Star.
London, England, 1801-02-12 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

DEAL, Frs. 11. Sailed through the Downs,
Alexander, —, for Philadelphia ; and Hazard,
for Tobago. Wind E. N. E. blows hard.

SVIIPWRECK.

The ph ult. the Di&ttor, of Liverpool, a fine
new fhip, on her fief voyage, mounting 24 brafs
guns. from Demerara to Liverpool. was totally
wrecked at Rofsbeg, near Cattleman, county of
Kerry; out of the crew, confining of 6o perfons,
only three common Tailors were fared. The ex-
=five (bores of that wild country were covered
with cotton, coffee, dye-Ruff, puncheons of rum,
and thefts f the molt valuable papers : the then;
were broken open, rifled, and denr..yed by the
common people. Unfortunately, as no Magitirate
lives in the neighbourhood of that part of the
country, every thing was at the mercy of the
people for three days. On the 4th day, Mr. MA It.
utast., the late Fligh.Sberiff of the county of
Kerry, who lives forty miles from that place. at-
rived at the (bore • and at {the rifk of his lit-,
which was often threatened, fucceeded in recover
ing a quantity of valuable property, together with
many important letters addretfed to the felt corn-
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mercial heufes in Mtn-pc, 'which he immediately
forwarded ' • he :din r "severed nearly twenty 'lna-
Lind pounds in I.Dndon Bank Notes and Bills: :le
took from one of the countrymen alone, who could
not read, more than 12,0001. in Bills, which it
appears belonged to a Mr. JANIS FRAZER, a re•
fpeaable merchant of Berhice, who was paten-
ger, and one of the unfortunate fuffcrers. In
confequcncc of a large reward offered by Mr.
MaasuaLL, Mr. FRAZkIt'S body was found, many
miles from the wreck, by fume country people,
which was identified by three furviving failors,
and was decently interred in the Church of Inch.

The Franlyn, Wideman, bound to Copenha-
gen, is on chore in the Swine Bottom, and full of
water; part of the cargo will be Paved.
Yefterday a Court of Direetors was held at the
Eaft India Houfe, when Captains GARLAND
MURRAY, and JoHN Josses, were (worn into the
command of their refpedive (hips.
The following Commanders took leave previous
to departing for their feveral deftinations :—Capt.
T. GRAHAM, of the WINDMAM, for St. Helena,
Bengal, and Bencoolen ; Capt. R. WARDLOW, of
the ASIA, and Capt. J. SANDILANDS, of the WAL•
Pins, for Madras and Bengal ; Capt. G. SALT-
WILL, of the LORD Duscia, for St. Helena and
Bengal; Capt. T. 0. MURRAY, of the PRESTON,
fOll j and Capt. J. Josses, of the BODDAM,
for Madras and China.

The Channel Fleet has again failed fromTorbay
to refume its nation off Brett.

It is Rated that the Navy Ef[imams for the fer-
vice of the prefent year amount to near feventeen
millions (terling, and the Army Enimates net
much short of the fame fum.

The Court of Peterfburgh has ordered the fol.
lowing Blips to be built with all potlible difpatch :
at Cronfladt, three !hips of the line, of 120, go, and
88 suns; one of 54, and a frigate. At Archangel,
a fhip of the line, of 74 guns, one of 66, and three
frigates of 54, 44, and 3: ; and at the docks in
the Black Sea, a fhip of the line, of tto guns,
one of 74, a frigate of 54, and fmaller yeah.

The Convention figned at St. Peterfbburgh, on
the 16th of December, between the Minillers Ple-
nipotentiaries of Ruffia, Sweden, and Denmark,
and to which Pruflia acceded the neat day, is en-
tirely founded on that concluded in 1780. The
Articles of moll importance are the following:—
[,
The fubfifting Treaty, relative to contraband goods, be-
tween the contraaing powers and other rwemments, than be
maintained ; but for the future it Dull be eftablifited as the bats
of every treaty of commerce, that neutral flags make neutral
the cargoes. _ _ _

11. The guaranty of the Comm:eider of a fhip or war Mall for
the future proted the Merchant 'Wads failing under convoy,
from all frarch by the Ships of War of the BOligerent Powers.
lIL The Itrietelt meafures than be adopted, and tribunals
eitablilbed, to prevent any contraband and prohibited com-
merce from being Tarried on under the prat:alma of tits
Armed Neutrality.
The death of the late Prime Minifter of Portu-
gal has caufed many changes in the Adminiftra-
uon of that country. The following is the new
arrangement : .
Dake de la Fo EN s, Mini ter of War, and Prime Afitailler ;
Mr. Pia ro, Secretary of State for the Heine Department ;
Dun 14C..AS d'ALMEIDA, Minim for Foreign Affairs;
Don ODAIOO de McLain, Treafiuy;
Viconde d'A NADIA, Mitlifter of Marine;
Conde de VILLA Vraor., Board of Trade •
Conde de POMBEIRA, Cl4O. or Lord Chancellor;
MORGA DO d'O L IMOLA, Grand Crofs ;
Louis de VA scoNcELLos, Prefideot of Public Works;
Ambaffadors—Don La de LIMA, London ;
MORGADO de MATTHEWS, Vienna;
FIRSANDO CORTONA. Berlin;
CYPRIANO FRICIR, Copenhagen;
M. PINTO, Stockholm; and
BeateNA, United Statu of America.

A box of diamonds, fuppofed to have been in.
tended as a prefent from the Governor of the
Mauritius to the FIRST Cowsui. of France, is rey-
ported to have been found on board the fhip
Heron. lately fent into Plymouth by his Majefty's
114 MAGICISNNE.
Yefterday, on a charge of horrid murder, the
officers of St. George's parifh, Southwark, brought
forward at the Public Office, Union-Hall, jaw
William, on fufpicion of murdering Elizabeth
Brown, in a houfe in George-yard, Blackman.
ftreet, in the Borough, on Tuefday night, or early
yefterday morning ; as at nine o'clock the deceafedl
was found (tripped of her clothes, with many
'wounds all over her body, as if done by a knife.
When the °Ricca catered the houfe, two men
jumped out of a one-pair of (lairs window, and
1.111 away.—The prifoner was committed for re.
/examination until the Coroner, Mr. Shelton, than
report the verdia of the Jury on the decoded.
who was a woman of the town. as well as the
prifoner.
Friday WI a very confiderable number of
labourers, mechanics, and fifhermen, afembled
at Eall Bourne, and proceeded to the houfes of
the principal inhabitants, complaining, that the
exceffive price of grain rendered it inspoilible for
them to fupport their refpeetive families, And re-
quelling that fumething might be clone to enable
them to bear the extreme prelinre of the times.
CHARLES GILVERT, Efq. Mr. AUG FR, ~nd other
gentlemen, having given dr: aGmbly a hearing,
afked if any of them had individually applied for
relief and been refufed ? and being anfwered in
the negative, Mr. Gi tat- ItT addreffed them on the
impropriety of their thus appearing; but with
much kindnefs promifed them, that their fevetal
fituations fhould be taken into confideration on
Sunday next ; after which they all returned
peaceably to their refpalive homes.
On Saturday, at Horfham, a fimilar affemblage
of labourers applied to the fitting Magiftrates, on
the fame fuhjc.t. We do not know what anfwer
the Magiarates returned, but the men difperfed
without the leaft apparent difpnfition for tumult.
The fame evening a great number of men,
women, and children, affembled together at Bore-
ham cl; iving about a wheelbarrow, occupied by
the effigy of a man in the neighbourhood, which,
after exhibiting in that way, they tied up by the
neck, and fet fire to, hut before it was wholly
confumed, call the remain !:r into a horfepend,
and difperfed without further outrage or damage,
except in their way home breaking a few panes oi
glafs.

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