Star.
London, England, 1810-10-09 00:00:00

LEITH, OCTOBER Oh

Wednesday arrived in the Roads his Majesty's gun-
brig STRENUOUS, Lieut. NUGENT, fiom a cruize, dur.
ing which she destroyed one Danish gun-boat, and
took one brig. The STRENUOUS brings accounts of a
vesr t being taken into North Bergen by the Danes,
from the coast of Scotland. She is supposed to be
the Lord Fife, CRAIOII master, from Shetland, which
has been missing for some time past.

Earl Sr. riacemv, accompanied by Mr. Tumult,
passed through Truro on Wednesday, oa his way to
Penzance, there to embark for Scilly, to inspect St.
Mary's Sound, which has been suggested as a naval
rendezvous.

Rear-Admiral the Earl of GALLOWAY, we under-
stand, will hoist his flag and succeed to Sir SAMUEL
HOOD'S command in the Mediterranean fleet.

The Murnval Capt. FASIAS79 is appointed to take a
eamoy to the Brazils; and the MARTIN; Capt. EVAN St
a convoy to Halifax.

Rear-Admiral HARGOOD (one of the Trafalgar
heroes) hoisted his flag on Thursday, as Second-in-
Command at Portsmouth, in the room of Admiral
Saweva, who is going to Halifax.
Setrtraeccs.---Thursday se'nnight were exhibited
at Yarmouth, before Rear-Admiral Lord GARDNZR ,
for his.report thereon (ordered by the Lords Com!!
missioners of the Admiralty), two boats, with a 1
pt4tapt method of getting them from a beach in a
gals, previous to their being sent to the island of I
Anhalt„ with a complete set of apparatus for saving
shipwrecked. mariners. The first boat was a small
one, of 15 feet keel, 74 feet beam, and weighed 14cwt.
It had two extended billage boards, of equal depth
with the keel, to kegs it in an upright position, for
the advantages of launching, beaching, and to resist
upsetting, with a broad fender of cork surrounding
tithe upper work to prevent the possibibility of being i
stove ; it was filled with water, but the buoyant pro-1
perties of the air (secured in boxes) kept it so much
*hove the water's edge, that the men rowed it about
with the most apparent ease, and declared it was in
that state able to perform any service that could be'
, required. The next was a man of war's jolty-boae,
:fitted up with empty oil-casks Imbed within it to give
buoyancy ; the billage boards, as before described,-
to keep it in an upright position, with a stout projecti-
Mg rope going round its gunwale, served as a. fender
to prevent its being stove ; are whole expence of thus
ing it up did not excee £3, and it could be put
together in a few minutes. The advantages of this
method of giving the properties of preservation to any
boat may be considered of great importance to a ma-
ritime and commercial country, as many a brave fel-
low who fall 4 overboard at sea, and perishes in a gale
from the boat swamping, which prevents the possi-
bility of going to his assistance, may thus be saved;
likewise the boats around the coast may be enabled-
at a vefy small expence, to be thus converted into
efficient life-boats, by which numerous lives and great
property will be annually saved. Similar experiments'
with those lately made at Cromer and Lowestoft then
took place, by means of two anchors being laid out,
with a stout rope suspended betwego them, at the
distance of 150 yards from the jetty end ; the shot
was of a new construction, adapted to give the
greatest possible range, and was found impossible to
disengaged by accident when once it had caught by
the rope. The foul weather flag was flying at the
time, but the surf was not sufficiently high to shew
the peat poster that can be acquired by these simple,
effective, and certain means ; however, there was not
Itlet least doubt entertained front the result of the ex-
4eriment, that whenever its use is called forth, it
bLimes
Geoid haul any weight that a two-inch rope can sus-
tawneaely the distance of 900 yards, a distance ug-
liness foe any pelt of the coast ; which opinion has
oa atm full cooftrased by the pilots, end 0;01-
o( the tad Cramer life-boats.;