Star.
London, England, 1801-02-06 00:00:00

LERWICK, JANUARY to

The Mariner, Captain BELL, from Hull, and
the Dublin, Captain Saursom, from Leith, are
arrived in Braffy Sound.
A veffel was totally wrecked on the rocks called
the Flefhings, or on the little Holm called the
Rumble, lying a little fouthward of the Ifland of
Whalfay. Soon thereafter, a large parcel of calks
and other wreck were ken floating and driving to
the northward, from the •place where the wreck
happened. A windlafs, 16 feet long, and part of
a mall, with iron hoops thereon, are drove on
&ore. A number of coils of (mall cordage,
pieces of fine linen, thick canvas, four fmall
Noc. t, 2,7, and 13, containing fpecie in bags,
viz. ihillings, which bear on one fide a kip, en-
circled with XXIII Skill. Datsfr Ativricaryl alto
four bags, containing fpeeie, are dragged. Seve-
ral corpfes in men and womens' drefs, and one
child, are feen on the bottom, near to where the
wreck happened, in 8, to, and i 2 fathoms water.
Four of the corpfes are dragged up, one of them
in genteel drefs. The calks above mentioned are
trebly matted, topped, or Trapped. The word
" Copenhagen," is on No. 7.
Some papers were recovered in a tin box, whereby
it appears that the veal wrecked as above alluded
to, was the Elizabeth, CHRISTEN STIIIISRVEN, of
Copenhagen to St. Thomas and St. Croix.

In the courfe of Taft year 4+ privateers have I
been taken from the French, with 479 Suns, and
3,308 men; being is privateers, 264 guns, 883 men
lefi than were brought in during the year 1799.
The Dolphin, —, from Yarmouth to Liver-
pool, is Branded near Blackpool.
The Adventure, Ntc notes, from Honduras and
Charlefton, is arrived at Dover, with damage.
The Santa Bniliant packet --, from Litbon,
to Rio Janeiro, which had been captured near Ma-
deira. by la Mouche privateer, is retaken by the
Guiana Planter, of Briftol, and arrived there; the
privateer had taken the Adventure of London,
bound to the Weft Indies.
The Rofanna, of Barnftaple, Cottims mailer,
(ram Cork to London, laden with provifions, foun.
dered off the Lizard the z3th ult. tin a gale of
wind; the crew is taken up by the Britannia,
*Atria', and landed fafe.
We yefterday announced the fafe arrival of the
(hip Adventure, South-rea.man, off Dover, tall
from the Wand of St. Helena, which place the left
on the zoth of December. We learn that the

following homeward-bound Eaft Indiathips failed
from St. Helena for England, prior to the de-
parture of tbe Adventure from ths Paid Wand, viz.
The Sip Colleele, Captain Clarke Boerhind Cotton ; Royal
Chmelotto,Ctddnis Wilhite Roper; Widmer Celtic. Captain
Gene Ileahess. from Bombay and Clans ; and the Matron,
Emamine from &woolen and China ; to-
oritli the MIMS, Captain Dunlop, aura Oalp ; and the
Ad Aimee, heat the SfAlth SSW

The arrival of the above (hips is hourly looked
for. The Adventure has brought anintelligence
of importance. The Cape of Good Hope, we are
informed, is plentifully ftipplied, and the garrifon
healthy; a proper underflanding fabfills among
the people in the interior, who have now learnt to
refped the Englifh Government. St. Helena has
of late had fuels abundant fupplies of Acores from
this country, that every thing was in great plenty
*there. We further learn, that the Whale Fi(hery
la the South Seas has been remarkably prattle.
,live ; fume of the Whalen are floral fore and aft
with their freight. The Leviathan was fpoke with
',the Aland of St. Helena on the itith day of Dc
timber, having obtained (even SIN betides feels
Whifea-elephants. It is in atitatioa, we bear, to
gram permiffion for boiling ()ante be ereaed
an the leeward fide of the ;nand St. Helena, for
theiritryofe of giving a eonvnicnce to the (hips
een oyed in the finiery, by boiling their blubbe'r,
an thereby rendering the flowage confiderable
sad ertestfive. It is reported that a French pri-,
vateer had been wrecked near De la Goa Barr, w
the 7th November, 'and that forte of the Ili*
Inployed in this fifhery had ern affibuce to
crew, who were eaolkly ave./