Star.
London, England, 1816-12-31 00:00:00

GRAVESEND, DECEMBER 30.

Arrived the Esther, Jones, from Waterford; Chinks Forbes,
Milian, and Minerva, Sharp, from Q.sebee; Two Brothers,
Truss, and Aurora, Bro-er, from Amsterdam; Alert, Butiseib•
t ors, Irvin Seville; Blucher, Engel, from Dan, ; Glory, Vcott,
from Ost.nd; Bolger, Vride, from Cork; Redcap, Steer, trt.ni
Lisbon; Edward, Oohing, from St. Ander° ; John Baker, Au-
laby, tram Cadiz. Sailed the Star, Gardner, for Sr. V iocriles.
CUS CO hl 410114 E, 'DECE MBE R 30.
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S 111114.!: ENTLAID INWARDS.— I ise aid Atm, Bost, front
Mogadure; Briton, -found, from Portsmouth ; Cana•liati rcket,
Re.mer, Irom L:verpool ; Union, Godfrey, front Grenada ; Vs ow
Cornelnia, „ and i'vete Gebrnders, 1)e Vries from Rorer-
dam ; Cliri.t4ta Alidq Lemerty; Vru.v Liz:limb. Oluel;
Groet 7.etwart, Rnigans; •Lurora, Brouiser • Fortas,u. Doom;
Ions! Aniis Dick ; Sctiarp Bootle, Junes; blappy Return, kle .
ridge; Margar‘ttn, Lewis; and ScholGrld, Loans, from Wa-er-
ford ; Edward, Cum ; Margate:lla, Roberts; and Endeavour,
Treilavan, from Dalin ; Ranger, Kidd, from C.)rk ; t;.e Glory,
Scott, from Os'end ; Impromptu, Catisse, from Rouen; Charles
Valles, Milne ; Ann, Phelp; Minerva, Sharp : and Mary, Tay-
lor, from Quebec; Red Lass, Steer, front Lisbon; Arlen, lits.
suston, front Seville; Raven, Hall, and Miceli& Petroua, Ruch.,
from St. Michael's; Three Friends, Witter, hum t•tett n 4 1 Ufa
Blacker, Engel, from atomic.

Extract of a letter We have letters from the
Dorothy transport, the ship in company with the
Congo; they had arrived at B thia from the Congo
river. Our ship, the .T>rothy, had not lost a single
man by sickness in 'rica— only one WAS drowned
in the river; and Captain TUCK EY, of the Congo,
the first Lieutenant, and the Botanist, died at sea
(after leaping the Congo river) ; rn.f the men of the
Congo who died became ill and sickened from fatigue;
they hadeenvelled into the interior of Africa upwards
of 210 miles, where no white had been before, and
retained only because their stcck of provistens, &c.
was exhausted. In other respects the expedition was
likely to realize the hopes and wishes of the preje:-
tors, and to afford the best hopes of success."
Captain Islsßrone, of the Harmony, of Hull,
which arrived o 4 Wednesday, picked up a seaman,
named Samuel Dawson, in an open boat, off Hey
Bay, ten miles from the shore, about two o'clock in
the afternoon of Monday last. He belonged to the
Alexander, James. of Sunderland, sixty t •ns bur-
den, laden with coals, for Burnham, which vessel
sunk about eight o'clock on Sunday evening. Of
the hands on board, via. the master, Dawson,
and a young man (Thomas Sadler), the former
went down with the vessel ; the others got into the
boat, which Boated on the deck, and luckily cleared
the rigging as the vessel went down. SADLER died
from cold and fatigue, about twelve o'clock on Sun-
day night.
To NAVIGATORS —A ship bound for the coast of
Iceland, sailed from a Danish port, in the month of
Much, 1811. Strong winds from the S.W. drove
her considerably to the northward of the island.
About the latter end of March, during a tremendous
storm from the S.S.E. her masts were carried away
by a sea, and the decks completely swept. The
Captain, who was the only peripn upon deck at the
time, perceiving a most prodigffus sea about to strike
the ship, and fearing the consequences, threw him-
self down the companion, whereby his life was saved.
The storm continuing several days from various quar-
ters, the .ship was driven about at the mercy of
the waves. As the sea made a free passage across the
ship, the crew found it necessary to shut themselves in
the cabin ; and as the master's watch was spoiled with
salt water, and the mate's had run down, they soon lost
mckorting, not only of the time of day, ship's drift, &c.
but differed some days in their ideas of the day of the
month. At length the weather becoming fine, they yen-.
tured upon deck. Their first care was to free the ship of
water by means of the pumps, while!) fertunately had
received no injury. Whilst this was performing, the
Captain turned his attention to the discovery of their
situation. He could have ascertained, easily, the
sun's meridian altitude, but ignorant of the declina-
tion could, make no use of it. In the cootie of the
afternoon, however. he took the following observa-
tions :—The true altitude of the sun's centre, about
one, Lat. was '27 deg. 25 min. 57 sec.; at an inter.
val of 1 h. 1 min. 32 sec._ his true altitude was *24 des.
56 min. 14 sec.; and at another interval of .1 h. 14 min.
40 sec. his true altitude was 20 deg. 23 min. 45 sec.
Say, ye Navigators, what was the sun's 'declination
at the time of observation ?—the hour of the day a%
each observation, and the latitude of the ship ?—and
the day of the month ?-.N.r. The longitude is sup-
posed to be within a few !degrees of the meridian
et Loa4lon.