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FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

DEAL, MARCh 17.—Passed through from the river. the Sym-
metry. 31oore, fur Leghorn; Sicilian, Jamieson, for Afrka; tha
Lark, Orteur, for Cadiz; and the Sisters, Wrangles, for Demerara.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 17.—thf the par., toe Sir titxitiey
Webster, from Bengal, and landed passengers. Arrived the Brice& ,
Pownd, from the Downs.
PLYMOUTH, Al ARCH 16.—The Fortitude, Vanden Broeck, for
Batavia, has commenced unloading her cargo, to enable her to go
into dock for repair.
FALMOUTH, Alancts 16.—Sailed the Neilson, Laughton, for
Trinidad.
Livvitroot., Maack 16.—Arrived the Charity, from Messina.
LERWICK, MARCH d.—A ship, said to be the Resolution, of
and front Hatalburish9 laden with linen, calico, glass, spirits, &c...
was wrecked on the island of Cnst on the 26th ult. and only the
mate saved.

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HEIAVESEWD, MARCH 17.—Arrived the Providentia, Flamer,
from Norway; laria, Boltz, from Rostock; Fox, Fox, from
Ostend; Eingkite, Brenlius, from Stralsund. Sailed the Tager,
Kent, for Ceylon ; Eaple, Llewellyn, for Oporto; Sophia, Rutter.
for ierra Leone; Igereules, Schipmata, for Havre; Britannia,.
Blackburn, for kleayrna • Frances, Bet,tman, for Montserrat;
Blenheim, Warran, for QUebee.

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VESSELS SPOKEN NITH.—The Peovidentia, Plemer, flora
Shein to London, in the North Sea, with loss of main and olizeu
mast, and full of water, by the Ceres, Bloom, arrived at Truro.
The 3largaret, Simpson, from London to Batavia, on the 2Stli
January ; she fell in with, two days before, the N aria de bon
Felicade, from Fago to the Cape tie Verds, in a sinking state;
Captain Stinson took out the crew, consisting of bee men, and
turned the schooner adrift.

The Chevy Chase, Murphy, is lost on the S. W. coast of
A:nerits.

DEATHS IN INDIA.

At Madras, the later and of August, -in the house of Herbert
Compton, Esq. Advocate-General, Alfred Duvaucel, Esq. Nature.
Sate du Roi, deputed to India by the Institute of France as a Cor-
responding '!ember in the Division of Natural History, 31o:zither
of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, &e. &c.
This gentleman, whose acquirements and information were as
eminent as his manners and disposition were kind and amiable,
landed in India in 1817, accompanied by M. Diard, a fellow
labourer, who is now carrying on his researches in Cochin China,
Siam, &c. Those of M. Duvaucel included the Island of Su-
matra, Bengal generally, Sylhet (loruckpoor, and a portion of
Onde, and the collections made by him in every branch °lns:mai
history are understood to be extremely valuable and extensive.
His sod in the acquirement of objects both rare and impirn .t,
and in classing and describing them scientifically, was utibout del;
but, alas ! such labours in the tropical climate of Bengal, c snot
long be carried on without paying the usual penalty; and such
has been the tate of this unfortunate and highly-gifted gentleman.
Repotted fevers terminating in the liver complaint, atter a tour
thiough the forests of Goruckpoor, and for which he was averse
from taking the usual English remedies, at length induced him to
try the sea air, but too late. He died almost immediately on being
landed from the ship at Mr. Comptim's house, after an illness of
several months.
It will be some consolation, perhaps, to his afflicted friends and
relations in France to learn, that the late M. Duvaucel was held in
high esteem, and is deeply regretted by all the English gentlemen
to whom lie was known in Bengal. The deceased had served in
the French army . • was Aide-de-Camp to General Carnot at the
siege of Antwerp, by whom he was decorated with the Cross of the
Legion of Honour. He was • man of vigorous mind and prin-
ciples greatly attached to his country and to his family, and has
thus prematurely fallen a victim to his zeal for science in the 32d
year of his age.
At Penang, on Friday, the Bth of October, at his residence at
Kelso, the Honourable John 3lacalister, Esq. Senior !!ember if
Council of this Presidency, after a service on this ettablish
ment of nearly twenty years; during the former part of aid .h
period he frequently held charge of the settlement of Malacce,
and once filled a seat at the Council Board of this government,
at which lie permanently wok his place on the Bth October,
18111.
By his death, at the early age of thirty-nine, the service and
community of this island have been suddenly and unexpectedly
deprived of one of its most highly esteemed and useful members.
His extensive knowledge of the revenue and commercial affairs
of the eastern part of India, joined to an easiness of access and
peculiar gentleness and graciousness of manner with the Native
populations, Ind created among them a stronger attaahment to
him than has ever possibly been experienced by any other per-
sou in a similar situation, while his cheerful, unostentatious, and,
liberal hospitality afforded to society the best example and en,
coursgement.
Mr. Muenster possessed in a pre-eminent degree all the genuine
qualities and enthusiastic warmth of feeling which characterise the
natives of his isles (the Hebrides), from which he derived a high
descent—brave, open, charitable, unsuspecting, benevolent, wok
kind-hearted to all mankind, and nobly geherous even to his
enemies! In the softer and more amiable virtues of private and
domestic life, he was the most affectionate husband and father, the
firm, zealous, and disinterested friend, and the indulgent master.
Those by whom be was best known and most beloved, feel it
almost impossible to do justice to the many citimable (pddles
which adornesl his character; but the general sorrow for his
death, and the affection at.d respect universally evinced for his
memory, are the surest evidences of departed worth. Long and
deeply will his death be mourned by • numerous circle of fnends
and acquaintance, and the numbers who experienced his never.
failing bounty.
He has left an amiable and inconsolable widow and a large
family, to whom the bereavement of such a protector is irrepa.
table.

His death was sodden and unexpected. though he had !Ken in 4
disposed some time; but he died, as he always expressed a hope he
should do. without protracted suffering ; ceasing to breathe so irns
perceptibly, that it was some time btfore his attendants could be
persuaded of the calamity that had befallen them.
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