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London, England, 1820-06-30 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGAINCE.

• ronTsigarni, milt VS.
Arrived the Emma, Batimgerilt, front ihtires and Sen-
tra ; Diligence stun ship from Plymouth; Skelton, Dixon,
from Leith for Nrw Swab Wales; and Hope, Cawley, from
the Minus.
VALutottTn, JUNIP. 28.
_ Arrived off this port, the Irish:man, Sleboons, from Dior-
mustier. for Memel.
Arrived off the Lizard, the Simon Taylor, Meek, from
Jamnico„ for Loodosi. out 40 days.
Sallid the Warts', Ilitcbrll, for Antwerp.
HARWICH, JUNE 28.
Sailed the Prince of Orange packet fur Holland, rod
Bestially ditto, for Citxhavrti; each with a mail.

■lxs6 ATE, JrWE

A Ilreu (-Ike of foreign he was has been picked up,
and is iu Ilu pouession of Lieut. Byne, R.N. of the coast
blockade.

11,1rAL,_ aver 2R.

Came down from thr River sod mailed the Jane, Wvtie,
for St. Lua ie; Crawford, for Si. Kill's; and Wil-
liam and Henry, Jenkins, for Maranham.

LirsnrooL, JUNE 27.

Ars ived the William, nhir, from Pernambuco; A t lant le,
Mattock, from New Yo.k ; and Thnir.as Gilbert, Brown,
from 3firarniehi; 200 sad of vessels were nt Mirachind
when the Thomas Gilbert Irfl. The Suffolk, Trott, for Ros-
ton, got on shore yesterday on Burlso hank in going ont,
but was got of! Let :light's tide, and returned to the Kiser.

CORK, JUNT..2i.

The !nig Margaret, of and from St. John's, New Bruns_
wit 1., al riveJ here to-day; she left SI. John's on the 29th
ult. 'it which lime the following vessels had arrived there:—
May 22..--Tlir Fairfield, from Aberdeen, 31 Jar out ; the
Flis.dicih, front Dumfries; the Julio and Thomas, Baxter;
Cie Ilairis4lll and TOW); Ilan icon ; the Robert, Nelson;
from Dublin; the Mary Alin, hunt Aberdeen; the Llian-
brill, front Loudon. six wet ks out.
Jour ti—Spoke the French lola, the Espersnee, of Gran-
ville, fishing on the Births, generously supplied us with a
ersolity of list,.
Sams• il.iy. mot day following, saw several very large ice
',Erg-. tiricii:ig about.

Three vessels belonging to Bristol, Rhode Island,
leave btfU captured by the British brig Thistle, all
with full coignes of slaves, end sent to Sierra Leone.
Died at his house, Ahheyhill, N. B. on the 19th
inst. the Don. FLETCHER: NORTON, senior Baron
of the Court of Exelltipter in Scotkied, one of the
oldest J ledges in the enspire. He succeeded Baron
Witxue, who reaigned in 1776, sod has. therefore,
sat in that Coon for the lung period of 44 years.
The Hen. Boron was erond eon of FLETCHER, tit st
Lord Gnnilley, and woo born in 1744. He minied
Miss B•LIIAIN, daughter of JAMBS BALMAIR.
Esq. Commissioner of Excise, by whom he has left
four sans and liar daughters. The eldest sun is
pre.urnptive heir sod successor to the titles and
estates of his uncle, the present Lord GRANTLEY.
IVentworth (louse, the splendid mansion of Earl
FITZWILLIAII, had lately a narrow escape from
tire. One of the setrnitv fell asleep while read.
tug in bed, and the times of the candle haw.
in 4 communicated to the bed curtains, the room
was soon on tire. The servant made his escape,
and assistance being procured the flumes were sub-
dued. There was a barrel of gunpowder in the
room immediately over the apartment.
In the course of last week some Dover boatmen,
who were at Calais. disagreed, when tine, mined
-- Price, strode another of the crew overboard.
The police, hearing of the affair, hainlcutTed the
man to one of die gendarmerie, to send to the goal
at Boulogne, when a very strong application was
made on his behalf by the Captains of the packets
to the principal authorities, who. after a long lien,.
kg, restored him on the payuseut of ten Napoleons.

On the extremity of Foam Point, about two miles from
Free Town, quint land ha. lately been cleared by a person
cornered with the piddle service; and his experiments
have proved the soil capable, with little labour and rice, of
producing all the vegetable", ft nits, and other productions of
a trnpieal dimete. If ever this land should he en sale, I
should str.mgly recommend the purchase of it fur problie
iiiirprierie fur as the colony advances, this point of land
width, become extremely desirable fur a small work or
battery against a naval attack. And if hereafter it should
he thrombi expedient to improve the defences of Sierra
!Roue. I •stionlil venture to recommend coneideration as to
the sort of works to be thrown up on the point of the
entrance of the river, close to Cape Sierra ',roue; and on
this subject I elsall take leave to enlarge, when speaking of
the defences the river offer to resisting a naval *track. The
Situations of the black times are well chosen, and the man-
ner its which the buildings are laid out, certainly give credit
to those who planned them; the ratite of the black popula-
tion having been considered as much as it seems to me airy
could have been. In Regent's Town, some miles in the in.
terior, these objects have been particulai'ly commit, red. In
this town is a very respectably built church. It may not be
improper here to remark, that this church was wholly !milt
by the buys *and redeemed mrrors, superintended only by
one European, which I think proves great docility. quick-
ness, anti a readiness at the attainment of neural arts in the
Negro population; for the church is of size to admit more
than one thousand persons.
'Ulm Negro toast of Regent, near the heights of the Sierra
Leone mountains, is more healthy than any miser spot; and
I am therefore of opinion, whether in future used fur such
an object sir out, yet hereabouts the Governor should be
directed to retails as much ground 11s world be necessary
for a convalescent hospital and garden ; for if European
braille is Si. be re-d,reil in Ibis colony, it must, M my be-
lief, he near the Sierra Leone mountains.
Weer is at impend to be had with tolerable readiness at
Free *rues;; though the supply might he increased, by im-
proving some of the advautagers nature here uffere, and
aster then may be bad in any quantity. At present when
West of war require supplies, these interfere with the COlite-
IlletiCe Of the loam's people. The water is as good as any I
ever !melded, and preserves better. Cattle are supplied
from the Milani shore, vs the opposite side of She river;
they are not fat ; and with the exception of British Accra,
front no whir port are cattle to be obtained, along the
whole hoe of Gialit ; but whe the ;rattail shall become
cleared, grazing, I have nu doubt, will follow, and there can-
not be a reason why as good cattle should not be had at
Sierra Leone as at Jamaica.
Whilst on the subj.ct of agricultural improvement I yen-
ned omit noticing the benefits that would, in all ressonahle
pruhability, result to the colonials al Sierra Leolle, by a sim-
ply of grass and viSit r seeds suitable to a tropical climate ;
and the strafe also (or plants if they can conveniently he bad)
of Weal India trees, fruity, and vegetables. The tail, as
I have before remarked, there is no doubt would loth
all smelt; and many of thi• vegetables and useful plants
of Europe would, from the soil anti climate, thrive
mar the rnouotains. The lemon, the 'haddock, tier
the 1'0,111.1.1es fruit are known in this part of Africa;
and the blacks lately arrived from the West Indite
would, it may be supposed, readily cultivate them.
lu the woods of the m Mile the largest rarest trees ale
met with; and the species of greatest growth is known as
the silk col ton tree, from the pod bearing a silky cotton.
•Though this cotton lava not bran found applicable to any
useful purpose, yet the trunk of the tree affords to the natives
of Africa their canoe, in which they pass from our extremity
of flee asst In the other. These are frequently so large as
to carry an hundred men ; and those in the Bight of Biafra
and on the coast of Renin,frequently carry a lung brass pm.
Arotioil the trunk of this tree a vine creeps, which, en.
twining itself toll it reaches the upper branches, descends
again to the earth ; something in the nviemor of the Indian
hug, or the Banyan Tree of the Fan.t. In this way it again
rases, and scuds down a fresh branch. At the point where
this vine is cot, a u hit? froth only issues ; but if a piece of
the t ine be eeparated from the steal, the froth subsides, and
a dear, pure e , cool water exudes immediately ; sod two Ur
three feet in length of this vine will supply a refreshing and
delightful draught, equal to the purest spring water I ever
dratik. . .

Its traversing the mountains of Sierra Leone, with the
•iew of examining the productions of this part of Africa,
1 frequently hail etc-muse to •chat I term the wale:A.1180,10
abate thirst, though in the Stet instance curiosity only
in-
dared ale to taste its juice.
The descripsion of this plant it may be thought as well
or more properly omitted in my report to their Lordships;
lent its value in such a climate as Africa, induced me thus
tit notice it. And it may however be more within my pro-
fessional duty to remark, that I found iu the otountaina of
Sierra Leone, the -eitaguet in large and powerful macros. in
clearing the ground for the new town of liissey, large lumps
were met with; atid the whole surface is covered with stone,
hiving strung magnetic quality. This may probably ac-
count for the variation of the compass. which increases very
much in approaching the shorn; of Sierra Leone.
Recurring to the subject of Mentes, 1 shall take leave to
remails, that the bitterns at present established would be
useful and anuoyhig against the attack of shipping though
thi y are in no degree protective of the town; and when
other defensive works shall be formed fur such a co.
luny as Sierra Leone, 1 presume to observe, none can be so
little woi th as open batteHes, because, if taken iu lite rear,
they must of necessity be abstidon•ti. And I will add, that
if ever it should be considered advisable to raise other winks
of thleuee, the points of land near the narrows, formed by
the shoal at the entrance of the river of Sierra Leone, are
particularly favourable to such ohj,cit. Hese too Martello
towers might be established, and, well connected. world the.
fetid the 'channel, and cover a lades), which might be a
very advantageously placed near high-water mask. The
Martell* lowers teoul.l afford shelter to those serving in this
battery; and who would also in some measure be insuland
by the intervening swamps.
The navigable entrance of Sierra Leone river is very oar-
row, the tides strong, nod the Itulain shoal, ur middle
ground, very sleep. The river C:11,1 be tutered with safety
only with the sea breeze, whirls, though inieriddy regular•, is
not always ceitaisi, either iu simnel!' or duration. The
breeze frequently sets in by I 1 and LI o'clock, but more ge-
nerally nut unlit two, three, or four; its strength is so un-
certain, that it °lieu fails half way to the anchorage, and is
not uufrequently checked by the laud wind, before a ship of
was am gain bur anchorage °lithe town. Defended as Stuns
Leone now is, a squadron might anchor in the narrows,
Omit
of cannon shut of any battery, and make dispositions fur
landing.
The Western beach, front Cape Sierra Leone to the new
establishment near Cape Skillet,, in its entire evient„ is site-
ficitutly protected from an atiackliv a heavy still, and which
can only be ventured through by the canoes of the cottony,
and it, these even not at all times.
IVbilst cumulating my remarks on the entrance of the
river Sierra Leone, it may out be improper that 1 abould
°batter, that although the navigable loot of the river is nar-
row, it is by nu means lie(tellit to Ilion. acqnsinied wtlb it;
yet el very small t' p. use might here he well deposed. A few
days labour spay raise the Carpenter Rock no as always to he
above water (this ruck la)■ without the entrance of the river
and is MOM covered ■t half Rood); were the rods raised, it
would Rom serve as a land and cross mark also fir avoiding

the Bohm- flat or middle ground, upon which a my fine
brig was lust in May lasi, when 1 was nt Sierra Letitie. A
single buoy, however, placed 'Ton the S. W. cud of the
shoal would lie of greet ; and it would not Mira, re with
the pilots ur hatbour-niamess dues, as nil ship, enteritm
Sierra Leone are subject to these wbetlicr in charge of pilots
ur aut.
Ranee Island, siouelesl *lmre twenty miles up Ilse river.
will, if ever the neighbouring laud be cleared of wood ma
jungle, become a point of considerable impuitauce to the
6 merit of Sierra Leone.
(To be conibtwed J

Yesterday—Si. PITFIL •ND PALL—Holiday al the Omsk,
Exuhrquer, Lam Itiaint and South ScA Mums.