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FERRET, 10, Lieut. W. S. Thomas 29th November arrived at Tarbert.

Howe, 120, Capt. SirW. O. Pell, 19th November left Portsmouth for Mediter

ranean.

INCONSTANT, 36, Capt. D. Pring, 13th December sailed from Cork, 17th arrived at Plymouth.

LOCUST, (st. v.) Lieut.-Com. J. Lunn, 1st December passed Deal on way to Portsmouth, 3rd arrived at Plymouth.

LUCIFER, Capt. F. Beechey, 2st Dec., arrived at Spithead.

PHOENIX, (st. v.) Com. R. Stopford, 1st December arr. at Portsmouth with despatches, announcing the capture of

Acre.

RAVEN, 4, Lieut.-Com. D. R. B. Mapleton, 6th December at Plymouth from Bristol, eleven days in a gale of wind.

SAPPHIRE, (tr. s.) Master-Com. G. W. Nembhard, 19th November sailed for Cork.

SERPENT, 16, Com. Hon. R. Hore, 1st December arr. at Spithead, 8th at Chatham.

SPITFIRE, (st. v.) Lieut.-Com. J. Evans, 7th December arr. at Portsmouth and sailed for Woolwich.

THE BOXER, Surveying vessel, Capt. Bullock, is to be placed in ordinary, and her crew to be turned over to another vessel.

PORTSMOUTH, December 17th. In harbour,-Queen, Victory, Indus, Excellent, Royal George, Tweed, Phoenix, Rapid, Apollo, Athol, Cuckoo.

AT PLYMOUTH. In Hamoaze,-Caledonia, San Josef, Impregnable, Belleisle, Endymion, Raven, Sylph, Carron, and Comet.

ABROAD.

ACHERON, (st. v.) Lieut.-Com. A. Kennedy, 15th November at Malta.

ASIA, 84, Capt. W. Fisher, 20th November arr. at Malta from Alexandria.

ATHOLL, 28, (tr. s.) Master.-Com. C. P. Bellamy, 5th November returning down the St. Lawrence, got on shore below I. Madrone.

BASILISK, 6, Lieut.-Com. J. Russell, 7th August at Valparaiso from Cobija, 18th sailed.

BEACON, (sur. v.) Lieut. T. Graves, 4th December at Malta from Athens.

BLENHEIM, 72, Capt. Sir H. F. Senhouse, 22nd July at Macao, 23rd sailed for northward.

BRITOMART, 10, Com. O. Stanley, 2d July arr. at Bay of Islands.

CALCUTTA, 84, Capt. Sir J. Roberts, CB., 24th November left Malta for Levant

CASTOR, 36, Capt. E. Collier, 30th November arr. at Malta from Smyrna.

CHARYBDIS, 3, Lieut.-Com. E. B. Tinling, 2nd October arr. at Jamaica from Nassau, 18th arr. at Halifax.

CHILDERS, 16, Com. E. P. Halstead, 7th October arr. at Calcutta from Singapore.

CLEOPATRA, 26, Capt. A. Milne, 19th October arr. at Bermuda from Newfoundland, 5th November left Bermuda for Halifax.

CROCODILE, 26, Capt. W. P. Johnson, (acting) 19th November arr. at Bermuda from Newfoundland, 5th November sailed for Jamaica.

CURLEW, 10, Lieut.-Com. G. Rose, 7th September left the Cape for Eastern Coast.

CYCLOPS, (st. v.) Capt. H. T. Austen, 24th November arr. at Malta from Levant.

CYGNET, 10, Lieut. E Wilson, 21st October at Teneriffe, 23rd sailed for Africa.

DEE, (st. v.) 8th November left Halifax Bermuda.

ELECTRA, 18, Com. E. P. Mainwaring, 26th September at Mazatlan.

FANTOME, Com. Butterfield, 17th Oct. at St. Helena.

FAVORITE, 18, 24th July arr. at Sydney, from Southsea Islands.

GRECIAN, 16, Com. W. Smyth, 26th September at Rio from a cruize.

HASTINGS, 72, Capt. J Lawrence, CB., 4th November at Malta from Beyrout.

HECATE, (st. v.) Com. H. Ward, 10th November arr. at Lisbon, 21st sailed for Mediterranean, 3rd December left Malta for Syria, with ordnance stores.

HERALD, 26, Capt. J. Nias, 24th July arr. at Sydney from Southsea Islands.

HYDRA, (st. v.) Com. R. Stopford 27th October arr. at Malta from Sidon.

LILY, 16, Com. C. Dear, 17th August at Cape refitting to return to East Coast. MAGPIE, (s. v.) Lieut.-Com. T. S. Brock, 2nd December at Malta from Athens.

MEDEA, (st, v,) Com. F, Warden, 4th December at Malta from Alexandria. PARTRIDGE, 10, Lieut.-Com. W. Morris, 20th September arr. at Pernambuco, 13th October sailed for Macao.

PEARL, 18, Com. C. C. Frankland, 11th September arr. at Bahia from Ma

cao.

PERSIAN, 18, Com. M. Quin, 27th September at Ascension.

PICKLE, 5, Lieut.-Com. F. Holland, 29th September arr. at Jamaica, 4th October sailed for Honduras.

PILOT, 16, Com. G. Ramsay, October arr. at Jamaica.

PRESIDENT, 50, Capt. J. Scott, 2nd August arr. at Valparaiso from Talchauana, 29th remained.

PROMETHEUS, (st.) Lieut.-Com. T. Spark, 15th November left Malta for Syria.

RACEHORSE, 18, Com. Hon. E. A. Harris, 10th October left Jamaica for Halifax, 8th November left Halifax for Bermuda.

RACER, 16, Com. G. Byng, 2nd Oct. at Tampico.

RING DOVE, 16, Com. Hon. K. Stewart, 30th September left Halifax for Bermuda. RODNEY, 92, Capt. H. Parker, CB., 22nd October left Malta for Levant.

ROVER, 18, Com. T. W. C. Symonds, 26th October arr. at Halifax from Jamaica with troops, 7th November at Bermuda.

SAPPHO, 16, Com. T. Frazer, 1st Sept. arr. at Belize, and sailed for Vera Cruz, 29th Oct. at Vera Cruz.

SARACEN, 10, Lieut-com. H. W. Hill, 27th Sept. at Ascension.

SATELLITE, 18, Com. J. Robb, It Nov. left Halifax for Barbados.

SCORPION, 10, Lieut. -com. C. Gayton, 3d Dec, sailed from Gibraltar, 5th spoken off Cape de Gatte.

SERINGAPATAM, 42, Capt. J. Leith, 4th Oct. arr. at Barbados from Antigua.

SKIPJACK, 5, Lieut.-com. H. Wright, 25th Oct. arr. at Barbados from Antigua

TALBOT, 26, Capt. S. Codrington, 21st Nov. at Constantinople from Acre, with 100 Egyptian prisoners.

Thunder, st. v. Com. E. Barnett, 14th Oct. left Bermuda for Nassau.

TYNE, 26, Capt. J. Townshend, 21st Nov. at Corfu from Zante.

VESUVIUS, St. v. Lieut-com.W. Blount, 29th November arrived at Alexandria from Malta.

VICTOR, COM. W. Dawson, (a), 25th Oct. arr. at Jamaica from Halifax.

VOLCANO, st. v., Lieut-com. J. West, 4th Nov. left Madeira for Barbados. WANDERER, Com. J. Denman, 27th September at Ascension.

WASP, 16, Com. G. Mansell, 29th November arrived at Malta from Smyrna WINCHESTER, 50, Capt. J. Parker, 29th October at Bermuda from Halifax. WIZARD, 10, Lieut.-Com. T. F. Birch, 26th September at Rio from a cruize.

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The following eertificate which appears exclusively in this journal will be required to be furnished by the Master-engineer at Somerset House, when officers commanding steam vessels are passing their accounts; the order of the 28th October, 1834, directing that the instructions attached to steam logs be strictly observed.

I hereby certify, that a Steam Log and an Engine Room Register of Her Majesty's Steam between the kept

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have been delivered into this Office, and that it appears therein that the grovisions of their Lordships' Circular Order of the 28th October, 1834, have been strictly complied with:

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
Births.

On the 9th Nov. at Esher, the wife of
Capt. M. J. Currie, R.N. of a son.

At Falmouth, Nov. 24th, the lady of Lieut. Griffith, H.M.P. Magnet of a son. At East Cosham House, the lady of Lieut. Wiseman, R N. of a daughter.

At Isle of Wight, the lady of Lieut. Pedder, R.N. of a son.

Marriages,

At Islington, E. J. Field, Esq., of Edmonton, to Augusta, daughter of the late Lieut. E. J. Cavell, RN.

At Croydon, J. R. Sterritt, Esq., surgeon RN, to the widow of Lieut. James Reid, RN.

At Plymouth, on the 4th Dec. Mr. W. R. Madge, master RN., to Christiana M. daughter of Mr. Giles, RN.

On the 9th Dec. at Alverstoke church, Robert, son of the late T Tryon, Esq., to Henrietta, daughter of Capt. Provost, RN.

At Liverpool, on the 31st Oct. Mr. F. Sweetman, of Ryde, Isle of Wight, to Miss M'Leod, daughter of the late Mr. James M'Leod, RN.

On the 17th Nov., at Dibden church, the Rev. T. Atkinson, of Rascelf, Yorkshire, to Henrietta Jane, daughter of Capt. Willes, RN.

At Belfast, on the 17th Nov., J. Bates, Esq. of Belfast, solicitor to Jane Anne, second daughter of Lieut. J. Victor, RN.

At Charlton, Kent, Dr. John Wilson, RN. to Catherine, daughter of the late J. Peake, Esq.

Deaths,

At Jersey, on the 8th Dec. aged 85,

Margaret, relict of the late Rear-admiral Worth.

At Bath, on the 15th Dec., Admiral Sir H. Bayntum, GCB., aged 75. The death of this gallant officer was rather sudden.

At Southampton, on the 27th Nov., at an advanced age, Charles Tinling, Esq., Admiral of the Red.

The following officers perished in H.M. surveying vessel Fairy, which is sup posed to have foundered in the North Sea, off Kessingland, on the 13th Nov. Capt. Hewett, leaving a wife and eight children, Mr. Stevenson, acting-master, Mr. W. Hewett, midshipman, son of Capt. Hewett, Mr. C. B. Adam, midshipman, son of Vice-Admiral Sir Chas. Adams, Mr. F. J. Chapple, assistantsurgeon, Mr. H. Johnson, purser RN. acting-clerk, leaving a wife and nine children, Mr. G. Gregory, artist, leaving a wife and one son.

At Malta, on the 23d of Nov. last, Mr C. F. Chimmo, mate of H.M. ship Hastings.

On the 17th Nov., at Camden Дew Road, J. Hutton, Esq., purser R.N. of an affection of the heart, after severe and protected suffering.

On the 10th, at Barnstaple, suddenly, whilst conversing with his sister, John D. Jones, Esq., purser RN. aged 62 yrs.

At Abergaveny, on the 17th Nov. aged 65, T. Steel, Esq., MD.

At Parkstone, near Poole, Com. R. Wadham, RN. aged 67 years.

On the 24th Nov., on his passage from Jamaica, Lieut. T. V. Cooke, RN., commanding the barque Pegasus.

At Inverary, New South Wales, David Reid, Esq., J. P. surgeon RN., aged 65, one of the first settlers.

TO OUR FRIENDS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

The lengthy dispatches from the Levant and China, occupy so much of our present number, that we have been obliged to reserve several important communications to our next. The papers from Madras among others. For the same reason, the continuation of our notice of Lieut, Raper's work, commenced in our last number, and those of several other books and charts, are also postponed, as well as our usual records in the way of Shakings, &c. We shall endeavour to make up for this in our next,

METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.

Kept at Croom's Hill, Greenwich, by Mr. W. Rogerson, of the Royal Observatory. From the 21st of November to the 20th of December, 1840.

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ture 427 degrees: depth of Rain fallen 2.70 inches.

H.M.S. FAIRY.

It is with painful feelings that we find ourselves at length obliged to acquiesce in the prevailing opinion, respecting the loss of her Majesty's sloop Fairy. The return of her Majesty's steamer Salamander, to Leith, after having visited Flekeroe, Stavanger, and Bergen, and other intermediate places, as well as the Shetland Islands, in search of her, annihilates our last hope of hearing of her safety in one of the numerous northern ports. In our next number, we shall place on record the facts which are known concerning her. Although the loss of such an accomplished officer as Capt. Hewett, is irrietievable, yet, we feel great satisfaction in announcing to the maritime world, that the major part of his noble survey of the North Sea is on the copper, and will be published forthwith.

We have indeed lost the fruits of that comprehensive experience which Captain Hewett had been for eight years maturing, and which he was about to embody in the shape of sailing directions; but his positions of all the banks, and the result of three hundred thousand of his soundings, our readers will rejoice to learn are

safe.

DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSQUITO COAST,-By Capt. R. Owen, R.N.

CAPE Gracias a Dios is the north-east extreme of the Musquito Coast. It forms a projecting point at the south side of the entrance of the Wanks River (Rio Segovia of the Spaniards). The north-west point of the entrance bears north-west from the Cape, nearly three-quarters of a mile. There is a shallow bar formed in a curve out to the northeastward, between the points at the mouth, with only three or four feet over it in the deepest part, which is round a dry sand bore, threequarters of a mile N.N.E. from the Cape. There is two and three fathoms inside.

A narrow strip of land covered with high trees reaches to the southwestward from the Cape, forming a spacious, but shallow harbour, the entrance of which is up in the bight of the bay to the south-westward, close over to the western shore. There is a small space with two and a half and three fathoms reaching for about one mile beyond the entrance, the rest of the harbour has only from eight to twelve feet, with muddy bottom. This harbour has been formed within the last century. The English used to cut mahogany up the Wanks river, and they made a deep cut nearly one mile and a half in length, about three miles above the mouth, into what was at that time an open bay with some cays on the eastern side, since which the neck of land, that now makes the eastern side of the harbour, has gradually formed. (See Columbian Navigator, vol. 2, page 148, edit. 1824.)

The cut still remains with twelve feet water in it, but there is a bar of soft mud that is nearly dry formed across the mouth.

The bay of Cape Gracias a Dios to the southward of the harbour is sheltered from N.E.b.N. round by north to S.S.W., the soundings are very regular from six to three fathoms, soft muddy bottom. The best anchorage for vessels that cannot get into the harbour is in four or four and a half fathoms, with the entrance of the harbour bearing north-west, and the eastern extreme of the land bearing N.E.b.E.

There are a few Europeans living at a small rude village on the west shore of the harbour, about half a mile above the mouth. They trade with the natives for tortoise-shell, sarsaparilla, mahogany, hides, gums, and a few other articles. The mahogany is cut up the Wanks river, where large canoes are formed roughly out of the solid trees, and are sent to Belize, and to Jamaica for sale.

The king of the Musquito Indians lives about forty or fifty miles up the river. He was educated at Jamaica, but he does not appear to have benefited by any thing that he learned there. The specimen that we saw of the Musquito Indians at Cape Gracias a Dios was any thing but favorable, and does not at all accord with the account generally given of them. They were living in the most abject poverty and wretchedness. Their huts' are of the most rude and comfortless description, much worse than any I have ever seen in Africa; they are merely a few rough poles driven into the ground, with a roof of palmetto leaves, the sides being entirely open! From their long intercourse with Europeans I was prepared to find them in a much more advanced state. They are not a numerous tribe, and are said to be decreasing in ENLARGED SERIES. NO. 2.- VOL. FOR 1841.

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