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4 two leagues of Alexandria, and one league of the ene eny,who were advantageoufly rifted on a ridge, with their right to the Canal of Alexandria, and their left to theiSea. On the I 3th, we moved forward to attac.jc the enemy, and to turn their left. They did not however wait, but came down and attack ed us. The anion was warm ; bat the enemy were eve ry where forced under the walls of Alexandria. Our lots is confiderable. Although Colonel Ea sing' is wounded, he is doing well. He has loft a l e g. His regiment gained great credit, but &t -iered feverely. No Officer of Rank is killed or dangeroufly wounded. Excufe this fcrawl, written on my knee. (Signed) R. ARE RCROMEIE. !MAC? OF A LETTER We THE EARL OF ELGIN TO NIS ROYAL HICIIt4A, THE DUKE OF YORK, DATED CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 4, dot. As Colonel An sreuricx a's letter to me, which accompanied that to Colonel BROV/NRIGG, was written on the israh of March, I take the liberty of adding to your Royal Highnefs, that Ms oo hav ing with 2000 cavalry joined the corps of Alexan dria, attacked Sir RALPH ABERCROMBIE on the at& The alault was vigorous ; but the enemy were entirely repulfed with 1011, not however be fore Sir RALPH ABERCROMBIE, General Mama, General HOPE, and Sir SIDNEY SMITH, had been wounded nightly, and CoIoneIABIRCION a I had loft a limb. Colonel PAM appears to have had a flight wound. Lord Kairit's lall letter Pays all the wounded are furprifingly well, confidering they are all by cannon or grape fhot. I may adch that my Janif 'Cary, who left Rhodes on the 27th, mentions, that fume of the troops who came there firfl, or had been left rick, were already fo well ail to have tail ed from thence to join. Nothing could have been more brilliant tiled bar operations appear to• ha .been. EXTRACT OF A LETTER LORD ELGIN TO LOX . - HAWKE! T. Coattandoople, April 14, iloz. I have the happinefi of informing your Lordatip, that I have this moment received an exprefs from Rhodes, dated the s7th of March, with a (cries of private accounts of the fuccefsful progrefs of Sir RALPH Asaecaostaix's army. It appears that Minot/ mull have fet out from Cairo, on the aril intelligence of Sir RALPH Aux czomates landing. Meanwhile our army had ad vanced (under circumftances far too honourable for the Britifh arms, for me to attempt relating on the imperfea details I parch), and had taken poft within three miles of Alexandria. *here they had , prepared againft an attack from Mtn otrovho, with 3000 cavalry, having formed a jun6ion with the garrifon of Alexandria, came againft our army on the a tft. In this anion we have to regret about Soo men killed and wounded; while the enemy po fitively loft two thoufand men killed and wounded, and five hundred taken prifoners. On the preced ing Wednefday Aboukir- C.aftle (urrendered, and the Britifh and Tallith flags were flying there. EXTRACT OF A LETTER. FROM COLONEL *NITRO; THIR TO COLONEL saciwsitoo, DATED CAMP NEAR ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 16, 1802. The fleet failed from Marmalie on the lad Fe laseey, and anchored in Aboukir Bay on the ad lizreti: From that day to the 7th, the weather was Co boifterous, and the (well fo great, that it was impranieable to difembark. This circnen fiance gave the enemy full leifure to coned troops and artillery, and to make every necefrary prepa ration to oppofe us. The whole infantry of the garrifon of Alexandria, goo cavalry, and 14 or a 5 pieces of cannon, were placed on a (pace of Me more than two miles from near the Calve of Aboukir to the narrow Ifthmus which forms the boundary of the lake. Stich was the fituation in which we found things on the morning of the Bth, when the &Scent was made. Nothing, I believe, ever exceeded the boldnefs and perfeverance with which the boats continued to approach the thole, under a flower of bullets, (hells, and grape. Every difcharge was anfwered by a fhout from the fea men, and all Teemed totally infenfible of danger . The referee on the right formed as if on the pa. rade, and in a moment carried a height nearly equal to,and very like to that of Camperdown. The left were charged by the cavalry, the moment they got out of the boats. Hoverer, they drove every thing before them ; and in the courfe of three quarters of an hour,- the enemy was completely beaten, with the fors of half his artillery. After a halt of two or three hours, in order to difem. bark ammunition, and part of General.Coora's Brigade, which bad not been landed, the army advanced about four miles, where we remained till the 12th ; the landing of provifions and ftores being much impeded by the boifteroas weather. On theft nth, we again marched about fivenales, conaantly fkirmithing with the advanced jpaard of the enemy, who had received a raiafarcoomt of two halt-brigades of infantry, and one regiment of cavalry, from Cairo. We halted, for the et three miles from the enemy's Naiad', which V e nd proved very advantageous. -Wag dm aixoy aond to attack the 1 . right of it, marching by lines from the left : the' referve covering the movement, and moving pa rallel with the firft fire. As the Columns advanced into the plain, the enemy attacked the heads of both with all his cavalry, fupported by a confiderable body of infantry, and ten or twelve pieces of cannon. This attack was repulfed by the advanced guard (the Both and 92d), both of which behaved molt nobly. The firft line then formed two lines to the front of march, the flanks of which were protected by the referve, and continued to advance in that manner, whilft the fecond line continuing Rill in Co. 1 lumn (excepting the firft brigade of it) turned the .enemy's right, and forced him to quite his pofition. The army followed in the order above Rated, and Sir Rm.rx had given orders for renewing the at tack on the heights clofe to the town, to which the enemy retreated ; but on examining them with at tention, it was thought that they were under the guns of the forts, and could not probably be kept if carried ; the army took np in the evening the ground which the enemy had quitted. The force the enemy oppofed to us appeared about five thoufand Infantry, fix hundred cavalry, and a large proportinti of artillery ; the ground being particularly favourable to the two left. The movements, although under a conftant cannonade, were regular and accurate : the. General in this laft aftion had his horfe (hot under him. The polition we occupy is good ; it cuts off the communication between Alexandria and the Nile, excepting through the Defart : Our fupplies are conveyed by means of the Lake with cafe and fecurity. • We yetlerday received Paris Journals to the 3oth April inclufive. They contain nothing official from Egypt, but reports of the Englifh having been defeated. Their contents in other rcfpeas are uninterelling.—See the preceding columns. H , Yeatrday Captain Baonta arrived from Sir Avis PARIM'S fleet , with very important di.. Apaches: It is with the utmoit fatisfaetion we ace that the difpute with the Norther* Powers it on the point of being amicably adjulteel. Sir HYDE Pmteca, after quitting Copenhags Roads, proceeded to Carlfcrona, off which he ape awed. There we find, by the Hamburgh Mail,. Which arrived yelterday, that a correfpondence paired between the Britifh Commander and the Swedifls Admiral CaoarrEoT, and afterwards his SwediffiMajelly himfelf. The difpatches which had been fent after Sir MYDR PAIL It ER, by the Ruffian fni- eißer at Copenhagen, it appears fuperfeded thofe difeurnons, and opened a dire& profpe& of an im mediate termination of hoftilities. We underhand that thefe difpatches announced, on the part of Ruffia, that the Northern Powers were defirous to adjust the queßion in difpute vritrtaut any ap peal to arms. The bails propored was Co reties faaory that it was fufficient to induce tha Sli d& Admiral to return to Copenhagen. fie had not met with any hofble fleet at fea.— The propofal of M. LIKAIIRWITCH was in fob- Rance, that the right of (catch (hould be re cognifed by the Northern Powers, with this limita tion, that it Ihould not be exercifed but by public (hips of war, and not by privateers or letters of marque ; that when veffels were under convoy, the Ceara Mould take Awe itylanter, and in prefence of an officer or other perfon deputed by the ekort (hip ; that if upon inveftigation of papers, &e. it wasthought jußifiablt to (top and detain a veffel, a declaration of the grounds thereof Ihould be figned by the Captain and the &oft (hip. Lally, it was propored that it fhould be left to amicable negoch ation to afcertain and fix what articles Ihould be confidered contraband of war. If this, as we are attired it is, be a correet out line of the propofal ,made by M. LIKASIWITCH, by the authority of his Court, it cannot be the fabjed ,of any confiderable difference of opinion. It recognizes the right of fearch to every ufeful purpole, while it excludes, as far as poffibk. abates incident to itiezereife. The Courts of Stock holm and. Copenhagen. it may be fuppofed, cannot longer oppofe a definitive fettlement on the bafis propofed. We may therefore con gratulate the Nation on the profpea of fee ins this confederacy difolved, and the force which it had called forth to meet the emergency now rendered difpofabk in the future operations of a more limi. ted war. The very neceffity of the effort there fore has not been without its advantage. Previous to the departure of the officer, alrhof tilities had ceded on the bafis propofed. Some reports (late that a proviGonal armiffice for four months had been concluded. We have no doubt that the whole will be finally ratified. Such are the important confequeeces of the death of Peg It is to be ezpeaed that the adjuffment which Is in fo fair a train, will be followed by a mutual re leafe of the flips and property now under embargo. By our letters from Hamburgh we are informed, that the Dania troops were espeeed to be iinme. an* whberawa flan that city. la the read% alum alfo our itseden will lad doe coma of the • • . . iI4I.ITICAL ATazickNci. MAULS THIS 1 - .4y.—.4nrai ARRIVED Hamburgh, April 28; 2 Dublin, April 28, 29, 2 Waterford, April 28, 29, a Donnaghadce, April 29, 30, The guarsiAst. of 32 guns, and the Pitourrr; of 20 gtlll3,;69git t fail from Jamaica, arrived at Crookhaven; Ireland), the 24th of April.— Three of the fleet proceeded up St. George's Cha nnel. The /Eolus, Waists, one of the fleet, i ai-rived at Liverpool, and fuppofed the whole arc fife. YARMOUTH, MAY 2. This morning arrived the EARL of LEICESTER packet, Captain CHARLES THOMPSON, with one Hamburgh and Bremen Mail, a Courier with dif patches, containing an account of the fall of Abou kir, and feveral paffengers.—Arrived the North Sea fleet from a cruize off Goree, under Admiral DICKSON ; and the Aaaow hoop of war with dif patches from Admiral Sir HYDE PARKER ; report (fates, that every thing is in a fair train of adjuft silent with the Northern Powers.—Sailed this even ing the Plumes of WALES packet, Capt. HEARN, with Mails; Meflrs. MORANDI and Hurtradun. Meffengers, and feveral pallingers ; alto the Du's& packet, Capt. STUART and PRINCE of ORANGE packet, Capt. BRIDGE, with Mails; and Barons BENDER and Raton, and Meilis. PEMBERTON, LABL/TT, ENGLISH, and two Mellinger* : alto the KING GEORGE, Capt. Firs ; and the Paw* of Waist, Capt. Sorrow, as by packets. margin*: finding thrm in a fiats unfit to keep the Sea, I judged it prudent to deftrpy them. (:iigned) JOHN M kWMOU SE. • IT:mann n, of t to tdns, lailan with Cedar. 1 of of 134 ulna, laden with Coda. 11., of io tons, laden with Lime add Cahalan:es. Ch tffc Mara, lades with Grain, armed with fwiwisanit mu&ets. Col of letter from Liottenamt WILLIAM SIISIVAARD, com mending his Makfty's corms. the Puma, to Exam Narstalt, Efq. dated of the lile Molate, tstb of March. Sia---Enclofed I have the honour to tend you a copy of my letter of this day to Capt. RICKETS, of his May floop El Coaso. (Signed) w. SIUPHEARD. PlOmi,olf the Me Megan, March ts. SIR—I hate the honour to acquaint you, that this morning, at half pall fir, off the North End of the Ille of Lonzo, we chaced a Trabaccolo, - which anchored near the Ifle of Molata, at half pall eight, hoifted French colours,and ftruck them on my firing one fhot ; fhe proves to be the French privateer l'Achille, commanded by Faaactsco Baum, inounting four nine-pounders and two flx.pounders brats .cannon, with forty-four men, front Ancona one day, and had made no capture. (Signed) w. 1114111NRAID. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. • The crew of the URANIA, entitled to (hare for the Gironde, Alert, Racune, and El Vivo, and re-captured fhip Jofeph, Will henceforward be paid their proportions at Plymouth. The crew of the fame fhip, for the re-capture of the Hoop North Star ; the capture of the French fhip le Cowley and fchooaer Le Cerbere, will be paid their proportion of the proceeds of the laid prizes, their head-money bills and falvage, at Ply mouth, on Thurfday next the 7th of May. .GUERNSET AND jERSEr. JELSET, APRIL 27. Every information from France more and more confirms the bottle refolutions of the enemy againft thefe Wands. Government being at a con fiderable expence, we have the very belt intelli gence from thofe employed on the coat of France. By 4 Gentleman juft arrived we learn, that Gene ral HE/MISFIT, who commanded the Expedition to Ireland, is now at St. Maloes, where he has refided more than a month, to make, by orders of the FIRST Cowan*, the neceffary arrange ments for another. Expedition; but whether againft England or Ireland, we have not yet been able to afcertain. Troops were hourly at St. Maloes expelled from Rennes. Several frigates, tome of which lately flipped out of Brett, were at St. MaloCs, at which place there were alfo 75 gun-boats, and fuels a variety of flat-bottomed boats as were ca pable of accommodating nearly 20,000 men, with field artillery, &c. &c. for a decent. Recolleeting the late obfervation of BONAPAITZ, that he would , - when neceffitated, look upon thefe iflands as ftep ping-flones to England, we begin, I affure you, to confider ferioufly of our unfortunate approxi mation to France. Since the laft reconnoitre, we learn, that the troops expeCted have arrived - at St. Maloes; that the enemy's strength had conk quently very much increafed ; and that, knowing . an immediate objea was a defcent on thefe iflands, our apprehenfions, but not our fears; have alto multiplied with our critical emergency 'CU •PRIL I have Peen an Englifh Captain that lately left Brett in a cartel, who affures me,, that, by inforMa don which he can depend upon, there are three great Armies along the enemy's emit, amount ing in all to I so,ooo men ; that thefe will foon be augmented to at leaft too,ooo more, and that their grand objea was the invafion of England and Ireland, bY attempting, at all hazards, de (cents in a variety of places, fo as to enfure the ef. fed of fome. This mode of attack, the Captain re marked, would divert, if not diftrad, the vigilance of ourfleetsandcruizers; andthe enemy flattered itfelf that the landing and co-operation of too,ooo men would foon force their way to the capital. Ar rangements were making at Brett on the Roth ult. for the accommodition of so,ooo men on their march thither, where the Fuse' COnstrs was daily expeted to review them previous to fome grand expedition. Till embarkation, they will be en camped in the neighbourhood. At Havre, 20,000 men are to be Rationed ; 40, 000 more at St. Ma loes; and 20,000 at Granville; making in this quarter, is toto, 130,000 men. Should the news from Egypt be detrimental to the interefts of France, BONAPARTE will be obliged to make fome extraordinary exertion to appeafe the people and confirm his fupreme authority. Orders, fomewhat fimilar to thole which were Anted three years fence, are now circulating from the War-Office to the Army and Yeomanry along the coats :—they direct, that in the event of an invafion, all cattle and horfes be immediately driven into the interior, with a view to impede the progrefs of the enemy, who canpot be fuppofed, from our fuperiority at fea, to be able to bring with them a proportionate number of draught and other horfes. The book, for the inftruaions, occupies feveral pages, recommends the felling Itrees in the roads the enemy is to pars, in different Lnumerous fituations, &c. ' An account of the total produce lithe tax upon income for the year ending the sth of April lGates the amount at 5,1323,7411. 151 s. 4d. L I The complexion of affairs in the North has 'had the effea to raife Weft India produce conk derably in price. . Forty-four farmers in the neighbourhood of Newport, Moamouthffiire, have agreed to fell their wheat at tBs. per bufhel of to gallons, till the next harvell. The Parks yefterday abounded with falltionable vifitantst and Kenfington-gardens were is the highell bloom of female beauty. Such is fometimes the ambition of wives to seer Ihrirsechu, that a woman at Sheffield was lately imprifoned for Ilealing a pair ! An artift ; -• employed a rood &Arial •of - Singliton, lady has 'LYMOUTH, MAY a. Sailed to join the Channel fleet, the CENTAUR, Of 74. guns, Captain LITTLEHALKS; the FISGARD, of 38 guns, Capt. MARTIII NYMPH, of 38 guns, Captain FRASER ; and the PLYMOUTH Lugger,' of 18 guns, Lieut. ELLIOTT, and a gun-brig of 14 guns, with a feet under convoy to the weftvrArd. Came inlfrotn a eruize the Itessorrst.yris :of 38 gene, Captain HOTHAM, OISEAU Of 38 guns, Capt. Lixsai, and the D4smaa, of s 8 guns, Cap tain Toms. Came in the Loire, French bit Erivateer, of :6 guns and 7p men, taken by, Majefty's flip PIK MOILTALITIE, On the t4th ult. the railed on the 31 ft of March laft, and-had taken Portuguefe brig from Briflol to Lilbon, with bottles : alfo la Dorade, French brig privateer, of 14 guns, brafs r 6 -pounders, and 62 men : the failed on the 3oth ult. from Cherbourg, and was taken on the ift of May at one A. M. by his Majefty's fhip Jesow, of 36 guns, Captain Touts, and had made no cap tures : the is a verybeautiful vette], quite new, and completely equipped.—Came in the brig Abeona, of and for Dartmouth, Captain Evans, from Lif bon, laden with fruit: the.was captured about a month ago by a French privateer, and retaken on the 17th ult. by his Majefty's (hip ROBUST, of 74 guns, Captain COUNTISS ;—Alto the Redlighten, of Hamburgh, Orrow Jarissciss matter, from Granville, with oyfters. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 3. The TIMM frigate brought in with her on Fri. day, the Fox, French lugger privateer, of la guns, which fire captured on the coact of France.—fihis evening failed the TRIM- on a cruize. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. DIAL. MAY 3.—Sailed the ELIGENN !loop, with the Betfey and Sea Horfe tranfports, for Minorca, under convoy to Portfmouth.—Wind S. S. E. GRAYSSIND, MAY 3.—Part by the Endraght, —, from Embden ; Two Brothers, —; and Two Sifters, Bowwan, from Stettin; Jonge Pieter, Pam; Sarah, WAILS ; and Vriede, —, from Rotterdam; Carolus, —, and Ce r es , Mums, from Hamburgh.—Sailed the Henrietta, —, foe Dantzic ; Ceres, ROBERTS, for Dublin ; John, Howe, for Charlefton ; Fame, FRYE'S/tit, for Vir jzinia ; Jonge Carolus, —; and Maria, —, for Hamburgh. PAO/A THE LONDAW GAZETTE, MAY a. •DMI2•II.TY.OPTICS, MAY 2. Copy of a letter from the Hao. Wtat.ukai COANWA Ws, Ad mini of the Blue &a. to Evatt Nararat, Zig. dated of Ulan, 24th April . Stit-;•I have enclofed letters from Capt. Rica. iTTSp of the NAIAD, and from Capt. Coosa, of the AIIIITM YST, and alfo a copy of a letter from Capt. Nswitouse of the Msoasa , refpeßing fame Spanith ve ff els he deftroyed off Ferrol; he sib re-took a Weft Indian (hip, but did not give me the name. (Signed) w. comma ILLIS• NAIAD, at Sea, April 4 . ' Sit—l enclofe a copy of a letter from Captain COOllll, of his Majefty's ship ANITHYST, giving an account of her having captured a Spaniel' pm vateer. (Signed) w. H aicasvri. AIIIITITST, at Sea, March xi. Sia—l have to acquaint you, that, in executing your Inftruaions of the. s sth inft. on the evening of the 16th, I fell in with and captured the Noftra Signora del Carmen, a Spaniels fchooner privateer mounting fix guns, and having on board fixty-five men, failed from Rigo the preceding evening, bound on a cruife : as the did not appear to me to be fit for his Majalty's service, I de&royed her. (Signed) lons coot S. Matasar, at Boy April st. have the honour to acquaint you, that the boats of his Majefty's (hip under my conj. 0.1 the eikh ult. in a cark dote • - - - - .1 me. WC 00/11 01 MI Inajcity • sup uallaSf am 7 Will- la.pl - Mnicu zvi itc....gx l 1.••••• • mend, captured on the 28th ult. in a calm, dole An artift is now employed on 31 growl &Pried ~ in with the land, ta the Northward of the entrance piElure of the duchig of a j c old at Kingfton, to be wu' of Ferrol; ((to which place they were bound, and engraved foe private famis. The lady has been had Wed frost Albino) the fivnifle Veals as per prcTailad upon to dive for her prink. • " •.. . , • • . . • . . - -- - -