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Miles From the column to Cape Elizabeth SW ½W - 13 To the outer Green Island SW by W - 6 To halfway Rock S by W ¼W - 4 To Drunkard’s Ledge S¼W to S½W - 1½ To Mark Island Ledge, SW¼S - ¾ To S. Point of Jaquish E½S - 1½ To Turnip Island E½N - 1¼ To Cape Small Point E by S - 10 To Whale Rock out of water SW by W - ½ To Haddock Rock or Island N Point NW½W - ½ To SW Point of Haskell’s Island NNW - 1/3 To Middle of Eagle Island WNW½W - 1¼ To Mackerel Cove ENE - 2 Course up Harpswell Sound NE½N - The courses are by compass and dis- tance in statute miles.


MARINE COURT – New York John Hudson vs. James M. French,


James Anderson, and John Russell. Clizbe for plaintiff – O’Connor for defendants. This was an action of assault and bat-


tery committed on board the American ship GREAT BRITAIN, on her last voyage from New York to Liverpool and back, of which French was captain, and the other defendants mates. It came on to be tried before Mr. Justice


Schieff elin, one of the Justices of the Marine Court, on the 8th


September inst. It was proved by the witnesses for the


plaintiff , that, when this voyage commence, certain “regulations were read to the plaintiff and the rest of the crew – among which was one threatening punishment to anyone who should “swear” on board the vessel. That the captain, under pretence that the


plaintiff had violated this regulation, caused him to be tied up, and had 26 lashes infl icted on his back and loins with great severity – that the sailor had nothing on at the time but his shirt, and was considerably bruised and hurt, so much so that blood was drawn, and he was scarcely able to work. On the part of the Captain, it was proved


that the sailor was in the habit of swearing; that it was sometimes blasphemy; that the Captain cautioned him against the conse- quences, and on the morning alluded to had him whipped for his bad conduct; that when the whipping had terminated, he told them to let him know by eight o’clock the next morning if he had made up his mind to reform, and if he did not he would give him a further fl ogging – he came to the captain the next morning, and promised to reform, and was not again whipped. The Court gave a verdict for the Cap-


tain; at the same time saying, the regulation was salutary and praiseworthy, and the cap- tain justifi ed in punishing for its infraction; that they regretted it was not more generally adopted – and, at all events, adhered to by the Captains themselves.


The Gale. – On the coast beyond the


Capes of Virginia, the late gale was very severe and its eff ects highly disastrous. The Cape Hatteras Light Ship was on shore south of Ocracock, but not bilged; the severity of the gale was such that it induced Capt. Hold- en to slip one cable with the other parted. He and his family were safe at Portsmouth; but some of the crew, among whom was the boatswain, were lost. The coast was strewed with wrecks. The gale was also severely felt at Wash-


ington, NC. The town was in a measure inun- dated; some of the houses in Water Street had from 5 to 6 feet water in them. The tide rose 12 or 15 feet above ordinary tides. A number of families were taken from their dwellings in boats, the streets were literally covered with lumber, naval stores, &c. A schooner belonging to Rhode Island, with a valuable cargo of dry goods, &c. went ashore near Hatteras – a great quantity of her cargo has drifted ashore. Out of 20 sail of vessels which were in


Portsmouth Roads, only to rode out the gale – it was more violent than the memorable one in 1815 – a schooner was left high and dry on the wharf at Washington, and others drove against the bridge and carried it away. There is but one mill left standing within 10


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miles of that place. The crops generally have been destroyed. Several dead bodies drifted ashore at


Ocracock. New Bern, NC has also suff ered by inundation; a new three-story house and two or three warehouses have been swept away.


Several vessels unknown, coasters and


West Indiamen, were wrecked on Cape Hatteras; and masts, spars, plank, decks, hatches, &c. almost lined the shore. Most extensive losses were apprehended. At Wilmington, NC the force of the


wind and waves combined, was such as to remove from their location, vast bodies of ponderous Salt Works. The waves rolled over the tops of garden fences, six hundred feet from the beach; the water being 10 feet high above high water mark. The banks are much washed away, The Inlet opposite Ma- sonberough Sound, is widened at least half a mile. No damage was sustained in Elizabeth


City or harbor. But the crops of the adjoining counties are very seriously injured, the crops of corn it is thought will be cut off one third or one fourth. The Revenue Cutter MARION, Capt.


Doane, from Key West, in fi ve days, put into Charleston on the 28th


ult. for supplies


for the light ship CAESAR, on Caryfort’s Reef, which had her boat fi lled, and lost all her water cask. The MARION had on board $20,000 from the Custom House in Key West for the United States Government. Left the Mexican frigate LIBERTAD and brig HERMON, at Key West. Commodore Porter had not arrived from Vera Cruz.


Newburyport, September 8. – The


sloop POLLY, with all her crew, arrived this forenoon, against whom the charge of killing a man in Portland Harbor in August last, is preferred. They manifested not the least sign of guilt – were arrested, and carried before Justice Woart, when the Proclamation of the Governor of Maine was read to them, and they were committed to jail to await the or- ders of the authorities of Maine, where they will be removed for trial. There was a vast collection on the wharf when the POLLY came in, at which they only appeared sur- prised.


MARINE LIST Port of Belfast Arrived


September 12, schooner BOSTON From the New York American


account of the British line of battle ship WARSPITE, crossing the 180th


In the American of yesterday is an degree of


longitude, which made the week to consist of eight days. This is by no means an unusual occurrence; but the following, which may be called a Geographical or Chronological paradox, can occur but very seldom, and maybe interesting to some of our readers. In the month of February 1827, in the ship JUPITER under my command, I crossed the same meridian, or where “the extremes of East and West to meet,” which made that month (February,) to consists of thirty days including six Sundays; each day consisted of 24 hours, it as is usual with vessels at sea. September 8, 1827


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The Albion of September 1, contains the new British Customs Act, passed July 2nd


Eastport, September 1 ,


1827, and which went into force two days after. In amends and alters the several Acts consolidating the laws of the Customs past the 6th


year of his present Majesty’s reign. Some of its sections are highly interesting to


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PACKET, Shute, Boston; sloop NORMAN, Jordan, Castine. September 13th


, schooners INDUSTRY,


Flowers, Salem; ROB ROY, Donnell, Bos- ton; CONGRESS, Young, Boston; LINITY, Boardman, Boston; CHARLES AUSTIN, Davis, Hingham; MARGARET, Dean, Sa- lem; sloop ABIGAIL, Gilman, Boston. September 14th


, brig MARGARET,


Connor, Castine; schooner ECONOMY, Gilkey, Gloucester; sloop SOPHRONIA, Portland.


September 15th Boston.


26 September 7th


First vessel on Moose Lake. – On the inst. at Haskeltown, foot of Moosehead


Lake, the boat DESPATCH was launched. She was built by Mr. Isaac Cowan, Jr. of Sidney, is 36 feet keel, 11 feet beam, and will carry ten to fi fteen tons, being the fi rst vessel of burthen ever on the lake. On the next day after she was launched, she was to clear out from Haskeltown with 16 men, 6 oxen, and supplies and apparatus for a fall and winter’s lumbering. – Kennebec Journal


Woodward, Hingham. September 16th


, schooner FAME, , sloop BRUTUS, Clark,


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