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SHIPPING INI'ELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, SEPT. 24.
SHIPS ENTERED INWARDS.—The Elbing. Hayne, and.Pmdt...
barkeit, Barritels, from Danteic ; Louisa Sophi.., lioliorst, from
Memel; Anne Christine, Lorsen, from Ilernesand ; Elizabeth,
Helmer, from Gotienhurgh ; Mitford, Taylor,
.from ogadore ;.
Edward, Berencken, from Billsos ; Mary, Smith, from Alexan-'
dria ; Fanny, Taylor, and Union, Dean, from St. Petersburgh ;
June,Silrera, from Gibraltar; Hopewell, Smyth, from Jamaica;.
Prince of Saxe Coburg, Ladd. front Rotterdam ' • Ann, Marshall,
from Standgme Creek ; Luna, Glendining, from Alkmaar; Rose,
Ellis, from Rotterdam ' • Frau Helena, L:ffen, front Emden ; Hope,
Young, from Memel; Paris. Stonehouse, from St. Petersburgh ;
Ada, Round, from Villa Nova; Marshall, Hall, from Illetbel ;
VLUngbeek. Smith, from Atitigua.
.ENTERED OUTWARDS.--Tate Montreal, TIIOI7I, for Tobngo ;
Emilie, Kerckhove, for Antwerp ; Guises, Ford, for Madras and
Bow& ; British Colony. limn, tor Trieste; Hero, Cumming, toe
Farm Hardenburgh, Miller, for Stettin ; Glory. Frost, for Rotter-
dam ; Fortitude Increased, Manning, for St. Kitts ; Ellen, Pen-
ton, for Jamaica; Earl of Clancorty, Heath,. for Rotterdam
Themes, Culens, for New South Wales and Madras; Amity,
Mackintosh, for Jamaica; Flying Fish, Smith. for Ostend.
CLEARED OUTWASIbW FINALLY AT GRAVESEND.-,-The
Wiese, Foam:, for Calais; Maria, Spriggs, for Vera Cruz and
' • Lovely Mr • Leone -

Zephyr, .ap.
son, for Belfast ; Nelson packet, Coates, for Cork ; Atlas, Pearce,
for Dublin.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

FALMOUTIT, SEPT. 24 —Arrived the Plover packet, from the
Brazils—wailed front Rio Janeiro, 28th July, Bahia, 6th Aug.,
and Pernambuco, 11111 Aug. ; the Duke of Marlborough packet,
from Lisbon—sailed 18th inst. Off the port of tit. Domingo,
Evans, front Et. Domingo—sailed the 15th Aug. Sailed the
Stenciler packet, for Lisbon ; and the Oak, Harvey, for Newfound-
land.

COWES, SEPT. 25.—The Robert Edward., Sherburne, from
Londou for New York ; int] the Nautilu.„ Tripp, front London to
the Cape of Good Hope, put back wind bound, and anchored at the
Motherbank.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Arrived his 3lajesty's ship Phmton,
from North America.
DEAL, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Nassau, Tremare, from Sierra
Leone; the Risborough, Cassie, the George. Forster, and Duken.
field, , frord Jamaica ; the Dido, Kruht, from Havunnah ;
and the Ann, Bartholomew. from Memel. Came down from the
river and remain, the Eliza, Faith, for India ; the Aurora, Haiku,
fur Halifax ; the Lovely Maria, Smith, for Sierra Leone ; the El.
len, Anthony, for Carthagena ; the Ware, Hone, for St. John's.
New Brunswick; and the Olinda, Bell, for Bahia. The whole
of the outward bound, which sailed on Friday, have put back.
RAMSGATE, SEPT. 24.—A piece of brandy, nicked " Hen.
nessy Cognac," was yesterday picked up off the North Foreland,
and brought in here. The brandy is in good condition, but appears
to have been long in the water.
GRAVESEND, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Recovery, Weatherhead,
from Honduran ; Woodford, Lambam, from Jamaica ; Thomas,
Bell, from St. Vincent's ; John, Rich, from Galipoli ; Union, Pocher,
from the Canaries; Columbia, Wilson, from Tobago; Juliana,
—, from Quebec ; Panther, Young, from Cadiz ; Henry and
Sarah, Wale, for Seville; and about fifty sail from the Baltic.
Sailed the Ocean, Whittle, for Honduras ; Rawlins, Blur-laden,
tbr Jamaica ; Margaret, Wrangles, for Demerara; Columbus,
Brown, for Calcutta ; Emma, Reed, for Genoa ; Sir W. Wallace,
Brown, for the Mauritius ; Agenoris, Aberdeen, for Leghorn ;
Frederick, Curtis, for Sierra Leone.

BELFAST, SiPT. 23.—The Superior, from Liverpool to New
York, having been so severely injured, it has been recommended
by the surveyors to sell her, as she lays fifteen feet in the sand.
CAMPUELTOWN, IZPT. 21.—The Selina, M`Nsb, from Kirk-
wall to Belfast, was riven on shore this morning; but after being
lightened, got a; and is now coming hers to bc surveyed.

Above fifty sail of vessels, from the Baltic, arrived in the river
yesterday and Saturday.
VESSELS SPOKEN WlTlt.—Woodford, Chapman, from London
to Madras, July 14, Ist. 19, S. long. 88; and the day before the
Britannia, Lamb, from London to Bombay ; Wolf, bound to the
Pearl fishery, July 2, let. 22, long. 28; Ceres, Warren, from Lon.
don to Bombay, July 20, let. 4, long. 20; A liquon, from London
to Bengal, July 11, let. 7, long. 20; Christiana, from Trinidad to
Glasgow, 12th inst. lat 48, long. 22; Sarah, Tucker, from London
to Bombay, July 12, lat. 12. N. long. 24.
On Monday the Nassau, Tremayne, arrived at Portsmouth from
Sierra Leone. She left the colony Jely 28, just as the rainy season
commenced, with a cargo of timber, being one of the last ships of
the season. The colony was generally healthy. New Barrack
apartments had been completed for the troops. The trade of the
colony has greatly increased. Not heathen 20.000 tons of shipping,
trading in timber and gum, had left the colony this season. Since
the Ashantee war, the traders in gold dust, in the interior, had
taken a new course: to Sago (the capital of Bambatra, about a
month's journey from Sierra Leone), thence to Titnboo (the capital
of the Fulla Country), and down to Sierra Leone; the trade is now
very considerable by this route. General Turner had returned
from his first visit to the settlements on the Gold Coast, made with
a view principally to the extension of trade. Commodore Bullen
was cruising in the Bight of Benin, in the Blaidstone.—Dcvonport
Tekgrap6.
CovaTa-MauTtat. Court-martial was held
on board the Isis, in Port Royal, Jamaica, on Monday, thelith of
August, for the trial of Lieutenant Henry Bandits 'Faotter, late of
the Ilussar, agreeably toe request contained in his letter to Captain
Harris, dated the 9th of May last. Members—Captain Thomas
Forrest. C.B. Isla President ; Captains W. Elliott, C.B. Lively ;
Hugh Patton, Rattlesnake ; John Leith, Pylades ; and George
Russell, Scylla. Wm. 11'ynter, Officiating Judge-Advocate. The
Court having heard the evidence in support of the charge, as well as
what the prisoner had to offer in defence, and the evidence adducd
on his behalf, and very maturely and deliberately weighed and
considered the same, is unanimously of opinion that the evidence
given by Lieutenant H. D. Trotter at the late Court-martial on
Edward Rippington, a seaman of the Hussar, was conscientiously
and justly given—that his conduct appear* at all times to have
been perfectly respectful to his Captain, and that he did not deserve
the reprimand which he received from Captain Harris. The Court
dot)), therefore, adjudge the said Lieutenant D. Trotter to be
fully acquitted. But the Court has listened with considerable
regret to some parts of Lieutenant Trotter's defence, which it con.
eiders irrelevant, intemperate, and unnecessary to his own excul-
pation. A Court-muttal was held the nut day (August') on
Lieut. Gossett. (first of the Hussar) which was not concluded when
the packet sailed.

CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSIO V SOCIETY.
A General Meeting of the subscribers to this excellent institution
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sf London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
officers fur the ensuing year.
called to the chair, arid stated the
l bean convenei. Ile felt it un.
pcolouted eulugium on the Insti-
l:dad be formed as to isa genteel

from a retrospect of its operations.
,holesome succours of the Society
belonged to the most deserving classes. Decayed
artisans and mechanics, who having arrived at that period of life
when infirmity of age rendered them incapable of obtaining
the men' of subsistence, found a permanent resource in the funds
of this Institution, whilst the casualty of deaths was also provided
for, and in that last trying-hour there could be no more pleasurable
conviction to a man, so far as temporal affairs went, than the
as‘urance that his widow would benot wholly destitute.
On the part of the Directors, '`suggestion was offered to the
subscribers that it would be necessary to mark against the names
of those candidates who had frequently claimed admission into the
Society, because it would have a most beneficial tendency to assist
the cause of any claimant that might unfortunately be destitute of
active friends to fur.her his application. It was proposed that the
future arrangement of banning should be, instead of giving single
votes as heretofore for male or female candidates, that the sub-
scribers be at liberty to give the whole forty votes for men to
any on: man, and the whole twenty votes to any one woman ; or so
to divide them as that the votes for men isbail not exceed forty,
nor the votes for women, twenty. This arrangement appeared to
i give general satisfactibn.
The number of persons receiving pensions is 161, and the allow-
ance 7s. per week to inalei, and ss. to females.
The next election was fixed for Monday, October 3, when forty
males and twenty females will be admitted to the immediate bene-
fits of their election.

W. Williams. Esq. for Weymouth, was reelected Treasurer,
and Air. Daniel Richardson, Secretary to the Institution for the
ensuing year.
The Subscribers then proceeded to elect Directors, and if any
proof were requisite to show the great popularity of this invaluable
Society, no better could be adduced than the eagerness of the com-
petition which took place amongst the friends of those who pre-
sented themselves as candidates for the office of Directors. Ulti-
mately, however, twenty-one gentlemen were selected, to the evi-
dent satisfaction of all present.
On the election of Auditors, one of the subscribers threw out a
suggestion that the number ought to be increased to live in place
of three, because of the vast extension that Mid taken place in the
list of subscribers ; but on reference being made to the regulations
of the Society, it was found that not more than three gentlemen
could be elected to the offices, and as the late Auditors expressed
their entire satisfaction with the intelligible and regular manner
that the accounts had been kept, the idea of enlarging the number
of Auditors was altogether abandoned.
It gave very great satisfaction to all who were present to see so
unanimous a feeling in support of the Institution, which boasts
of MOO subscribers, and appeared to be conducted on a system
calculated to insure a continuance of that support, and the en-
largement of its funds, which will, of course, enable the Direc-
tors to extend Its operations in a proportionable degree.

Alearad o ; Lovely Maria, Smith, for.Sieiraeone ; Olinda, Bed, CITY OF LONDON GENE!!
for Bahia, Pernambuco, and Maranham ; Yard, Hare, fur St. -.WOO
John's New Brunswick. • A General Meeting of the subnri
CLEARING OUT WARDS.—The Unternehming, Bleak, for was held yesterday, at the City of
Bremen and Brake; Sir William Wallace, Brown, for Madeira street, for the purpose -of electing a
and the Isle of Frar.ce ; Ron.crdam, Laming, for Ratter:ram ; ' HENRY BLOXIIA3I, Esq. was c
'awls Arnie, Schut, foe Antwerp ; Sirsne, Allen, fee Batmen ; objects for which the Meeting had
King George Packet, Ran, for Rotterdam ; Fffiag rish. Si ith accessary to pronounce any highly.
fee °stead ; Mernhant, 4iolaruion: far insinrar aasi-Br. ~1;6•61. isstiall.lialussthe best idsa that is
burgh ; Eleanor, Robertson, for Gibraltar and Malaga ; Ernma, usefulness, might be dread fron
Reid, for Genoa and Leghorn ; Mary, Dobson. for Sicily. The persons to whom the w hob
C OUTWARDS TO IRELAND.—The Zephyr, Thorop. were extended belonged to the in