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London, England, 1805-10-24 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTZLLIORNCL

MAILS THIS DAY —Wind S.E.
AlOl. DIM AIM DUB.
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' Plazas/cc, Ocr. 21.—Since my fait arrived the
Thomas, BURGOYNI, of and for Plymouth, from
Swanfea ; the Prince pf Wales. Bassist, for
Chicheller and Newhaven, and the Martha, Hot.-
LAND, for Portfmouth and Shoreham, both from
Waterford. The Hoop Mayflower, May., of and
from Bude for Truro, with a cargo of oats, in run-
ning from the Mount Road, in a gale of wind yef-
terday morning, between three and four o'clock.
(truck on a rock, and drove on &ore ; part of her
cargo was Paved at low water, and the vefel was got
off next tide.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 2r.—Yelicrday arrived his Ma-
jefty's (hip PHosutx, of 36 guns, Capt. BARER, from
the Channel Fleet. This day arrived the Auckland
packet, SCHUYLER, with mails, from Lifbon, in nine
days. The WaHingham packet was at Lifbon when
the Auckland failed, and four fail of the outward-
bound Lifbon fleet had alfo arrived there the day be.
fore the packet failed. His Majefty's (hip Poirot/I
informed Capt. SCHUTIAIL that his Majefty's (hip
l'Amiaete, on the loth inft. in lat. 41. 43. fell in
with the Rochefort fquadron of five fail of the line,
one of which was a three decker; it was fuppofed
they were bound for Vigo: the POMONE (poke his
Majefty's fhip CAMtILA, with a few veffels in com-
pany, going into Lifbon : it is reported that the out-
ward-bound Lifbon and Oporto fleets have been
captured by the Rochefort fquadron, but it is hoped
that Come of them may have efcaped. The Townf.
hend packet for Lifbon, is under fail:ng orders.-
-Arrived alfo the PrufEan galliot Nordliern, Capt.
Scut:L.l-z, from Bilboa, with wool, bound to Briliol,
detained by the Betfey privateer, of Plymouth.—
Wind S. S. E. blows hard.

PLYMOUTH. OcT. 2 a.—Came in the Stag, Captain
HEWSON and Xanthus, Captain HUTCHINSON, from
Peterlburgh, both with hemp and iron, for the dock
yard : French brig Louifa, in ballaß, captured by
the DISPATCH, of a 8 guns : CoLeors, of 14 guns,
from a cruize, with the lots of her bowfprit, head,
and fore-top.mall, having been run foul of at fea by
the FELtx, of 14 guns: Ann, Captain PRESCOTT,
from Peteriburgh, with hemp, for the lock yard :
and Jungfer Charlotte, Captain OTNA, from Riga,
with malls, for the dock yard.
PORTSINOUTH, OCT. 23.—Arrived the FURY bomb
from the Downs, with feveral (hips from Riga, &c.
under convoy. Sailed la CHIF FON NA filtrate, LORD
ELDON, and Dooms of BEDFORD armed (hips, with
v.:final and Rotes for Lord NELSON'S fleet. The
LIAR Hoop, Capt. LANGFORD, is appointed convoy
for Madeira, Africa, and the Weft Indies.

DEAL, Ocr. 23.—Remain in the Downs the Mips
as per lall.—Wind Eaflerly, blows hard.
GitszriocK, Ocr. 21.—The following thins have
beat up through the night, viz. Herherts, HERDER..
EOM, from Grenada; Elisabeth, GALT, from ja-.
maica ' • Nancy, SERVICE, from Quebec; and Mar-
garet, WEIR, from Jamaica. There are other two
in fight, names unknown.—A pallinger (arrived at
Port Glafgow) by the Eagle, of London, Captain
Kama' Rates, that a day or two after the gale, by
which our late Leeward convoy was feparated, Cap-
tain CAMBRIDGE, of the Hopewell, informed Captain
KING, that he law the (hip Union, in the morning of
the gale, with a fignal of dithers flying ; that he hail-
ed Captain *I44,ILLAN, who anfwcred that his velrel
was finking, and pointed to the tea with a trumpet,
which he held in his hand, thinking he could not be
heard, and at that time was carrying fail to come up
with the Commodore. That Captain KING going
aboard of tlae Commodore tome time afterwards, en-
quired if Inch a (hip was feen the day of the gale ;
and was informed, that a fhip was feen to bear away
before till wind at about four P. M. on that day.

°roar° Ft.e ET.—The following is a Lift of the
Ships which failed under 'convoy of l'Atmasca
gate :
Flora, Tulloch ; Young Regulus, Lath ; Mentor, Chriftie t
Oporto, Shepheard ; Sedulous, Ingham; Commerce, Petition;
Latvia, Cannon ; Three Brothers, Patrick; from London
Jupiter, Longford, and Autumn, Raiford, from Portfmoistk ;
James, Jones, from Southampton ; Charlotte, Watfon, from Do.
•er ; Rdpedt, Cherry; Margaret, Hunter, and Hope, Bailey,
from Hull, all bound for Oporto.
A letter from Lifbon, of the t tth inft. Faye—'' The
convoy from Newfoundland, asvell as the convoy
from England, are both off our Bar this evening
fome of the velTels are already at Belleau"
The Lifbon flips are as follow
Betfey, Graham ; Riga Packet, Waterman, nod Dolphin,
Sayer, from London; blarau, Week ; Manequi, Dring ; Olive
Branch, Davis. from Hull ; Carolus, Ayre, from N,Acc.alle ;
Aquilon, Blackburn, from Shield., bound to Lifbon; Nimble,
Cud; Gratitude, Rowe, and Mary, Hurdle, from Lifhon and
Oporto.—Total 23.

Advice was received yeflerday of the capture of the
Jenny, Captain SAUNDERS, from Lifbon, with dif-
patches to Admiral CALDER. »he is carried into Vigo.
The Ptolemu•, Grening ; the Helen, Si-in:melt, and
feveral other yards, arc on Ihore near Dantzic.

The London, for Su►inam, bound to London, has
put into Dartmouth having received fome damage.
The Barbara, WTA6GART, from Oporto to Leith,
was taken by the combined fquadrons on the igth of
Auguft, and funk.

The Ruby, of Greenock, from Quebec, taken by
a Spanint privateer, is retaken by the Dart privateer,
and carried into Guernfey.

The Anne, (of New York) with a cargo of 520
hkds. tobacco and 45 bales cf cotton, from Virginia
to Boutdeaux, was met with at fea a wreck, on the
gd infant, by the Diana, Wrsics, from Jamaica,
arrived at Brian!, who took on board the Captain
and his crew, confining of 30 mart having been three
dart on the wreck.

FROM LLOYDS LP%
OitimittltivD, Ocr 2,3.—Paired by the ..:kenfield, I%llWe
and the Hopewell, Warden, from Jamatc.i; Infer. Mace. front
Maffei ; Britannia, Dalrymple, and the een Chat lone,
Hacker, frmt Orcnn.la R Haddock, amo, from St. Luck ;
Indußry, Duncan, from Trinidad ; I.4bberts, Gladdon, front H.. •
liras ; Siftem, Hartley, from Sortnam; Cove. Myatt. from T 4
bago ; Abraham, Coolest, from Memel ; Juno, Barry, from
ga ; Providence and Hannah, Richard( n, from Archangel;
tor, Filh ; John, Ray ; Wave, Rmfwood, and the (Net Carolina.
Creed, from Petorilturgh ; Ramiro' Rorie, Horwedge, hem Ton-
ningen ; Amelia, Wagner, d Ihe Autumn, Seeger, from Dant.
ale. Sailed the 04tavi4, Collins, fur Cbariciton, and the William,
Soul Thy, for Gibraltar.
AR ,vest--Off Dover, the Hibherta, ---, from Halinnt—.
Off Pottfotoutk, Canada, Park, from Tortola ; Fortitude, Fal-
coner, from Surinam ; and the Ann, Sutton, from Tobago.—ln
the Clyde, Margaret, ( lements, tr. no Tobago—Off Stroenrefs„
King George, Tur.ler, from Hndfon'a Bay, bonnd to London—
At Dublin, Piller, —...., from Beneearlo; Robert, the
Rodeo, —, from St P •Lriburgh—At Hull, William, Clappi.
fall, from Petcriburgh—DlT Bridlington, Ruby, Brown, from
Petcrfburgh.

The Elbe, one of the Leeward Ifland fleet, which
parted convoy the stb September in a gale of wind,
p;:t into Loughfwilly on Fri Jay loft. The Captain
died at fea a few days after the left Demerara.

The Amphitrite frigate, captured by the Donegal,
of 52 gun!, is ordered to be furveyed and repaired.
Her cabin is confidered as a moil curious piece of
workmanfluip, being fitted up for the accommodation
fome of the Royal Family of Spain, to take an ex-
curfion to fea for the benefit of their health.

Yellerdzy a Court of DireEtors was held at the
Fait India Houf, when the extra Mips lately taken
up were thus timed. viz.
Sir Wiliam Benfley, for Madras and Bengal; and Experiment.
for Bombay and Bengal, to be afloat Bth December.
Sovereign, for Maeim* and Bengal; and Expo iment, for Bom-
bay and Bengal, to be afoat January.
Fame and Monarch, for Bombay and Bengal. to be afloat aBth
February. _ _ _

And are to fail from Gravefend at the expiration of
one calendar month from the above dates.
The Cout t adjourned at fix o'clock till tomorrow.

EDINBURGH, OCTOBER az.

This morning a melancholy accident happened at
the New Dock, Leith.—Three labourers belonging
to the Aberdeen!hire militia being employed in un-
dermining fome earth, it fell in upon them before
they could make away, by which one of them was
killed, atiother had his leg broke, and,the third was
feverely broiled.
Friday night, about nine o'clock, a fire broke out .
in a tenement occupied as a bark miln and hark houfe,
by Mr. JOHNSTON, tanner, foot of Havannah-Rreet,
Glafgow. It was filed with bark, dried hides /cc.
and burnt with great fury for fcveral hours. hides,
eleven the roof fell in with a dreadful crafh. Soon
after, one of the fide walls gave way, by which
drew Blair and Peter Pettigrew, two of the city fire-
men, both fine aftive young men, were killed. Their
bodies were dug out of the ruins in lets than ten mi.
notes after the fall, but both were completely dead.
Another roan is laid to be miffing, and fcveral otherit
have been feverely hurt. The Magiftrates, Commit.
(loners of Police, a party of military from the bar.
racks, and the city firemen, with the engines, attend-
ed on the fir ft alarm, and were indefatigable in their
exertions for the prefervatitnt of order n extinguifhing
the fire, which was confided to the building where tt
broke out.
At Ayr fair, lafl week, cloth fold readily at a con-
fiderable advance of price. The thew of honks was
but indifferent ; the demand was great; and good
(mart bodes brought high prices.
On the 2Clinft. a terpeaable farmer, named Adair,
in the neighbourhood 'of Cairn of Lochryan, was
driving a cart loaded with wand, when by tome un-
lucky accident it overkt, and killed him on the fpot.
He has left a widow and family to lament his lots.

THSATILII COVINT GILIDIN.—Lan night the
Comedy called Rule a Wife ad Have a ;lye was :teed
at this Theatre. The only novelties which occurred i
fince its reprefentation laft feafon, were Mifs Swirls,
in the charafter of Fflifosie, and 13611Nar, in the part il
of Caeofogo. Efliforia is a charaeler replete with vi-
i
vacity, archnefF, and humour, and was played by ..
this lady with confiderable effea. Basses. enaaed 1
Carefego hut indifferently —The attraetions of Rugais. 1
time completely filled the houfe at fecond price. ,
Many who are in the habit of adjuning their
watches daily by St. Paul's clock, have been veryszsuch
puzzled for tome days paR, to account for their
watches going unufuslly ill.—The fain is, the doe*
is now undergoing a thorough repair (the firft for
there 30 years), and it is only thofe who are in the
habit of paffing at nearly the hour at which the hands
Rand, that are teized altering their watches.

Pintsragam WAG sa.—Abentleman named Mar-
low, reliding in Wigmore.ftreet, undertook for a
wager of 10 guineas to go from Piccadilly to the 13
mile-Rone, and back to Hyde Park Corner, in four
hours. He ftarted yefterday morning at (*even o'clock,
and arrived at Hounflow at 32 minutes paR eight.
He retnrned to the fame place, after touching the
mile•Ronc, at 36 minutes part nine, having one hour
and 52 minutes left to perform the other so miles.—
He was an hour going the next five miles, and was
fo fatigued that he retigned the wager, having five
miles to perform in 52 minutes.

This morning the prifoners in the feveral gaols,
charged with telonies, were removed to Newgate,
in order to take their trials at the enfuiog feffions,
which commence on WednefdPy next at Julace Hall,
in the Old Bailey.

Wednefday fe'nnight a man nniertook,for a wager,
to go on foot 6o times round St. Stephen's Green,
Dublin. in 12 hours. He went dole to the foffe in
the outride walk, and performed it in ten hours and
a half with cafe. It is confidered that he went in
the time near fifty Englifh miles. The wager on his
own part was but (mall, but a great number of bets
were depending. This pedeftrtan is an Italian, who
hawks artificial flowers about Dublin. He is a man
between 3o and +o years of age, about five feet lots
inches high, And rather Hoot made. He flatted at
(even in the morning, and finifhed a little bcfr.re half
pall five. The concourfe of people which were
drawn together was irnmenfe beyond precedent.
The fi, ft drawn Ticket next Saturday will receive
Twenty Thoufand Pounds. The Lottery will finift
drawing next week, and all the Twenty Thonfands
are yet in the Wheel. betides other Prizes of Tea
ThaufasidPoundss Five Thoufand Pounds, &c.