The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-01-04 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCR.

D•AL, JAN. 3.—Came down from the River,
sailed, the tieorge Horne, Teller, for Madras
oitta ; Dorothy Foster, Sowden, for Jamaica
Blackburn, fur Trieste; Elizabeth and Margaret,
fur Charente; Liberty, Blanchard, for Lilibon ;
Mnrwaster, for Seville; and • West Indian ti
for Ireland and the Cape of Good Hope.
.WHyrriv, JAN. 2.—The sloop Itoseberry, on
this harbour, struck against the pier, and carried
her topmast and bowsprit, her stern stove in. at
wise damaged.
PonTsmorrra, Jaw. 3.—Sailed the °lobelia, I
for Canton ; Aurora, Cavaa, for Amsterdam ; W
I Middleton, for the Mediterranean ; Weymout
ship, and Northampton, transport, for the Cape
Hope; and his Majesty's ship Raleigh, for
India station. The Alfred, Wilkinson, fur MI
gone out of harbour, and brought up at the Motherbani

PIAMOVTII, Jam. 2.—Arrieed the Britannia,
from Malaga and Lisbon ; and Isabelle, Friel
Sunderland, for Demerara.
FA LMOUTH, JAN. I.—Sailed the Doke of Kent
with a mail for Lisbon; Ossian, Black, for
Brill?ant, fur Charente; and Industry,
for Waterford.

WEYMOUTH, Jas. I.
This place within the last fortnight has heel
with disasters •t sea of the most afflicting flaw'
loss of the five men particularly, who perished
land Roads, by the breaking of a heavy sea •
boat, on their way to this harbour, from his .
Admiralty cruiser, greyhound, has been universal)
deep lamented.
They were all of estimable characters and
sailors. The feelings of the inhabitants, hot!
month and Melcombe Regis, have been nobly
on this melancholy event. The well known
Rev. ti. Chamberlain, Rector of Weymouth _
cotube Regis, in works of benevolence, seconded
active exertion, of Mr. Striven, of the Royal -
Chief Officer of the Oreyhounsl, and of l'apti
White, Commander of Psis Majesty's Post Office
the Countess of Liverpool, has been eminently
ful in the collection of a sum amounting to
fur the relief and comfort of the widowed
families of the unfortunate star . Truly
it may he said, that Weymouth is surpassed b
in this kingdom fur its prompt, willing, and
charities.

Some degree of consolation it is to their
wires and children, that the dead bodies
fund. (In Thursday, the 2:14I ult. they were
the grave. The Members of the Friendly
which two of them belonged, each heath
covered with black cloth, and a crape in their
the Rev. Dr. Dupre, their Chaplain and Mimi
her, in his canonicals, at their head, moved t
in solemn procession. In the church-yard tl
two opposite lines, through which the coffin ,
the chord'. Lieutenant Nugent, N. N. Cointnand
the Greyhound, and Mr. Srriven, attended also t'
their respect for the memory of their premat'
parted seam ilk
Cie inaimer hey. O. Chamber'
the sublime and awful Funeral Service Wee,
heart. The last duties of the grave were per
Dr. Dupre ; and at the words which ceniusit
remains of mortality to dust and ashes, not r
I overflowing congregation was unnioistened
I The Second Subscription Concert took plat,
ll*
se a
Royal
lintel Assembly Rooms, which, consv.
the severity of the weather, was better attended
could have been expected.

A letter from Sierra Leone, dated Se'
15319, says—" His Majesty's brig Thist
nant Hagan, is arrived from Portsmom
Cape de Verd, and will proceed, in a fe%
loce.-ard, to check, if possible, the increasii
in slaves, crurried on by the Portuguese
niards. Within these few days two of
description have been sent in by his Majest
Morgiana and Pheasant. This colon;
very unhealthy during the rainy season,
pot to say, many lives have been lost,
Europeans."

Sunday s.?nnight, the Egeria, 26 gut,
Shiner, arrived from Newfoundland, whi
she left on the 21st of November, raj!'
for Lisbun. She remained iu the Tagus
and then took on hoard Mr. Weld, the Bril
d'Affaires to the Coutt of Lisbon, and his'
she landed at Cork. The Sir Francis Drake,
sloop of war, were the only vessels left at
The lirashopper, Captain Buchan, was i
Exploits, where it was intended she shoal(
on the setting in of the frost, to send an cxi
the ire, on the river, for the purpose of of
ciliatory communication the Red li
which tribe (a woman) was on hoard the
and was to he employed in the nrgocisoion.
diens, from a mistaken notion of the character
tentions of oar fishermen, commit, at every oppo
predatory mischief on their nets and property
rivers, and murder whatever stragglers
fall in their way. The catch of fish this
coasts of Newfoundland, has been toleral
the markets proved very bad. Some of the
arrived at. Lisbon with the Egeria, were
obliged to proceed with their cargoes to •
ranean. Egeria brought home Captail
and part of the officers and crew of the '
Drake, which ship has been laid up at St.
reduced state.
EAST GRINSTEAD, DEC. 31.—A
mismicktestanding has occurred between
of the parishes of Hardield and W'
Sussex, and the gamekeepers of the
Dorset: the two parties having been on
for a long while, the gamekeepers proceeded
some of the !webers and other poaching dogs belongit
to the farmers, which brought on very violent quarrels
and nearly the whole neighbourhood taking up the (MUM
of the farmers, whom they regards! as greatly opprssa
the gamekeepers had recourse to the plats of bringik
the affair before the Magistrates, in the form of informie
tions, on the charge of keeping an unlawful breed a
dogs. An accidental circeinstance, which tended greatly
to increase the alum was, that a detachment of the'
regiment of Dotards soddenly appeared in the village
Hartnett], where they were billeted, on their way
Portsmouth; and this circumstance was immediately cos
at rued into the arrival of military for the preservative
of time react. The fray, however, has subsided, it hailer
been determined epee to refer the disputed point
Lord Whitworth, on his return frost Naplei.