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following important intelligence, " By a Letter from Barbadoes, of the 7th init. it appears that (even men of war, fuppofed to be enemies, had appeared to windward of that Wand the day before." There are letters from Earbadoes by the fame con veyance which brought theft accounts, as late as the to:h, when neither the Cork fleet, nor Admiral Cocifitatta, bad arrived, confequently if , the above information be coact, the fufpicion of the ships be ing enemies was highly probable, or rather certainly right. Two tranfports, with 403 troops, part of the Cork convoy, had arrived at Barbadoes on the above date. A private letter, by the fame conveyance, Rates that a gentleman who was at Dominica, on the tath of March, law Sir Sastuat. HOOD in the CENTAUR, with eight or ten other veils of war, pars by. He underflood that all cruizers arriving at Barbadoes, were ordered to join inflantly at Antigua. A letter from St. John's, Virgin Maids, of March 23d, from a gentleman of the Fall refpatability, Rates, " The whole of St. Domingo is in the pail . - ,‘ lion of the Blacks. General FERRAN° expated the " French Eet, and collated his troops near the " Sea, but was difappointed." As the Cork fleet certainly arrived at Barbadoes on the t 3th March, the danger to which our Weft India Poffcffions were expofed, may be confidered as nearly over. The enemy have not avag i ed themfelves of their extraordinary opportunity. They paled all the chain of our molt defencelefs Elands, and the da mage they have done is inconfiderable, compared with the value of the interefts expofed to the ma inanifea danger. We have received by the Venerable the Barbados Mercury of the 23d March, frorn wlaich we And that every precaution had been taken there to guard againft any attack from the enemy. Thefe details are here unneceffary, bat we (hall fubjoin the ac counts which it gives of the procceding of the French in the ifiands which they Cited, and Come interefting details which have reached us from other quarters. " Earbadoes (Mcretry). March 2.3. Th: plur.dering of the iflands of St. Kitt's and Nevis by the enemy's forces, is now fully confirmed, to the further difgrace of thefe ignoVe Commanders. On the morning of the sth inflant, the :whole of the French Iquaihon before Rated, with the addition of two fchooners, arrived off St. Kitts, and about noon the frigates and (mailer veffels came to anchor in Baffeterre Road, and landed Soo men, who imme diately took poffeffion of the town and fort, the Mi litia having previoury marched to Brimifone Hill. A Committee from the inhabitants was loon after fent on board the Admiral's fhip, with offers of furrender ing the town and its dependencies, with all arms, ammunition, &c. on terms of capitulation. To thi: the French Commanders replied, that " tlvay had not tot;:e to acquit territorg, but to levy .eoittrilniticos ;"-- they therefore demanded ioo,ooo dollars from the inhabitants at large, .40,000 from the Colleaor of the Cultoms, and 40,000 from the fhip owners to [pare their veffels ; requiring that the fame fhoUld be paid by nine o'clock next morning ; at the fame time threatening to burn the town in cafe of delay.— The opprefred and difmayed people found it im potlible to raife turn, but, by ranfatking all their creature, t 6,0001. currency in cub was procured, which with a Bill of exchange of to,oool. drawn fur the purpofe, and negociated with a refl. "dent American merchant, was paid to thefe free booters, in the hope that they would Ray their hands from further outrage. This, howeier, had not the defired effeft, for thefe infatiate robbers not only purloined two !hips (the Caroline, laden with fugar, and Thomas, with coffee and cotton), which they carried off with them, but fet fire to and totally con fumed the following veffels, being the whole lying there, viz. —Matthew, YOUNG ; Lady Neifon, Boa waft ; Opipte, ; and Thetis, SMITH, and then proceeded to Nevis, where they alfo exaFled a heavy contribution, of which the inhabitants not having the means of paying more than 40001. thefe difap pointed banditti, by another conflagration, tfehroyed the following veffels: Lady Jane Halliday, CHivsas; Twins, NMI ; Nclly, Joats ; Nevis, CURREY, and Eclipfe, DAWES.. " On the 6th intl. in the evening, thefe troops were re-embarked, and the fquadrnn proceeded to fea, with the avowed ir.tention of playing the fame game at Mon:lC:rat ; the iffue of which we have not yet learnt. Dereld as is the name of Frenchman, yet were &WI: art. Frtnchown fuck a.; their!!!—Gracelefs cowards! who burn and plunder a defencelefs coun try, but dare not approach our prote.fted fhore ! " We do not with to exaggerate the turpitude of thefe reaegadoes, but what little merit they deferve, we freely give them—therefore we add, that beyond what is above flitted, they did not commit any out rage upon the perfons of the inhabitants, or plunder their houfts. " Tne enemy have fince returned to Martinique, and by the lag accounts, arrived at Fort Royal about eight days ago. By this contiguity our vigilance has been increafed, but in none of the meafurcs adopted by us, is to be traced any thing but prudent precau tion and watchful preparation to receive them. " It has been with no little furprife and indignation that we have heard it reported with much indullry, that the neccifity and propriety of providing for the which the enemy may import upon us, fLould tLcir fquadron appear off tl;►is town, has ban difeuffed by lime of our inhabitants ; and this report gone fo far too, as to, name Tome of the molt refpec table of the community as conniving at fo defpicable an idea. Without here naming the parties alluded to, we take upon ourfelves to affert that they are grofsly fcandalized; and we feel it a libel upon the loyalty and patriotifm of the country to fuppofe that even one folitary individual could be found weak and mean enough to compromife for his fafety by dif gracefully purchafing with his gold, what his or* will honotirably fccure him l" " St. Thomas's, March 23. " On the sth inn. the French fquadron, which had attacked Dominica, arrived in the Roads of Baf feterre, St. Kitt's, confining of the following (hips:— Le Magittrat, of 120 guns ; le Magnanime, of 74 guns; l'lndefatigable, of 44 guns; la Cygne, of 15 guns; and PAC:five, of 16 guns, with two armed fchooners and tranfports. The Prefident of the ifland, with the Militia, having joined the garrifon at Brimflone-hill, no attempt was made to defend the town of Baffeterre. The colours of Fort Smith were Bruck on the fiat (hot being fired by the enemy, and a Committee from fuch of the inhabitants as refided at Baffeterre was appointed to go on board the French fleet, and to obtain from the Commander the belt terms they could for the town and its depen dencies, and for the efiates throughout the ifland.— A detachment of the French troops was landed and Rationed is the fort, and on Tayler's Ellate, in the neighbourhood of the town. The negociat ion between the Committee and the French Commander termi nated in the acceptance by the French of about to,oool. Reding in money from the inhabitants, and of the fame film from the Collator of his Majelly's Cußoms, by a bill drawn by him on General Ma maws, an American Gentleman, who happened to be on a 'Alit to St. Kitt's, which bill was accepted by General Marts aws, and immediately paid by that Gentleman's draft on the American Conful at Paris, in favour of the French Commander. On the 7th March, the French fquadron departed from St. Kitt's for Nevis, where a contribution was levied, without any troops being landed. "Among the vatic defiroyed, &c. at St.Kitt's, by the French, were the following :—The Matthew, You::c ; Lady Nelfon, Boman; and Thomas, GR LER sox, for London; Thetis, SMITH, for Briftol ; and (loop Eclipfe, all of which were burnt. The Caroline, Hates, a fine veffel, richly laden, which alfo lay at St.Kitt's, was carried away by the enetny. " Among the veffels deftroyed at Nevis were the Lady Jane Hiliday; Ctitvias ; Twins, Placa ; and Nelly." " Chartenon, March 29. gi On the 219 inflant, Captain LICARR fpoke the 'hip Eliza, BROWN, out nine days from St. Chtilto. pher's, bound to Edenton. Captain B. Elated, that the French had taken the iflands of Doniiica, Ne vis, Montferrat, St. Vincent's, and St—Chrifinpher's. Captain B. was prefent when they took poffeffion of the latter place. The French fent three frigates into the harbour, when the colours on the Fort were hauled dorn. The French Admiral demanded, as a ranfom for the town, 15,0001. from the inhabi tants, and to,oool. from the Colleetor, which fums were paid. Moll of the Eng flipping in the bar. hour were burnt, but the Americans were unmoleft ed. Eight hundred troops were landed, but they obferved the ftrieleft order, and were not fuffered to plunder the fmallett article. The French fleet re. nsained but one day at St. Chriftopher's, when they failed to intercept the Cork fleet, which was hourly eipeeted." By the CHI a itz.v. of t 8 guns, arrived at Plymouth from the Channel fleet with difpatches, we learn, that Admiral Sir Jonepsos, with his fquadron, joined the Channel fleet on Tuefday the 3oth ult. We have received Ditch and French Journals, the former to the 3d inf. and the latter to the 28th ult. The principal intelligence in the French Journals, re lates to the journey of BONAPARTE and the Emprefs, who on the 2zlt of April arrived at the Imperial Pa lace of Stupinis, in the neighbourhood of Turin. We are happy to Rate that difpatches were yeller - day received from Cork, announcing that intelli gence had been received there of the fare arrival of the Cork fleet at BarbAdoes, all well. Saturday night difpatches were received from Ad. miral COCHRANE, and immediately fent off to his MAJESTY. Yellerday his MAJESTY, Princeires Soma, MARY, and AMELIA, with their attendants, walked to St. George's Chapel, and heard a fermon by Dr. AL cam. After divine fervice, the Royal Family went to Frogmore. On Monday one of the deepell falls of fnow ever remembered at this time of the year, fell in the vici nity of Sheffield. A fevere !hock of an earthquake was lately felt at Manilla, and occationed contiderable damage ; feve ral lives are reported to have been 1011. A jovial let of our gallant Tars giving the Toaft lately "Nos. 4 and 9," a Gentleman prefent dked if thofe were not the Numbers of two of the French Gun-boats we bad kill captured—Gun-boats,esclaim. ed the brave fellow, no, no. matter, we mean No. 4, Cornhill, and No. 9, Charing Crofs, London—two Lottery Ships, commanded by Commodore BUSH, where many of us have received boffin)). of Prize Money, and where hundreds of our meffmAtes are At this moment fleeriog to intercept a rich Galloon that is espaled about the 13th of this Month, worth at leak Tca Thaufand Pounds. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.Wind S. S. W. ARR. DUI. AIR. DOZ. Dublin a r I Hamhurgh r I Waterford t I Gotteubwrgh 0 r Lilbon 0 I PLYMOUTH, MAY 4.—Came in the Danifh Sufanna, Captaic S. J. Roe Los., from Menton, board to Embden, laden with fruit, detained by the Alert privateer, of London; alfo the CtiIERLY, of 18 guns, from the ChaOnel Fleet, with difpatches : fhe brings an account that Admiral Sir JOHN °ant, wi:h his fquadron, joined the Channel Fleet on Tuefday the Both ult.; RHOD♦ cutter, of 14 guns, from the Channel Fleet, with difpatches; NIMBLE, of 14 guns, from ditto: fhe left them the ttl of May, with dif patches; Fain cutter, from ditto: (he left them the zd of May, with . dilVatches t Hatrootry gun brig, from the Weliward, having been with dif patChes to Admiral KNIGHT, of the gylEtt, of 98 guns, which the left on board one of the fleet for him, and then returned immediately. —Sailed the COLOSSUS, of 74 guns, to join the Channel Fleet ; alfo the BEAGLE, of :8 guns, with difpatches for Lord GARDNER. PoirsmouTN, MAY s.—Came in the SOPHIA 1100 p of war, with difpatches from the Mediterranean; and the EcvrritNat frigate from a cruize, after being on fhore on the ShingleF. The EURYDICS fri. gate is appointeA convoy for the Mediterranean. DIAL, MAY s.—Sailed the Vatotraous floop of war, and a gun brig, for the French coati. Came down from Sheernefs, the PHOSPHORUS fire (hip.— Arrived and failed for the River, the George, Rav- MOLDS, from the Bay of Honduras. Arrived the JA MAICA ani ARIADNE frigates ; SPEEDY, AUTUMN, ORESTES, and CYGNET (loops of war; and feveral gun brigs, from off the French coaft, and remain in the Downs with the Ten or the (hips as per laft. The BLAZES gun brig, Lieutenant HINTON, has brought into the Downs, a veffel under American colours, faid to be bound from Amfierdam to New York. Wind wcflerly, fqually. YAAMOUTH, MAY s.—The Baltic fleet confifting of 180 fail, under convoy of the ORFSTFS and Ram oEß floops of war, DILIGENce armed fhip, and Pain. CESS ALTOUSTA cutter, got under way this morning about nine o'clock, and at one P. M. were out of fight with a fair wind at S. W. frefh breeze.—Sailed on a cruize the PEFELOPA frigate, and Coastwis►+ T floop of war. Two large (hips and a hoy, arc now coming in, fuppofed prizes to the North Sea fleet.— Arrived the !amt.'s-cr. loop of War. Admiral Rt.'s tat. has {hilted his flag front the St. ALBANS to the MONMOUTH, and remains with St. Albans, Ma labar, Antelope, Adamant, Inflexible, Infpeaor flan), and Badger cutter. GREENOCK, Aim. v.—Accounts were received here laft night, of the fate arrival in Lochfayle, north of Ireland, of the French Fall Indiaman Charles, MORRICK, which failed from the Ifle of Franct:, in company with the American brig Riling Sun, arriv ed at Plymouth, and was bound to Bourdeaux. She was taken on the 4th inttant, in fight of Fayal, by the privateer (hip of war Neptune, of this port, Captain HANBY, in company with the Union lugger of Jerfey. The Charles, MORRICB, is a (hip of 532 tons, with a cargo of fugar, cotton, coffee, indigo, and a great many other valuable articles, and is the fourth valuable capture by the cruizers of this port. Max 3. —By the Disr:a, arrived yellerday, an an.] count is brought of the appearance of a French pri vateer in the mouth of the North Channel. At this reafon, in almolt every year of the laft war, an enemy' of this force has retorted to that quarter. A floop of war, Rationed there, it neceffary ; and would if aftnally employed, efeCtually fecure that navigation. Arrived here yefterday morning, the Diana, M EETS, from Charlefton, after a paifage of so days ; was boarded on the 27th ult, about to miles off Tilling Head, by a French privateer biig, of to guns and 8o men. TIM' Fn:nchman bad deftroy ed feveral vac's. Captain Them (poke, a few days previous, in lat. 55. long. 20. the Caledonia, from Leith, out eight days ; and, on the 13th ult. in lat. 54. long. 34. the American (hip Charleflon, from Liverpool, bound for Norfolk, all well. Arrived the Olympus, WOOO. from Charleflon, after a paffage of 43 days. Capt. WOOD law an Ame rican fhip going into Charlefton, the Mary Ann, Isoar.t.s, from this port, which tailed on the z3d of January. Az asvzo...off Dover, the RI.11,11(011, from I,cghorn— Off Brighton, Hope, Gifford, from St. Thomaii—At Dublin, Hope, Andrews, from BourdtauzAt Belfaft, Vemss, Goodwill, from New York—At Gibraltar, Two Friends, Stoff, from Peter( burgh; Elizabeth, Spaldon, and the Elizabeth, Appleton, from London—At Honduras, Sinai!bridge, Curtis, and the from Londonv.-At Africa, Fanny, Lane ; and the Lord Romney, Carlifle, from LiverpooL The Neptune privateer has brought into Derry a large French /hip of 650 tons burthen, from the We of France, bound to Bourdeaux, valued at 200,0001. The MEDIATOR man of war, with the Warren Hafting:, Wexford, Henry Addington, Bombay Caftle, and the Royal George, outward bound Bail Indiamen, failed from Madeira on the i ith of March. The Ocean and Carmarthen Indiamen arrived on the 25th of March : the Ocean was blown out the next day, and had not returned on the 3oth. The Hibloor.raw man of war, convoy to the Eaft India fleet, which failed from Portfmouth on the Bth of March, arrived at Madeira on the 28th. The Young 'William, BASON ; and the Swift, Ist• ceasTott, (South Seamen) of London, were all well at South Georgia about three months (ince. The Infpettor (South Seaman) of London, failed from Kergiden, in company with the Star, (art ived at St. H:lena). This morning difpatehes arrived at the Admiralty front Lord lisara, off Margate. DUBLIN, 17 2. On Saturday, Mr. Gi F FARO was difiniffed from the offiCe of Surveyor of the Cuftom-houfe quay, a Dublin, which he had held since the year t 783. It was yellerctay very confidently alledge, 4 , that a Gentleman who, as a Grand Jur-tr, had fithfcribed the county of Fermanagh ttefolutions again't the Roman Catholic claim,, was removed from his of fice of Collcdor of a Northern County. MARK-LANE. CORN 111XCHANCIR. MIT 6. The arrivals of Wheat to day are but (hurt ; the fupply is chiefly remaining famples of Foreign. Hav ing many buyers early in the forenoon, cattfed fa, s at about ss. per quarter advance, but afterwards it fell to near laft currency. But a fhort fupply of Bar ley, and as. higher. Malt, with Peas and Beans of both frets have not much variation—the trail art i vals of Oats alto but few, and this article is dearer. Flour in full plenty ; tales at our quotation—nomi nally higher. GENERAL CURRENCY AS UNDER. Wkeat.los. 641. 783. per. qr. Grey Peafe 365. to ass. ROC Ditto, Bes. 8 43 . od. S ams, 4os 464 od i Rye, 461. 321. od. Tick Ditto 365. 423. Od Risley, 421.485. od. Oats, 235. 23g. 28s. Malt, 68s. 235. od. Poland ditto, soi. 30s od, White Peale, 425. 48s. od. Raps Seed, oos. oos. • I PRICE OF FLOUR. Fine Flour 7os. to 7ss. Seconds 6ss. to 70a. per lack. FROM TUE CORDON GAZETTE, SATURDAY, MAY 4. Average Price of Corn in England and Wales, from the returns ending the 27th ..,f April, tBos. Wheat. Rye. I Barley. I Oats. I Beans. I Peale. la d. a. d. a. d. a. d. s . d . s. d. 90a. 62 1 46 it 27 o 46 6 so 0 The average Price of Sugar, computed from the Returns made hi the week ending May I, IS 491.5 4 per hundri.d w.ight. COUNTRY MARKETS. PRICat OF GRAIN AT TOE FOLLOWING MARKETS. BASINGSTOKE. —What 68s and to iccs od per %tarter. Barley 33s od to 44$ od I Beans 4 61 cd to se s od 7 Oats ass od to 301 od Peak oos od to ck sod MAtoaNsicAo.....Wheat 70s est to 1001 od per Q. Barley 381 041 to 405 03 I Beans soil cd to sail od Ott, 28s od to 3 2 1 6d Peale cos od to oos od Newavar.—Wheat s6s od to toot od per Qr, Barley 32 9 o d to 4os od I Beans 361 cd to 531 od .."., Oats 241 od to 30s cd Peale 48s od to 32$ ost. HENLEY —Wheat ses od to 1061 od per O. Barley 323 od to 42s id I Beans 4 8. od to S i g od Oats . Vs cd to 295 6,1 Pink oos od to -os cd Rammto.....Wheat 753 od to !ICS Od per qz, Barley 343 od to 4cs od I Beans 4ts od to 4 8 1 od Oats 2 4 s od to 27s cd Peale OCS cd to oos od 1 Letters are received at the India Houle, which we under Rand are dated the 27'h of December. They Rate, that General Lord LaK6 had loft no time in following up the important advantages he had gained over Holkar, whom he purfued to the border; of the jutnna. The enemy experienced the greateft difficul y in their retreat actors that river, owing to the rapidi ty of the purfuit ; and the roads through which they had fled were left tl.ickly Itrewed with the bodies of their Bain. A great number of prifoners, arid a vaft quantity of baggage had fallen into our poCreffi.tn. In fine, the enemy have, in every direttiou, been com pletely difcomfited. The late accounts from India announce, that feve ral of the Native Powers, who had declared for Hol kar, or who were wavering in their attachment to the Britifh, have, in confequence of the recent viaories of our arms, fent Agents to General Letts, to ex prefs their devotion and folicit his proteetion. He has likewife been deferted by many of his f flowers, particularly Amrut Rao, between whom and Holkar there previoufly exi fled tome differences refpOting the divition of the treafure of which the Baees were plun dered. The Rohilla fubfidiary force is in motion on the Northern frontiers, and Colonel MURRAY, who marched from Ogien early in November, to cover the Ealtem frontier of Gozzerat, is (Laced to have de feated aitrong corps of Holkar's cavalry, which in tended to penetrate the Guicawar's dominions. Colonel-MaaTimoats has obt.tined the molt deci. five fucceffes over the Bundella Chief, on the bor ders of Bundelcund. The enemy experienced great mortality from want ; all their camels and horfes had either been eaten, or had perifhed from hunger. Col. MARTINDALE, however, being uninformed as to the client of their chard's, which, in a (hurt time, matt have given him an eafy viaory, attacked them in their faftnelfes, and put nearly the entire of them to the fword. C!YLON.—A letter from Wegambo, dated in the beginning of November, ilates, that Capt. BLACK. Hats. having, by an extraordinary march, come up with the army of the zd Adigar, attacked and tozally defeated it. The Adigar, and about 250 of his fol lowers were killed. Their Graces the Duellers of Rutland and Leeds, the Right Hon. the Coyotelles of Mount-Norris, Darnley, Shafteflanry, Cork, and Derby, the Right Hon. Ladies Spencer, Sheroorne, Capel, Bo.ton, Say and Sele ' the Right Hon. & th e Lord glop of Carlifle, the Lord Chief Baron, and feveral other noblemen and phyficians, having witneffed many ex traordinary cures performed by CLing'r Patent Worm Lozenges, have confirmed their approbation of the me dicine by their honourable tellimony to its pecnliar efficacy in removing Worms, Ci.nvuilion Fits, Pains of the Head, Side, and Stomach, and other confumpw five complaints, Obitruttions in the Liver, Sec.—.l4 opening Phyfic on all occalions Ching's Patent W•irtn Lozenges are fuperior to every other Medicine. Sr.ld Wholetale and Retail at Chilly ! a nd Bullet's, No. Cheapfide, and molt Country Bookfellers. 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