The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-23 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 1415 Majesty's
ship NiObe for Halifax, with Commodore QweN.
Blows very bard at N. E.
MARGATE,. DEC. 22.—The Britannia packet,
Captain Fox, arrived this morning from Ostend,
and brings dispatches front Ghent, which were
forwarded immediately for London ; she left
'Ostend at six o'clock last evening,. and -wade the
North Foreland at two flag morning, and came
in about six. No intelligence bad reached Ostend
of the loss of the British Queen packet. Captain
Fox_reports, as well as he can recollect, that there
were about tea male paSsengers, and three lads,
besides the crew of six bands, including the-Mask
ter and Mate; making in all 19 souls when she
sailed from Ostend: at two o'clock on Tuesday,
13th instant, with a fair wind, and every prospect
of a steady passage. By Captain Fox's report we
make out, that three of the passengers were, a
Mr. JELL, a aoachtuaker ; a person named-War.-
KEA, and another DUVAI; blacksmiths, belong-
ing to this place beside's those a Mr. JAMES
CUTHBERT, of Deal, an English Gentleman, and
a French Ladya also an hostler, which accounts ,
for seven out of the number. Of three lads, two
were the sons of Mrs. LAMING, widow of the un-
fortunate owner of the vessel.
LIMERICK, 11F„c. 17.=-Within the ,Memory of
the oldest inhabitant of this cita, there has not
buten so tremendous a hurricane as was expe-
rienced yesterday morning : it commenced with
the wind at W.S.W. about three o'clock, being
then nearly low water, raising the tide (tbe spring
tides falling off) to a height never before known
in this port. Three vessels burSt their cables in
the pool, and proceeded up the rivet- with the
most surprising' rapidity, bringing 'all the small
craft that lay before them, until they stranded,
between the New Court "louse (the railing of
which one of them struck and carried away) and
the Golden Mills. One of them, the Pax (a large-
Norway ship), in ballast, has been got off with
some damage another, the brig Caroline,. bf
Biddeford, laden with provisions, bacon, and but-
ter,
.for London., remains stranded, but received
no damage, and will get off the next spring tides,
by having about tWo-thirds of her cargo dis-
charged : the --other is the. sloop Elizabeth, of
Greenock (about two-thirds of her cargo of coals
discharged) ; lies its a very dangerous state on a
reef of rocks, about half a cable's length from the
Caroline, with_ her stern right up, and her bead
sunk in the water.—The Mersey, S.rawattr, of
and from Liverpool, laden with coals and salt,
(about two-thirds of her cargo 'discharged), upset
and stink in the Quay, but at low water ; the
`;eater being all got out, and the hatchways all
fastened, she was raised the following tide,
and has not received muck damage.---The above
was all the damage the shipping have received-
here. The hurricane did not abate until the top
of high.water, at ten o'clock, during which se-
-veral boats plied in the streets near the Quays.—
There arc accounts from the River's Mouth up to.
a late hour last night, by which I have nut heard
of any damage done. The outward-bound"
vessels being at anchor in Tarbert and'Labasbeda
Roads, were protected from the gale by the high
lands between them and the point from' which it
blew at.. Arrived the Caledonia, of and for Ir-
vine, laden with timber and seal- skins, from
Nova Scotia, and remains, with the other out-
ward-bound vessels, at Labasheda. Returned the
Brothers, Ilaveott, for London.

FALMOUTH, DEC. 20.7—Arrived the Lloy4l,
BAurtnrr, from Plymouth. Sailed" his Majesty's
ship Basilisk for Bristol.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. IL—Sailed his Majesty's
ship Ulysis with "a fleet for• Africa., The outward-
bound West India:nen have sailed to join the
Swiftsure man of war at Falmouth. The wind
shifted this morning to the East and blows strong,
which has prevented the Mediterranean fleet front
proceeding.
DEAL, DEC. 22.—Remain in the DoWns his
Wlajesty',s ships Bombay, Rosario, Mercurius,
Rattlesnake, and Scourge, and several- loggers,
Arrived the Vrinresseharlotte, SLLVA, from Rio
,Janeiro, and the FoRsTEu, from Jamaica,
for the Itivcr.---WiudE.

Upwards of 400 ships came up the river yes-
terday, most of them froM the Baltic.
The George, from Amelia Island, in the United,
States, has arrived at Liverpool, and has been
seized upon by-the Capta in of the guard-ship, as
unauthorized to make the voyage ; and, yet Ame-
rican produce has fallen at Liverpool.

A Court Martial assembled on 'nest()Ay last, at
the. Muster-Master Generals Office, to investigate
a charge. of _peculatiou, preferred against a Pay
Set:leant of the Ist 1 Guards. !,
The following are time Rates of Allowances
which have ,been granted .to Ge►►eral -And Staff
Officers in the several Districts of. Great Britain,
in lieu of the Rations of Forage, for the uu►mber
of effective horses kept by them :—Nortlunber'-
land, 2s. 4d. ; York, 2s. 4d. ; Ea4tern, 2s. 4d. ;
bent, 2s, 2d.; Sussex, 2s. 3d. ; 'Western Dis-
trict, 2s. 3d. ; North West, 2s. 2d. ; L•eland,
2s. 2d. ; Houle District, 2s.- 2d. ; and North Br i•
. taiu,