Star.
London, England, 1803-12-17 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTE.I.LiciENCE.

MAILS THIS I).
AIM. DUE.
Dublin 0
Waterford 0 3

AY.-IWiticl S. E.

ARR. DUE.
0

The Lords of the Admiralty hay; ordered Captain
BRACE, of his Majetly's flap CA; EAR, of 32 guns, to
remain at Liverpool, for the proteElion of that port ;
and have ordered an additional Light Houfe to be
ereaed in that quarter, for the guidance of (hips of
war. Circular letters to that effen have been fent to
all Commanders of (hips of war. 'Ale are happy to
add, that the coaft in that quarter is now in a corn.
plete Rate of defence.

FALMOUTH, Dec. 14,—Arrived this morning the
PRINCESS AMELIA packet, Captain STRY.IIIt with
mails from America, in 33 days, from New York—
am happy to find that the fever at that place has
confiderably abated. Arrived alai this day the Ihip
Hope, Capt. GEORGE BRAY, from Peteriburgh for
New York, in a very leaky Elate, and will be obliged
to take out her cargo, which confiits of iron—The
Pruffian doper Johannes, Captain Vlach, from
Penzance, with fugar and coffee for Emben—The
brig Ceres, Captain R. LITTLE, from Chepllow, for
Montrofe, and Heart of Oak, ACRLIN, from ditto,
With timber for the dock yards at Plymouth :
The thip John, of Truro, Captain JOHN TRELVD-
oItA, for Venice, with pilchards, from this port, and
which failed On the 6th inf. with the outward-bound
Mediterranean fleet—Rates that the whole convoy
were difperfed in the gale of wind on Sunday laft.—
Captain Tits: Anna* yeßerday faw three fail of the
line, and a cutter Banding to the Southward.

The Patuctss AUGUSTA for Ncw York and Ha-
lifax, and the PRINCISS ELIZAB TH, for Jamaica and
Barbadoes,'with the mails of the 7tl, intl. arc detained
by contrary winds.—The AUCKLAND 'packet will fail
on Saturday next, with two mails, for Lifbon. The
Panics ADOLPHUS packet was at New York when
the Passe's' Amnia failed from thence. The lat-
ter packet,hai no paffengers.
PLYMOUTH, bac. 15.—Sailed for Ireland left
evening, the following tranfports, having on board
the Third Regiment of Foot, or Old Scotch Buffs,
viz. the Nile, Colefworth, Princefs Royal, and Grant:
they were convoyed hence by the Sracus.t., of t 8
guns. Sailed to join the Channel fleet, the IMPITOEUX,
of 74 guns, Capt. MARTIN. The fhip William and
John, Capt. THOMAS Woonsmoosa, from Valencia,
bound to Guerafey, was (poke with off the Sound
yefterday, all well.
Poersmonru, DEC. 16.—Arrived the FISCAL!)
frigate, with a fleet under convoy from Lifbon ; the
dares sus frigate, and the Charlotte fchoone'r from
the Downs.—This day the Couttanaux man of war
made a fignal fox failing with the (hips bound to the
Weft Indies. Admiral Meats is gone on board,
and every preparation is made for failing to.morrow.
The Admiral is going to take the command at Bar.
badoes, in the room of CoMmodore Hoop, who is in.
difpofed, and not as fecond in command at Jamaica,
as has been Rated. The RFN MID !loop of war, Hon.
Capt.Ca r Neat e,takesthe Jamaica fhipsunder charge.
—Arrived J. Reichel, from Porfground, laden with
timber, for this port. Arrived alto feveral fail of
outward bound veffels from the Downs. Amami(
them is the Ann, Kum, bound to Jamaica, with the
loss of two anchors and cables.

Dam., Dsc. 16.—Sailed the United Kingdoms
Eat Indianian for the River; LIDA frigate, Lynx
floop of war, and ZEBRA bomb, on a cruise. Re-
main the fell of his Majeay's ibips as per lark.—
Wiad E. S. E.
YARMOUTH, Dsc !S.—Arrived the Anima fri-
gate, and 0 floop of war, from a cruise, off
ti.e Dutch coati ; and remain in the Roads with the
following Mips, viz. Rarut,s, Rear Admiral Rus-
StLI.; PRINCISI Or 01•110 R, 64 guns ;CRISCIIIIT and
AMBIISCADI frigates ; Vasa and Casescoa gun brigs ;
and Fa you RITZ cutter. The Ne'yfomheden, Captain
Hens 013E11, of and from Tonningen to London,
with oats, is put in here in diflrefs ; the mull be un-
loaded and repaired. An inland Telegraph is net.
ed here to correfpond with others to Chelmaford.—
Wind Ea, and thick weather.
FROM LLOYD'. LIST.

GIAVISIND, Dsc. le.—Palled by the Batavia, • prise, from
Batavta; Loolfe FanaUly, Kidd, from Bombay; Atka, Mufgrove,
from China; Baring, Meadows; Lord Eiden, Swett; Minerva,
Wddon • and Tottanham, Jones, from I tbebee,
from Oltebee; Mary, Dyer, from Rob; Prifellb,efluit, from
Cast; rd., Nieholfon ; and Hansidiries, Brown, from the
Balk Skied the Harry and Jane. Teener, for Africa; Patrioten,
Steinkee, for St. Bartholomew • Ids, Kemp; Elizabsth, Gaye ; e•
J
Owerhandt tad GeOde Vet:ands:4 —-, fee Embden.
ARRIVED.

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of Darmstadt, (dean, &bet. frpat Lithos. Off Falmouth,
Governor Smog, Clark, Stan Virginia. At Liverpool, Colom-
bia. Fordyce, from 'Savannah. At Dublin, Miry, Parierfon i
Deborah. Jones; Newry. Kerney ; and Owneerce, %Gar.
from .-----.

The Grenada, (a ander) ham Leaden he Grenada, Is loft near
Cowes. _ _

TAe John, Bail, a Gulneanun, is captured air Trinidad.
A !loop from (*ruby, arrived at Soutlamptoo, (dl fa urn a
Preach weblike, rite to tie Alma Maria privateer, of Lando°,
Bearing for tie Dram
1 be Hope, t:Deseiiass, frame Bombay, bound to Bengal, b
loft in Bassi lyare : upwards at 40 Ise Arabian bodes, and
about it erase _ are drowsed.

'TM Darbodoes hooter, Captain Smith, Ml la whit a Preach
pinta" otTabego, which Ow eagovit ter opward, of two fedora
The yrnateer 'wonted II eons and too awn; the Botteatee
Pleader ooly ft gone: the Ovum capered her, sad afterwards
fee her on

—The ite;tiorlowaire frigate, wtdela failed from Portfineetta es
flat lath of September, was feel' with, all well, on the 6th of
Idownther, and was apatted to reach Berbadoes to the mat ef
•few day'.
The brig Cosateis of C►athan, of °remelt, John Whales
matter, lwieh with (timber front Chrittlana to Baratta*, was
fir aided on the illaoci uf 04 re the i ith nt. to a hear, Pk si
one m•t was kit, aud tk vdr.6l mock damaged.

tellesday a Court ofDireaors was held at the Tuft
India Houk, when the undermentioned Commanders
took leavc preavous to departing for Bombay .and
China: Captain CHAPLIS Da u MMOND, of the Gr.ar-
Tots ; and Captain WALTER CAMP{ILL. of the Wm
Ctlit.SEA. The Court adjourned at fix o'clock till
Wedrielday next.
Tie AItDROMACHE frigate, Captain Lowate, was
to fail from the Bahamas with a convoy for England,
about the middle of November.

The RENARD hoop, CAptaia CATI.CART, fails to
the Welt Indies, with the c,:nsoy, under the orders
of Admiral DACRFS.

The AURORA ft ignite fai:cd from Litbon, bound to
Oporto with a fleet, on the 25th of November.
The Coml., which was fent with the intelligence
of the war to Governor PATTEN, at St. Helena, was
unfortunately captured ; fo that two months elapfed
before the misfortune could be remedied.

A bottle containing a note, of which a copy fol-
lows, and a letter add/died -, No. 21, Botolph-
lane, London, was found by HECTOR GILLES, one
of Captain M'CAS K I LI:S fervants, near the Point of
Ruindunan, Me of Sky, on the 23d February, 1803.
The bottle was furrounded by Boating lea weed;
which laved it from being broken againft the rocks.
" Oo hoard the fhip 16s, Captain SKINNER, from London,
" for New York, N. lat. 47. W. long. at. the yth Septcmher,
" atm.

" As an experiment, one of the pailengera roeommends this let-
" ter to whomr may find it. Any expellee in forwarding it. will
" he paid by the perfoa it is directed to in )xr Write on the
" back of the letter where it was found, use tune, latitude and Ion-
" gitude, and by whom it *as found."

The winter *BO2-3 was uncommonly mild and dry,
efpecially on the north weft coati of Scotland ; and
the prevailing winds were from the tmith call—
Captain M'Cas IC I Lt. forwarded the letter to the gen-
tleman in London with a line, but had no return.—
From gth September, 1802, when the bottle was
thrown into the fen, to 23d February, 1833, when it
was found, 167 days. Diftance from N. lat. 47.
long. at. p Ruindunan in the Ifle of Sky, about
2. 12. or 846 Englilh Miles ; fo that the bottle pro-
ceeded fivd mild a day, in dire et line to the point
where it was found. Hence it is evident, that there
is a ftrong current feting to the N. E. which carried
the bottle along, and in a dite6tion contrary to the
prevailing wind foi the time.

American papers arrived yefterday ; but as they
art only two days later than the laR which had been
received, they contain but little additional informa-
tion. The (ale of Louifiana by Frarce to the United
States, and the difcontent of Spain at that meafure,
Rill continue to occupy the public mind, and to be
a fubjeet of deliberation in the Congrefs. But Spain
having ceded Louifiana to France, and the latter
having fold that territory to the United States, the
butinefs appears to be -concluded. and the poffeCEon
fo far fettled in the American Government.

By the fame channel we have received an extra-
ordinary account of a plot, of which we bad hereto.
fore given fome intimation. farmed by two French
Generals in St. Domingo, to fecure to themfelves
the poileflion of the Northern Difiile of that Wand.
The particulars will be found in another part of this
Paper.
Yeflerday morning his Maims, and the Dukes of
Kier and CANIIIIIDGB, attended by Colonel Spas-
Cat and General Mauetronaw. took an airing on
horfeback in Windfor Great Park; and viewed the
different improvements making there.
The Duke of Cum, infpeeed the Worcefler
and North Gloucefler Militia la ft week. His Royal
Highnefs (poke in very flattering terms of their truly
military appeaiance.
His Royal Highnefs the Dnke of Yoac attended
yefterday at his Office in the Horfe Guards till fix
o'clock in the evening: the new military arrange-
ments occupy daily the chief of his Royal Highnefs's
attention.

Mr. WILLIAM!, Secretary to the Bank of Ireland.
attended the Stock Exchange, Dublin, on Tburfday
fe'nnight, and announced, that the Court of Direc.
ton had come to a refolutinn of recommending to
the proprietors of hank Stock, at their next meeting,
to divide a bonus of 5 per cent. on their capital Rock.
Tann Votuarsea s.—According to a paper pre.
rented to the Houfe Of Commons, the number of the
Irifh Volunteers appears to be as follows:—Captains,
1,116 I Subalterns, 2,206 ; Serjeants, 3,573 ; Drum
mere or Trumpeters, 1,003 ; Cavalry, 10,377; In-
fantry, 64.756; Grand Total, 82,941.
General Pox having now the chief command of
the Home Diflriel, yellerday brigaded the St. Pan-
cras Volunteers, Colonel Idiot. a, and the Kenfing-
ton Volunteer Aflociation, Colonel WILLIS, in Hyde-
park. The General politely told the refpeBive Com-
mandants, that as the troops had marched lonic
dißance in the rain, and the weather continued
very unfavourable, he would not delay them longer
than was barely fi:fficient for the firß brigading toge-
ther: they need not fire as had been otherwife intend-1
ed. They then went through the ufual manteuvresl
of wheeling and marching together as one body ; and
Col. DAL LLLLL s, the General's Aid-du Camp. com-
municated his approbation of the marching, &c. of
the troops, and his thanks to the officers for the pains
which it was evident they had taken in infttuaing
their refpeßive corps.
The Loyal Britons, Col. DAVIDSON, had a field
day yefterday, on their own ground.
The Duke of Cumberland's Sharp Shooters and,
the Gray's Inn Corps of Riflemen, were infpefled by
Lieutenant Colonel jaaannoi. in the Totophohte
ground, at the top of Gower-Rnet. Bedford fquare.
The univerfal good condition in which their armsvrere
found, met with the Infpektor's wanneß approbation.
Lall week guards were Rationed at the Beacons of
Aldbrough and Gatton, in Holdernefs, under the
direflion of THOM** Gat wsrov, Efq. to watch againa
the appearance of an enemy on that part of the coati.
The enumeration of the Military Force of the
Country, as given in a late debate by Lord Curti-
aims H, is of the moR gratifying defcription. The to-
tals which he gave were,

Array. ie ate Field . e3o,eee
Veleetern - 411QP30
Sea ?made - sj POD

Total rank d tlis.coo
Yellerdey morning bur caravans. filled with Ha-
noverian troops, paffed through Pimlico on their way
to Lyraington. Sixty of the fame troops marched
through St. James's Park. on their way to the We of
Wight; they are all very Has looking men..