Star.
London, England, 1828-03-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

INFORMATION to TRADERS v TEE RIVER PLATS.
British Consulate, Monte Video, Jan. 9.
have the honour to enclose, for the information of the
Committee of Lloyd's, arid in order that it may be made public for
the benefit of the general commercial interests of Great Britain, the
accompanying announcement of the lighting of a revolving light on
the Isle of Flores, in the river Plate.—t am, he.
(Signed) THOMAS SAMUEL HOOD,
His Majesty's Consul.
John Bennett, Esq. Secretary of Lloyd's
NOTICE ST THE CONSVLATE.
With infinite satisfaction notice is given by the Consular Tribunal
of this place, that there is now established on the Isle of Flores a
handsome revolving light (the announcement of which was made
by the tribunal in its exposition of the 26th of October, 1826, when
the works at the tower were first commenced), and that it has been
lighted ever since the first day of this current month. Although
the said exposition contained several indications relative to the Sear.
inp of the island, its distance from' the English back, and other
notices of that nature, it is deemed proper to give publicity to the
same.

The most aerated part of the island, the height of which, taken
from the level of the sea, is 63 palms, lies 64 degrees 57 minutes S.
ht. and 49 degrees 39 minutes W. long. by the meridian of Cadiz.
Its distance is 11 miles N. W. i W. from the outermost point of the
English bank; so that theobserver's eyes when placed in this point,
at the level of the sea, is able to distinguish the summit of the light,
the height of which, with that of the tower, is 75 palms ; which,
being added to the 63 for the elevation of the island, gives together
a height of 1311 paima.
Monte Video, Jan. 8.
ANTONIO JOZE DE SOUZA VIAN A.
TOMAS CASA RES.
MANUEL POMBO.
LUIS GONZALES VALLEGO, Se:retary.
Extract from the Agent's to Lloyd's at Genoa, dated March 6.
" The N. S. del Barchetto, arrived here from Malta—sailed 20th
ult. when there were no English or French ships of war in that
harbour, but ten Russian ships of war were refitting. The Erenieta,
arrived from Tenedos, left 30th January, and reports that she sailed
in company with eight Austrian vessels laden with grain, bound in
Syra, Zante, and Leghorn; and three English vessels in balk*,
bound to Malta, having been obliged to land their cargoes of grain
at Constantinople. The Eretneta tell in with an Ausrrian vessel,
and was informed that ten sail of merchant vessels had been lost
during a violent gale us the Archipelago and among the number, a
E;se Swedish sis laden with wheat from Odessa to this port."
The t India Company's ships Herefordshire, Bridgewater,
and Rep , arrived off Portland on the 13th instant. They left
China et the 16th of November. The Lowther Castle and Duke
of Yori also left the same day. The Bridgewater, Herefordshire,
Repulse, and Duke of York, sailed from St. Helena the 25th of
January.
The undermentioned ships arrived in China, as follows, viz.—
Marquis of Hastings and Guildford, Oetober 31; Farquharson and
Windsor, November 10; Scale by Castle, November 15; Astell,
November 16; Inglis, November 17. The Vansittart was at Pe-
nang when the Farquharson left, the 31st of August. The Thome,
Grenville arrived at the Sandheads the Ist, and Diamond Harbour
the 7th of November.
The Duke of York, LCCIII, from China, and the Mary, BLecner,
of and from Bombay, have arrived off Portland.
The Isabella, CLARKSON from the Mauritius ; the Alexander
the Great, from Port-au Yrince ; and the Charles Henry, from
Charleston, have arrived off Penzance.
DEAL, MANCH 15.—Wind variable.—Arrived from London the
Coronet, Meru., for Van Diemen's Land; Sir William Wallace,
TILLY, for Bermuda; Zeno, Lawson; Waterloo, Reanimate, and
Newton, RISING, for Jamaica.
Masai 16.—Wind W.—Arrived the Repulse, Genius, from
China. The Waterloo, PARTRIDOT, bad her bowsprit damaged by
the Repulse in Dover Roads, and is putting back.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 15.—Wind S.—Sailed the Huskisson, MIT.
cunt, for Newfoundland.
Gozate-sr, MARCH 14.—Arrived the Dolphin, Tortozau, from
Rio Janeiro.
Jaasar, MARCH 13.—Arrived the Two Brothers, Lzravaa, from
Gilboa.

LVIIIITOOL, MARCH IS.—Arrived the Scotia, GILSIIIIIIIT, from
Pernambuco; Governor, PINKER, froni New Orleans; Hyperion,
Foam's, from Charleston; Huskisson, PASZT, from Bt. John's,
New Brunswick ; Fairy Queen, twin Gibraltar; Ellen, Jixu►..
son, from Lisbon; Brothers, Joao's, from Gijon; Helen, Fniami,
from Bordeaux ; and Frederick, Biumbe, from Morlaix. Of pen
the John, Gamow, from Oporto; and the Dalhousie, Cosni,from

New York.
WIII2ItiIAVZN, Whiten 15.--The Union, Wallace, from Liver-
pool, arrived here this day, after being on shore at liigg.
Amtwear, hLsacis Clarence. Kennedy, from Rio
Janeiro, ran on short near Teininson ; got off, after discharging
2,400 bags of coffee and her hides, and arrived here to-day. The
vessel is much damaged, and the sugar supposed to be entirely
washed out.
FROM THE HAMPSHIRE TELEGRAPH, MARCH 15.
We have been obliged b; an extract from a letter
written by an English Officer, in the service of the Bra,-
zilian Government, who was in all the actions fought
there. He states that it was generally believed that
peace would soon be concluded between Brazil and
Buenos Ayres:
"OFF BUENOS AYRES, .JAN. 10.—We (the Brazilians)
have been very unfortunate lately, having lost another
corvette and brig at Patagonia, the Poula frigate FED
aground off Cape Frio, and a man of war brig, and a
transport, the tatter with stores and ammunition, for
Monte Video, have been captured by privateers. As a
setoff, we have captured and destroyed the brig Con-
gress, of Buenos Ayres, which we discovered agrouni,
with her prize (a nsercliaot brig) in Esmardo ; but the
former had 23 men killed in the action. The privateer
wasladen with plunder, valued at 500,000 dollars.—
When the news reached Buenos Ayres, Admiral &o
came out, with twelve sail (the largest vessel was a brig
of fourteen guns), and we expect to be attacked by him
every night. Our blockading squadron consists of ten
sail, corvettes and brigs. This is a most hatrassing and
heartless service. An able seaman gets eleven milreas,
and a voluntario twentrtwo miheas per month. I have
served in both classes, with no hope of promotion. The
Ganges (Rear Admiral Sir Robert W. Otway), and the
Alert, are lying here; the latter arrived on the 6th
inst. with dispatches from England."
The following extract from a letter from Lisbon,
gives some further particulars of the loss of the Terror
bomb, and adds to that disaster, we are extremely sorry
to say, a still more melancholy one—the total loss of
the transport Aun and Amelia, Lieutenant Hopkins,
agent, with all the crew and passengers. Lieutenant
H. who was a good and highly esteemed officer, has
left a widow and four young children, living at Southsea,
to deplore his 100., Among the passengers, we under-
stand, was Mr. Pare. son of the late Sir Henry Peake,
late a student id the School of Naval Architecture, who
was on his way to join his Majesty's ship Warspite, in
a service connected with his profession. The Ann and
Amelia was very valuably laden with stores of all kinds
for the Mediterranean Fleet.
" TAGUS, MARCH I.—On Sunday last we were sur-
ised by the arrival of S:r Thomas Dixon and the First
Lieutenant of his Majesty's late bomb the Terror, who
had travelled, dressed like freebooters and armed with
pistols, more than 70 miles on foot, to obtain assistance
from the Admiral in the Tagus. Their.ship, it appeared,
after encountering tremendous weather, about 70 miles
Ito the southward of Lisbon, run on shore near St. Map

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and bilged. They found themselves, in the night time,
in about 15 fathoms water; they instantly let go the
anchors, but were in a moment thrown upon the beach.
-Fortunately it *as high water, and a sandy shore, or her
bottom would have been beat out, and all hands have
perished. The crew. happily, were all saved, except one
man; and when the tide receded, they got her stores
and specie out. The Admiral sent the Pyramus and
Lyra trader, and the steam packet has since sailed, to
assist in endeavouring to get her off."
The Revenge and Melville arrived on the 27th ult.
after a boisterous passage of 28 days, from Spithead.
The Revenge, Wellesley, and Ocean, are to go opabe
Mediterranean • the S, artiate, Gloucester, Windsor
Castle, and Melville, return to England. General Sir
Wm. Clinton, and Officers of the Staff, will embark in
the Spartiate,with the Ist battalion of Grenadier Guards,
consisting of 600 men. The sqtadron are ordered to
be ready for the reception of the troops by the 8d inst.
though we do not expect to depart hence utrel the end
of the month. The Briton sails to.monow `with his
Excellency Sir Wm. A'Court (now Lord Heytesbury)
for Portsmouth.

We have received letters from the Cape of Good
Hope, dated the 18th of December, which wanting the,
arrival in Simon's Bay of the Tweed, tit, Lotd
Spencer Churchill, from England, without any other,
casualty since she left St. Jago, excepting that T.
Sullivan. a seaman, fell overboard, and was drowned.'
The ship was quite healthy at the above date. The
names of the Officers who died from the brain fever
which developed itself in October and November, after
the Tweed left St. Jago, are thus particularized, to
prevent unnecessary distress among those who have
surviving relatives on board that ship:—Mr. Crawford,
son of Lieutenant Colonel Crawford; Mr. West, son of
Mr. West, Surgeon, of Poole. Mr. Napper, Surgeon;
Mr. Hyslop, Schoolmaster; Mr. Simpson, son ofS. B.
Simpson, Esq. of Babworth, Itetford; Mr. Aldham,
son of Capt. Aldham, R.N. Mr. Thornton. son of the
Right Hon. Sir E.Thornton ; J. Windsor, Midshipm ofs
servant, died on the' 30th of October.—Mr. Napper,
the Surgeon„died of an inflammation of the bowels.
Another instance of 4ie scrupulous attention of his
Royal Highness the Lofd High Admiral to the claims
of meritorious officers and their descendants, has been
recently evinced. In the year 1781,Liene. M'Douga►l,
of his Majesty!. cutter Flying Fish.• on the Downs sta.
lion, captured a French vessel, mach superior in forte,
and number of men, for Which gallaot conduct the Fly-
ing Fish was immediatelfrated as a sloop of war, and
Lieut. McDougall was made,a Commander in the same
vessel, and. at the peace in 1783, promoted to the rank
of Post Captain, and, after fifty-six years of active ser-
vice, died a Vice Admiral. On his Royal Highness's
visit to this post, a grandson of Admiral M.Dougall
presented a petition to the Lord High Admiral, through
his maternal great uncle, Admiral Drury, ►tating his
grandfather's services, and that the petitioner yaw an
orphan, and desirous of serving his Majesty. The pe-
tition was graciously received ; and, on Monday last,
the young man teceived an appointment as a Lieutenant
in the Royal Marines.
COURTS MARTIAL —Monday. the 3d instant, a Court
Martial was held on board his Majesty's ship Viceroy,
Captain Sir Michael Seymour, Bart. K.C.B. President.
to try Lieutenant Raymond Evans, cf his Majesty's
sloop Badger, on a charge prefaced against him by
Commander Charles Crowdy, of the said sloop, of a
breach of part of the 22d Article of War, in disobeying
his (Commander Crowdy's) orders relative to a proposed
alteration in birthing the men, when, after a minute in
vestigation of all the circumstances, the Court declared
that the charge had not been proved, and did adjudge
Lieutenant Aivans to be fully acquitted.
Tuesday last, a Court Martial was held on board his
Majesty's ship Victory (Sir .Michael Seymour, Bart;
K.C.B. President), to try Commander Charles Crowdy,
of his Majesty's sloop Badger, on charges preferred
against him by Lieutenant Raymond Evans, for unoffi-
cerlike, ungentlemanly, and oppressive conduct to the'
Officers and crew of the Badger. Captain Crowdy is
to enter upon his defence on Monday morning.
The Hasty schooner (for whose safety strong appre-
hensions were entertained), arrived at Madeira on the
Oth of February, and sailed again on the llth, for the
Cape of Good Hope.
The Sapphire, 28, Captain Henry Dundas, the only
ship of war at Spithead, is expected to sail about
Wednesday next, for South America.
The Duke of Yolk steam packet sailed this morning
with passengers for Lisbon.
Rear Admiral the Honourable Sir Charles Paget, is
appointed to. succeed Rear Admiral• Plampin in the,
command of his Majesty's ships stationed on the coast
of Ireland. Capt. M. Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley
is appointed to command the Semiramis, the flag ship
on ►hat station. •

St. Patrici, the tutelar Saint of Ireland. was born in
the year 371, in a village called Bonaven Tabernia,
said to be Kilpatrick, in Scotland, between Dunbarton
and Glasgow. He died at the advanced age of 103, at
Soul Abbey, in the county of Down. and was buried,
according to most accounts, at Down, but respecting
his burial place there is nothing certain upon record.
A day or two after the close of late Assizes at Ayles-
bury, one of the visiting Magistrates of the gaol was
accosted by a prisoner named William Green, who said
he wished to ask his advice; he had been sentenced to
six months' imprisonment for one offence. and to trans-
pottation for life for another, aftd be wished to be in-
formed whether he was to serve the six months' imps
sonment before or after he had been transported ? The
worthy Magistrate told the impudent fellow that he
thought the latter would be preferable. The first sen-
tence on the applicant was passed, Mr. Baron Gannow
not knowing that there was another indictment against
him for burglary.

Jamaica Pipers of the 18th January have been re.
ceived. On the 17th the town of Kingston was much
alarmed by fire, which commenced in Thames-street,
and threatened at one time the most serious conse•
quences ; but by the speedy arrival of engines, a good
supply of water, and the active exertions of the
inhabitants, aided by the assistance of the military, it
was speedily checked, and the fire put out. The Arab
transport had arrived from Cork in 42 days, with
detachments ofd's, S3d, 77th, and 91st Regiments.
LORD NORSORY—When his Lordship was told that
Mr. Spring Rice was to be sent out to Calcutta, as
Secretary to Lord W. Beutick, he observed—" Send
Rice to India I 'tis as bad as-sending coals to Newcas.tle.
The following is. the loss of lives reported on board
the Ann and Amelia transport, bound to Malta, with
Government store', value about 60,0001. wrecked near
Lisbon:-1 Captain of Marines, 4 Masters Mates, 1
Midshipman, Davies, ---Peak; SO marines, 40
of the crew, and 17 passedgers.
Henry Tfinetell (the brother of John Thurtell, the
murderer/6i Weare) who went out, last year, as Master.
at-Atdes in the Atlas, East Indiaman, fell overboard,
and WAS drowned, while the vessel was lying its the
.kriSer at Canton, in the early part of October last.