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London, England, 1805-03-13 00:00:00

NAUTICAfL INTELLIGENCB.

MAILS THIS DAY.-..qlAd & E,.•
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Wau Irford • 0 4 Gotzentough o s

Ltrearoor, MARCH t t.—On Wednefday arriv-
ed here the Spanifh fhip St. Ana, alias Noftrea Her-
manos, from Vera Cruz arti the Havannah for Ca.
diz and Malaga, laden t:•ith 60,000 dollars, 242 chelts
fugar, 1800 pieces logwood, 368 cwt. cocoa, 69 bags
wool. &c. captured on the 14th ult. off St. Mary's. by
the Lady Francis, private fblp of war, Captain Haw-
aims, of this port, who was left all well. • •
• YAIMOUTH, MAICH, 12.-.-This Morning• the Di-
•pna Packet, Capt. STILWART, arrived here from He-
ligoland, with 6 mails. and .6 bags with difpatehes,
fifteen foreign and Englifla Paitengerc, and upwards
of 5o recruits. The Lark, Capt. Detr.. and the
Auckland, Capt. Ham mon Do am hourly 'expeCted, as
they failed with the Diana from Heligoland. The
.Flora of and from Stettin, Jolla Hot.: mailer, bound
to Hainburgh, and laden with fugar and coffee. was
loft off Heligoland the sth tuft.; the crew are all
fared except one man.—Arrived the Smira gon•brig,
from Sheerpefs ; and armed !hip, Lieut. SPURR-
airy. The flips of war here costal of four fail of
the line,' two frigates, 'five !loops, three gun-brigs,
acid two cutters. Wind S..E. •

fbOILTSMOUTH, Maacta la.—Sailed thoCasToz fri-
gate to the eaftward t and an armed defence Chip
with a convoy for the Downs.

•
Dj•L, MARCH :z.—Sailed the VULTURE aoOp of
war for Sheernefs. Arrived the Lioritari and Taus-
TY men of war; SPY, BONETTA, and SPEEDY floops
of war; BITER and Fuatous gun brigs, from a
cruize off the French coati, and remain in the Downs
With the reit of tl:c !hips at per laft. Wind S. W.
• PLYMOUTH, Marco t t.—Late laft evening arrived
here th: CENTURION, of so guns, Captain LIND, floc:
St. Helena, from which place the failed the 13th Ja-
nuary laft, having under her convoy the following
Sips : Britannia, David Scott, Earl Spencer. Lnrd
Melville,-and Euphrates, Eaft Indiamen. from Ma-
dras and Coati of Chili, for London ; Juno, —,
William, , and Dnchefs of Portlan, —, from
the South Seas, for London ; ansfthe Fanny fchooner,
that bad been trading for thins and furs, from which
they patted yefierday off the Deadman and the is
talin cutup Channel. About a fortnight before the fleet
from Madras, the Ca.:mum:l, of go guns, then
being at onebor in a Bay on the Cleft, having under
her convor.the•Charlotte extra Indiatnan, which war
colleting bale goods *bete, a frigate, one of Limo:l's
fimadroteartivad, and conceiving them to be' Emit
Indiaraen, fired into the Cavi/atom, but the retorn
lbe .keeeived loon convinced the ,Frenchmen of their
error i feteral of their ports being driven into qne by
a well &react' fire, they immediately wore fkieLand
made off. The Malmo*: bd. 84.-kuni, being in the
offing,, flood in, and gaffed the CasTuatom's (tern,
and raked her, but the guns not being: well direiffed,
did not do much damage: the CENTURION was not
Ws Rate of fighting, beT•decks, booms, &c. being full
of calltsdbmber, &c.: however, this did not deter
the Britith tar', for under all thole difadvantages,
they gave the French Admiral three cheers, cut their
cables. hard llOod further- into the Bay, to ptcvent
the legate from getting—Wide of her, by which the
Cskruaiow would have been placed between two
fires:. the again anchored with finings on her cables,
land was again ready to receive her opponents : the
Marengo alio anchored, and commenced a very brilk
firing, but a; fo great a dillance, that little damage
was elated: the CENTURION returned the fire, and the
anion was then continued until the French frigate
bad fucceeded in cutting nut the Charlotte, when the
gallant Admiral got under weigh, and with the fri-
gate made off with his prize. The CENTURION was,
and is now, commanded by Captain LIND, Captain
RAINIER being on (bore tick at the time : it does not
appear that there were any killed on board the Cam -
roams:, and only one man wounded : the action
feems to have been a very gallant one, on the part of
the Englitb, a► the enemy's force was very fuperior,
and the CEHTURION at the time in the worft poffible
condition to receive them.—Came in the Bremen gal
riot Teutonia, Captain Pum DI, from France to Spain,
laden with wheat, detained by the NAIAD, of 38 guns.
Sailed on a ernize, the nose, of 36 guns, Hums's,
of 14 guns, HELENA, and ESPOIR, of a guns each.