Star.
London, England, 1818-04-09 00:00:00

PAPAL INTBLLiGENCE.

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PORTSMOUTH, AMU!. e.
Wind S.W.--,Arrived Lis MAjtkty's ship SA us-
tinnY, with Admi al DotroLAß;from Jamaica—sailed
the Bth of Fabrtiar, left Ma:inn:di on the 21. th ; the,
STBILLE frigate had arrived at Jamaica—left the
RIFLE:4 AN and PELICAN there. The SiII:ARV:ATER!
sailed from Havannah for Jamaica the '2l( of Fe-
bruary. The SALissuRV has brought a quantity of
specie on account of Meithants.
DEAL, ArklL e.
Wind S.W.--Arrived and sailed for tMe River, the
Lord Melville, WETIIERALL front Botany Bay and
Bengal—sailed the 17th OctOber,"and from the Cape
on the 19th 0r January ; the Harmony, BARTLETT,
from Demerara. Cam, dawn from the Rifer the
Ann, HousToN, for Rio Janeiro ; and remain with
the rest of the outward-lxluad. Sailed the Deal Pilot
cutter, on a cruize to the westward.
DovEtt, APRIL B. .
Came in the Tiue Regina, HAwsnx, from Rouen
for London, with loss of- sails and leaky.

PENZANCE, APRIL a.
The Resolution, ROSIOPAL, from Jersey for Dub-
lin, was totally lost this morning at three o'clock, to
the westward of Mousehole, in this Bay. The Master
and one man saved, and three men drowned.
COWES, APRIL 8.
Arrived the Engrator, Swedish brig, REPA master,
from Beurdeaux, bound to Bremen, laden with wine,
very leaky, and, in.distress, and must discharge to
repair her damages.
GRAVESEND, APRIL 8.
Arrived the William Bowers, Mason, from Rotterdam ; 13,-
verly, from Rouen; William and Mary, Miller, from
Rio Janeiro; Ann and Sarah, Room, from Hamburgh ; and
Princess of Wales, Stewart, from Calais. Sailed the Percival,
Thompson, for Haifa: ; Skipsey, Laidler, for Montreal; 111 as
labar, Ayscough, for Fort William ; Reliance, Harrison, for
Bahia ; Segar, Bengin, for Jamaica ; Choice, Henry, for Mi-
ramichi; Trident, Watson, far Tobago; Young Arian Haw-
kins, for Madeira; Active, Langdon, for Naples; and Chris-
tina; Haltom, for Gottenburg.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, APRIL R.
Slurs ESTIRED Ixwaans.—The Sisters, from Stangate Creek;
Christiana, Christine, from Touningen ; Lavinia, from Ham-
burgh ; Waterloo, from Ostend ; Duke of York, from Rotter-
dam ; Durham, from Jersey ; Martha and Lord Nelson, from
St. Vincent's; Dolphin, from St. Thomas's; Prince Christian,
from Aasgaardstrand ; Statira, from Harnburgh ; Willing Mind,
from Ancona ; and the Mentor, from Calais. Outwaaos—The
Prince Regent, for Gibraltar ; Pacific, for Elsinenr and Liebau;
Active, for Riga ; Union, for Naples and Messina ; Rebecca,
for Jamaica; Generaljlewett, for India; Commercial Packet,
for Hiunburgh ; Fanny, for Madeira and Pernambuco ; Norfolk,
for Elsineur and Riga ; Almwell, for liamburgh; and Rocking-
ham, for New York.

The importations of foreign grain are most exten-
sive. Last week nearly thirty thousand quarters of
wheat, and nineteen thousand quarters of oats, were'
reported at the London Custom House.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the following Commanders
took leave of the Court, previous to departing for
their respective destinations: viz. Captain. F. CRESS-
mud., Astell, and Captain T. WHITE, Phcenix, for

BengZl.
Yesterday a ballot was held at the East India-
House for the election of six Directors, in the room
of SAMUEL DAVIS, Esq. Hon. HUGH LINDSAY, JOHN
Mortals, Esq, DAVID SCOTT, Esq. ALEXANDER
ALLAN, Esq. and ROBERT CAMPBELL, Esq. who go
out by rotation.—At six o'clock the glasses were
closed and delivered to the scrutineers, who rerofted;
at eight o'clock, the election bad fallen on Run AND
CIIICHELEY PLOWDEN, Esq. JOHN HUDLESTON, Esq.
GEORGE ABERCROMBIE Koslssos, Esq. WILLIAM
STANLEY CLARKE, Esq. Jour; 'THORNHILL, Esq. and
Geoacz RAIKESI Esq. Thanks were' voted unani-
mously CO JOHN BEER and JAMES PATTISON, for their
zeal and attention to the Company's Interest during

the lasr year,
Last Tuesday, Mr. JAligi Mason, Chief Officer
of Customs Preventive boat, seized near his station at
Atherfield, in the Isle of Wight, 90 casks of prohi-
bited spirits, which had been landed on the shore by
a smuggling boat's crew for the purpose of being run.
The.Boaus promised by the Board of Customs to
persons voluntarily delivering up, at the Custom-
house, prohibited spirits, which they may have picked
up, has had a very substantial and good effect on a
number of seafaring people, on the Coasts of this
kingdom. Last week Mr. WILLIAM CooKE, pilot of
Cowes, delivered 73 casks at the Custom-house at
that port, which he met with off St. Alban's ; and
the same evening, Mr. GEORGE COOKE, jun. pilot,
brought to the Custom-House, twenty casks, which
he picked up nearly at the same spot, supposed tohave
been thrown from sonic smuggling cutter in chase.
These men will be rewarded for their meritorious con-
duct, according to the Hydrometer strength of the
spirits, receiving possibly on an average near twenty
shillings a cask.
The affray between the Christchurch Preventive
Boat's crew, and a gang of' smugglers, last week,
near Beacon Burny, when the latter rescued 1901
casks of spirits, and beat the Custom-house Officers
most brutally and unmercifully, seems to be of a very
serious nature. The Officers were driven to the ne-
cessity of firing their pistols to save their own lives.
Three of the smugglers are said to have been killed,
and thirteen wounded ; but the uninjured party of
smugglers succeeded in removing the bodies of their
shot companions to the woods adjacent, and their
secret habitations.
The town of Boulogne-sur-Mer, that favourite re-
treat of English and -Irish emigrants on the French
coast, is in a state of uproar and confusion, in con-
sequence of a satirical Poem, published and widely
circulated there, with-great industry, on the Ist of
April. It is addressed to the rirgins of the Sun, al-
luding, it is supposed, to a Lady and her three daugh-
ters, who lately appeared at a masquerade in the
costume of these heavenly damsels: it also embraces
a great number of military characters, including some
Officers of the 18th Hussars. Lord GREENOCK, son of
Earl CATHCART, feeling himself alluded to in the
Poem, immediately published the following Notice:
" Ecole Royale de blathematique, Boulogne, April 1,1815.
" Gazzlowes name having been made use of in a gross
and scurrilous Libel, which was circulated this morning In Bou-
logne, wherein thereputations of several highly rkspectable fami-
lies were attacked in a most corm,* manner, Lord 6arcuocc
takes this public opportunity of declaring, that the Author,
whoever he may be, is a c.trorcf, a nue, and a scoundrel."
This notice was posted up in the Subscription
Reading-room—and several other Gentlemen, who
feel affected by the Ignipoon, have, in aid of it, threat-
ened to put all the horsewhips of the place in requi-
sition for the use of the offender's back, whether male
or female.. •