Star.
London, England, 1809-12-14 00:00:00

GREENOCK, DECEM•IBLR 11.

The Nimrod, STEvEssoN, from Quebec, sailed 6th
November. Left the following ships loading for this
port : Northern Friends, ELNiEs ; Mars, HARVEY ;
Neptune, NEIL ; Ocean, WlLsos ; and James, BARR.
—Diana, M‘GEonc;e, from Demarara for Liverpool,
put into Halifax in distress, and obliged to discharge
her cargo to be repaired.—The Minerva, DUNN, ar-
rived here on Friday, from Newfoundland, after a
passage of 16 days. The Hope, BLENSOCK, sailed
from this port for Newfoundland, the Sth August,
and has not since been heard of.
HULL, DE;:EMBER li.

A convoy for Heligoland is appointed to sail from the Humber
this day. The George and Mary from Shields, coal laden, for
London, put in here on Friday evening, with the loss of her fore-
mast. A letter [torn Petersburgh, dated the 28th of October
says—" By accounts from Archangel, about 40 vessels are frozen
in; four were lost on the bar, in attempting to get out."
STORNOWAY, NOVEMBER 2s.

On the morning of Friday the 18th instant, a large brigantine
came to anchor in the Bay of Barvas, on the west coast of the
Island of Lewis, and on the Sunday following was deserted by
the crew, consisting of eleven persons, Danes and Prussians, with
a solitary American. On the night.uf Tuesday or morning of
Wednesday following, she parted from her anchors and came
ashore, when the cargo was this day all unlnaded, alai consisted
of deals and plank, from Mr. Hans Weorsel, merchant in Dron-
theim, consigned to Joy, Haines, Thorns, and Co. Belfast.—The
brig Sprightly, of this place, from Alirimachie with timber, got
ashore on the night of Tuesday last, at the mouth of the r;^er
Don, and was yesterday brot'ght off and got into the harbour, with
damage.—TvLiTTßEw BROWN, master of the Nancy of North
Shields, arrived at Fraserburgh, reports, that he fell in with the
Horn, of Dundee, in the River St. Laurence, which ship having
had the misfortune to shift her ballast in the Western Ocean. wit.
ebilgel to cut away her mi7rn-mast Intl October; she was bound
for Quebec, and receiree no other damage.
GIBRALTAR, NOVEMBER 18.

A most melancholy accident occurred on Sunday rear Cadiz.—
Lieuturant Spence, with eleven seamen, in one of the guy-boats
atnched to the San Juan receiving ship, at this port, left this on
Saturday morning with dispatches for Admiral Put vis, at Cadiz.
On Sunday morning, about nine o'clock, going before the wind,
at the rate of seven or eight knot: an hour, nine leagues north of
Cape Traralgar, and off Sancti Petri Wand, about three or tour
leagues trom the shore, a sudden white squall came on with so
much violence, tl.at it immediately upset the ves;ei. Lieutenant
Spence and eleven men were immediately precipitated into the
ocean. One only escaped, by holding by the binnacle, w;ich
kept him afloat until he was saved by a market-boat paising from
Malaga to Cadiz.
HALIFAX, NOVEMBER i
An alarming mutiny was discovered in time on board the Co-
lumbine. It was headed by the boatswain and carpenter, whose
intention was to have murdered the whole of the officer:, and
taken the brig to America. The boatswain and six men have been
hung here—four of them In chains--the carpenter tt atutported for
14 years, seven of which bg is to be in irons ; and a great man?
others transported and flogged tltrough t t!e fleet. Captain, Wills
shot out of the men for refusing to obey k:s orders.

dikATHA 1t.4, DEC. 10.
The Poittiers, or 74 guns, way htunthed yestetelny from t
King's yard, at Upnor. 'I-he day being fine, a great nt.a.l.
spectators were aswnibled on the occasion, and the +hip
in a very beautiful style. The Plantagenet (Ante utt
day to be termed ; the Cerberus is t::1;-.11 into Dock for a 0p..:
rtpair ; th, Mlle:tan sailed on Thursda.f tor the Note.

FROM I LOYD'S LIST.
GRAVE7.ND, Dre. Pie—Arrived the Alyston, Guthery‘ ara
Flowra, Lartiet, from Flushing; Marley, Monique, fr.•r.i
China ; Zephyr, Anderson, fruit Rio Janeiro ; Arethusa,
from Cadiz. sailed the Catharine, Rees, for MialttleburLh.
ARRIVED—At Liverpool, the Farmer, Marshall, frhm Cadiz
Tont, —, front St. Michairs ; Swan, Jennings, from Trift-
dad ; Indian Trader, Lee, fr:An St. Kitt's ; Fanny, Watson, !rem
St. Lucia; and Caledonia, Mudge, from Marantham. In sttic.
well-roads, Georgians Packet, —, from New York. At
Venerable, —, from Quebec. At Cowec, Neptune, blender,
front Lisbon. In the Creek, Venerable, Wright, from
The General Beresford, Captain Appleby, front Honduras t'
Bristol, was totally lost the tilst of September, in ti e Guiph of
Florida, during a very heavy gale. Captain A, writes, that sore r
other vessels were lost there at the same time.

The Cannecticut, Pittman. from New-York to Liverpool, is I
totally lost on Stadwell Island—crew and part of cargo ..veld
The Anna Maria, Ritchie, from Oporto to Greenock, is tak,•••
re-taken, and arrived at Guernsey.

The Friends, I.ecworth, from Bristol to Biddeford, Is lost a,
Barmtaple Bar—crew saved.

His Majesty's brig CURIttrX, of IR guns, Capt►iTl
MOVSEY, was lost on Petit Terre, Sept. Slst ; th
Captain and all the crew saved. We are sorry to
that Captain MOYSEY died at Maricgalante a few da:.l
atter, of the yellow fever.

On the Soth ult. the Mermaid, of Barking, J. Faoot►v corn•
minder, fell in on the Brown Bank with a foreign vessel in dis-
tress ; having lost her rudder and being very leaky, the smith
took her in tow. On Sunday night, having got close in with the
Home Sand, it was thought proper to put the crew of the foreign
vessel on board. One of the Mermaid's people volunteered to go
with them, to assist them to bring the vessel up, and :ave her
and the cargo. As the boat proceeded, she shipped a sea, anti
the oars were washed overb,ard. In this condition they drove
to sea, without any provisions, it blowing hard, and having noo•
thee to hail the boat but their shoes and hats. They continued
iti this deplorable state until Tuesday the Sth inst. when they
were taken up on the coast of Holland by a Prussian vessel. he
vessel, to whose assistance they went, is supposed to have bctti
lost, with the rest of her crew, on the Yarmouth Sands.

T:le following ships have put into Ramsgate ith
damage :
The Leda, Rn4e, on shore, and sunk at the back of the last
pier ; it Fama, Courtney, froth London to Cadiz, with bale good.,
has been on shore, got off, cargo landed; Fair Margaretta, Lebon,
front Gottenburgh to Southampton, and William, of Pool, Co-
chrane, from London to Poole, lost anchors and cables; Hope,
of Yarmouth, Stone, from Deptford to Portsmouth, lost two
anchors and cables; Beata Sophia, —, bowsprit gone, and cute
anchor and cable ; Helena transport, James, from Flushing to
the Downs, and Dolphin, Of Southwold, Syer, front Guernsey to
London, loit an anchor and cable; Etperanza, Netto, from Lon-
don to Gibraltar, lust bowsprit, anchor, and cable ; Alexander,
Turnbull, from London to Tobago, lost two anchors, cables and
windlass ; Somerset, Taylor, from London to Barbadoes, and Ch-
tendon, Cammell, for Rio, lost two anchors and cables ; May -
flower, Burnet, from London to Madeira, lost anchor, cable and
windlass; Lively,.Bush, front London to Dover, one anchor
cable ; Jubilee, Wyly, from London to Guernsey, broke adi dub:
the harbour, and had nearly filled with water, craft are going
alongside to lighten her; Olive Branch, from London to Tobago,
got of South Brake-head by Deal boats, afterwards drove to SVA,
not king able to make the land, was left by the crew, and stir-
posed to have sunk.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the undermentioned 'Com-
manders took leave of the Court previous to depart-
ing for their respective destinations, viz.
Capt. CLARKE Wexford
- SA MSON tart Camden
Bombay and Clebta.
- LANDON Arniiton
- 1.1Nr.5.1Y Winchelsea
Captain MERITON was sworn into the command of
the ship Ceylon, and consigned to Madras and Bengal.
The Court adjourned at six o'clock till to-morrow.
Captain WARREN, late of the MELPOMENE) iS ap-
pointed to the command of the ARGO, going to the
Coast of Guinea.

The American vessel lately detained and sent into
Plymouth by l'Atcr.F. frigate, has been restored, the
Captain having made oath that he took the cargo
(which is Batavian produce) on board in America.
It is a notorious practice with the Americans, to take
in a cargo at Batavia, the Isle of France, or any other
of the enemy's ports, and run it for America ; where,
after landing, it is re-shipped, and by thus swearing
they took their cargoes in at America, they escape
capture and condemnation.
The following is a correct statement of the French
Natal force at Ro:hefort, brought by the WEazut
'schooner, which left that station yesterday week :
Building, one 3-decker, and two 2-deckers ; Repair-
ing, one 3-d ecker, and one of two ditto ; two frigates
fitted out, and one repairing. Lying down at Sou-
bise, apparently ready for sea, one 2-decker, with t
Rear-Admiral's flag. In Aix Roads, as low down as
our blockading squadron will permit them, two, fri.
gates, five brigs, one armed galliot, two schooners,
and seven gun. boats.—The enemy are using the great.
est exertions in forwarding the above ships.

Wednesday se'nnight, at two o'clock in the after-
noon, one of the we►ghts of the town-clock, in the
steeple of Berwick, suddenly fell down, (weight about
3 cwt.) and forced its way 70 or 80 feet, through two
floors of great thickness, into the bell loft below. For.
tunately none of the ringers were there, otherwise
some of them mast have been crushed to death.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—Saturday se'nnight, a pri-
%Tee soldier in the North Devon Militia, named Tol-
cher, returning from Oreston to his regiment at Ply-
mouth Dock, in crossing over Catdown, owing to
the darkness of the evening, lost his road, and
mistaking the wall erected as a fence to the quarry,
for the stile in the pathway, he leaped over it, and
fell down a precipice of near one hundred feet. In his
fall, however, he lodged on a jutting rock, what th•
quarry-men call a head, Awn a third of the depth of
the declivity. Being rather stunned, he imagined he
was on solid ground, rose to walk, and was instant's'
precipitated to the bottom. Dreadful as was this
fall, it did not deprive him of the power of exerting
his voice, and his cries soon brought several persons
from the Oreston Dock-yard to -his assistance, and,
marvellous as it may seer, he was in a short time
enabled to walk to his quarters, with the assistance
of a person to take hold of his arm, although the
distance was near two miles. Contemplating the
frightful precipice down which he fell, the rugged-
ness of the rocks, and the large masses of stone scat-
tered in every direction, his escape from instant death
appears a1m0.,-,t miraculous. His body was very
much bruised ; the fore-part of the skull laid open,
al:c1 the left leg terribly lacerated ; yet, as no blood-
vessel is broke, the port feliow is Ina fair way of re-
crv•:rv.

INTELLIGENCE.

KING'S BF NCH, DEC. 13.

LING r. coopaa.
ton brought to recast'. sel2 Bs. Bd.
delivered.
tted, that the plaintiff was an herb-
-Ist in this city, and the defendant
irse doctor at Basings-grove, Hamp-
was like the general actions for
ivered, he would not take up the
a moment ; but be understood
defence to be set up. The plain-
ie before the present debt was ac-
the defendant for ,XB, and got a
an. On the plaintiff's traveller
-y, he called on the defendant for
ied, unless the plaintiff would con-
costs of the late action: This the
It took place in March, 1808.—
Ing, the traveller again called on
gave him an order, without men-
He (the Learned Counsel) un-
as to be set up as a defence, that
the goods were ordered on the proviso that the costs
should be remitted ; but be would prove the con-
trary, and then his client would be entitled to their
verdict.
Joseph Best, the plaintestraveller, proved thecase.
Mr. I'm:<, fur the defendant, said, he was instruc- '
ted that he had two witnesses to prove, that the order
was given on the proviso that the costs should not be
demanded from ft:: defendant ; if he made out this
defence, the plaintiff. must be nonsuited. He would
not del the Court and Jury ; for, if his witnesses
could not speak to the month they heard the conver-
sation in, time !milt be a verdict against the defendant.
He called one witness, who could not say whether
it was in sprinf., or summer that he had heard the
defendant give .'the conditional nrder.
The Jury, by the direction of Lord ELLENBOROUGII,
gave a verdict for the plaintiff, 412 Bs. Bd-.

.01111222.
LAI"
COURT OF I
Bowl
This was an actin
frr goods sold and d
Mr. Gannow stat
merchant or druggis
was a farrier or hors
shire. If the case
vods sold and deli,
time of the Court
there was a peculiar
tilt had, sonic tine
• cumulated, sued ti
verdict against hit:
going to the countr,
an order, who refusi
sent to give up the
traveller refused.
In the June follow:
the defendant, who
tioni,:g the costs.
derstood that it wa