Star.
London, England, 1808-10-13 00:00:00

Sense merchants of the first respectability, connect- JAMAICA FLEET.
ed particularly with the trade to Spain and Portugal, We have the satisfaction to announce the arrival at
had yesterday an interview with Lord BATHURST upon Bristol of the Martha Brae, Cox ; Diana, THOMAS ;
commercial business, when the following important Ann, JAMES, and the .Eolus, part of the fleet from
communication was made to them, namely, " that all
" articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of Jamaica.
66 such countries and their colonies as are in amity The ship Maxwell arrived at Liverpool on Mon-
" with Great Britain, may be imported either in Bri- day from Barbadoes, from whence she sailed on the
'' tish ships or in ships belonging to those countries, 130th of August. As she came away, the POLYPHE-
" and re-exported either directly to countries in amity
taus man of war and fleet, which sailed from Ports-
" with us, or through the medium of free ports, with- I
, mouth the 2d of July, and from Madeira the :k1 of
" out payment of the duty imposed by the Order in
" Council Act. This order is to be retrospective, so i August, were going into Carlisle Bay. Admiral
" far as extends to the time at which the countries COCHRANE arrived at Barbadoes on the 25 h of Au-
" alluded to have been declared in a state of amity." gust ; on the 27th, intelligence was received that a
The effect of this arrangement will be, that the I
produce of the Brazils will now be imported dirforce from Guadeloupe had made an attack on M.trie
ktil
without touching at Lisbon as an intermediate port.
{Galante, but was repulsed. Two hundred black
Upon a question being put to Lord BATHURST— troops were immediately sent from Barbadoes to re-
whether St. Domingo was to be included in this order,' inforce the garrison, which was considered a sufficient
the Noble Lord declined to give any decisive answer. , number to frustrate any future attempt of the French
Thus, it seems, St. Domingo is not regarded by Minis- to retake it.
ters as a state in amity with us : at least, they do to retake it.
not wish it to be understood that it has been recog- PORTSMOUTH. OCTOBER 12.
nized as such by Government. This was clearly im- Arrived his Majesty's ship PLovert, with a fleet of
plied in the tone and terms in which Lord BATHURST ; transports from Plymouth. The HYDRA is appointed
treated the question. 1 convoy for Malta, and the JUPITER, for Spain.
Ministers have received and communicated to the ' DEAL, OCTOBER re.
merchantsvery important intelligencefrom Mr. DUFF, Arrived the NEMESIS frigate yesterday evening from
which demonstrates the liberality, gratitude, and at-
Portsmouth, and sailed this afternoon for Yarmouth;
tachment of the Spanish Governors towards this coun-
try. In the whole course of our relation with Spain ! BOLD gun brig from a cruize ; Supply navy trans-
for a series of years, even when our connection with i port from Plymouth. Sailed the PANDORA sloop for
that country was most amicable, the importation of 1 , Yarmouth ; SKYLARK sloop for Portsmouth ; OBE.
various articles from this country, particularly Man- ! RON and ROYALIST sloops on a cruize. Arrived the
chester goods, hats, and Birmingham manufacture, i
was totally prohibited. But it appears that an or-1 SATELLITE sloop[ of war from a cruize off Flushing.
der has been issued permitting the importation Wind N. W.
of all articles of British growth or manufacture, ! IN TNI Dow Ns.—Princess of Orange, Vice Admiral CAMP-
without exception, upon the payment of a small . SELL; Bellerophon, Rear Admiral GARDNER ; Warspitc, Hero.
duty, namely, 15 per cent. ad valorem. The order 1 Invincible, Illustrious, Christian Vii. Leviathan, Bombay, Vene-
which we have described, specifically referred only ; rable,Tresty, Clyde, Prevoyante storeship ; Nightingale and Alert
to the ships in the port of Cadiz, but ,it is considered sloops ; Bustler, Indignant, Bold, and Flamer gun brigs ; and
the certain forerunner of a general decree from the Supply navy transport, with the transports having on board the
Supreme Government. `Royal Waggon Train, which embarked in the River.
SHEERNESS, OCTOBER 12.
Arrived his Majesty's ship MONKEY, with a fleet of
merchant ships from the Baltic.—Sailed the LOCUST
man of war, with a convoy for Gnttenburgh and the
Baltic : another convoy is expected to sail from the
Nore on the 19th.—A number of vessels have assem-
bled here awaiting convoy to Heligoland, which in
the regular course stands for to-morrow; but as yet not
any ship is appointed to sail with them.—Wind N.W.
PADSTOW, OCTOBER 9.
The remains of a boat were driven on shore this
morning, near this place, marked the Myrtle, of
Lancaster, THOMAS HARPER. It is believed the un-
fortunate vessel was driven on shore in a tremendous
gale of last night, against the high cliffs, about three
miles from this place, and went instantly to pieces,
as scarce a vestige of her remains. Some small quan-
tity of palm oil is washing on the Rocks.
LEITH, OCTOBER 10.
Saturday forenoon we had a very strong gale from
the N. W. by which a number of cans were blown off
the chimney tops. The ships in Leith Roads we;e
hardly able to ride at their anchors. The Mary of
Dundee, a fine brig, laden with coals for Gotten-
burgh, drove, and having unshipped her rudder, she
came ashore about two o'clock to the east of the har-
bour, near the starting post. The people on board
were all saved. Much praise is due to some New-
haven fishermen, who, at great hazard, came to the
assistance of the Mary, but could not get her off.
The cargo is landing, and it. is hoped the vessel will
be saved. A boat belonging to the CHILDERS sloop
of war, with a man in it, was driven down the Firth,
and we have not heard what has become of her ; and
a sloop was seen in distress in the forenoon, of whose
fate we are also ignorant.
GREENOCK, OCTOBER 10.
During Thursday and Friday it blew very hard
from the S. W. and early upon Saturday morning
checked suddenly round to N. W. when the storm
increased, and continued all day. We are happy to
say that the damage sustained by the shipping here
was inconsiderable. The sloop Jolly Major was
driven upon the new East Quay, where she now lies
high and dry, without being materially damaged.—
The ship Mars carried away the pall she was fastened
to at the East Quay, and ran aground at the Open
Shore ; she was got off soon after, and but little in-
jured. The Shannon, and a coasting brig are ashore
at Garvel Point. The Loyal Sam was run foul o
by the ship Ann, and had her starboard rails tore
away. The ship Columbus got foul of the Ann,
GRANT, and carried away her sprit-sail-yard by th,
bowsprit. A gabart went upon the bank, and soo
after hoisted a signal of distress, when a boat's crew
put off and relieved her. The ship George, ELME.%
from this port to Pictou, ran aground on Thursday
night below the Cloch light-house, but was got off
next tide with little damage ; she now lies in Go'
rock Bay.
FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
OE/AVIS/ND, OCT. 12.—Passed by the Surly, Harry, from
Honduras; Ann, Fly, from Guernsey; and the Guite Hoff
flung, --, from Oporto.—Salled the Herald, Scott, for M
deira ; Royal Sovereign, —, and the James, Wander,
Malta; Venus, Berkley, for St. Mary's ; Ceres, Owen,
Londonderry; Minerva, Alexander, for Surinam; Lusistiana,
Carman, for Grenada, Pearl, Patterson, for Gottenburgh ; T
Caracoes, Da Costa ; American, --, and the Gratido,
gers, for the Brazils.
The Mary Ellen Elizabeth, JOHNSON, from London,
for the Western Islands ; Harmony, PAYNE ; and
Freedom, THOMPSON, from Poole, for Newfoundlan
sailed from Portsmouth a few days since, under c
voy of the Lily, and parted off Plymouth, into wli
place the Lily put, with the remainder of her cony
viz. Emulation, BURROW, for Newfoundland ; H
tor, —, for Lisbon ; and the Heroine, GRA
for Halifax.
The master of a vessel arrived in the River, fro
the Baltic, reports that he parted from the fleet
Yarmouth Roads.
The Juno, BAXTER, for London, is lost near Li
pool, at which place the Philipsburg, LIFFINGWELL,
for New York, has received much damage, and mi-

General PIEMAN, and the other officers sentenced to
death for the surrender of Copenhagen, have experi-
enced a mitigation of their punishment. Some are to
be confined for life at Bornholm, and others banished.
SEAHORSE FRIGATE.—No official detail has yet been
received at the Admiralty, of the brilliant action
of the SEAHORSE. We have been favoured with the
following extract of a letter from an Officer of that
frigate, which gives a very modest and characteristic
account of the engagement:
" MALTA, JULY 31.—Fortune his at length smiled on the Old
Horse—l arrived here five days ago, in the Dedera Zaffer, a
Turkish frigate of fifty-two guns, which we captured in the Ar-
chipelago, after an action of four hours, on the night of the sth
instant. There was a smaller frigate of twenty-six guns and two
mortars which went down during the action, at least she has not
since been' beard of, and she was lost sight of by us very suddenly,
a few minutes after we had been engaging her as near as the two
ships could lie together. They bad also a galley full of men
which escaped.
" Our loss has been miraculously small, but five men killed and
ten wounded, most of the latter not dangerously. Our ship has
suffered considerably, many of our guns being unserviceable; we
shall be detained here perhaps three weeks getting to rights, after
wbkh I think it probable that we shall resume our station, and
very possibly catch another."
Thursday night a boat, with four men in her, two
of them of the name of M'KISLAY (father and son),
left Greenock harbour for Skipness. When off Mount
Stuart, island of Rothesay, the boat, from her being
old and in bad condition, split, when they all pe-
rished.
This melancholy accident happened , within I
view of several other boats, but which, in consequence '
of its blowing hard at the time, accompanied with
a heavy swell, could render no assistance.
Another boat, supposed also to belong to Skipness,
went down, same day, near to Port Bannatyne, county
of Bute.
It appears from an official investigation respecting
the Gentleman mentioned in the STAR of Saturday
last to have been drowned near Helensburgh, in Scot-
land, that the unfortunate sufferer is from Wisbeach,
in Cambridgeshire. The body has not yet been
found, but the Procurator Fiscal of Dumbarton has
very laudably offered a reward for its recovery.
The body of the unfortunate Captain HERBERT,
whose melancholy death we lately announced, was
picked up a few days afterwards by the Unicorn fri-
gate, and interred at Gijon, with military honours, on
the 23d of September last • most of the English there,
and many Portuguese of the first respectability atten-
ded the funeral. The body of Mr. CREED has also
been picked up, and buried with due solemnity. It
being a Roman Catholic country, and having no Pro-
testant minister at hand, they were under the neces-
sity of procuring an officer from the Unicorn, to per-
form the funeral rites, agreeably to our established re-
ligion.
BOXING.—A very obstinately contested pitched
battle was fought yesterday morning, for a purse of
20 guineas, and a blooming damsel of eighteen, be-
tween a gentleman coachman of the name of Howard,
and a person of the name of Muffin, a coach proprie- ,
tor. The match was made in the heat of the moment
on Monday last, when the competitors, who were
rival suitors of the lady, both unluckily met together
at her lodgings, in the Edgware Road, and a short
rencontre followed. The money was staked, death or
victorp and the parties met at day-break yesterday
morning, in a field between Acton and Wormwood
Scrubs. The battle lasted 40 minutes, and about
double that number of tremendous unskilful blows
were exchanged. Victory, which alternately hovered
over each, ultimately crowned the head of Howard,
who was quite as badly beaten as his antagonist ;
and had the young lass for whom they fought been
present, it would have puzzled her to distinguish the
features of her champions.
It has generally been experienced, when a Lottery
occurred at the time of payment of stock dividends,
that their receivers have, according to long usage,
taken in different shares to the amount of many hun-
dreds of Tickets. What an extraordinary induce-
ment is at this moment presented them, when a most
capital Scheme, consisting only of 20,000 numbers,
and with not three Blanks to a Prize, has the great
additional attraction of two Prizes of 500 whole
Tickets each, whose product alone is capable of in-
creasing the principal of their stock to an immense
amount !

unload.
The Jean, SMITH, from Guernsey, for Cork, is
into Penzance, with seven feet water in her hold.

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