Star.
London, England, 1805-04-27 00:00:00

IviirricAL INTELLIGENCE.

FALM.OUtH, APRIL 24..--A ived his Majefly's
hired armed (hip HUMBER of r 6 guns, HILL, with a
convoy from the Downs; the Ann, THOMAI, from
London, with provilloss, &c.; the ACtive Excife cut-
ter, KINSMAS, from a cruiz-, has brought in with
him a fmuggling lugger, of Mounts Bay, with ROO.
calks of fpistts on board ; the American fhip Little
' William, Baum, from Norfnik in 35 days image,
with coffee, rum, and tobacco, for orders, and pro.
ceeded on for Tonningen ; the Alert lugger privateer
from Plymouth, and the Ntiry Ann cutter, RICH,
from London for Grena..%t the fleet this morn-
ing under his Majelly's tlops T:IALION and Smarr's.)
with the lofs of the head of L r mall. A fleet was
teen this evening going to the F.:Alward, fuppofed to
he the Well-India, Portugal, and 'Mediterranean, for
Torbay. Sailed the Ann, &PRINS, with wine for
Plymouth, and RANGER cutter, FRAZER, on a cruize.

PLYMOUTH, A Pail. 25.—Came in the Portuguefe
fchooner Notira Seniora clt Piati.tde, Captain MA.
NULL JOZB COBLHO, from St. Andern, for Seville, la-
den with flour, wheat, hoops, &e. detained by the
Faux, of IS guns, Lieutenant Bot;Rwe ; alfo the
HAILDY, of 14 gunS, horn a cruiaeo with the lofa of her
fore top-mall. _ _

The Felix, in her pafrage home, fought a molt gal-
lant a€tion with a Rout Spanifh privateer off St.
Andero, which the had reafon to believe had (truck
after dark, as (he ceafed firing. On kering towards
her to take poffetrion, a confnlerable number of armed
boats from the (bore were obferved to have her in
tow, and the got into St. Andero.

Poarsmourn, Aram 26.—Arrived the Acura
gun brig, from off the French Coati, after an en-
gagement, in which file has received confiderable
daMage.—Sailed the DEFENDER gun brig, with the
outward-bound Well Indi.amen• for Cork. The
Ltv LY frigate has taken down her fignal for the Me-
diterranean, and the EURYDICE has hoilled it. The
lai,ss.r has fince made a Cigna! for Halifax.

Dam, Arau. 26.—Arrived the Bel. ETTA floop of
war, from Portfmouth, with a convoy, which are
failed for the River. The DON tyre remwins, with a
fignat for the Weflward. Artived the RAILLAVR
floop of war, from Dungenef. ; Diseovrtiv bomb,
from Sheernefs ; BI Lo gun bri,4, from off Wend; and
the ARCH az gun brig, with ieveral more captured
fchuyts with soldiers on board, being pact efthe ene-
my's flotilla, taken from under their o«•n bAtterks.
Sailed the PoMoaA and JAMAICA frigates, for the
French coaft.—Wind N. E.

A moil dreadful happened no Monday morning,
at the Hurlet Coal work, near P.itley. About nine
o'clock, while the men were at work, the inflamma-
ble air in the pit took are. row men we; e blown front
the bottom of the pit into the air, their bodies torn
in pieces, and the mangird parts feattered about in
all directions. One of them wa. (mind at the diflanie
of 300 yards from the mouth clf the pit. There is
every ;talon to fear that other thirteen, who were
below, have all been killed. The father of one of
the (offerers went down in the hop.: of farintethem,
but was instantly fuffocated by the foul air. A bode
at the mouth of the pit was killed, and the whole of
the machinery blown to atonic.
On Sunday morniug tai, tibmt one o'clock, two
(mart (hocks of an eat toqualo: were diftindly felt at
Birmingham, at Hanfworth, Well Bromwich, and
other places lying in that direction. A letter upon
the circumllance from Wolverhampton obferves-••••
66 I, and many hundreds more, here, and at S•otte,
Stafford, Newcatile, &c. were much al mrsed by an
earthquake, which was felt hrre force little time before
one o'clock on Sunday morning. I uuder ttand that
doors and windows were btalt open by the violence
of the (hock—my windows and bvi Amok amazingly.
At Stone. it is laid, that a horle.keeper wax thrown
down by it whilft duffing his horfts. The concullion
was attended by a rumbling nuif;:, bat c:id nut coo.
tinue long here."
Thulfday morning, as formerly tilted, Iti• iNTA.
jelly's (hip BLENHEIM, Admiral 'rano avnos, ss tth
22 fail of large and valuable Indiamen, ni.der con-
voy, failed from Yarmouth Roads, with a firs: breeze
at E. N. E.—ln patting the Needles, in a North Weft
diredion, about half a mile dillant from the Needles
Point, the BLENHEIM (truck on a funken rock and
fwung on it for feveral minutes, exciting in the minds
of all obfervers, the molt melanchcly apprehenfions.
Happily the lifting tide eafed her off, and after a de-
tention of about to minutes, the proceeded with the
fleet in charge, and we hope, without injury.—This
rock was (truck on fomc years ago, by an American
(hip, coming to Cowes, and the uifctivery communi-
cated by Mr. Autoto, the Ame:ican Ciatil, to a
Member of the Trinity, but the fad being then
doubted, no Rep was taken to nark the (put.—This
recent accident of the BLENHtiIM, as well as many
others, that can be attetted by fonte Pilots in Cowes,
will, we troll, induce the Admiralty and Trinity
Boards, to afcertain immediately, ewe met pofition
of this hiddcu caetny.

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