The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-11 00:00:00

MB ARMY.

COMPAIIIIIONATI Mar.-2111e payment of allowances on the Corn-
lassionate List, for the year ln2d, will commence on Monday, the 2Vth
nstant.
By the death of Major-funeral Tower, The Governorship of Sierra
Leone, Ste. and the Coloneicy of the Royal African Colonial Corps, bare
become vacant.

A Detachment of Recruits arrived In town, on Tuesday morning, from
Coventry, ou route to juin their respective battalions and depots.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCL.

m. litajetty's ship Waraplte, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Gage,
Commandder-in•Chief In India, arrived at Madeira on the 20th !larch, after
a ION( I.a-sage from Plymouth of 17 days, dming which she encountered
much bad weather. Haring subsequently touched at Tentriffe, the War,
spite sailed frum thence on the 28th March.
The Esprit sloop of 10 guns was launched on Tuesday from Chatham
Yard.

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The William and Mary yacht sailed on the Bth from Plymouth for
Portsmouth.
The Light House on Dungeons his been painted red.

S (II PP! NG INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL, Tussm, MAV 9.

Arrived the New York, Bennett, from New York—on the 4th lost. spoke
the Columbia, In the Channel, from hence fur New York ; Flues, from
Sierra Leone, sailed IA Mosel].
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Off-Ihe Alfred, fronlllOMiny ; Norval, from Nassau, N.P.
The Mount Vernon, from Liverpool, and the Leader, Jones, from Bristol,
arrived at New York on the 12th-of April.
The Culunus and the Halcyon, from Liverpool, have arrived at Phila-
delphia.
The Chariot, from Liverpool, has arrived at Savannah.
The Jane, Longbutten, from Liverpool, has arrived at St. John's, N.B.
Sailed the Alexander the First, Anderson, for Elsinore ; Eliza and
Nancy, Heard, for Bahia; Sarah, Taylor, for Leghorn; Fanny, —, for
hfessina ; Integrity, Wilson, and General Bolivar, Atkinson, for Quebec;
Samuel Robertson, —, for Charleston ; Airth Castle, Watson, fur Cux-
haven.

FALMOUTH, MAY 9.—Wind variable, light windv.—Arrived the Matilda
and Susan, Fry, from Oporto. Sailed the Sandwich packet, for Lisbon
and the Sphyn: ditto, for America.
PLYMOUTH, MAT S.—Wind E.—Arrived the Emulous steam packet.,
from London, fur Calcutta; and Familia transport, with troops, for
goebec.

PORTSMOUTR, MAY 9.—Wlnd —Arrived the Banish ship
Europa, New lan, from Santa Cruz, In MI days, for Copenhagen. His
Majesty's ship Esplegle, for Jamaica, went out of harbour, and remains
at Spithead.
DIAL, MAT 9.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Posthumous, Reid, twin
Sierra Leone, and remains with the NVllhelminn, fur Batavia, and
Britannia, for Damask. Passed through from the River, the Harriet,
Fuicher, for India. _ _

MA aoAre, MAY 9.—Some bulks of square timber, )apparently Baltic;
with a few deals, have been fallen in with off here, and towed In this
morning. Some more timber and lathwuod, with the fore-yard of •
schooner, hare been washed on shore along the coast above this place,
from which it is to be feared some timber-laden vessel must have been re-
cently lost off this coast.
Writ , MAT 9.—Several balks of timber have been picked up
on the Fiats, and brought in here. It Is supposed they came from a
vessel, lost on the Lung Sand, as part of a wreck was seen this morning
upon that Sand.
G•AvallaNU, MAT' 9.—Arrived the Diana,Threar, from the Isles de Los;
Ellen, Upham, from Lisbon ; Atalanta, King, from Hamburgh ; Prince
of Coburg, Ladd, from Rotterdam ; Glory, Frost, from Rotterdam ;
Union, Redde„ from Calais. Sailed the Caroline, Preston, for Malt, ;
Andreas, Cock, for Stockholm ; kiedorn, Clendon, for Sydney ; Elisabeth
and Mary, Craig, for Grenada; Syren, Rose, fur St. Petersburgb; Agree,
Batton, for Hamburgh ; Pimandra, Wray, for Bengal, Lady Middleton,
Malley, for Rotterdam; Fur, For, for Ostend.

The Crisis, Van Dyke, from London to Norfolk, sailed from Cowes on
the 11th January, and had not arrived on the 18th April.
The account from Plymouth, on Tuesday, respecting the Lonach, Lady
East, and Hercules, at the isle of France, was incorrect.
The Tom Cod, Potter, and the Union, Freehon, from Bristol, were all
well at Jack•a-Jack, on the Coast of Africa, the former on the 26th Dec.
and the latter on 16th January,
Vassittot 'row: wtro.—Killingbecle, Sever, March 30, Int. 18. long.
37.; Mary Ann, from Liverpool to Quebec, Vth ult. lat. 49. long. 24.;
Louisa, from Aberdeen, with loss of bulwarks, 24th ult. lat. 46. long. 33.