Star.
London, England, 1829-03-21 00:00:00

NAVAL. INIP.LLItiENCE.

How Amman Tun Day—Lublin 1— Leeward Islands
Meek° 1. •
The Albion, iron Bengal, has arrived of Hulybead.
The Agircourt. Herat, hum Wirral to Nevis. 'truck on a reef
near Antigua an the Sikh J y and bilged. and was afterwards •
Wally destroyed, with her cargo, in consequeme of some lime/
having ignited. The crew and passenger, saved: •
Duet., Mantes 10.—Wind W.ki. W —Arrived the Berwickshire
and Melina of Athol, from India. and protruded for the Sliver.
Arrived the Isabella, Wildgeow, tram Drawers ; Victory,
from Indii ; and Fame, Buller, haw the Moonrises. The Du!illrue
from China. and Mangl., from Calcutta. are pasting.
Pollyanna,. Mamas 10.—Wind S S W.—Arrived the Aitive
transport. from Atcension—sailed 19th January.
Ptvasterst, Mawr 19.—Wind South. —Arriv.d the Malvin,
&fireball, from 64.. n.
V•LIIMITII. Moult 19.—Wind 5.8. W. to 8.8 R.—Arrived the
Annabelle, Help., from Cette; Diligence. Huge, from St. Ali.
char!'.; Princess It ruhrth packet. trom the Leeward
sailed Utla February; Spey packet, from Tampi.o--saileu 19th
Jammu'', from Vera Cruz Yeit February, and Iran Havannab on
the 19,11; and Duke of York packet, from the Mediterranean.
RTIIO4MII, Moacn 19 —Air.v.tl the fiche, Field, from Port.
Prince; and Little Catherine, train Corfu.

UNISIOL, MA sem do.—Arrived thr Laura, Hayes, treat babas;
Librny and hamar*, him Babe&
Lavintronh, MARC., 19.—Arrived the John Jay, Hnldridgr.
from Nrw York ; Ohrer, Blanchard, from Sicily ; RI ribeth,
Harrison, from Iklhoa; raragos, troin J (mica; C.ardunia,
from dew YOlll.
ISOM Tilt PLTMOUTII JOURNAL, MANUS is.

The Conteln will prue.wal, when ready. to the klesto...__
The Uodaunted, 46, Captain Cliffntd, C. B. and 42, Csp-
tabs Pitzet.rence, are appointed to doe Plymnoth statiou.
The Galatea, 46, Captain Napier, C.tl and Briton. 46 the Hoe.
Capt-lit Gordon, are plated under the orders of the Comm...oder-
in.Chief at Portsmouth.

The Antelope, Lieutenant Loveless, tender to Ilse It..nidies,
arrived during Monday night from the DOWD., en her way ea
Bristol, to raise mete for the Coast Blockade Service. sbe sailed
yesterday, but put back again, the strong motherly winds pros
venting bet getting to the westward.

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The Lyra and lleystard brig.. at this pnrt. are ordered to be
equipped as WWI as possible for the packs: service.
His Majesty'. sloop Nimrod, too, Contenantler Itadiertl, sailed
on Monday for the C. 0., of Cork. being att •cbrd to the Inas stuinsi.
The Arachne, MI, Captain F. Marryatt, C.O. ►eteroed front
enduing an the Chops of the Channel, and &debuted in the bound
yesterday morning.

FATAL DidAS I EK AT SEA.

Saturday night last, about ten o'clock, when two of
the London and Leith smacks, the Lord Wellington
and Lord Melville, were off the Fern Islands, 4 ems
to the northward, with a strong wind from the north-
east, and a heavy sea running, they unrortui•ately ran
fuel of each other, and the L rd .tle;v Ile aiu.o t in.
'faintly went down in between 30 4U fathoms ware'.
The viol me of the concussion broke the Wising.%
main boom, which fsl.ing ii.t . the beat s n .t. cit. pre.
vented the pus ibilety of getting it launched; but the
stern-boat was lowered &tan, am: the w hole clew and
passengers wore saved by it ezcept one woman, a stetrage
passenger, one of the c.c.,, and two toys. The e
had imbed the Fern I les, and had just stood out and
in, in a line with the lights. and put orb. ut a second
time. with•her sails scarcely filled, when the Welling.
Ilton's bow attack her larboard side, a little att mtdshi. s
—stove it in, lorced up souse planks oft e deck, broke
the boom, anJ eentolisbel p .it tithe n• ky tights.
The c ash was dreadful, and the effect almost its tato a-
neous. The bowsprit of the Wellogion went through
the mainsail of the Melville and tore it as the former
dropied astern. T..e people on board the filet. al
must of whom were in their births, called out to.
and naturaliy maced the Wellington would lay
to; but she stood •ut to sea for about to o m le..
and ten tenoned neatly to where the colt.lo. i II to k
place; by this time; however, the Mt.vi:le hld .0 k.
—The crew of the Melville, without the least de Ay,
lowered their stein boat ; but thut,:h the u ino.t ear..
lions %vete used. they found it quite impu-setne. trom
want of time, the vessel :inking so rapidly, to get the
long-boat,whicti was on deck, sit icated horn the bs uk.
loom that lay upon it. T e stein boat which ts.raa
bused about tr ire feet in with,two Aida hail tett in
depth. an.: fourteen feet in length, was nor esti:retro its •
live an hour in the heavy sea that was sunning; there,
hoWever ..ppeared ns (niter chance of e tape; and into
this small skiff were stowed the master, mate, and .
eight of the crew, along with cheer passengers, and ,
a child two and a bait ye rs old. The escape
Icier and its father was almost miraculous. Its it e s
agony of despair, the mast (raft oveth-ard, wilt his •
ratan, lit hi• mats, and sank to the bottom, lot still .e-
-tattled his hold of the child. Fortunately he • Jbe close
by tne side of the boat, and the infant was instantly
taken on board; to take him.e.f on board, however; Mas
only to risk the lives of the w hole, and lot sonic lime he
hung on by the gunwale. His trees ..t lengths le. .me
•0 pirating. tha 1.0 oft e sailors Catlollt livid 44 hint,
and, b) stridden effst, sit him on b .41-1.1, where he
found his child snugly roll.:d in a jacket, which a ge e-
sous satins had sti jived him-elf of. Th ee r f the c ede •
(a mail and two lads, aprenticein, .nd the mothei
the child, perished. 'fhe TIN Jaques Black, seaman,
was observed waking the J. ck .fter tI a cwits.ol), wi h
a heavy jacket and boots, I e having be. n on the w • c
as it in a state of stupor. Atter the hod hail diet ed
from the vessel one of the boys swam fen a ci nsider,.l.le
time, hut the boat (hilted so ripidly with the tide •hat
no assistance could be given him, and the pool f. row
found a watery grave. The female ss as seen shim y
helm, the smack fell over. ..nd it is pre um d woos
thrown into the sea. The wind blew strong oath a
heavy surge ; but the ebb tide was running, and tho 4
in the boat to• k ads intageof that circumstance. The
smack sunk abort iourteen :biles off the 1 nd ; but
the unfortunate crew dated not pull directly lost the
island. They tut the plow of the boat to tl.e wind,
and pulled stern on, taking great case that he. head
should meet eves, wave. In this way they doubled the
southeast end of the island, and I.nded on .the lee
side at six in the morning. Here the onfortunate suf-
ferers—some of whom wire a.m. st in a state of nudity
—met w th a kind rtceptionr; and, short') after, a btu.'
from the Merniaid cutter lauded, and took-the who le
on board, where they were treated with that attention
which ever distinguishes British sailors, and landed in
safety at Leith.
The atmosphete was extremely cold ; and the Hon. •
Mr. Stanhope. the only cabin passenger, who war pro.
Ceedilig to joie his Regiment in Glasgow, got into the
boat with no other covering save his shirt and a pair of •
socks. He ioriu..ately saved some money, which was
in a portable desk, but lost a good deal of ther valua-
ble property. He remained exposed the whole 'night, .
with no other covering than a jacket, which Captain
Brown generously took from hi, ow n back and gave-
to bins. The steward of tl.e vessel also" escaped in bit
shirt, and was also provided with the Maset's waist-
coat. • While staking for the island several of tf e
crew west stowed in the bottom of the boat, where they •
were compelled to lie without moving till they readied
the shore.