Captain Ross was made Lieutenant in March 1805; advanced to
the rank of Commander in February 1812, and appointed to the Briseis brig, of 10 guns, on the Baltic station, March 2Ist in the same year. In the night of June 28th following, his Lieutenant, Thomas Jones, with a midshipman and 18 men, most gallantly- attacked and recaptured an English merchant ship lying in Pillau Roads, armed, in expectation of such an attempt, with 6 guns and 4 swivel, defended by a party. of French troops OH her deck, and surrounded by small craft in the act of receiving her cargo. In this affair, the British had one man killed, arid the midshipman, one sailor, and one marine wounded. In October, the Briseis captured Le Petit Poncet, tench privateer, of 4 guns and 23 men, and drove on shore three other vessels of the same description. Captain Ross's subsequent appointments were June 7th, 1814, to the Actmon, of 16 guns ; August 231, 1815, to' the Drier, sloop ; and January 4th, 1818, to the Isabella, then fitting for the purpose of ex- )loring Baffin's Bay, from whence he returned at the end Of that year, and published an account of the voyage.
In a return lately laid before the Court of East India Proprietors, the expenses incurred by the people of India for embassies to the Court of Persia during the last thirty-eight years are made to amount to nearly a million sterling. The following are-the names of the persons so employed, the salaries received, and the expenses they incurred : we give the sum total received by each envoy, inducting salary and expenses _Captain Sir J. Malcohn, 1799, 111,963/. ; Mr. Manesty, 1814, 105,791/.; Sir H. Jones, 1807, 163,5351.; Brigadier-General Sir J. Malcolm, 1808, 220,350/. ; Sir Gore Ouseley, 1810, 141,1061.; Mr. H. Ellis, 1813, 2,500/. ; Mr. Morier, 1814, 23,070/. • Mr. E. 1816, 46731.; Colonels Macdonald and Campbell, 160,008/. ;' Making in all the very moderate outlay of 977,056L—United Serm•ce Gazette.
A deathblow has recently been inflicted on the contraband traffic in spirits, by an arrangement entered into by the Governments Of this country and France, viz, that no spirituous liquors be suffered to be ex- ported to England, in casks containing less than sixty gallons.
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