Star.
London, England, 1823-06-30 00:00:00

l'A INTRLLIGENCE.

Titr PEXPLOPF.,—Extract of si letter from the
Agents to Lloyd's st Havre, dated 27th Jure:
" Intelligence has been received here that the Penelope struck
on a rock in going up-to Bordeaux, and, it is said, bas
this information was trans:Aim(' to Paris by telegraph. This is
the yaluahle ship that was reported a few days ago to 'mire been
taken. :the is insnred at Lloyd's at £lOO,OOO.
The Amelia, Praarett, from Havre to Senegal, Was carried
Into Coranna on• the 6th inst. by the Heroique Mina, Spanish
privateer.

The Severn, Faro, from Marseilles to GibraltarEvras eartied
into Malaga on the .26th ult. by the Santa Anna, Spanish print-
teer, from Algesiras.

The Constantia, Dainr, from Bristol to Quebec, was wrecked
the 13th ult. on the island of Cape Breton—crew and passengers
saved ; the caw) is expected to be saved.
Commissioner Frusta. has retired from the Navy Board, and
will be succeeded by Coruniisssioner CUNAINOHAW, from Chat-
ham Doek.yard; Commissioner ISAAC WOOLEY comes from
Malta Dock-yard to Chatham; Commissioner Lewis removed
to Malta from Bermuda ; and Captain THOMAS BRIGGS has been
appointed Commissioner of the Navy at Bermuda,
The Heroine, ()sreea, from New South Wales and the Mau-
ritius, was left at St. Helena the 3d May.
A telegraphic dispatch has been received from Paris, an-
nouncing the safe arrival of the French ship Penelope at Baur-
deaux, from Bengal to tkat port. This ship was reported to
have been captured by a Spanish privateer, and insurances had
been effected at Lloyd's, amounting to .X 90.000.
Passengers per Phoenix, Captain Waysroa, from Bombay :
General Cooke, from Bombay ; Captain Garrard, Nlaclras Engi-
neers; Mat Garrard and two children; Madame de Maizoneuve,
and Master and Miss Maizoneuve ; W. B. liockley, Esq. Miss
Russell; Captain Napier, 19th Native Infantry; Master and
Alias Kemp, Misses nia. Davis and B. M' Mahon, and 64 invaa
lids of the Bombay Artillery and European Regiments.
Passengers per Apollo, Captain TENNIENT, from Bengal and
Madras, which ship was lost at the Cape of Good Hope, on the
16th of April, 1823:—Mistresses Latter, Broderick,' Savage,
Gibbon, !Hackie Browne, Matthews, Hay, Sweetly, Crotty,
and Fosbery; Colonel Latter; Major Broderick, 3 ita Regi.
[pent; Major Swindell, Bengal service; Captain Williams, 53d.
Regiment ; Captain Savage, 69th Regiment; Lieutenants El.tAec,
34th Regiment; Carpenter, Bremer, and Sweeny, .53d Regi-
ment; Scott, Lynch, Fosbery, and Bradford, llon. Company's
service; Dr. IlPLean, 531 Regiment; Messrs. Iligginsun end
Cardoza, and thirty children. .
These passengers were all safe landed at the- C.ipe of Good
Hope, but there was no ship'to engage their passage, and it was
not determined by whit conveyance they would come to England.
Poarsatouzu, Jura Sat.—Wednesday arrived the FA LUGCTII,
20, Captain Puaaor., Iron the Wee India station.; in tkeex-
tended period of four years and three months, she lost only four
men and one officer; she came into harbour this morning to he
paid off—The TYNE • had recently captured auother pirate
schooner, and twenty-six of her crew were und:r sentence of
death at Port Royal. The former schooner destroyed !4y the
TYNE and ChINCIAN, was called 13 Cata, of 90 tone, eight guns,
100 men, and commanded by a notorious pirate, named .loseph
Sabinas, who was blown up in her ; she had a rod Hag, with
cross daggers, a long white pendant, with a black ball in it, and
a vertical black and white ensign, with a bust of a man having a
dagger in his hand; she lost 30 nice before she blew up, twelve
of whom were killed.

Yesterday arrived the Borodino transport, Lieutenant Gamma
AIMRILIN Agent, after a long passage of thirtysfour days from
Gibraltar, bringing 130 men of the Royal Artillery, Artificers,
°Sappers and Miners, Staff Corps, and of the 27th, 47,d, 64th,
and 75tli Regiments, with returned Naval and Ordnance Stores.
She is under quarantine. Earl CHATHAM and the Garrison of
Gibraltar were in good health. Several Spanish privateers fitted
out at Tariffs, had been very successful, bringing in French ves-
sels almost daily.
The Gtascow sailed from Genoa on the 2d inst. for Spitheacl.
The passengers by the Borodino, are Major W. Ts-Loan,
Lieutenants C. M'Kszsztz and Lau:Erma SMITH, of the Royal
Engineers; Captain GEDDES, Lieutenants Ituxnut and hearses,
of the 27th Regiment; Assistant-Surgeon Huta, .3d; and Go-
MON of the 75th Regiments.
This morning arrived the Ann, hired transport, Geo. Love.
at OE Master, from Malta, with naval and military invalids, and
returned ordnance and victualling stores. She left Malta the
13th May. The Rocuroax (Vice-Admiral Sir GRAHAM MOORE,
K.C.13.) was at Naples; the CAMBRIAN, the Ifiron, and MXIMEA,
at Smyrna • Rosa, DISPATCH, and It onwar,r, at the Innian
Islands; the EURTALUS, CHANTICLEER, and MARTIN, at Malta.
The EURYALUS and CHANTICCXER were to leave Malta on the
14th May, for the lonian Islands; and the MARTIN, fur Tunis.
Also arrived the brig Briton, CRAW, with oak timber, from
Chioggia, for the Docktyard at this port.
It is said that the Committee, which had some time been
sitting at the Ad alty, for the purpose of making alterations
in the present r..ethod of Pursers in the Royal Navy keeping
and rendering their accounts, &c. has finished its labours, and
the report (which occupies 40 folio pages) has been sent to the
Navy Board. The Committee recommend that the personal pay
of Pursers shall be equalized, and they be allowed to draw for
the same, as other officers; that, when serving in ships of 80
men and under, they be allowed a premium of 50 per cent. on
their balance bills, and less in proportion as far as complements
of 130 men, when such premium shall cease ; that the accounts
be made less complex by tit,: abolishment of the present forms
for fresh beef, butter, &c. The Committee also recommend an
increase of half-pay.
DISTRINUTION or Paizz-Monar.—The Caroline, Piedmontaise,
and Baracouta, with a small detachment of the 56th Regiment
and the East India Company's troops, for the capture of the
island of Banda Neira, on the 10th of July next, at No. 22,
Arundel-street, Strand, and recalled there.

In consequence of an arrangement with the East
India Company, the letters of soldiers and sailors will
in future be brought home to this country free of
charge, by which means they will be sent to any part
of the United Kingdom for the postage of one penny.
We have received a letter from an Officer, dated
Callao, February 23, which says-4, I take it for
granted that you will have received my dispatch by
his Majesty's ship ALACRITY (the ALACRITY has not
arrived), giving an account of the attack and total
defeat of the Peruvian forces under Gen. A Lyn RADA,
on the 21st of January, by the Spanish forces, under
Generals CANTARA and YALDEZ. The Peruvians
lost everything, even to the muskets they had in their
hands, so anxious were they to run. The object of
this letter is to say, that they have been again at-
tacked and defeated at a small sea port, named
Ipiique, which place is in lat. 20. 13. S. long. 73.3.30.
W. near the mines of Santa Ito,a. The Peruvians
were defeated with the loss of 1(X) men, and were
compelled to embark: they arrived here to.day.—
The G.)vernment are at their wit's end ; they have
taken by force all the horses and slaves they can get
hold of ; the one to mount the cavalry, the other to
serve in the army. We understand here that Chili
•is in great confusion. You of cow se know that Lord
COCHRANE has left them in short, there never was,
'nor can be, a more happy opportunity for Spain to
exert itself than now, and were they. only to send out
three or tour frigates. and even two thousand men,
they would reconquer these provinces in three months.
At present their naval forces are very small indeed;
and, what is ktill worse, she Government have
°not
one dollar in their treasury: a small piece of copper,
not so large as a halfpenny,goes for one quarter of a
:dollar. His Majesty's ship Auttonn, Captain PRES
GOTT, is lying here.'

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