Star.
London, England, 1810-08-21 00:00:00

LEITH. AUGUST It

His Majesty's brig NIONTINOALT, and the GALLANT gun-
brig, arrived on S:iturday Irom a cruiee Off the North Cape ; and
on Mniiiisy hi. hlaje.ey's sloop ROMA, Captain Hoot., sailed on
a cru ze. 14 ear Admiral OTWAT is appointed fa the command
on this .raiion, in toe room of :it Enattitin NAGLE, promoted.
His Niojesty's brig ROVIR, Captain NorT, arrived on Wednes-
day from a er•.loc. Same day, the Lincolii,Captam RICHMOND,
and Lady Forbes, Captain NteLSON, from Jamaica. His Ma-
jesty'. brig NIOUTINOALZ, Captain —, sailed on Thursday for
the Note, with a convoy ; and yesterday the GALLANT gun brig
made the ..goal fur sailing with the convoy for Gottenlsnrgh.
The Aibi•n. Dona moo ; anti Alexander, SCOTT, from Leith,
arrived at Ma'ta on the 14th June. The Fox, STLWART, front
the Clyde., arrived at Gilraltar early in July. Thursday last, the
Meanwtll, huirti, of North Shields, coal-laden, in going out of
Shields harbour, got upon the Herd Sand, near the bar, and the
sea coming on, she lay in a perilous *minim% '1 he Northum-
berland life boar wee; to her assistance, taking, besides her own
crew, twenty more bands to assi.t in lightening the ship ; but
notwithstanding every exertion, she filled with water, and now
remains there sunk.

L'OR lENT, AUGUST S.
This morning, At eight o'clock, the American gal-
liot, the Fi 1-1, arrived from New York, with an En-
voy from the United States.

The privateer la Dame Ernouf sailed from Bet.•
theaume-roads on the 23c1 July; the next day, she
took possession of two Spanish vessels, one bound
from ...ondon to the Cat accas in ballast, the other
from Bristol to Cadiz, will some cases of coarse iron-
mongery, which were thrown oyez board. The first
of these vessels was sunk.

On the 25th, she took the English ship Starling,/
of 250 tons, from Martinique to London, with a cargo
of sugar, coffee, cocoa, and liqueurs. This vessel was
dispatched ti ,r France, but no news of ber arrival has
yet been received.

The same day she attacked a letter of marque, and
would certainly have taken her, but that la Dame
Ernouf's mizen.mast was carried away at the very
moment she was going to board. This and other
damages received from the enemy's fire obliged the
privateer to haul off tot repair.
The nature of these damages not admitting of their
being repaired at sea, la Dame Ernouf was under the
necessity of returning to France. She arrived at Be.
naudet on the evening of the 28th, after a severe
chace from a frigate, which the great superiority of
her sailing enabled her to escape.

The English brig, the Fountain, ISO tons burthen,
from Liverpool to Woodbridge, with a cargo of rock
salt, was carried into Calais on the sth inst. She was
taken within a short distance of Dover by la Jose-
phine privateer of Calais.

s.
Monday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, as
a foreign vessel was steering for the harbour of Leith,
and near to the beacon (with two pilots on board) a
shot was fired from a boat, which the pilots imagined
belonged to a Greenland whaler, and did not bring to.
In a few minutes afterwards, a second shot was fired
from the same boat, which entered the right breast
of the mate, and of which wound he died in about 15
minutes. The boat belonged to the GALLANT gun-
brig, and was at that time rowing guard; the fatal
shot was fired by HENRY LLOYD, Midshipman, be-
longing to the above vessel, who is since lodged in
the Tolbooth, Edinburgh. The sufferer has left a
widow and three young children.
Tuesday a Court-Marshal was held at Portsmouth
on Mr. HAMILTON BURKE and Mr. WILLIAM SYDNEY,
the former Assistant Surgeon, and the latter acting
Second Master of the VIOLET lugger, for having been
concerned in the introduction of spirits into the said
lugger, contrary to the 18th Article of War. The
Court were of opinion the charge was not proved,
and adjudged them to be acquitted.
A Court-Martial was held at Portsmouth on Thurs-
day, on JOHN Mats, armourer of the SARPEDON, for
occasioning the death of THOMAS COLLINS, carpent.i's
mate of the SARPEDON, while examining a musq ler,
which went off. The Court having agreed that the
musquet accidentally went off while the prisoner was
new Rioting it, did adjudge him to be acquitted.