Star.
London, England, 1805-01-17 00:00:00

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WAYMORD, jAN. to.•-• The following is an ex- I 41 .
Ina from a letter (the original of which is in our
poffeffion) received two or three days lince, by the
I '7• wife of a feaman, who iefides in this neighbourhood.
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from her hufband, dated from on board his Maj I
efty's
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fhip Troia, off Malta, the 29th of November left.— I, .
HA, it has every appearance of being authentic, and was .1 .
. . forwarded to her from the Cove of Cork, as a (hip •
'pa letter received there : i :
ing• " The Lour has had a very fevere engagement i I
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vef- with the batteries at Toulon; we had 27 min I
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.00. killed, and 40 wounded ; we funk one 74, burned i
ith. another, and deftroyed a great part of the town. We ! i
are come here to• refit, as our rigging has fuffered oil
has much, hut we think little of her damage towards the )
: of lids of our men, which are valuable in a country • ..
sloe where there are none to bt had. There remain its 'i
led Tuition nine fail of the line, which we will take or
dellroy before we leave the Sucights, which I hops 1
will bring a peace." (,
tnd We lay the above intelligence before our Readers A
.ap- as we received it, without further comment or obler-
tat. va'i'n, than that the letter has the regular poll of-
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fice mark on it ; and that the writer was formerly a i
lea man on hoard one of the hlilfard packets.—llta •
the terford Mb tor. t i
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ARRIVED. i i
red At Cowes, the Carlifle. °Baron, from Baltimore. At Pon'e,
Lifter, Walker, front Newfoundland. Off Torbay, Minerva,
3fs Brillow, from ditto. At Dartmouth, Dart, Winfhoro., born
Ipg. ditto. At l'enzance, Duke of Kent. —, from ditto At Li-
vd, Harmonia, —, from Bilboa • Briftol Packet Day, fen in
hel
JCS, aryh,nd ; and the Pluto, Stevens, fromM..tiachufett'.. At 1.?,,y.
tith lake, Comet, 11 Nicol, from Nov Orleans. At Chdc, Ma' y,
Sealy, front Savannah ; and the Jalits, 1303.7,', from Lilbon. At .i.
un- Cart, Ann, Downall, from ttebec. At Waterford, Ceres, Har-
i • tcik dine, trom Cadiz ; Brothers, —; Ranger, Phelan ; and Peggy,
Sundort, from Newfoundland. At Dublin, Sufan, Collins, front
Fee- New York ; and the New Draper, Duke, firm London. At Bel- i I
fan, William, M'Crea ; and Venn., Coughey, from ditto. At
Bombay, C ambrian, Gardner, from ,ditto. At Charleiton, Ifabella,
, ("keen, from ditto; John, Setran, front Liverpool ; Ruby, Shaw ; • &
fey, and roe John, Wylie, from Africa. At Nrw Providence, Devon-
ors fbire, Cameron. from Liverpool. At Newfoundland, Becky, I
Briftow, from Union. At Bratul, Devonibire, Rowell ; and Per-
MY feverance, Cavallu, from Lifbon. At Hoylakc, Fortitude. Sk er-
,lib ran, from Barbadom ; Thomas, Gardner; and Rolla, Hutchins
, from St• atmah. At Liverpool, Swift, Sandy, from Liverpool,
ulle OuinA' ind.k, from Philadelphia; United States —, front •
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Virginia; and Ann, Stockton, from Newfoundland. At Water-
ford. Friends, Cavanagh, from ditto. At Kiddie, Rowchife, ,
ury ____. from Header's. At Barbadota, Irlam, Keller; and 1 I
Ea, Mary Ann, Thompfott, from Liverpool. At SUI inam Brijant,
Bradley; and Minerva, Warbeek, fmm the coaft of Africa. Off
'aer- Surinam, /Eau., —; Mary, teperen ; and idezaoder, Wadd,
vigt from Africa for the Havannah.
,of Extra& of a letter from an Officer lately taken
end prifoner :—" All the line of battle (hips and frigates
lying in Breit are thus vi&ualled, ftored, manned and
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fitted up for the canveyance of troops, without pre-
the venting them the advantage of being equally pre- 1
ms. pared for battle. Their holds are thus difpofed : in
EA lieu of flowing three tier of water, they have but one, .
1 which is the upper tier; the around tier is flowed
ItzP with dry proviTions ; and in place of the third tier,
ii 3 fix feet from the lower gun deck is built a temporary
Ind deck, fore and aft the (hip, which is occupied by r
at, troops ; hammocks are flung two deep, fo that a line I.;
the of battle (hip on this temporary deck will alone flow
rOOO troops : in all other parts of the (hip hammocks i
ay.
' arc flung two deep ; therefore, a 74 gun (hip maybe i
fa;d to carry 1500 troops, independent of her aim-
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hip plement of men. A proportion of thei r guns are mien- t
led lated both for the land and tea fervice. The wow is /
red made up of as many failors as they can get, *be are !I.
~ well ezercifed in military evolutions ; and foldiers
se• who have been accuftomed to tea expeditions are
ral chofen to do the fbip'a duty, but not out of the 1500."
the The following is a corral lift of the French Fleet • i
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, in the Outer Road at Breft, commanded by Admiral
GANTHEauME, fully armed and manned :
Guts Guns
I.e Vengeur - t3O Le Wattique - 74 &
the La Re!.ifiblicaine, now Alexander - '4
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called l'Empereur 130 Le Brave - 74
I.e Veteran 8a Ltliffe - 74 1
1"t Lc Jean Bart - 80 L'Eole - 74 I •
Foudroyant - So Le Patriote - 74
L'lropetui.ux - go Le Toureife - 74
fain L'Alhanec - So Le Diomede - 74
Ma- Menander - 74 Le Valereux - 74
I c Coffart - 74 Le Banere - 74
Pnn, Le Jupiter 74
for FRIGATES. •
La Jorephine - 44 La Voluntaire - 40 i
ted I.a camera - 40 L'unique - i
40
oral i.a.Fencite - ao La Mighonne - 34
11*i1 L'inihenne - 40
With five cutters, and fizteen tranfports :of the i
the latter, ten are laid to contain nothing but arms and
:ea. ammunition.
In the Inner Road at Breft are nine (hips of the
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line, and four frigates: of the former, two are duce- t t
hin.
tm- decker,. They are all armed, bin not manned. It
for was, however, reported, that failors had been o:- , ,
&red from the National Flotilla to complete their
crews. The troops encamped in the vicinity of Brett
Ma- were Paid to amount to 16,000 ; and the garrifons at
Bred, its forts and batteries, were betides compofed i
the of' SOOO men, of whom 1200 were of ;!.e artillery. I
On Friday the Leda, Captain HONYMAN, arrived ,
IA; front the French coall,and anchore4 in the Nefs Roads;
able. a boat from her coming on throe, upfet by the toed
and of the Turf, with (even men and one officer on board ;
and, notwithflanding another was immediately got
glen, off to their affillancc, four of the men were unfortu-
nately drowned. The bodies have fince been picked '
in up ; two on the fhore at Romney, and the others near 4'
Lydd. ' 1 i ,
lens The brig Fountain, of Lynn, Capt. Werr, had I
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her the misfortune, in raking Shields bar. in a heavy lea,
at half pail liven in the morning of the sth intl. to '
tiri- get afhore on the rocks, near the Black Middens. A 1 i
om fort time afterwards, Mr. THOMPSON PEARSON (a I , '.
en- young man, foreman at Mr. Cites-Ws dock, South !
Eu- Shields), feeing her dreadful fituation, took a boat, ;... .
OM and with four men got fo near as to make the Matter i
're, nndcrlland, that if he hoifted his frnall boat out, and ' 1 ,
threw a lead lute afhore, they would draw the boat , I
to them, and that PEARSON could, by the fame line, l'
ca, be drawn aboard in the (hip's boat, which being 1 j.,, I
done, and his advice and affillance tieing attended i
um' to, and the Matter and crew exerting themfelves to 1 ,
the utmolt, they hove the cable tight, being the only • 1
nd, means that could be purttod for the (hip's lafety till '
nut the next tide, told having done all in their power for
ear that puipofe, the whole crow and paffcngers got Pale •
afhore. On the flood making, Ole Captain, Mr. 1 1
end i PUURVIS, a
L'EAR Sea, WILLIAM URVIS, a io.ot, and a few fps. 1
ter, tired leOnws, repaired on board, amidlt a dreadful i . I'j,;
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lea. tea, and had the good fur tune, notwithflanding a
different profpeel, to get the brig•. off, and fate-moored
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I , has ill Shields 1131 bour, within two hour;, although half '!
ied Intl of water. 1
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