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  characters are known from one extreme of that sea to the other.

Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq. 

 officer is the second son of the late Edward O’Bryen, Esq., a Captain in the army, brother of Murrough, the first Marquis of Thomond. During the greater part of the first French revolutionary war, he commanded the Shark and Childers sloops of war. His post commission bears date Feb. 14, 1799. We subsequently find him in the Emerald frigate, assisting at the capture of St. Lucia and Surinam. The following are extracts from the official letter of Commodore Hood, announcing the reduction of the latter colony:

