Star.
London, England, 1827-02-19 00:00:00

DESTRUCTION
__ OF A SHIP OF WAR.

PORTS MOUTR, Faaausav ta.
About half an hour before day-light this morning, it
was discovered that one of the men-of-war laying up
the harbour in a state of ordinary, was on fire. The
Victory made the signal for assistance, and fired several
guns to alarm the Officers of the Dock-yard, as well
0 the people in the other ships near her. In the coarse
of a quarter of an hour, every person was at his post ;
sad all the boats belonging to the Goar d ship as well
a; those belonging to the Ordinary and Dock-yar,d,
were at the spot, and rendering every assistance.
but unfortunately of no avail, as the wind was blowing
gong from the Eastward. The destructive element
on gained such an ascendancy over the united efforts
rd several hundred men, as to baffle all possibility of
clog it under. By this accident, the country has
last one of its finest frigates, the Dial:olnd having lately
returned from South America, under the command of
laid Napier: she had gone through a partial repair,
and was placed in Ordinary, as fit for immediate ser-
,ire. The boats in attendance were under the com-
mand of Captain Inglis, of the Victory ; and Captain
Omen, of the Ordinary, who were very active in getting
tie fire under, as well as having the ships nearest re-
moved out of danger. The accident is supposed to
nave been caused by raking out the galley-fire the night
before, when some of the cinders must have got under
the grate, and communicated to the deck. Fortunately,
all the Warrant Officers and men, together with their
families, got safe out of the ship, which is now burning
to the v ater's edge.

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ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE.
A fire broke out this morningon board his Majesty's
ship Ditmned (in Ordinary in Porchester Lake), about
four o'clock, and continued to rage with great fury till
twelve at noon, when she was burned to the water's
edge, and sank at her moorings.
The two Warrant Officers, who had her in charge,
were brought on shore with their families in safety. It
is said the fire was occasioned by one of the men
placing a plank before the fire to season, which it is
supposed ignited during the night, and communicated
so the ship.

NAVAL INtgLitiN CE.
The Lord Nelson, from Lynn, was driven on shore in Oseford
Beach on the 15th inst. Cargo saved.
FaLwouvw. Faa. 16.—Arrived the Atlas, Wat.ron, from Ja-
maica—sailed 21st December, and experienced very heavy gales
during her passage; her chain plates carried away, sails split, &c.
PLYMOUTH, Faa. 16 and 17.—Wir.d E.—Arrived the Nassau,
TIMIAIN, from St. Michael's P • and Flora, Cuaurrv, front Terceira.
Sailed the Barbadoes Picket, Lowas, for Gibraltar. Passed down
Channel, the Inglis, Saar.; from London to the East Indies. •
Poarmarru, Fes. iB.—Arrived the Greenock, MILLIM, from
Batavia—sailed from Cowes on the 16th for Rotterdam, returned
this afternoon, blowing very hard from E. His Majesty's brig
Cuo bore up, bound to N.F.. Sailed the Tulloch Castle, Puma,
for Jamaica. It has blown very heavy the whole of this day from
the eastward.

Snag, rse.—lt is blowing a violent gale. His Majesty's frigate
Dumont, was burnt to the water's edge this morning; no miser
ship was lying near her. She was laid up in ordinary in Porch Ester
Lake; It is not yet known how the accident happened. His Ma-
jesty's ship Metrics.' came into harbour from Spitbead. Sailed
the Amphitrite transport. kluaue, fur Cork.
Dar., Faa. 17.—Wind W. and S.—Arrived from London, the
Frederick, Como, for Jamaica; Egyptian. Littman, for Bombay ;
and Oporto, Coszr, for Oporto. Arrived also, the J. Bainbridge,
Noon, from Cape Breton.
FEL 18.—Wind S.E. by F..—The ships remaining yesterday
have sailed. The Vansittart and Hythe, fur India, passed about
noon. Passed by from London, the Competitor, JACKSON, for Co.
iambi& ; and Caledonia, lionuarr, for Jamaica.
GIAVCSIXD, FM 17 and 18.—Arrived the Lord Nelson, Wire
sow, from St. Michael's; Dadalus, Baarron, from St. John's,
New Brunswick ; Arides, Knua, from Rio • Cape Packet, KZLLY,
from Van Dieman's Land; Sprightly, Newsom, and Dispatch,
Yana., from St. Michael's; Deveron, AULLY, from Honduras;
George IV. Bcacc, from Lisbon ; Bolivar, M' DONALD, from New
York; Sylph, DAVIDSON, from St. Vakry ; Lisbon Packet, --,
from Newfoundland; Spheroid, HARRISON, from Barbadoes ; and
Ark, Annum:, from Africa.