Star.
London, England, 1821-01-03 00:00:00

NAVAL 118111LL1GENCE.

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tenet of a letter from Lloyd's Agent at Antwerp, dated the
its.— The frost has set in very severely, and the ravi-
odor of the Scheldt is stopped by the floating ice. The A,:i:ve,
hood, from hence for Alicant and Barcelona, lays io a pre-
cisions situation of Bats, in-shore."
Fatuouri, Dec. 31. Wind N. E.—Sailed the Mary, WIL.
pm for Whoa; Cogniac, %isms, for Charente; and Three
Myers, Sratiza., for Lisbon.
Dot,, JANWARY 2.—Wind B.S.S.—Came down from the
ter r last night, and sailed, the Underwood, Itzmise.ros, for
; and Juno, Loin, for Alicant. Several brigs and
'coasters (names unknown) are passing through the Downs to the
Westward. Of the cargo saved from the Duke of Cambridge,
Igo hbdw of wine, and 92 bags of se, d, are in store at Sandwich,
Ind 79 hhcis. wine, and seven bags of seed, are in store here.
Ho Janua 2.—Sailed the LOrd 1J use
and Lord
;idiom packets, for Cuxhaven ; Alliance and Jane packets, for
tiotteoburgh—all with Mails.
Lows:worm JaNnaair .2.—The cargo of the Saxony, Jons-
soy, has been got out, part of which is damaged. The vessel
may yet be repaired.
NORTH SWUM, JANUARY I.—The Verwagting, Maas, from
Gotle, burgh for Amsterdam. has put in here, with her cargo
shifted, part of which she must discharge.
Alawars—At Newcastle, the Wilbelmina Frederica, from
Suri::am. At Flushing, Charles, Goodwin, from Charleston ;
Ilnril t, Quincey, front Boston ; Ruth and Mat y, from
Philadelphia ; and G.:orgina, Simian', front Naples. At Loch-
ryan, Thetis, Fisher, front Annapolis. At Guernsey, Pulteney,
Prieault, (ruin Copenhagen.
Cusrost-ilomw, JANUARY 2.—Ships Entered Inwards: The
yriunds, from Donal: ; and Nancy, from Marseilles.—Entered
Oetwardi: The Duncan Fort.cs, for Marseilles; General Har-
ris, for China; London Pack,..t, for Boston ; Aurora, for Cork ;
Lanark, tor Madras; for Hamburgh ; Atalanta, for ,Ja-
rraieu ; Alpha, for Madeira; John Echlin, for Belfast; and
Onyx, for llonduras.—Cleared Outwards : The Alfred, for To.
tago ; F.se.x, for Nar.tz ; Mentor, for Honduras ; Minstrel,
for Gibraltar;
and Esther,retan for C
for ditto. Marianna, for the South Sea
whale fishery; C,

Ne have pleasure in recording, by the following
'narrative, the spirit and perseverance of a fellow sub-
ject in demanding and obtaining redress for an out-
rage committed by a foreign Power in a forei;!n
Port, and procuring thereby more respect and at-
tention for those of his countrymen who may happen
to be placed in a. similar situation. the account is
collected from letters, dated Monte Video, July 31,
and its accuracy is vouched for in the most respect-
able manner:
_ . _

"On the Sd of July last, the British merchant
brig Symmetry, WILLIAM NIORGAN Commander,
was moored in the harbour of Monte Video, tinder
the orders of the Captain of the Port, and the direc-
tions of a Pilot. On the 10th of the same month, at
noon, a Portuguese schooner of war, anchored and
moored near the Symmetry, in such a manner as to
press on her cables, and impede her clearance when-
ever that should be necessary ; upon which the
schooner was hailed by the Captain of the brig, and
the inconvenience of the situation pointed out to the
people on board. A bc.at from the schooner shortly
after came alongside the brig, for the purpose, as
her Chief Officer supposed (being unacquainted with
the language), of ordering another anchor to be car-
ried out, under the impression that the brig was
lying with only one anchor down ; but on the Officer
panting out the buoy on her anchors, the boat re-
turned to the schooner, the persons in her being ap-
parently satisfied. At this time the Captain of the
trig went on shore with part of his crew on business.
During his absence the-boat from the schooner came
again alongside, having in her a serjeant and about
nine soldiers or marines, and seamen, and insisted
on another anchor being carried out, or the brig
moved. The Officer endeavoured to make them un-
derstand, that as his Commander was on shore, with
part of the crew, he had no authority to do so, nor
could he, in fact, effect it, not having sufficient
strength on board to heave the anchor; on which he
retired into the bold, to attend to some particular
duty relative to the discharge of the brig's cargo.—
The serjeant and the soldiers, on this, boarded the
brig, andiollowing the Officer into the hold, took
him into custody. He remonstrated on this conduct,
and requested permission to send on shore for the
Captain; instead of which, they beat him with their
bayonets so severely as to deprive him of recollec-
tion, and dragged him by force into their boat. No
resistance or insult was offered by the crew of the
Symmetry, at the particular injunctions of the Chief
Officer, who felt confident of obtaining redress when
-the affair should be properly represented to the supe-
rior Authorities. The Chief Officer was then taken
4M board the schooner, and afterwards to a frigate,
where he was treated as a criminal, and exposed to
torture as well as indignity, having very heavy irons
pat on his legs, and being suspended by a collar of
wood round his neck, his feet only just touching the
deck. He remained several hours in this situation
'before it became known to the Captain of the .Sym-
metry, who obtained his release by an application
To the Admiral. Lie was brought back to the brig
about eight the same evening, much bruised •by the
'blows from the bayonets, and incapable of perform-
ing his duty. It appears, that although Admiral
Loso, to whom the application for the release of the
Officer was made, acceded to that application, he
avowed that he had been sent on board the frigate,
and that the punishment had been inflicted on him
`by his orders. Captain Moacas, therefore, on ac-
count of his rank and consequence in the place, felt
extremely doubtful of obtaining redress, or the ac-
knowledgment that injustice had been committed.—
He, however, addressed a Memorial to Baron LA-
t6UNA, ste Commander-in-Chief, at Monte Video ;
and also transmitted a representation of the case to
Commodore Sir THOMAS HARDY, then at Buenos

Ayres. The Commodore immediately dispatched
?the Hon. Captain SPENCER, and two Lieutenants to
Monte Video, to institute an inquiry into the busi-
ness, and insist on satisfaction being made. The
mph was, that a proposition was first made by the
Commander,in-Chief to put the men who had boarded
*he brig under confinement ; but on an objection be-
ing made by Captain MORGAN to that as an inade-
quate satisfaction, the men having acted by superior
authority, the Admiral consented to declare that the
whole of the affair was contrary to the rules and le-
plations of the:Port, and that cafe should be taken
411 future that similar insults and cruelty should not
be inflicted.

" The affair ended here; the prompt and judicious
interference of Sir TitomAs UA RDY, with the firm-
mess of Captain MonnAN, having produced, though
nn inadequate one, the only reparation perhaps that
could have been made."