Star.
London, England, 1804-11-23 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Dablie
Wiserford

MAILS THIS DAY Wind S. W.
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PLymoure, Nov. rt.—Came in the Piracy, of
98 guns, from e,e Channel Fleet, to refit ; the Pic
reas, Captain Rosser MANN, from Riga ; the Pnilii!,
Captain J. SMITH. from Porfground ; Betfey, Capt.
RICHARD P AAAAA from Peterfburgh ; Better Luck
Still, Captain C. YBOXAN, from Riga, all with naval
Rotes far this port. The Providence, Capt. Posts
MEAL, from Peterfbingh, with hemp and iron, Iv
Waterford; the HLRAISI armed flip, of 18 guns,
from the eaftward, with a fleet under convoy. is
Letters frorn Great Yarmouth, received here, (tare
the total lots of the Venus, of this port, with :ow
quarters of fine wheat—crew Lived.
PORYINIOUTH, NOVISEER 22,•••AtriPed the BRI
rasst• cutter from a cruize ; DECADE frigate ; and
SYLPH (loop of war, from Guelnfey.— Sailed the
Qz..F re cutter, with a convoy for the Downs.
DIAL, Nov. au...Arrived the RAISONABLI man
of war, from the Northward ; l'AtetAeLE frigate,
acd the RAILLIUIL (loop of war, from a cruize..—
Came down from Sh:ernefs the Fuatous bomb, and
a fleet of outward-bound aerie's from the River....
Sailed the Hyena frigate for Portfmouth ; Scour
(loop of war, and the ARCHER gun-brig, for Sheer-
nets. The CURLIVI and PRETTY Lass (loops of war,
have both fignal for convoy to the weßwird.—Wind
N. W.
Yaamoore, N sea 32.--Yeßerday morning
two large-hips got on the Newcome, and every means
were ufed by the yawls to get to their alliftance, but.
every attempt proved abortive, as the fea ran fo very
high t about twelve, the wind blowing a gale from
the N. W. and tide flowing, they both got off, and
was each of them boarded by the yawls, one of
which has not been heard of, but hopes arc enter•
tained that fhe ran for Harwich. The crew of the
othelithe Albion of Whitby, Joan Kiva Hefter.
which had thirteen feet Inter in her hold, and the
water Rill gaining fall, were obliged to run her on
the home land off Loweßoft, which they Jailed
with fome of their cloth—the grip and cargo are loft.
She was 343 tons burden. laden with coals and glair,
and her firfl voyage, which, had (he accompliared.
fhe would have been taken into Government fervice.
The Coußant Increafe, laden with coals, taken by
SLACRHAN, is retaken by the F raw gon.brig,
and arrived here ; alfo the Scipio, with coal., taken
by the above, is retaken by the MINI, and arrived
here.—Sailed the Insrecroa 'loop of war, Turco..
armed (hip, Swat cutter, and Viso.; logger. Re-
main the MONMOUTH, CRUIZER gun brig, and her
prize. and one cutter. Captain Bute s m rror is a pat.
loner OD board the bfoastoure, where he will re.
main until the privateer fails for the ffiver.—Palied
through retard fleets of laden colliers.”-Wind N. W.
PROM LLOYD% LIST.

01,4•1181114 NQV. 112.--Paffed by the Phernia, Smarts, front
Cherbtargis, and the Attempt. Praia, Iron ArehangeL—Salled
the Devon, Sparks; Ca:Mures, ratting; ?dory, Ayton • Samuel.
Sightly;; Fly, Kennedy; Chian, Patter; 'Jenne', Chapman;
and the Plata, Macdonald, Gr Tanaka ; Sir flyde Parker,Smlth;
Andromeda, Darlcy; and the Adventure. Headrick, for &Moons
Tana, &oysters; And Ma Mentor, Lamont, for St. ; Dal-
rymple, Shia; and tha Providence, Chrlftle, fee Burbler; Lady
Poe HilaSrfs Chtven, (Cr Melia; Mars, Stuart, for Dominica ;
Nelfon, Herbert. for St. Vincent's; Neptune, Sabha/es par Sa-
vannah ; Fame, Baud, for Dennarara ; Nagy, Cook, for Antigua ;
Brothers, Sparks, for • fobago ; Vruw Henrietta, --, for St. Ml-
chati's ; Elizabeth, OLla a, foe 'cunnlngat; Jooge Samuel, Car-
ton Ewe Gebrodets.Ohkra; Juffrow Catarina, &been; Wars
Steen; and the Vrow, Ma
pre
IV ED. Dyer, for Err den.
ARU
Off Dever, Wan and PJ!ly, Shaw, (ram Virciria. At Plymouth,
Better Luck Still, --, trout Riga; a,d Bay, Porter, from Pc-
terfbureh. At Whit:haven, Orion, Wilton, from Petafbweb.
At &Mot, ERAS. Brabant, from Bliboa• At rook. Harp. WC3I.
pa, front Newfoundland. At Liverpool, Endeavour, Hagha,
from Halifax and Einghkeit, front Pato. At Cork, Jaw,
Adams, from Philadelphia. At Jerfey, Manlas, Miffory, trona
the Welt Indies. At Rotterdam, Rambler Kceft.; and Vidor?.
Pouthy, from Boßon. At Barbados, Orion, Soft, from Lon-
don. At Newfoundland, Adventure, Wrap, from (ember. At
Oporto, Philippa, Tapley. from Newfoundland. At Viatia, BSc
setnib, Shandro, from Newfoundland.
The Ant, —, from Brian', for Barhatlnee, is re-
ported to Se captured by a privateer of fit guns, itt
fight of Barbadoes.
The following very Melanchnly accident happened
early on Toefday morning :—The (Meek Three Sif-
ters, of Penzance, Jowls miller, from Gibraltar, was
%Tucked on the car end of iiaylinyg Bland, near the
entrance of Chicheller harbour, and Lieut Baas ITT,
of the Royal Garnlon Battalion, his Lady, a daugh-
ter of about twenty.two years of age, one about sae
and two infants, were warbed overboard and drt,wn.
ed. The two daughters, and one of the infants, have
been wanted up at liayling, and interred. Another
patlinger, Mr. laeuteac C and his wife,
the mailer, and three of the crew, were raved.—
One boy of the veffel was drowned. The yard is
entirely gone to pieces. It appears that the paffew.
gees hired this little veffel (JG tons) at Gibraltar,
for one hundred and eighty guineas, to bring them
to England. to efcape the dreadful ravages of t‘:
; I Toe, and kft that gattifun the 9th ; that .1.:
put tutu Falmouth, but was obliged to dep
though in a leaky Rate ; that (be afterwards h ..1 1
heavy gale of wind off the Lizard, and was d.
back to Penz ince, where floe lay a fortnight
quarantine, and was then again order:d to St•ni-
gate Creek ; and it was in pstrfuing there orders that
the has been 1011, and fo many of her paffengets
drowned. The Colleetor of the Cußoms at C ii;chcf
to has put feversl petfons under quarantine. in
Clichefter heehaw, who have had communication
with 'he furvivors; and the Colleetor of theCußouts of
Portfrnoutb on Wednefday went mate wreck, (enured
all rise baggage that has been refereed, and put the
crew and pairenTers that arc faced into a veffel
Mr. Limn! 1.,,r she purpre of carrying them
on to Stanctate Cr:tk, to find; the petforagarges of
quarantin.•

HERCULAIbtUM 2IMNUSCRIPTS.

The literary world will rejoice to learn that the
volumes of Papiri, prefented to the PRINCE of lV azele
by the Kiss of Nevcts, are arrived in London ; and
thus under the immediate aufpices of his Royal High-
nett, the teamed and the ingenious will be invited
to exert their (kill in endeavouring, not merely to
develope their, contents, but to contrive tome more
fpeedy and efficacious means then has been hitherto
praftifeci,sfor rinri.lling and tranfcribing the rminy
volumes that yet lie in the ailws of Herculaneum and
Pompeii. It is a molt important event to the rank
of literature, that the Palace has patronized this un-
dertaking with In much ardour and liberality, fence
in no other country could the refources of fcience and
art be fo well applied to the object as its England.—
Our artifts will vie with one another in the foggettion
of means to facilitate the decypheting of the nearly
obliterated manufcripts ; and if Come happy contriv-
ance mould be found to preferve the tinder, from
perifhing until it can be traced and read, whit trea-
lures of- literature may not yet be brought to light,
and what honours and gratitude will not be due to
his Royal Highnefs for his noble patronage of the
defign I
Our Readers may with to have a thort Ratement of
the circumftances that induced the PRINCE to take
flaps to further this great work. In the year 'boo he
direfted the Rev. Joan HAYTER, a gentleman emi-
nently qualified for the tack, to go to Italy, and with
a fuitahle provifion, to exert himfelf on the fpot,
under the kind permiffion of the KING of NAPLES, to
unrol and tranfcribe the Papiri. He was generoufly
tnnved to this undertaking by the love of literature ;
arid by the accounts of the very flow progrel's whith
up to that time had been made in the work of deve-
loping the mar.ufcripts.
The importance of the undertaking will be bell
(hewn to our Readers by an extract from the letter
which Mr. .HAYTEL addrelted to the .Prince at the
outfct of' his million in 1800, a few Copies of which
were printed at the time, and ditlributed among lite-
rary men.
After a very becoming exprelton of.
,ratitilde to
his Royal Highnefs for the honour of his conhderiCc,
be gives this fhort narrative:
a The numerous Settlements of the Greets In Italy, received
the name of Magna Orwida, becaufe their Mother Country was
of • far eionfickeably Ida than that in which they w
among thee were nearly all the Cities in the provinceltransila-
nia,ineludiag Naples, the Capital of his SAM Majelty, and alfo
Herculaneum and Pompeii, which arc fbppoted to boaft a founda-
tion coeval with Keenan Mesta three cheated and fifty years
ago, or twelve hundred and fifty years helpmate Chriftlan ism.--
This Province, mare than any other part of Matni Gracia; was
ewer celebrated for the ftadious and foicedsfol cultivation of the
am and feiences. The two Cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii
• ranked next to that of Naples in every refpee, as places of cond-
.*
derable note; they bad their public Theatres, with every other at-
. gaudiest of great pordatioo, fplendoor,opuleuee, and general prof-
- perity. Mete, in common with all the red of Campania, became
thc depot and favourite retort of the Romans, tor the different
purpaes of health, bleary, repofe, sod maiden.
" • In the an is year of Netolarcign, there two tides eaperiereed
a matt formidable 'seek from an earthquake, which overthrew a
grest part of than. Nor had they recovered altogether from the,
media of •Ma calamity by their Men cautions. end the aid of lan
pedal munificence, when a fetorid c.bunity, of a different nature,
but equally untxpeeted, coofigned them both at once tO the mat
compkte This calamity was the great eruption of
Vdavius, which happetwd on the a4th day of Angull, two full
months from the acetifies of the Emperor, Titus Velpafian. Hen
cuaneem was buried under a mars of taw, abet Tarok matter, to
the depth of twenty-four feet- Pompeii, being More diftant from
the mountain, was overwhelmed pandpally with a Newer of allies,
nor in any place more than half the depth of the other City. But
the fate of both was bidden and Inevitable ; and yet it appears that
&Imo@ all of the inhabitants ,and what is an equally furpcifing
tunatance, moat of the Herculancans than the Pomptians,dcaped.
Hy the few flatfoot which have been found in either plate, the re-
lation of Din Callus, who Rater the deftruelon of the people,
while ambled at the Theattc, is proved to be totally effilliCOUS.
It may be roper to remark. that before this eruption the whole of
Vdeviuswas Ina ftate of cultivation and fertility, [rote the top to
the bottom, and though lithe foist of the mountain in ore
particedar (pa famed to denote the traces of (time forma explode°,
yet no extant memorial of any kind had recorded it.
" Nati, r of thefc two Cities were dikovered min till a tong
la
period of teen hundred and thirty-four years La dented. It
was In the year t at, that Cane labourers, to fishing • well. ftr•cb
their tools spite a Matte, which was on *beach in the Theatre
of Herculaneum. Forty years afterwards Pompeii gm, eve:tritest
with much ids difficulty, as the incumbent ftratem was neither to
hard nor fo deep as that of the forma City.
The umber of the blisoufalids fared from bath thole Citki
Ca laid to bi. about av biuidred ; hoof tan rightly informed by
thole wrote official filiation mat give them • competent know-
ledge of the fubyedi. your Royal Kleiner, by facilitating the de-
velopment of there prehably Imc the moans of (lather
ascevation, and of micas/ front theft Interment an infinite quan-
tity of others. About thirty years ago, his Sicilian Mdeity or-
dered the developerneot, the trankription, and the onntleg
eta
theft volume., which had then hem Caved, to he ondataitm--
Weer:rot:on was weonlingly begun, and has peva been &few-
tin red till the late koalas of the French. Hot Its mole, however
soodiese,was extremely Cow; It has been performed by a fingk
perfon, with a en* frame only, ender the dinselon of the Ma-
quit del Volta, Chamberlain to the Klog, and Prertiteat of the
Royal Academy.
" The frame confine of fereral taper and oblong pieces a mod,
with patella threads of fah that ruts on each fide, the lantat of
was piece : when the franw It lad on any volume, each piece of
wood melt be Geed prerikly over each line of the page, while the
refreive threads, being worked beneath Berl line, and sifitted
wardby
tbe torrefroseng pleat of wood show, nut the line ups,
and deck& the cheraecrs to vinyl.
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A. D. ht.
Cairo Attract RPM/ Coefob.
Lucius VifiNtr.l.l hairs
f 11. C
A. D.

Thane Vt 4;fianu;s;
Caleb.
'I ins Vika a Men II 1
" Tile erratisa bentineti.ll4. 91 J well a.Sapte.l to At par.
pee ; It was. I believe, lavasted by a Capuchin, at Narks. The
retain tbe a net a inforwatkat to ebb remarry. I am gyre-
teafive that lb,. ...,f, Anion of the frame Is ntber defeetive. Sae,
whets I an am the not, I fon not :ati to trasdataft for row (tort
Htitbleb's adretloo, am es ad nodal of Its wasatarifra I on
etinally swabs:Arc tbat the fame tat& n .st We cwtsbenaill naort
en es ita dm pert a any SCCOlint it foto local advantage, al
nebula I limb be cawing to raaitc it cs:latt lift, Ira amble we to
rowan Jaws

front of it are raid to by two publications only, one on Mafic, by
the odebrated Philodctuus, who was a eateniporary of Cicero ;
and the other on Cookery. The firit is in his Majelty's Library,
at the Ctucen's Palace. Through the obliging pontenefs of Mr.
Baruard, thr King's Librarian, I Lave had the advantage of pan-
ting it. Indeed. I hope your Royal Highnefs will not difapprove
my acknoi-rledging is this pima the very warm and refpeetful In-
terra which both this Gentleman and the • Right Honourable the
Pradent of the Royal Society, base exprefed for the furtherance
of your Royal Highnefs's great and good deign. Meanwhile, by
this fpceimen of Piiilmlemus, I am convinced that, if the frames
Atould be multiplied to the propoted extent, feveral pages of thirty
different Manufcripts alight be decided, and trankribed within the
(pace of one week.
But the very period at which the Manufcripts were buried,
ferve to point out to ycur Royal Highnds that you may aped
the recovery °tether the whole, or at leaft parts, of the belt writers
in antiquity, hitherto deemed irrecoverable. All of thefe, in truth,
had written before that period, if we except Taeleas, whole Mel-
timable Works weretudortunately not competed till twenty years
afterwards, during the reign of Trojan.
" Nor can it be imagined for a moment, that among five or fix
hundred Manufcripts, already excavated, and efpecially from the
numberlefs ones which fur her excavations may fupply, loft at
loch a period in two of the molt capital Cities, in the riclacit,moft
frequented, and molt learned Province in Italy, each of them an
eftablifhed feat of the Arts and SfilMett, each of them the retort
of the molt dillinguillied Romans, not any part of thorn illarlons
Authors Hinted be decovered. •
Bat the Manufeript of Philodems itfelf makes the reverie of
loch an Ideaappear much more probable. To the Moderns, who
hare

llntwitted all the Chains that tie
" The hidden Bout of Harmony,"
his Treadle on Mute cannot indeed be fuppofed to cosnmenicat.
much information—yet thc fubjeft is kientific, and fcieotthcally
treats& The Author hirnklf, too, was one of the molt eminent
men in his time for wit, learning. and philotophy. But in the relt
of the Arts f and Sciences, In Hiftory, in Poetry, the dikovery of
any Wit Writer, either in whole or part, would be deemed a molt
valuable aequifition and trearae, and form a pew era in Lite-
rature. . .
• It is extremely for.unate that the charadters .t of there Manus-
cripts, whether they ibould be Greek or Latin, malt be very ob-
vious and legible. Before the year of our Lord, yo, mid fame time
after it, the !Abjured, or Unciald Littels, capital letters were
lately Med. A page. therefore, in we of there Manuferlpts
would prefect to your Royal Higheel, an exa& lame of (owe
mutilatedvinkription in Oink languagss on an ancient column,
Rattle, orTepulchre.
" There Cannot remain a doubt, even omitting the Women
from awn of Medal fituation to that effedt, that Your Royal
Reuters's Superintendent will receive every potable 'Mance
front the Marquis del trafto; and in that cafe It kerns Improbable
that the objet of thisnsieloo east be altogether fruitier&
" With Each it termination of it, however, Your Royal High-
nett, by having propofed to einftur with his Sicilian Majdly in
the quicker and more effetisal derdopenseet, tranfcription, and
tublication of thefe Manukripts, will reap e fatisfadtion of hay-
ing made princely attempt in behalf thof knowkdge and lite-
rature, Min occafion where their interces might be affeetcd molt
Materially, and In a manner of which no annals fave afforded, or
can hereafter afford, an example. Your very interpoetion will be
your glory ; yobs want of recede will only make the learned world
feel with gratitude what you would have done."
The interpolation of his Royal Highnefs his had
the happieß effeft. The fplendid encouragement
which lar.gave to the work, revived the drooping fpi-
rits of the Italian Literati, and the confequence has
been,_ that the buftnefs of unrolling and tranfcribing
the Manufcripts now proceeds with an alacrity which
proinifes the mon brilliant rucceru. In forty-fix years
not more than eighteen rolls were developed before
the interference of our Prince; Under his encou-
ragement ninety have been recovered in two years !
What new facilities may not now be expelted when
all the vigour of Britifh intelligence is exerted on the
Tubjeirt ?
• It was foggclted by Sir Jofeph Banks, that, from the nature
of the ancient Atransetstum, which perhaps was not fo truth an
ink as a paint, and from the materials of theft edanekepts, there
may be derived a chance of applying a chyrnical proc, to this
development of the cinders, with increafed expedition and effeet.
The fuyiceina is of the heft importance ; hereafter there may be
an opportunity of afccrtaining its utility by experiment.
r Particularly the ardent mode of cementing in aichitedture,
and on proportions in sculpture and Printing.
t One of the principal difficulties in oopying there Manufcripts
appears to cantle in fur plying the proper letters or worsts at the
diffacnt chafe..'.

Capt. blaartm is appointed to the command of
the Beart tort, of 98 guns, at Portfinouth.
The following arc the exael dim:a:lions; tonnage,
&c. of the Male wr a, launched pall Saturday :
ninss, 32,24. ill, and 9 pounders • - i3o Guns
I ...oath of keel - - - t 67 Fees
Front figure bead to the tided sat
Oun•dtrk sot
Eurente ipreadth • . - 53
Dept - - - 60
h
Hold . 21
Towage - - - - 1499 Two
She is the largeft man of war ever launched in
Enitland, and of the greateft force
HIGH COUIT OF ADPII *.—Yetterday the
Right Hon. Sir Wm. Score proceeded to the adiudi.
cation of the following cafes:
The Hesse, Foley motel..-Tlik raki, laden with a cargo of
wine and brandy, taken en board at Bounteous, with an atcd
dcitinallou to Benham, was captured off the French coat on the
erased of breach of blockade.—Skip and cargo mitered. fubjeel
to
tbe captors expends.
The Gahm, Moore mater.—This wet t q$ Lion of Maar.—
The Court In this cafe decreed 50 as a remuneration to the Wears
Aaron, ldeftbag malter..-The Court In this car, allowed the
furtber proof to be produced with rayed to the goods claimed.
OrIIIIING Or TISI WAPPING I.)oces.---'lllis great
commercial concern was opened vetlerday, anJ not
on Friday tall as has been errors: "lily dated. The
whole was well condufted, and much to the fatisfac-
tion of the Noble and Honourable Perfonages who
were prefent, among whom we noticed the CHAN-
CILLOa of the ExcHaQyalt. the Duke of MoNTILOSI,
Lord isitcytees, Lord CAST 22222 rua, Lord HMI
ArIWIST, Sir WILLIAM CURTIS, and leveret Officers of
the Corporation, the Direelors and their friends, and
an afretnblage of beautiful females. After the tit:li-
ners of letting in the water was finifhed, the vifitors
viewed the quays and warehonfes, and at about five
o'clock retired, on their way to the London Tavern,
where the liberality of the Direenrs had provided a
molt elegant entertainment for their noble and diftin.
gudhed
The Duke of Yoaa's band played the whole time
of dinner, and afterwards many loyal and conftitu•
tiosal Wafts were hives aid (bugs lung.