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London, England, 1812-01-16 00:00:00

LOSS OP THE MEDEA.

Z.II lontagtle, 1 s.,
IMontague, by whom he has issue, Charles William,
now Duke of Buccletigh and Quensberry, and Henry
James, Lord Montagu, and four daughter* viz. the
Countess of Courtown, Countess of Home, Marchio-
We yesterday stated that the harbour of Oven- i ness of Queensberry, And -Countess of Antra m t—all
hagen was filled with French privateers, and we now lof whom have families. His Grace is succeeded in
learn, that they have the audacity to issue forth and 1 his titles and estates by his eldest son, Charles Wit-
recapture such American or neutral vessels, as have j rum. Earl cf Dalkeith ; oho married Harriet, daugb.
ter of the late Viscount Sidney, and has several chil-
been set at liberty by the Danish Prize-Courts, after deers.
is Grace succeeded at an ear. ly age to a
bripg captured by Danish privateers. Mr. IRVING I princely fortune, which gave him the means of in-
hail been able to procure no positive determination dulging his natural disposition to public spirit and
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as to the great mass of Aterican property under pro. private liberality, to which purposes, accordingly,' a
considerable part of his immense funds were known
cess iu the Danish Court of Admiralty, and but a ,
to be applied. He was exceechngly affable in his man.
few ships tinder the flag of the United States had been
ners ; and what deserves to be recorded of a person
set at liberty. . .
so greatly exalted both in rank and fortune, was ge
.--. tlerally acceptable to the poor. As a landlord, his
A ship has arrived from Alma, near Alkant, which : liberality vlnle well known ; he was easy of access, and
port she left on the sth ult. consequently the advices: always ready to take an active part in any lithe= Pf
'from Valencia, by this opportuAity, cassia be titer benevolence 'ea.! humanity. - • -
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Charleston Papers arrived this morning to the
23d November, but they bring no news that is not
already known to our Readers.


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The follosVing Esttact of a lettLi from Captaid
MURRAY of tl:e Medea, date.' South Uist, Dec: 47,
states the melancholy particulars of the loss of that
vessel :

ig I am sorry to inform you that the Medea is
total wreck. We sailed from Quebec on the 12th of
October t during our voyage we lost several of our
masts, sails, &c: owing tothe most tempestuous weather.
" On the morning of the 22c1 we saw the land of this
Island ;as the vessel WAS nearly ungovernable, ea-
dearoused to clear the land to ran through sow of the
many passages here—but not baying sails or masts Ise
quisite, the sea dente her to leeward, in spite of all onr
efforts. When I saw my fate, and the breakers hi *ll
diroatibnc, Erin td the ilerwest part II could see,- and
ietito my best bower, and wore away the most of the
cable in ten fathoms water; I found the bottom
rocky ; and at four a. m. • •the rocks cut the ca-
ble nigh the anchor, and I cut' what remainei on
board, to make bey wear bean the wind kir the clearest
part c f the Sound.

We have this morning received Dublin Papers of
Monday last, but they are barren of intelligence.--
The)' furnish fiiriisli us with no additional particulars on the
:Attirjee,t ttf the Anti-Protestant Plot
A Dublin Paper states, that the celebrated Mrs.
CLARKE is expected in that City.
A Petition from the Protest ants of Dublin, in fa.
Tour of the Catholics, is now sigming.--The Catholic
Meetings still continue. In addition to taose of Cf rk
and Limerick, the Catholics of Clare and Kerry
have assembled.
The measure of the new arrangement of the KING's
household, is expected us he brought forward this
day in the !loose of Commons. The household
is now to be limited to ten Officer:, in the appoint-
ment of her MAJESTY : viz. four Lords of the Bed-
chambes ; four Giooms of the Stele, a Master of the
Robes, and a Keeper of the Privy Purse ; over these
anew Officer r f superior rank is to he placed, to
superintend and controut the whole ; that Officer, we
understand, will be the Earl of WiNetteLsr.A. -
It was currently reported yesterday on 'Change,
tar Russia and Sweden have entered- into a treaty
alarmed ueutrali' y, and that a number of ptivateers FALMOUTH, JANUARY IL
were fitting nut in the different oils of Sweden to i Arrived the EARL Seexcate cutter, front a miss
i.Lvat itiNg of
sloop war,
of from
wa r tha
act against the French small waft which at present; PORTSMOUTH, JAN. is.
infest the Sound.
1 oAwarriss"d' Sailed
the
the CAo
,%xv ius sloop
Recent intelligence has been received at a French D
pert-of the successes of the Dantzic privateer in the• *oa
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West Indies,'"Which is stated to have taken, up to the . a cruize.—Wind N.W.
middle of October, about 35 valuable ships. In a PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 14. -
s orders
very short time the Captain was expected to return to The Gaucune ketch is gone out of Harbour to the
France, and resign his command to some other Sound, in readiness for sea—she is uiar to
equally enterprising Officer. This privateer has made take dispatches to the West Indies.—Sailed in the
night, the Foga esti, 38 guns, fur the Lough:v:llly
prizes amply sufficient to enrich her owners. Many .
if the ships captured were Spanish, with banks on
board, to a vast amount. British vessels have been station; and the Lome, 33, to cruize off Brest.—
long in pursuit, and have frequently gained sight of Arrived the HeLecon, to guns : the sailed hence os
Friday last, on a cruise; but, in a squall, she carried
her, but have hitherto endeavoured to come up with
asvay her main boom, by which accident the stet
her in vain. I
The great M‘Cr.fiS of Cie French privateers in the .„ _
Baltic, the West Indies, and the Channel, are men- vallaViescaied witTi his life.—part of the
tinned as the ground of much exultation to the Freneh having fallen on his head, and knocked of part of his
i cheek.—Also arrived the Mamma, 36 guns, from
ouch. The SCYLLA, 18 guns, is gone out aft
to In consequence of the unparalleled
success of the Captain of the Dantzie,•it was supposed .ipartsm-
to be the intention of 113osarattre to confer on him
harbour to the Sound, hiving been refitted.
some titulary distinction.
Yesterdtry a Court of Directors was heldat the YARMOUTH, JANUARY IS.
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East India House, when Captain CoNsrastz; of the Sailed this morning for the Downs, the link*"
ship Chapman, took leave of the Co Lieutenant Lowe ; and the Unour Lieut. RKAT
urt pfevious to i
Arrived from Leith, and remain with the Sot
departing for Bombay and Bengal. Captain V'Es.
TERRE was sworn into the command of the ship Fairlie; I FRAY,
consigned to Bengal direct.—The Court adjourned I (Vice-Admiral MURRAY') VIXEN, DM. WRIGHT j
at six o'clock till to-morrow. f dad Bit:sets, Lieut. SMITIL—No iutelligence of the
The chips of the line at Spithead are to be put into ! Sr. GEORGE or Davuce.
an immediate state of equipment, for some sudden •
DP-At., JANUARY is.
service. • The report is, they are to take a reinforce-
. Arrived his Majesty's sh;p hcoNsTANT from Ports.
meet of troops_ to liortugal. , .
A new regulation is tilting place at the Navy Office,: mouth. Sailed the Cuffnells, Woot BANK. fur Ports-
whichh will render future depredations in that depart- mouth ; his Majesty's ships AQUILON, on a et-nice off
mint more difficult, by some pew and more immedi, Texel ; and Maas and FISGA no, to Portsmouth.
ate facilities of' detection.
Sailed
theGNIettAarVyESAL:nD:Ri i,i:H•i Cu:
sit.oyr GI sibraltar • and
The Duke of Wanton and the Earl of Lives-
POOL had a conference with the PaINC.II REGENT yes.
Margaret, CROALL, for Oeorto. •
terday, but of a short duration. His Royal High-;
ness went out through the back entrance, as his noble 1 GREENOCK, JANUARY I&
visitors departed through the front. Arrived here this morning'thib William and H '-
DEATH OF His GRACE vie DUKE OF BUCCLEITGIL. ' BENTHAM, from Charleston, in 40 days ; left
—On the 11th inst. at Dalkeith Palace, 11;s Grace,
for .this port, the flindostau, Coueus,
to sail in 1
HENRY SCOTT, Mike of Buccleugh and Que or '2O clays-i-Saw a ship and brig, off Tory laud,
supposed to be bound up the Clyde.ensberry, •
Marquis of Dumfries-shire, Earl of Dalkeith, Sanqu-
liar, and Drumlanrig, Viscountllith, Tortisocwala LEITH, DECEMBEtt 30. ..
and Ross, Lord Scott of Eskdale, Douglas of Kin- The GALLANT gon.lstig went out ef the harbour on'
mount; Middlebie, and Domock :—Also Earl of , Saturday, after being repairrd.—Satuiday the CUE-
Doncaster and L;..rd Tyndale in England, Knight of i KOKEE, and yesterday morning the Mourne:um' 'loop
the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of the Countiesof Edna-otwar, arrived in the Roadsfrontfr a irttiee.*.--The
burgh and Roxburgisehite, Governor of the 'Royal ahne Cholotte, DRYSDALE, Ann.' South America,
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Bank of Scotland, ate. His Grace was born in 1746,.i wide. timber; passed Leith yesterday, for Alloe.—.
and succeeded his grandfather in 17.52. He was the , A ship. under Swedish colours arrived fil the roads
only son of Francis, Earl of Dalkeitli, by Lady Ca.. I from .Gottenburgh yesterday morning ; and in the
roline Campbell, eldest daughter of Jan, the Great I forenoon the Lady Forbes and Sir Simon Clark sail.
Duke of Argyle. In 1767, his Grace married Eli: ed Irons Leidefroads 'for Jamaica. They are going
teth MI ~ague, only daughter of the last Duke ofl Noth-zbOut. .

" The seamen claimed the boat, and could not be
prevailed upon to stop with me till day-light, and
their importunity prevailed on me to take :ny chance
with them. I threw my papers into the boa, wrapped
up in A handkerchief, and only waited a ‘hance to
get in, when. a boisterous sea broke over the vessel,
and buried them ail in a watery gr.ive, I alone es-
caping, and an oldinan that w.is belay► sickly:"

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Some more French prisoliers lased from the ZaA.
Lots yesterday,
The Providence, AIIRANIF, from Oporto to Leith,
with a cargn of win', put into Scarborough on the
Bth inst. having sprung her bnitsprit near St. Abb'
lleand not I • ins able to take Tynetnouth Bar.
Theia smack Sprightly, St: fIiZRLAND, WAS well
in Harwich ciu. the Uth inst. having put in there in a
off the Newarp Sand,
gale of wind.
The sloop William and Thomas, of Leith, hen
wwichthobuotttalte sl,pthis
.:sobeneorin pboickderdd.upand
has
been
put
inn
the Admiralty Court till chimed by the owners.
Letters from Newfoindland state, that the MI.
NEW/A frigate had been struck by liphatin, which
shattered • the fore-tnir-ruast, top-gallant, dna 'royal
masts, Snuck a man overboartrfrons thtmain•toppail
yard, upset the °tEeer of the watch and two
and killed a ihoep oo desk.
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