Star.
London, England, 1824-05-10 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Naval Promotion spoltemof, we understand, will take pL,:e
on the anninetsary of the Kma's Corcmatiqn, in July next.
The Telco% ttigate, Sir Joun Putit.tatote, is expected to atslve
at Portsmouth to-morrow, to embark a Rocket Brigade, f,r
vice on the Western Coast of Africa. 'rlte Turits, it is untlerst,,G.l,
will proceed direct to Cape Coast.
The Ltu.lorE, 10, Lieutenant I'. Jostler, arrived at Portsinevlt
on S.tturtlay, front Plymouth, and remains the only shiAl w-r
Spithead.
Capt.:in W. Ilottntti is appointed to the SAPPIM;
J. WesT and .1. CANIILLAIII, to the ETNA ; and Lieutenant Jo.ii
rt.AIC.!IF.R to the A I.IIION. _ . _

The new. Mr_ EvAtis., formerly ChNp?ain of the (Ittrao:
tOTTE, has. been appointed to the came (dice on board the Vtt.Toliar

flag ship - •
The Snowdrop, of Boston, Captain Ii tcxi'osn, hound from Bell
to Yarmoutliovith &ads, foundered' f 1 Skecnes during a heavy
gale, Monday morning. The boat in which some persons waste
seen from the land was obstrrved to up-et; it afterwards drifted stn
shore empty. The inmotr, his wife, and all hands on board, ate
supposed to have perished.
Fat.stouvn, MAY n.—Wind N.\.l4.—Off the port, the lli:;it-
lattcler, S.rterr, from Bahia in sist7 dap. Arrived the Hein-,
JONICS, front Bristol for Philadelphia, leaky, 31%1 part of tier coo
thrown overboard---has been out twenty-four dais, and as far West
as long. 23. 30. At Dived also, the Lady Wellington packet, (rota
New York—sailed the Bth ultimo; and from Halifax, 20th ditto;
and Prince Regent packet, from the Mediterranean—sailed front
Corfu the 21 st March; Malta, 9th April; and Gibraltar, the 22ds
ditto. Sailed the Duke of Kent packet, for Lisbon ; and John,
rs'ltts, for Naples.
PLYMCAriIf, ALtv 3.—Wind N.N.W.— Arrived the Catheri:v
Maria, front Dantzic; Nymph,. WAvetris, front Messina in thirty.
eight days; Vigilant, Fox, from Cadiz in thirteen days. Sailed
the (h Ewan:us, for Madras; Concord, FIICOIAN, tor
Hamburg!' ; and Lyturgus, Jowsav, fur Lisbon.
Posrsasorrin MAY 9. Wind E.S.E.— Arrived the Spring,
QVELCH, front the Downs for Demerara; Lord Amherst, LUCAS
from ditto for Madras. Sailed the David Scott, Tocoutinte, for
Madras. The Thalia, 3luaaoa, which put in here in distress, still
continues to make a great deal of water; about half her cargo is
discharged—but very Ruin appears to be damaged; we are appre-
hensive she will have to be discharged and the ship repaired lictear
she can proceed.
DILAL, MAY 9.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived yesterday;the Standard,
Lozitimucizosr, in thirty-seven days front Jamaica; and Amity.,
GREY, from London. Passed through this day, the Electra, RO-
BINSON, front Philadelphia ; Sceptre, ListeLev, from Dominica,
both for London; and the Chieftain, l'Arrisom ; Coventry, PURISt:;
Elizabeth, WICUIIAM ; and the Fanny transport, from London.
Lit:saran, MAN ii.—Arrived the 3lars, 311vesrext., from Charles-
ton--on the 25th of April; in lat. 42. 40. long. 38.50. at four, v. sr.
saw a vessel on fire, with nothing standing but her bowsprit ; passed
about twenty fathoms distant front her ; she was at that time burn-
ing as low as the bands, with not the least appearance of any one
on board ; she appeared to be a vessel of about 200 tons, very sharr,
with a fiddle or billet head, the cutwater standing rather straight
out front the stern ; at the time we saw her she was a solid mass
of tire : at eleven, p.m. we left her.
Doves, MAY 7.—The destination of the Titters, 46, Sir Jouvs
Pritudmotte, is altered; she is not to proceed to St. Petersburgh,
but to fit for five months' foreign service. The l'atattose, 18, Cap-
tain Szommar, is about to sail for the Jamaica station. Sixty sea-
men have been dispatched from the Guard-ships to Falmouth, to
be rut on board the packets, some ef the seamen of which have re-
fused to work, in consequence of a new regulation having abridged
their privileges. The METEOR bomb is commissioned by Capttitt
J. SCOTT, fur service at Algiers.
MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK.
Custom-house, Tobermory, April 29.
Sta—l have to communicate to you the loss of the brigantile
Helen, of and from Dundee, bound to Quebec and 'Montreal, with
a general cargo, which occurred on the morning of the 19th instant,
about 20U miles west of Sr. Kilda Island: she struck on a rook
under water on the morning of the lath inst. " Rock All" then
bearing by the compass W. by S. tS. distant six miles. The crew
and passengers continued at the pumps for 13 hcurs, but being over-
come with fatigue, were necessitated to endeavour to abandon the
vessel, as the leak was rapidly gaining on them, the water at that
period being within three feet of the hold beams. When lowering
the long-boat, she unfortunately was stove in pieces against the ves-
sel, with a tremendous sea. The crew at that period, twelve in
number, embarked in two small boats, with one passenger, and
shortly after leaving the vessel she sunk, when sixteen of the
passengers on board the Helen perished : among the number w a
Miss Webster, front Dundee, with six women, three men, and sl
children. The crew were providentially picked up at sea by the
bark Flora, Captain Baker, front Dantzie to Liverpool, and sa;el!-
landed on the island of Tiree, one of the Hebrides Isles.
I am, Sir, your'a trttiv,
WEMYSS ORROK, Comptroller of the Custornis TobermoE-
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Ye ster.!ay being the first Sunday in Etter Term
LORD M Y',/}{, attended by a few of the Aldermea,
riffs, &c. went to St. l'Aul's Cathedral, where they v c:•".
a:et by eves al of the Jude:i, Serjeants, :Ind Other o's:-
nitaries of the Law, and lie.ird a suitable Viioo" •-•
deliyetc.l by his Lo;.‘hhilis Chaplain.

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