Star.
London, England, 1801-01-05 00:00:00

EAST INDIES,

Letters from Bombay by the laf Exprefs, men-
tion that fix French Frigates were reported to
have arrived at the Mauritius from Europe.
The Armenia, MICH, extra (hip, from London
for Bengal, has been captured by the Clarida pri-
vateer, and fent for the Mauritius.

Difpatches had been received at Bombay, by the
Company's cruizer Drake, commanded by Lieut.
FORTESCUE, from Admiral BLANKLTT, who had
with him at Mocha, the LEOPARD, Of 5o guns ;
the ALBATROSS, of t 8; the Company's cruizer
Comet ; and the Eliza country chip. The Fox of
32 guns, and AMISOYNA, of 10, had been difpatch-
ed, fuppofed for Suez ; as had been the Prince Je-
hangeer, and Strombolo, with feveral gun-boats,
and a body of troops, faid to have been ordered up
the Perfian Gulph. . .

The Company's cruizer Fly, arrived at Bom-
bay,from Goa, had eftablifhed a point of confider-
able importance to Indian navigation ; that be-
tween the outer and inner works in Carwar Bay,
there is a patrage or channel from S. to N. per-
fealy free from danger, the bottom being fine
holding ground, with regular foundings of from
five to feven fathoms ; and what is of equal con-
fequence, that the outer works afford fecurity to
thips within them from the S. W. Mindoon. The
Fly left at Goa his Majefty's (hip CENTURION, Of
5O suns.
The ARROGANT, of 74 gun, had made thirteen
captures, twelve of which, after taking out their
refpeetive crews, the deflroyed, for want of lianas
to man them: the other, a very large Ihip, the
preferved.
The ORPHEUS, of 32 guns, was attacked in the
night by two Dutch frigates, to which, aftonith-
ed by her fire, and concluding her to be much
ftronger than the was, they both ftruck, after a
thort refillance, and were carried into Amboyna.
The Firft Lieutenant of the ORPHEUS W.IS wound-
ed in the arm ; but it is hoped no material ill will
refult from it.

La Confiance French privateer continued her
allonilhing fucccfs, and had recently captured the
Viajante, and another Macao (hip, wh(.le crews
and paffengers ftie landed at Margui.
The receipt of difpatches, by the Right Hon.
the Governor General, from his Excellency Sir
WILLIAM SYDNEY SMITH, dated the tit of Fe-
bruary, t Soo, from the Ottoman Camp at El-
Arifch, announcing that a Convention for the
evacuation of Egypt by the French army, under
the commandof General KLEBER, hasl been con-
cluded," was announced in a Calcutta Gazette
Extraordinary.
The Supplement to the Bombay courier con-
tains a lift of the Pallingers by the Chips which had
arrived from England, viz.

Per the Earl Talbot—Mrs. C. Douglas ; Mrs. E. Morley ;
Mifs H. Dernpiter; Captain Borlafe, of the Marines; Mr. J.
Morley; Mr. F. Arinftrong, Athitant Surgeon; and Millis.
W. V.ifs, S. WAS", T. Poole, J. Sykes, and S. W. H. Kai-
thaw, Cadets.

Per the Carron—Meas. H. 1.. Heater, and J. R. Pre.
cott, Cadets, and Mr. H. Bcyts.
Per the Oa a sic cYTr a—Meffra LA. Willis. A. B. Bacon,
H. Crake, J. 'llsonins,and I'. White, Cadets, and Mr. J. Rofclle.
Per tlu• G* NG es—Mrs. E. Beilafis ; Millis H. and A. King;
and Metres. H. R. Difehanws, G. Canty, C. Armitrong, C. T.
Page. W. Wales, J. Irving, J. F. Faster, and V. Kennedy,
Cadets. . - _

The Cooly Pirates had in Auguft and Septem-
ber la% renewed their depredation, in the ue4;ll-
- of Surat, in confequence of which a
number of armed boats had been ordered bum
Bombay to scour the coati.

Advice was on Saturday received in town from
the Leviathan South Sea whaler, dated the sth of
Oftober, all well ; at which time the was in the
latitude of; 23. fouth. The Leviathan milted her •
feafon in the Bay, hut colleCted five or fix hundred
barrels of oil, and was proceeding to the Brazils to
till up, when the unfortunately loft a boat and two
men on the breakers.

. _
The Ihip Comm:Ill, fiLyrii, from the South
Sea whale filliery, had a kvere engagement with'
a French ship privateer, in the night of the 27th
ult. twenty-five leagues Well of Scilly, and got fo
much damaged in her hull, that the water in-
created in her hold to the height of eleven feet,
and was quite water-logged when the privateer
filtered off. _

The brig Juliana, of Altona, from Altona to
Morlaix, was tictained on the 26th ult. by the
TRENT frigate, Captain Sir EDW %RD HAMILTON,
and the Fi.v cutter, Lieutenant SPARKS, at the en-
trance of Havre-dc-grace.
We are concerned to Rate, that the Rodney,
SALMON, and the Neptune, Srvi eisssox, from
London for Porefmouth, have foundered at Sea.
We are forry to hear that the (loop Neptune,
WILLEY STEPHENSON matter, Rea! loft on Wednei
day morning o fißrighton, and every perfon peri flied.
The (hip Ncftor, from Virginia, fpoke on the
a6th of November, the (hip William, from Glaf-
gow, ao days out, bound to Halifax, all well, in
long.. 59. W. lat. 42.
The Catharine, HATOON, from St. Thomas's
for Altona, is wrecked near Boulogne.
The Sufannah, —, from Dantsick, for Ply-
mouth, is towed into Aldborough, after being de.
(cried by the crew.

The prorur•'nn cf Adm;rah, ar.nounce,7 in th
Gazette I•t vt i.:Etkrti vacant the
!hips of the inc, ti:- giving flags to their repcai.;
Commanders

Priae,.:".; 14 0r) al - 9R Captain R u EL.
(prifuli-Viip) 93 ---•-••• 1)0 UI/ LAS.
Formidable -9% To n NBOltet: GM
St. (likNg.! 98 F w RD
jolt - 84 - Tit ot.i.orE•
Cant:ridge (guard-114) Slo WICKET.
C f. r - Rn S UNI AR Et.
Carnatic - - 74 - SMITH.
Cumberland - :4 TRAV
Dragon - 74 - CAM vet Lt
Montague - 74 - K
N'imerable 74 - FAIRFAX.
Saturn - - 74 - TOT ET.
The promotion, belidc. the appointments to there
Ibips, gives to the Admiralty the following fitua-
dons : Superintend:lnt of the Imprefs Service at
Cork, in the room of Admiral MOR !ARTY ; Com-
mander of Cun-boats on the coal/ of Devon ;
Commander of Imprels at Galway, in the room
of Admiral FISH ; of ditto at Edinburgh, in the
room of Admiral BR! X TON ; of ditto of Gun-
boats on the coati of Suffer, in the room of Admi-
ral CORNWALL ; and of ditto of Sea Fencibles at
Emlworth, in the room of Admiral PHILIPS.

Government have lave fent out Engineers to conllrtift,
with all poffible expedition, two Docks at Halifax,
capable of receiving (hips of 74 guns.
It has been Rated in all the Papers, that the
Signal Stations along the Coat have Night Sig.
n:tls by Torches and Refledors. This is incorreet,
as the Signals are made by preparatory Fires and
blue Lights.
On the IR of the laft month, 16 privateers of
from 14 to 24 guns, were fitting out and at fea
from Dunkirk and Calai ; ; 32 from 14 to 20, from
Boulogne and Dieppe; nine of from 11 to 14,
from St. Vatteny ; and 30 of from 14 to 28, from
Havre, Cherbourg, and St. Maio, befides innu-
merable row-boats. Such it is Rated, has been the
encouragement afforded by the French Govern-
ment to the privateers, that the (hips of the State
are for the greater p:trt deferted.
Abnat five o'clock nn Thurfday evening, the
Up Highland Lars, Captain T....ins Bet ire', of
St. Vittecnt', from Deniarara bound to London,
with a cargo of cotton, coffee, and fugar, ran on
ihore upon a reef °frocks, about three miles to the
Southward of Deal, and will be totally loft, as the
is full of water, bulged, and her malts all cut
away.—A few bags of cotton have been laved.
The floop Sally, E. CARTER mailer, from Lon-
don to Briilol, laden with groceries, is put into
Poole with damage, having met with a violent
gale of wind about five leagues off the land, be-
tween Beachy-head and the He of Wight. She
(hipped :t very heavy fea, which broke off one oldie
pumps even with the deck, and Rove the boat to
pieces ; her fails are alio fplit, and her cargo mull
be taken out, to repair the damage.
The gale early on Wedneftlay has oceaflottud
the following veffels or their cargoes, to receive
damage on their palfage from the Downs to Portf-
month, viz..:
Indufiry, Sutton, Expwlitinn, Fordcr, Whemfbeaf, Silver,
and Appledram, Stroud, from London to I•ortfmouth, with
wheat and hour.

Frederick, ilnonio., from Rita to I'ortfmnuth, with melts.
Sincerity, liadeurk, from I.ondon to Portfinouth, with Liw-
ceries.

Active,Nrilliatmt, from Suudcrland to Port fmouth,with coals.
Unity, Etcbcl, from Loudou to Portfmouth, with wheat and
flour.

Welcome, Sharp, from London to Workington, with wheat.
Mary, Brown, from Lynn to Liverpool, with barley.
Lively, Coming, from London to Swank:a, with h.irley.
' Newberg Winter, front London to Plymouth, with wheat.
..... . .

William-and Mari, Ate, from London inSwa:itea,with tnrlcr.
Very violent gales or wind hay: prevailed
fcr fomc days, and Lift night and this morning
it blew a complete htirricatie, which it is feared
muff have done conliderable damage to the (hip-
ping on fume paro of the coati
By the violetuf of the florm on Tnefday night,
we hear two colliers were wrecked near Dunleary
and the Pidgeon-houfe, in the Bay of Dublin.—
The crews, we underhand, with much elitticultYp
Paved their lives. Their matters arc Capt. Dov-
s SAS and Captain Baow::a.