Star.
London, England, 1811-11-16 00:00:00

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The Duke o! Sussex, , experienced se,
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rious rtlapse of his asthmatic disorder.
We are sorry to learn that Mr. Justke Lawarscs
continues dangt r. usly ill.
The new system of representing elementarY..bodies,
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deaciiptiono,,the men all stripped, and glowing wish Throughout the whole affait, our men behaved by means refracting the primary rays of light,
impatience for the attack; and only regretting the with the greatest coolness ; some of our raw hands through transparent mediums, as practised at the
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we must be in catching the enemy. We began were rather frightened at first— they stood gaping Naumachia, in Prince's-street, produces effects so
a Icing chase I how often did we wish the Racehorse oath their mouths open like so many statues ; but nearly assim'lating to those of nature, in representing.
away, as she gave us a superiority cf force I Though they were soon put to rights by the force of example. aerial or More dense fluids, and the opaque bodies
we salled mhch better than the French frigates, the I The two days we were employed in recur- which are represented as floating on the surlaces, ac-
chase centinmd for fen hours. My quarters are on iag the prisoners following
and 'putting oar rigging in order, .
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quire f uch a solidity of relief and reality of appear-1
the forecastle, where I have the command ; and II to in quest of the other ships. The prize and ance, as almost to vie with the effects of nature.
have as fine a set of lellaws under me as I could wish. 1 c.,
'artea set. off for the Isle of France. We liavirg Wednesday Stephen litcodret4 alias William Knight,
Another midiihjeunnaa and the boatswain were there ise many prisoners on board, arid having sent some the deserter from the 23d Light Dragoous, was fully
also • Every titre oar ships crossed each other in iof our men in tee prize, found it necessary to keep committed to Rochester goal, on a charge of mur-
taiking, we gave each other three cheers. In the I our men constantly armed; all the idlers, doctor, dering Mr. Swinnock at alittster Mills, near Rams-
afternoon W.: had very h. avy ram, which ant oyed 1 purser,. &c. were obliged to keep wateh in like man- gate, as repeatedly stated in this Paper—Clifford, h a
us extremely ; and at length, a quarter before four, i nee. As we were in continual expectation of falling accomp ice in this atrocity,has not yet been discoat red. 1
there being very. little wind, the Astrea being the .in with the railer ships, our quarters were kept con-' At a Court of Burghmote of Canterbury, held on
headmost ship of our squadron, the enemy crossug scantly clear, and we were every moment expecting Tuesday last, it was resolved to connibute tha sum
na on the other tack, the middle ship of their line another fight. On the Saturday following, the Race- of ~GO in order to provide clothing for the Canter-
opened her broadside oponuc, which was immediate-, , boese.bri„z ht-shore, made signal that the Nerside bury volunteer inh:ntry, which was followed up by
lit, seconded by the sternmosti for whom we had re- ! was lying in Tamatave with her topmasts down. As individual subscriptions from all the members of the
Served our lire, she bcing the ttrgest, and also as we iit is one of the most dangerousplaces in the world, was Court that were present.
should fetch nearer to her; and this put us in some I under the protection of a battery, and moored right On Tuesday moining, the body of a rung lady,
confusion, as we made certain we should be the oar- : across the entrance, and we had no pilot on board, we ver elegantly dressed, was picked up at the Devil's
gottsorso We, however, soon returned it on tile i scot in a flag of truce, to summon them to surrender.ppot,rt, t'
Paym nth. She was soon after owned by her
sternmoat (the black ship, she being painted so); aed i This they agreed to do, no condition they should not sister, and paroved to be a young lady who was miseed
the Plicehe and ealatea coming up, began upon the Ibe treated as prisoners of war, and should be sent to from the B bean, at Piymoitth, on Sunday week,
ships that had passed its. . The first shot that struck France. With these we were obliged to comply, as from which placer it is supposed she fell over.
us took a marina's thigh off at my quarters ; it was they could have raked us at pleasure coming in, and
A fisherman was lately drowned at St. Mawes,
the only part cf the ship whete the men suffered, fur we well knew the consequences had we unluckily Cornwall, by overloading his boat with oysters.
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two were killed there, 'and six or seven wounded ; ot, on shore on that dangerous reef ;we also knew
lad we had only those two killed, and twelve or that they were determined, after all, to blow the ship ' Thursday se'ranight a party of sailors, belonging to
fourteen wounded, altogether. The wind continually up, as they had traius laid for that purpose. Mon-
a large foreign ship detained at Belfast, having been
aiecrea.iog ;titer we bad pureed them, we could not day morning, the day week after the action, having on shore at the Whitehouse, for recreation; on at-
tsta i t..is was not for long. We got cur head round, procured a pilot, we anchored and took possession of tempting to return to the ship. the weather was so
and re-conmonced on the back ships the Xacchorse the Nereids. Never was a ship much more cut up. boisterous that the boat c+-aid scarcely be got off with
was entirely oat of it. Our friends had each his op- Her sides are completely bored, and her masts and safety ; one of the sailors, a foreigner, then junipea
out of the boat, the water not being above nis mid-
ponent; and -many awn; who have b.en in action
ales with intent to return to shore. His comrades
rigging cut to patces,• so that we were obliged to
several tintess say, they neap- saw a pont better con- ' jury-rig expostulated with him to accompany them to the
lier. The Frenchmen belonging to her we
tested, or shoat . fly airech thicker : an unloc ky shot sent to the Isle of France in two brigs we pressed for
tune ion the forecastle, completely disabled ore of I tlat purpose. We immediately sent Calf our,,men ship, and evenlaid hold of his jacket to detain him ;
he, however, unhappily petsisted in his resolu ion to '
the guns, killed two then, and wounded' five. After, to rut her in order to proceed far the Isle of France.
return,.. and forced himself out of their hands, leaving,'
battering at theni fdr ' some time, we again fell off, This took us a week ; after which the Astrea, Phoebe,
and lay useless; at which time the Pluebe and Galatea and Nereide sailed for this place. Of all the, places .
Ins jacket behind in the struggle. The boat then left
were greatly damaged, it bring a dead calm and I have seen in my travels, Tamatave is the
worst* a him, and returned to the gap ; nothing mote was
having the whole three uponthent, and the Galatea never had a dry thread on my back.—Directly the heard of the unfortunate young man until the next
could not get a single gun to bear but across the news arrived •of the Clorinde having escape the morning, when he was found drowned. An kquest
bows of our old antagonist, the black slap, and raked President sailed in. quest of her. I hop* 40,44
..... have was held on the body, and a areay. &sad of -Acci-
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Vl' er"tuall7. She couU "- al/ fir: a few guns nor the luck to fall in with her:l (Natal Death.
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