, Sedum'', front Petetsburgh ; Vittoria. Folio, from Jamaka t
Thames, Haviside, from Canton Nimrod, Fowler. from New
York; Lamm, Brock, from Pillion; Drake, %Filleting, how
Hambro.
Soled—Sector, Hart, for Guernsey ; Duke of York, Comp
bell, for India; Favourite, Matthews, fee Havanna • DM..
patch, Johns, for Lisbon; Sir William Canis, Wittleghan, fur
N. &plea; Karl Bathurst, Gibbs, for Rotterdam; EMMA, —,
foe Rotterdam.
YARMOUTH, DEC. 30.—The Mary, Watson, arrived Rein St.
Petersbergh on the 15th instant, Lit. 67. long. 6. in the garposed
under the stern of a brig, of alma 150 tons, copper-botiomed,
Iying.to with her close-rated ntain-twaall and balance-reefed try.
Oils, her rudder and bon gone, and appetently abandoned; on
her stem. •• Jean of Abadan," and she seemed to be laden with
hemp and flax.
NORTH SHIELDS, JAN. 6.—The JUDO, Stewart, coal laden.
struck upon an anchor in the 'labour, and oak. Stle has boo gut
up, and laid on shore.
Wittrern-svert, JAN. 6.—The New Triton, Smith; Son hence
to Ballyshannon, grounded about half-a-mile alter she bad got
orer the bar on the 24th ult. She had put out 15 loos pf coal en
the 29th ; but from the late heavy gales it is feared she has pita
to pieces. The Aid, Archibald, from Liverpool to !Bayport, was
driven on shore 29th ult., near Ravengtass, bur has been got elf,
and arrived at Mayon yeaterclay, with trifling damage.
Li v retool., Jan, S.—Arrived the 31accleafield Kingsley,
(ruin Bahia. Sailed from Bahia, November 11, Dia, Bikei. fir
Philadelphia; December 10, Fanny, Matthew for New Odom ;
November 26, Chariot, Pratt, for Savannah ; Detember 11.1ody
Hannah Ellice. bidd .fiir Selman& . December 14, biejescie,
Page, far Chula= ; *tope, GAIN& ts-
fdtL
Drhaaa, JAW. s.—The Nancy, Sharp, from the Frith of
Forth to this port, was wrecked about fire miles to the westward,
on the Ist inst.—crew saved.
WsuILWORT .1, Dec. 30 ...The Alm. Johnston, from Antwerp
to Dundee, was driven upon flausley Rocks, neer this plea, last
night, and it is feared will be wrecked. Crew saved.
Armitage it, Dec. 30.—The schooner %rims., .1111regor,
sailed front Sunderland, for this place, on the 11th invent; next
day and the following night it blew a heavy gale from the WNW.
to NW. and on the 14th, Captain Collie, of the Ariadne, reports
that about 40 miles off the Staples, he saw the William; but as
she has not since been heard of, and the *ember for some days fol-
lowing was very boisterous, it is supposed the vessel may have been
driven to Norway.
CHARLESTON, Dec. 9.—Arrived the Elio sod Pally, Forsyth,
from Havannah in four days; a severe Tale from the wok was ex-
perienced at Havannah from the taith November to the 2d thetrint.
A British corvette front Jamaica went on shore on the Point, but
was got off without much injury.
M'II.MiXOT ON, Nov. 29.—Arrived the S leia, Wade from
St. Croix in 14 days: in laL 24. long. 68. was Ttossdsd by the Co-
' lumbar' brig of war Elam:eclat, Capt. Brotherton, one cruise; out
four months ; she had captured nine prises.

The Euphrates, —, from Liverpool to New York, wee seen
going into Cork, with her bowsprit gone.
The Alary and Acksa Ann, Barlow, from Ilaranosh to Phila.
delphia, was lost litth Nov. on llom Island.
The Hereby, Wade, from Liverpool to ItioJaneiro. woo throaty
loot on the rocks at the Great Ohms-heed, ou the Welsh meet
only one of the aew raved.
The Boulton, Quin, from Barbadoes to Cork, is on shore at
Sheepshaven, and will be wrecked. Cotton and wine expected to
be saved.

The lefesdenFer, -, and Day, -, from Nenfsendlard,
have put into bantam, net being able to get into Bilboa on &cocaine
of the bar.

file brig Fortitude, Hagan, of Peterhead, from Limerick to
Liverpool, sailed from the Shannon on or about the 30th October,
and .has not since been heard of.

On the 21d Dee., in a heavy gale, the Enterprise, arrived at
Liverpool, was struck by a sea, which carried away bads, bul-
warks, &c.
The Nelson, of Guernsey, from Rio Janeiro, was drives ea
shore off Grad°, near Trieste, about the 24th ult., and la lye fist
water in her hold, but was expected to be got of after discharging
part of her cargo.
The Duchess of Redford, from Jennies to Loudon, was drier
on shore to the westward of the Mom Havana, during a pie, be-
, torn the 36th of November and the 3d of December, and bilged.
Crew and portage's saved.
Emmet of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Plaistleipbr,
dated 6th December:—•• The Light-house at Cape May is is ope.
ration, a triangular revolving light I the Wardens are not yet in
possession, from the pilots, of the distance from which the light
may be seen, nor of all its bearings."
The Dewy, Thomann, of Greenock, arrived at Lien-pool on
the 31st ultimo from Carnpeachy ; four days prior eatonetered
a severe gale of wind, which earned almost every article of the
deck—one boy was washed overboard, and the Captain bad MA Lit
broken.

-151;The night of the 3lst December the Amelia, arrived at Pri,
sante, shipped a sea, which hove the vessel on bar beam ands,
earned away boats, bulwarks, made a clear deck, washed all the
crew overboard, but they fortunately got oo board oasis, sail,
and rigging much damaged, and part of the cargo thrown over-
board.

The Harriet, arrived at Poole, fell in with the Pauline, of Dux_
berry, laden with tobacco, from Richmond, bound to London;
the master having been washed overboard and drowned, neither of
the remaining being able to navigate her, the Harriet kept Iwr ct
company till her arrival off Poole, when she was taken charge of by
a ('owes pilot.
/n Saturday last, the eloop John 011irosit, of Thurso, in tee-
ing to take the harbour of Peterhead, went upon the rocks agar die
baths and entrance of the harbour. The passengers and crew have
been saved ; and if the weather gets more moderate, die cargo will
be got on shore, and the vessel may be got uff, lath= with vary
great damage. She was from Thurso for Leith, a geths,l
cargo. The accident happened betwixt six and sewn km., owing
to a sudden calm and heavy sea, the night being very &A.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—Oney, of London, and Atalanta.
of London ; appeared to have received much damage in the late
side ; both by the Alknomook, arrived off Dover; Henry, Davis,
from Dartmouth, for Baltimore, by the Ilaccleanald, arrived at
Liverpool.

Bob Burn, the pugilist, and Meredith Evans, a soldier,
were brought to Marlborough-street on Tuesday fur re-examination,
on a charge of robbing a ma, named Dexter of eight sorcreign•,
at Burn's house, in IVindmill-street. Mr. Adolphus appeared hie
Barn t but the prosecutor and his witnesses were not forthcoming.
Mr. Conant, the Magistrate, said he had received an anompuoits
' letter, stating that .they hail been bribed by a considerable man of
money to keep out of the way. He thout!ht, however. that enough
had been proved to justify him in committing the prisoners; but
as very good bail was Jived, it was taken tor the appearance of
Burns and Brans. A man named Sergeant, who was also taken
into custody, was discharged without bail.

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41

ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS.

(Prom Knight's Quarterly Magazine. Na III.)

-Every aecount of this vok.mo, its appearance and Omni,-
Mena, that I have hitherto seen, teems to me defieitive, as
mine also will seem to evert other traveller :—probably,
from the circumstance that the situation of the mountain is
ever changing; and from the amount of MatUT and inhu-
me rable stones thrown out, and the quantity of lava flowing
during *considerable eruption, the sarfaiee cannot remain
with the same appearance dating two succeeding days. The
cone appears to consist of a mass of fragmenti: of blact'd
rock of all dimensions, from the site of an crtlinary pebble to
that of the body of a coach ; and one piece wax shown to us
which had lately been thrown up as large as a first-rate house.
They were nearly all of one colour—a dark brown approach-
ing to black ; for they had all been fused in the same fur-
Mae, and all bore more or lots the marks of See. Some
wee like masses of marble, so smooth that with difficulty
we kept our fooling, upon a slight inclination ; others were
of the common pumice stone, and these were mixed with
quantities of melted minerals. Between and beneath these
appeared occasionally considerable tracts, furrowed with
rivers of lava emitted on many previous eruptions, exhi-
biting a surface resembling our ploughed land, but as hard
as granite. Climbing up without a .staff, I very early
Pound it necessary to use hands as well as feet anti knees.
Never shall I forget My surprise, when, on slipping from a
loose fragment, I seised on another to arrest my sudden
fall into the regions I had lately with so much difficulty
kft behind, and found its surface to consist a innumerable
points, too minute to be readily perceived, but very sensi-
ble to the touch, as I often had occasion to experience
during this, to me, ever memorable ascent. These frag-
ments appeared detached pieces of lava. The north side of
the mountain had, besides a fair share of rocks and stone;,
an immense assemblage of ashes and cinders, whieh from
their lightness had been blown by the south wind to this
quarter.
We bad been proceeding about an hour :luring ordinary
shocks, when the thunders below simultaneously arrested
the whole of the guides, who called out to us to be upon
the watch. The rolling increased—the mountain heaved,
and—how faint will be thecription ! Imagine the ex-
plosion of ten thousand pieces of ordnance—imagihe ten
theousand rockets darting at one instant into another region;
add their hissing to the detonating explosion, and you ap-
proach the tremendous effect produced.
A million red hot fragments iflew into air, like so
many bombs from one terrible mortar—a volume of flame
succeed' 11, which seemed to light up the earth—the hea-
vens—all nature! And before the senses could embrace
the sublimity of the ocene, the crash of falling clouds of
rooks and stones reminded us we had better rouse from our
atuplfying astonishment, and look to our personal safety.
Imancliately succeeding the discharge of missiles, appeared
another wonderful source of stupendous grandeur—the
ealifron boiled over, and the lava, a magnificent river of
'heal(' fire, rushed from the crater in inajevtie flood. As
soon as relieved from the immediate danger of the late
vaitey, our guides had assembled, and while I was in the
freer of contemplation, they announced that the next sue-
eraltling explosion would be yet more severe, and we must
retire. I laughed at them so soon as I tooled get sufficient
vomit-tem! over my anger; bat laughter would not do: I
then dn. iatened a refusal to pay ;—they had too much re-
lidOce up in all appeal to their police, I presume, to allow
that to operate. At la t, I said, " retire, if you please—
we proceed to our destination." They stared—consulted a
little—jabbered something about feedese, and, at length,
advanced. We proceeded onward aboot twenty minutes,
oblierving alight intervening shocks, when we hail once
more occasion to halt. The flame had nearly subsided
shortly after the last explosion, and had been sucerded by
an immense body of black dense smoke. This too had
become lightened ; but, in sempathy with subterranean
thunders, which again seemed' to approach from consider-e
able distance, the volume of smoke thickened, seemed to
till the crater, and rise into the higher heavens. Either the
guides bad not been mistaken in foretelling increased vio-
lenge • or greater self-poinession allowed me to feel more
inteneelv this new shock. It seemed to me the full meri-
dian of 'magnificent nature !—terrible in its tones—terrible
is its aspect—terrible in its power !
Thr stones rattled around us as they fell, yet we again
escaped.
The eve-nine hail been one of the most beauteous of
beautiful Italy. The moon's full orb hail shone resplendently;
and as we were near to midsummer, it might have been said
there had hardly been any night. We now stood upon the
summit of Vesuvius. 'l'he mountain is nearly 4,000 feet high
and appears in the distance to have a sister-mountain close
adjoining. Upon nearer observation, however, it should
rather seem, that this adjoining mountain, lfunir Summa,
was originally a part of Vesuvius, and separated by the
Billing in of a large portion of the crater, probably, at the
great eruption in 1-9, when Pompeii was overwhelmed and
destroyed ; for the cone, on this side, appears extremely
precipitous, while, on the other side, its slope is much
more regular down to the sea. The have of the mountain is
studded, on this side, with habitations i—lave are the towns
of Torre del Annonciata, Torre del Greco, and Port:ei,
with their palaces aiel garden-grounds. IVithin land, we
abserved Somme, Massa, Ottacano, and whirs of less note;
so that looking, with a bird's eye view, over these parts,
subject to all the most dreadful convulsions of nature,
having fire and destruction occasionally revelling above
and below them, with the further consciousness that be-
nigh their own foundations lie the ruins of cities, once
more populous and flourishing than their own—l could not
help asking of what man was composed, that be should
thus be induced to bid defiance to nature in her direst rag-.
Therrinison rays of morning were now lengthening along
the heavens, and every moment gave us a yet more perfect
view of the surrounding scenery. Here we had the de-
lighting view of the Campania Felice—Naples and its
promontories—its enchanting bay—its lovely islands,
bounded by an immense sea, from which the attention was
again quickly recalled, as with magnetic power, to the
contemplation of those delicious regions which spread before
us like a paradise, with the majestic Appenines as a semi-
eirculer boundary. This enchanting spot is surely, said I,
the crief4'ertiere of nature. Here is all the imagination
can delight in. The heart, it is true, might sigh for a
snore moral population !
But to return to the mountain.-For some time, the heat,
through our shoes, had become troublesome ; we could
now scarcely, for an instant, bear our feet upon the ground,
it was so insufferably hot. Nor was this very surprising :
we were still some distance from the crater ; and yet the in-
crustation upon which we stood was so thin, that several
tisanes we had already passed, and by which were now
surrounded, emitted heat and smoke enough to make it
evident there was no great solidity of material beneath us.
The sulphureous effluvium of these regions is excessively
offensive ; and I was just thinking how we should bear a
-closer approach to the crater, when our guides, palsied with
fear, announced a new eruption.
I now perceived that we were safely within the range of
the larger stones, and that they almost all fell beyond us ;
lest we were not in this eruption, therefore, in less danger.
A discharge of stones was now projected in almost a ho-
risontal line over our heads, from some new passage which
the increased violence of this eruption had forced ; and I
enure confrss, that the whizzing of these nutrailles very
unceremoniously obtruded upon me some unwelcome'
doubts of safety. The lava flowed most copiously; what
effort of of imagination could equal the magnificence of
this sight I we sec:,icd to inhale fire and fever from
the very atmosphere we respired.
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\fit') muelt reluctanc", at length we were obliged to
terra from this extraordinary theatre of peril ar.i: of won-
ders, and proceeded to join our party.
The descent was on the leeward side, among the cinders,
The rapidity of our progress was truly astonishing ; with
scarcely any effort, stepping only a trifle forward, we de-
acendea for a time. at each step, five or six feet, plunging
nearly to our middle in hates] damp ashes--a process ilia-
sgrecable enough, and pregnant with more danger than at
last appears ; for, should some crag lurk beneath the
surfice, • you are liable either to be severely bruised against
it, or, according to its position, propelled unexpectedly
forward ; and, if yon lose your equilibrium, dashed from
rock to rock, until you meet your eternal resting-place.
Care must therefore lie taken to throw back the body, so
as to be prepared fur any shock. This route, with all
this uupleasantness, is, however, far orderable, for the
descent to a return by the way which we ascended.