The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-01-09 00:00:00

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PORTst4ourg. JAN. 7.
Nothing arrived or sailed this day.—Wind S.
ir A I.mot:Tn, JAW 5.
Arrived this Jay the Natewit. Quiet. from Bris-
tol ; trifled:, May, from ditto; Pahl/A Prescott,
from ditto ; 7bree Xotiers, Westcott, from New-
port; &Odom, Ball, and Slrermlatios. M•Donald,
From Bury ; Bromley, Call, from Cbeps:ow ; and
Clorles, Doble. from Swansea.
The brig Often, late Nicholls, Master, of Shields,
with coals, was taken on the Sd instant by a
French logger privateer, of I gun and 31) men, off
the Ramhead, and retaken by the Britimmia cutter,
I.ieut Irafha.,, on the Guernsey station, under Sir
James Saumarez
Dispatches were lest evening received here,
brought by an Admiralty Messenger. with which
the Fly ski 1p of war sailed this morning. supposed
for Admiral Murray; also sailed the Lucifer bomb,
to the Eastward. .

Two cutlets. supposed French privateers, were
seen off this harbour yesterday ; His ht4jesty's brig
Seeepiest, laded in pursuit of thrm.—Wind S E.
DEAL. JAN. 7._

Sailed His Majesty's ship Seagull, on a cruise
off tit Galloper ; the Shannon, Tromwruse, Krenzaroo,
Otter, and several other cruisers, for the nench
coast.—Wind W.

bnVEll; J All. 7.
This diy came in here the brig Joins it'd Mary,
of a"d from Sunderland. with a corr. of coals.
hlattlitoWson Muster. She was retaken by the
Bruiser gun-brig. The crew are all safe on board.

Tmeasn. DEC. 26.

We had, yesterday, the most violent storm of
wind and rain. from W. to W.N.W. ever known in
thi gitarrer. It resembled mme those hurricanes to
which the wesecen hemispl etc subjeCt, than even
the hardest gale. which it e have been accustomed
to in this clim•ere. The storm commenced about
noon, and comi! u itt, unabated fury, until az
in the eveniirg Dui • g the: night, rso, and catty
this moineog, it ':tr.t. I,,ry ',rod. and the sea rose so
an nixemmon he lAN. Of seven: en vessels which
lay in t re: Os, se vr^ r'rde.d to the cast side of the
bay, listal t. ,cc,' a shore, wPr.• completely
wrecked. Ore e' them the sh p fisher, of
Aberdren, Man-:.at, eras •er. hewing hoard ava
cal g., of yr, ;i,s a; er beim
Li i. —t" r cr.w Valle 1)11: s::ej a;rd cargo to-
tally I. st. l'h other six ssi , .;,at sheered the same
fate. w-re fishing smacks helon.yre in Lor;dem or
thirwic'', via, tl a Greener r 4, Gr it ; -iirookrs' 41-
yentare, Ell s ; Piwerx. Fulton ; papa/Fri!, Daddy ;
Aimee, Pratt t anal the B. Bennet.
'crew of the last mention, .1 • e• -el, all but the Mll.
ter, who happeee." to asl” • see List; but those
belonging to the mho 'iv. in k ..r. -eported sate.
—There are ten fishing smacks still i l'our 1,446,
who have rode out the worm. without suwainii.g.
any damage, a convincing pr of of .he superior ex•
cellence nt the ancierrage Ir n Ceared, that we
shall have d stressing ace-sun-sot r e loss of shipping
among the Orku-y Islands. The country o.und
this town presents, every where, evident marks ed
the ruittoui, • tirEls of this tremendous tempest;
houses noroo•rd and otherwise damaged, corn-
stacks and hay-ricks Mown swn, arid partly carried
off, with other d ',asters of A similar nature, all
tending to excite our apprehensions, that the damage
sustained on this occasion exceeds every thing of the
kind hitherto experienced in this part of the island.