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NAUTICAL I tiLIGENCP. For Nestled Adverdfamots fee the third column of the arft Me.] DEAL, SEPTEMBER 9. Sailed the Eucaxs and DtLicsaca &sops of war, with feven gun-velfels and cutters, for the road of France. Wind E. N. E. FALMOUTH', SEPTEMBER 9. Sailed the PRINCE or WALES packet, Captain Toon, for Lifbon, with the mails of the 25th ult. and ill init. The paffengers were Mr. BuLte ea, Mr. DE SOZIZA, Mr. MALIN°, Mr. JAMES, and Mrs. Visvitsitsst. and her two children. The CHE srsara ELI), a new packet, with mails for Hali fax and New York, is ftill here, not having yet received her fihal 4ifpatches. Sailed the American fhip Fabius, Captain FAR.. REEL, with brandy and nuts, for Guernfey ; and Pruffian chip Prince Hendrick Von Prullla, Captain Sews, in ballaft, for Embden. The LEICESTER packet, SHARP, this day made fgnal for failing with the mails for Jamaica, but in confequence of having a quantity of potatoes, &c. on board, fhe is detained by the Cuftoms. A packet is matted to be got ready, to take out the Jamaica mail. PLtMOUTH, SEPTEMBER S. Sailed to join the Channel fleet, the Winosoa CASTLE, of 98 guns, Vice Admiral MITCHILL and the RESOLUTION, .of 74, Captain GARDNaIt. Cattle in the Danifh (hip Emanuel, of Apenrade, Captain Jas. Basotho, from Salo; the Danifh galliott Protheus, o(,Flenfberg, Captain ANDREAS iamPSON, from Villanova ; and the Swedifh brig Cerfvinan, of Gifk. Captain Hasa WALLtritow, from' Barcelona; all laden with wine for the ufe of' the navy. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 9. Sailed the SFr. Hoßsz, of 38 guns, Capt. Four I, for the Eat Indies, with the following !hips under convoy :•".-The SARAH CHILISTUNA, MONARCH, HAIISHIP, ELIZABETH, GRNLRAL STUART, CO. SOVEREIGN, CALEDONIA, ANN, PRINCASS HART, NORTNAM►TOM, HIGHLAND CALI", and VERONA Friendfhip, SMITH, for the Cape; and Leviathan, —, for the South Seas. Sailed on a cruise the RACOON, of 18 guns, Captain RATAN:MLA'. The liras and Momnovi were this day relieved from quarantine. Arrived the Rarsw'floop from the Downs. HARWICH, SEPTEMBER S. Arrived this morning the , Doe ssr hired cutter, from the Elbe, having fprung a leak, and broken her boom. A brig cutter has juft anchored in the Rolling Grounds, her name at prefcnt unknown. —The Como!) mos man of war, building here, is in great forwardnefs, and certainly will be launched this year. His Majefty's navy will not have a more beautiful [bong thip.—Wind E.N.E fine weather. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVESEND, SEPTIMBIR, 9.—Paffed by the Epeedy, Alertsl-s, from Peterfburgh; Neptune, HUI:MAN, from Archangel; Two Sifters, —; I'7i ht, --; Louif.t, HORAN; Eliza, RUTH; ant Jonge Elizabeth, —, from Rotterdam.— Sailed the Hamburgh Packet, GOWN, for Ham burgh; Harriott, HARVEY, for Honduras; Britifh Tar, DODD; and Supply; —, for Peterlburgh. ARRIVED. At Dover-i-The Nancy, Orm, from Virginia; Goorisiana, • and Juno, Reed, from Jamaica. In ;he Downa—Mary Ann, Smith; Sir Hyde Parker, —; Ccerge, —; Alexander, Allen ; Edington, Wilton; Lady It. Jahn , Smith ; Sarah Ann, Hunter; Echo, Morrie; Albion, Mirk ; Arethufa, Radky; Columbus, Frodiham; Cambden. Mil; Arno, Atkins; Cygnet, Pinter; Ceres, Gowland; and Mn, Drikal, 'from Jamaica; and lfabella, Green, from Charkfion. At e e e ee e e e e e eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee e William ' from Philadelphia. At Dublin—George, Spotter. from Char'cam At Colic—say, Britt, from North Carolina. At Charlefton.—Jane, Parland, from I-MerProL At Demarara—Hannah, Lawton, from Africa. At Snrinatn—Mary Ann, Campbell, from ditto. At hiverpool—Howard, Rook, from New York. At New Providcnee—Ranger, Lea; and Bernie, Wilton, h. in Landon. POOLE, SEPTEMBER J. Arrived flit tinlon, Croft; Harriet, Sabbin; Earl Spencer, riftirr; Indoltry, Clements; William and Catherine, Pratt; Cn nunerer, Brinton; Love and Unity, Carpenter; and Patt i. me, Racy, from Newfoundland ; and Ride in June, &rand. L.. m the Salads, Doak, for Gibraltar; n: "T.: , K. W il ls, and Ann, Junes, forLontion ; and Brothers, 14. hit•:., fur Lynaington. YLflerd.l , morning the American fchoaner Ad 'moire arrived at Cowes in the Ille of Wight. Gitadaloupe, which place fhe left on the , ll' of July hit. Captain LILLIBILIDGS reports, n!?oilt the middle of June lag, General La '‘CF arrived at the Itland with 600 veteran ' ' :is, on board the Corneille and Coccade Na t- ial frigates, of 44 guns each; the latter of a few days before his departure, failed on 4 cruize.—Some very politic regulations having b,cn inflituted by the General foon after his arra lA, the inhabitants were all reconciling themfelves ihe new order of things ; and, in confequence of ' rtif4l and humane proclamation from General toAsE, the emigrants who had been expeeted t• leave Guadaloupe, or who had voluntarily c-tted the ifland in great numbers, were daily re urning to live in amity with the fupporters of the a(publican fyftem. No Englifh prifoners were in - .inement, and fcarce any there.—About the July, a fmall corvette arrived fr6m Cayenne; (.Niters on board which mentioned VICTOR •- 41;E S as eattcmciy popular la ugw GOYCZA• ment • the mealltres he is now a cti ng np on , fixing altogether as lenient, as they were formerly ri gorous at Guadaloupe. The MANLRY gun-vefrel, with a fleet under con voy from Sheerners, arc arrived at Cuxhaven. The American (hips of war at prefent blockade the (hips bf Tripoli, in the harbour of Gibraltar. The ALBION, and abort 7o fail under convoy from Leith, arrived at Ellineur on the 27th ult. The convoy failed for the Baltic immediately. - - The Albion, ROBERTSON, from Montferrat to London, is loft at Tortola. A new fhip of 74 guns is ordered to be built at Chatham, to be called the HERO. During a late cruize of his Majefty's (hip AR. ROGANT off Point de Galle, a very confiderable bdoty narrowly efcaped falling to the (hare of her gallant crew. When off the point, the ARROGANT taw two veffels, and gave chace to one, which they came up with and took, the other efcaped. The prifoners reported, that the latter, called the Don Carlos, was from Manilla with fifty-three che s of treafure on board, principally the proceeds of captured property, amounting to 350,000 dollars. The Speculation, SCHMIDT, with malls, from Riga, bound oftenfibly to Embden, under Prulliart colours, the crew and captain all Dutch, pallid by Bremerlehe on the 3d inftant ; (he was feized on the zsth ult. off the Vlie, by the Esrt MIA brig and Fox cutter, and ordered to Yarmouth, but was re-taken three days after by her own crew off the Brown Bank. She putthe Englifh prize•maf ter and &Hors afhore at Bremerlehe. A - letter from Naffau, (New Providence,) dated July fays--1 4 On the 22d init. we experienced a moll dreadful gale of wind, which has driven afhore every veffel in the harbour. The Ranger, Capt. LEA, which had arrived a few days before from London, was driven afhore, but is expected to be got off, though not without material injury. The Mary, for London, was driven on chore, and futlained much damage; the was nearly ready, but owing to the accident will now be delayed. Monday a Court Martial was held at Deal on board the You man of war, Captain FERRIER, for the trial of the boatfwain of his Majefly's Hoop HOUND, on feveral charges of infolence to his fu perior officer, negleft, inattention, &c. and the charges being clearly proved, he was fentenced to be broke, and turned before the malt. Yellerday, a Court of Directors was held at the EaR India Houk, when Davin SCOTT, Efq. the late Chairman, was chorea a Member of the Com mittee of Correfpondence for the remainder of the feafon. The Court refolved to employ the follow ing number of (hips in further part of the tonnage of feafon 1802-3, viz. eight (hips for Coaft and Bay, one for Madras and Ceylon, one for Madras and Moluccas, two for Bombay, and two extra flips for Fort Marlborough, with fourteen large (hips at home, and fonr of the five expelled from China, to bring home teas from thence. The eftablifhed mode of performing . long jour nies at the Cape of Good Hope, is in covered waggons drawn by bullocks. The carriages are fuffidently commodious to contain all the necef facies that may be wanted on a long journey, and alto a cot or matrafs for fleeping upon • and are commonly drawn by teams of ten or twelve oxen. The fpeed of an ox in the waggon, where the country is tolerably level, and the furface hard, is full three miles an hour, at which rate he will continue for ten or twelve hours without halting. This is more than a horfe can do in Britain. Why are not oxen more commonly ufed? Their carcafe would be worth fomething, and they are more eafily kept than honks. The Hon; FRIDERIC Formai, fon of Lady ELIZAICTH FOISTLe, left town a month lime for Germany. That gentleman is. now at Vienna, and it is believed he will go to the Coronation at Mofcow, to which a great number of Englifh No bility are flocking. Tax OM PATIR.—The extravagant and impo litic taxes which have been accumulated upon palm, have indifputably affeeted the manufadure and circulation of books in this country. This, with the increaling price of all forts of labour, threatens to deßroy the trade of the Bookfeller, and of all thofe conneded with the diffufion of literature. Within the Taft ten years the price of books is very nearly tripled. A periodical work, which was a Chilling ten years ago, is now two fhillings and fixpence, and fo in proportion. It is impoffible that the trade can thrive under fuch difficulties, which we are convinced were laid on for the exprefs purpofe of checking the circulation of knowledge. If Bookfellers are reduced to he indigent fhopkeepers and retailers of old books, there is no fupport for letters.—Learned men are difcouraged, activity and adventure in the learned world, fufficiently depreffed in this country alrea dy, where other qualities than learning arc fureft of reward, mull be extinguifbed, and Letters, which had been maintained independent by their own exertions, mutt again fink to low and ignoble pa tronage. Is this part of a fyftem for rapping the founda tions of public liberty in England ? Is it a part of a fy . ftem so degrade the public mind, and to de prive it of every thing calculated to comt..inicate encouragement, fpirit, and energy ? Is it a part of a iyftem which would leave nothing entire, nothing cred, nothing untainted, nothing uncorrupted ? It has been complained, and with too much juf tice, that the prefs is venal. But is it not to en creak its venality, to render it poor and wretched? And what is the confequence of fuch venal 1-- Will not the degraded prefs be at the command of the greateft and wealthier! purchafer? and who is that purchafer, is not very neceffary to fpecify ! This matter, however, 'tumid be repreC-nted to thole who pretend to have no objet but for reve nue. It can be proved to demonftration that re venue will be injured by the effeß of thefe impoli tic taxes, while a branch of ingenious manufadure is threatened with decay and ruin. If no fatisfac tion is obtained, it will then be Peen that the object ' is n refe. ot to procure revenue, but to make war againft the p WErMOUTII, SEPTEMBER 7. His MAJESTY, ha night, accompanied•by the UEEN, Prince ADOL►HUS, the Paiacesses, Eel's SOPHIA of Gloucefter, the Duke of PoRTLANU, ' Colonels CaarweionT and FITZROY, Alderman' Coatis, Mr. Rose, and Mr. FAWKNER, walked on the Efplanade. This morning, before hreakfaft, his Mejerre took his accuitomed walk. The Earl of th BRIDGE gives a grand entertain ment at Mr. STEWARD'S houfe to-morrow to the ROYAL FAMILY. The unfortunate men who fuffered by the ex plot-ion on board the CAMBRIAN frigate, are all in a fair way of recovery; Mr. Surgeon )(SATE'S at tention has rendered their fituation as comforta ble as poilible. &PT. B.—The Royal. FAMILY went laft night to the theatre, the houfe was well filled, it was Mr. BANN israa's benefit; the performances were the Comedy of " The Heir at Law," and the en tertainment of " The Son-in-law." Between the play and entertainment, Mr. Bautitsrsa gave a vocal and rhetorical defcription of Beggars and Ballad Singers, in charaCter. Their MAJESTIES and the audience were highly delighted with the theatrical amufemcnt. In honour of their MAJESTIES wedding day, a royal falute was fired from the (hips in the Road, and. from Portland Cattle. Agrand dinner is preparing at GABRI Tuctat STZWAILD'S houfe, in St. Bennet's.fireet. BRIGHTON, SEPTEMBER 6. Lord and Lady BERL a Lay have left this place. Lord THURLOW is conftantly riding about on horfeback with his daughter. The PRINCE of WALES and the AICHRISHOP Of CANTERBURY were yelterday at the Chapel Royal, to hear SETH Tuotesow preach a Charity Sermon. The Duke of You is expeCted in a day or two. The Venerable Duke of GRAFTON is a Noble man of the Old School; but there is an elegance in his manner which excites fentiments of refped and elleem. The weather is much againft the intereft of the Grove, which till now has b een very fuccefsful. ... . &pram BER B.—This place is likely to be kept alive for Tome time to come by an encampment of to,ooo men.—The 16th and 18th regiments of honk, and a battalion of guards, arrived here yef terday, and there are feveral regiments hourly ex petted. The Duke of YORK is coming here for a few days on a viat to the PRINCE. On Thurfday and Friday there will be a Dutch fair at the Pro menade Grove. The PRINCE, this morning, re viewed the artillery ; one of the men fell off his horfe, and was run over by a heavy piece of ar tillery ' • he was fo much hurt that his life is de fpairedof. Lord Borrow has removed from Hackwood Park to Cariibrooke Cale, the Government reli dence, in the Ifle of Wight. Lord GRILY DI RUTHYM commenced the (hoot ing feafon lail week in the neighbourhood of his beautiful lodge near Northampton, where a large circle of fafhion are alfembled. Lord Baawice is indufirioufly employed in en deavours to ic.roduce the breed of pheafants into the neighbourhood of Wales. His Lordfhip lately turned out too brace at Attingham, in Shropfhire. A Gentleman in Invernefsfhire lately shot 5 a brace of moor-fowl in a day. He did not fire at a bird while fitting, nor did he fhoot more than one bird at a time. Confiderable bets were depending. The late Mr. MADDISOM, of Charing Crofs, has left the whole of his fortune, about so,oool. to his nephew Mr. Morrow, the celebrated Dramatic Author. Lail week the workmen began again to build on the call front of the New College of Edinburgh. The foundation was laid in 1789, upon a large fcale, agreeable to an elegant plan by the late Mr. ADAM, artichal. The building continued to ad vance for feveral years, till the fund was exhaufted. The north-well corner was completely finithed, and the north-ea ft corner roofed in. The beautiful call front, little more than half up,'has been cxpofed to the weather, till it has affumed the appearance of an ancient ruin, and become literally the habi tation of owls. A violent /rata: occurred on Saturday Lift at the Bowling-Green, near Sommer's Town, on which occafion a great crowd of perfons was col leded, when fome of them went to the relief of a Lingle man, whom three others were feverely pum melling while he war down! No fooner, however, did the fallen hero recover breath, than like a gi ant fuddenly roufed from kis Veep, he (prang upon his three adverfaries, and, in a few moments, laid them proftrate onthe ground, receiving the greatelt applaufe from the afionifhed fpeelators. A chfpute having arifen between two officers, at Colchefter barracks, the fame was to have been determined on Saturday lafl, on Leaden-heath:— For this purpofe, with each a fecond from his own regiment, they repaired to the appointed fpot at five A.M. when they were met by the Magiftrates of that Corporation, who politely took them under their protedion, and lodged them for Come time in the Moot Hall, from whence they were not liber ated till they had given fecurities to keep the peace for three years, themfelves in pal. each, and two fecurities for each in 5001. more. A fpecies of tragi-comay was performed a few days fince at the Fountain Inn, Margate, where a large party of gentlemen had agreed to ride on the enfiiing morning to Deal to view the flotilla; but it feems that man may appoint, but Fortune dif appoints ; for a wag or a thief had contrived in the night to run away with all their Loots : the chagrin that prevailed, in confequence, on the fol lowing morning, was inexpreffible ; and it would have been a rich exertion for Hogarth to have de piaed their forlorn vifages, as they croffed and in terfeaed each other, bawling for their new HclLan boots. A'erpy of the following , Letter Its beam gene rally circulated Among . th V e t i tT A : i.h ti tt uft r?. " Mr Loao—The (terra and fatfsfactory informor.orr which Ids klejefty's Government obtained from the Onto', Motivate tht ante of the lalt year's crop of grain, induces lilt: to folicit the aflidtance and good offices of your Lordlip. I other Prelates of our church, in procuringin like manner, and through the fame refpeetablechannels,oitatethent of the num ber of acres of wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, turnips, rape, peas and bean., kith the left harveft, in the Cenral purifies of England and Wales. In order to abridge as much as poffible, the trouble which this requelt sr]] Ithpofe on fuck of the militate clergy in your diocefe as mall be prevailed upon to undertake it, I inelok, bt a kparate cover, return, with columns ready to be filled up with the number of acres town with each particular (pecks of grain, and other crops therein fpecified. " It has occurred to his Makfty's confidential (errant', that if they could be fur:tithed, through the favour and affdtance of the Clergy, with ad ANNUAL return of the defcription I have mentioned, it would be a circumitance highly beneficial to the public interefts, as it would form the belt criterion whereby to judge of the effedts which the provilions of Parliament, both in regard to inclofures and other matters, produce on the agricul ture of this country. • " I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordthip's molt obedient humble (errant, " "'The Lord Bithop of Cutouts-reit?" Laft Friday, as Mr. Butt., of Lewes, was par tridge Shooting, near Ringmer, his attention was filddenly attraeted by a large flock of birds, con lifting of four or five hundred, on the wing, high in the air, at which he (hot, and brought one to the ground. It proved to be a beautiful fpecimen of the Knot, as accurately defcribed by EDWARDS, except that the breaft of this bird was red (pro. bably thedifcriminating charatler of the male),and that of the one he has figured, white with (mall dulky fpots. There is fomething Singular in the appellation of this bird, inafmuch as it is reported to have a, Royal origin. CANUTE, or Ks UTE, or KNOT, the Dann King of England, is laid to have been remarkably fond of its flefh ; from which circuraftance, the bird is fuppofed to have been named after that monarch, and its original name feems to be totally loft. It is the ?rings Canutsu of LINN Eus and G M LI N ; and the Canute of Burros ; fo that the Royal appellation is gene rally recognifed. Sir WILLIAM PARSONS was, a few days ago, thrown from his houfe, near Weymouth, by a cart driving violently againft him; but we are happy to hear he has fuftained no material injury. A perfon of genteel appearance was induced by an unfortunate female to go with her into a houfe of ill-fame, in Shoe-lane, at a late hour on Tue. day evening. After they had been fome time in' the houfe the people were- alarmed by the woman calling oat—" He's dead! he's dead !" and im mediately running down Stairs : upon going into the room they difcovered that he was not quite dead. Two Surgeons were feat for, and they ad miniftered all the affillance in their power; but without end, as the unfortunate man breathed his Taft in a few minutes after their arrival. He died, as is fuppofed, of an apoplettic fit. Ihe body was conveyed to St. Andrew's Workhoufe in order to be owned, which it was yefterday. It appears that he was married and has a large fa mily, and refided in the neighbourhood. lis watch and money were found fafe in bis pocktts. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE BONAPARTE.—The Hamburgh Correftmukeiten of the 26th, contains the following article tinder the head of Paris. The fad never appeared in any Paris paper : In f Oe 0 all that the CHIEF CONSUL does for the C:iurch and the Emigrants, new confpiracies are conitai t ly contrived againtt him. Only five days ago, of e was on the point of breaking out. The Mameluck whom he brought over with him from Egypt, and for whom he has Ibewn the attention of a father, had engaged in the villainous fcheme, the objeCt of which was to murder his benefaelor. The Cults. Cow sus. caufcd him to be conveyed by the gen ciarnerie from brigade to brigade to Tollor, re older to be embarked for Egypt. The reit of the Confpirators, 13 in number, have been arrellcd, and imprifoned in the Temple. They are not this time jacobiru, bus every one returned Emigrants and no torious Ro . ralifts. Neverthelefs, for certain reafons, the greaten fecrecy refpefling the affair is ob. ferved. The only cleft which this accident hi. therto has produced is, that the CHIEF CONSUL will foon quit his country feat at Mairuaifon, and come again to refide in Paris." FRENCH CONCORDAT.—We find the following article in the Hamburgh Corr4ondritten. We do not recolleft to have feen it ifi the Paris Journals. It is under the head of Paris, 28th Augult :—" Lait Onintidi the CHIEF CONSUL, in the audience %%Mai he gave to the members of the Legiflative Body j and Tribunate, converted long with them on the fubjeet of the new Com:m.la. lie told them that j he had not acted in this buiinels AS a private man, or according to his individual opinion, which was totally repugnant to the principles of giving the Catholic religion any privilegcsabove otherCreedst: but that as a member of the Government he was obliged to confult the opinion and wattles of the nation, fince he had found that both were in fa vour of the refloration of the Catholic worfhip ; that, for his own part, he thought himfelf bound to acqnicfce in the will of the majority. The CHIEF CONSUL begins now to confider the litnation of the Proteftants. Among other things the qucf tion is farted: Whether the Clergy in the coun tries which have been lately united with the Re public, Rill continue in regard to their religions principles in any fort of connedion with their for mer Princes and Sovereigns ? The Miniacr of the Interior, Citizen CHAPTAL, has fubmitted tbefe queftions to be infwered by two men, who with the pnreft patriotifm combine an unfeigned at tachment to the Protellant religion. ' I'hey are— Citizen MOURGERES, of the reformed perfuafion, (a Calvinift), who was formerly Milliner of the Interior, and a certain Lutheran Deputy of the Department of the Upper Rhine. Both of them, without any communication with each other, con curred in thcir aufwer. Both of them laid down the principle that the fovercign temporal autho rity, according to the Proteflant fyliem, had like wife the chiet anthoi ity, and that the Proteflant Clergy, who fiirmerly Rood under to reign jurifdidien, had nothing to apprehend, AS by their religious creed they are lubjetis to that Government which has dominion over them."