Star.
London, England, 1822-12-18 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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telterday a Court of Diretton was held at the int 'lndia
lioute, when the following ships were taken up and thus sta.
:I,,ed, viz.—Charles Grant, for Bombay ; Warren Hastings,
2:4 Lowther Castle, for China direct; Princess Charlotte of
watet. and Marquis of Wellington, for Madras and Bengal;
3tioetv.i, and Thomas Grenville, for Bengal direct.--. Captain
C:isatss lamas, MAYAIS was sworn into the command of the
*hip Atlas, consigned to Madras and China.
The G toucans's, of '74 guns, Contmodnre Sir EDWARD Owen,
:-.:l7ed in the Downs on Sunday from the Nore, mad sailed pn
;to tame day for Plymouth, where the squad ion destined to ac-
,ropa6- her on a special service is to assem
We regret to learn that doubts are entert ed for the safety
of the Coldstream packet, of Lerwick, which sailed thence for
Leith, on the Sth ult. On the 10th it blew a tremendous gale
from the S.S.F.. which obliged a brig that bad sailed along with
ter to tear up for Brassay Sound, after being in sight of Kin-
aird's Light, at which time the Coldstream was far a-head.—
The brig got safely to her anchorage, but no accounts have yet
1,..en received of the Coldstream. The bodies of two horses
which were on her deck have been washed ashore on the coast,
near Lerwick.
Extract of a letter from Buenos Ayres, dated September 16 :
i. The Gratitude, from Liverpool, is on share on Point Atalaya,
in this river. fine of her passengers arrived in town yesterday.
:gliters and a boat were sent down to her instantly ; and as the
s% (-Aber has been fine, I should not apprehend much, if any
;• rage, to the vessel."
l'he Planter, Jessas, from Amsterdam to Demerara, out 53
e•.. 1 from the Texel, was spoke on the 11th inst. in the North
:: : by the Jelmar, WALMAN, arrived in the River.
rsorourn, Dec. 11.—Wind N.N.R.—Arrived the Union,
i Et% Is, from London, with loss of main boom and gaff; and
:.e Express, Ramsey% from Gibraltar in 21 days. Sailed the
:;•anmer packet, for Lisbon.
l'Lvstourit, Dec. 16.—Wind N. N. E. —Arrived the Rolla
Tntassr, from Dantsic in 26 days. Sailed the Elizabeth anti
Jare, and Princess Charlotte, both for London.
PORTSMOUTH, Dac. 17.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Provi-
eentia, KULA, from Itouerdam, and proceeded to Southampton.
DEAL, Dec. 17.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived last night and re-
main:, the Brothers, —, from Newcastle, for Jamaica, with
lost of sails during the late gales. Came down from the River
Lit nigh: and sailed, the Earl St. Vincent, Reeves, for Cork
:Aid New South Wales; Nepos, Tresses., for Sierra Leone;
and St. Pierre and Charles, for Rouen.
Sr. Jotts's, Newsom:ma/40, Nov. 12.0 n the 15th inst. at
tie A. 31. the Olive Branch, from Portugal for this port, struck
bout a mile inside the north head of Petty Harbour Bay, and
.Med immediately. The mate, three men, and a boy, were
providentially enabled to gain an adjacent rock, by means of the
tfprnast, which had fallen on it; the master and three of the
~:-ew were drowned. The night was so very boisterous, that
c:: the 16th, not a vestige of the wreck was to be seen, except-
:7)g a few articles of wearing apparel which had been washed on
there.

&smarm, Dec. 10... The following vessels lost anchors and
cables during the gale of yesterday and last night:—The Mary
:Ind Elizabeth, Kiz.t., from Memel to Hull; Alexander, Beoww,
f-om Riga to Dundee ; Mary, Timm, from Memel to ,London ;
Ann, Ewa:crow, from D-antzic to London; Brothers, Lawsow,
t-orn Petersburgh to London ; and Acorn, Ikaiiie, from Riga
3lontrose. The latter returned this forenoon.—The Vittoria,
(7;;Nrow, from Petersburgh, has lost her windlass, and is re•
placing it here.
Corrow.House, Dec. 17.—Ships Entered Inwards : Ebene-
zer, from Hamburgh; Vriendschap, Maria Barbara, and Otto.
from Antwerp ; James, from Cephalonia; St. Pierre, from Os-
tend ; Orb, from Trieste ; Prince William, from Dantaic ;
±wager, from Stettin ; Caledonia, from St. Petersburgh.—
tered Outwards; Bridgewater, for China; Iris, f& Belfast ;
Is:Anita and Valck, for Antwerp; Ant, for Hamburgh; Brit-
ian:, for Naples.—Cleared 'Outwards: Barclay, for New Or-
Inns ; Colombia, for Jamaica ; Thetis, for Dublin; Agnes, for
limerick ; Eatl Bathurst, for Rotterdam ; George, for Nantes ;
I;:rannia, for Jamaica.
Anstveo—At Atria Bay, the Stedcombe, --, from Mo-
ernbique. At Malta, Brothers. Killing, from the Clyde. At
Demerara, Mercury, Simpson, from Newfoundland. At Bue-
nos Ayres, William Gult, Walsh, from the Clyde. At Cadiz,
Panjora, Ham, from Newfoundland. At Gibraltar, Messen-
ger, Paton, from Newfoundland.
CUItaIENTS or rile OCEAN.—Thursday week, the Sth inst. a
bottle wai picked up on the sands at the mouth of the Ribble,
near Lytham, containing a written paper, of which the follow-
ing is a copy :—" On board the ship John Esdaile, of London,
HENRY JONG commander, 28th Juts/. 1821, lat. per mend. alt.
of sun, :SG deg. S.; min. N. long. per chronometer, 71 deg. SO
min. W. nut 20 days frs Kingston, Jamaica; all well. Pas-
sengers, Robert W. tiarris, Esq. of St. Thomas in the Vale,
Jamaica; T. K. Geoghegan, Esq. and Lady, of Spanish Town,
Lnaiea, bound for St. Andrews, New Brunswick."