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NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCL MAILS THIS DAT....itul E. S. E. At 1. DIM i a I Hamburg% 0 4 Gottenborg Dublin Waterford Ail. DUI. O 4 O 0 . . PLYNOV TM, JAN. 3.—This morning early, arrived err Cawfand Bay, his Ma:elly's (hip Inossmcatue. ( 4' 3 8 guns. Captain Mona", from a cruize off the coati of Spain. A Gentleman was taken out of hei co board one of the Mbing veffels belonging to• Caw. find, which landed him at Plymouth, and he imide n,ately het off for London ; who he is, or what he may h a ve brought, is not known here the fhip did not ~:arbor, but failed again as form as the paffenger left :. a . Sailed on a cruize off the coaft of France, the AI)ADN! and Manua, of 16 gone each. Came in RANGEL revenue cutter,oft guns, from a cruize, ulth a feizure of fpiritr. A brig is gone up Haronaze, in dards, laid to be the Ram ILIR, of 1+ guns, from the weftward. •NOTHER LIITTS7., SAME VATS. This morning came in, having thrown her guns ov elboard, in a gale of wind, the RATTLER, of i 8 guns; a.lfo from off the Coati of Spain, under a refs of cad, the INDEFATIGABLE, of 44. guns, Cap , t in G. None°. ,She came to in :he Sound, and lay fur two hours, till the return of a boat from more, which landed a Gentleman from her at thC Pier.— He fet of expreis in a poR chaife from the Prince • George Tavern, Fooha ll Qpay, at eleven A. M.— Conjeaures are a . lloatt as to who the Gentlemin is, whether in a Naval, isElitary, or Civil capaeity. 7 —He wu not at all communicative, but etpreffed great anxiety to let off Ms his journey as icon as the boat which bronaht bite; amore from the Imossaito Asia .•t returned to the fhip---the made, fail again direaly. It ia Gnu reported to be Mr. 17.111 f, from Midrid,laft from Liibon. rent down into the Sound, the AM. SMIOM, of 40 guns, Captain . Sorrom ; the proceeds to the Straits in the courfe of a few days. PORTSMOUTH, JAM. 4.—Arrived the MoIIASCH man of war, from the Dovrns ; MIRLi,. !loop of war, from Plymouth : ind the AsszusCana frigate, from the Mediterranean, and is under quarantine. His httjefty'.. brig Ravta, is appointed convoy for the Mediterranean. ¶.'ind S. E. • • Cows s, JAM. 4.--Arrived here the Pruilian flip Actreni.., Captain Phillipus Dior kfon Vever. on her voyi.3e from Riga, bound to Rotterdam, laden with e cargo of rye. with damage. Alfo the Hamburgh boy Amelia, Captain Peter Rikkers Roos, froni Shields, bound to Hamburgh, laden with coals.— Sailed this morning, the armed fhip. Camden, with troops hom the army depot for the Well Indies. Dam., jam. 4.--Sailed the DIVASTATIO H bomb, for Sheernsfs. Arrived the. BASILISK gun brig from i sivniie ; Rsout.Os, and thf.ZErri YR 'loop of war from Portfmouth, zu - i reUlatn in the Downs with the reit of the Thins as per lilt.—Wind S. S. E. LLOYDS' LIST. • . ARRIVED...In Yarmouth Roads ' the-Durham, Hogarth, from Mend. At L,ith , Concord, Adaais, front Riga. M Liverpool, Forthe Beak. from ditto. At Cork, *Want, Johann. from Rotterdam; Kitty, Work; Venus, Catlike', and the William, Nl•Cesa, from London. . The Mariana. • Spain& veal, with an. Englliii cargo, from BMW, was felled. at Maliga the .14th of Nuvemtur ;And the Little Amy. of Poole, Lander, from Newfoundland, ma ember vett there the fame day. The Neptune, ,Le Oreffey; Brothers, Heyler, and the Mercury, Valley, ail beiongtog to Jerfey, were embargoed at Yakocia on the inch of November, but oa the affth they cut their:cables, and mite their efilar•-4be farmer with es pipes of brandy on board, the two latter in fiend!, Mehl =loa&i. their cargoes previous to the embargo. . The Speculation, Lerberg, from Underwall for Liverpool, bendy* off the South Posehad, on the ail/ of December. • Park, Dee. 39.—The OexteralPtrigooss privateer, of St. Maloes. boa takes see fete ties Part the Aurora, with coals, aLlthe Cou rier,. web AN deal sod pioviiess. ... . 1 • Trig LAMS ag J AT GUTRIIIIIIIT.—His Majesty's flip Tan ill is, p SHRIPH•111), failed from Portf igic month the Ist. of December, and after chacing a French lugger privateer of 16 guns cic,fe into Dieppe, arrived at Guernfey on the .6th; it bleiv fo hard, that the privateer's lee gulfs were quite under water, and although within half gun-(hot. the THisas unfortu nately could not get her guns to bear—the privateer carried fuch a prefs of fail, that the was &hood under water during the chate. On Monday, the 17th, the TN, sea lying at anchor in Guernfey Roads, received orders to proceed to jerfey, with as anchor and ca ble for his Majelly's (hip &ream. At about two the Moil frigate, Captain SCOTT, came in and an chored dote a-head of the THISSI j and although every exertion was made In veering cable, the fell on board the Tangs, which (hip was obliged to veer two cables to get clear of the Ntoot : the, however, carried away the THI sues figure head, and did her time damage. At about four the Nines attempted to weigh, to get clear, but fell on board the fecond time, and !prong the Titises's bowfprit, which obliged the THISBE to veer to three cables, but b:iiig fo near the rocks was forced to cut. and make fail, and anchor without the Mom The next day it came on to blow very thong from the Eaftward, which obliged the Tu 1!11E to let go the (beet anchor, an 4 hiving no other cable on board but that before mentioned for the SEVERN, bent that to the (pare anchor, and had it ready for letting go. At about eleven that night it blew a hurricane, and in half an hour After the belt bower cable parted : the only anchor they had remaining was then let go. with the StERRH'S cable bent to it, which brought the (hip up within half a cables length of the rocks; almoft immediately the Moos and SYLPH cut away their malts, and at one in the morning the gale in creating, and the THISSE pitching very heavy, the fore-matt was cut away, which eared her very much t the continued riding fo till ten o'clock, and no ap pearance of the gale ccafing. the main-mall was cut away. About four in the afternoon the gale abated, the (beet anchor was attempted to be got up, but the cable parted. being cut to pieces with the rocks ; and when the other anchor was hove up. it was found, that if the gale had continued two hours longer, the l'irtsas mull inevitably have been loft, and all the - ;:w drowned. Ear wat,f must. • PRI*It WALIS'S ISLAND. At therm ke of thy .Pll3llc e and the mention of the Proprietors of India Stock. timbres es dled by the arrangements in con templation for the Prhsainf Wales's Uland, we perfnarle our (dyes that we dUchargt Rohn grateful mom frien.hphy enabling them to judge of the fosiree and the maitres from whence the mcifurc proceed& . EXTRACT. • Lent StehetiLt V•co Limo wILLISLIT, JULY 4, . . 1804. " The Dort none! lately 'note to your Lordibip by an over land conveyance. will have pteptted.you for the letter with which I am now to trouble yen. on the fubjea of building hips in India. It is almoß twenty years tame I had hilt occafion to corddcr that fubea, and I had meek aserierfation with Sir Chula Middleton upon it. when he was Conuniflioner of the Navy. My connec tion with the Adzsiattration of India brought the fame Ides afigvnlas coresfiullaily betore me, and my opinions both as to the utility and practicability of the plan hake never varied. lam aware that many of the ftatements which were before me were too fangaine, and many of them came from perfons who had given only a Averts:ill attention to the ridded ; but the general opinion was fo prevalent, and the teak 'hips which fo bequently came to this country, impreffed me with the &cog convialon, that with a view bock to marine and commercial purpofes this country mutt one day or ether mit IV& of the valuable refouree it had for Slip building in India. Wien my ,nephew, Mr. Philip Dundas, re turned from India, abont s twelve months ago, I was delirou, for my own farbfaalon. to tai': over the fubjea minutely with him. The lunation he had !add at Bombay gave hint the belt means of information, and I was the more &firms to converfe with him,as Ise was the very reverie of being fangoloe ip his ideas on the full lea, and tended to counterbalance what I might conceive to be the too/Aponte ideas of others. I had a full couverfadon with him kit former in Scotland. and I fend you No.' I. r minute of that converfation. I Ukewife fend you a copy of a inentoraudum I have lately received from him, No. It. " It has lately beComt ray duty to esamine the thing . to the bottom, With a view to the practical ufe of this (vitem. That your Lordlip may be fully tuforincd on the fubjea, I fend you a Corrdponsience 1 have lately bad with the Navy Board, from the perufal of wittat you will perceive the great immenince of the mcafures on *bleb I am addreffing you, and it will fare me the neceirity of troubling you with Co lung a letter as might dimmer have been necefary. With the fame view, I fend you kin mi. ou tep, wi , kh within click few days have been put into my hands lay.kfr. Philip Dundee; they see drawn up by a Mr. Tate, recent ly monied from India, and whore attention has been accurately drawn to the particulan he details, from. his being didelf en gaged in the bufinds of 'hip-building in India. His details are certainly more minute than any I have received, sad arc more fatisfadkory, as being founded on I:errant cHervatieg. I had a very long ronvertuiou with him yeßerday at Wimbledon, to prey fence of Sir Andrew Hammond, and nephew Mr. P. D. and I taped to receive from him ilftwriling his salvers tis many points I defined him to confider. " From what has already paired. I am faddiad that we hive at Bombay the means of building 'hips of the Nes, of at leaf 64 guns. and at Corkin we may build frigates of 44 to any anssant. If we &Quid not be able to carry it further. there, m tbeniftivel, are very great refourcm, sad &Anima a( arrangements being made for dairying them into infant etamition. lus hopeful that the lyftem may he tarried inialtdy ftirftwr ; that dtber in Ran goon, in Pesti, or at Prises of Wales's Maud, arrangements may be made for building Rips of 74 pans, or ova larger as the woods of teak in Pegu are laid to be inexhaultibk. The belt place for a building altablifinnent, If it adwors in other refpeas, rimed be at Rangoon, to the neighbourhood of the woods ; and if the map dues not difleadme, the country there fawns to be wonderfully ioterfraed by rivers, which of cow& mutt he highly deful in bringing the wood to the coati." "MT DLit Loan, • Wimbledon, jthb Aug. 1804. ' " I cannot allow the Mips about to fail rob India to depart with. out troubling your Lordthip again oft the frbjett of tips building for the navy. The more I rcyolve the fubjedt in my mind, the more I am convinced of the utility, Indeed I &add fay the nccc ti; there milts to mail Muffins of that refouree : along vial this I fend to your Lordihip what farther information I have cid ledted lines I lift wrote to you.. " I have had converfation with Lard Calllereagh and the Chairs of the LA India Company, and fated to acni the Mallon of the plan I have In view ; I (Mod. them as I cipeded, impreffed with at importance of the abort% and difpofed cord!ally to co operate in the execution of it. The more minute details mutt be fettled between the FAR India Can:luny and the Comptroller of the Navy ; and it is my•intention to furnills each of them with a copy of my former letter to your I.ordOsip, and. its accompany- Matta, and libewife with a copy of this, and the additional pa pers which I have fahjoined to it.. " *he leading cicalan which ',treated in my lath converfation with Lard Caftleriagh, tvere the placeswhere the building of the ihipsfor the Navy : ought to he carded on, and the authoety on. der which the operation. mutt be cooduded. . " The papers from Mr. Tate, which accompany th's, are de cidedly in favour of Rangoon, and I am ready to admit, that if Peg i was a part of the Bruit poffeißeihs In India, the vicinity of the Mated* for building, and other circumP.ances, would elle to Rangoon a decided preference; and I do nut wigs to exclude it from your Lordihip's maturi coofideration, founded an better channels of information ; but I have heard nothing yet to fatisfy me, that it would be cap-diem to rifle fo great a Rake on fo preca rious a tenure ; and I enter Itrongly into the opinion contained in the letter to me from my nephew, Mr. Philip Dundas, which ac companied fame of the memorandums prepared by Mr. Tate. It will certainly add very atafiderably to the expenee of the tip build ing to bring the wood from Pegu,to Prince of Wales's Wand; but the more minutely I monk the fituatiew of that fetdement, lam the more impreired with an miinion that the haft India Cosabany oeght to Went; and by every means cited& and 'netts* the profperity of it; and it may be a queilion how far tad damn from which the timber from Pegu h to be brought, day not in a degree be counterbalanced by the eminent advantages which will rtfult front the Enteral of the Company being more 6oncentered ; and whatever collateral benefits wife from Antes a new naval depot and addax] in India ought certainfy, Sipa/n*4m be thrown into the tale in favour of a poffeffioo of our own, efpeeially one in a fituation fo very promifing in a variety of other refpedts. If Prince of Wales's Bland is fixed upon as the Radon for the new attend, the putting the timber before it h removed front Pep, into a tape as near to ufe as Mu be, will certainly be atten ded to ; and it, In our intereourfe with the people of Pam we condudt ousibims in Inch a manner as to conciliate their confide:wee, and re. move jealoury, it is nut intpAlltie that In progrefs of time they might even countenance tips belag built there fur our behalf. the fame manner as they have allowed others formerly to buSd- The great object will be to countered, by our belt Mertions, the effects of thole intrigues, which our measles, no doubt, will endea vour to de to our prejudice. " But however fanguine I am in my ideas i lrefpeding Prince of Wales's Maxi, and however dehrabk I confider it to eltabligi, perhaps, the naval arfenal in that quarter of India, I can by do means enter into the ideas of thole who may. be difpofed to under value the importance of Bombay, becaufe it may not have the fame advantages in refped of the quantity or fute of the timber, as would belong to an efiablithment at Rangounkr Prank of Wales's Wand. It is undoubtedly a great cireundtance ht favour of an ciLabliflunnt neither of thole plans, that tips, probably of the Israeli dcferlption, may be built there—hot, there teems nodonbt, than tips of 64 guns, and frigates of any fine, may be built on that fide of India, and that it fs a refource too important in Its na t,at. to be negkaed. Befides, it will be recolkded, that Bombay is already known as a rdpedtable marine ettabliihntent, with a intoner of valuable artificers—and, at a very inconfiderable et re= e. as reported from Bombay, the harbour and its accommo dation may be fo extetukd and improved, as to afford full conveni ence for the operations °flack our military and commercial marine ou that fide of India " In addition to all this, is another confidention too !mportaut not to he adverted to ; I have bog thought that there Was e defeat in the difiribution of our naval force in India, and that the gects Oat(' be fo divided, under leparate commands, as tb afford con- Rant proteetion to both c.aits of the Padatula. By fuck a budun, the trade co nested with Bombay and the two Gulphs of Arabia and Perlia, would receive a fithitantial prinelion,• and the' trade with Bengal, and the fess 011 that fide of India, would en joy a bmilar protedion. This would guard aping many inconve niences ening from the efrecis of the Monfoem and other rheum fiance*. It lam right in thi pofition, it is obvious that a naval Ration, for the building and repairing veffels of every ddalption, on both Mee of India, would be a great accommodation to our na val interells in the Indian Ocean t a nava eitablithment,derefore, at Prince of Wale:a Mind, 4ffords no argument for undervalaing and ;reeding the cftablidatuutt now chains at a With regard to Me nrity and controlling power to he es ertifed over the Docks and Nov. I Arc nal. in India, I am fatisiled here can be no divided authority; and as I am itrongly incnited to the opinion that the building acconimndations are to be made .ppd kept up at the expence of the Ealt India Company, It will be eligible in many points of view that they Ihould be their property, and kept under the care and management of their (truants; this is pecullary neceffary an account of the witive artificers on whom It will he wife for us to rely for the building of our dial» In India.— The Company's fervauts arc accultomsd to their manners and ha bids, and will deal with them accordingly. But irate were to in troduce into the Docks inlhdia a multitude of European workmen, or even a number of European overfeers and fuperintendants, it Would probably be prtiludDree of dilggreeabla iircumitanees, if the rummers, or evto the prejudices of the natives were to be hurt or outraged by a (pecks of ziantiers and habits to which they were not at cuitomed. In Rating this I do not mean to contend that the Navy Board of this country are not to have a few palms placed at the building nations in li.dia, in order to be certain that the (hips are built ac.:ording to the drafts and models which they have approved of, and that no infulikient materials are introduced, or Infufficient WOO matithip allowed in the conttrudbon of the fbips; but all thials perfectly confill cot with the fuperintending controul and attholiey o. the Company fervants over all the fubordtnate milkers in the Dock Yards. When faults are obferved, the per font Inunediatell in the employ of the Navy Board can have them prevented and remedied through the interpofition of the Compa ny's bream, on a proper reprefentataion made for the purport. " 1 . llthil hem Is adopted, and cordially and honourably adtcd upota by tbeEaft India Company, as I have no doubt it wilt he, every thing will proceed Imoothly. It will be the bulinefr 0f the Corn. pany to take care that their arfenab and (tore-houses arc amply foppliedurith (taloned timber, and every other material requilite for the execution off the buGnefs; and as. the Ealt India Company can have no view of making ally prat to chemfelves, on fuch a national concern, they will, when a Nip for his Majefty's navy Is completed, take tick proper spiesias as atoll be fettled between them and the Navy Basra, fee akertaining the fum which the Ihip has colt them.whan the account Is certified by the perfons autho rikd by the Navy Board. lam fortified this will prove to be both the cheapeft and in etery other refped the molt beneficial method of canduding this great national object. " k hi not my intention to enter upon any of the details hy which there arrangements are to te fettled between the Government and the Balt India Company. They and the Comptroller of the Navy ate Infinitely Wm competent for the adjuftment of loch details than I can pretend to be. It is fuflitient tar me to chalk out the material beads of the fyftem, and if either of the parties with from me any further explanations, I will be molt ready to Wien to then. When they arc finally adjefted, as I truft they will be fpeedlly, Ji tuitions upon the whole of the bufinefs will be conveyed to the Company a (ervanta in India in proper official form. But I thought it my duty not to keep from your Lordthip the ideas which have occurred to me after having beitowed conftdtrable attention upon the fubjeft ; I could only do fo at prefent by communicating to you, in an unoNclal form, the fentiraents I have troubled you with in this and my former letter of the 4th ultimo. 1 have the honour to be, Sec. (Signed) MELVILLE." • LETTER FROM T!,E COMFTROLLIR, SIR ANDREW HAM. MUND, TO THE CHAIRMAN. " STA, ," Nary• Office, 3oth Odober, 404. "The Right Honoursh'r. Lord Melville, firit Lord of the Ad miralty, having tranfmittea to me copies of two letters which his Lordship has written to the Marquis \Vcllefley on the fulled of bidding Ihips of war in India for His Majefty's fervice, together with feveral other papers tending to chew the expediency, as welfl as the pradicablity, of that import, o' meafure, if a proprr rneou raganent is afforded to it. His Loccifhip has likewife informed me, that you have been furnirned wi:h copies of the lime paper}. and Lis direded me to confer with you on the fohjed without dchiy, fo that no time may be loft in csrrying the bufincfs into execution. . " The rubjea of this letter, therefore, is to draw your attention toroth parts or Lord Melville's letter, as tend to recommend the forming a completeriavalcltablietmcnt on Prince of W3IVIN Mind, which null not only be eunfidnred as a yard for building fhips, but alto contain Docks and Store-houfes fufficient for the repairing and refitting of his Majeßy's rquadren Rationed in thole reas,wher eyer it may be found more coo:en:au than proceeding for that purport to Bombay. " As the propofal, which is now fubmitted to your toolidera. don, is not meant to infringe, in any degree, on the Rights of the Balt ludia Company, no officers of Government are intended to be plated on this eftabliihment, left it might create any dabbing of reparate Interefts. On that account, therefore, I fulonit to you, Sir, who are fo good a "idge of naval matters, how very impor tant it is that the , Governor or Superintendent fhovid be a palm well veiled in naval points, and one who might be depended upon to forward the views of Government to the utmoit of his power ; and Ottedd you be of the fame opinion, Inch an aptointment would fuperfede the malty of having a Commllliuner of the Navy on the (pot, which, under other eircrenitanocs, could not be dB. penfed with. " The land Ponto Gotta, In the harbour. or Prince of Wales's Mend, appears to be the moll proper (pot au which to place the Naval Dock Yard, from many tircal advantages it pofferes, and partkniarly from its being eafily fordfied front any fudden attack of an enemy. Whenever, therefore. lam informed that you and the Court of Direatirchave dadded that this naval !Rah lifhmegtrhall take plate, I mcd readily afford you .any daft . ante in my power towards Bs . fithordinate arrangtments. Under thefe inartglions, it is underftood to be in the contemplation of the Court of Dire4lors to ap point Captain Philip Dundas, Nephew to Lord Mel ville. Governor, with a rotary of (per an- C. nuns) . 9iaoo Secretary 2,000 1,500 Accountant • 2.003 . Argue - - • td:o . • • ; • . • • .._. • • •-- i 6,ocm Mr. Oliphant, Firfk in Council raid Wart houfe boeper, to be allowed a Conimitrfun upon the Isles of Company's Goods of 3' per cent. and Ids income, including co cotillion, not to be Ids than .- • • - 44 049 ALltaat, a Conunlffionot a per cent. and his In- come not Within . . - t,soo ---- 6„oce Calk* Almada! Cray, Second in Council, Su =adapt,. and Naval and Military Store , to be allowed a Comailfbon upon the 811, at §tor es, and his income, including Cont midis", not to be kfs than - . 4,500 Allifted, a ConunilSon of a per cent. mid his Ine - olise not leis than . ' . 1. 5 C0 • •...--• COCO Caitlin Norman Micalitter, Adjutant of the Dover Volunteers. and itlilittry Militant to ..__ . . . , Mr. Pitt , C,oalunander In Chief, and Third in Council - 44c3 Aids•de-Cantp, Brigade Major, Fort Adjutant, See. not yet axed. Chaplain - • - I /pc° Ma ar Attendant . - 933 Collector of Cullom - - - 45E 4 Surgeon • - - idoo Affiftant - • - yso Tat Writers, 3601. each - - 1,250 3,603 42.350 The following Officers are alfo timed to be necef fary, but their Marie: have not yet been fixed : JUDICIAL ESTABLIIIIMCNTA••MiyOr arid Aldermen, Clerk of the Crown, Sheriff, killices of the Peace, PoLien EsrArt,asostvrs I —Three Captains, with Militants, other Officers of Police, Provoit, Ckrk of the M.aLet, Malay Tranflator. Yefterday a General Court was held at the Eaft- India Houfe, agreeably to adjournment, to take into confederation the propriety of eftablifhing a fettle ment on Prince of Wales Ifland. The ufnal forms having been obferved, the penflon of Soul. to Sir NA TMANIIIL Daace was, on the motion of Mr. Twta tmo, unattimotifly agreed to. The Chairman then brought forward the motion agreed to at the lafl Ge neral Court, for the formation of the fettlement at Prince of Wales !nand, which having been feconded by bfb. Gram; the Deputy Chaittnant Mr G. Jastesront: entered into a Very !biotite re. emination of all the bofii.ets and tendentlzs ti the queition. The idea war n.;e %%rich he cold nor !.e. hen to haste originated with she Diredi •n, bot was impoted upon thorn by Government : indeed it car ried with it all the features of a foul job—it w , itild appear that all the periOrs Already appointed were Scottin.n, and it W,16 cif)• to crajeCture from what i quarter. came that glating in itanbe of national Patti. ality, by whorl they were treated as a fet of elYinato 612-lbends. The Hon. Gentleman !Gen inveighed ag that the amount and inequality of the prop fed Wailes, and in general againd the immenle expencs 1 which the undertaking would involve, and which l' was likely to fall ultimately on the Company; while 1• the ellablifitment, in his opinion, would never anfwer i the objed in contemplation. as the trisiiies of timber !I was not the: e to be found, either in quality or quan tity, nocefrat y for the condi - stet:on 01 men of was-v. the motion theref re fhoold have his negative. Mr. B Jackson took a very comptehenfive view k ° of the queftion. He looked upon the Prince of Wales Wand as the fpot in moll refpeds the kali cal culated for a naval dation in India; but he thoughi . 1 it might anfwer every deferable purport if it was cal. l' enlaced to repair, not to !mild, thins of war. The builaing of (hips in (Itch a country, amidd tO vaR a population, a population fubjugated and tributary to our Empite, war, in his mind liable to very ferious objedions. Befides, the eapence attending the em. cution of filch a projeß would be enormous ; It would be filch as would jollity him in repeating a well known alfettion, that every plank of fuch (hips would he a plank of (deer, and every nail of them a nail of gold. As to the objedion urged againtl the Gentlemen who were already appointed, namely, that of their being all Sentfmen, he thought it was I fomewhat too much inlifled upon, though he was free to confers, that the national partiality of the Noble Lord (Melville), whole favourite plan this was Connoted to be, was often very ftrikingly confpi cuous ; but it was for the Diredion to watch over the choice, and to fee that it was made upon proper grounds. Were an eitttblithment like this indifpea lably neceffary, he fhould prefer Calcutta, as a place abounding with every fpecies of materials, and every deli/11)60n of artificers, which was not the cafe with the Prince of Wale: Itland, and this opi- • nion of his had the fandion of the higheff authorities, among whom he might mention the prefent Gover nor-Gentrai ; hi: alio found this opinion corrobora ted, if he referred to the report of Colonel Kid, which to him appeared a very fair and difpaffionate Rate went, and Much preferable to the view given of it by Mi. Macalliiter. But the main objet for which he role, was to remind and warn the Direetion to ufe their utmoß caution in ineumbering themfclves with the expences of this eßabliflonent—they mutt already have received revere teams on that (core Surely, they could not forget the expences incurred for the Wend of Ceylon, for the expedition to Egypt, /cc. which, l in amount, were to enormous, and re- Ipeding which, Lord Clitlereagh, and other perfons high in office, had cantered their doubts where there expences might tiltimately fall. The Learned Gen. tleman concluded with moving an amendment, re commending, among other things, the Bencooleu fervants to the notice of the Court. Mr. PRINCE? fecanded the motion, and took op the fame idea, and infiited on the propriety of enter ing into a Ipecifie coutraa with Government, rellsea ing the proportions of the expence. A Proprietor, whole name we could not learn, did not deny but the Prince of %Vales Ifland offered ma ny of the facilities requifite for a naval Ration ;—but they would not anfwer the objet in view. He had praflical knowleilge of that Ipot, and of the places belt calculated for fuch an eftablithment ; and if the Company and Government were anxious to accom. pin this objea, they Ihould fend out an expedition againft the Nl:tutititti, the expence of capturing which, will be much lets than that attending the pro- poled eftablifhment. Mr. Joy IS ADAI a animadverted with much warmth on cettaihexpregiong that had fallen from an Hon. Gentleman, Mr. G. johnlione, refpeaing the marked predileaion for Scotfinen ' the mandatory mftruaions of Government to the Direanrs, and all the other circumftances which had induced that Gentleman to fligmatize the prefent tranfaaion as a foul job. Another Proprietor expatiated much at large on The capacities of the Mind, for the porpoles of a naval arfenal, and thought. no time fhould be loft in putting the plan in execution. The CHAIRMAN recapitulated the different objec tions urged againli the meafure, and very ably re futed them ; he denied that Government had ever attempted to dimtate to the dire&ion or adoption of the prefeot meafure. Sir H. INGLIS, Mr. Twusts6, Sir H. POPHAM, Colonel Stuns, and other proprietors, fupported the original quellion while the amendment was as flrongly preffed by Mr. JOHNSTONE, Mr. JACKSON, and others. At half pail five the goeftion being loudly called for, the Court was cleared and the amendment negatived. A ballot, however, was demanded, on the origi nal queltion, by MetFr s . P.Mooaa, Cita PMAN, YOUNG, lIUNTFR, RANKIN, Roox, BLANK, JOHNSON, J. ROOK, and GRI ma Hs, and fixed for Tuefday next. A fctv days fine; a Gentleman of Oxford fireet, who had been on a vitit to Plaiflow, walked out late M the evening, and loa hinifelf in the Mar(hes. He was miffing for three dayc, when he was found dead near the Abbey Mills, with part of his cars, nofe, and cheeks, eaten off, as is fuppofed, by water.rats.—The Cot otter's Ineviell brought in a verdiEt of—Acciden tal Death ; after which the corpfe was delivered to the friends of the deceafed. _ _ _ As a country dealer from Salifbury vas croffing Tower-hill on Tuelday, he was acetified *uy two no torious (harpers. one of whom defignedly dropped a paper pa( Lt, hich the other picked up, and (hewed to the countryman. A gentleman palling at the time, obferved their motion:, and :4cl:tint their inten tions, took the countryman out of their clutches.— Being interrogated with rerpea to his converfation with the (harpers, he laid, that the man aho picked up the parcel told him, he was lure it crntained tense thin,'' valuable ; and that they were going to a pub -1;c hrufe to open it, and (hare the piize. The two niitiperS were well d-card men, about fifty, and have been °Mei ved in Smithfield, and various other parts of the town. They ay:: known to be dealers in mock diamond tinge, crcab, &c.