Star.
London, England, 1807-04-29 00:00:00

SHEERNESS. APRIL 23.

The Hammy, of 74 guns, Honourable Captain
CotyttLy, failed yeflerday from Chatham on her
way to this port. The Acsar Sloop of war, Captain
itiftwaiss, has hoifled the fignal for a convoy to
I'onningen, to fail on the 3oth infant. The VICTORY,
of too guns, was taken into dock at Chatham, on
Thurfday laft; and undocked the following day ; it
was generally thought in confequence that that beau.
tiful flip was going to be commitlioned, but it
'Hears that her copper had been fallened with patent
copper nails, which had become fo loofe as make it
receffary to dock her, and fubilitute thole nails ge•
orally nfed in the ferrite.

. SCILLY, APRIL 27.
- On the rith Ina. was buried at St. Mary's, Scilly,
Captain jofeph Maughan (of the brig Thetis, of
Lynn), and his two failors ; they were drowned here
pearly five weeks back, and only the day before yef
WNW were their bodies defcried on the furface, and
but a °tort dillance from the fpot where they funk.
It happened as follows :—its putting off from (hare,
after night, the wind blowing hard, and tide adverfe,
he mi&cl his veffel in St. Mary's Road, and vias
driven out to tea ; but foon after cliy light they rowed
in dole with St. Agnes !nand, .where the lighthoufe
fiands, hut being veli cold, and probably nearly
(pent with the fatigue of the night, made incautioufly
an attempt to land in.& moll ,dangerous place, and,
in confequence, the boat was (lathed in pieces, and
they were all drowned in tight of Cpedators who
could render them no affiliance. Tfie Captain has
left a wife and feveral children ; his Odell fon was at
the time mate of his veil-el. 11,:is to be hoped that
this melancholy accident may ad as a ferious warn-
ing on the minds of Mailers of veffels in general (a
circumffance mall strongly required to be impreffed
on their minds), and deter them in future from re•
mining on chore at public houfes after night, when
there is great of of losing their lives in going to the
harbours at the other iflands,or to their veffels in Sr.
Mary's Road.—That accidents of this fort do not
happen more frequently here is ailoniihing, Co man y
hairbreadth el-capes fo often occurring.
BRISTOL, APRIL 27.

The following extra& of a letter communicates the
particulars of the lots of the Loyal Volunteer, Gso.
HODGSON mailer, bound to Dublin :
" On Friday fennight, at day-light, the wind
blowing very hard, thought it right to make for
Milford, if poffible ; drove before the wind, at the
rate of ten knots an hour, till we came to Ramfay
Sound—fhip's pumps at work all the time. At ten
o'clock got into. Ramfay Sound, mime we (truck
Itpon a funken rock, and unfhipped the rudder. In
in minutes after we loft the rudder, and then (truck
again, which knocked a hole in the ship's bottom. A
fea came, and drove us off again, when the Captain
cried out, ' LORD have mercy on us all—we mutt
unlefs our fail, protedi us.' In ten minutes
After, we were drawn by the.fea to Ramfay Hand,
among the rocks ; where, by the help of PeovineNcs
we viere All favcd. There is only one bottle on the
Waind to receive 29 paffengers, fume without !boss
and BaCkiDZS' and Some almoil naked. When we got
tiltore, we had a rock to climb, one hundred feet
Ith, which was dee;:led impuiT;ble ; but after great
:!Notts we reached the top, otherwife we mull all have
inevitably been drowned, as the tide had begun to
set iti."

ELSINEUR, APRIL it.
The Fake. (loop of war failed from hence the Bth inftant, for
Iferatt The 9th, arrived :he Sally armed fhip, from Longhope.
lad Charles, from Hull, with convoys; alto the gritilb Fair, and
Favourite eutters,froni Yarmouth : the two armed (hips have pro•
eded to Memel, and the tut ter: remain. The Nightingale takes
t'ar•je of the homeward b-.:att:d flti26, and wid fail to morrow, if
be wind is favourable.
Aram 14.—. The Coal Pits, of 14:meanie, Shadforth, is afhore at
lithnftadt, on the coati of Sweden. Part of the London convoy ,
/3Cle7 the Spy (loop o war. zrrived this forenoon.—The Nightin -
Pie raaaim The t*o cutter', meutioned in our lalt, proCteded
't:!trdsv for the 13:Itie.

ABERDEEN.
On the evening of Thurfday the 16d Mat, the
brigantine Britannia, Autrannue Yr.e; of and from
this place to London with Roues, in :inning up the
Swin with a fair wind from N.N.E. Bruck on the
fand called the Monte, where the ielfel is totally 1911.
—The crew and part of the rigging ind materials
Caved. The brigantine Ceres, At.t.xn, of this place,
from London to Sunderland in ballaß, which has
been miffing fince the tsth February, fermi to have
been captured by the enemy, as a draft has appeared
from the Mailer, dated at Arras in France.—The
French privateer le !Utah, Captain Lavoissv,
from Antwerp, carrying two ts and four 6-pounders,
which lately infefted the North Sea, and put into
Chriftianfands, after efcaping from a Britifh frigate.
is reported to be taken in the Baltic by a Swedilh
frigate. The John and .Robett, CAM mu., of this
place, failed hence the 24th of February, for Riga ;
and being unable to proceed on account of the ice,
was under the neceffity of returning to Liebau, and
patted through the Pentland Frith, with a cargo of
hal-Ceti for Belfaft, the i4ih inilant.
NAVAL PROMOTIONS IN THE EAST INDIES, AU-
GUST 23, ao6.
His Excellency the Commander in Chief Sir Tno-
t4A3 TILOOSILIDGIo Bart. has been pleated to make
the following promotions :

MACABSIII.•••Captain TROUSILIDOZ, of the Harrier, to be Poll
Captain4lnto the Macaffer.
Lieutesuints MITCII [Li of the Harrier, R NDY SR of the Ca-
roline, and Mr. Pates? of the Bkniteim, to be Lieutenants of the
Macster.
-Mr. Hon a KIN 9, Pura of the Harrier, to be Purfer of the Ma-
caffer.

Mr. M'Faintt, Surgeon of the Hairier, to be Surgeon of the
Maeaffer.

The Boatfwain, Gunner and Carpenter of the Hurler into the
Meatier.

Hwammt—Lieutenant WI M, of the Blenheim, to the
Harrier, with the rank of Commander.

The Boathrain, Gunner and Carpauer are made from decrying
men of the Blenheim into the Harrier, in lieu of thole removed
into the Macairer.

Mr. PLDDZI of the Blenheim to be Lieutenant of the Caroline

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY.

The Leander, for the Ville de Milan and Cleopatra, captured
Feb. 24, 11305‘. will be paid on Monday next, at No. xi, Upper
Thames-area, and there recalled every day for three months.
HIGH COURT 1:4 ADMIRALTY, APRIL A.—This
day the !tight Hon. Sir WM. Scorr, proceeded to
the adjudication of the following cafes :
Gute Hollnung, Steencker Mailer. —This Tafel failed under
Oldenburg colours, ladi•.t with wheat. Ship reltored with freight
and cipences, and the cargo pronounced to be Bremen property.
Morgenitern, Freerka matter --This Pappenburgh vcffel was
laden with fait. Further proof direaed as to the property.

Yellerday the Lord Mayor ordered the price of
bread to be•continued at eleven pence three farthings,
the quartern lo4f of wheaten; and ten pence far-
thing houfehold.

There is now living at Woolwich an attorney (and
an huneft one, we believe), who has adopted the fol-
lowing Pimple method of laving much trouble :—His
houfe is lituated on the top of the highell ground be-
hind the barracks, and confequently may be feen
from all open parts of the town below. If the inha-
bitan:s, when they wiflied to confult him upon any
occafi,:rt, were to have the trouble of walking up and
down the hill, perhaps three or four times, before
they could meet with him, „t)te repeated difappoint-
n3ent would be very Toprevent this, he
has cabled a long flaff to be ereEted on the top of his
hnufe, and when lie is at home, there is always a flag
flying at the top of it, which is taken down while he
is•otst. Would it not be worth while for the inhabi-
tants of this Metropolis, to adopt Come fimilar mode
of informing their acquaintance when they are at
home, or when they choofe to be fun? In the fira
place, it would lave their acquaintance much trouble ;
and in the fecond, it would put an end to that abo-
minable praflice of teaching fervants to tell lies, by
laying their Mailers or Viftreffes ate not at home
when in fad they are.

Mr. Broughton, a tradefrnan, in Yeonsanes-row,.
Brompton, was fwindled lalt week by a fellow of
dafhing appearance, out of 81. 16s. Ile went to
Mr. B's (hop in a coach, and, after agreeing to parr
chafe articles to the amount of the ablve fum, he
gave him a cheque on the hank of Meths. Pybus and
Co. but on Mr Broughton prefenting it for payment,
he was informed that no perfon of that name had'
cafh depofited with them.
In the night of Ft iday lall, two men, John Stewart
and William Armour, broke out of Stranraer gaol.
They were clofely purfued, and on Sunday morning
committed to Ayr gaol, having been arretted in the
neighbourhood of Dalrymple. Thefe men are laid
to be charged with having forged notes on the Britifh
Linen Company in their potTehion. The circumflance
of their urea has proved that a pretty extenfive plan
was in confiderable forwardnefs for patting forged
notes. On Sunday morning, upwards of 93 forged
guinea notes on the above bank, were found under
a (lone in Ayr Green, which had probably been de-
parted there in confequence of the reafon afligned
for there men's arrell being known ; and fince, a
fearch has been made in Irvine, and a woman has
been committed to prifon under very fufpicinus cir•
cumflances. The Government Ramp, the water-
mark, and the Company's feal, we underhand, are
pretty correftly imitated in there forged notes ; but
the paper is darker in the colour than in the genuine
notes.

A black pointer bitch, which was loft on the
Moors, near Maresfield, in September lall, was dif-
covered a few days fince by a Gamekeeper in the fer-
vice of Mils Shuckburgh Evelyn, on Athdown Forell,
not very far from the fpot on which the was miffed
by her owner, in September. The Gamekeeper firft
found, among the heath, a litter of her puppies,
which he watched a confiderable time, but no parent
making her appearance, he furrounded the cubs
with tome flicks flock in the ground, and left them
for the evening- Early the next morning the man
vilited his foundlings, and, as he expefted, law their
affeltionate mother, the pointer bitch, labouring with
great diligence, to effeft afubtenaneous pail...age to
her little ones. On the man's approach, the wagged
her tail, and watched, with the greatett apparent
anxiety, while he removed the fence from her pup-
pies, when the initantly laid down and quietly
tackled them. The above animal mutt have fubtitled
during the autimm and winter on rabbits and vermin
-.bur it is extraordinary that (he Iltotild have fo
long 'chided her fell from the haunt, of men, and
yet have preferved hcr gentlenefs and docility.