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FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

FALMOUTH, 1./Kg. 13..—Arrived the Friendship, Spin's'', from
the Downs, for Terceira; and Sea Lark. Warren, froth Plymouth,
for St. Michael's. railed the Rinaldo packet, for America. The
Hugh Crawford, Langdon, for Van Diemen's Land ; ar ti Amelia
Wilson, Underwood, for the South Seas, were MI here ois the 11th
inst.--Light breezes from the westward._ .

Po aTSMOU TII. DEC. 14.—Arrival from the Dooms the 'royal
Charlotte, Ford, for Jamaica; and the Sovereign, Nestield, for
Alexandria.

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DEAL, DEC. Id—Arrived the Colombian, Chadwick, from
Baltimore; and Elizabeth, Thomson, from Miraniichi. Came
down from the River and remain the Clifton, Smith, for Jamaica ;
Faith, Forster, foe St. Domingo; Fame, Trickey, for Lisbon; and
the Rockingham Beach, for Madras.
DRAY usestn, Dec. 14.—Arrived the Oscar. Guild, from Riga.
Sailed the St. Lawrence, Anderson, for Hambro'; Frederick, Par-
vel, for Jamaica; Ann, Longridge, for Malta; Magnet, Taylor,
fur Fayal.
jay Enron Dec. It—Arrived the Manchester, Dangle),
from Philadelphia—galled iith November; Traveller, Penrise;
Lune, Young ; and Pitt, Collier t front dliramichi, in twenty.
four days; Cottager, Cornish. from Newfoundland; Ovington,
Walker, from Bay Chaleur; Gowen. Maims, from Lisbon; and
lady (Jordon, Bell, from Quel:ec—sailed 18th November, in
company with the Star, Ann. and Sir Wm. Bentley. The Pitt,
Collier, sailed in company with the Benjamin, Shaw; and Robert,
Edwards, for Liverpool.
ABEIII/EEW, DEC. 11.—The Ann, Wood, which arrived on
Sunday from Rotterdam, was driven into Swina, in Norway, from
whence she sailed 28th ult. and left there the Berwick, Smith,
from St. Poterskurgh for London, and about eight or ten foteign
vessels, two of them bound to Frith of Forth, also a small foreign
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HELVOET, DEC. 7.—The St. Paul, Applegarih. from Hull
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Williamstadt in proceeding up the River, and having become very
leaky, is gone to Dordrecht to repair.
I/ec. 9.—The Blucher. Diane, from Landon, is aground off
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E LslxEUa, Nov. 211.—0 n the 211th inst. the laurel, 31sckie,
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city. Peanon, from Memel, is put into Copenhagen, having been
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Pit.Lau, Nov. blows 'err hard from the smith. The
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la LUAU, Nov. 22--The Mercator, of North Shields, Thurl.
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got oil'; she is at present full of water.
LISBON. DEC. I.—The Nancy, Morrison, sailed hence Pith
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French brig.
AN -nova, Nov. s.—The Euphemia, of Aberdeen, Norrie,
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the harbour.

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