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London, England, 1814-05-31 00:00:00

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St. Sebutian 0 .0 Cadiz • 0 0
The Mans !Won& to Falmouth from 'Halifax and Bouniesu•
ani not &Mood in Town: they wiM be delivered to-tucuraw.
I'ALMOUTH, MAY 23.
Came in the Louisa cartel, Captain ARMITILOEfo
from Morlair, with English prisoners. Sailed his.
Majesty's ship BaAMBLa en a mite. The Frederick.
packet, with a mail for the Islands, will tail. thief
evening.—P.S. The Chesteefield packet_hasiest ar;'.
rind with a mail from Halal, from Whence she
sailed the '2d instant. The Princess Charlotte packet
Ass also arrived with a mail from Bourdeaur, sailed
on the 20th instant.—Wind North.

Dablla
Waterford

..,skAardOUTH, MAY 30.
Arrived his Majesty's ship PLovse from the Coast.
of Africa; CIIANTICLIES front the DoT/Dl; GRIPS*
from Cberburgh ;, the Adamant-transports, No. 565.
with troops from Jersey, and the Vittoria cNttol with
troops from Guernsey 3 also, arrived the Merchant
brig Traveller, bound to Gibraltar, re-captured some
days since from. an American privateer by his Ma-
jesty's ship CANscf.. Sailed his Majesty's ships Tratax
and Hon for Cherburgh.--Wind•Wcat.
PLYMOUTH, MAY U.
• Carue in the Baal as Potlai from Bonrdeaus, and
the Diligence. procts,.from Bristol for Bourdeaux.--
Sailed his .Majesty's ship' Macenricrwr, for PCrts-
moirth ;.the Btrritax sloop of war for Liverpool, and
lisreatt'n sloop of war on a cruire.—Wind S.
DEAL, MAY SO. •
Arrived and sailed for the River the Ann, Memo, •
from the Brazils, last from Corti,' and many other
ships7-particulars not known. Clime doyen from that
River the Jane, Sratict, for the Mediterranean-;
cerity, Sunni, for Beurdeattr; and several others., •
W ind .S.W.

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The Chesterfield pasket, which sailed from Has.
fax on the 2d inst. has brought as passengers Messri.
INN TON, DAVIE, MUNRO, MOTES, BENNY, and FENTON.
The Apollo, of Pool, laden with salt, we; taken.in
1 t.• 38. long. .13eltip an American privateer, called(
America, and eeriest into. Salem Mar 29.
The Hebe, --4,lKilonging to I.;eitho-vat pallets
by the Surprise 'American privateer, soots after sail-
ing from the Chesapeak, about two months ago.
The Ellen, BARRON, from Belfast to Lisbon, was
taken the 3d instant, by the tierois privateer, of 15
inns and 100 pen, belonging to Baltimore.
The Roxburgh Castle, from London and the Cape
of Good Hope to the Isk of France, was totally lose
the 31st January last off the Isle of France.
A Calcutta Paper contains the following'extraet
of a letter from. Kedgeree, dated,June 8 :-44.A boat
belonging,to the Inglis came up bertthis morning
for water, and anchored in about one and a half fa-
ihoin ; a poor fellow,. belonging to her, attempted to
swim on shore, but scarcely had he plunged into the
water, when he was attacked by two large voracious.
sharks, who script the flesh from his legs and thighs.
We hastened to his relief, and dragged him to t*
shore,
abere, where he instantly expired. I uever behekt
suth a spectacle.'"
Wednesday evening, is ti wufaii4t a house of
ill-
fame, in Greenock, a Portuguese seaman of the name
AfavutlJpie, stabbed a young. tun, Who died neat
'morning. The Portuguese escaped.,
SYDNEY (N. S. WALES), JULY 54.
Tuesday returned from New Zealand, the b'sig
Perseverance, with Messrs. Jones and GORDON, who
sailed from hence the 20th of April,.for the p
of examining the flax that grows there.—Tin::
Perseverance upon the 12th of May last made So.
nder's Island, and thert found five, men, some of
'whom had been there four years and a half, and the
others nearly three years. Their preservation fag
such a length of time upon that bland, whials.is not
more than four or five, miles in circumference, and
scarcely any thing but a barren rock, can be at-
tributed to nothing short of that divine interpose.
tion which, in numberless instances, no less remark-
able, has imperatively exercised its gracious influence
—Among them was a native of this territory, who
had lived in habits of perfect amity and good under-
standing with his untartunate companions. • 'They
were cloathed in seal-skins, of which theilbedaing
also was composed, and their food bad been entirely
made up from-the flesh of the seal, a few fish occa-
sionally caught, and a few sea birds that now and
then frequent the island: the birds they always salted
for a winter stock ; the catching of fish was very
precar;ous, and the flesh of seals they entirely lied
on during the summer season. They had attempted
to raise cabbage and potatoes. of which plants one
of them happened to have some of the seed when atu•
happily driven upon the island ;,but their int find
retry subsequent experiment failed, owing so-the
spray of the sea in galei washing over the whole
island, which rendered culture Of any kind imprac-
ticable.
The island, upon syhich it was their misfortune to
be cast, is about five miles in circumference, of very
difficult access on -account of the high surfs, almost
perpendicular sock, and of so forbidding an appi'ar-
' :ince as to any possibility of effecting a landing, as not
to incline-shipping of any kind to tt,uch. there, though
they had seen several at a distance. From long ob-
servation, they noticed the heaviest gisletto proceed
from the north-west. Alter leavinrthis inhospitable
shore, with the pan creatures who bad so left ;ass-
bited is, the vessel shaped her course for New Zea-
land, and anchored at the mouth of the harbour of
Port Williani. • A party endeavoured to penetrate
into the country; but this was impracticable to any
great distAnce, owing to the woods and thsiskets, the
latter of which are so utterly. impenetrable as .to in-
duce ;be supposition' that the stir's rays had set reach.
ed the strata for many years ; and in fact the whole
surface of the earth in that part is reported to be en-
tirely covered over with woods, thickets whjois sad
tend to the edge of the sear leaves, paws*.l44 *kr
itt.becisAc.".
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