1809.] 
kept themselves above water, and support’S 
themselves on oars and planks, till the boats, 
which immediately put off from the shore, 
picked them up. Unfortunately, however, 
they were unable to save Captain Herbert 
and Mr. Creed, who sunk before they arrived. 
These two gentlemen went out for the pur- 
pose of visiting the country. Captain Her- 
bert was a gentleman of respectable literary 
talents, and had lately published a volume of 
poems, translated from the northern lan- 
guages. He married Miss Byng, daughter of 
the Hon. Jolin Byng, and sister to Captain | 
Byng, of his Majesty’sship Belliqueux. His 
body was picked up a few days after the fa- 
tal accident, by. the Unicorn frigate, and in- 
terred at Gijon, with military honours, on the 
23d of September last: most of the English 
there, and many Portuguese of the first re- 
spectability, attended the funeral. The body 
of Mr. Creed has also been picked up, and 
buried with due solemnity. é 
In the island of Marigalante, John Brown, 
esq. a native of Belfast, and for some years a 
merchant in Dublin. The manner of his 
death renders it thesmore distressing to his 
relatives and numerous friends. On his pas- 
sage from Antigua to another island, on a 
mercantile speculation, the ship he sailed in 
was captured, and carried by the French into 
Marigalante, shortly before it was taken by 
the English forces. The French force hav- 
ing come to a determination to capitulate, 
they liberated Mr. Brown, for the purpose of 
communicating wititthe British. Unhappily 
his joy at his deliverance made him neglect 
the precaution of taking w&h him a flag of 
truce, aad on approaching the posts of the 
British, he received a ballin the heart from a 
black centinel in their service. 
Off the French coast, Mr. Hubbert, of 
Frieston, near Boston, midshipman and act- 
ing master on board his Majesty’s ship the 
Sheldrake, commanded by Captain Thick- 
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WeE have the pleafure to fate, that the Eaft India Company have lately been informed by. 
their agentat Conftantinople, that he has opened the ufual cominunication between this 
country and India, overland, a matter of the higheft importance to the company at this par- 
ticular time ; added to which the peace concluded laft January with the Turks, maf be of 
great confequence to ourtrade, as well to ‘I urkey, as to the Hatt Indies. 
The Eaft India Company have declared for fale on Monday, Match 6. 
ee isOhiealn sts eet a's - 300,000 lbs. ) 
h Come try... 2%. .3,a90,000 u 
Souchong..... wees 2005000 t 
Singlo and Twankay, . 750,000 e Prompt, June 16. 
Hyfon fkin. .........100,000 | 
PAG ie cals 
Aad far fale ou March 30. 
Cinnamon... 2e@segnnoene4%e8 
Oplumiess;+:- 
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This young gentlemaa, who entered 
. 300,000 
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into the service of the royal navy under the 
patronage. of Captain Lloyd, commanding the 
sea fencibles, d&c. on the Lincolnshire coast 5 
was most unfortunately drowned while he 
had the charge'of a French vessel which had 
been captured by the Sheldrake, and which 
having sprung a.leak, suddenly went down, 
Thus perished a very promising and much 
lamented young officer, together with every 
man, except only one, of the party then 
under his command, consisting of a midship- 
man and ten men, and also two French sai- 
lors who had been permitted to remain oa 
board after the capture. 
Lieutenant-colonel Robert Honyman, se- 
cond son of Lord Armadale. He served as a 
volunteer during the whole campaign in 
Egypt, where he was honoured with the ap- 
probation of Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and ac- 
quired the esteem and friendship of Sir Johy 
Moore, Generals Hope, Spencer, and othr 
distinguished officers. At the attack on 
Dutch lines, at the capture of che Cap/ 
Good Hope, he, under Sir David Baird 
on the 93d regiment, of which he was /h: 
and was severely wounded. As Lie/< 
Colonel of the 18th regiment of /foot, he 
lately received the thanks of the Cymmander- 
in-Chief of the island of Jamaica’ for his ac- 
tive services. in suppressing a mutiny of the i 
black troops in thac island, where he has ; 
since fallen a victim tothe fever cfthecoun- | 
try, at the age of 27._— Nga eles 
At Lisbon, in the 25th year of his age, 
William Kirby, eldest son of William Kirby, 
of the county of Waterford, esq —This 
young gentleman went out a volunteer to Pos- i 
tugal, with Sir A.Wellesley’s expedition, from 
Cork, and fought inthe battle of Vimieéra, 
with conspicuous courage and steadiness, withe 
out receiving a wound 3 but, being subject te » 
a disease on hjs liver, the fatigue be was 
obliged necessarily to undergo, puta period 
to his existence in the prime of life. 
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