at an annual charge of £13,512; the value of goods seized by this force during the past year, is £20,595, and they have convicted 27 persons of smuggling offences; the Coast Blockade under Captains Mingaye and Pigot, during the last year of their services, seized goods to the amount of £18,738, and convicted 24 persons implicated in running goods. TRANSPORTS, AND TROOP SHIPS ROMNEY AND CEYLON.-The Romney has been fitted to convey 1000 troops, and the Ceylon to convey 500; the expenses of these two ships for two years will be £44,000, while the expense of seven transports, making 3000 tons, which will be required to perform the same work, will be £53,000. It should, however, be recollected, that these seven ships may be applied to more various purposes than two ships can be. The expense of the Romney, when last in commission, for three years and three months, was £61,602, while the hire of three transports of 400 tons each, which would have done the same service for the same period, would only have been £37,582; but the Romney was then almost a man of war, and could carry only 500 troops. H.M.S. Ganges was paid off into Ordinary on the 23rd of March, at Portsmouth. The Salamander steamer, of large dimensions, will be launched from Sheerness Dock-yard, during the present month, and the Vestal, of 28 guns, to be built on Captain Symond's plan, will be immediately laid down on her slip. H.M.S. Briton is expected home to have a new foremast. R.M. packet-brig Sphynx is to be paid off, and Lieut. Passingham is to command the Sheldrake. H.M.S. Trinculo having undergone a complete repair, was to go out of dock about the 20th of April, and it is expected will be commissioned by Commander Booth. The Phanix, a large steam vessel, is to be launched at Chatham on the 2nd of May. Mr. W. Guest, and Mr. T. Newenham, have passed their examination at the Royal Naval College. Mr. G. Sprigg has passed his examination in Seamanship. MOVEMENTS OF TRANSPORTS. Orestes, Lieut. Garret, Deptford. Parmelia, Lieut. Saunders, 19th April, arrived at Portsmouth from Lisbon. Prince Regent, 14th March, arrrived at Malta, and sailed for Corfu. Recovery, Lieut. Brady, 1st April, sailed from Portsmouth for the River. Roslin Castle, Lieut. Derriman, arrived at Jamaica from Cork 5th Feb. Stentor, Lt. Barber, 29th March, Gibraltar. Sylvia, Lieut. Wesley, arrived at Corfu, 20th Feb. William Harris, Lieut. Stevens, 14th Mar. at Malta. SHIPPING. The following Commanders took leave, viz.: Capt. P. Baylis, Canning, and Capt. D. Marshall, Edinburgh, for China direct. On the 18th of April, a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Commanders took leave of the Court previous to departing for their respective des. tinations, viz.: Capt. Robert Cook Fowler, Lord Lowther, and Capt. H. L. Thomas, Berwickshire, China direct. 142 Hale 143 Hannah 144 Hawk Wilmingtn. Rochelle N. Orleans 44 N. 40 W. Newcastle Portsmouth Kent Knock 12 Mar 6732 Cw. part sayd.] 19 Mar. 6727 Doubtful. 6729 Feb. 6730 Total. 18 Mar 6726 Doubtful. 31 Mar. 6732 Crew saved. 26 Jan. 6726 Doubtful. 25 Mar. 6735 Burnt, Cw.sd. 2 Feb.31 6728 Doubtful. Caucasus Rf. 5 Feb. 6731 Foundered Off Lisbon N.Zealand Doubtful Jamaica Baltic St. Michl's. Doubtful Sydney Sunderland Whitehaven Duddon Campvere Ghent Sunderland Bridport Bristol 124 Briem Cast. Dennis 125 Betsey Dublin 126 Brilliant 127 Britannia 128 Byron Wright Liverpool Havana 129 Coletta Harner London Ostend 130 Commerce Taylor 131 Courier Dechosale London Mar. 6731 Crew saved. 20 Mar. 6728 Abandoned. 4 Mar. 6727 Crew saved. Dublin Bay 15 Mar. 6726 Crew saved. Oistin's Point 4 Mar. 6734 Crew saved. Pentld. Forth 10 Aprl 6734 Off Goree 27 Mar. 6729 Crew saved. Off Innesbeg 10 Mar. 6729 Crew saved. Bass's. Strait Au.1831 6727 Crew saved. Doubtful 31 Nv.31 6728 Doubtful. Hoyle Bank 20 Mar. 6727 Crew saved. Run down 2 April 6734 By Laura, Sunderland Rotterdam Rotterdam Sunderland Rotterdam Rotterdam 43 N. 27 W. Triangles Ct. of Ayr thew, seaman, and an old man of the name of Duncan, cook. After drifting about in a most distressed condition for eight days, on the 16th a vessel hove in sight, which proved to be the Resolution, Hogg, from Peterhead, for the whale fishery. After learning their desperate and forlorn situation, the Captain of the Resolution agreed with Captain Hynd to tow them into a port in Shetland. They reached Scalloway roads, Shetland, on the morning of the 16th. The letters of Captain Hogg and Captain Hind agree in representing the condition of the Eliza, and her crew and passengers, as truly deplorable.—Dundee Courier. 159 Padstow London Penzance Aberdeen Aberdeen Gibraltar Aberdeen Harwich Mary Ann Margaret James Matilda Catty Morrison Java Pallas Terry Progress Alder St. Helena Elliot Sunderland Dunbar Nieuport London Hasbrough Newcastle Seaton Dover Shields Newcastle Stettin 24 Mar. 6729 Been aground 16 Apr. 6734 Run foul of 24 Mar. 6730 Been aground 5 Mar. 6726 Been aground] 30 Mar. 0730 Been aground) 17 Mar. 6726 Leaky. April 6731 Dismasted. 24 Mar. 6728 Aground. 12 Mar. 6746 Aground. 14 Mar. 6726 Leaky. 15 Mar. 678 Aground. 23 Mar. 6728 2 lives lost. 20 Mar. 677 Damaged. 12 Apr. 6734 Aground. 4 Mar, 6731 Aground. 18 Mar. 6798 Aground. 20 Mar. 6728 Stranded. 24 Mar. 6729 Been aground 8 Mar. 6732 Discharging. 14 Mar 6726 Leaky. 26 Mar. 6729 20 Mar. 6799 Damaged. 2 Apr. 6731 Damaged, run 24 Mar. 6728 Aground. 27 Mar. 6730 Aground. 15 Feb. 6726 Leaky. 27 Feb. 6733 Leaky. 6 April 6732 Damaged. 13 Apr. 6734 Been agronnd 10 Apr 6733 Been aground 26 Mar. 6729 Damaged. 13 Apr. 6734 Run foul of. 26 Mar. 6729 Kun foul of. 13 Jan. 6727 Damaged. 31 Mar. 6732 Off Elsinore. 13 Apr. 6734 Been aground 24 Mar. 6728 Run foul of. 17 Apr. 6735 Been aground. 19 Mar 6730 Been aground Titney Sands 24 Mar. 6728 Aground. Cowes 21 Mar. 6727 Leaky. Grimsby On shore 17 Apr 6735 Discharging. 19 Mar. 6727 Damaged. 23 Mar. 6728 Dismasted. 30 Mar. 6730 Been aground St. Thomas's 23 Feb 6733 Leaky. Waterford N. Orleans Off Missippi. 24 Jan. 6727 Aground. Expedition.-An extraordinary instance of rapidity in unloading and reloading a vessel, occurred in the Humber Dock, at the close of last week, rarely, if ever equalled, in any other port. On Friday morning, at ten o'clock, the Hamburgh steampacket, Monarch, entered the Dock basin with a full cargo, consisting of two hundred and forty bales of wool, seventy casks, &c. of clover-seed and succory, and various other articles. Notwithstanding some delay, originat ing in a miscontrued order of quarantine, the whole of the cargo was delivered by seven o'clock the next morning; and by five on the same day (Saturday) the vessel was re-loaded with two hundred and thirty-two bales, and other goods, together with a stock of coals for the voyage; affording evidence, if proof were wanting, of the superior facilities of this port, and of the promptitude of the officers of the customs. The Monarch left the Humber on Sunday morning.— Hull Paper. "Mr. John Hamilton Moore, in the last edition of his Epitome of Navigation, observes, that the invention was attributed to Mr. Hadley; but that Mr. Godfrey, a glazier, of Philadelphia, had also claimed that honour,' and he very vaguely decides upon their claims by observing, that two persons, in different hemispheres, might hit on the same idea.' This, no doubt, is a plausible way of getting rid of the argument; but what I am now about to relate is an absolute fact, to which I can produce the most satisfactory testimony. Previous to, and after, the American revolutionary war, there was a philosophical club held at the Indian Queen, in Market-street, Philadelphia, composed of the following, viz.-Dr. Franklin, of whom, as he wrote his own life, it is unnecessary to say more; Dr. Rittenhouse, originally a house-carpenter, afterwards a great mathematician; Tench Francis, a merchant, who was so great a lover of fish, that all his children were baptized by piscatory names, such as Tench, Roach, Perch, &c.; Oswell Eve, originally a shipwright, afterwards a master mariner, and a very scientific man; he adhered to the royal cause during the struggle (but his sons took the contrary part), and, after the contest was over, he was rewarded by the Government of Cat Island, one of the Bahamas. I should have mentioned that he had been to the East Indies, as carpenter of an Indiaman, a vast undertaking for a Trans-Atlantic; Godfrey, a glazier, of Philadelphia, a man of intelligence; NO. 3.-VOL. I. and five or six more, whose names I have now forgotten. "Now Mr. Godfrey was putting a pane of glass in a window on the first floor of a house in Philadelphia, when, having a piece of glass in each hand, he saw the double reflection. He immediately left his occupation, and ran through the streets like one deranged, exclaiming, 'I've got it,' I've got it.' He communicated his ideas to Dr. Franklin and Mr. Eve, and with their assistance formed the first instrument (which superseded Davis's pig yoke), now called Hadley's Quadrant. I have, Sir, had the original in my hands many times. Mr. Godfrey, upon finishing his instrument, sent his son with it to the West Indies, to try its accuracy, where, being in company with some naval officers, he asserted that he had an instrument that would determine the latitude to a greater nicety than any instrument they possessed. Lieutenant Hadley desired to see it, and taking a sketch of it, upon his return to Europe, obtained a patent, and it is thence called Hadley's Quadrant. Yours, &c. NAUTICUS." The Lively-(Extract from the Tusmanian, Sydney Paper, just arrived.) "We had the pleasure of conversing with Captain Avery, of the cutter, Lively, and of inspecting that remarkably fine little vessel, which, being but a Cowes Pilot-boat of about forty tons, has semi-circumnavigated the globe, and in its most forlorn and dangerous regions. We understand that this fine cutter was fitted out as a tender to the Tula by the owners, those very enterprising oil-merchants and ship-owners, the Messrs. Enderbys, of London. The two vessels left the Falkland Islands together, and when in a very high southern latitude, separated in a very heavy gale of wind. The Lively never again saw her consort until she rejoined her in this port. During five months, Captain Avery pursued his instructions in the midst of the icy polar region, until, having lost all her crew but himself, one man, and a little boy, (which latter had the misfortune to have his X |