Star.
London, England, 1808-04-04 00:00:00

DEAL, APRIL 3.

Arrived and sailed for the River the Mentor, Cap-
tain QuEtsT, from St. Kitt's. Sailed his Majesty's
ships Orion, Centaur, Salcette, and Dapjme, to the
northward. Wind S. W. blows hard.

;, APRIL 3.

Sailed this morning his Majesty's brigs Turbulent
and Monty with the fleet under convoy for Gutten-
burgh, with a fair wind at 8. W.

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HLI L, Anti. 1.
A signal of an enemy?* vessel off the Hamher, was'
yesterday hoisted on Cle,athorp signal post.

YARMOUTH,APRIL 3
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This Morning arrived the Assurance, of 44 guns,l
and la Loire, of 36 guns, with the outward-bound
Greenland . shiK ; atsp, arrived the Spitfire sloop,
Pinchei, Snipe, and Charger, gun brigs, and Charles
armed ship, ar d retiain with the Roebuck, Admiral'
DOVGLAS.—WiAd S.w.

FiOM LLOYD'S LIST.
Ge AVM ND, APRIL • S.—Passed by the Juliana, froM
St. Thomas's; Fame, 'tholll3l from St. Michael's ; Pattgry,
Phillips, from Watt:dot:di Apollo, Gruity ; Hero, Robinson ;
Resolution, Rabone; Maria;
.Wrangbarn • Memelle, Ransom,
and Concord, Faulkes, from G''uenburg..Z-Sailed the Streatham,
Dale, for India ; Mary Ann, Lime for the Cape of Good Hope;
Faith, Featherstone, and the General. Boyd, Smith, for Surinam;
Hope, Shields, for Tobago ; Hopewell, Covey, and Renewal,
Hill, for Barbadoes • Truro Robinson, for Londonderry
Lively, Bishop, for Newry ; Cora, ETtli•011, for St. Kitt's ; Nep-
tune, Smith, for St. Thomas's; Flora, Simmons, and Riga
Packet, White, for Demerara ; Lord Melville, Roach for St.
Vincent's; George Piethall, for New Providence; Industry,
Kirby, and the Caledonia,
Boag, for Quebec.

The late Easterly winds continued longer than have
been remembered by the oldest mariners, viz. for 53
successive days.
Sir J. SAUMAREZ had, on Saturday, an audience of
the Board of Admiralty, and received his final instruc-
tions, as Commander-in-chief of the Baltic expedition,
which will sail in a few days.

The force in the Downs is increasing daily ; two
more seventy-fours and a sixty-four arrived there on
Thursday. The Triumph and Implacable passed
Portsmouth yesterday. They are all destined for the
Baltic.

The ships composing the Baltic fleet are not to
rendezvous at Yarmouth, as was originally intended,
hut are to proceed direct from the Downs as they ar-
rive there.

NAVAL APPOINTMLNI'S.
Captain George Cockburn, to the Pompec.
Sir H. E. Neale, Bart. to the Bombay.
Captain Edward Palmer, and Captain GeorFe Langford, are
promoted to Post Captains.
Lieutenants Fowell, of the Tigrn, is promoted to a C•minian-
der, and appointed to the Fara Numa, taken at Alexandria.
Captain .I. Smith, to the Devastation.
Captain Fabian, to the Mutine.
Honourable Captain SeyrotAir to the Pallas.
Captain G. B. Salt, to the Dreadnought, the flag-ship of Rear
Admiral Sotheby.
Captain Newman, to the Hero.
Liet.tmant Boys, to El Firme.
Lieutenant Buchan, to the Adoris.
Lieutenant Barettl:to the Dapper.
Lieutenant Cheesrnan, (of Portsea) is appointed Resident Agent
for Transports at Cork.
And Lieutenant W. Miller (2d), is appointed- Resident Agent
at Bermuda.
Mr. RontsoN, surgeon on half-pay, is appointed to
his Majesty's ship Ticaa at Spithead. in the room of
Mr. Mum who retires upon a pension.

Captain DONNELLY is appointed to the command
of the Invincible, of 74 guns, recently launched at
Woolwich.
Captains CARTHEW and FRASER are appointed to
the respective commands of la Gloire and la Belle
Ponle frigates, at Portsmouth.
The following Liao will slew the increase of Offi-
cers, during the last thirty-five years, in the Royal
Navy z--•
On the Ist of January,l77s, Qn the Ist of January, 1808,
Admiral of the Fleet 1 Admiral of the Fleet 1
Admirals of the White 4 Admirals of the Red 18
Admirals of the Blue s Admirals of the White 14
Vice-Admirals of the Red 3 Admirals of the Blue 15
Vice-Admirals of the White 5 Vice-Admirals of the Fed 16
Vice-Admirals of the Blue 5 Vice-Admirals of the White 15
Rear-Admirals of the Rcd 4 Vice-Admirals of the Blue 24
Rear-Admirals of the White 3 Rear-Admirals of the Rvd 11
Rear-Admirals ef the Blue 4 Rear-Admirals of the White 18
Captains • • 327 Rear-Admirals of the Blue 29
Commanders 120 Captains - 700
Lieutenants • 932 Commanders 4:19
Lieutenants 2300
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.—The Venus, for
la Louisa, les Trois Antis, and la Beige, cut out of
Courland Bay, Tobago, between 18th and '2oth June,
1803, will be paid on Thursday next, at No. '22, Arun-
del-street, and there recalled. The Monkey, for the I
Elizabeth, captured 15th November 1807, will be paid
on board, on her arrival, and recalled at No. 2, James-1
street, Adelphi.
A convoy is appointed from Leith to British North
America for the 10th April.
The Integrity, Gardner, from from Monte Video
for the West Indies, pat into Rio Janeiro in distress,
where she must unload to repair.
Accounts have been received that the Seine and,
l'ltalien frigates have entered L'Orient. These are
the frigates which carried out troops to Martimique,
and; which lately made an attempt upon the convoy
of the Siritts, but were frustrated by the skill and gal-
lantry of Captain PROWS& •
Five Danish Indiamen are supposed to be at re-
sent on their homeward-bound passage—great anxiety
is said to prevail in Denmark fisr their safety : they
were expected at Copenh/gen early in the present
year, and it is hoped there that they may have re-
ceived intimation of the war, and put into some
French or Spanish port. They are the Kronprindsen,l
Norge, Prinscn of Augustcnburgh, Kioebnhavn, and i
Holstein.
Sunday se'nnight a dreadful accident happened at J 1
the Black Rock, near Dublin :—a small boat, with
four men, came from Dunleary to assist in removing
the remaining bodies from the wreck of the Prince of
Wales, when the boat, by the heavy swell of the sea,
was upset. and all on board perished.
We are concerned to announce the loss of the Ca
ledonia, of Aberdeen, Captain HEALY, on the rocks
of Redcar, near Gesborough, in Yorkshire, in the
night of the 26th ult. Seventeen persons perished on
the occasion, including five or six gentlemenwho %vete
passengers.—Five s tilors, three of whom were pas-
sengers, and a soldier have been saved. Four of the
boXies, namely, Mr. HENDRIE, clerk to SAYS, MA-
," and Co. Mr. JOHN BURNETT, Of Elrick, and
two of the sailors, have been cast on shore. The
Marquis of HUNTLEY'S plate, to the amount of £5OO,
was on board, and is totally lost.
Thursday a Court Martial was held on Mr. W.
DIXON, Gunner of his Majesty's ship Pluto, for ne-
glect of duty and disobedience of osdets. He was ad-
monished to obey his orders literally in future.—Rear
Admiral Sir ISAAC COFFIN, Bart. President.