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London, England, 1814-02-16 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, FEB 15.

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Arrived the TiIAMES. frigate, and GROWLER gun-
brig, with a fleet of abdut 40 sad, among evnich are
the Europe and Asia East Indiaman, Cape Packet.
Speak, Argo, Charlotte,. Hector, Adams, London,
and the Ann. Arrived also the DESIREE fiigate,
from the North Coast of Spain. Yesterday evening
sailed his Majesty's ship WOLVERINE, with specie on
board, for Passages. Sailed to-day the SNAP sloop
of war, on a crnize. The West India fleet still re.

mains, but the ships from the Downs having arrived,
we fully expect the whole-will be away,early in the
morning.—Wind N. E. . •

'DEAL, FEBRUARY 15.

Came down from the River the Sarah-Ann,
Gig-
sow, for Havannah ; and several others, particuiars
not known.-:—Wind N. E.

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DOVER, FEBRUARY 15.

Two divisons of the .52t1 and King'p German Re-
giments came into-day, and will proceed to Del to-
morrow,
to emb*rk for Holland. '

MILFORD, FEBRUARY 12.
Arrived the .FOXHOUND stoop of war from Ply-
mouth. Sailed the BIMIC sloop,M war on a cruize.
HARWICH, FEBRUARY 15. •
Arrived the Belvidere,. Peggy, liclen, and Friend-
ship transports from Hol;and, la N E.
FAYAL, JANUARY :27.
His Majesty's ship MAJESTIC put in here the other
day, in quest of the Constitution A merican frigate.

COVE OF CORK; FEBRUARY 9.
WEST INDIA CONVOY.—Yesterday arrived his Ma ,
jesty's ship CONQUESTADO., 74. guns, Lord IVittiasl
STEWART, front Portsmouth, to take charge ot the
.;
convoy appoioted to sail hence the 25. ch inst. for the 7
West Indies. His Majesty's ship spittiN TEi, Captain
N.D. COCHRANE, will sail this day or to morrow, as
will also his Majesty's ship C.ssrILIAN, Captain Bite,
NIER.-.•WILLIAM AIRES, Esq. Secretary to Admiral
SAWYER, apd_ his „Lady„ arrived
.here on Sunday
morning, in his Majesty's ship TEazeit. :.Captain
HARGRAVE, from. Plymouths His Majesty's ship •
Pitotecrott, Lieutenant MircutNoit, arrived also on
Sunday from tbeShannon. •
HALIFAX, JANUARY 19.
• The prizes do- not' fall in the Way of eir miner.
no plentifull.;•as -they did. The
.sqpiaticon
Uapealte consisting of the DttaGotit,'AltiaiDay
bissioNlAN, and Scrum, save been the most success-
tel.
The AmeeiCati-whaler Gardner, With 500 barrels
of oil ; and the Policy; ot London, with I'M) barrehi .
of oil,' the latter recaptured from the Essex, have
been seat in by the RAMILICS and Lorne. A few
ldays since, the Rieronuve arrived* from New Provi-
dence on her voyage to and from that place she,
captured. the following vessels—ship George, tram a
Iwhaling voyage ; ship Alcnormik, from New York,
bound to Porto Rico; brig San Pedro, from Boston,
bound.to Havatioah ; schooner Balton's, form New
Haven, bound- to St. Barts ;* schoonei Threebrothers,
from Salem, bound to St. Domingo; schooner Mar.
strand, from Boston, bound to tiavannah ; and sloop
Caty-Maria, from New York, bound to St.
A considerable reinforcement of seamon are gong to -
Canada, some of whom are to man a new frigate,
which is to carry long 32-pounders on her gun-deck.
....--Great numbers ot artificers, ship careeLtets, and
labourers, have lately taken their departure from this
town for Montreal and the Upper Prost-ince.
JANUARY 22.—Many people in England are, no
doubt, informed that several 74-gun snips and frigates
are building in the United States; but the es-tract u-
nary size ot these vessel., in ref finite to n
mi-
nal rates, may not be so generally known. The op-
portunity I had lest summer of viewing the Mao:-
moth, 74, and a frigate, building at Pod kdelphia,
enables me to give the length at tae tread ot their
keels, by which their full dimensions may be tolera-
bly estimated : the keel of the 74. is 173 feet 5
inches; this 74 proceeds very slowly fur want of ma .
aerials, having in October last only a few of her
floor timbers laid down ; it was expected s'oe would
not be ready for launching until May or June 1815,
and even that would depend on the vigilance .of
our ships in the Delaware, in cutting of their
supplies of timber: her lower deck.gulis are to be
long 42-pounders, and she is to mu tat at least 96 guns. •
The keel of the frigate is 160 feet 6; inches, 16
ports on a side on her main deck, wilt carry long
32-pounders on her main dick, and is to mount
62 guns? she was nearly planked up in October
last, and it was expected would be launched in April.
or May next. They ships building at Baltimore,
and to the eastward, are all, I undetstani, of
nearly the same dimensions as the two at Philadel.
phis, but much farther advanced, especially the 74.'4
one or two of which it is expected will be at se.i early in
the ensuing summer. The frigate -United States is
now equipped with eight long S`'2 pounders on each
side her main deck, in lieu of the same number of 24's,
which have been transferred to the Mecelonian.—
The Constitution saik'd from Bost. .in on the Ist of
January, with 500 men on boa! d I the Congress sailed'
from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the Sd, on a
cluize ; the President was to sail t,n the 2..1 inst. with
the Frolic and Wasp.

CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, FEBRUARY 16.
We have hectic() fresh arrive., since Monday ; but the yam-
thy ei grain unsold being large, the sales were very heavy, and
what was disposed of fetched Monday's price. Übe mai ket
Fettling on the decline, most of the buyers hold off tW sett Fn•
day, In impacladas at a great fat is every artvilis.