Star.
London, England, 1815-02-04 00:00:00

NEW YORK, DECEMBER Ito.

It appears, from Quebec and Montreal Papers, to
December 4, received at the Office of the Post, that
the Psyche, one of the frigates that was seat there
from England in frame, has been thrown out and
lengthened so as to carry 56 guns, long 24's and 32-
pounders. She is to be launched on'the 15th 'of this
mouth. A new 74, to be called the Ontario, has
been laid down at Kingston. She is to be fitted to
..airy seventeen 32pounders on each deck, and is to
be ready for the Lake by the middle of March next.
• r.unber of transport boats, for the service of the
different posts on the Lakes, are also conttructing at
Lingston.

CHARLESTON, DECEMBER 7.
,the ship mentioned in yesterday morning's Courier,"
as being in the offing, proves to be the British ship
lroselle, of 16 guns and 30 men, with a full cargo
or Sugar and coffee, a prize to the privateer-schooner
Kemp, Captain Almeida. The prize master being
ueacquainted with our bar, unfortunately stood so
near In as to get ashore on Stone's Breakers, and the-
ship has‘bilged and Will be Woe. with, it is feared, the'•
principal part of her Cargo. When the pilots left
her yesterday, the water was over the -cabin floor.
She struck on the breaker, about, film or I" o'clock
on Monday evening; the crew. took to the boat at
eight o'clock, and were polling aboutall night, near
the bar.
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torcEmrsza S.—Arrived the British brig Portsea,
(John Stokes, late master) from Havannah bound to
Portsniouth, (England) with a full cargo Of sugar
and coffee;' captured, with three others, on the 2d
instant,by the privateer Kemp.—Captain Stokes, and'
his Lady, who was a passenger, with the steward of
tlA,brig, have been brought in on board her as pri-
I.o:he,rs. We understand the three other vessels taken
weir the ship Roselle, lost on our bar; the ship Prin-
cesi Captain Dares, and the Hermaphrodite brig''
S.-B. Captain Bran.—They were under convoy of
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Astirffrigate, frigate, Capt. Cramer, who was to accom-
. thein from Havarma into the latitude of 52.---
Roselle was not so large a ship as first staled—
shrias only 264 tons, Brtuab measurement.
• A* British brig of war came along the coast from
the southward yesterday afternoon, stood close into
the bar, and fired upon the boats which were along-
sidle, the prize ship Roselle, endeavouring to save
what they could train Om Fr, cic.
1. ft the wreck, hlr.**l34 4eckmfai. 41 under
little or nothing hitibeen 'toyed of the cargo ;
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chip. and set fire tb &MOS if *4141411,.
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above water-.
On the 14th inst. it vitatitOrtt,_ . attack wodlci
be made on Amelia, by the Patriott, iho were as-
sembled at Black River, to the number of from three
to four hundred—all was alarm and confusion at
Amelia. • The gun-boats had been out in pursuit of
the British barges, and returned after having suc-
ceeded in re-capturing the Lidy of the Lake, from
Amelia, bound to this port, laden with dry goods, Ike.
7—Mw rot I Gawk, Dee. 20.
WILMINGTON, N. C. DECEMBER S.
Arrived on the 6th instant at Smithvill, the private
armed schooner Kemp, of Baltimore, from a short
and successful cruize of eight days. Fifty prisoners
wcre brought up to town last evening.
EXTRACT FROM HER LOO-BOOK.
" A short .0:0):11.t of an' action between the private armed
schouhri .11p, of Baltimore, Joseph Merida, Commander,
anal a •Ili IL:longing to the enemy, ma the lid day of De-
-tembkr,
" Oat 11.0r...15y, December Ist In lat. 32. 43. N. at eleven
o'clock descried a fleet of nine sail; gave chase, and at 1$ came
xwith tbenkand found one to be a frigate; the scene was won
niged; sbrgave chase to us, and at 6 P. M. WU out of sight
and we in purbuit of the fleet; at day-light saw them from.tbe
111 mat-head a long way a to the windward; at 2 P.M. coming
up with them fast they tacked ship and stood for ui in regular
eider, and commenced by firing broadside after broadside
ar they passed us; when within musket-shot we commenced
*kb our great guns and small arms; at half-past two we boarded
and carried her with only one man wounded; a shit,
brig, and schooner kept up a brisk Are on and we not alto.-
titer idle; at half-pact three bearded the ship and she hauled her
colours down, we then gave three awn and PMmtrod to board
the schooner; she cried for quarters • we ordered her to remain
where she was, and engaged the tidier twig; in 15 minutes she.
was glad to haul down her colours.
" The schooner and one brig mhoisted colours, com-
menced firing, made sail and left the fleet; we then went along-
side another ship, and she soon thought it moat prudent to heal
down her colours. The day being now very far spent, and some
endeavouring to make their escape, we conceived it best for us
to secure what we bad already to our pease:Woo.
" Ihe following is a list of the vessels engaged :—Ship Roselle,
guar, 35 men ; ship Princess, 2 guns, 14 men ; brig Pongee,
II pas, 116 men • S. B. it guns, 12 men ; Only Son, 12 guns, 21
Masi ; and the schooner Cossac (formerly the 0. H. Perry), one
24-pounder on a pivot, four 12-pounders, and 20 men.—'total
46 guns, and 135 men.
The first four were manned and ordered home : the others
made their escape, after hauling down their colours. The num-
ber of the enemy's guns and men were much superior to ours
we lost one man killed and three wounded—the enemy's loss
' not ascertained. There are two vessels of the Bar, said to be
prizes to the Kemp."

BOSTON, DIdEMBER 17.
By several persons who arrived from different parts
of Cape Cod last night, we are informed that- the New-
castle British frigate went ashore, at six o'clock on
Monday evening, off Wellfleet Shoal-ground, about
thirteen miles from Province-town, where she re-
mained in a dangerous situation eighteen hours, heel-
ing off shore in from nine to twelve feet water at low
' tide. Three boats wert manned to go to Province-
town to procure vessels to assist in getting her off,
but the wind blowing fresh, they put on shore on dif-
ferent parts of the Cape. Twenty-three men of the
boats'-crew seized this opportunity to desert, who
had been seen by our informants. The frigate, by
starting her water and throwing over spars and other
articles, got off, and arrived at Province-town about
four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. Ever since her
arrival there, she has remained with springs on her
cables. fearing an attack from the Constitution.—
This is the same ship which wa;_lp thyfrom this
taws on Monday. - • "r'"-+""6-•` • '