Star.
London, England, 1820-11-09 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Devonshire, TOVINSHIS ND, from Swanemi to New York,
was spoken with on the 11th ult. in lat. 38.20. long. 64. M. by
the Natchez, arrived in the Downs.
The Minerva, Comma, has arrived at Torbay, from Villa-
viciosa, with loss of bulwarks, sails, and rigging.
The Trafalgar, Commie. of Liverpool; Achilles, Tnneaur, of
London; and the Russian ship Hercules, were lost in the river
Plate during a dreadful hurricane, previous to the 22d August,
in which 40 or 50 vessels of different descriptions were lost.
Fastness, Nov. 9.--Wind S.W.—Arrived the Colonist,i
Surrn, from London for Barbadoes; Union, Beoxeswia; and
Industry, Warr& from London. Arrived at Helford the Ann,
'imam's, from Quebec.
PLTKOUTiI, Nov. 7.—Wind &—Arrived the William and
Thomas, Lass, from Faro for London,.with damage.
Nzweravert, Nov. B.—The Vine, Bums, of Sunderland, that
was on Brighton beach, has been got off end into this harbour,
with much damage.
Cowes, Nov. s.—Arrived the American ship Bengal, Mw-
Aar(, 95 days from Semarang for Antwerp.
Pciaesuourn Nov. e.—Wind K—Arrived the Margaret,
Armen, from Bengal: sailed the 14th of June, and from the
Cape on the Ist of September; the ship John iarry was to sail
the following day.—Sailed the Redman, lharox, for St. Tho-
mas's; Nelson, DAMON, for Jamaica; Mercator, Thum, for
Rio Janeiro; John and Thomas, for Buenos Ayres; Eclipse,
Stews 11; for Ceylon; Belly, 13:1111111.14., for Trieste;
Killisg-
beck, Seems, for Antigua; his Majesty's ship Ccarraimi, on a
cruize ; Cecilia Margaretta, KAA ZEMIN, for Bourdeauz ; ai...
Brilliant transport, for Cork and Gibraltar.
Dear. Nov. a—Wind N.E.—Came down from the River
and sailed with the whole of the outward-bound, the Favourite,
Gammas, for Balboa; Orwell, Barcer, for. St. Vincent's; En-
deavour, Scow, and Castle Lachlan, Sumo, for Jamaica.—
Arrived the May, FISII from Liverpool for Rotterdam; and
Hindoo, W1)01), from datavia for Antwerp. The Hanoverian
galliot Johanna Koler, Mscressz, from Rip for Brest, got es
the Goodwin Sand this morning, but was got nff again and pro-
ceeded with the loss of an anchor aid cable.
Comm-House, Noncoms 7.—Ships Entered' Inwards The
Harmonic, from Palau ; Grasshopper, from St. Peres-dies *:
Garland, from Rip s Cholmley, from St. Peterstinrgh ; Pony,
from Stettin • Thetis, from Dantzie ; Providence, from Har-
wich ; Brothers,: from Pillau ; Lord Cathcart, from St. Andrew's;
Eliza, from Archangel ; Good Intent, from Amsteidam ; Mary,
from Newcastle ; the Hannah, from Memel ; Euellaries, from
Christiana; Active, from Faro; Vrow Catharine, from Man;
Ark, from Ostend ; Diane, from Danotie ; Seneca, from Palau;
Twee Gebroeders, from Worcum; Brothers, from Mau; file
Nymph ,from Smyrna; Elise, froniCork ; Regent, from Bresnan
lord Teignmouth, from St. Petersburg*; Malvtha, from Ham.
burgh ; Agenoria, from ditto ; and Alexander, from Rip....
Entered Outwards: The Madeira Packet, for Madeira ; Lied*
for New Providence; Wellington, for Dublin; Roes, foe the
Brazils; Goede Hoop, for Amsterdam; Lire, for Rouen; Ca-
tharina, and Duke of York, for Rotterdam ; Mediterranean. fit
Mogadore ; and the Tees, for Trinidad.—Cleared Osmium's:
The Catherine, Duke of Bedford, Heroine, and liffarmile itha.
glesea, for Jamaica; Smolensko, for Haver; Mediterraneso, ibe
Gibraltar • Bromley, for Leghorn; First /laugher, for Rostock;
Affable Sophie, for Bourdeaux ; Andrew Savage, for Belfast;
'and the Marshal Blucher, for Rotterdam.
Asarrins.—At Demerara, the Harrington, iledop, frost Lon-
don. At Miramichi, Prince Kutusoff, Hardy, from Lancaster ;
Friends, Clark ; and Liddell, English, from Bristol. At
Richebuctoo, Alexander, Richie, from Bristol. Ili the Bay of
Fundy, Friends, Renna, from Bristol. At Boston, Rocking-
ham, —, from Liverpool; Beverley, Gardner; Washington,
Marconi; ; and Charles, Goodwin, from Petersburg& At Sa-
lem, Hercules, King, from Petersburgh. At Newfonadland,
Friends, Reigh, from Waterford.
DISCOVERY SHIPS.—FURTHER PARTICULAR&
44 Griper, at Sea, 22d September, 1820.
" Lat. 68.071—Long. 60.00. W. Baffin's Bay.
" I am quite well, and have enjoyed perfect health
all the voyage, although it has been a hard fagging
piece of service for all hands.
" After having encountered the usual delays of an
licy sea, and got through the ice in naffin's Bay, by
the first week of August, 1819, we got into Lancas-
ter Sound ; by the second week we got beyond where
the ships had been in the former voyage (they having
reached 82 deg. or 83 deg. W. and were stopped by
land). We were now as far as 90 deg: nothing to
stop us but ice, which delayed us some time, but, af-
ter repeated trials, we at length succeeded in getting
through a passage into the long looked-for Polar
Sea; our course was as much to the West as the ice
would adniit of. By the first week of September,
we had reached as far West as 113 deg. W. when we
were completely stopped by ice. Winter set in about
the middle of September. A harbour was then most
anxiously looked for, which we were fortunate
enough to put the ships into by the 26th September.
It was a close shave as to time. The sea, or the lanes
of water amongst the ice, which we had hitherto na-
vigated, were now entirely frozen over. The ships
were housed over, and all things prepared for the
winter, which, thank Gon, ye passed pretty com-
fortably, though cold. We lived on board the ships.
Our greatest degree of cold was, in January, 52 do-'
trees below Zero. Our mean temperature for twelve
months, was one degree and a half above Zero, Fah-
renheit. On the Ist of August, we got out of the
harbour, and resumed our exertions to get to west-
ward : reached 114 deg. W. in the latitude of 74, N.
but all our expectations ended on the 23d Septem-
ber, 1820, when winter re-appeared, and no hope,
left. We turned our heads to the eastward, and have
got thus far on our passage home. Our discoveries

are many. In Gecigraphy..-Itagriets—Birds—Beasts"
4'ishes, &c. &c. but no inhabitants in the Polar re..
gions. The latitude we wintered at, is 74 deg. 47
'mm. N. 110 deg. 49 min. W.—designated-16101e
Island." •
In addition to the above private letter, we have
procured from an authentic source the following par-
ticulars, which are highly interesting, as they ob-
viously skew that the navigators were in the sea seen
by HEARNE, and-give almost the certain prospect of
their being enabled, in a future attempt, to penetrate
into the Pacific Ocean, through Behring's Straits :
" The Discovers Ships, under Captain PARRY,
sailed up Lancaster Sound. After passing through
it, in an open sea, they reached 115 deg. W. long.,
and 75 deg. N. lat. which is obviously the sea seen
by Mr. HEARNE. They returned to W. long. 110.
being unable to proceed, owing to the tempestuous
weather. In long. 110. they put the vessels into a
creek, where the ice was 30 feet thick. Here they
remained during the winter for 84 days. The dark-
ness was such, that at noon they could scarcely see
the letters of a book, printed with large types.
" During the prevalence•of the winds the thermo-
meter fell so low as 571 deg. below Zero, at which
periods they could not venture into the open air ' •
but when the winds fell, they found the air quite
supportable, and amused themselves in shooting par-
tridges and ptarmigan, which they found in great
quantities. Captain PARRY met with no inhabitants,
but he frequently saw deserted huts on the shore.
Only two of the crew had a slight touch of scurvy.
• " The Magnetic Pole appeared to be about 100
deg. of west longitude, as the neelde indicated a pecu-
liarity of condition when they were in that meridian.
The dip, however, did not exceed 86 deg. so that
they were not above the Magnetic Pole." -
Another account says—
" We understand that Lieut. PARRY entered by Lan-
caster Sound, proceeded over Captain Ross's special
chart of land, and reached in the parallel of 74. or
75.-114. or 115. W. about 550 miles further than
Captain Ross asserted the Polar Sea to be navigable.
In 90. the ships fell in t\ith islands which continued
successively till they rea4hed the extreme westerly
, point of one in 115. where winter overtook them.—
They wintered in a snug bay, in Lancaster Sound ;
and did not get clear of the ice till the sth August
this year. horn October till February, or for about
100 days, they were in darkness ; but with abundance
of wholesome provisions, and other requisite comforts,
they passed the time very agreeably. The crew were
amused with games of every kind ; and occasionally
they acted plays for mutual entertainment. On the
breaking up of the ice this season, attempts were
made to proceed westerly, but immense barriers of
ice from the polar sea to the northward, shut out all
hope of succeeding in the parallel of 74; and before
they could .return to the eastward and renew the at-
tempt in a lower latitude, the navigable season, which
is confined to August and a few days in September,
offered no reasonable chance of succeeding this year,
independent of which the provisions would not have
held out in so precarious and dangerous a navigation
for the winter, and the time they would certainly have
been frozen up. The existence of a polar sea to the
westward of Hearn's river, is incontestably establish-
ed, and experience has taught those hardy navigators
that, in the month of August, such a powerful radia-
tion from the land takes place, as to render a channel
sufficient to demonstrate the certainty of the existence
of a north-west passage, and that a practicable one,
but not open to any possible commercial purposes.—
In 90. the compasses were useless on board ; the at-
traction of the needle was extreme. The Crews cf
the vessels have conducted themselves asfbecime
men in such a momentous expedition, where the
breath 'of every one in his sleeping place formed a
sheet of ice over his head in the morning. The ships
have been out for about eighteen months, having
sailed from Sheerness on the 18th May, 1819."

Yesterday being the Anniversary of her Royal
Highness the Princess Attousra's • Birth-day, the
Kula sent his congratulations on the occasion. His
MaJasTy also sent his Royal Sister a handsome pre-
sent, as a token of his affection on the return of her
natal day. Her Royal Highness also received visits
of congratulation from the Duke of YORK, the Du-
chess of GLOUCESTER, the Duchess of CL Alt EWE, and
the Princess SOPHIA. A number of the Nobility and
Persons of Distinction also left their names on the
gratifying occasion.
Sicily, now become an object of interest and en-
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made so late as 1819, and published in the very last
Number of the Journal of Modern Voyages Onel
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BIRTH, ' I
•
Tuesday, at his Lordship's house. In Mansfield-street, the
Viscountess Ashbrook, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 2d inst. et Wellston, In Lanartshire, Mr. Hugh Simp-
son to Mrs. Corswell, vintner, being the only widow married In
Nellston within the oldest person's rernembradet.

DIED.
On Monday the 6th instant, at Milverton, in Somersetshire,
after &very long and severe illness, which sincere and uniffected
On)? enabled her to bear with resignation and fortitude, Frances
Weech, widow of John Weech, Esq. late of the same place.
Sept. 18, at Langholtn, Mrs. Maxwell, wife'of Lieut. Wm
Maxwell, of the 54 Garrison Battalion.
Oct. 7, at Bridgend, near Alokat, Miss Primrose Johnstone,
daughter of the late James Johnstone, Esq. of Selcoth.-She fell
a victim in the cause of humanity, by visiting and relic:Ting some
poor and desolate families in which contagious fever had appeared.
Oct. 27, at Douglas, Isle of Man, after a then Illness, Thomas
Esq. Lieutenant It. N.

Whaley, -
Nov. 2, at Canterbury, Mt. Bolton, formerly a Quarfer-Mas-
terin the Dragoon. Guards. .. .
Nov. 5, at Dover, Lieut.. Mercer, late. Commander of' the
Badger, Excise cutter. ...
Tuesday se'nnlght, at Stcyning, of an fullaransation in his
bowels, Mr. Henry Verra, solicitor,