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N4YAL AttniZiGENC4C.•
PLYMOUtWIVItatcI! 7. . .„i
The MENELAUS and'NISUS frigates,,ei gon,
each, are to be launched here the Ennaent sosath
the former on the 15th instant, and the latter the
spring tide following. Arrived the Otrotairca, 4074
guns, Captain Hornam, from off L'Orient s and the
PNILOMEL brig of war, from a cruize. The GLaennsk
ketch brought in with her a recaptured American
vessel, laden with timber and stores. - The VALIANT I
man of war has sent in a French brig called the
Louise. The Munos sloop of war has also sent in a
French pri.re, called the Hercules. Arrived the EN
COUNTER gun brig from a cruize.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 8.
Arrived his Majesty's ships ROYAL OAR, Dobre-
GALL, and COQUETTE from a cruize off Cberbourgh.
Sailed the PODAROUB sloop of war to the eastward.
The ARIEL takes convoy -to the Downs ; and the
ALERT to Newfoundland. His Majesty's ship
I'AroLE remains with the West India fleet in Stokes
Bay.—Wind S.W.

DEAL, IVIARCI4 1.
Came down from the River a few ships, and remain
with his Majesty's ships as per last. Sailed the QUE-
BEC frigate for of Flushing. The ROYALIST sloop of
war has a signal for a convoy to the Westward.—
Wind South.

COWES, MARCH 7.
Sailed the Hibernia letter of marque, Joni; LEN-
Now master, for Martinique, in ballast ; launched
here, the 22d January 4 a fine coppered bottom ship of
435 tons, carrying 4.6 men, has 18 carronades on her
quarter deck, 18-pounders, and two 9-pounders,
stern-chacers. Captain COPPINGER, Lieut. SAVAGE,
and Mr. TILLOR, Paymaster, all belonging to the 63d
regiment, are passengers. Also the Pokahuntis, from
London, of and for Norfolk, in ballast. Arrived the
Venerable, from London for Buenos Ayres in ballast.

HARWICH, MARCH 7.
Captain DEANE, of the Lord Nelson packet, sailed
this day with a mail for Gottenburgh. The ship
Kingston, belonging to North Shields, on her pas-
sage from Newcastle to Jamaica, got on shore upon
the Shipwash, but, by the assisance of several vessels,
part of the cargo was taken out, and the weather
being moderate, the ship was got off the sand with
four feet water in her hold. The ship is arrived here,
but it is feared that she has sustained so much da-
mage, that the cargo must be taken out, and the ship
put into dock and repaired, before she can proceed on'
her voyage. The smack, Lady Neville,- belonging
to this port, experienced a violent storm on the Dog-
ger Bank, on Sunday, the 25th of last month, which
laid the vessel on her beam-ends, stove in her hatches,
and for some time the vessel was completely water-
logged. Providentially no lives were lust; one man
was much bruized.
LEITH, MARCH 3.
Monday the Raith, William and Ann, Thomas and Ann, and
Royal Bounty, sailed for Davis Straits. Tuesday the Royale
sloop of war arrived in the Roads from a cruize. •
GREENOCK, MARCH 5.
The Stag, Love, from St. Thomas's, which was on shore in
I.ochryan, where she lost an anchor and cable, arrived here yes-
terday. The brig Rolla, TROOP, arrived on Friday night last,
from Oporto in eight days; the quickest passage ever made by
any vessel to Clyde. The Mary, CAMPS tu., of and for this
port, with grain, from the west of Ireland, is lost on the coast of
Wales—crew with difficulty saved. The Harmony, MiMt LLAN,
of this port, bound from hence to Sligo, has been forced, by stress
of weather, into one of the bays of Isla, on the 25th ult. where,
from the extreme violence of the gale she dragged her anchor, and
has been driven ashore; but It is hoped she will be got off the first
high tide, without any material injury. The Jeanie, M'Keatzta,
is arrived at Lucea, Jamaica, from St. John's, New Brunswick.
The following is the copy of a letter received at the Coffee-
Room here, on Friday evening :
• 14 Killybegs, February 19, 1810.
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.10472,- N.eIP-AL CUSTOMS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Sza—No act of innovation introduced into the army
`ciliate years has been found so useful or cimvenielit
as the abolition of the practice of queuing and club.
bin the soldiers' hair, and The prohibitioa of the use
I soap, flour, and grease, which was employed in
that absurd process. This unaccountable custom was
'borrowed from foreign armies, whose ridiculous
fashions we have been as Rind of copying as their real
'improvements. I am convinced that if the Navy
would follow the regulation of the Army in this re•
spect, it would be attended with advantages no less
important to the sailors, than to the soldiers. Greatly
as e the courage of our seamen, I am very far
from" thinking that this virtue is inherent in their
enormous tails, like the strength ofaSatipsom, nor do
I consider them as any ornament to their persons :
on the contrary, I view them as a serious and filthy
incumbrance, and a peat enemy to the com'f,rt
cleanliness of the British tars. What can be m-re
disgusting, and at the same time more ridiculous,
than to see, even in our best regulated ships of war,
seamen rigged4st with a huge sheaf, or cable of hair,
spirally bound with a greasy fillet of doubtful-colonred
tape, or rite-yarn, a foot or two in length, and ter-
minating kite a brush a considerable way down tha
back ? Now as this vile incumbrance has been wisely
removed from the soldiers, how much m,-re essential
would it be found to the sailors who would derive ad-
ditional facility in climbing, and performing various
other parts of their duties, if divested of these long
and brute-like tails.

I would recommend, Mr. Editor, in short, a ge-
neral and immediate amputation of these tails close to
the head, and that a general stop be put to a practice
which is apparently kept up only from the ignorance
and bigotry of some of the common sailors.
Before I conclude I cannot bat express my wonder
that some general and standing uniform has not long
ago been adopted for the seamen of the Royal Navy.
I am, Sir, your humble servant,

NAUTICUS.*
• Our Correspondent perhaps is not aware, that the chief res.
son assigned by seafaring men for allow.ng their hair to gram,
is the facility with which they may be saved from drowning, by
their companions laying hold of the queue

PAT AND THE TRAVELLER.

A Traveller, one day, chanc'd to meet brother Pat,
Come tell me, I pray, whose fine mansion is that ?
Arrah, Honey, says Paddy, whilst scratching his head,
One Patrick Fitzgibbon lives there—btit he's dead !
The Traveller, good soul, said to Pat, as he sighed,
I pray thee how long since the owner has died ?
Oh! your Honour, says Pat, in very great sorrow,
He'd be just three weeks dead, had he liv'd till to-tridrrow

The new Bye-law at the Rciyal Academy, for pre-
eluding all animadversion, by the Professors of the
Institutbn,on the works of living Artists, has received
the approbation of the President and Council, and
only waits for the sanction of his MAJESTY. Ti .8
law certainly' tends ,to prevent all private animos
ties, by checking the discussion of enlightened cri-
ticisms, which might otherwise facilitate the establish-
ment of true principles in the respective branches of
art. It is a clause of indemnity to Bunglers, and of
course very applicable to some of the Artists who are
most employed.
Thursday last, a poor woman of the name of Max-
TON, Well-street, Coventry, was found dead in her
bed. On the evening of Wednesday, she actually
drank fifteen glasses of spirituous liquors, and was car.
tied to bed in a state of intoxication. A Coro' er 3
Inquest sat on the body, and brought in a verdict—
Died by excess of drinking.•
A few evenings since, the Pavilion of the Margra.
vine of ANSPACH, at Hammersmith, was robbed of a
large quantity of linen.
Wednesday - a young gentleman was hustled

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coming.
greinsa in it: to
near Leather-lane, Holborn, and robbed of his book,
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4 4 GENTLIMIN—On Monday last, _ . the morning, I fell in
with and spoke the Dart, Mary, and Kitty, I believe ; I could containing R7O.
not bear her name distinctly, as it blew very bard, bound to St.
Croix, all well. The Captain of the Dart, requested I would Saturday se'nnight, the son of Mr. TALBOYS, 0
report them ; Achiel Head bearing S. 151 leagues. !lost my bow- Oxford, about fifteen years of age, was, in the pre-
sprit about three hours afterwards; my jolly boat was washed sence of his father, run over by a waggon, at Twiford,
away, and my main-mast sprung. I came in here on Friday in Hampshire and killed on the spot. His father
repeatedly cal! -led out to the waggoner to stop ; but
evening last. I am, &c. (Signed) " Ludas Rrnxit,,
44 C nt. Langrishe Revenue Cruizer:
The following are the vessels alluded to : he was either inattentive to the cries of the distressed
Dart, STEWART, hence, for Fayal. parent, or was unable to stop his horses.
Kitty, Milk lox, ditto, for St. Croix.
Sunday se'nnight the driver of a hearse,
(Supposed) Mary, Fakov sox, ditto, for Lisbon.
NEWCASTLE, MARCH 6. Aberdeen from Monymusk, dismounted to warm him-
Lieutenantslip
paetdahneighbouring,
ihouse.nh his fail,
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pulledmounting
th6a
Tnomdts STAMP, of Sunderland, late First Lint,-
one side, by which means the carriage was overturned.
Lord H 11l PA T has beenappointed by no
Want ,
it, ,
oofthe
LTNerriible and Defence, of 74 guns e, cornur antra
townstnan,Lord COLLINGSWOOD, and confirmed by the Admiralty, I Eight hours afterwards he was discovered with one of
the wheels resting on his back, quite dead.
eestL'isgspAibpertSzmt,AcNaNrry,
oifngSutiderland, twenty-eightin Wednesday, in Oxford-street, two countrymen, ra-
bca.:lleo-mp.ontiannwasddcearprroicof
ther inebriated,walking were together, when one of
Humber pilot cutter, and a Filey fishing coble, completely water-
logged;The
the crew bad abandoned her. She was brought up to ; them having jocularly attempted to take an umbrella
Han on Thursday morning. The Progress, RICHARDSON, from ! from the other, they both fell, 'and the wheels of a
Shields to London, got en shore, in endeavouring to enter Brld- I coach, which was passing at the time, went over the
lington harbour, on Tuesday se'naight. She has lost h foremast,
lane foret, ;
and must discharge her cargo.
neck of one of them, and killed him on the spot.--.
FROM LLOYD'S LIST. His name was Maberly, a farmer at Littleton, near
WiAndlosrt
ressing accident occurred at Walsall, on Sun.
AlvDilB,th
JOOfsErtimpstotin;Thald his wife,
• GRAVESEND, MAICH 6.—Arrived the John of Gaunt, Gibson,
from Martinique ; and Sutton, Murry, from Lisbon.—Sailed the ,
spenthaavying. —csturallhe dayE
the latter,
cent's ; the Canada, Ward, for Rio Janeiro; and the Thomas,
Torridge, Gibson, for Mogadore ; Beaver, Connelly, for St. Yin- ..d last • J
Heatherby, for Martinique. ' 1 on their quitting the house to return home, gave the
The Ceres, TAYLOR, from Bristol to Tobago, has former a gun to present to one of his sons. None of
been on shore near the former place, and received the parties knew that it was loaded, but unfortunately
damage. it proved so, for as EADES was trying the lock, the '
The Louisa, TERCLRA, has arrived at Gibraltar piece went off, and lodged the contents in the body
from Rio Janeiro, after 120 days passage. of his wife. The miserable woman died in four hours,
The Hero, BOLE, from Virginia, is taken by a leaving eight children to deplore her fate. The Co-
French privateer, and carried into the Texel. toner's inquest sat on the following day, and returned
The CHEERLY gun-brig, from Rio Janeiro, bound a verdict of—Accidental Death.
to England, sailed from thence the 23d of November, CORN EXCHANGE, MARX-LANE, MARCH 9. Thete
in company with the Brilliant merchantman, which are but few further arrivals of Wheat to-day. an
parted a few days after. It is supposed she was, on sales are heavily made, at little variation—Rye is
the 14th of January, in lat. 23. N. long. 35. W. and dearer--Barley likewise—Malt dull sale—White Peas
being in want of water, it is probable she may have at the late reduction—Beans of the two kinds support
borne up for one of the Western Islands for a supply. the late advance—New Ticks 355. to 403. per quarter
The Nevis Planter, WHITTLE, from Liverpool to —Oats are also in short supply, and this trade is
Croix, was taken and burnt, the 21st of January, again quoted dearer—Prices of Flour remain without
by the Astrea French privateer. Crew arrived at variation.
Terceira. • . OENXIAL CURIIIINCT As OVUM .
The Zealous; Oattraecfox, from Yarmouth to He-
FWinheali2s. 95"?" Beans, (old) Ric 6ft.
ditto, 108 s. 112 s. Tick "lino (old) 484. 58s.
ligoland, was driven on short, near Copenhagen, the Rye, 4st. 545. Oats 245. Mb. 526. r '4.
6t.1 of January ; since gut o 4/21, carried in there. Battey, Mk 498. Od. Poland ditto, 345. 354. Od.
The Monarch, VARNER, from the coast of Spain, Malt 765. 78s, .
Potatoe date, sus. Od.
captured. the 25th of November, and carried White P.eas (boilers), 60s. 665. Rape Seed, 481. 54. •
Grey ditto 446 sos.
Brest. i rule flour 85s 901..-Secon4s OCtr. Sh.

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