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:h was blockading ' N lAT IN. mmulic..tcd yeller ,ion under Admiral 4' e r to ptefellt our , from an officer on ROADS, AUGUST 9. what we arc duii.g here iil of the line moored in tl. : within us are all the ward —Off Copenhagen . Enri•l•rigq, fire fhipq fiv e s of war, and a number Zealand, to prevent , !e f the line, four frigat.A. Thus you fee we hare uadron and a numhcr c , r refs for I..nding in con .r from tiolilein to Co. therefore, if he °note land and tale tom. he holding of which puts At this =meld there are !nand and their Gran,* c 1 t u;a:'s our uppin g ... ty to lay before oar have to add, that n (bay, dated Saterday lc Baltic arrived in our d 401 fhurfday fe'nnight, d report% chit when 11,e he Cattle at Elantur, and nd nt) the sth, and : day after. Admi. lated the 9th, being itch 4WD C had then lona/ expefted from a particular park. The S-a•lirg nts from TonninKen, em over. Mr. JAcK nningen to Kiel, ad• arrived in the EyJcr, o leave that river. dmiral MURRAY and qonte Video early in tFck was to be made received by a refpeet. iii Life n Raze; ed, on pain of death, habitants of Buenos that the Prießs were excite animofity and A letter from Madrid, wever, mentions, that , d, that Buenos Ayres h. The next arrival, latement, which our rd from Lifbon lfo. ine , this diy at the this Paper WAS put to night difparches were ,ASTLERkAGH'S Office. 441 g veliCl to Lord HIER. rumours in circulating h America, no appre by he American mer ture between the two a (hip' arrived in the that two rtineaable )n board the tirt.t.oss .n‘'s proclamation irnodore. They afked really meant to aft as or of Norfolk ? but he lion to do fn, nor would els he had orders from came out from Norfolk 'NA and other F,Mglith aored off the Capes as as delivered to them. Is bna►ded by an officer and pclitely treated. — lent of Norfolk by the wholly unfounded. Y opened the hoG Hol•fe, in Chatham eeption of c ; any to 20 -, cards of invitAtion And a Wed p. 4 • y were not fep.itate till a late twelve o'clock at night, :overed in the fait works Hale, near Liverpool, the whcle ,If thole ex e immediate afliikAnce of men and the reielit •r --d after about one-third d. Pt William 7 oritlinfon, and d in front Newgate ifted of returning from :pity of their time, the ode haling. Finch and fpeOed of being guilty eral ',trams in Holborn, Tang t" rob a cartiel's o'clock the unhappy fuf old. and all teemed re nd 'fomlinfon took leave each other s hands um 1 rnity. Pearce appeared ay long befote the plat- GIBRALTAR, yuLr :I. On the 18th the convoy for this place and Malt' arrived from Falmouth in thirteen days paffage ; Si CHARLIS Gassw and his Staff are on board of the Pasvoyswye, for Malta. The regiment of MILIRON for this place, difembarked here yellerday. On the tsoth the Princefs Augufta packet arrived in nineteen days from Malta : the brings no news either from Sicily or Alexandria. The General Fox packet bad arrived from Alexandria, in twenty days paffage, the day before the Princefs Augufta left Malta, at which time every thing was quiet at Alex andria, nor were they under any apprehenfions of being attacked by the Turks. The convoy from this place to England will fail the firft utterly wind, with the GLORY, Captain OTWAY. JULY 22.—The HINDUSTAN and PRIMYANTI with the convoy for Malta, failed this morning. PRE AT CHATHAM DOCK-YARD. We are happy to inform our Readers, that the reports fo generally in circulation in the early part of yeßerday, refpeeltig the mag nitude of this 'trident, arc entirely unfounded. Anxious to lay before the Public the full& accounts of the bands, we fubjoin the following Letters. written by perfons on the fpot where the accident happened CHATHAM, Aucusr 18.—Yefterday evening, an early Ball and Supper was given by the Officers of the Regiments quartered in the Barracks, and the Marines, at the Ball-room, in Soho. Between eight and nine o'clock, the old Store houfe, on the left-hand of the entrance into the Yard, which had lately been occupied for the flowage of hemp and other flores, was difcovered by the cen tinel to be on fire. The alarm bells were direetly rung, the Officers, who were at the Ball, immediately repaired to the fpot : by this time the foldiers in the barracks were alrembled, under aims, and according to the direetion of the Officers, infiantly began de molifhing the roof of the warehoufe that was on fire, in order to admit the water from the engines be longing to the Dock-yard. By their timely exertion, and the praife.worthy activity of the Officers, the fire was completely got under, without any other damage than the dearuelion of the above ware houfe. Had it not been for the timely affifiance of the officers and foldiers, the Spinning warehoufe, the Laying-houfe, with the Store-houfe adjacent to the Anchor Wharf, muff have fallen a facrifice to the conflagration ; it alto happened very fortunately that the wind changed during the fire from N. E. to E. which, without doubt, greatly tended to the prefer vation of the warehoufes. The origin is fuppofed to have been that of too green flax having been packed clofe together, which, like green hay, will fometimes, by confinement, inflame. ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE. At a little pall nine o'clock left night, the inha bitants of this place and the neighbourhood were alarmed by the notice of a fire in the dock yard : a circumliance of fuch importance communicated an immediate and aelive interefi to every individual— the bells in the (hipping, and every public place, rung an alarm, and the drums beat to arms in every quar ter. A multitude of perfons was foon atembled, and a number of fire engines, and a good fupply of water being on the !pot, the moll aflive exertions were made to flop the progrefs of the flames. The fire was dit covered in a place where hemp is drefred, which is in a building feparated by a (mall interval on one fide from the rope houfe, and at one end from the hemp houfe, at this time completely full, both of which buildings, at one time, were in imminent danger.— The intrepid condo°, however, of fome of the people belonging to the Dock yard, and of the York Militia, overcame every °bank ; walking over the roof of the building what} the flames floated out between their feet, they opened a pelage, by clearing away the tiles, for the full play of the engines; the progrefs of the devouring element was loon artefled, and in about began hour completely fubdued. The mifchief that was done isof comparatively trifling importance, the roof of the building being the only thing deflroyed. There were nearly twenty ton of hemp in the drefling houfe, but a ♦cry (mall portion of which was con found. The greateft credit is due to every cl.sfs of perfons fcr their ready appearance and prompt affiftance on this occafion: the military of every defcription, Artil lery, Marines, and Militia, were inflantly affembled, the workmen of the yard and the towns people, trosvded to the fcene of peril, and were all united in their exertions till the danger was completely re. moved. The Commit'loner, though in an indifferent Elate of health, and unable to Band, was feated in a chair oppofite the building which was on fire, and by his miners of condua, and his prompt and clear in anition:, carded the good order which prevailed, and eftablifhed the facility of obtaining the Complies of water, which quickly fubdued the violence of the flames. Duat..—On Friday evening, about eight o'clo:k, a duel was fought in a field at the Grange, near Stroud, in Gloucellei fhire, between Lieutenant H. of the 3d regiment cf Buffs, and Lieutenant D. of the 82d regiment of foot, both Rationed at Stroud, upon the recruiting fervice. The latter Gentleman received the fhot cf his antagonill (Lieutenant H.) through the arm and body, and was cart led from the field by a fpeeator 1 He yet furvives, although there are but :dint hopes entertained of his recovery. Lieu tenant H. and his fecond immediately ablconded It is very fingular, that only one fecond (Captain S ) attended this unfo.zhnate affair. The project of efiablillsing a new dock yard and depot for the Rc.yal Navy on the banksof the Thames, which has long been in contemplation, is now about to be realized. Government, it is Paid, are at prefent negcciating a ith Mr. \Vadman, for the purchafe of his dice at No111:fleet, as that (pot is found to of ford the moil favt.orable facilities for the excavation of dock!, and the moR commanding grounds for treeing batteries for their proteSion; while the depth °f water in the River at that place, will prevent the s conveniences that ate experienced on account of 1, t went of it at Woolwich a►:d Deptford• 1 AlittiricAL INT ELLVANCL 410•1•••••••••=b Information *at this day received at the India Houfe, that the DUKE OF MONTKOSI, WORKMEN, ALFRED, and the UNITED Kt mcDoM, outward bound Eaft Indiamen, had arrived at Sr. Helena, and were to fail from thence on the 3d July, in company. The BLINIIIII4 man of war was giYen up for loft. The following !hips failed from St. Helena, the 27th June, tinder convoy of his Majefty's fhip AN TELOPS—aII homeward bound t Lady Jane Dondas, Hugh Inglis, Bengal, Lord Caßlereagh, Atm, Walthanstlow, Lord Nelfon, Alexander, Sovereign, Mon arch, Harriet, Huddart, Earl St. Vioeent, Scorpion and Atlantic Whalers, and one Swede, Fly brig, with fundries, from the Cape of Good Hope. FALMOUTH, AUGUST i& Arrived the Princefs Align(la Packet, Captain St. Atrevri, from Malta and Gibraltar, in eleven days from the latter place. Off Malaga, the was attacked by a Spanifh row-boat of 6 guns, which the engaged and funk.—Wind S. E. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST t 7. Came in the Metta and Methe, Capt. WooLD, from Lifbln for Tonningen, with fugal-, detained by the Betfey privateer ; CONCORD, of 36 guns, from the Earl Indies : the brings an account of the lots of the Ganges Eaft Indiaman, and that all her crew are Paved ; and that from there having been no account received of his Majefly's [hip BLRNNttst, of 8o guns, it is feared the is 1011. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST a. Arrived tie EXPLOSION bomb, with a convoy from the Downs ; and the LocusT from a cruize.—Sailed the AGINCOURT man of war, with Pealed orders; and the DARING, on a cruize.—Wind E. DEAL, AUGUST iS. Sailed through the Downs lali night, the Goad Hunter, Voss, for New York.—Arrived the SKY LARK sloop of war, from a cruize.—Wind N. E. HARWICH. AUGUST 17. , About nine o'clock yellerday morning the follow ing vetrels, viz: the brig Betfey, of Newcaftle, Mur ray, from Riga, with hemp, for the King's Yard, at Portfmouth ; Speculator, of London, Bready, from Riga, with hemp, iron, &c. for London ; and a laden collier, name unknown, were captured by a French lugger privateer, of 14 guns, off the Long Sand ; and when our informant firfi Paw them, the lugger and her prizes were fieering S. S. W. and it is (up. poled they would make for Flufhing or Dunkirk. The intelligence reached here yetterday evening about eight o'clock, and a gun brig, with the Argus cutter, in the revenue fervice, being put in poffeflion of particulars, went in purfuit ; but there was hardly a breath of wind flirting. The crew of the fiat men tior.ed brig deferted her, and got on board a light collier, bound to the northward. LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 17. The Higginfon Sen. MgDonald, of this port, failed from Port Royal the 25th of June, and from Nigrel on the 27th, under convoy of the ELEPHANT, 74, and the CUBA frigate, and parted from them on the 25th July, in thick weather, on the banks of Newfound. land, and has not leen any of them fince, except the Ear sant tzs, whom the fell in with the following day, and k-pt company. The Enterprife, LAWSON, from Jamaica, left there on the 27th June, in com pany with 127 fail, his Majelly's (hips ELEPHANT, CUsA and Poar Mauoms, the convoy. On the ad July, fell in with his Majefty's (hip VETERAN. On the 3d,off Cape Antonin,came on a very heavy (quail of wind and rain, in which his Majefty's brig PORT Marrows loft her foremaft, bowfprit, and main-top. matt : parted company in confequence thereof. On the sth the VETERAN parted company in fearch of the PORT MAHONE : continued in company with the fleet until the 25th, then tos fail counted in the af ternoon, on the•toundings on the banks of Newfound land, long. 52. to. lat. 43. ao: it coming on thick, loft light of the fleet, the wind W.S.W. with a (tiff breeze.—The Britannia, HUNTER, from London, in (even days; five leagues to the fouihward of the Smalls, paft a (hip on her broadfide, her lower malls painted yellow, top gallant and top fails banded. EXTRACT Or A LETTER PROM CAPTAIN NrEARLANZ, OP THE SUR PRIZE, TO HIS OWNERS, DATED ST. TllOltAS', JULY 11. " Gentlemen—We arrived here on the 19th Nlt.; ere this reaches you, you will have heard of the Surprise being attacked on the paffage out, by a French privateer; Ate engaged us on the 14th and tstb ult. each day for about three hours; we beat her cff, and fo much difabied her that the could not trouble us more. Sorry to add from having two men killed.'five wounded, and myfelf rendered unable to give any manual affiltaice. Our main mad Dot sway, and our fails and rigging muck, injured by the enemy's Sot, that we could not take advantage of their fituation . The privateer had fix guns and was crowded with men ; we were reduced to the fame number of guns about the middle of the firft adlion, as our four Dort guns were ditmounted. 33y one of them dilmounting I was hurt; it (truck meat the right thigh, knocked me down and itadured three of my ribs; this is the Brit day I have ventured out on crutches." SETSACT or A LITTER FROM CAPTAIN PRIARS, or TEE SHIP FORTITUDE, TO MIS OWNUS IN LIVERPOOL. Port Royal, Jamaica, May t 7. Nothing material occurred after our leaving St Thomas ', until the morning of the 14th indent; at day light, the port of Jaque , mei N. N. W. diftant x 1 miles, kw two fchooners clofe In with the land ; at half pad five, perceived them to be armed veffels,pulling a confide:able quantity of (weeps ; as there was not a breath of wind, came up very fad, jug gave me time to get in readinefs to receive them ; at (even. hoifted French colours, and continued (weeping towards us, and firing their great guns at intervals ; at a little (afore eight, commenced our fire with what guns I could get to bear, which made them retreat out of gun Sot ; at half paft eight, (wept up again on either quarter to board, in this fituation remained until ten, keeping coettant fire at them with what guns I could get to bear; at a quarter paft ten, got their boats out and graplirg up to the (qui:reran yard arms; at eleven,clapt me along fide, one on each quarter ; as there was no wind,l could not work the Blip to.gct our guns to bear as I could with; the fire, believe me, Gentlemen, was tremendous; ray two after:nod guns, with the earronades, were all the guns o f fervice to me, with my (mall 1 arms—but alas ! what was my mulketry, to contend with iSs I men, toms on one fide and Tome on another ; at meridian, boarded me; cutting up every perfon who could not get out of their way. I am forty to fay that my lots is fo great, four men killed, eight I dangeroufly, and four (lightly wounded. Every praife is due to my officers and men; they 'behaved like Englifitmen to the left moment. lam lorry to lee fo many fuffer, although I fuffer molt myfelf, having received at boarding, a ball through the thigh, and a dangerous cut on the cheek and ear. At fix P. M. of the fame, the Blip was recaptured by his Majefty's Sip Hams, and fent tor this port. where we waved this day. The following are the names of the killed and wounded on board the Fortitule i Killed—Mr. Charles M'Adam, jun. fupercargo; James Har rington, William Williams, Francis Fracray. (cameo. Wounded cargerouily Robert Fears, captain; Hugh Rogers, boatfwain • Thomas Williams, William Canon, Jacob Peterfon, James Hamilton, Donald Mark e Nathaniel Hunt, feamen. Wounded Bight/y—JoickS NMI, Jorepb Edwards, John Jones, John Tyra, Swum FROM LLOYD'S UST. The Eliza, SLY, from Waterford to London, put back to Waterford on the i3th inft. with the lots of foreman, and other damage. GRAT&111140, AUGUST ty.--Paired by the Truro, Robinfon, from Memel ; Adeona, Barren; Eliza, Oaks ; and the Can, Purcell, from Peteriburgh ; Effort, Robinfon, from Greenland ; Ebenezer, Ludwig; Louifa, Emerfon ; and the Minerva. Foyer,..l from Norway ; Concordia, —, from Riga ; Sceptre, Davidfra ; I Providence * Lawfon ; Fanny, Hodgfon; and the Fame. Bermes.'l, from Tonningen. Sailed, thc Harlequin, Shepherd, fog Jamaica;; Young Rofclus, Lambert, for St. Vircent's ; Ocean. Girdon, for Philadelphia ; and the Lady Tyreonrel, Walker, for Madeira. Aooorr by the Larkins, Forger, from Jamaica; Peggy, Foram from Memell; Leeds, Smith, from Peteriburgh ; Pitt, Smith, from Wyburg; Pritnrofe, Borth. from Riga; Mi • nerva, Baker; Ifehella ‘ Colin, and the Princefa Wilhe [mine, from Norway.--Sailed the Eurydice. Compton. for Surinam ; • Glebe, Bailey, for Baltimore; and the Argo, Burke, for Cork. ARRIVED. At Drifted, the Nelfon, Summers; Maria, Thomas ; Conn, Car ron; Kingfton, homer; Edward, Powell; Ives, Arkinfoo ja• mica, Walker ; Zephyr, Paffmoree St. Elizabeth, Loveli; and Union, Gardner, from Jamaica Liverpool, Lottery, from Jamaica; Mary, Flaherty. from New Orleans; William, M'Lean; and the Eliza Ann, Stevens, from New York —.-Off Ire land, Duke of York, Friar; Eclipfe, Author; Purfuit, Brilliant, nonstick' ; Cygnet, Smith ; and Carlbury, Drifcott. from Jamaica.—At Newcaftle, Young Sufan, —, from Virginia —At Newfoundland, Bella, Stable; and the Brother*, Duuley; from Li verpool. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. The Amethylt, for the Spel, Nov. it, and the Irene, Nov. 14, 1E433, was paid this day, at No. p, Net► Broad•areeet, and will be there recalled on Wednrfilays and Thurfdays. The Exertion, for the Charlotte Loulfa, March tp, t 87.6, wIY be paid on board, in the Downs, and recalled at the fame times and place as the aforementioned. La Topaze, for the Henriek and Marie. April s 7, i 830, will be paid on Tutiday neat, at No. 63, Lamb's Cooduit.itreet, and there recalled on Tuefdays and Fridays. The Stately, for the Nicholai and Martha, May s, 1806, will be paid on board, on Saturday text, and recalled on Tuefdays and Fridays, at No. as, Norfolk Area, Strand. ADMIRALTY COURT, AUGUST IS. THE SHIP SAMSON. Sentence was pronounced this day in this interefl. ing mill. It was a cafe of falvage between the captors, who were Englifh, and the American owners of the Averican Ihip. Sanfnn. The Ibip had failed from Baltimore as a neutral trader, and was captur ed off the coati of Spain by a French privateer ; and as the captors were conduOing their prize to the eve my's port, one of our cruizers recaptured the Ame• rican, and brought her into an Englifis port, to which country the was originally bound. The captors contended, that they were entitled to falvage from this neutral valet, inafmuch as the re capture took pl ice fubfequent to the decree of the French Empe ror, Wiled in November left, againit all realms on the Continent who fhould carry on any commerce with England, until the Government of 'England timid be brought to their fenfes, and induced to abandon their fyflem of defpotifm over the ocean, and their claim to the power and praßice of •iolating the laws of nations, &c. This decree was dated, on behalf of the owners, to be a nullity, and not in tended as . againit certain powers, and more efpeci ally as not intended againft American (hips, as the Government of France had ailed no orders fur fit ting out privateers to ael under the decree. Sir WILLIAM SCOTT laid down the law generally and fpecially upon Inch cafes. He Paid, in general, neutrals, by the law of nations, were not liable to falvage, without particular orders or dilations from the refpative powers, grounded upon peculiar cir cutnftances. which excepted thole fpecial cafes, of which he did (on molt mature deliberation) confider the cafe for judgment now before him to be one decree of the French Government was, in words and meaning, arch an unprecedented decree, as mull firike every man's mind with convitaion, as an un qualified hollility againfl the maritime commerce and conilitution of England. It required no explanation, nor admitted of any doubtful conftruCtion or interpre tation.• Orders had been iffued to all the Maritime Prefeas of the French Empire, and the Allies and States under its dominion and influence, to execute the decree ; and General Arm arong had remonftra ted with Monficur Andreffo, the French Minifler for Commerce, and from him could obtain no more fa tisfaBory explanation or information on this fubjeB, than je jenfe, think fuch or fuch fisould be the proper conitruaion This je penis was not an explanation, or an official communication proper to iffue from any Government, or to be at all regarded by any other Government in the world, and leaft of all by Eng land ; which, by this firange decree, was pronounced to be thenceforth in a flare of univerfal blockade, an idea never before entertained by any nation in fuch unqualified and unlimited terms. This decree was not intended as a nullity ; it was nothing like to a bruturn fre'rens I and as the captors in this cafe had refcaed the fhip from danger, and in fo doing bad rendered the owners cannel fervice, be fhould ad judge the owners to pay the captors falvage. He was not acing without a precedent, for it came fully within his judgment upon the flip from Denmark, where, in firnilar circumtlances, he granted falvage to the captors. THE SNIP JAMS.. This was a capture, made under the order of COllll - dated the 7th of January lag, commanding the capture of all neutral (hips trading between the enemy's ports ; which order was in eanfwer to the celebrated decree of Bonaparte, declaring this king. dom in a Rate of blockade, as above alluded to. The owners of the !Lip in queftion were merchants, at Emden, and it appeared, upon the depations be fore the Court, that the failed from the port of Vigo, in Spain, on the loth of February laft, bound for tie port of Chita Vecchia, in Italy, and laden with a cargo of Sardinias. From the proteß of the mailer it appeared, that about the 15th or 16th of March, meeting with fume heavy gales of wind, and the thip being much damaged, he was obliged to make for the neareß port, and put into Barcelona, where he repaired the (hip, difpoted of his cargo, and took in a cargo of wines, and was proceeding on his voyage to his •siellined port, when he was captured. On the part of the captors, Dodors Lawaasca and Ss ws er. contended, that this was a fraudulent profecution of a voyage from one of the enemy's ports to another, in violation of the above Order of Council, and therefore the captors were entitled to the judgment of the Court. They argued from. the (hip's journal and other documents on board, come pared with the protell of the Captain, and otber circumitancei, that the Owners and Captain (a part owner), had full knqwledge of Each Order,"and ailed in dirett violation thereof, and that the (hip's / real dctUnation at the time of her failing from Vigo, was not Civita Vecchia (then tonfidered al tt neutral port), but Barcelona dire& ; and this they adduced from the (hip's journal, which, although it noticed heavy gales of wind about the isth and 16th of March, did not mention any particular damage done to the Chip at that time, lo as to oblige her to put into the neorell port ; befides, if .there as that neceflity, the was at that time about three hundred leagues from Bai Mona, and within a much leis lance of other ports, where the could have put in and refitted ; her cargo alio being of a retithable nature, and not calculated for fo Icing a voyage, ail by a letter from the Owners to the Captain. diredling him in cafe nfneceffity, to make for a Barcelona. the Learned Advocate contended, that t his letter,- if not intended as a fraud - upon the Captain. was at kart an anticipation' of the .bad weather that Called, and clearly thewed that the parties, had full knowledge • at the time of thellsWis (ant frOm Visa,. of the Order pf Council WOO an bad pore mated a fraudulenlifiyage with a Vie* to elude fuch Order. . . The Learned Advocates, Doilori_ltgainva and nuarmsr, nn behalf of the oWhers, on the other fide contended, that there was nothing id the porta ineongria-us with the journal and 'tither docu ments ; that it appeared that the (hip's WOW nation was Civita Vecchia ; that fhe met tuid wea ther, and was much damaged in malts, Mill, and rigging, and was obliged, for there 'colons, to put into Barcelona, whence having refitted, the was about to profecute her voyage to her dellined port, when, upon examining her cargo, it was found necellary to dirpofe of it, and take in another. The L ear n e d Advocates all , argued upon the probability of the Mailer nut being ininnainted with the Order of Conn cil at the time of failing from Vigo, from the delay which needfully attends the failing of the Liflson packet, by which the knowledge of it was to be con. veyed, the difficulty of communicatiln, the obfcurity of the port of Vigo itfelf, and the fhort time which had elapfed between ifTuing the Order and the pe riod at which the flip failed from that port. After a reply of tome length by Dr. Lamaism the Learned Judge, Sir WILLIAM Scorr, obferved, that as the Order in queilion was a mater of extreme notoriety, and mull be of great importance with re fped to the commercial relations of this country with the Continent, there could be little doubt of its being well known in almoll every trad;ng port on the Con tinent before the failing of this flip from Vigo. Had Ike, therefore, failed from any of the principal com mercial ports on the Continent, he lhould not hell tate to fay, that the mull, of neceffity, have failed with full knowledge of fuch Order, and confequeptly in violation of it ; but Vigo being a very ',Wore place, little known in the commercial world, and the decree of the French Government, prohibiting the conveyance of any correfpondence between this kingdom and the Contioent,rendering the communi cation of fuch Order very difficult at that time, he thought there was a probability that the Captain or Mailer of this Ibip might have failed from Vigo in total ignorance of its exiflence ; and therefore he wifhed, before he finally derided the caufe, to have more evidence upon this part of the cafe, and direc ted that the Captain fhould be further examined to it. With refped to the veffel goiog to Barcelona, inilead of profecuting her voyage direct to Civita Vecchia, he did not think that altered the cafe at all ; for whe ther the went to one port or the other, he fhould con fider her equally within the operation of the Order of Council of the 7th of January la& Judgment deferred. Jungfer Charlotta, Otma mailer—Jafon, Simon fln nialter.—Thefe vetrels were under Pappenburgh colours, laden with cargoes of falt and other articles. In tbefe cafes the falt was condemned, and the quef. tion refpeaing the (hips waa direlied to Hand over for further intormation. Vrouw Cathatina, Bug mater.—This was a Kniphaufen veffel, laden with a cargo of tale, on a voyage from Litbon to Amiterdarn. Ship and cargo reftored on the payment of the captor's expences. J/nge San, Oebricks matter—Commerce, Jonkes matter.—There two •etfels were failing under the kniphaufen flag. Ships and cargoes rettored. REGATTA ATWINDIRIERRI LAE a.—The principal prize was won, on Thurfday laft, by a boat belonging to John Bolton. Efq. of Storrs.—The gentleman was alfo the faccefsful competitor laR year. Captain WOODBRIDGE, of the PSYCHE frigate, arrived yefterday morning at the Admiralty with difpatches from Admiral Sir E. Pattrw, dated on board the Citfloden, in Madras Roads, the sails of February. The CONCORDE frigate, from the Eat Indies, but Taft from St. Helena, whither the bad convoyed a fleet of homeward bound Eaft lndiamen of eleven or twelve fail, is arrived at Plymouth. The Com , CORDS failed from St. Helena on the 27th of June ; , the convoy had left it two days before under the pro teetion of the A MTELOPII. of 5o guns. The CONCORDS was informed by a tranfport, bound from the river Plate to England, which the fell in with on the [mirage, that Admiral Minium and Ge. neral CRAUruto, with the troops, had arrived at Monte Video early in June, and that an attack upon Buenos Ayres was immediately intended. We regret to Hate, that the Ganges, one of the convoy, foundered off the Cape of Good Hope, in a gale of wind. The crew and paffengers were fortu nately Paved ; the cargo, confining principally of teas, was all loft. The Ganges was one of the larkeft [hips in the Company's fervice. The lateft letters from Trinidad, received by the Packet on Monday, are dated 13th June, and it is with much concern we announce, that the affairs of the Settlement were then in a very alarming fituation, produced by a difference of opinion in relpea to the propriety of adminiftering the laws. The Governor, it teems, had iffued a preclamatit.n, by which thte future government of the Ifland was to be regulated by the fame code of laws which governed the other Weft India Colonies; but this, was firenuougy and violently oppofed by the Spanifh fettlers. Theßritifh Attorney General there Wiling that the Alcade, (the Spanifh Judge) had no jutifdielion out of the town of Port Spain ; a contrary do&rine was broach. ed and infifted upon by the Alcade. Each party had its adherents, and on ihis account the Ifland is re ported to be in a date of the moll Manning coefu•