Monthly Chronicle.

SoA'ereign , his OAVU flag ship . On receiA'ing this intimation , the Board of Admiralty ordered Admiral Cormvallis to strike his flag . The running-doAvn of the Belisarius outAvard-bound West India transport is said to have been occasioned by a dispute bctiveen the Master and his Second Mate , AA'hen Avearing ship . An unhappy woman , Avith her infant in her arms , Avho stood on the quarter-deck of this ship , attempted to save the life of her infant by throAving it on board the Royal Sovereign at the instant of the tAA-o ships meeting , but unfortunately it fell between the two ships' sidesand tvas crushed to atoms

, before the eyes of its unhappy mother , Avho , in her distraction of mind , instantly precipitated herself into the sea , ancl shared the grave of her child . The folloAving plans ' are laid before the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture , by Mr . John Clark , carpenter of his Majesty ' s ship London , and patronized by his ' Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence , i . A neAV improvement on hinging and securing-ships' rudders , to prevent , them unshipping Avhen the shistrikes the ground . 2 . An improvement in fitting and securing a

subp stitute rudder in a heavy sea . 3 . An improvement for securing magazines , storerooms , & c . from fire . 4 . An expeditious method for stopping the progress of fire on board of ships . 5 . A plan for the arrangements of pumps in cases of fire , or of a ship springing a leak . 6 . A plan for constructing the partners of loAver masts , to admit the top-masts to be shipped with ease and dispatch in gales of Avind , ancl also an improvement on top-mast-caps .

A duel of a very sanguinary nature took place lately at Hamburgh between General W . and Colonel I . both Officers of the Guards . It originated in a quarrel at a gaming-table . They tvent out to fig ht Avith broad stvords . At ths first stroke Colonel 1 . cut off the fingers of the right hand of General W . The matter ended thus for the present ; but it is supposed that another meeting will take place . Marlborough-street oflice was lately visited by Mess . Cramer and Giornovichi , ttvo celebrated musical performers . They were taken there on a warrant , the one for having sent a challengeand the other for accepting it . The dispute , by the

, advice of the Magistrate , Avas . amicably settled . Thus a desperate and probably a most bloody DUET has been prevented by the interference of a friendly second fiddle ! fortunately screAved up in concert pilch for the harmonic purpose . The minorkeyed Cramer , it seems , called out the con-farioso Giornovichi for an orchestra insult on his father . It happening that neither of the primes having a bow lo draw the next day , heroically agreed to draw a trigger against the J ; siring of each other's life . The instruments Avere prepared ; but , happily , the lime Avas not duly kept , as one of-them only began his dead march to Padding-ton in three fatswhile tlie other

, had run his rn \> hl fuge to the termination of the passage , marked for the last movement , Avhere he remained con poco affetluoso ' . From this error in counting , a confused interval of 24 bars rest took place , in which the two-part friend happily threAV in K melting cantabile of his OAA ' n composing ; this brought the principal performers into unison with each other , by an amicable rondeau , which , after a long shake , closed the performance , by a A'ery laughable FINALE .

On the return of the Diedalus from Port Jackson , a short time ago , she called at Otaheite , one of the South-Sea islands . There , to the no small surprise of the . Captain and CTCAA- , they found nine of their countrymen married , settled and living in the greatest ease and comfort ; Avho , being asked IIOAV they came there , informed them , that they sailed from England in a South-whaler , belonging to Messrs . Calvert ancl Co . called the Amelia , Avhich had the misfortune to bulge upon a rock . Finding it impossible to save the ship or any part of the stores , they got into the boatcommitted themselves to the mercy of the Avavesand . Avere safely

, , tvafled to the shores of Olaheite . The natives not unaccustomed to the colour of their skin , nor the sound of their language , received them with every token of affection and joy ; assigned them lands , aud servants to cultivate them ; adopted them into the order of Nobility , and , as a proof of the insignia of their elevation , tattOAved them from top to bottom . At a Privy Council which was lately held , the Churchwardens and Overseers of