EAST INDIA SHIPPING. FRIDAY EVEN/NO.
The very needless and mischievous dispute, in which the Company's factory in-
volved themselves with the Chinese, is at length terminated. Trade was resumed early in February, and five ships, fully laden, were despatched from Canton by the 12th March, and have this week safely arrived in the Thames. The vessels remaining in the Bocce Tigris were busily engaged in receiving their cargos, and it is expected would all be despatched by the middle of April, when they might still effect a pas- sage down the China Sea.
By the arrival of these ships, all doubts as to the sailing of the Bridgwater are dispelled. She left Macao, as was formerly stated, on the 31st January, with Mr. Plowden, the late President of the Select Committee, and twenty other passengers, and passed Angier on the 17th February, but has not since been heard of. It will be recollected that this ship was driven ashore immediately after her arrival at Linttn, but got off without any apparent damage except the lose of her masts. This circumstance is not lost sight of in the present state of anxiety for her safety. It excites the feats of the parties interested, that blotvinis wolelicr may have revealed 'Metre serious injury from her accident, than had been diseovered when she left China.. On the other hand, the quickness of her passage to the Stilitiof Sunda is adduced as a proof that her strength must have been tried in theChina Sea, and her defects, bad any exiisted, ascertained before she touched at Raja Basso. It seems to be gene- rally believed, however, that some misfortune has since befallen leer; and the hope is therefore entertained, that the temporary masts which she procured at Canton may have given way, and that she ha's run for some port in India to replace them. As she is chiefly laden with the investments of the captains and officers of the fleet, the sum insured on her is unusually large, and the anxiety of the Underwriters pro- portionably great. Re-insurances have been effected on goods by her at thirty guineas per cent. Arrived.—At Gravesend, July 5th, H. C. Ships Duke of Sussex, Whitehead, and Duke of York, Lucke, from China. 6th, Orient, White, from Bengal; Captain Cook, Willis, from Bombay ; H. C. Ships Herefordshire, Hope, from China, and Marquis Wellington, Chapman, from Bengal and Madras. 7th, Clyde, Oldham, from Bombay. 8th, H. C. Ships Repulse, Gribble, and Lady Melville, Clifford, from China. Off Dover, July 7, Patriot, Guild, from the Cape. At Cowes, July 5th, John, Nosworthy, from Manilla fur Antwerp. At St. Jago, March 14, Henry, Bunny, for the Cape. 15th, Corsair, Robinson, for Madras. April 14th, Edward Lombe, Freeman, for Swan River—all from London. At St. Helena, previous to 2.1th May, H. C. Ship Marquis Camden, Larkins, from London ; Calypso, Hutchinson, and Collinson, from the Cape; and North Briton, Morrison, from Batavia. At the Cape, Feejec, Al`Gowan, from Liverpool. At Mauritius, March 31, Peter Proctor, Terry, from London. At Canton, March 4, II. C. Extra Ship, Larkins, Campbell, from London.
Sailed.—From Gravesend, July 3rd, Burrill, Metcalfe, for New South Wales, and Tam-0'-Shanter, Lindsay, for Bengal. Gth, Orynthia, Rixon, for Batavia. 7th, Julia, Grant, for Ascension. 8th, Kains, Goodwin, for New South Wales. From Liverpool, July 3Cd, Dorothy, Garnock, for Bombay.
Spoken.—Pyramus, from London to Bombay, 23th May, 5 north, 22 west. H. C. S. Dunira, from London to Bengal and China, 6th April, 16 south, 77 east. Lord IV. Sentinel:, from London to Madras, 3rd June, 5 north, IS west. Royal Charlotte, from London to Bombay, 23rd Jan. 1 north, 20 west. Nandi, from Liverpool to Bengal, 4th May, 36 south, 27 east. Lord Amherst, from London to Madras, 9th March, 6 south, 83 east. Mary, Hope, from Liverpool to Batavia, 9 south, 33 east. SATORDAy HonNING. Arrived.—Off Poole, July 9th, Albion, Collinson ; and at Liverpool, July btb, Pacific, Corkhill, both from the Cape.
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