Star.
London, England, 1817-08-21 00:00:00

NORTH POL r.

Those employed in our whale fishery give tie name
,of East Greenland to the Islands of Spitzbergen,
and West Greenland (not that forming the eastern.
most boundary of D ivis's Straits, to -lat. 75.) h
long been supposed inaccesaible from accumulated
ice. This season, the commander of a beg from
Bremen, after making J. Mayen's Islan !, in a 1.11!
71 N. Lip, that he rand to the westward in quest
of seals ; and in latitude 72, found land to the east-
ward—that he sailed nearly doe north along this,
coast without sexing ice, but observing the bays and,
other appearances, to latitude 81. 50. when he found
he could steer to the eastward, which he did for se
venal days. That he then lost sight of land, and di-
rected his course to the southward and eastward, and
in 78. fell in wi h the first fishing vessels he hAd
He gave this account to several ships from Aber-
deen, pointing out has course Upon the chart. T.
the ncrthwaid he saw no appearance of ice ; and thi..
part of his story is very probable, for many slips
have been as high as V. this summer, where they
saw no ice, nor app-arirsice of it, to the northward.
The log-book of this voyage ought to be published ;
and, if his statement appears well founded, a vessel
ought to be sent (lit next summer to ascertain the
hearings of the coast, &c. When this Captain was
asked, with marks el surprise, by the Gentleman
who gives the above account, whether he had seen
no ice in this circumnavigation, he waved his hand
to the open sea, and ansa:ered" No fPle arc d
there no
firei, teal." He saw no marks tcsr
chew at, the
country was inhabited.

One thing seems very probable, that, after passing
the drifting ice, in June, or beginning of July, it.
latitude 78. to 81. there would be found AU entirel)
'pen sea to the northward.

Sunday se'nnight, the body of a seaman, belonging,
us one of the Greenland vessels at Peterhead, w.s
found in the harbour. It is supposed he had fallen
overboard on Saturday night.
Saturday se'nnight, as a boat was going out from
Saltcoats to the herring fishery, the sail, in a gust of
wind, swept one of the men overboard. His body
was frond at the back of the Saltcoats pier on Thurs-
day night.
The body of Captain MILLER, of the Anna, of
Irvine, who was drowned off that harbour, was, on
Monday senntght, caught off Stevenstun, by a
trawler, in their nets

Gii Saturday night a galley belonging to his Ma.
jesty's schooner PIONEER, at Deal, being or the look
out, and riding at her grapnel, it suddenly came oh
to blow a hurricane, and the galley being struck by
a sea, it washed the while of the crew overboard,
when they all got hold al the side, and another tea
striking her, she overset. and melancholy to relate, a
Midshipman, (who had joined only on Sunday after-
noon), and five vainen were drowned, the other saved
himself by swimming on shore in St. Margaret's bay ;
four of the bodies have been taken up, but the Mid-
shipman and the other seamen have not yet been found.
As TH"NAS, son of ALEXANDER JEFFREY, a COM.
mon carrier from Norham to Berwick, was returning
from Berwick on the evening- of the 9111 instant,
owing to the darkness of the night, when opposite
Norham Castle, the cart got off:the road-, upset, and
he was killed on the sped. Att oid woman of the
name of Potter, from Tweediaulntb, .was then on the
cart, had her shoulder dislocated, and was otherwise
much hurt. . -
EARTHS* PARTICULARS OF Till EARTHQUAKE AT
sT. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK.
From the Quebec Paper of the loth of July.
The Earthquake was felt the Tad ult. over all the
island of Grand Malian, and has been thus described :
rne reporter was awakened just after d iy-break by
the shock of a loud sound, and a violent shaking or
the house at the same instant. The shaking ceased
very soon ; but the sound, he thinks, continued from
SO to 4.5 sectonds u.lter he awoke, gradually lessening
till it entirely died away. Some of the inhabitants
say it was perceived much longer, but the best opi-
nions were, that It lasted a full minute. All agree
in describing the minion as most violent, and the
sound to have been .cry loud : the weather at the
moment WA6 fine and serene, with a light breeze from
the northward ; the previous day it had been un
commonly hiii for the season. During the '22d, the
weather continued fine and warm, the Wind easterly
and light. This earthquake we already trace from
Boston to Portland, St. Andrew's, and Frederickton,
nearly 400 miles ; and in another line of a similar
distance and parallel direction, taking the opposite
Mae of the bay of Fundy in its route, and going
through Grand /image, Digby, Annapolis, and
Windsor, extending in each end of this line, from
which we have yet no tidings.
ADMILAL MILBANK.—Some years since, the barge-
men of his Majesty's ship Banwh:7K, then at Spithead,
quarrelled with the bargemen of the ship which the
Admiral then commanded as Captain, and the latter
were all brandy drubbed, to the no small mortifica-
tion of the Admiral, who was in his younger days
exceedingly athletic and somewhat addicted toLozing.
Our .naval hero, a few days atter, called all the boat's
crew together, d—d them 11 a set of cowards, dressed
himself in a common jacket and trowsers, and Liner-
sing the BERWICK'S barge rowing ashore to Ports-
mouth beach, ordered his own to be immediately
manned, and thus disguised took an oar as one of
the crew. The coxswaia, as particularly directed,
run the head of his barge against the BERWICK'S
barge quarter, in consequence of which a broadside
of oaths were given and returned, which produced a
challenge to fight with more substantial weapons.—
The Admiral, as champion of his crew, beat the
whole of the other barge's crew, one after another
(eleven in number) to the great joy and admiration
of his sailors 3 and then making himself known, went
and visited his friends in Portsmouth, as if nothing
had happened.
AN EXTRAORDINARY Sum—Monday, Mr. Roots,
the Earl ut Chichester's gamekeeper.killed in Stanmer
Park, at one shot, three sparrow hawks on the wing,
A sporting exploit, as it regards the hawk, not equal-
led. we believe, by any in the annals of :hooting.
Ciumotr.—A Match of Cricket was played on
Monday at Breabourne Bridge, Hero. between th.
Broxbourne Club, with H. and J. BINTLEY, agai sr
the Heghoury Club, tent, RoBINSON And Seanas, and
decided in I .your of Mooning. A single Innings.
Highball 74....Broabourne 71.....Highbury won by
date teas... Betting 6 to 4 on Broaboulac.