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FRANCE. PARIS, AUGUST it. The Motiteur nt this day contains an tetrad from an Englifh Newfpaper, refpeding the interruption of M. Novostyrznves miffion, which is fiippofed to have been produced by the annexation of the Ligu rian Republic to France. Upon this paragraph, the Moniteur makes the following obfervations :•••• " We are not at all furprifed, that the movements which Aufiria tattles her troops to make, fhould in duce perfuns to fuppofe in England, that it is her with to coalefce againft France ; but we have a bet ter opinion of the pacific difpnatiens of the Emperor of Germany. Part experience proves, that Ruffia would fee with pleafure England and France weaken thcmfelves by a long war, in order that (he might, under. favour of their quarrels, attack the Empires of Contlantinople and Perfia. We repeat, that the would fee it with pleafere, becaufe (be has let no op portunity efcape her to increafe their difputes, in place of accommodating them. We cannot but remember the condud of M. DE MARCOFF, at the period of the breach of the treaty of Amiens. If Ruffia had been inclined to interfere, the war would not have taken I place ; and as the condo& of M. DI MARCOFF re ceived the approbation of his Sovereign, it is to be prefumed, that it made part of the fy(lem of the Ruffian Cabinet. " We recoiled with what eagernefs Ruffia OW wards interfered at Ratifbon , defying France, and ufing all her efforts to impel the Germanic Body to a war. The Germanic Body was more prudent : it was aware that the battle would be fought in Ger• many and in Italy: it recolleded that the conduit of the Northern States has invariably tended to increafe and cenfolidate their power by the wcaknefs and di. vilions of the States of the South. It remained quiet, took no notice of the Ruffian notes, and united itfelf clofer to France. " In the prefent affair, the Englith have had re eourfe $o Ruffle. If the only aim of their condud was to Tupply new matter for the abolition of this Power, and to increafe the animofity againft France, they have fucceeded. M. Novostwrzort is gone back. At the time of his departure he prefented an extraordinary kind of note to the Cabinet of Berlin ; and M. d'ALorsus canted it to be printed in ail the Northern papers. If, on the contrary, England was in earneft. and fincerely withed for peace, this pro ceeding of Ruflia has fruftrated the projetl, fince the has only manifefted paffinn and hatred, where the flout d have thewn temper and impartiality. " It remains at this day to be ken, which is that of the two powers, Pruffia or Auftria, that will de clare againft France. Pruffia has loudly declared that the did not participate in the frantic hatred of the Engin ; that the could not fee to what purpofe fuch inconfiderate and irritating proceedings tended; and that, in thort, under any pretext, the would not take arms againft France. If Kuala, affuming a lofty tone, withed to draw her into a war againft France, the opinion of old MOLLSNDOLFF, of that affociate Of the great FREDERICK, is, that Prutlia has nothing to fear from France, but every thing to apprehend from Ruffia ; and that from principles of juftice as well as policy, the ought rather to join too,ooo Pruffians to tob,ooo French, to defend her independence, and keep in order this Power, half European and half Afiatic ; which, reparated from Europe by defarts, can opprefs to arrogantly, when the pleafes, all her neighbours, and can withdraw herfelf from the ef feds of all the tempefts the may have excited. " It now depends upon the Court of Vienna to de cide the queltion. Peace or war ate in her hands. If England believes that the is as refolute in her pacific tyllem, as the knows Pruflia to be, the will feel, that fume the Continent cannot be difturbed, the thould place fome hounds to her hatred and yield to the ge neral with, in concluding fairly, without artifice or orientations negotiation, a juft and honeft peace. " If Auftria is glad to fee France and England tear each other to pieces, the will put her armies into motion, The will fo difpofe them as to encourage the war fadion in England, and will, by that means, have the melancholy fatisfaition of prolonging the anxieties and the cares of two great nations. 6 ' But the Englith are deceived. This fyllem of p.olitics cannot influence the condo& of a Prince fo candid, and a man fo honeft as FRANCIS 11. It is with Kings a. with individuals ; there is but one road to honour. If the fentiments of this Prince were hollile, he would ered his Randard ; he has a valiant army, and a numerous population ; be is convinced that a fecret war is unworthy of him, and of his nation. " We entertain not the leaft doubt but that Auf tria withes to have the honour of contributing to the peace of the Ocean; and the has her interett in it; for it is at this moment that the reparation of the Crowns of France and Italy can alone be eftablithed, which can remove the Ruffians from Corfu and the Morea, and the Englith from the Mediterranean — three events equally advantageous to Auftria, If One is fo inclined, we fay, (be has a very plain way of effeding it. Let her perfuade England of what the has been perfuaded by Pruffia, that the Minifterial Papers may no longer have pretexts for their rugger- Cons, that by degrees Aultria will be brought to be the imprudent instrument of England. But is it the intereft of England to prolong the war, even with the affiflance of Auftria ? An enlight ened Englithman raid, upon a folemn occafion, that the fyftem of the Cabinet of St. James's was entirely wrong when k walled to purchafe a confederacy by . pecuntary facrt. es hle remarked, that the firß co alition gave Belgium and Holland to France ; that, by the second, the acquired Piedmont aid Italy ; and that the third might poffibly give her new harbours, and an extenfion of her maritime coatis. This poli tical letron, which cannot be furpetted from the mouth of an Englith citizen, may poffibly be fo in this paper. It is not the lets true, notwithttanding. In the ac tual Rate of affairs, there can be nothing mote ad vantageous for England, or more profitable for her commerce, than a jolt and reafonable peace. " Let England be convinced, that the Frenchmen of the prefent day, reared up and hardened in camps, arc no longer the Frenchmen of the time of Louis %V. ; and that the period when the impofed a treaty of commerce upon the Cabinet of Verfailles, is as far removed from us, as the time when the had a Com tniffary at punkirk. The Emperor very properly Uri , ' to the King of ExcLexer, ' the 'odd is fuffi etently large for the two nations;' we tinq fay 133Prc ‘• : • toe g at 4* flaws in it." • runscil ACCOUNT DC THE ACTION WiTH $lll. ROBERT CALDER. MINISTRY -OF MARINE, On board the Emperor'', dip Buceotsure. Therasider (Jolt 27 ), 4 0 kaeses W.S.W. off C.pe Finifterre. I have the honour, Monfeigneur, to give you an account of the Combined Fleet having quitted Mar tinique on 16 Prairial ( June 5.) On the 9th July, being off Cape Finifterre, there came on an E. N. E. and N. E. wind, which blew with great violence. The Indomptable loft her mi len top-malt, and the fleeCfuffered much damage in its yards and fails. The wind moderated, but con tinued blowing from the fame quarter, and I re mained without being able to make more way, Rill contending with adverfe winds till the zzd July, when I defcried twenty-one fail of the enemy. I immedi ately formed in line of battle on the larboard tack. Adrnir-41 Gravina made to ihe Spanifh fquadron the fignal to head the line, and he hinifelf led the Com bined Squadrons. The weather was exceffively foggy; we fleeted towards the enemy, who fleeted towards us in a long line, with the apparent intention ofhaul ing their wind upon our rear, and of placing us be tween two fires, by tacking before the wind. As foot; as I faw them to leeward, I made the fignal for Inf.' fins up and going about. The fog began to difperffn As loon as my fignal was fees by Admiral Gravina, he immediately obeyed it with much refolntion, and was followed by all the yards of the fleet. As tow as he doled, he engaged the enemy's (hips, which had already begun their movement before the wind. But the fog then became fo thick that it was imp& ble to fee any thing, and each ;Dip could fcarcely fee the rail next to it. The battle then began almnfl along the whole line. We fired by the light of the enemy's fire almoft always without feting them. It was only at the end of the battle, when the weather cleared up a little, that I could fee to the leeward of the line a (hip of the line, under Spann colours, working windward under her entities, her topfails ftruck; near her were two of the enemy's, one totally difmafted, and the other a three-decker, with i her top-mall gone, and much cut in her rigging, falling to leeward. The difinalled ( hip appeared in great confufion, and could fcarcely keep the fea with all her pumps going. An exceffively thick fog covered the whole van and rear of the fquadron, and prevent. ed us from executing any movement. As far as I could fee, all the advantage of the combat was with us. The fog did not abate during the remainder of the evening. During the night the two fquadrons te mained in fight, making fignals to keep together.-4 thought I perceived that the enemy retreated. As (loon as the day broke we faw them much to the lee ward of us. All the reports received from the French yeas were fatisfadory ; thofe of Admiral Gravina evinced a firm determination to purfue and again at tack the enemy. When the weather afterwards cleared, we did not perceive two Spanifh (hips, le Firme and le St. Raphael. I ordered a general bring ing to, and forming a line of battle nn the larboard tack, bore down upon the enemy. The wind abated, the fea was high, the enemy bore down, and it was impoffible for me, during the whole of the day, to engage them in the manner I fhould have wifhed.— I was bufy all night in keeping the fleet in order, that I might be ready to renew the engagement at day break.—At the firli peep of dawn, I made fignal to bear down upon the enemy, who had taken their po fition at a great diftance, and endeavoured, by every pof able prefs of fall, to avoid renewing the anion. Finding it impoffible to force them to a re-engage ment, I thought it my duty not to remove any far ther from the line of my deftination, but fo to fhape my courfe as to effed, agreeably to my intiruEtions, a junaion with the fquadron in Ferrol. I experienced much oppofition from contrary winds at N. E. and E. N. E. which during yefterday continued to blow with the utmoft violence. The following is the only accounts I have received of the two (hips which are miffing from die Spann knadren Captain Cameo, who commanded the Pluto (a French (hip), informed me that from the very be ginning of the aaion, the Firms bad loft her main and mizen-malts; that he had protelted her as long as he could keep fight of her, by placing himfelf be tween her and the enemy, but that he foon after wards loft fight of her in the fog. As to the St. Ra phael, it appears certain that (be was not difmafted, but that velfel being a bad failer, fell to leeward, and we loft fight of her the fill nigh t. As to any thing further, the fog continued fo thick, that I was unable to diftinguilh the force of the enemy ' • but on the day after the *llion I faw fourteen fail, of which three were three deckers ; the greater part of them appeared much damaged. If it IS true, as Rated by the Captain of la Didn't, who re connoitred the enemy before the action, that they had fifteen fail, it may be prefumed, that one of them had difappeared in the anion. In (port, my Lord, this affair has been honourable to the arms of both powers, and had it not been for the thick fog which continued to favour the movements and the retreat of the enemy, he would not have efcaped our efforts, nor a decifive aiftion. 1 am Rill ignorant of the num ber of killed and wounded, but I believe it is not conflderable. I have to regret Captain De Perrone, of his Majefly's l'lntrepide, who was killed.— Captain Rolland, of l'Atlas, has received a wound. I (hall have the honour to fend you immediately more detailed accounts. I entreat your Excellency to accept my refpeas. vit.i.aseuva• Upon an Englilh account of the aaion of July 22, the Moniterir lays, in Note 1, 44 Nothing is laid in this account of the Engin three deckers which were difmafted. 44 It is Paid, that it was the intention of the Vice- Admiral to renew the anion on the following day.—:. That is not true, or, at leaß, the Vice Admiral hay ing afterwards found his fquadron was weakened by the I of the Windfor Cattle, and confiderably da marlrl,• changed his intention, as, during the two days which followed, he conitantly avoided an aaion." Upon the idea of reueating into Coruna, the Alto niteaw rays, in Nute s, 44 Retreat into Corunna! Strange expreffion as if the aka of the operation was not the junainn of the combined fquadrons with that of Ferrol I In a word; the combined fquadrons kept the fea, and 4ve days after the battle were fill off the coati." From ou board his Majefty's (hip, the Bueentaure, at fes, the azd Prairial (April II) • • My Lord—l have the honour to inform you, that on the 19th init. $), having doubledAntigt4, •-• l 4;riesatioet m the N. was a convoy et the eeeray, reallitieg of lc NI. I aside figtutt far a general chug, and at night-fall. the whole of the convoy was in my power, which I feat off to Martinique. Thefe flips, which had come one from Antigua, were all laden with colonial produce. and 'dellined for Europe. The convoy may be valued at five millions (FtL•ch ). I entreat your Excellency An accept my refpeas. TILLIE BUYS. P. S. The Didon frigate has jun taken a lugger of , 5 4 guns and 4g men. On board the Bucentaure, °lithe Awns, on the 4th Me der. My Lord—l have the honour to inform your Ex cellency, that yellerday morning the advanced fri gates difcerned two fail, to which they gave chace and came up with. One was an Englifb privateer, the Mars, of Liverpool, of 14 guns, and so men the other was a spanifb (hip, the Minerva, which he was &oiling, The (hip was coming from Lima, basing been at fea nearly five months, with a very' rich cargo. Independent of aso,ooo piafires, her cargo confined of bark, cocoa, atc. Btc. the whole et timated at from five to fix millions (French). The privateer being much damaged from boarding, Cap t4lo Lanseillerie, of the Hortenfe, yet it on fire, after taking the crew on board. The Didon manned the other, and I have her under my proteaion. I en treat your Excellency to accept my refpeas. vict.simuys. Aucturr ta.—The Minimr .of this day, nodes the head of July 31, gives from a London paper the Sc. count of the battle between the fquadron of Sir Ro an? CALDER and the combined fleets; and in a note obfcrves ; " The hopes expreffed at the end of this article have been difappointed. Vice-Admiral CALDER flood off with thirteen (hips, and left the Combined Squadron matters of the lea, and at liberty to follow their operations. The afertions of this journal are like its conjeaures. It is not true that the two Spa nifh (Lips find. Having (offered greatly in their rigging, and the combined fleets being to windward, they fell during the night into the enemy's line, which might have happened to the three Englifh dilmafted (hips ; had they been to windward, they would pro bably have fallen into the line of the combined (qua dron. ' Auonsr t;.—The Ilfaaikur of this day gives the Landon Gargite account of the battle, and accompanies it with the following notes ; " It is true, that Vice-Admiral Villeneuve had in the battle fourteen French and fix Spanilh (hips, but it is not true that he had three large so-gun !hips. Admiral Calder here admits, that he firn ceafed the engagement ; the reafon which he gives, that it was to fecure the two Spanifh thips he had taken, is falfi. fled, by the relation of our fquadron, fence thefe (hips did not fall into his hand's till after the battle, in the night, becaufe they could no longer manoeuvre, and were driven before the wind. The true reafon was, 4i had four (hips difmatled. " Admiral CALDER likewife does not fay that the Windfor tattle and the Malta were fo roughly has that it was with difficulty they reached the (bores of England. 44 As to the fog, we fee by the relation of Admit* Vita.sal nye, that he alto much regretted it, fence if there had been no fog, the Englifh Admiral would not have efcaped fo well. " As to lofs, the killed and wounded of the com bined fquadron are far inferior in number to thota on beard the Englifh fquadron. This engagement fought in the mid& of darknefs, and continued for three hohri, is really an irregular fitirmith." The following note is affirxed to a paragraph at- , pied from a paper of Augtill t, which Rates, that the communication from the Admiralty to Lloyd's, was far more fatisfaanry than Sir ROSEET CiLosa's patch, becaufe it exipreffed in a more decided touches - to renew the aaion munication is worthy of remark ; the Admiralty might reprefent that Sir R. CALDIe would engage in the manner that it **sib* interell to fop pole ; but the Admiralty did not know that be had fent back two (hips to England not only unfit for aaion, but altogether unable to keep the lea. They knew not that two other ()tips, three deckers, had been greatly damaged ; that the two Spanitb veffels had not been captured during the salon, but bad fallen info the Engli(h line during the night, and long after Vice Admiral Cei.nsa had ceafed firing, and dif continued the aaion." The following note is an extra& from another pa per, Rating the verbal menage of Sir Rosser CALDER by Lieutenant Nicuoi.som'to Admiral Coaiwm.sis, that he could and would renew the aaion " Here fags alone (peak. You admit that she Engli(h fquadron was the fira to difcontinue the fight, and to withdraw from the fcene of aaion ; this it did becaufe it had four (hips diftnatied. You admit that Admiral CaLnea was to renew the attack on the following day, and that it was in his power to do fo ; he not only did not do fo, but kept aloof, and at a great dinance, and, in the end, difappeared al together. You fay, that Admiral CALDER had fent only the Windfor Cale to England, be has al& fent the Malta. " This " In fhort your flatements prove, that the combined Beet had the viefory ; two 'veffels have already left your fquadron ; and the eighteen (hips of the com bined fquadron are in a good condition, have accom plifbed the objea of their miCGon, and obliged you to raife your blockade. This we take to be the trueß fign of vitory. Two Smith veffels, bad &Hors, equipped in hale, fuffered greatly in the action, then drifted and fell into your bands daring the night, without being perceived by the combined fquadron till the next day : It was a great lots; but you alfo have fuffered a real lofs of the two veffels that have been obliged to return to port. fg Let us accurately compare the farce of the two (quadrons. You had three three-deckers, and we had none, for there is a mifiake ip your account, the Neptune and Formidable are but eighties, and the Spanifh flip the Argonaut, is but a 74. The com bined fquadron had twenty (hips, but of two different nations ; it is well known that they are not the fame as twenty of the fame nation. Betides, what more could be required from this fquadron I It remained mifirefs of the Lea, and compelled you to abandon the fcene of anion. An accident occurred in the thick of the fog, apd this accident has &recited your defeat—has enabled you to make it pail for a vic tory ;but in proportion as things Will clear up Europe will be convinced that yotl lave fuffered a teal de feat.'' The combir t ed fcm4rona wilhed to enter Per t(); or corultna and 66r In as' CALosa winked to prevent theta. This is the problem thlt the Min i is to Coln. Has tha advantage been on your fide, or has Admiral VILLsv guys accomplifhed his mif fion ? The folution of this queftion will decide that of the viaory. It is impoffible not to have at once politilre notions of this decifive fad. You fay that the fquadrons fought bravely ; very well ! the different accounts of the French and Spani(h fquadn,ns fsy, that they had not fought at all. and the whol e h a d been but an irregular tkirmifk. If the following morning Admiral C.m.oat had not had the prudence to keep aloof, and with the advantage of Chi. wind, your defeat had been snore complete." SALSSUILGH, AUGUST 1.--forty bakers, employed for the troops, paired through this town this mor n . ing for the Tyrol. Stiria, and the North of Italy, are full of foldiers ; there is alto a great number is the Tyrol. LIST INDIES. APTHACT Or A CATTAIL nom AI OFflCatt 6ITACHIII THOM stoaauanao, DATZ9 41,11AMILft, 19TH is. 111.1.1 ART, 1865. " We are in the greaten anxiety here about our friends in Moradabad, where a large body of the ene my, commanded by Ameer Khan, arrived on the 16th, and condoned their attacks during that awl the following day. Molt fortunately for the Euro. pean inhabitant:, Mr. Leyeefter p the Coßettor, had the precaution early in the prefent campaign to fur. round his houfe with it wall and ditch, to keep off any attack from the enemy, who, he foref4w, might crofs the Ganges when it became fordable. His fears have been fully realized, and he is indebted to tins forelight for the prefervation of himfelf and every other European at the place, lhould they indeed be preferred, which, without timely affiftance, cannot be expeded. The enemy croired the Ganges the 14th init. and our cavalry, confining of three Dragoon 'ie. giments, and three of native houfe, under General Smith, an officer juft arrived in India, followed them next day, but halted unfortunately on the isth, by which the enemy got two days ;.bead. On that day they reached Moradabad, and burnt the Sepoy can tonments. On the following day they renewed their attacks with great vigour, deftroyed the houfe of every officer on the nation, except ?4r. Leyceller's, which they invefted molt clofely. He has, luckily, feveral cannon, and about four hundred of the Pro vincial battalion in his fortification. The lots of our houfes and effects will be feWerely felt ; but to this we will cheerfully fubmit, if the lives of our friends are Caved. The enemy have nons, only irregular ha dies of horte and foot ; but if General smith and the cavalry did not arrive to their relief on the atit, tremble for the confequences. " The town of Moradabad, although expofed, has not been molefted by the enemy; for being inhabited entirely by natives, who, although out: fubjens, are much lefs the objets of their hoitility than Europe ans, policy alto has a (hare in this lenity, for Amer Khan is a native of this province, and hu no doubt tome expenations of keeping poffetPon of the country, Pollfcript, Feb. age lam mon happy to is. form you, that onr friends at Moradabad are life. — General Smith aid arrive on the morning of the iath, and relieved them from a Rate of extreme peril. Our lots in property' is great, but many of our effects here Caved by being placed in Mr. Leycener's houfe. That gentleman has behaved in the molt fpi rited and liberal manner. His lots is alto great, but I hope his eminent tervices will be rewarded ky yernment." Fort William, Feb. sr, dos• To his Excellency the Mott Noble Marquis %hellcat'''. Governor General, /cc. &c. My Lord—l have the honour to enclofe, for your Lordfhip's information, a copy of a difpatch from Capt. Hutchinfon, announcing Isis fuccefs in an at• tack against the fort of Yemeena. The enterprife and gallantry this meritorious of. facer has on every occafion manifefted during his coos. mand at Rampoora, has never been more confpicu ous than in the prefent inflance, where he appears to have accomplifbed a moll arduoiss and dangerous dertaking with a fpirit and perfeverance which re tied on him the highell credit, and from whets I am confident your Lordfhip will derive infinite fatiifac• tion. Thc condudt of the garrifon of Rampoora hat throughout, been highly meritorious; and the de• tachments that have occalisinally moved out from it have rendered the moll effatial fervice, and entitle Captain Hutckincr, and the officers and men odd his order, to my warmeß thanks. I have the ho. nour to be, my Lord, your Loidfhip's molt faithful humble fervant, (Signed) G. 1.0 1 . Camp before Baurtpoor. Jan. 2,. Yemeena, Jan. rg, 1805. To Lieutenant-Colonel Q 12, Adjutant General, ts. Sit—ln my laR I had the honour to inform Toot that we got poffeffion of Katowlie,. and I have now the pleafare to acquaint you, for the information of his Excellency the Commander in Chief, that L marched from Tonle en the ; . 7th infant, with 129 Sepoys, two 6-pounders, and as many of ;he irregu lars as could be fpared. We arrived before this place a little while after the Moon had rifen laft night, and inftantly commenced our attack as near the gate 26 poftible ; but, unfortunately, the guns could not be taken fufficiently clofe, as the enemy had placed a number of hackerief in the road, laden with grain , the wheels taken off, and the bullocks left fixed to the yokes, the whole fora took fire, and it was no . cefrary to take Tome oth er m o d e of a ttack. In du , dilemma, I was affifted by two Bildars, who behaved with much intrepidity ? by cutting Reps in the Wet of the ramparts, and my young friend, Lieutenant Purvis, inftantly, and matt gallantly afcended at the head of his men ? but I was much concerned to fee, a moment afterwards, that he was wounded. It be• came necefrary now t Lieutenant Purvis being the only officer with me) that I fhould lead the Sepop, pnd having another rampart to mount in the fame manner as before, the whole took up fo much time, that three tumbril , of ammunition had been expend' ed at the rms. At this critical moment I was joint/ by Corporals Crofs and Hiflop, at a time when I had been fifteen or twenty minutes on the wall, and the Bildars making a hole through the parapets. In a thort time our numbers increafed, and we ;sighed the enemy to the gate of the Gurrie, which is a confider4ble height, with a broad deep ditch round it, and a winding pathway defended by pars! peonadlnop helps, what only two men can non