Star.
London, England, 1823-07-18 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

The following letter has been received at Lloyd's

" PAWS, JULY I.l.—The Spanish brig Neptune, which. was
carried into Brest on the 6th inst. by the Cybele frigate, Is a
vessel of 160 tons, armed with six 181 b. carrorndes, two Gibs.
with 27 men and 14 passengers, among them a Colonel and a
Captain. The Cybele has also taken another Spanish vessel,
called the " Alliance of the Nation," of 180 tons with 40 pas-
sengers • among them a Colonel,-Lieutenant-Colonel, three Cap-
tains, eve Lieutenants, and nineteen other military men, and
sent her to the squadron blockading Cadiz, The Turche cap-
tured, on the 3d inst. the Bella Catalino Tamaso, Spanish priva-
teer, from Mahon, and carried her into Toulon."
The Mary, FORREST, from Dundalk to Liverpool, was
stranded on the 15th instant, at Newcastle, near Newry, and
was nearly fttil of water.
FALMOUTH, Jet.v 16.—Wind:W.—Arrived, the Ceres, Jonas;
and Friends, Mazur, from London. Sailed the Lord Sidmouth
packet, for America.
PLYMOUTH, Jots 16.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Bro-
derick, PEARS*, from Miramichi, in 22 days; also the Margaret,
WEST, from Amsterdam to New York, leaky.
Poarsstoozn, Irt.v 17.—Wind W.—Sailed his Majesty's ship
Sway, for Ascension, &c. Baltic Merchant, for Quebec ; and
Briton and Alonzo, for Bourdeaux.
DEAL, JULY 17.—Wind N. N.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River, the Eclipse, KENT, from Balboa ; Kingston, LUCKE'S,
from emerara; Venus, SCATS, from Rio • Carshalton Park,
from Jamaica; Lucy, DAVIDSON, from Trinidad; Arundel,
WHITE, from ditto; and Tryal, HARVEY, from Jamaica. Came
down from the River, the Minerva, BRA lILT, for Quebec, and
sailed with the outward-bound. Came down and remains, the
Hudson, Catastrurr, for New York.
Ccszom-Hoesz, JVLe 17.—Ships Entered Inwards: The
Duke of Bedferd, from Calcutta ; Accord, from Rouen ; l lope-
well, from St. John's; Joseph, from,Sierra Leone; Sir George
Osborne, from the South Seas ; Hope, from Jersey ; Jane, f rom
Oportoi and Robert, from Montserrat.—Entered Outwards:
The Union, for Petersburgb ; and Joseph, for Trieste.—Clearing
Outwards : The Apparencin, for Stockholm ; Ark, for Sierra
Leone; Euphemiai for Elsineur ; Vestal, fur Santa Cruz; and
Fortuna, fur Teneriffe.

By an arrival from Curaeoa, Papers to the 31st of
May and letters to the .sth June, have been received.
The accounts which they contain respecting the late
affair on the lake of Maracaibo, differ in some de-
gree from those previously received. The Colombian
squadron, consisting of from 12 to 15 vessels, under
PADILLA, is admitted to have succeeded, on the
Bth of May, in the bold attempt of passing the Castle,
and entering the lake. Beyond this the Spanish and
Colombian accounts do not agree—the one repre-
senting that two of PADILLA'S brigs had been sunk
by the guns of the fort, and that two more had run
on shore, by which the Spanish naval force in the
lake remained greatly superior, and that consequently
the destruction of PADILLA and his squadron was
inevitable. On the other side, it is said that PADILLA,
had captured all the vessels in the lake, and that he
was co-operating with the Colombian land forces un-
der Colonel SARDA, at Punta de Palmas, a small
place near Altagracia, and at an equal distance from
the fort of San Carlos {which was taken) and the
town of Maracaibo.
By the Leeward Islands packet, private letters from
St. Thomas's, dated June 8, have been received, con-
taining interesting information with regard to the
Main. 13ziLticnic, who in the action of Porto Ca-
bello commanded a brig, when he found that further
resistance was useless, immediately repaired to Ma-
racaibo to apprise the squadron there under PADILLA
of the unexpected arrival of the frigate, and capture
of the two Colombian corvettes. It was immediately
resolved by these Commander's to make a decisive
effort against the fort of San Carlos, which com-
mands the bar and the entrance to Laguarai and it
is said they succeeded, fourteen sm*Bvessels,entering
the lake. Though MORALES had not retired from
the town, he could not long maintain his situation,
the fort of San Carlos preventing any communication
. with his friends by sea, and the command of the
lake by the Colombian squadron, any intercourse
with the interior. Should he attempt to escape by
Truzillo or Coro, MONTILLA would be ready to en-
counter him.
The paragraph wbich appeared last week, relative
to the intended retirement of Silt RICHARD PHILLIPS
from the publication of new Works, should not, we
learo, be understood.as applyingeither to the Monthly
Magazine, or the Methodical Cyclopedia, in twelve
volumes. These works, as well as new editions of his
Elementary Books, will continue to proceed, under
his superintendance, as buret/afore.
ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.—WLWALLACK appeared
last night as the Three Singles, and represented all
the oddities of the singular trio with great success.
1 In the grave.confusion of Pertinax, and in the dancing
frivolity of Peregrine he was equally effective. But
in the silliness of. Percival he was still more admirable,
and frequently convulsed the house with laughter.
' The blue-bottle scene was irresistibly comic. Mr. W,
C'HAPMAN played Heir/Iv/trey with much humour,
and in an introduced comic song he was encored.
The other parts were well sustained, and the success
of the piece was complete.
The Masquerade last night, at the Argyll Rooms,-
, was fits/doughty dull and elegantly