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London, England, 1825-01-22 00:00:00

NAVAL INI'ZLLIUENCE.

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The Hercules, Dacca*, from Hamhurgh to New Orleans, was
driven on shore at Amain, about the 2d inst.—part of the cargo
txpected to be saved.
The Camperdown, RagancE, from Riga to London, was on
shore near Dragoe, the 50th November, and bad thrown part of
her cargo overboard.
The Aran, TRUE, bound to London, was driven on shore at Co-
penhagen, on the 20th ult.
The REDWING sloop, Captain Feract.sapcs, arrived at Chatham
on Sunday, to be paid off snd recommissioned.
The BASILISK cutter, Lieutenant Houcu, arrived at Chatham

on Monday, from a cruise.
Lieutenant WOOLNOCGH is appointed to command the SURLY
cutter, in the room of Lieutenant Ricnaaoson, who is appointed to
command a Division of the Ordinary, at Sheerness.
The East India Company's ship Thames arrived at Anjeer, on
her way to China, en the 6th of August—all well.
FALMOUTH JAN. 20.--Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the Dutch brig
Three Sisters, Zemin, from Antwerp for Rio Janeiro, leaky.
Sailed the Dickens, Pliocene, for Naples.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 21.—Wind N.E. strong breezes.--Sailed
the Honourable Company's ships General Kyd, NAIRN, for Bengal
and China; Lady Campbell, Ism, for Madras and Bengal ; Julius
STAFFORD, for Cartbagena ; Hector, bitecnsu., for New
lipst ; and Jane, fisons.a, for Madeira.
Drat., Jan. 21.—Wind N.N.E. fresh breezes.—The Honour-
able Company's ships Hythe and Repulse, with the whole of the
outward bound, sailed this morning. The Britannia, EVANS, fur
St. Kitts, ran on board the Amity, Jonnson, for Bombay, and
sprung the bowsprit of the latter; the Britaimia proceeded, appa-
remly without damage. The Briton Maim, from Sierra Leone;
and a bark, homeward bound, ternain.
Lwearoos., Jaw. 20.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the Paragon,
Csraznce, from Charleston. T,he William Wise frosts Demerara,
Deported yesterday en shore on Hoyle Bank. has gone to pieces,
crew saved ; part of the cargo has been washed on shore. The
Ardent, Dams, from Maranham, is putting back, with loss of
rudder ; a steatn.boat has been sent to her assistance : she has since
gene en shore under Mockbeggar. A schooner (mune unknown)
is sunk on Hoyle Bank.
HARWICH, JAN. 21.-- His Majesty's revenue Cilliser Scone,
Lieut. Coots, has captured and brought into this pert, a loner,
named the Aurora, of Flushing, burtben about seventy tons, with
her crew (19 men) and cargo, consisting of 200 casks and 202 bales
lof tobacco, 89 half-ankers of foreign brandy, 326 half-ankers of
foreign geneva, two boxes and two bales of tea. His Majesty's
revenue cruiser FLY, WM. TAYLOR Acting Commander, tender to
the Viou.arrr revenue cruiser, has brought into this port one bale,
containing 273 foreign silk hakkerchiefs, picked up floating, su-,
posed to have been thrown overboard from a lugger she chased the
evening before.
LIST INDIA SHIPPING.
ARRIVALS AT TIM CAPS Or GOOD Hora.—The Nettle, North-
wood, from London, the 14th Oct.
finnan rams THZ CATS or 960D Hon.—The Nordloch, Pruek.
Dwyer, for Batavia, the 27th .
AILZSTAL AT Basteuss...-The Resource, Pritchard, from Bombay,
the 11th July.
Samna room BENGAL—The City of Edinburgh, Wiseman, for
Rangoon, the rith July.
Sinn Row wrot.—The Morley, Halliday,from London and
Madeira to Bengal, on the 23d Oct. in lat. 31. 2f. S. IoBg. 7. 24. W.
Two Balls were given on Thursday last in Margate,
one in aid of the Philanthropic Institution, for the- relief of the
poor, during the winter, at the Fountain Tavern, which netted a
handsome sum; the other at the Assembly Booms, supported by all
the elegance, beauty, taste, and fashion of the place.
Wednesday evening, about fifty social persons sat down
to the annual Haunch of Mutton Feast. at the London Hotel, Mar.
gate ; after the usual toasts. Sir T. Swam, D. JARVIS Esq. J.
TAOIST, and other convivial greetings, the compan '
y departed
highly gratified.
The remains of the late Mr. DANCE, one of the Fel-
lows of the Royal Antiquarian Society, were this morning removed
in a hearse, drawn by six horses, for interment in &Paul's Cathedral,
from his residence ineower-street, Bedford-square. The procession.
soosisting of six mourning coaches and four, and upwards of tweet/
private carriages, passed along the Strand and up Ludgatabile
its way to the Cathedral. On Ludgate hill the procession was do.
toyed some time by the crowd of alter vehicles which were passing
along at the time.
Accounts from the Spanish frontier state, that a
pitched battle was fought in Catalonia, between a band
of smugglers, who were endeavouring to introduce
English contraband goods, and the whole host of Cos-
`torn.house officers, supported by French troops.
Last Sunday, Divine Service was interrupted at St.
Roche, in Paris. Two Ladies were followed from the
moment of entering the church by a well-dressed young
man, who, however, never spoke to them. As they
knelt down, the young man pretended to let his glove
fall, and kneeling down to take it up, he took away a
reticule which one of the Ladies had laid on a chair,
and retreated with remarkable coolness. At the first
moment of surprise, respect for the sacred place made
the Lady who had been plundered ouly comdlain in a
low tone of voice, but her neighbours, on being infor med
of it, cried out, 4, Stop thief," which was repeated
through the church, but the robber escaped.
At the Wilts County Sessions, Henry Bray, a mir.
tied man, was convicted of assaulting Elizabeth Wilt-
.shire, daughter of Timothy Wiltshire, of Westwood,
who has scarcely attained her fourth year ! He 'was
'sentenced to twelve months imprisonment and bard la.
boar ; and at the end of the first two months, to be
publicly whipped, at Westwood.
Tuesday evening, as Mr. Murrell, jun. accompanied
by Mr. Lidwell, was returning home from Rochester
market, his horse fell with him near the Falstaff, on
Gad's Hill, by which ire was so severely hurt, that be
died on Thursday.
This morning, soon after nine o'clock, a fire was dis-
covered breaking out in the back part of a second-floor,
at a tin-shop, Br own's•lane, Spitalfields ; fortunately, by
the exertions of the inmates, before the arrival of any
engine, it was extinguished, after doing much damage
to the interior of the room. It is supposed to have ori-
ginated from a clothes-horse, on which some linen wad
drying, in the absence of the owner falling on the fire.
An Inquest was held on Monday last, at Little Stone
Watch•huuse, New Romney, before SMITH COBB, Esq.
on the body of Bartholomew Shea,•in the service of the
Coast Blockade. From the evidence, it appeared that
the poor fellow was accidentally d:owned, in the per-
formance of his duty, and a verdict was returned Soy

,totdingly.