Star.
London, England, 1802-08-11 00:00:00

FAST INDIA SHIPPING, &c.

We bay: the plelinre to announce the Cafe
val at B •Inl,ay of he fillip CARRON, Captah )(il
STUART, 1.0111 Eag'Antl, on the 13th of Feo. lan;
the Caavos kft Madeira on the 4th of On ;
in the lat. 013 North, law nine thips; none of tltL voi
hailed her. In the lat. of 4 North and 84 EA
long. the CARRON patted the Company's
ANN, CALF DONLAN, GENERAL STUART, and
matt C.l, bound to NIA-L.ls ; and on the 2-.-).)1 j'i•
nual y law his Majelty's 'hips TRIDi.NT a,1,1 it.OM•
it', bound to Goa. Capt. STUART .It
Calicut on the 26th of January, and failed again

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on the fame day. Mr. MATTHEW CHRIS ciF,.
fillant Surgeon, for Matitas, lanJed at I'vita de
Galle.

The Lord Eldon, Captain Swurt ; arA Nl:nerra,
Captain WILLSDEN, from I.nuJ,:n t 9 India, ar-
rived off Madeira on June 29, and failed on that
thy for St. Helena.
The Neptune, CUSHLEY, from New Orle:ms to
New Providence, is loft on the coati. of ;
crew raved. Great part of the cargo expeete4 to
be favel.

Captain ATKINSON, of the hlarrrlii (,1 Lani-
down, arrived from Jamaica, on 111-: 2:.L1 June,
off the weft end of the He t.f Pins, on the cf,ait

of Cuba, fate a large fhip n Ihore. and was in-
formed by a tloop from the Grand Caro., ynes that
it was the Diana, WILLIAMS, from Jamaica to
Liverpool ; that a wrecker had arrived at the Ca-
maynes with too pipes of Mad:ira wine, taken
out of her, and that the Captain had died fince
leaving Jamaica.
The American brig Brothers, Hot. ra sr FAD. from
the Havannah, was loft on the 18th of July, on
the coall of Montmuffon.

The (hip PORCHER, Captain BLAKE, which is
reported to have been captured before the figuing
of the Preliminaries of Peace, with a valuable car-
go, has performed one voyage to England, and
arrived in September rBao from Bengal. She re-
ceived permiflion to return thither foon afterwards,
and was on her fecond voyage when the capture is
faid to have taken place.
By the laft accounts from Malacca, we are in-
formed, the brig Sumatra, on her return from
Rhio, fell in with a fleet of Pirate Prow's, to the
number of forty, belonging to Raja MOODA, for-
merly Rhio, which engaged him for nearly two
days, and were on the point of boa* ..Ing when a
breeze enabled the brig to cfcape. -
The Bell, Rows, from Moutferrat to London,
fprung a leak the 17th June, and put on (hare at
Nevis Point, where the cargo is landing.
The Betfey, IRELAND, from Swanage to Arun-
del, is loft near Studland Bay. Captain and two
people drowned.
A. letter juft received overland from Bombay
fays, " SULTAN Asssit NOELEDIEN %KANDER, the
King of the Maldive Iflands, has fent his State
Barque, called ADARIE ODIe, to C3lumbo, with
a letter, concerning fome commercial regulations,
addreffed to the Hon. Mr. NORTH, accompanied
with a handeome prefent, as a proof of his friend-
(hip, and foliciting the proteCtion of the Englifh.
Similar prefents have been returned."
A letter lately received from Bengal fpeaks of
an uncommon rife or fwell of the river Ganges,
on the zoth of February laft. This immenfe cur.
rent of water fuggefts rather the idea of an ocean
than of a river, the general breadth of it being
from two to five miles. The largeft boats, fail-
ing up or palling down, appear, when in the mid-
dle of the firearm, as mere punts, and the eaftern
(bore only as a dark line marking the horizon ;
even the Rhine appears as a rivulet in comparifon
to this enormous macs of water.
By the late arrivals from the Eaft Indies, we
are enabled to (tate fome circumftances relative to
the capture of the Eland of Ternate, as communi-
cated in a letter received by the EARL Howe,
dated the 27th of February. On the attack of this
Settlement, the veffels belonging to the Bombay
Marine had particularly an opportunity of cif.
tinguithing themfelves ; the Swirr, commanded
by Lieutenant JoHN HAYES, fußained three very
clofe and defperate attacks with Fort Orange, and
the different batteries on the ifland ; in the laft at-
tack he was molt gallantly fupported by the STAR,
commanded by Lieutenant SCOTT; both the vet..
Fels lay fiationary within piftol fhot of Fort Orange
for upwards of fifty minutes; they were engaged
upwards of two hours, and ezpokd to a heavy,
eras, and raking fire, from guns of twenty-four,
eighteen, and twelve pounders, which did great
damage to their tails, rigging, mails, and yards;
but their lying fo dole to the enemy's batteries,
and the probability of their not being able to de-
prefs their guns fuificiently, prevented their fuffcr-
mg materially in their hulls, and accounts for the
fmall number of men killed and wounded on the
occalion. The Swirr had only one man killed
and eleven wounded, and the STAR had four killed.
REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN OTAHEITE.--:
ExtraCt of a letter lately received from the Rev.
Mr. JFFFERSOI4, one of the Methodilt Miffionaries
at that place A Chief of great authority,
from Huaheine, who is now on this ifland, has
given fome of us various invitations to his country,
and promifed to be our proteetor, but at this time
Huaheine and other iflands adjoining, are involv-
ed in war. The fame fpit it, which for fome years
has been prevailing over Europe, has made its
entrance into thefe feas, and caufed much com-
motion, and threatens more, among the Society
!Rands, the deartittion of all Government and
fubordination. The Mannaitowne, or common
people, are riling againft their Chiefs, and over-
turning all authority. The cernmonality of Ota-
Leite are equall! difaffeCted to their prefent form :)f
Government, as Huahein thic-teca, or more pro.
paly Oryataa,' and are watching a farmirable
opportunity of (baking off their allegiance, and
Ic‘elling all diiiinClions of Chiefs among them.
The Porpoife arrived from New South Wales at
a very critical period, fix, as we have fence been in-
formed, had her arrival been one week later, it
would have been decided, whether there thould
have been one King, or eve: y man a King ? W:lat
ttate the iflands to the eaitwarti ate in we cannot
tell. The natives of Otaheite in gener.:l appear
familiar and free from jealirify, as we lia*e wi,).s
•1.- .• • n • • • •••.;elofi i”t..rf..-imy with th•-• 1• 001;1: 0,

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THE WORM OF THE STILL.

I
have found what the fo puzzled to tell,
The true linpe of the Devil, and where is his Hill,
Into Serpent., of old, crept the Author of ill,
Bu: Satan works now as a Woum of the S

Of all his migrations this IA tic likes bill,
How rh;:arrozant reptile here raifes his civil,
Ili* heed wilding up from Nac tail of his plan,
'Till the worm Qauds, emit, u'cr the proltrated Man!
Here lu Joys to transform, by his magical fpcll,
'fht fwcet milk of thc earth to an illoice of Hell;
F.7rmented our food, and corrupted our grain,
'To faniiih the tioniach .nd madden the brain.

It y Li, water of life,what diftradlion and fear !
lip .iie!floom of in light, what pale fpedtres appear I
A !:`,ltion keeps time with Lis finance,
nice the ptiffions fpring forth in a horrible ditit.e.

Then prone on the earth. they .data in the dull,
A man's baler half, raid,' in room of Li. i•ufl;
Such urgic. the ri, hts of the drtinkard dirt lay,
But how black wiili woad, how benighted his day!
With drams it lwains, and with drams it mutt end,
The dram i• hi: country, his miftrefs, his friend;
Then his aify'd hcart hates i:ltif at the lA.
And a dram nervcs his hand for tile de.ith-,'.ring

tErli that mother, that monitzr,thzt flame, ard t!-,t
Ste h, r child hang dead-drulik at the iirealt of its tictre,
Aa it ciriirs from I'vr arm, mark her fitipifed ftrre,
'till the w,..1‘..s with • yell, and a Luzli of defpair.
Is this the promis'd our Nation,
This, the UNION, diiroled in a cup of damnation,
Lich nor Ch:mcillnr, Cosine, extols as divine,
To train Li) our f-te and our fortunes, ashvire

Drii.k, Er. IN, drink deep from the cryflallim r.:itnd„
Till the t,rture Llf-recoliccnion b.! &own%
Till the hope, of thy heart b, all ri'd to Clone,
Tlhm fit down in the dirt, likc a Qw w on icr throne.
No frenzy for edom to lkilt o'er the brain,
"thou than Um: to the mufral clank cf the chain ;
A crown of chap !Irani *IA rtTll rich to thine eye,
And peace and good order will reign in the fty.

Nor boalt that no track of CI,- Vip r 71 fLtn,
To Rain thy pure furface of ctrwra; l grctn;
For the Serprnt will never want polfon to kill.
While the :+t of your fields [cols thc U'oitis of the STILL
Irdanif...ferdt 1.

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