Star.
London, England, 1817-12-05 00:00:00

"MIRKA

The nerieden Marks of October 24, states, that
1. H. Et.vox, Esq. Commander of the United States
brig Savannah, has libelled in the District Court of
Georgia, the armed schooner-rigged boat Sarah and
the Spanish schooner Santa Cruiz, her prize, in com-
pany with which she was taken on the 4th instant, as
they. Were entering the St. Mary's River. The Sarah
is the same boat that was picked up in this harbour
last summer; was refitted here by John Morrison,
and sailed from hence for Amelia, and from thence
she proceeded to the Coast of Cuba, where the above
prize was made, together with the British schooner
Two Brothers. him Nassau, bound to Barracoa,
which they captured and plundered, turning the crew
on shore, and brought, in company with the above
prize, to the mouth of the river St. Mary's, where she
was also detained by the Savannah, and has since
arrived at Savannah in charge of a crew from that
vessel; the late Commander of the Sarah (Edward
Ferner) made his escape from the Two Brothers at
Jekyl Island, where she touched on her passage from
St. Mary's to Savannah.
Extract of a Letter from Boston, dated Nov. 4
Arrived here last evening the Canton packet, NA3II,
fronsJimaica, with 3236 boxes of quicksilver sailed
from Jamaica 13th September, under convoy of the
British sloop of war LARNI, and left her off Havan-
nah, into which port she was bound s September the
21st, lat. 35. long. 76. was boarded from the priva-
teer brig Mexican Congress, and treated politely ;
was informed that she had captured the day before,
out of a Spanish fleet from Havannah convoyed by a
frigate, a ship and brig, and manned them, the former
having on board 1800 boxes of sugar, and the latter
indigo, &c.; said several other privateers were dog-
ging the Ai•et, and there was no doubt most of them
would be taken. A few days befosi the Mexican Con-
gress had an action with a Spanish Government brig
out of Havannah, and beat her off, having several men
wounded. Parted from the privateer next day, in sight
of Cape Hatteras ; she sailed heavily, being lad. n with
goods taken out of prizes, and was short of men." •
The American Government appears to be carry-
ing into effect the new Navigation Act with great
strictness. The letters received from Charleston
state the seizure of a vessel from Liverpool; another
at Nest York = but the owners express a hope that the
property will be restored, as the Act was passed in
March last, and its operation only; commenced on the
lit of October.

A general List of the Pensions of France has just
been issued by the French Treasury. The numbet
of Pensionaries is 196.405, and the total amount or
the Pensions 63,595.003 francs. In the list of Pen-f
sionaries are included the Ecclesiastics, and from the
proportion of the general sum allotted to them, an
outcry has been improperly attempted to be raised,
that in comparison with other classes of stipendiaries,
they are provided for in a very beggarly manner.
The following view of the actual rate of division will
skew how far this complaint is well founded :

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Civil Pensions - • 7,751 9,294,C52
Military soil Widows - 131,918 45,140,484
Ecclesiastics • - 83,506 12,959,837
The average annuity of each individual is in the
first class about fel 1. 9s. in the second £l5, and in
the third, being that of the Ecclesiastics, £9. 14s.
Front this, it will be seen that any difference which
exists is much too trifling to be worth complaining
about, and little as any of the classes have occasion
to boast of the munificence of their provision; throe
have certainly least of all reason to complain, whom
a comfortable celibacy has relieved of the burden of
providing for any others wants than their own, and
who have, besides, so many helping resources to de-
pend on, from the exercise of their clerical functions,
which the other descriptions of persons have not. In
fact, it is altogether idle to estimate the incomes of
the French Clergy from looking to the Royal Pen-
sion List alone to know what their actual incomes
are we would require also to know how they stand on
the Private Pcnsion Lists of all the rich devotees in
the Kingdom.
The following distressing circumstance is related
in a letter from Prince Edward's Island, dated Oc-
tober I :••••• About a week since stranded, on the
bar of New London Harbour, in this island, the brig
Harriet, HAINAH master, from Dublin, -with pas-
lengers, and it is said bound to Quebec, and from
thence to this island, to load with timber, out eleven
weeks. They were seven weeks in the Gulph attemp-
ting to get to Quebec, and got as far as Gaspee. Pre.
viously to that, several had died of sickness and fa-
mine from a long passage ; all the provisions which
the passengers had laid in had been exhausted some
weeks previous to their arrival at Gaspee, where Mr.
O'HARA was a true and generous friend to those
',nor creatures, by compelling the Master to procure
a vessel to take forty of them to Quebec ; twenty of
them, who, from their reduced state, were landed and
left in the woods at Gaspee, and the remaining pas-
sengers on board, bet wean 50 and 60, were furnished
by. Mr. O'HARA with three days provisions, allow-
lag them 48 hours to get to this island; and in a
measure to end their sufferings, they were driven a-
shore at New London, where they were received by
the inhabitants with the greatest humanity, who
lodged and fed them, and gave them every comfort
within their power. One instance ought to be men-
tioned, viz.—One of the families oo board, consisting
of husband and wife, with ten children—the father
was unable to pay for two of his children (boys) but
in consideration of the father having paid for all the
rest, the master agreed to take the whole family.—
After sailing from Dublin, they had occasion to call
at a distant port, where the roaster met with two
persons-41h° wished tomtakeitheir passage at res each
the'
to accommodate these men, the Captain landed
two boys, contrary to the Most solemn entreaties of
their parents, and sailed, leaving the boys on the
wide world. The mother died shortly. atter on the
passage with grief and distraction, and one of. the
children. Several affidavits , hive been made respfu.
tins the Captain!! eondact,and want to his Esesuency
the Lieutenant Governor at citiebec, who, no doubt..
•oill take means to bring the Captain to justift.to