Star.
London, England, 1811-04-04 00:00:00

YARMOUTH, APRIL s.

Arrived yesterday, after post, the ARrn sloop of
War, and CHANTICLEER, Capt. SPEARS.—SaiIed this
morning, to cruize in the Baltic, the LYNX sloop, and
REDBREAST, Sir GEORGE KEITH ; and the PINCHER
and ALERT, with the trade from this port for Hell-
goland.—Remain in the Roads, the Roebuck, De-
siree, Bravedegeren, Blazer, Censor, Exertion, Swan,
Tickler, Pigmy, and Princess Augusta.—Ships in the
Harbour as per last.

DEAL, APRIL 2.
Sailed the Attac frigate, for North Yarmouth. Arrived the
BFLLONA man of war, from Plymouth; and the Viper cutter,
from a cruize off Dungeness.—Wind S. W.
Atilt!. S.—Remain all u per last.—Wind S. and fine weather.

WEST INDIES.
The merchant vessel, Islam, arrived at Liverpool,
from Carlisle Bay (Barbadoes), has brought Newspa-
pers from that Island ; in one of which we find the
following statement :
44 We have been furnished by a Gentleman, passen-
ger on board the ship Cornwall, Captain PEAT, bound
to Jamaica from London, which arrived on Sunday
last, with the following particulars of her voyage here,
after having lost her rudder in a gale she encountered
in the Bay of Biscay. The Cornwall had '2OO recruits
and 16 officers on board, for the different regiments in
the West Indies ; the whole under the command of
Captain CAMERON, of the 6th West India Regimer.t :
On the 3d of January, in lat. 45. 18. she encoun-
tered a very severe storm, which increased in the even-
ing with such violence, as to endanger her safety.—
During the night the gale still continuing, she unship-
ped her rudder, which, on disengaging, tore away
the helm, stern, and counter, but fortunately did not
injure the stern post, or she must have foundered. She
was thus rendered a wreck, and became completely
unmanagable.
" On the following morning the wind abated ; but
in the afternoon it blew a hurricane, when all on board,
amounting to nearly 300 souls, momentarily expected
a watery grave. Captain Peat, having foreseen the
storm, had fortunately placed the ship in its best pos-
sible state ; and, during the gale, the exertions of him-
self and crew are beyond praise:
" At the dawn of day on the Stb, the gale subsid-
ed, and a gleam of hope succeeded, depending on the
friendly assistance of some vessel that we might fall
in with, as we had the signal of distress flying. . \ bout
two o'clock a ship hove in sight, and came down to
witness this scene of wretchedness. When she came
within hail of the Cornwall, the Master having ob-
served our loss of the rudder, promised to keep by us.
Allowing, however, no further time for conversation,
he unexpectedly shot a-head ; and as the sea was run-
ning mountains high, no boat could be sent off to ex-
plain the assistance we required :—thus, when a pros-
pect of relief was in view, did this monster in the
shape of a man make sail from us, and left the mise-
rable to their fate.

44 After being thus abandoned, it became necessary
to devise some method of governing the ship ; a jury-
rudder was therefore made by means of a spare fore-
top-yard, at the end of which were fixed pieces of square
plank, to serve as a paddle, reeved with blocks
and tackle, ingeniously contrived by Captain PEAT
and his Carpenter ; this served as a rudder ; and re-
quiring great power to assist in steering, was supplied
by the exertions of the soldiers, under the direction of
Captain CAMERON', who regularly did this duty until
the 13th, when it was contrived to work with the wheel
of the lost rudder. Considerable delay was occasioned
by the repairs this machinery required, and the im-
provements that were daily discovered, which render-
ed the working of the vessel more steady ; and by un-
paralleled assiduity and perseverance, the vessel was
safely brought to anchor in Carlisle Bay on the 10th
instant."
CARLISLE-BAY, FEBRUARY 16.
Arrived his Majesty's brig SWAGGERER, from St.
Thomas ; Mail-boat sloop Industry, from Berbice ;
brig John James, from Halifax ; schooner Swift, from
Baltimore ; sloop Mary Ann, from Charleston (S.C. );
and a number of American vessels from different parts
of the United States. The ship Lord Collingwood,
from Demerara bound to Liverpool, anchored here
on Thursday last, having sprung a leak ; she is now
repairing. Ship Sally, KNUBLE, from Liverpool bound
to Antigua, arrived there on the Scl inst. The Master
of the Sally did not report the Cornwall on her arrival
at Antigua.