Star.
London, England, 1801-03-10 00:00:00

LEITH, MARCH,.

By a letter from Berwick, we learn, that the:
Ceres Berwick'fmack, has been retaken, and car-
ried into Shields.

The RATTLE gun-veffel failed from Leith Roads
on Monday fe'nnight, as convoy to a certain dif
tance for veffels bound for the whale fithing•
On Wednefday a valet belonging to Berwick,
during a hard gale at S. E. was put on Blom on
the lands at Montrofe ; the hands were with diffi-
cult?' landed ; anci in an hour after the veffel went
to pieces

A few days fince we Rated, that two frigates,
the one mounting 4o guns, had under favour of
hazy weather eluded the obfervation of nur fqua-
dron off nothing, and put to lea, fuppOfed to be
defined fcr Dunkirk. On their paffage, however,
they fell in with the SOLLBAY frigate, of 32 guns,
which obliged them to return, and • chaced them
into Fluthing. One of the enemy's Ihips loft her
rudder, and was otherwile fo much damaged as to
be obliged to go into dock. •
On Wedneiday laft one of our cruizers looted
into Flufhing, and faw one of there Ihips, and the
Pluto of 64 guns, ready for lea. There were, like-
wife, a (loop, flip-rigged, mounting 18 guns ; two
large fchooner gun-boats, each carrying two 18-
pounders forward, and two 12-pounders aft ; aid
a lugger, formerly the Growler English gun-veffel ;
each of the latter having so men. About two
miles above the town there was a large gun-brig
and fome (mailer craft, but not in apparent for-
wardnefs.

Another of our cruizers on Thurfday laf looked
into Goree, and counted nine fhifis of war, four of
which were of the line. Excepting the guard-!hip,
they were all ready for fea.
Arrived at Gibraltar, on the 26th ult. four
Englifh !hips and a brig, under the efcort of a
frigate, the former of which had troops on board.
On the 28th, there failed twelvq !hips of the fame
nation, under convoy of a frigate, with troops to
the F..;flward. On the 3oth, there paired by to the
Weftward an Englifh frigate, with four iratifports
under her proteeion. The naval force at prefent
there, confifts of two frigates of 4o guns each, two
gun-boats, and a Portuguefe frigate of 44 guns.
Letters from America (tate, on the authority
of the Secretary of the Navy, that the INlVl-
curr frigate, of 36 guns, and PICICSLING, of 14
guns, have been toil.
The Harmony, Capt. FLoun, from Falmouth
to Newfoundland, with provifions, is taken, and
carried into St. Maloes. _ _ _

The Forbes, —, from Dublin to Jamaica, is
on (bore at Cork. .

Captain ROWLEY is appointed to command the
BOADICEA, vice Captain KEATS.
The Taptter, —, (an Anierican) from Hon-
duras to Charlefton, is taken by the RATTLER
(loop, and carried to Jamaica.
The Mary, Capt. NICHOLAS, from New York to
Ireland, is abandoned at fea ; crew taken on board
the Hope, from Charlefton, and arrived at Clyde.
The Albion, CaptCluistssas, from London to
Madeira, is taken, and carried into Nantes.
A Dann veffel taken into Calais by the Don
QLiizote privateer, hasbeen ordered by the French
Council of Prizes to be rettored, and her Captain
paid for the damage.
Fourteen men, lately preffed by the AINEOS.
CADE frigate, out of the Loan NELSON privateer at
Plymouth, have been returned to her by order of
Sir T. Past.sy, the Port Admiral.
Le Diable a Q!atreprivateer, of t 8 guns, prize
to the THAMES frigate, has been purchafed by Go-
vernment for 25501. ezclufive of her guns and
(lore&

A very formidable Fleet h now collated in
Yarmouth Roads. Lord Nstsoi, with his divi-
lion, arrived there on Sunday, and the whole are
expelled to fail in a few days for the Baltic, under
the command of Admiral Sir Hroa PARKER.
Lord NaLsores (hips took on board, while in the
Downs, a great number of flat.bottomed boats,
and feveral pieces of heavy battering artillery. On
board this Fleet are diftributed two Companies of
the Rifle Corps, under the orders of Colonel STEW.
ART, the 49th regiment commanded by Colonel
BROCK, and a detachment of artillery. There
troops are intended to augment the Marine force ;
and to be employed in making dcfcents, as circum-
fiances may require. While ailing on land, the
whole are to be under the orders of Colonel
STEWART.
An article in one of the loft Paris Papers Rates,
that the Estrtana of GERMANY has ratified the
Treaty of Luneville, and fcnt it to the Diet of
Ratifbon, for its approbation.
Peace was publicly proclaimed in the city of
Vienna, on the 16th ult.
The Civil Code, in the formation of which the
able.l Lawyers in France, TaoNcH sr, PORTA LIS,
Sec. have for feveral months been employed, has
been prefented to the FIRST CONSUL, who has
fignified his approbation of it. He has referred
the Code to the examination of the Vrihmaal de Col-
lation, whence it will be fent to the Legislative Body.
A letter from Calcutta, dated ()Etcher 18, lays,
" Major GERRARD has been appointed Adjutant.
General, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, via
Colonel Dust dcceafcd. The famous General
Maavutr, who brought over a regiment of the
enemy to our army in India, died at Lucknow or
the 18th September, and has left 3o Licks of ru.
pees (upwards of 4.00,000 l.) the greatcil part of
which he has bequeathed for the foundation and
fupport of charitable and literary eilablithments in
India. His own houfe, which was one of the
greaten curiofities in India, being built more in
the form of a fortification than a dwelling-houfe,
he has ordered to be converted into a mafffoleum,
in the middle of which he is to be buried.—A fum
of 12,0001. is appropriated for its fupport and re-