The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-29 00:00:00

PORT 531011771, MA I( el.

Letters from Callao, dated Jam. 23, state that the Briton, 46,
Sir M. 31 axwell, may be expected to arrive in England in July.
The Cambridge, 80, was at Valparaiso ; Blanche. at Coquimbo 4
Ranger, at Callao ; 3lersey, at Panama. The Eclair bailed for
San Bias on the 31st December.

The Warspite (Rear-Admiral Gage), and Volage, sailed front
Madeira on the 22i1 March, for India ; the Druid. A pril ;:11, for
die West Indies ; Galatea, April 10, for La Uuayra ; Thetis,
April 11. for Buenos Ayres.
Last evening the Blonde, 46, Capt. Lord Byron,arrived from
Plymouth. The brigs Leveret and Royalist, tenders to the guard-
ships at Plymouth, have sailed for that port ; the Arrow, Lieute-
nant Brooking, and the Starling, Lieutenant Stuart, on cruises.
The Espiegle, 113, Capt. Yates. will sail to-morrow, for the West
Indies, taking Mr. Beard, Consul-General to Berbice.
The Jasper, 10, Captain Fremantle, has sailed for Chatham, to
be paid oil.
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The Acasta, Chadwick, twenty-11x days from New York, has
passed by. after landing passengers ; and the Childe Harold,
from Bombay. The Recovery, Chapman, for Bombay ; and the
Morley, Halliday, for Madras, having embarked passengers, have
sailed.

The Borodino transport, Lieutenant Cooley, Railed this of
with detachments of the 21th and 52d Regiments, for
Halifax.

The Powerful, of 80 guns, will be launched at Chatham about
the 22d of June, or the first springs in July. The Barham and
Alfred, 745, are cutting down to the heavy frigate class, to carry
52 long 82-pounders. The Dublin, 74, will be converted in the
sane manner. ‘V ten the Barham Is ready, she will be commis-
sinned for the flag of the Hon. Vice-Admiral Fleming, fur the
%Vest India station. A new Naval Hospital is to be erected imme-
diately on Melville Parade, at Bronipton, to accominod Ite the
Chatham division of Royal Marines, and the ships of wars; Sheer-
ness and in the Medway.
On Wednesday the transport Baltic Merchant, Ueut. Lester,
Agent, returned from Sierra Leone. Acre, Cape Coast. and As-
cension ; left the last-named place on the sth of April. The
several stations on the coast of Africa were more healthy than
tuna'. It had been determined to dismantle the forts and break up
the establinhiments at Annamabo and Dix Cove. At the latter
place the greatest confusion prevailed, the English and Dutch
blacks having commenced war with each other. One of our cruisers
had been sent there, to endeavour to restore tranquillity. The
Edward transport, which had lately taken a number of maim-
initted slaves limn Sierra Leone to Ascension, to be employed in
the cultivation and improvement of that island, was about to leave
the coast for England, with the stores, &c. from Annanrabo and
Dix Cove. Commodore Bullets. in the Msidstone, with the Esk,
Redwing, and two tenders, were cruising itt the Bights of Benin
and Biafra, for the suppression of slave trading. The Athol, 28,
Captain J. A. Murray, had left the station for the East Indies.
The Brazen, 28, Captain Willett. was lying in the Bight of Benin,
in daily expectation of hearing from Major Laing. who some time
since left Tripoli to renew the attempt of passing from the coast of
Barbary through the interior of Africa to the Atlantic shorts.
Accounts had reached Cape Coma of the death of Captain Pearce,
R.N. and Dr. Morrison, the companions of that intrepid and hardy
traveller, Captain Clapperton, R.N. who has himself reached
Soudan, IGO miles in the interior, nearly in lat. 0 North, and was
then descending the North face of the Kong Mountains, on his way
to Timbuctoo. The surveying ships Leven, Captain Owen, and
Batacouta, were proceeding on the survey of the West-
ern coast of Africa. The Leven had recently completed
an examination of the Isles de Loss, six in number, about
seventy miles to the southward of Sierra Leone. These
ships had tracked the whole coast, from the Cape of Good
Hope to the Gambia, but had found but few anchoring places, not
before known ; indeed a harbour is hardly to be found on that
mast. St. Paul's Deeloando is a capacious and safe harbour, and is
the site of a Portuguese settlement ; in it were found a Portuguese
frigate, and 18 slave vessels, all loading in the moat open manner,
under the protection of a large curie, a fort of 64 guns, and several ;
smaller batteries. The situation is about 10 south. The Leven
and Haracouta were fired at in going in, as it is a custom of the
port that all vessels mould anchor outside the Bar, until her force
and business are wholly known. On several headlands, obelisks
of different nuns were diacovered,on some of which inscriptions had
been cut, though they could not he deciphered, and whether they
were erected by Vasquez de Gaina, or before his period, as land-
marks, could not be determined. The Despatch, Capt. Parsons,
was at Cape Coast ; the Engineer officers on board of her had nearly
completed their surveys, and after visiting Acra would return to
Entzland.
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Yesterday afternoon the lion. Company's ship, the Bucking-
hamshire, Capt. Glasspoole, from China, passed by for the river,
handing several packages here. She left the Bocca Tigris on the
17th January, the Cape of flood Hope the 211th March, and St.
Helena on the 4th April. She brings information that the outward-
bound trader Perseverance was lost on Robin Island, in Table
Bay, the crew all saved.
Lady this morning the Guildford, Capt Mangles, from Madras,
landed her passengers here, consisting of Mrs. Major Wallace, and
Capt. Hyslop, of the Madras Cavalry; Rey. Mr. Biddy, Dr.
Levitt, 47th, Lieut. Pictet, Royals; Lieut. Roberts. 48t11, with a
part; of invalids; Lieut. Hunter, of the Madras Infantry, and
Mr. Closey. This ship left Madras on the 2lth January. The
happy termination of the Burmese war had prevented the embar-
kation of the reinforcements, which were ordered to join the army
its that territory. She totiched at St. Helena, on the 20th March,
on which day the Lord Lowther, store-ship, sailed for China.
PLYMOITTH, MAY 25.
Arrived the Romney, .50, Capt. N. Lockver, from Sierra Leone
(all healthy); Lively, from Portsmouth; Dryad, from supplying
the homeward-bound merchantmen detained in the Chops of the
Channel. Sailed the Blonde, for Spithead ; Beagle and Adventure,
surveying ships, for South America, to commence a survey of the
coast from the River Plate to the Straits of Magellan, and thence
round Cape Hnrn ; Starling, for the River, to land Pox, the sea-
man of the Blonde, whose transmuted sentence confines him two
Years in the Marehalsea; Nightingale and Bramble, on cruises ;
Vittoria transport, with detachments for Quebec. The Aurora,
46, for Bermuda and the West Indies, expects to sail on Wednes-
day next. Remain—Britannia, Windsor Castle, Java. Aurora,
Forte, Romney, Lively, Dryad, Success, Trinculo, and Vigilant.
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By the Panthea, arrived at Liverpool, we have received
New York papers to the Sotlt inst., but they contain no
political news. Trade was lively M New Ynrk, and
freights (American) were advancing. The Exchange
buildings were destroyed by fire on the night of the 28th.
The los, is estimated at 200,000 dollars, only half of which
was insured.
CORON ER'S I NOV EST.—On Friday night an inquest was
held at the Mark Horse, Poplar, on the body of John Mack-
intosh, proprietor of the Trinity Arms, Ratcliffe, who was picked
up from the river Lea. Mr. Hobert Reed, one of the Jury, towed
that on the previous evening, between the hours of nine and ten
o'clock. the deceased, while passing his shop-window„ MI against
it and broke several panes of gioss, which he afterwards paid for.
lee, perceiving that he was rather intoxicated, recommended him
to take a coach, and offered to accompany him home ; this, how-
ever. he refused. observing that he was sober enough to Mid the
way himself. %Witneets had no ilotibt but that the deceased had
missed his road and fell into the river. The Jury being of the
same opini,m, a verdict of " Act:idottal Death, arising wink in
a state of intoxication," was then recordcd.