Star.
London, England, 1808-04-07 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE•

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PLYMOUTH, APRIL 5.
Came in the Aristides, schooner, laden with brindy
and wines, and the Ceres sloop, laden with same ar-
ticles, both taken by the Diana, of 36 guns. It is
reported that the Aigle, of 36 guns, Captain WoLve,
has had an action with two French frigates, and that
she had nearly destroyed one of them, when they un-
fortunately escaped into L'Olient : it is further stated
that Captain WOLFE is slightly wounded, and that
two or three of the crew weye killed and wounded.
Came in the Cheerly gun-brig, from the Channel
Fleet, they are gone to Torbay. It now blows a
very heavy gale at W. S. W.—Accounts are just re-
ceived from Cawsand that two vessels_from Ireland
are wrecked three miles west of the Ramhead, laden
with butter and other goods ; one of them is the
Lovely Cruiser, of and from Cork, JAMES CAA ML
master, bound to this port ; and the other the Success,
of Fo.wey, Captain Coma, s, fr,mt 0 rk, for London,
with pork and oats, the f ,rmer is gone to pieces, and
the cargo beating about the rocks ; and the latter was
at twelve o'clock this day in such a situation, that it
is feared she will be lost ; her cargo cor,'sists of oats,
and she is full of water. The Swallow, of 18 guns,
that sailed yesterday to the westward, is returned
again, and the Orestes, of 18 guns, that sailed with
the victuallers for the Fleet off the Tagus, is put
back by the gale.

.PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 6.
Arrived the Bream schooner, from tzrmuda, with
dispatches. The vessels which were on shore yester-
day are got off, except the George, WIIITE : she is not
expected to be got off. The gale has continued the
whole of this day.—Wind N. N. W.
DEAL, APRIL 6.
Arrived the Challenger sloop, from a cruize. In
the gale of yesterday, the American ship Mercury,
from Tenerlffe for LoAdon, with wine and barilla,
parted from her anchors, and drove against a sloop
of war, by which accident she tore her rudder off,
and split her stern port quite up, and drifted out to-
wards the Goodwin Sands, when a Deal boat went
along-side and took out the people, and landed them
here in the evening. The ship went on shore on the
off-part of the Goodwin Sands, and it is thought went
to pieces, but the weather is so very thick cannot be
ascertained. The American ship Hamlet also went
adrift, and is on shore near Ramsgate harbour ; she
is from Philadelphia, with cotton, coffee, _ Indigo,
&c. and it is feared will be lost.—Remain in the
Downs the ships as per last.—Wind S.W. blows hard.
YARMOUTH, APRIL 6.
The Thomas and Martha, of Aberdeen, board to '
Jersey, with coal and glass bottles, is on shot* off
this port ; having sprung a leak was obliged to cut
from her anchor.—Remain the ship Roebuck, Success,
la Loire fitates ; Pincher gun brig, Charlei armed
ship, Sealark schooner, and Claudia cutter.
HULL, APRIL 4.
The Vigilant, FRANCIS CLIFFORD, and the fleet for
the Brazils, sailed from the Humber last Wednesday,
and arrived in the Downs after a fine passage oftwo days
We are happy to state, that the account in our last,
of the loss of the Aurora, YOUNG, of Newcastle,
with other vessels near the entrance of the Humber,
is untrue so far as regards the Aurora • a letter hav-
ing been received by the owner from the captain him-
self, informing him that all the crew were well, aid
that the ship had sustained no damage but the loss of
an anchor,.

EDINBURGH; &MIL 4.
Yesterday morning, the wind, which has been so
long Easterly, changed to the West. The day was
more agreeable than any we have had for a long time
past. This morning it blew a heavy gale frem the
S.W. with a good deal of rain. A number of chim-
ney cans, slates, &c. have been blown down. Saturday
evening the Ringdove sloop of war brought up to
Leith Roads a Danish privateer of 12 guns and 65
; men. She was taken coming out of North Bergen
on the 30th of March, and had made several captures
on that coast, amongst which were, the Hope, of
Lerwick. Saturday morning sailed from Leith Roads
the fleet for Gottenburgh, &c.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

GRAVISEND, Aram 6.—Passed by the Tyne packet, Bar-
ber, from Dublin; Vrow Elizabeth, Johnson, from St. Michael's;
And the Oden (Danish prize) from Portsmouth. Sailed the Caer-
went, Elmar, for Curacoa, and the Vestal,Greicson, for St. Kitts.
Three colliers were driven on shore near Brighton ; one of them
a complete wreck.
The Three Brothers, Wanly, from Surinam to London, is
supposed to be lost off' Newhaven.
The Benson, SPENCER, arrived at Port Glasgow
on Saturday last, from Trinidad, spoke on the 23d
ult. about 150 miles W.N.W. of Tony Island, the
ships Lord Hood, for Halifax; and --, for Prince
Edwards' Island, both from Liverpool, out five days,
all well.
A letter from Antigua, dated the 4th of February,
states, that four ships of the fleet which sailed from
Portsmouth on the 18th of December, under convoy
of the Astrea frigate, had arrived there, viz. the Prince
George, PIZZA ; Augusta, DRYSDALE ; Lord Bar-
ham, PAwit.zs ; and a store ship. They reported that
they were overtaken by a severe gale, in the Bay of
Biscay, which, together with other causes, effected an
almost general dispersion of the fleet, in the beginning
of January. Some alarm, in consequence of a strange
man of war, of 64 guns, bearing down into the midst
of the fleet, on the 28th of December, which was sub-
seqtrently supposed to have boarded one of the vessels,
and got possession of her instructions. It appears,
however, by other accounts, that the Astrea, with the
body of the convey, arrived in the beginning of Fe-
bruary at Barbadoes, aad sailedoo the6th for Jamaica.