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dined with him at the house of an American merchant in Havana.


FOREIGN Napoli Di Romania, March 2. – (Pri-


vate Correspondence. – …The Hellas frigate, commanded by Miaulis, is at Nsgropont with a strong divi- sion, to hinder provisions from reaching the camp of the Seraskier. The Government is taken the most energetic measure to drive the Turks from before Athens; Fabvier is still in the Acropolis. Missolonghi is closely block- aded by General Makri; that place must soon surrender, being in want of provisions. Admiral Cochrane and General Church


have not yet appeared in these parts. Com- modore Hamilton is still at Egina, the seat of government while Admiral de Rigny, re- mains at Smyrna, and does not show himself anymore in our seas. The American crew of the HELLAS


has returned to America, on board a frigate of that nation. Miaulis is appointed High Admiral of


the whole Greek Navy. Paulicci, who com- manded the Austrian squadron, is succeeded by Dandolo…


GREECE. – A ray of light has again burst over the dark and fl uctuating fortunes of Greece; and the city of Pallas, which was of old the focus against which the hostility of Oriental barbarism was directed, is again the center of warlike operation; again the prize to be contended for by slavery and independence. Letters of a recent date from Zante,


confi rm the intelligence of the Greeks, under Col. Gorden, having relieved the garrison in the Acropolis of Athens. It appears that the British General embarked all the troops which could be spared from the defense of Napoli di Romania, and attended by the PERSEVERANCE steamship under Capt. Hastings, he landed in the neighborhood of Athens. Col. Gorden then mounted a battery, under the fi re of the steamship, which gave him the command of the Turkish position. Col. Fabvier sallied from the Acropolis at the same moment that the Turkish army was attacked by Col. Gorden, and the result was eminently successful. The Turks soon retired, leaving a considerable quantity of warlike stores, and opening a free com- munication betwixt Col. Gordon and Col. Fabvier. The Citadel was immediately sup- plied with everything necessary to its future defense. General Church arrived too late to participate in these operation; but from his great experience and training men of the same description as those in the Morea, and his knowledge of the leading Chiefs, we trust, that in conjunction with the naval operations of Lord Cochrane, this is the last campaign which Christian Greece will fi nd it necessary to wage in order to break the yoke of her infi del oppressors.


Truth Teller Shad and Alewives are more abundant


in the Penobscot this season than for several years past – Shad are sold at Orono (Old Town Falls) at fi fty cents per hundred. Seven thousand Shad and one hundred barrels of alewives were lately taken in Eddington by Luther Eaton at one haul.


Fine cod have been caught this spring


in the river but little below the wharves in Belfast.


MARINE LIST Port of Belfast Arrived


June 1 – brig TORNO, Snow, St. Thom- as and Salt Key; cargo salt, bound to Bangor.


HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Hancock Gazette - 1827 June 2nd


Barnes, Castine. June 3rd


CY, Robinson, Boston. June 3rd


ET, Shute, Bucksport. June 3rd


Hingham. June 5th


Boston. June 5th


– sloop RAPID, ---, Chatham. Sailed


June 2nd – brig RETRIEVE, Dunbar,


Guadalupe, via Castine. * * * * *


Arrived at Boston 27th ult., brig OS-


PRAY, Collins, of Castine, 16 days from Havana.


Schooner MARY JANE, Dyer, of Cas- tine from Havana, 18 days.


13 June


Interesting from the Arctic Land Expe- dition


has received a letter from Saut de St. Marie, dated April 29th


The editor of the Detroit Gazette , informing that dispatches


had been received there from the expedition under the direction of Captain Franklin. “When the bearer left Fort Franklin, in October, the members of the party were in fi ne health, and greatly exhilarated by the success with which their enterprise had been crowned during the preceding summer. They have established the fact of the continuity of water communication from the mouth of the Coppermine to M’Kenzie River, and from thence have pushed their examinations as far as 149 degrees 38 minutes west longitude. At this point, they were compelled by the density of the fog, to relinquish the design of proceeding to the Pacifi c Ocean by Jay Cape. The botanist, during the absence of the exploring party from the Fort, has been engaged investigating the vegetable produc- tions of the Taskatochawin country. “We may calculate that the reading


world will be gratifi ed with a view of the details of this expedition early in the coming year, as Capt. Franklin as his associates are looked for here in July. From intelligence that is to be relied on, we feel authorized to say, that they will be spared those lessons of human endurance which detracted so much from the pleasure their former narrative aff orded, and which, in the fi rst enterprise, were no less attributable to their own im- providence, then to the cupidity of the then rival Fur Companies.”


The “Chamber of Commerce” of the


City of St. John, NB, has petitioned the British Government to “prohibit, except in extreme cases, the entry of any Produce of the United States, into any British Port or Place in the West Indies, from any Port or Place, whether British or Foreign, South of the Port of Halifax, in Nova Scotia; from which Port, and the other Free Ports in his Majesty’s Colonies in North America, am- ple supplies could be conveyed to the West Indies, and at as cheap rates as the same are now conveyed through other channels; thus no sacrifi ce would be required from the West India Planter, and the benefi t of the long voyage would be restored to the British Ship Owner, except perhaps a very small proportion of benefi t, which might be derived by those Nations who had not (like the American Republic) denied to British Subjects a Commercial intercourse upon the terms of reciprocity.” “It appears, (says the petition) to be the


expectation of the Citizens of the American Republic, as well as the opinion of many in the British Colonies, that American Pro- duce exported to these Foreign Possessions,


– schooner DISPATCH, – schooner RACHEL & NAN- – schooner BOSTON PACK- – sloop JULIANN, Davis, – sloop CALHOUN, Wolsey,


may from thence be reshipped to any of his Majesty’s West India colonies: Should these expectations be realize, the intention of the late Order in Council, interdicting the Trade by American vessels with his Majes- ty’s Colonies in the West Indies, would in a great measure be defeated, as the Ships of the Republic would then enjoy a very large proportion of the Carrying Trade to supply these Colonies, and in conveying the produce thereof, received in return for such supplies, back to the United States. – N. E. Pal.


The enterprise steam vessel, bound


to Greece, burst her boiler at sea, and was towed into Plymouth, by the ship of war COLOMBINE.


The British frigate TWEED had arrived


at Portsmouth, bringing $1,200,000 in spe- cie, $500,000 of which were on account of the Mexican government. This amount was less than had been expected for some time with considerable anxiety.


Nine cargoes of cotton, from the United States, arrived at Liverpool on the 25th


April.


MILITARY FORCE… MARINE


Spezzia – Three-masted polacres 3 Brigs 36 Fire ships 6 Schooners 26 Hydra – Three-masted polacres 2 Brigs 39 Fire ships 5 Ipsara – Brigs 10


Five ship, that of CANARIS, at Egina 1 The remainder of the fl eet is at Egina Besides the above, great activity is used


to repair old, and build new vessels. Four are on the stocks at Egina. The frigate, commanded by Miaulis, has a crew of fi ve hundred men.


Extract of a letter from Smyrna, dated April 6, received in Boston by brig CHERUB “It is said a black fl ag was fl ying at


Athens, which if true, we may soon expect to hear of its fall. Lord Cochrane is in Greece, but as yet has taken no decided step. Want of time prevents my forwarding you a copy of all the latest news received from Greece.”


The United States frigate JAVA, Capt. Crane, sailed from Boston 5th


inst. for the


Mediterranean, where she is to take the place of the fl agship NORTH CAROLINA, Commodore Rogers.


Capt. J. B. Amedy, convicted some time


since at Richmond, of destroying a vessel, &c. has been sentenced to be executed the 29th


July.


A pleasure boat that will not sink, called a Life Boat, has been built at Providence. The brig TONTINE, from Philadelphia,


with contributions of provisions for the Greeks, arrived at Gibraltar on the 22nd April, and remained on the 26th


.


MARINE LIST Port of Belfast Arrived


June 5 – schooners TRADER, New


London; FAME, Woodward, Hingham; CHAS. AUSTIN, Davis, Hingham. June 6th


can, Boston; UNION, Boyles, Nantucket. June 7th


– schooners MERRITT, Dun- – schooners CHERUB, Libby,


Marblehead; ANN, Foster, Salem; sloops PHEBE-ANN, Frisbee, Portsmouth; PE- NOBSCOT, Ross, Portland; ABIGAIL,


of ton. 30th


Gilman, Boston. June 9th


– sloop BRUTUS, Clark, Bos- * * * * *


Sailed from the Bar Wilmington, (NC) ult. schooner CAMDEN, Hiscock, of


Camden, for West Indies. Brig ANN & ELIZABETH, Perkins, of Northport, for the West Indies, sailed 27th bar going out and returned 28th


, struck on the , with loss of


boat; other damage not ascertained. Arrived in New York, 3rd


, schooner


MILO, Clark, of Camden, from St. Thomas, 15 days. 6th


, brig MONTICELLO, Fales,


, sloop CHARLES, Carlton, 8 days from Castine.


of this port, 26 days from New Orleans. 7th


FROM A SIERRA LEONE PAPER Freetown, February 21, 1827. We have


had occasion to notice in this week’s paper, the arrival on Monday last, of the Brazilian slaver INVINCIBLE, mentioned in our No. 447, as having been captured in the Cam- eroons by two boats of his Majesty’s Ship ESK, under the command of Lieutenant Kellet and Tolleway. The detention was between eight and nine in the evening of the 21st


December at which time the vessel had


on board 445 human beings, just shipped, the captain and part of her crew being sick. Five days were occupied in working to the mouth of the river, which is in latitude 3, 54 north, and 14 days more in attempting to get to the southward, during which the vessel only made one hundred and twenty miles. Lieutenant Tolleway, the offi cers in


charge, then determined on running away to the westward, seeing no probability of succeeding in making southing, and after a wretched passage of 56 days, reached this port, having, during the period, been twice struck by lightning – on the 1st


of January


at four in the morning, which shivered to pieces the mizzen topmast, and did other damage, killing one marine on deck and two slaves (women) below; and secondly at noon, in a heavy squall on the deck, and killed two slaves in the hold – a man a boy. The damages sustained in the fi rst instance were repaired by Lieutenant Tolleway, being fortunate enough to fall in with the ESK, eight days after his departure from the mouth of the river. The mortality on board this vessel on


the way up, we believe, has never been ex- ceeded. Out of the 440 unfortunate Africans on board at the time of capture, 128 died, in addition to the 4 killed and 4 missing (supposed to have jumped overboard in the storms of thunder and lightning,) before the arrival of her, and 8 in the harbor prior to their being landed on the 21st


inst. (two


days after anchoring;) making a total of 186 natural deaths – if persons dying under the circumstances these poor creatures did can be so terms, out of the 440 individuals in less than 60 days! The cause of this immense loss, we understand, is mainly attributable to the fi lthy state of the vessel when they were received on board, and the numbers that were thrust into her. The master of this slaver is an old of-


fender, having carried off the coast, in the same vessel, last voyage, 600 slaves.


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