Star.
London, England, 1817-01-06 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 5.

All yesterday it blew a tremendous gale from the
6.W. The ships in the Roads have got their yards
and topmasts down, and at present ride in safety.—
Arrived to.day the Hussa,en transport, from Cork.
The Catalina, Capt. &minor, detained and brought
into this port by his Majesty's ship TYNE, struck in
the gale of last night on the Spit-Bank, having drove
and unshipped her rudder—she slipped from both
anchors; she is now in safety again.—Wind W.S.W.

DEAL, JANUARY s.
Yesterday it blowed very hard all day from the
S.W. with rain ; several ships have come in and
brought up in the Downs: the particulars at present
are unknown, as they have not yet had communica-
tion from the shore—we have made enquiry among
the seafaring people respecting the outward-bound
East and West Indiamen, &c. in the Downs, and do
not hear that any have suffered. Most of our intrepid
boatmen are off among the shipping, and have been
ever since day-light this morning, beating over the
tremendous seas with not a dry thread on them.—
The Sisters, for Demerara, has lost an anchor and
cable, and will be supplied with another immediately.
Came down from the River last evening and remain,
the Jane, for the Cape of Good Hope; Patriot, for
St. Thomas's; and Ann, for Hayti. Arrived and
remains, all well, the Woodford, from Batavia.—
Arrived to-day and will sail for the River this eve-
ning the British Army, from Calcutta : sailed the
13th August from Sand Head, and from the Cape of
Good Hope the 3d November.—Arrived the Gam-
bier, &arra, from Oporto, in siz days; and Amboy na,
from Marseilles.—lt blowed very hard part of last
night and this morning, during which the Woodford,
from Batavia, Janus, for Havannah, and Maria, for
St. Lucia, have lost an anchor and cable each. The
1 Triton, for the Isle of France, has lost two anchors
and cables—Came down from the River and remains
the Princess Mary, for Hayti.

DOVER, JANUARY S.
Came in yesterday the Benevolent transport, with
troops from Ostend; and the Brisk transport, with
troops from Calais.—lt blows a gale.
RAMSGATE, JANUARY S.
Came in the Zephyr, and Union, HAMMON—the
latter with loss of bowsprit ; and the Happy Return.
M‘Puartsou, and Mary, THOMPSON, both with loss of
anchors and cables.—Came in for shelter the follow-
ing ships, all for London :—The Fly, Hawk, Unity,
Sally, Ann, Patriot, Diamtni, Rebecca, Nancy.
Liana Endeavour, Pyramus, Ely, and Cornwall;
also the Thetis and Jason, how Yarmouth.—Wind
S.W. with evcryappearance of bad weather.

The statement which we copied on Saturday from
another Paper, of a promotion of Post Captains to
Admirals, is not correct. A promotion of twenty of
the senior Commanders, who were employed at the
close of the late war, to the rank of Post Captains,
is all that Government have in contemplation.
A reduction in the complement of the ten gun-brigs
is to take place, consisting of one Naval Lieutenant
and three private Royal Marines.
The PEINCE REGENT has directed, by an Order in
Council, that all the vessels in the Navy shall in future
be distinguished by the number of guns and carro-
nades they actually mount, and not according to the
erroneous denominations which had long since grown
into use.•
A new sloop of war, to carry 18 guns, is ordered
to be built in the Dock.yard at Woolwich, of the fir
which grows on the estate of the Duke of ATHOL, and,
out of compliment to kis Grace, is to bear his name.
The following vessels have been delivered over to
the River Police, for the purpose of forming depots
on the Thames, viz.—The Brevdagerea, of 12 guns,
Port Mahon, of 18 guns, and the Tower tender, all
,t Deptford.
A ship, to carry 54. guns, is ordered to be built at
Woolwich Dock-yard, to be called the Winchester.
A maritime survey of szveral parts of the coasts is
about to take place, and the following vessels are
preparing for this service, viz.—The Aid brig, at
She ernes:; the Protector brig, at Woolwich ; and the
Scrub and Shamrock brigs, at Plymouth.
The Hardy gun-vessel is fitting out as a store ship,
,and will be employed in the conveyance of live stock,
/U. between the Cape of Good Hope, St.. Helena,
and Ascension. _ _ _ _ _ _

Captain N. PORTLOCK, who sailed round the world
with Captain Coo", is appointed one of the resident
C.Aptains in Greenwich Hospital, in the room of the
la* Captain JOSEPH Ewson.
The following ships have been lately paid off :
Revolutionare and Elk, at Plymouth ; Horatio and
Abundance, at Deptford ; the Akbar and Cluleleon,
at Portsmouth.

The Volage, Favourite, and Icarus, are the only
ships on the War Establishment to return home to be
paid off.
The Agincourt, a new 74, and the Thetis and
Arethusa, SS's, will be launched in March nest the
former at the Plymouth Dock-lard ; the two latter
at Milford. The Shamrock is fitting for 'a sur-
veying vessel. •
The Conqueror, 74, C iptain DAVI,* is ordered to
Portsmouth from Sheerness. Admiral PLAMPIN will
then hoist his nag in her for St. Helena.
The Tyrian, Capt. Bot.nwin, sailed on Friday from
I Portsmouth, to resume her station off Weymouth.
The following ships have been commissioned upon'
the Lakes of Canada :—Kingston, 56, Commodore
Sir RODITXT HALL; Burlington, 42,. Captain N.
Locxxsa C.harwell, 50; 'Captain lionassoa, cra

Lake Ontario; Chaplain, S 2, Captain Dunt, on
Lake Champlain ; Conflates. $2, Captain D. PRINGs
on Lake Erie.

The Amphitrite and Zebra will be paid off in the
course of next week.
The Algerine. on inspection, is found to be in such
a defective state, that it is supposed she will be paid off.
The SEALARK put into Dartmouth on Sunday :tin-
night, having lost her main-mast in the gale of the
28th ultimo.

The Grecian, Lieutenant him, which arrived at
Portsmouth on Tuesday from the Downs, whittler
she was driven from if Beachy Head, by the late
violent gales, threw all her gpns overboard, and sus
tained much damage; had not the wind subsided,
her mists would have been cut away, the men beir;
prepared to do so at the critical moment.

The Harriet, Mow, from Batavia, arrived at
Portsmouth on Thursday, brings an account that
the Dutch had taken possession of that settlement.
She sailed on the 3d of September, and proceeded
oa Friday for the River.
The Briseis, 10, Captain G. Dostitrr, an her pas-
sage from Jamaica to New Providence, with a de.
tachment of the sth West India Regiment on board,
was wrecked on the 4th of November on Point Pedro,
nine miles to leeward of the Havannah. She got
ashore from mistaking the high lands about the Bay
of Fiorida for the Havannah. Endeavours were
made to veer her off; but the wind setting horn
F,..N.E. the masts were cut away, when she fell over
and bilged. The crew and troops were saved with
part of her stores.
The Chepstow brig, PEARCE Master, of 179 tors,
left Scilly on the morning of the 23d ultimo, in con:.
pang with the Richard, Lulu) Master. The Master
of the Richard states, that he made Hartland Mat
at twelve at night, and spoke with PEARcc, at whi.A
time it was so dark that he did not know how he earn:
up ; that PEARCE, in the Chepstow, run
.on Men
Point, Barnstaple, and the vessel went to pieces,
when six men were drowned, and three were satot:d.
The Master's body was picked up and buried in West
Down Church-yard, The masts. spars, and even the
anchors were broke by the shock the vessel received
when she went on shore. There is no doubt but Lite
Richard must have run within a few yards of the
Point where the Chepstow foundered. The vessel
was proceeding frptb Portsmouth to Chepstow.
Names of the Pertuns drowned—Captain Pear Fe • John Wu-
kin, Mate; George Blake, Carpenter; George Gl:eking; low.
m+4loe, mid Joh° Cult.

New; of those
Joseph W Mints.

Thomas, !obis Williams, sad

The Meander, Captain Sir JAMES At.ex. Gomm,
K.C.B. is arrived at Sheerness in sinking state,
making upwards of twenty feet of water an hour,
having struck upon a shoal, called the Outer Garbed,
lying about eighteen miles to the S'E. of Orfardnem
She sailed from Sheerness for Leith Road; on the
Ifith ultimo, but owing to thick weather ;he was obli-
ged to anchor occasionally until the 18th. On the
19th, at 8. 30. ft. sa. having been working to wind.
ward the whole day, endeavouring tc; gain an ancho-
rage in Yarmouth Roads, it then blowing a gale,
breakers were reported on the lee bow and beam; the
ship under her tore and maintop-sails and fore-sail,
was attempted to be stayed, but would not come
round, and in falling of the struck upon the Outer
Garbed Shoal in 24 feet water ; fortunately she sweat
over it, and was immediately anchored in-seventeea
fathoms. In a few minutes afterwards, the carpen-
ter reported nearly six feet water in her ; " and hem,
(says an officer belonging to her) it will he necessary
to pause foi a moment at the dangerous and awful
situation of the ship's company, the wind blowing a
gale, with a tremendous sea, the ship making up.
wards of twenty feet water an hour, and nearly I'4
hours' darkness before them, not a moment was to
be boat, for not a hope of safety was entertained, save
in the mercy of the it4MECHITT and the united exer-
tions of every one on board. By the zeal and energy
of the Captain and his Officers, and th.- almost un•
paralleled exertions of the men, the ship Was kept free
until the morning. During the night, most provi-
dentially, the GREAT Disroseu of all Events had
lulled the storm and &tilled the raging sea. • Minute
guns were fired the whole time, and every blue light
in the ship was burnt, in the hope of drawing the at-
tention of vessels near ; but it was not until long after
day-light on the 2Jth that several vessels were seen
approaching, many of which were afterwards direc-
ted to stay by the Meander, in the event of its being
necessary to quit her. The wield and tide being fair
for Sheerness, the cable was cut, and sail made by
the officers, it not being possible to remove a mat:
from the pumps. At this moment the leaks had in-
creased ; but two sails which Arad been fitted with
thrums were then dropped over the bows, and had
a wonderful effect in checking the leaks. At no in.
on she ship's arrival within signal distance of Sheer-
ness, her distressed state was made known, and the
greatest and most prompt assistance was immediately
afforded by the Captains of the different ship:. the
Honourable Commissioner Boxes, with the ,ffizers
and men under their respective commands; but it
was not until the 22J, with all the skill and ens tinns
employed, that the ship was safely secured in dock.
On examination, it was ascertained she had carried
away the whole of her fore foot, about ten foot of her
larboard garbed streak, and a great part of her
false and main keels; and while these alarming and
serious etlects evidently thew what must have been
the exertions at the pumps, for upwards of 20 hours
before any personal assistance could be afforded, thief
also most satisfactorily prove what gracious good-
ness and mercy must have been vouchsafed to theie
by that ALSIMITY Bona whose arm alone can save
the wanderers of the trackless deep. Sir J. A. Goa-
sem is perhaps considered ( with all deference to
others) one of the very best officers in his Majesty's
Navy, and bears most honourable testimonials of
having-distinguished himself upon many o:casiuusiu
, the service of his country. The officers of the Me••
ander speak of him in terms of the highest respect
and most affectionate regard: his firmness and aril
gave animation to all around him in the midst of this
awful time, in which not a murmur was heard, nor
the slightest disposition shewn towards intoxication.
Such conduct as this will secure the ship's company
a lasting honour. It appears the pilot of the ship is
a clevet and steady ,deservii.g man, and not t!le
slightest blame whatsoever is to be attached to him.
The Meander is ordered by the Admiralty to be fitted
with all possible dispatch.

7 -

TEE ARMr.

Ist detachthent of the 38th Regiment, from
iarracks, is arrived at Bristol, on its route
Wales.

►y the Depot of the 25th Regiment, with
le of their baggage, marched from Winches-
i,ou for Northampton Cavalry Barra:lts.

48th Regiment, under orders for New South
are at Cork, at which port they will embark.
achment of the 58th hare embarked at Cork
Tsle of Wight.

I nderstand that orders have been transmitted
BAtrack Board, to the Barrack Masters
,ut the kingdom, to report the state of the
under their charge, distinguishing those
fit fur the reception.of troops.

CARLISLE MEETING.

Meeting at Carlisle on the Ist instant passed
we mentioned on Siturday, without the least
ince. The morning was very rainy, which
_ lessened the number who attended. The
place of meeting was a field called the Weary Holme,
near the city, where a hustings was erected for the
speakers. One of the Carlisle Papers speaks of the
assemblage as consisting only of a few, and another
says they were about 3000. The Carlisle Journal (the
Editor of which, Mr. Joule, was one of the speak-
ers) gives the proceedings with suitable gravity.
The Carlisle Patriot takes another •iew 41 the business,
and represents the whole as being very farcical. One
of the Speakers, he says, sometimes forgot where he
was speaking and the occasion of his harangue, call-
ing his hearers "My Dear Fellow Sinners I" We
copy the Speeches from the Callus Journal:

Mr. JAMES WCADDAIII spoke to the following pur-
porti—" Fellow Countrymen ! lam pleased in ad-
drtsiing you on that highly important business—a
Reform in Parliament, and particularly as it is the
hinge upon which our happiness or misery is turned.
The distresses of our country have arrived at that
pitch, that they have encompassed every class of so.
elm, as with the sword of the demon of destroe.
tiou, and these call aloud for the interference of chose

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whose right it is to be a constitutional check ou the
ruling powers. Is it asked where this distress pre-
sails? I will answer him by another question. Where
has its sweeping devastation no been experienced,
even to the very dreg' of bitterness ? The manufac-
turers are now reduced to that necessity, that the
greater part of their work-people are discharged ;
and those few who are still retained have the bare
means of keeping soul and body together. The
merchants have lost their customers, and shopkeepers'
ledgers are without entry t bills expected, and no
money to discharge them. What trouble than this
can be greater to an honest mind ?—( Apirlaur4—But
what tongue can express the distress et the lower class?
•--Here is misery to the extreme, where there are fa-
milies,perhaps four or five children,surrouneling a fire-
less grate, with nothing in their bellies and • bide on
their backs; their mothers striving in vain to pacify
them with promises which she cannot perform. Not-
withstanding these grievances, we are termed rebels
and enemies to the public peace, by Patriot:, falsely
so called; but these are the rebels and enemies to the
public peace, who assert that our Prince will pause
regard to' our petition, thus stigeafizing• him as I
hard-hearted, barbarous, inhuman being, who has no
feeling for those who keep him in his exalted station.
But we will hot believe that he can refuse to listen
to petitions of his loyal subjects. Let us therefore
petition to have that cause whichehas produced this ge-•
mat distress removed,--tbe corruption of Parliament.
Let as petition for lost rights. [The speaker, after
strenously exhartistg the people to peaceable conduct,
and cautioning them strongly against any acts ot
violence or indiscreetness, which he observed could
only tend to throw odium on theteause, concluded a
pathetic address by Saying)—Let us then petition ;
yes, let us petition as long as We see an honest man
with a threadbare coat, and a rogue holding a pea-
aloo!"--( Lea arilyilesue.)
Mr. Gamow spoke as follows s-" Countrymen—
The momentous crisis of our country has brought us
here today ; the calamitous situation in which she
is involved loudly calls upon us to use every coustitu•
timid exertion to rescue her from that ruin which
teems almost inevitable. Such is her distress, that
the time is come when England expects every man
to de his duty.' The system which hash produced
this distress is but too well known ; 'ds the dreadful
consequence of a long and unjust system of warfare
with all its concomitants. And what is oor reward
after this dreadful 23 Years tragedy ? Wbat are the
"a t% of our fortitude and perseverance ? For what
have our fathers,and brethren bled in the field ? To
establish despotism abroad and distress at home I
Need I shock your 'feelings with the horrors of the
inquisition restored at the point of the British bayo-
net ! Da I need refer you to the fatal list ot bank-
tuFries, where you find your fathers and brethren,
who moved in the comfortable circles of life, now
'1
groaning under wretchedness and woe ? Do I need
paint you to Agriculture, which was once one-of our
glories, but now, by the iron hand of taxation, unable
to reward our industry ? Shalt I refer you to Manti-
facture, which made Enclind the envy of the worldi?
--Behold, now, her artisans banished and wander.
ing to and fro as vagrants ! Stating to an honest
Quaker, the other day, my surprise that Major Cart-
"ght. that venerable old' man, should have spent a
life as the cause of Reform, and have obtained so few
friends until now : ' Aye, replied he, but 1 tell
tha'tis bela'ts speaking now.'—(Sniks mead tows).—
'6e mechanic,' starving and unable to'bear up his
41:1 any longer, sinks beneath his load. Here let
th:. eye of pity look and see what corruption hash
eirie ! The husband, by fatigue and.huoger, bowed
to tiie earth ; his clamorous children craving for
.
r id and none to give them ; the wife of his bosom
and almost speechless, drops a tear of silence
tllion her infant ! In such a moment the tax gatherer
el'u'rs, whose imperious demands exact the last penny!
1, this not a reality ?—(Crier of rt, yec).—ls this pic-
tu:c too highly coloured ?—( Cries of No, a,).—The'
si.4ere in which I have moved for a number of'
`ears,
has given me access to every class of so-+
(.4Y; and every where have I witnessed distress pre-
trcept with those that are fed upon the taxes.—
corrupt Paper. called the Parieg, stated, that our
'''"clues were all written, it not printed, and well

got off by rote; that child of iniquity spOlte a truth,
for every pallid -countenance behold is a letter,
every cottage I visit is a syllable, every Gazette I
read is a sentence of that story of woe which has
brought us here to.day..-(Cries' of Year, Israel—
The resolution which I have seconded declares, that
such is the distress and misery which surround us,
that we can no longer, if we would, be insensible to
the causes which produce them. We have been told
by the sons of corruption that our distress hath arisen
in consequence of a sudden transition from war to
peace. 'Do you believe it ?—(Crier of No, no ! frost
every quarter.) You have been gravely told from the
pulpit that it is a national judgment for national sins;
With a friend at Glasgow, I sincerely believe this
to be a truth. I believe that we are suffering for the
sins of apathy, negligence, and unconcern, which we
have manifested for our best interests, by suffering
our rights to be wrested from us by the iron hand of
base c,Truption—rights for which our fathers bled—
rights in which the patriot glories, the loss of which
has caused all our woe !—(Loud cries of Hear, hear.)
Let us them no longer be responsible to our country
and our children, but use every constitutional measure
to regain our rights. Countrymen I a time there was,
" ere England's griefs began," when the Commons'
House was the express image of the people ; but now
we are bought and sold like bullocks at Smithfield.
So notorious indeed is this traffic, that Mr. Abbot
declared that it made the hairs bear the hat above
his head. Here, then, is the source from whence the
streams of corruption scraeg, that have deluged this
once-happy country. This is the nest which hatched
the pensioned host who, after destroying our re-
sources, now prey upon our vitals. We trusted our
bark to the hands of those to pilot her to harbour,
but they proved pirates. Can we then rely on the
wisdom or faith of Parliament as it is? No We
asked bread, and they gave us a stone, by voting so
many thousands for a monument to commemorate
that fatal day, Waterloo I We asked redress' and they
gave us a scorpion, a standing army in the time of
peace (Hear). We asked economy, they exacted ex-
travagance ! ( Hear, heir.) Let us then confine
our object to a radical Reform; and when this is ob-
tained, we will trust our suffering cause, with confi-
dence, to " the wisdom of a reformed Parliament."
Countrymen ! it gives me unexpected pleasure, that
notwithstanding the exertions of corruption to thwart
our object, to find so many hundreds of patriots,
driven from their city rights, assembled here with
one voice. Will you allow these evils to be entailed
upon your children? (Reiterated crier of No, no, Never.)
Will you ever cease to petition until the grand object
of Parliamentary Reform be accomplished ?—(The
Meeting with one voice exclaimed, Ws never will.)—Let,
as then breathe our wishes to the throne, and com-
plain like men, like loyal subjects to our King, and
lovers of our country ! And let history transmit to
future ages, and our children tell when we ate no
more, that ancient Carlisle, pensioned Carlisle, turned
ever a political leaf on the first day of January, One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen."
Mr. JERUIJAH JO/LIZ addressed the Meeting as
follows : Fellow Friends and well-wishers to the
interest of the cause which has now assembled us
together—ln this season of distress it is matter of
congratulation, that the labouring classes have ab-
stained from tumultuous proceedings, but have wisely
preferred.the mode of petitioning for a redress of
gritvantes s the former line of conduct would only
hive retarded the great object we have in view, by
giving an 'opportunity to evil rulers of establishing, by
the force of cannon and of bayonets, a despotic power.
A peaceable disposition I hail as a favourable symptom
in the National Disease : and I am more convinced
when, connected with this, the people, uninstigated
by aught but their own want, which led them to en-
quire into the causeuninfluenced by that bane of
society, party feeling—have returned to the charge
with fresh edge. Let them but persevere; finally
they man succeed—they will beat him by detail's, and
force him to retire from the citadel of the constitutions
It is contended, however, by the panders of corrup•
tion, that 'wither is the Parliament corrupt, nor, if
it were, would a popular Reform amend the condi-
tion of the country.—This is false : the jHouse itself
avows that corruption has established her pestiferous
abode in that House; and it is self-evident, needing
no demonstration, that if the Members of the.Com-
mons' House were indeed the Stewards of the peo-
ple—men chosen by the people for the people—l say
it is morally impossible that such men could have in.
so many instances gone in direct opposition to their
declared will. But insult must be added to injury.
The people, after having been flayed by the lash of
I taxation, from the crown of the head to the very
soles of their feet, in great measure to bloat out with
their drops of blood the pampered flesh of luxury,
while 6 chill penury has worn' you to the bone; are
vilified by those who ought to look up to you as to
their mode of action—yes, vilified as turbulent, de.-
laded, discontented in ; and your petitions, wheal
seat up tot a redress of grievances and a restoration
of your rights, treated with derision and contempt.—.,'
On truth, fellow-men, on this unalterable basis is the
foundation of Parliamentary Reform; and it only
requires the people to be true to themselves and to
the cause, and success is certain."
,The Meeting then dissolved, and tables were hid.
frir affixing signatures. to a Petition to the Prince
Regent.

RRPORTRD APPRRHINSION Or THR YOUNGER WAT.
SON. —A d v ices from Bourdeaux state, that the younger
Watson, the supposed assassin of Mr. Platt, has beeii
apprehended at Pavillac, a town on the river Gironde,
abour 20 miles below Bourdeaux, to which city he
was carried, and securely lodged in the Fort du Ha.
The letter simply mensions the circumstance as a fact,
' but enters into no particulars or details tending to
prove that the apprehended person is really Watson.
He was without a passport, and, it is supposed, an-
swered the description g►ven of Watson in the English
newspapers. The vessel from which he was taken
was the Albion. The information. received has been
laid before the LORD Mavon, who has made the ne-
cessary commun►cations on the subject to Govern-
ment. Another communication from the same guar-
ter' states, that the person apprehended at Pavillac has
turned out not to be young Watson, but some man
who had incurred suspicion from his want of proper
passports. It is known, that any person travelling
,in France without passports is deta►ned till he gives
satisfactory explanations. This latter communication
is ARA as to the amps of the apprehended individual.

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