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London, England, 1808-02-15 00:00:00

NAUTICAL lATELLICTATP.

TO CAPTAIN SENNETT, OF HIS NIAJFSTV'S 811IP VAMP,
1$ AINSWER TO 1113 LETTER, DATED OYF CADIZ,
DEC. 20, 1807.

Sir—As the friend of Mr. Rooms, (Acting Master
of the Windsor Castle packet), allow me to retOra
you thanks, for your liberal donation of 20 guineas,
addressed to the Masters of Lloyd's Ceffec •house,
which those Gentlemen have paid into myiumitill; n
which shall be distributed as you direct. I ha'e the,.
honout to be, Sir, your most obedient bumble servant,
,lAME2I

FALMOUTH, FEB. 12.
Arrived the Fortunie frigate, from Cork.—Wiud
N. E.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 13. 41
His Majesty's ship Amphion, with her convoy for
the Mediterranean, is getting under weigh. His Ma-
jesty's ship Paulina has gone to Falmouth, to collect
the trade lying there.. Sailed the Mediator frigate,
on a craze. Yesterday morning the Matilda, Capt.
Knot, from London, with bides and tallow, was
stranded on St. Nicholas Island ; the vessel is bilged,
and the cargo is unloading ; but it is feared the vessel
will be lost.

. • PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 14.
Arrived a fleet of outward-bound vessels from the
Downs, among them are the following, viz. the
Vicissitude, GOODSON ; Letitia, Dorms ; Latoni,
M'GRATII ; Joseph, DICKINSON ; friends, RICKLTTS ;
David Shaw, BARNETT ; Lady Mackworth, LEE ;
Perseverance, !BEETS()); ; Trent, CARR ; Samuel and
Jane, ; Lively, --d-- ; Hebe, Zephanus,
--, Chancellors, —; Kingston, BENSONI Nile,
DUNCAN ; Expedition, PINDER ; John and Thomas,
WILSON ; and the Lune, YorNG ; the five latter with
the loss of anchors and cables. Sailed his Majesty's
ships Medusa and Whiting, on a cruise ; Ruckers,
SOPER, and the Latona, M.Gnicrit, for St. Domingo.
The Ocean, Captain J. J. Williamson ; Ceres, Capt.
nDu sford ; Canton, Capt. Lochner ; Dorsetshire,
Capt. Brown ; Alnwick Castle, Capt:-in Prescot ; Da-
vid Scott, Captain J. Locke, Jun. ; and Exeter, Capt.
Meriton, East Indiamen, for Madras and China, ar-
rived here on Thursday from the River. The Lien,
of 64 guns, Capt. Rolles, is appointed to convoy them.
The Polyphemus, 64, Captain Heywood ; Salcette,
I Captain Bathurst ; and Daphne, Captain Mason,.are
in Dock at this port. The Blenheim (late Christian
the 7th), is to he fitted for commission; San IldefonSo,
to be fitted fur a victualling depot at Spithead ; Tigre,
80, Captain Hallowell ; and la Chiffonne, Captain
Wainwright, to,be repaired, are to be taken ineln the
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course of the next week. Wind N. N. E.
: . RVE, (Isleof Wight) FEB. 12.
'''Phfee Vessels are sunk and four on shore off' thit
illaer 'pawn the-latter is the Little Jane, bound- tO
OrGood. Hope:
• 003/FR,..FEERUARY 12.
• Arca nd, at, six o'eldck this morning, shifted via-
jdinitltti the:NorthEast, and has blown all the ,day
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excessively.. hard, attended with heavy showers of
Snow.• A great number of vessels passed heridizring
the day from the Downs, under their bare poles; :and
apparently With the loss of anchors and cables.. , Be-
tween two and three this afternoon an East India
ship went past here, with the loss of her main top-
mast, and sai4. torn ; one of our boats went out'after
her, to offer. assistance. It is' much appiehended.that
1 the shipping must have suffered very severely in the
Downs, the wind blowing right through that Road-
sted. The sloop Brothers, of Hastings, came for this
harbour this morning, but unfortunately could not
succeed in getting a sufficient way in to shelter her
from the sea, which ran very high, and which beat
her against the Sloth Pier Head so violently, as to
liender her unfit ever to go to sea again. The Nymph
hired armed cutter, and the brig Henry, of Hull, in
ballast, came in this morning, having both sustained
the loss of an anchor and cable in the Downs ; the
latter has likewise received damage by getting foul
of the sloop above mentioned. Six o'clock, the wind
is, thank GOD, now more moderate. .

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DEAL, FEBRUARY 12.
The Pidgeon schooner has lost her bowsprit, and
run to leeward ; the Harmony victualling transport
cut froM her anchor (to prevent a vessel coming
alongside) -and ran• to, leeward ; as
..oso the Mutine,
Avenger, Eclair, Humber, Bold, and Wrangler.—
There is a report•in circulation, that.a vessel is lost on
the Sandwich Flats, and with her the crew, but which
1 hope will be contradicted. Some of the Deal boats,
which have been prevented by the heavy surf running
on the beach, have just launched to such vessels as
might want assistance.—Wind /4.)alows*Verfhard. •
FEB. 14.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Seagull, on a
cruize. Sailed through the Downs from the River,
several outward-bound vessels to the Westward.

• ' MARGATF, nit it .
The Perseverance, h.LLfOTT, 'from Cork.;, the
Clyde, JAcxsoN, from Halifax ; the. Thomas and Ju-
dith, -----, from Portsmouth ; and the Benjamin,
'of Tenby, MADDOX; from Waterford, all for London,
are on shore near this place'; the crews -of 'the two
latter are drowned, and four of the Clyde's. crew.—
The Countess of Elgin cutter is on. shore.iii our bay,
also one of ow hops, called the Governuc. ~Two Jug-
gers belonging to this place, in standing out of the har-
bour list nightjor the purpose of answering signals:
of distressl.ran foul of each other, by means of which'
•one of them slink, arrA two of her Crew were drowned:
The sloop .Unity,- of Gosport, Mormst Master ;:and

the Williartl,4 POW**, for LendOn; ire brought
into this harbour with z loss of anchors and cables ;
also the brig Tiber, of Yarmouth, from Cork, *or
bondon, having upset her windlass. The Mariner
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g_tv? brig, and the Haabett, . —;'frOitiolante, for
-London, received mach damage!
n. our roads yes.
•terday„ 2 The Neptune, Urruk,' rota Chatham, for
Chepstote,*g. driven'on shore •n*erar kings gate, and
•is ilium ;!burnt. :rbc. Apollo,' \Visit's.= ; and the
Emily, TA?LdJt, fibril London, for the West Indies,
have put' into agate with danilige. The Meaburn
transport, from Moeite Video, is got into Dover, with
the•loss of masts,

YARMOUTH, FEB. 12. •
Early this morning, during a heavy gale irom,* the
Northward, with snow, five vessels were driven on
our beach, viz. the Martha, of Wakefield; and the
Mary, of Blyth—,-the other three names are unknown.
All the crews are saved. The Custom and Excise
revenue cutters have cut their cables, and are gone
for. Harwich. It is feared much damage will be
done on this coast, as it still continues to blow a

gile.
FEB. 13.—Last night we experienced a tremendous
gale from the. N.B. and N. accompanied with a heavy
fall of snow, and this morning four ships parted and
came on shore on this Beach, viz. one brig laden with
timber, and three sloops, one With a general cargo;
the crews of which are Ull cived except cne man—
the ships are also expected to be got off, 'and the prin-
cipal part of their cargoes. saved. ' Three ships are on
shore at Lowestoft, and two at Cromer, and I fear
many others, as the gale still continues. The ships
of war are all riding safe, with their yards and top-
masts struck.
One, P.M. A brig has now cut, and is come on
shore, laden with fish,, the crew of which were saved
from a watery grave by means of a line being fixed
across the ship, from a 'carriage gun. Capt. Manby,
who is the inventor of it, attended, and gave the ne-
cessary directions. Great praise is due to Captain
Manby for his invention ; find also for the readiness
he manifested in attending to rescue the crew of the
above vessel. Captain M. is Barrack-master.

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4,75 . 2 - •• ..

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STATE OF THE ROADS.—The heavy fall of snow
on Friday .has in many parts rendered the roads
wholly impassable, and so generally impeded the pro-
gress of travelling, that the letter earners were Sa-
turday delayed nearly five hourcafter their usual time
of being dispatched, and at that time the Worcester,
Gloucester, Norwich, Ipswich, and all the northern
coasters had not arrived. The. Exeter mail coach
was unable to proceed • beyond 'Overton, where the
passengers stopped. • The guard with great difficulty
came forward with the mails over fields, &c. The
Gloucester and Worcester.fnail coaches were stopped
;vita miles beyond Benson; the snow being drifted in
parts of the • *road to the depth of ten. feet. The
guards brbisglit forsirard the Mails.,on.borseback. The
Bristol Mai I Was twice dug. ittiC9f-she snow. The
Liverpool guard reapl;ed town abatit fiVe o'clocron
Situiday with the letter_ hag,9l) . horseback, the
coach being unable ta came, .ori-sit-4halk-hill ; the
.snow. lay in drifts qit'inif twelve -feet:deep, and the
road in other parts'svas iiiipasulile.:hy' a varriage. The
heavy Liverpool, which left 'London early on Friday
morning, did not reach biford till eleven at night.
The fill of snow on thelklorth road was particularly
heavy, and in many pldeei it was forty or fifty feet',
deep. In the vicinity of .Biggleswade the Newcastle
coach, and other coaches, were stopped, and so com-
pletely involved in snow, that a great number of
hands were necessary to extricate them. The gale
was not so severely felt to the Westward.
The following Mails of Saturday had not arrived
yesterday noon :—Yarmouth. .Wisbeach, Leeds, Ho.
Iyhead; and Cambridge.- The 'Dover and Ports-
mouth were the only Mails of yesterday then arrived.
The latter coach lost its-way, and was nearly over-
turned. Two female passengers were frozen to dc:th
On the outside - .
Thursday night, a Wing of the house of Mr. Wm.-
roLe, at Ladon, 14.eits; was blown down, and Mr.
Baum, a servant maid, and a boy, were buried in the
ruins. The former was dug out a corpse, the child'
died on Friday, and the servant was dangerously
bruised. Mr. Bettis was a resident of Hampshire,
and had only'slept in the house two nights previous
to the accident. The child was the nephew of Mrs.
Walpole.
On Friday morning, during the storm, a considera-
ble part of the Prince of WALEs's wall in St. James's
Park, near the centinel boxes, was blown down. Se-
veral trees, in the Quarles-garden, were blown up by
the roots. •
A man of decent appearance was found frozen to
death under the Park-wall yesterday morning. He
appeared to have been drinking, and in. his pockets
were found about two pounds..in money, but there
were no traces of bit' abode.
SOUTHAMPTON, F. 13. 13.—This morning the Sa-
lisbury coach was so much delayed on the road to this
place, that it did not arrive till half past twelve, in-
stead .of at six—occasioned by the tempest yesterday
morning, "and fall of snow. Trees were blown down
and fell across the road, which impeded the coach, till
they were sawn asunder. Itching Ferry was impas-
sable, owing to the violence of the gale ; a circum-
stance that has not occurred for many years.
Strascx, FEB. 13.—Tbe severity of the weather was
never before felt in such an extreme degree as it was
yesterday morning. The wind blew tremendously,
from north west, the snow at the same time falling
with much rapidity: The London coaches set off at'
the usual time from Brighton, but were all compelled
to return before they had proceeded but a short dis-
tance. A child belonging to A soldier of the 51st re-
giment, perished on one of the baggage waggons, be-
tween Brighton and Lewes.
lir the dreadful tempest of yesterday morning i
cliimrey fell upon .the roof of a house in Chichester,
and beat in a rafter, which fell on Mr. Willi*x.Mit-
chell; who was sleeping in the room, by which he was
instantly killed. He was-a young man of quiet and
inoffensive manners,-and possessed of considerable
abilities. - .
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