Star.
London, England, 1804-10-13 00:00:00

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Yefterday difpatches were received from Sir Jona
Ductwoava, at Jamaica ; and from Sir AIIIO.IW
MITCHELL. at Halifax.
Yefterday at one o'clock, a Cabinet Council was
held at Lord Ilaaaowar's Office, in Downing-flreet.
Sir Hose Poratlat had yefterday a long iiiterviaw
with Lord Matvltt.a, at the Admiralty.

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The Neapolitan AmbalLiclor had yefierday a con.
ference with Lord Haaaoway.
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:The epidemical ficknefs in Spain has ;Minced Ga-
*rnmcnt to iffue an order, that the crews rif all Mips
which may arrive from the ports of Spain, wti•curi
as well as ,titbit, the Straits of Gibraltar, end thole
sal& from the ports of Portugal, fhould be fubjed to /
daily mullet and infpedlion ; and that all cafes, even
the moil lightly forpicious, fhould be reported to the
proper Health Officer.
Titerslay an embarkation of troops took place at
Ramfgate, confiding of the 2d battalion of the 61ft,
amounting to about 3co,..and the zd battalion of the
38th Royal Irifh, 700 firong. Their deltination is
Jerky, for which they were to fail this day.
Seme time ago d Gentleman, who was rather lamer
prefented hinifeif to be enrolled in a rehanlary
adore near the fea, when the regulating Officer bell
tating a little on account of hi; lamenefs, he immedi-
ately laid, " Sir, I know that I am lank, but I conic
here with the fable laudable fpirit that afhiates the
Gentlemen of this Corr come, Sir, to fight, not
to ran away."
An American firadron continues to blockade
Tome of the Barbary ports. A letter from an officer
of the United States (choosier Nautilus,• dated Syra-
cufe, April ry, fays—" Every exertion is now ntak.
kg for the liberation of the prifoners taken in the
Philadelphia frigate. It is laid our Commodore
means to bombard 'Tripoli. We had a bruth not
long fince with the Neapolitan gun boats, who vuy
prudently kept under the guns of the batteries. I
have much pleafure in informing you of fevcr.il cap.'
tuns made by the different 'Oils of the fquadron.--
One was a veffel having a Tripolitan Amhaffadar on
board, with prefents for the Grand Seigniot.
Englith brig was alfo captured by the Nautilus, and
a (hip by the Syren for violating the blockade. That:
captures have etched much furprife in. this (invite,
and it is raid that we have not a fuffivicnt force to
ronftitute the blockade. The prize made by the
Syren has a cont.:Actable quantity of fpecie on boa, I,
and the is to be fent to the United States fur Adjudi•
cation." •
Yetterday fe'nnight a moll melancholy acciJdnt
happened within a few miles of Dublin. A Air.
Became, of Croghan, county of Itolcommom mho
bad refitted with her hufband for the benefit of the
waver at Clontarf, for come months pall, on her nay
to Maynnotb, accompanied by Mils 1‘1,11.0r, ,r ol
Illher's-flreet, merchant, in a tocialic jaunting car,
the boric by tome acei tent took trig:a on the ban:,
of the Royal Canal, and the driver leaping off, I. It
him will out controol in Inch an awful place. 11r
galloped furioully on for Tome time, and at length
plonged into the canal, where he (want fur fume tni
notes, doting Which the car floated with the la
who were fcteaming for ailiflance. llnfottlin ikly
tt
did not oct or to them to keep the estr polled by li4 -
Ting,- at oppoftte fides ; one of them, by changing her
overturnedpo~ it, and, rnelanch,ly to relate, both '
erf them were drowned.
Ti' the above melanehr ly account we hare, to add
another which happened 011 S.1:1::111 t:tlit I :—a
Mr. Islevins, and his fon in law, rem a.
citiptally fell into the canal at Clanbraid-uri.tge, and
%etc both nnfortonately drowned. The body of Mr.
M. is not yet found; but at of kis fen iu law Itas.