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London, England, 1819-07-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INT EELIGENCE.

The Amity, Maxourtt, from New-York, is arrived at Liver-
ioal—sailed 10th Jane.
Ihe Nestor, from London for Madrass, was spoken with on
the 3rl April, in lat. 2. 4. long. 19. 34. by the Sally, BA Rate, ar-
r.yed at Marble Head; (U. S.) from Africa.
FALMOUTH; JULY g.—Wind W.—Arrived the Marchioness
of Queensberry packet, with a Mail from New York ; sailed
thrace the '.ld of June, and from Halifax the 15th of June;
spoke on the 23d of June, in lat. 46. 28. long. 37. 45. the Nieho-
;A, from St. Andrew's for Greenock, our 13 days; and on the
the St. Martin's Planter, from London, out 21 days... The
Blucher packet had arrived at New York the 3d of June. Also
arrived the Rud, Etviar, from Arundahl, in 23 days.
l'ismaern, JULY 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Pomona,
()saves, from Cadiz, in 21 days; and tie Exchange, AwroN,
Lam Messina, in 35 days ; the latter has sailed again for London.
Poseroxothrs, Jury 3.—Arrived his Alajesty's ship CAMILLION;
fr'm a cruise. Soiled his Majesty's ship Lee, for Plymouth;
l',•ggy transport, for Halifax ; Todd. transport, for Guernsey ;
sac the Three Johannes, Darman, for Marinas: Came into
lkithour the Diamond cutter, with spirits, prize to the CAME-
Lios.—Wind W.S. W.
Doves, Jura! 3.—Salled this day the Lord Dune,an packet,
captain Pascoe, for Ostend, with a mail and passengers; also,
the Chichester packet. Captain flurry'', and King George, Cap-
tain Alsoicsa, for Calais, with passengers. Arrived this after-
noon the King George packet, Captain KING; Leopold, Captain
Rooms, and Le Desire, French packet, from Calais, with pas-
sengera-y--Jecy 4.—Arrived this morning the Princess Char-
lotte packet, Captain IlialasNos, front Ostend, with a mail and
-eaters; also, the King George, Captain MINCES; and Lord
Aran packet, Capt. HAMILTON; from Calais, with passengers.
Dr.at, Jeer 4.—Arrived yesterday, and sailed for the River,
Date, from )arnaica ; and Baroness Longueville,
,eysw, from the South Seas.—Came down from the River,
Cossack, M'Boaysi ; and Washington, Feastari, for New
.rk ; the Betsy, Ream for St. 'lhonsas's ; and the William and
glary, HIUMLIWOOD for Barcelona. Arrived and sailed for
the River to-day, the Kingston, Syvya, from Jamaica; and the
Louisa, Daces, hom Messina for IlulL—Sailed the whole
of
the outward-bound.--Five o'Clock, Wind S.W,—The out-
ward-bound are bearing up again fur the DJwns.
HAILWICM, Juts. 4.—At rived the Eclipse packet, artirCiatle=
reagh packet, from Cuxhaven; the Prince of, .Orange packet,
from ; and the Charlotte trarsport, from Gotterhurgh,
all with mails. Also the Zephyr transport, from Plymouth.—
sailed the Eclipse packet, for Holland ; and the Lord Nelson
packet, for Cuxhaven, both with Alaila—An archor, apparently
cearly new, has been swept in Hotely Bay, marked QUEBECK
12 cwt. 2 qrt. MF:IC:TAVK.
Itaasswirk, Jun' 3.—Arrived the Dawn, Alarrithws, frqm
Quebec for Loudon, with loss of anchor and cable, and leaky,
laving been on shore on the South Foreland.
Cusrox-Iloesr., Jura: 3.—Entered Inwards—The Warren
Hasings, Larkins, from St. Ilelena and Ceylon ; Amblet, Mit
thA, from Harlingen ; Britina, Bully, from Seville ; the James.
I,,ing, King, from Jamaica; Friendship, Thompson, from De.
prism; Thomas, Hay, and Betterluck, Hay, from Stangate
Creek ; lapwing, Rush, from Stangate Creek ; Statira, Tho-
nlss, ar.t.l Clifton, Shand, from Jamaica; Burleigh, Landelia,
ft.,:a Tobago; London. Smith, front Jamaica; Ebenezer, Clark,
I:vas But nos Ayres; Dunlope, Brown, from St.Vineent's; and
ttg Hyperion, Gallaway, from Calcutta.—Cleared Outwards—
The Caledonian, Robb, for Petersburgh ; l'iggott, 'nom, for
Tobago; Fox, Fox, for Ostend ; William, Worts, for Odom.;
Szhelheld, Evans, or Rio Janeiro; Duke of York, Fryer, for
tutterdain ; Lidia, Willson, for Venice; Cho, Jackson, for
Seville • Duke of Wellington, Major, for Antwerp ; Augusta,
Cylar;for, Rouen ; the Asia, Morice, for Bombay ; Nicholson,
Caterer, for Bermuda; Concord, HuU, for lasineur and Peters-
bargb ; Elbe, Arnold, and Harriet, Browne, for •Petersburgh
a:.d the Governor Tornkins, Cummings, for Newcastle.

The Medusa transport, arrived'at Portsmouth from
St. Helena and Ascension, left St. Helena 12th April,
and Ascension 25th. The CONQUEROR, 74, Admiral
PLAMPIN, TEES, SAPPHO, PODAROUS, LEVERET, and
REDWING (which' had arrived there from England a
few days before), were at St. Helena. The EURY••
DICE had sailed for the Cape of Good Hope, and the
ItEnrol.' was at Ascension. The Medusa sailed on

Wednesday for the River,
The transport C sailed from yortsmontlt on Satu.
day morning, with 85 men (foreigners), discharged
from the Ist battalion of the 60th Regiment, to be
landed at Ostend, Cuxhaven, and other parts of the
Continent, for the purpose of proceeding to their re-
spective homes.
His Majesty's ship LEE, 20 guns, Captain STEWART
BLACKER, arrived at Portswouth on Saturday from
the West Indies, last from Charleston, which she left
on the 26th May. The LEE sailed from Falmouth
en the 28th December last, in quest of the private
ship Louisa, Captain ALMEIDA, of '2O guns and 115
men, which had committed numerous acts of piracy,
both on the high seas and on the shores of the Ca?,
nary and Cape de Verd Islands. The LEE traced
her from the former Islands to Bonavista and Mayo,
where, it appeals, the crew had landed and plun-
dered the Consul of I.:6,000 in specie, and '24,000
dollars in manufactures. The LEE thence proceeded
in search to Margaretta, St. Thomas's, Porto Rico,
St. Domi:igo, Jamaica, Caymans, and thence to
Charleston, n here she learnt the crew of the said
pirate bad landed about three weeks previously,
having destroyed their vessel on the coast of Ca-
rolina. They had long run such a lawless course,
that they at length feared capture ; and to pre-
vent the consequences, they divided their spoil and
barns the vessel. She was originally fitted out at
Baltimore, cruised under ARTIGAS'S flag, her Com-
mander was a Spanish-American, and her crew was
composed of all nations, including fifteen Englishmen.
These men were at Charlestog when the LEE arrived
there; they were apprehended on charges of piracy,
and would have been tried for the offence by the
Municipal Authorities at Charleston, but at Captain
BLACKER.S request, their trial was postponed, and
they were placed at such disposal as the two Govern-
ments shall agree to. Captain BLACKER also suc-
ceeded in recovering from the possession of these pi-
rates a box containing about 4:5,000 sterling, in coins
of various nations (part of the plunder made at Bona-
vista), and wearing apparel bearing the names of
SMITH and HALL, two Gentlemen Who were, passe
gers in the Sir Thomas w
Lardy, one of the yesses
uliich the pirate had plundered off the Western
Islands. It is a remarkable circumstance, that the
leader or principal man among these pirates was one
of the mutineers in his Majesty's ship HERMIONE, the
Commander of which ship (Captain Floor), it will
be remembered, the crew murdered, and afterwards
carried the frigate into the Spanish port of Lagnira.
His name is Clarke, alias Cory. The LEE having
landed at Portsmouth 350,000 dollars for merchants,
Tom the Havannab and Jamaica, sailed again on Sa-
turday evening to return to the Plymouth station.
A Hamburgh vessel, of '240 tons burthen, having
on board a crew of 14 men, and 130 emigrant pas-
Ainers, Germans, of both sexes and all ages, bound
to the United States, was wrecked on the 18th ult. on
the coast of Csrand Waldam, between' Calais awl
(iravelines. Not a single person perished ; but these
Pfortunate individuals are in a deplorable state of
misery.
Friday sennight the flag-staff on the Castle-hill,
Inverness, fell upon a fine girl about eight years of
age, and killed her on the spot.

A NEW COMET.
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A new Comet was unet.pectedly observed on Satur=
day night, in the Northirn hemisphere, and, is thus
described by Mr. IL S. CHRISTIE, of the Military
Academy at Woolwich :

" I first observed the Comet a few minutes before eleven
o'clock, and judge that it came to the meridian about 12. Its
elevation above the horizon appeared about 10 degrees, and the
sun being at the time nearly 15 degrees below, its distance from
the sun cannot much exceed 25 degrees. The night was remark-
ably light, and the moon covered by clouds, circumstances ex-
tremely favourable to the brilliancy of ita appearance ; and con-
sidering this, I should judge that, under more favourable circum-
stances, its splendour would be equal to that of any Comet upon
record—the head vied with capella (to the east of it) in brilliancy.
The length of the tail, which, when the Comet was on the meri-
dian, pointed somewhat to the west of the zenith, extended about
15 degrees ; and unlike the Comet of 1811, it appeared to pro-
ceed immediately from the nucleus. I viewed it for some time
through an excellent small reflector, and observed that the

nucleus was much denser than that of the former Comet, and

that there was nn separation between it aid the coma, but that
the 116dy became gradually rarer, and in the upper part expanded
into the tail : which appearance may arise from a very dense
atmosphere surrounding the nucleus, and reaching to the rarer
fluid forming the tail, if there be any distinction betweenxhe two
fluids, as appears to have been the case with the Comet of 1811.
I may übs,trye, that in this, as in all other Comets, the appear-
ance to the naked eye is much more striking and brilliant than
through a telescope.'

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For the subjoined observations, we are indebted to
the learned. Dr. BURNEY, of Gosport:
" In the evening of the 5d of July, 1819, from a quartet past
nine till a quarter past twelve, we were gratified wiltthe sight
of a Comet, with a lucid train projecting upwards or from the
Spn, and nearly in a perpendicular direction. At half-past ten,
it was in die N. by W. point, within 10 degrees of the horizon,
itntnediately in the breast of the Lynx, and by the sextant 19}
degrees distant from Capella. At 10 h. 40 min. it was 44 deg.
from Pdaris, and at half-past eleven about 40 deg. from Make,
in the hack of Ursa Major, when it was due North, and had a
slow motion downwards of about si degrees per hour. Viewed
through a good achromatic telescope, its body appeared more
confused, or had a greater nebulosity, than when seen with the
naked eye, perhaps from thick dewy haze then descending.
Though the brilliancy of moonlight was not favpuralie to obser-
vations, yet the nucleus of the Comet appeared of a pale white
Oght, and was sometimes brighter than at others, as will Ail the
tail, which expanded upwards at intervals from 8 deg. to 10 deg.
in length by the sextift. From its position and motion it woUld
appear that it bad pained through the head of the Lynx, brtweln
Auriga and Ursa Major, and now advancing towards the head of
Gemini. • The train had a little inclination Westward, and ap-
peared about 3 deg. in width at its greatest extremity. Its ap-
parent magnitude is nearly similar to the Comet that appeared
here at the beginning of September, 1811; but the train is much
longer and wider."
FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.

A new Comet was observed on Saturday evening,
about nine o'clock, in the N.N.W. I employed an
excellent telescope of Dot.t.oNzo's for the put poie.
At ten it was about 12° above the horizon, and 23•
above the Sun, i►► the constellation Lynx, near the
'off fore leg, and about 13° or 14° to the West of
Capella. Supposing it stationary it would have been
in our zenith at twelve o'clock yesterday. I saw it
again last evening, but indistinctly, owing to the in-
terposition of clouds ; and from its increased eleva-
tion, it is my opinion it has passed its perihelion, and
is now receding fast from the Sun. It appears larger
than the Comet of 1811. a. x.
LEEDS, JULY 3.

Between ten and eleven o'clock on Thursday night,
a very brilliant Comet was seen by many persons in
this town and the surrounding country : the declina-,
tion was about 40 degrees North, nearly in a line to
the West of the right arid left shoulder of the Wag-
,gester. The Nucleus w.s very bright and distinct,
with a large brush or tail. Its supposed longitude
was 10 or I.s.degrees of cancer. The other parts of
the Heavens being cloudy, a more accurate observa-
tion could not be made ; and the very dense state of
the atmosphere last -night prevented its being seen.
FURTHER REMARKS.

We suspect that this is the same Comet that was
announced in the Philosophical Magazine for March,
last year. It was discovered on the Oh December,,
1817, in the Constellatiodof the Swan, by M. BLAN7
PAIN, at Marsei:les, and observed by him to the
18th of January last year. Its movement was de-
scribed by M. BLANPAIN as very slow, its right as-
cension increasing only seven minutes in 24 hours, and
its declination diminishing from 33 to 3Y seconds in
24 hours. M. BLANPAIN's observations embraced but
a very small arc; but from them N. NICOLLET de-
duced a parabolic orbit, and by his observations the
Comet would pass its nearest point to the Sun early in
March last year. May we not infer, then, that this
is the same Comet, now on its return from the Sun.
There was no opportunity last night of making any
further observation as tq the motion of the Comet.
After a remarkably sultry day, the evening set in
cloudy, and the atmosphere was particularly heavy.
It alsc rained during a part of the night.
TO THE COMET.
Oh! on thy rapid prow to glide,
To sail the boundless skies with thee!
To plough the twinkling stars aside,
Like foapirbells on a tranquil sea!
To blush the embers from the Sun,
The icicles from off the Po k,
Then-far to other systems run,
Where other Moons and Planets roll! WNW
This enlightened age!—Last night a numerous as-
semblage persons, in Grosvenor-square, waizing
to see the Comet emerge from a cloud, proposed that
they sliould hail its appearance with three cheers ! !

Wednesday, died, at Abbeville, on his way to Paris,
MARSIADUKE CONSTABLE MAXWELL, Esq. of Ter-
reagles, county of Dumfries. '
Saturday se'nnight the Royal Company of Archers
shot for the silver arrow, given by the City of Edin-
burgh, when it was gained by JoHN MAXTON, Esq.
COURT 07 SESSION, EDINBURGH.—Tuesday Lordl
,CRINGLETIE, Lord Ordinary on the Bills, presented
•the PRINCE REGENT'S warrant, appointing his Lord-
ship one of the ordinary Judges of the Second Divi-
sion of the Court, in room of 'the late Lord RESTON.
ALEXANDER MACONOCHIE, Esq. of Meadewbank.,
late Lord Advocate of Scotland, then presented the
PRINCE REGENT'S letter, appointing him one of the
Judges of the Court of ession, who, as junior Judge,
falls to succeed Lard CRINGLETI6 as Lord Ordinary
ion the IPII3. His Lordship then took the oaths and
his seat in the Outer-House as Lord Probationer.—
The Right Honourable WILLIAM DUNDAS, in conse-
quence of a reversionary appointment in 1806, to
succeed the late Right Hon. ROBERT DUNDAS as
Principal Keeper of the General Register of basins,
&c. appeared in Court, and took the requisite oaths
on succeeding to that appointnutnt.

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