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GIBRALT.a, NOTEWER rg, tie)+, _ "The deaths amongtt the inhabitants in town does not now amount to above two or three daily, the agate havinivo freth fubjeds to attack in town t but the contagion appears to be as deadly and malignant as ever to all ((rangers and fuch as have aot had the cliicafe, which, thank GOD, does nct attack any a (:coed time ; however the fever is gradually going through the troops at the South, about Soo of whom have not yet had it ; upon an average about 16 are taken ill daily, and the deaths amongft them are re duced to about five daily. Mrs. DARLING, widow of Capt. DARLING, died yefterday (the 23d) ; Mrs. Caatiarta, wife of Captain CALPINTIR, of the Loth Regiment, died yefterday of the fever. This day the LIVELY frigate arrived from Portf ::iouth, in 18 days, having five medical men on board, fent nit for the Garrifon. The BIAGLI failed at the fame time with (even more of the faculty. 41 N OV sista 3o. —The fkknefs amonga the troops continues much as ufusl, about 16 taken ill daily.— The remainder of the medical Raff from England arrived to day, except Dr. Bowr. is, one of the Phy_ licians, who died on the paffage. a. Die. a.—Mrs. WILKINSON, wife of Captain WILKIII3OII, of the 13th Regiment, died of the fever yetlerday, univerfally regretted by all who knew her. Mr. MITCHELL, one of the medical men lately ar rived, died this morning of the fever, after three days Rinds. "The Assn■ arrived this morning from Lord tit tsow's fleet, to cruize here. Sir Jon■ Oans's fqtradron, off Cadiz, have already fent in eight va• luable prizes to this place, three of them laden with cochineal from South America. " DEC. s.—The Dort WALL, Sir R. STILACHAN ar rived this morning with a Spanith frigate, of 4+ gtins, which the captured Tome days ago off Cadiz, after a dace of 3cso miles. The Crircotas brig alto arrived from Lord Necsoa's fleet, with the accounts of his fquadron having taken Come Tranfports, with a Spa nith Regiment, going to Minorca, and which had been fent prifoners to Malta ; the Officers having been fira landed in Spain on their parole. Five fol ders died laft night of the fever, and four the pre ceding night—about is taken ill daily. " The Emperor of Morocco has lately refuted to allow any live cattle, or fupplies, to be exported from Barbary to this Garrifon. except What is barely Cut ficient for the fupply of the troops, fo that we have 'now to look forward to war, peftilencei and famine. "D c.6.—Lieut. HENRY de koLcs,of Da Rotes's Regiment, died !aft night of the fever. and five fol. alto four inhabitants. A violent gale of wind all day, which we arc in hopes will abate the con tagion. "Ds c. 7.--ANdlor Ma co u t 111,1 fnrgeonof the t jth Regiment, died laft flight of the fever ; alfo four fol eters and four inhabitants. The Steamy's arrived to day from the fleet off Cadiz, to repair her fore yard, which was crippled in a gale of wind. " The Spaniards have been very bufily employed there three days pall in carrying guns to their batte ries iti the lines, and round the Bay. Intelligence was received to flay from Madrid, Ilium death of the Prince of Peace. There arc various accounts of the caufe of the quarrel between him and the Prince of the Afturias, which terminated in the death of the Prince of Peace, by the band of the latter : the molt eorreet one is, that the Prince of Peace, having, in ra• ther an infulttng tnanner,told the Prince of the Mo rin, (the heir apparent) in the Council, that" there " was every probability of a French army advancing 4' into the Kingdom, in which cafe he would not look "forward with any hopes Of ever being King of " Spain." The Prince of the A Iturias immediately drew a dagger, and (tabbed him. fayiog. " that the author " of his misfortunes lhculd not live to triumph over " them."—Few or none will lament his death, as he was the complete tool of BONAPARTI, and it was commonly fuppored that he looked forward to the throne of Spain, through the arms or artifice of the Imperial Defpot. " Dacawaea B.—Lieutenant Nam, of the loth regiment, died yefferday of the fever. another fretb viftim to imprudently removing into town from camp. " Orders are at laft given to day for feparating ill the troops who have bad the difeafe, from thofo who have not yet received the contagion ; the latter of wh m are tobe encamped at Windmill•hill and diffe rent parts of the Rod, and no communication what rver to be permitted between them, and the other mops who have **tad the fever, who are moved into town from the encampments. " Dt c. 9.—The troops who have not had the fever moved to their different camps to day, agreeable to the general orders of yefterday. " Dec. t t.--Not a fink foldier has been taken ill thefe laft twenty-four hours of the fever, being the firft inftanee of the kind that has occurred fince the &fedi began, and is a ftrong proof of the good ef fells refulting from the late orders, for cutting off all communication between the troops in tamp and thofe in town. - _ " Dsc. s4.—The difeafe is fall fubfiding among 9 the troops The t3th regiment, who had the precau tion to burn all the bedding of thofe who were mov ing to camp, and to furnith every man with a clean blanket, have in confequence not bad a man taken in fince they encamped. " The other regiments who carried their old bed -4;lg with them ; have had one•or two each tako But the difeafe is evideady 'rapidly declining, not above two on an average being taken ill daily, and we have every profpe& of its ceafing amongst the troops. The deaths by the returns up to yeiterday, amounted to 853 foldiers, and 5o officers era sly (in cluding the Staff) fence the t ft of September. " The difeafe has been fingularly fatal to the old deft foldiers and to the Route(t and belt looking men in the different regiments, fo that the flower of the garrifon have been deftroyed by it. What adds to the regret is, that all the regiments here were par, of that gallant army which were the conquerors of Egypt, and that more have thus perilhed ingloriodly by a horrible difeafe, than what fell in the memora ble battle of the 2ilt of March, which decided the fate of that country. DkC. 14.—The Swirrsutte arrived here with four more hofpital mates for this garrifon, that came ont in the GLORY to the fquadron off Cadiz. " Dec. It —The Symms' frigate arrived from Malta with Major General DRUMMOND nn hoard, who is ordered to this Garrifon as fecond in com mand. Dsc. 17.—Part of the convoy from England arrived to-day. It is not fuppofed that any perfon will be allowed to land from it till the difeafe is completely gone ; and it is fait declining, there not being above twenty of the troops ill with the fever now, and the attacks of late have become much more flight lince the cold weather began. tB.—Genearl Fox, with the remainder of the convoy, arrived laft night and this - morning. The General landed at twelve o'clock to-day, under a fa lute of feventeen guns from the men of war and the garrifon, of which he immediately alrumed the command, as Lieutenant-Governor. He has, how ever, ordered that no other perfon (hall be allowed to land from the convoy till the fever has completely' abated. The number of foldiers Eck with the fever doe, not mud twelve in the whole garrifon. The arrival of General Fox has diffufed very general fAtisf.alion amongft all ranks. Dac. so.—The number of fever cafes is this day reduced to fit, and not a man has been taken ill there two days in any of the camps. The contagion, howevel-, Rill feems to etiß Rrongly in town, as two different women have both taken the fever there lately, who imprudently Moved into town, without having had the difeafe. Rurvam OF Till MORTALITY AMONGST THE TROOPS FROM THE IST OF SEPTEMBER, 1804, TO THE 20TH OF DECEMBER INCLUSIVE. Officers and Privates. 1911 133 Royal Artillery - - - Royal Military Artificers - - Barrack Artiticus - - - queen's Regiment . - - Tenth Regiment - - - Thirteenth Regiment : - Thirty-fourth Regiment - - Dc Roller Regiment - - 9 1 18 Is 3 10 IE7 g6S 3 3 915 s 7• 3780 —4965 Faclufive of filch inhabitants as died in the Bay, and on their pafage to the different places when they fled from hence on the difeafe breaking out. iiteludin , Stmt IQal, Military Wives and Children of ditto Inhabitants Total " Dec. 22.—We had one of the molt violent (forms of wind and rain yefterday ever remembered here. Every tent at Europa and Windmill•hill was completely levelled and torn, and feveral of them blown into the fee; the troops encamped were oblig ed to be put into the large brewery at Europa, which holds near a regiment, and the reft were lodged in any empty houfes they could find. The number of fever cafes is now reduced to fix, but we are apple henfive the breaking up of the quarantine encamp menu may again ezpofe the troops to frelh contagion. Several vclfels were drove on &ore )efterday during the gale. " A Vice Admiral parted Europa Point to-day in a line of battle Ibip to the eaftward, who is con jeaured to be Sir Jon N 01DR. Dec. 23.—The fame (hip repaired the Streights again to-day, without touching here. 44 Sir Taoseas Tatcna leaves this place in a few days, in the Tetanal frigate for England. “ Dec. 15.—Yellerday arrived a French (loop of war of I 8 guns, and tso men, called the Tigre, cap- tured by the FIIGAID off Cape St. Vincent's. 4 0 Yefterday a Serjeant and two men belonging to the garrifon deferted from Bayfide Guard, to the Spaniards. 44 Two days ago the Captain of an Eng% rad lying in the Bay, went on (bore on the neutral ground to endeavour to get off one of his boats which had been (handed near the Spanifh lines, when one of the Spanifh fentries fired at him and killed him. 64 The contagion Rill feems to exit} in the town ftrungly, as two perfons who have moved in there lately have both been (cited with the fever within theft two days. The accounts from Cadiz and Ma. laga all agree in the fame particular, that though the &leafy has ceafed amongft the inhabitants, yet every Itranger is fore of being attacked in a few days after his arrival in either of thefe places. 0 It has now been proved by fatal experience in many melancholy inftances, that the clothes and bed- ding of thole who have been tick of this difeafe will, as in the plague, retain the infeftion for weeks, and that the infeftion appears to be more certainly coot_ municated from infeded clothes or bedding, and with greater virulence than even from the bodies of the teArrricAL INTELLIaENcE. MAILS THIS DAY.-.Whad S. S. W. ill. DUI. All. 2101. D25111i 2 1 I Hamburgb o 3 Waterford z I LifJoas I o Tot's; FEU. 9. —The Channel Fleet, under the command of Admiral CORNWALLIs, confitling of the following (hips, viz. the VILLE DR PARIS, DREAD NOUGHT, Bill JOSEPH, BRITANNIA, TEMERAIII.I, WINDSOR CASTLE, Q . I.IIEN, EAGLE, WARRIOR, Ds- FIANCE, BELLEROPHON, MARS, and the VETERAN men of war, are now coming into the Bay. Arrived the Mary Ann Spanilh (hip, from Sebaflian's for Cadiz, captured by the DIAMOND ft igat e and remains with the Ncsts sts frigate. SOUTHAMPTON, FEL 10.—Arrived the Vigilant, Comma', from Guernfey ; and the Amflaad, NER from Bilboa. The Bombay Cattle, the Wex ford, the Royal George, and the Henry Addington, outward-bound Eall Indiamen, put back into Cowes Roads yeflerday afternoon, having loft the Way MOUTH frigate their convoy. Wind S. E. fine weather. DEAL, Fsa. to.—Rear Admiral DOUGLAS arrived here this morning, and hoitled his flag on board the LEOPARD man of war in the Downs. Arrived the Tausrr man of war from Portfmouth, and SPEEDY and RATLV (loops of war from a cruize. Sailed the Elphintlone. Hugh Inglis, Elk:, Ann, and Glory P Eati-Indiamen, for the River. Put back the Charle• ton outward-bound Eall•lndiaman, and remains in the Downs with the (hips as per hall, and the Wood ford homeward-bound EMI Indiaman. Wind S. W. PENZANCI, Fag. 6,-Since my laa arrived the Nancy, PILIVATT, from Southampton, for Cork ; his Majefty's brig Gitmit r, Lieutenant Bass, qnri Rs- SOLUTION ; and the excite cutter STOVIPH A ?4, from a cruize ; but the GANNET is preparing to proceed again on the look our. Fan. B.—Since my Taft arrived the Prince of Wales, TABLUDDR a, from London, WI from Falmouth ; and Ann, HINCSTON, from Falmouth for Stvaniel, with copper orc, under convoy of bis Majefly's hircd arm ed brig Caroline. Sailed the Nancy, PRFVATT, for Cork ; and Belmont, WATKINS, for Swanfea. FROM THE LONDON GAZME. FEB. 9. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, TER. 9. _ _ Copy of a Letter from Commodore Sir SAMUEL HOOD, K B. Commander in Chief of his Marefty's Ships and Veffels at the Leeward Illanda, to WILLIAM MARSDIIN i Elq. dated Ort board the Se aa rti,at Barbadoes,llee,l6, 1804. - Sir—l tranftnit,lor the information of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, the ct•py of a let ter from Captain Nouass, of his Majelly's Ihip BAR BADOES, giving an account of the capture of the Heu feu: French privateer, of ten guns and eighty men. I am, &c. (Signed) SAM. HOOD. His Majefty's chip BA It sADoss, at Sea, November 1804. I Sir—l hare the honour to inform you, his Maier. ty's fhip under my command this day captured I l'Heureux, a French privateer floop of ten fix poun- ' ders (thrown overboard during the chace) and eighty men, out nine days from Goadaloupe, and had made no capture. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) JOSkti4 MOORS,. Copy of another Letter from Commodore Sir SAMUEL HOOD, K.D. to W. MARSDR/I. Efq. dated on board the SCRAM, at Barba does, Dee t 6, ON. Sin—l have the fatisfaflion to fend to their Lord fhips the copy of a letter from the Honourable Cap tain CADOOAN, Commander of his Majefly's floop Crass, giving an account of the capture of the Bo naparte brig privateer of eighteen guns, and one hundred and fifty men, after a few minutes running fight, which Captain CADOOAN appears to have exe cuted with judgment. I have the honour to he, Ltc. ' (Signed) SAM. HOOD. His Majcity's floop CYAN', off Antigua, Nov. 13 Sir—l have the honour to inform you, that, on the t Ith infiant, at three A. M. off the ifland of 'Marie galante, after a short chace and running fight of 3o minutes, I had the good fortune to come up with and capture le Bonaparte, a very fine privateer brig, pierced for twenty-two guns, mounting eighteen long French eight pounders, and one hundred and fifty men. lam happy to add that we have receiv ed no material damage in our mans or hull, and have only a few men hurt, occafioned by the explo lion of a cartridge on the main deck. We found the Bonaparte in a very (battered condition, having loft her fnremafl, howfprit, and topmalts, in an action with three Englifh letters of marque three days previous to her capture. I fbould not do juflice to my feelings were I to omit exprefling my thorough fatisfation at the Ready and determined condo& of all the officers and crew of the CYANI; and al , hough the Rate of the veil was fuch as not to call forth any extraordinary exertions on their part, I feel con fident that whenever chance may live them an op purtunity, they will do ample jufirce to the charader which in my opinion they fo jufily deferve. • (Signed) cm. CADOG•H. Copy of a Letter from Captain Lord MASK Roarer Kraft of his Maje ft y's FISOARD, to WILLIAM MASSDEN, rsq:da tettat fn, the 24th of December 1804. Sir—l enclofe for the information of my Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, the copy of a letter which 'have forwarded to Lord Vifcount NlLsor. (Signed' M. R. KERR. His Majtfty's Chip'lltoA ID, at tea, Dce. 22. My Lord—l beg to inform your, that, according •o your orders, I proceeded and joined Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, Bart. off Cape St. Mary',., a; - 4 %van by him fent into Liibon to complete. On my return from that port to join your Lordfhip, in lat. 37 deg. N. longitude 53 deg. 4o min. W. I captured a French (hip letter of marque, le Tigre (formerly the Angola of Liverpool), from Cayenne to Cadiz, pierced for fixteen guns, and having foorteen,mounted, via. twelve eighteen-pound carronades and two brafs guns, four.pounders (and four in her hold), ballafia ed in mahogany and dry wood, having on board 40 men. She was out fifty-fix days, and had captured an Englifh brig from London to St. Michael's ; whole mailer and crew we found on board. (Signed) is. R. SILL The letter of marque Nepttme, Capt. WlC'', tar, of Greenock, arrived at Charteflon, !articles the Spa ni& Chip no in pal - el:Son of the BRILLIANT frigate, took a valuable Spanifh brig, manned her, and fent her for Greenock ; but as the has not yet arrived, it is fiippofed the bag bcen driven to the northward. or perhaps taken poffeflion of by tome of our Gibritltar fquadron. Capt. 141.1Ciimair landed all the Firmer, at the Mod of St. Mary's. IVAR WV/ SPAIN'. SUPPLIMINTAItY LIST 07 PAPERS IPLES77TED ST 1113 MIIIISTY'S COMMAND, TO 10TH HOUSIS 07 WILIAM/NT / IFSBAUARY 41 1805. ( Concluded from c!., ;Japer of Friday lafl.) (Tranflarioo of No. 4.--ML.oranJuna, without Signa , ure or Pate, from the Chevalier el'Anduaga, received tit September, '833. Spain, the ally of France, and at the fame time a friend of England, finds herfelf at this moment called upon to fulfil towards each of them the refpec- Live duties of alliance and of friendthip. The treaty of alliance concluded with France in t,96, although termed an offenfive and defenfive al liance, being only, properly fpeaking, an alliance aridly delenfive, according t the tetrour of all Its articles, and the at ;king t iffe ence which exills be tween its engagements, and thofe contained in the family compadt of 1761, his Catholic Majefty trutis he can reconcile his engagements to furnifh to France the fuccours ftipulated by the treaty of 1796, with his molt ardent defire to maintain his friendly con nations with his Britannic Majefty. The perfect harmony and good underflanding which have fob filled between the two Monarchs fince the rrella blifhment of the laft peace ; the reciprocal proceed ings and the principles of the law of nations•to be purfued under circumftancrs limiter to thofe in which Great Britain and Spain are adually placed, are in many realons, which prove the jutlice and the met f fay of the conduit, which his Catholic Majefty pur poles to purfite at the prefent moment. Fran& con fining. herfelf to the requifition of the ftipulated foe coins, and Spain to lurnifhing them to her, but without allowing herfelf to commit any at of direct holttlity against England ; his Catholic Majefty can not lirr a moment doubt of his Britannic M tj:fty's difpofition to obferve a like conduit on his part. By foch a conduit, his Britannic Majeity would, in the firft inflance, afford to Spain, and to all Eu rope, a proof of his juftice, of his wifdom, and of his impartiality. He would make a ditiindion be ewer; a friendly power who did not furnifh fuccours to his enemies through ambition, refentmenr, any vicious views, or others inimical to him, but folely to fulfil general eventual engagements previonfly contraded, and the power who fhould form connec tions inimical to England with her enemy,in the very moment of war, and with the fame holtile fpirtt and views as its ally. His Britannic Majelly would obtain for the people of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland the great advan tage of the continuance of their commerce with Spain, nibs only during the prefent war, but alfii in all thole in which neither party having any fubjed of corn plaint againft the other, England would remain in friendlbip with Spain, notwithflanding her being at war with France. His BritannicMajelty would hefidel eftablith from this moment the OR idea which fhould he entertained, efpecrally in England, that a rupture with France does not neceffarily produce ipfo and, according to treaties, a rupture with Spain. His Britannic Majeltt and his Miniliry are too juR and too enlightened for it to be fuppofed that they can entertain an opinion contrary to the principles above (heed, or to the advantages which England would derive from them, even fhould the agree to the fyftem of conduk purfued by Spain. So fully con vinced is the King of this, that he cannot entertain the fmalle . R doubt upon the fubjed—and he expeds with perfea confidence to receive, in the concurrence of his Britannic Majelly and of his government in the fyftem of the King's conduit, a new proof of their reftitude, and of their friendly (entiinents towards the King and the Spanifb people. Tranflation of No. s—Memorandum from the Chevalier &Audit aga, without Ilgnature or date, received Sept. 1, t 8.3. The queftion, whether England (hall acknowledge the neutrality of Spain, appears to be reduced to the determining whether the treaty of that power with France of the year 5796, is an offeafive or defenfive alliance. It is agreesl, that if this treaty merely con tains ltipulations oflimited fuecours, it might be con fidered as an alliance finely defenfive ; but as it is (tared in the firtt article of the treaty, " there (hall mill a perpetual offenfive and defenfive alliance be tween the Frenchßepublic and hii Catholic Majelly," and moreover, in the fecond article, that if the Ripu lated fuccours were or mould become infacient, the two powers (tumid put in aEtion the grcatelt forces in their power ; it is pretended, that by this new obliga. tion the fuccours become unlimited, and therefore the alliance takes an offenfive charaiter. With re fped to the ell article of the treaty, it is to be obferv ed, that the offenfive and defentive alliance fpoken of is in fait two alliances, each of a different kind ; and which refer to two different period , . The firft is that in which the power, whofe ally is threatened or attacked, ads merely as an auxiliary. The 2d is that in which both powers fbould declare war by common confent againft one or more powers. The fi, period relates to defenfive, the fecond to offenfive al liance ; although the firft article embraces the two periods colleitively, the other articles of the treaty dittinguilh them in the cleareft manner; and it is evi dent that the defenfive alliance takes place in one cafe, and the offenfive alliance in another—which latter is merely hypothetical, as it cannot take place, but when the two allies (hall declare war by com mon content ; confequently the defenfive alliance may ezift, without its becoming an offenfive one, aPcl without being in contradidion to the firft article, which fpeaks of the one and the other at the fame time. This fame diftinetion of the two alliances, and of the two periods, ferves equally t., explain the ele venth article in its true fettle, and with that julLit.e which is required by the definition of a duty, on the nature and extent of which doubts have arifcn. The Treaty id& fixes and feparates in its articles the two alliances, and the two periods, in fuch a manner as. that, on the bare reading of it, one difcovers that the article 1 2 doles the firft period ; and th4t the fccond commences at article 53, that is to fay, that article I r relates to dcfepfive alliance, and article 13 to of. fenfive alliance, from which it refults, that article 1 t, as relating to the period of defenfive alliance, thoula be explained according to the nature of that al liance, and according to the analogy which the no ceffory condition contained in article 1 t has with the principal conditions mentioned in the preceding The nature of defentive alliances is to compel an auxiliary to furnith to his ally limite.el fuccours; and this is the cafe in the alliance in %%legion ; for the ea-