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• defiring, conformably to his Majellyts orders, to 1 PreteiZed armament:, made complaint; of them in thew to the tai moment that fpirit of conciliation a Note, dated the 27th September lA, in which he wide!, c-ntlitotes the elf:nee of my miffion, and the reiirefented them as an hollile aggrellion againß his dill charadetillic of my Sovereign, I have Gove! nmcnt. and as a defiance given to England, thought it my dirty to m tke yet one more effort, and eapuctred Moil - elf in other terms not lets inju taiding to Phew in its truclieht the frank and friend- rious to the reputation of the King, than contrary to ly couded which tl.e King ha , not ceafed to di:play the relations which fublitted between the two 'ince the ruoture between France and England, countries. amidll the ditliculti.!s cf his lituation with regard to • Although filch reproaches, in return for the proofs the two helligcren• powzrr.. I which the King had always given of his eagernefs From the very moment that the King had learned to frengthen the bonds of friendlbip which united the co•orne , ccrient ofhottiliticsbetween France and 114 n to the Britilh Government were of a nature to Lagland. his Majetiv give all his attention to the 1 excite in him the greateft furprife, his Majele, ne en inner in which he fhould conduit himfclf in order verthi.l4., dire fed anfwers to the inteme .rite re t. prevent all room for di;e:aitent on the partnfthefe 1 pteli.ntations of Mr. Frere, to be made With tha: mo two States Isnd to the fyllem which he would have 1 deration which is the moll friking point iii the hif. to follow in filch a conjunftere, in order to conciliate i tory of his political condua ; a nrod..r -.ion the li•s engagements as the .111 y of Fiance with his duties more fignal from this CirCIIMMITICe: that the above ni friendthip towards England. Although his Ma- mentioned armament, which excited lo much fenfa• fly knew very well, that his quality of auxiliary to thin, was confined within the limits prefcrilied by an r: e firfl of there Powers was in no wife incompatible age cement, which was concluded on the 19111 Oao. "Judi that of friend to the ad, he was, from the very bet, tftoe, between the two Government., fiace it pet-redly fenfihie, and his opinion has been fiace was rettrided to the lame number of vetkls which tiled by accounts from his Minifter at L o ndon, were already armed before this epoch ; and what that the Britilh Government would, with difficulty, proves Rill more clearly the pacific views of the King confent to his furnilhing to France fuccourt, filch as is that the armament in queltion had been (*ended are Ripulated by the Treaty of 1796. In this per- by his Majeltv's orders fume days before the Britilh fuafi .n, and, in order to remove every hollile 2p- Charge d'Affaires had broughtfcrwardhis complaint pearance in hi's connectiens with the latter power, he on the fohjed eanaved to ',topple to his Ally the conclufion cf a Notwithilanding this, notwithflanding the afro. new Treaty, by which pecuniary fuceours fhould he ranee% of friendthip and good faith exprelfcd in the fubflitutecl b r the fuecours in troops and (hips, which anfwer of my Court, notwithllanding the ablolute eel be had engaged to furnifh to France,by the treaty (.f fathat of thefe pretended armaments, on which the Alliance. Alter long and difficult negociations, the enemies of p •ace had founded their criminal hopes (a King congratulated hirnfeif tin having at left obtained c:lft:iln of which the Britilh Charge d'Affaires could th• e!aieft ef hi , amicable views, by the conclufioh of not he ignorant), inftead of foftening the menacing a T•eaty Subfidy. It ne which he had at fire adopted, halted of refum- Confiding in the nprightnefs of his intentions, and ing that friendly language which the perfe(l juaifi in the pacific feptiments high had prompted kim to c ition cf my Court required of him, he did but ac take this Rep, his hlajelly was fully perfuaded that cumulate tient reproaches, the hatihnefe and injoi the Britilh Government would not tail to appreeate !ice of which bean•l to reveal the halide fylictit which this very unequivocal mark of friendlhip. The tom- he has not lincedircontinued. plaints br ain , ltt forward Icon afterwards by Mr. Freic The Ili hill) Government on their fide, forgetting tooting the anove.mentioned convention—complaints on a fudden the oacifie relations whi c h they had which he has a: different times renewed, though al- maintained daring leveral months with my Sovereign, ways in % y vague terms, and without ever making and without waiting for more miff and lets fufmci an eilentiol .and decifive point of them—w e re there- ou. information or. our preparations at Fcirol, from to te a re ; •1 fubjec. of itirpTife to his Catholic Majelty. whence it had received none but exaggerated at- Neverthelef., efwers full of moderation and candour count , , hi ought by the Naiad, and which is Rill more were by his ord e r made to them, in whic!: aniwets aac::ithing, without paying attention to the informa were let forth the' motives which had led him to make tion which I tranimitted to it through the channel of a treaty of which the Enf,lilh Government reid tile Trttr Excellency, on the innocence and the true ch iefs room tie- complaint, a- it was folely out 0: d is ft of thefe pretended armaments, did not hefitate to to them that his Majetty had dctcrmined to conclia:e ; ;ive that extraordinary order, which, as well from it.—At is ,ar!) the fame time, his Britannic Majefia's its nature, as from its difaftrous confequences, mull Mintier having addieffed to my Court reprzlenta It ive itruck with horror every Cabinet in Europe.— tions on the :.rmanients which he pretended were 1.-dlead of beginning by demanding explanations from curving on in t irr ports, and which he furrofed to be rny Court on the fubje of these alarms, it breaks off directed egainit E.l,land, his Majefy ordered anfwers Va.: good undertlanding which ftibfified between the to be in I.ke manner mace to him, o That the view* two nations, by an aft of holtility of which the moll of the Spaniih Government were very far from any t aacorans wars fcarcely afford an example; and, as if native it lirlti.ty ; rind his Britannic Maj.:fly could iL feared that the explanations ef the Spanifh Minifter, ant mOt4Le the patifie intentions of the K:rtg of Spain, a:.J ulterior account: trent Spain, would force it to who h id given iiint lo many incontetlihle proofs or 1 re 'pcd a neutiality, to which it fecund abfolutely de friendfhip ; ani th.rt there proofs were manifetted It. mined to put an end, it flattened to make war well in the iw'i(ices made by the King to feel , e • raainit her without any previous Declaration, and even in the midst of die trim! proloind peace. The sth of October was witnefs to the Ihedding of the in ii..ecat blood of &vet al women and children who pe rt.hed viztims of an unheard of violence I and this blo.d was flied by the hands of a nation, whole Co ver:anent themfelves declare afterwards that they are not at war with Spain I Before the news r.f this dreadful event came to the knowledge of the King, the Britifh Charge d'Affaires terms to have made it his bufinefs to exafperate his M.:jetty by all imaginable means. Nut being able to conceal from hiinfell the frivolity of his accufa tions relative to our preparations at Ferrol, fine their exigence had ceafed a long time before, he was ob liged to call to his aid fome new grievances, as (light ly f funded as they are dellitute of good faith. He did not fail to make new demands, Come of them con trary to what had been agreed upon between the two Givernments, the others entirely inadmiffible from their injurious tendency. Thus it is that he exalted from my Court the engagement. " that no arma ment whatever Mould be carried on" in the ports of Spain, whilfi his Government and himfelf had con• kilted that the naval forces of Spain should be kept up on the fame footing as they were at the time of the above mentioned agreement. Thus it is, that he pretended that his Majelly had always refufed to give a diftinet explanation with regard to his engage usxts with France—that without this previous coin mtuticalion the Britifh Government had never been willing to violent to the neutrality of Spain—in fhort, thug it is, that he ended, by imperioufly demanding 'Li, communication, altho' without declaring what would be the ulterior conduit of his Court, in cafe hi• Nlajetly fhoold acepliefce in his demand. The Kiug, my M !tter, might have refuted an • aniwer to t,4is extraordinary fummuns. The mime corm.), of the fu,.T fitions on which it is founded, and the previous tieps of the Britifh hlinillry, who, ani , )r.oi the conditions fi xed by England for the ac red4rnent of the neutrality, had not comprixed the °eerily of a fimilar communication, fufficiently .utthotifed his M..jetly not to attend to a demand of tl.is nature. Your Excellency knows that, immedi• atcty after the conclulion of the treaty of fubfidy, the Britifh Government addreffed to my Court Re p:‘,:.ntaticas, the °Neel (.1 which was by no means to demand a diflina explanation with regard to the en,...agements which that treaty contained, bot prrli- Lively t declare that the furnithing the pecuniary advances, as Ripulated in the Convention concluded with France, could not be looked upon otherwife than as a war fuhfidy, kc." Thefe expieffions, the very fame as tiled by the Britit Minifter in the note which be delivered to this effed on the 3d of Decem ber haft, do not admit the doubt that hi, Govern ment was not at that time thoroughly acquainted with the contents of the ahovementioned Convention. • —Had it been otherwife, could Mr. Frere have held this language without knowing the extent of our (ob i tidies, efpecially after having declared in the fame note, " That his Government was difpofcd to over look loch pecuniary facrifices as lhould not be of fuf ficiet:t magnitude to force attention on account of their political effee,?" If, therefore, they were then acquainted vit4 tEe am'.unt of the fums which his Majefly had to pav to Fiance, how could they now be ignorant of it ? And not being ignorant of it, what end do they ai nrefent propofe to themfelves in demanding st,e difclofure of a fcciet which could never have lien cue to them ? peace. as in the cx:rzilid, even before it v a• demanded, tem .trds h •fe of his fu:tjeis who had abed contrary to the dt.eies of neutron:7. In tine, that, accor6ing theft: t:sta, there did not exit] the lean caufcfor aopn.hen ;hut ti at lipain wollel engage in further armainer::•, for that would be atFtiatz ayainll ber pacifi.. t'Fftem." At the fame tithe, as the Conn of Madrid was not enabled to form an moo and fix:el judgment of the principles and the et.ndull which the Britith Govern latent prop/sled to follow on account of the equivocal language in which Mr. Frere always enveloped his reprefentations, it invited him to exprefs himielf in a clear and precife manner as to the intentions And the views of his Government with regard to Spain. It was in conktpience of this fsank and friendly invita• tion, that his Britannic Majetly's Milliner at lail par ticularized to try Court. in a Note which he turd . - :stifled to it on the illth Febrbary late, the conditions on which his Government would be difpofel to re cognize the neutrality of Spain. There condition , were, the Cufpenfion of all ulterior armament. and the prohibition of the Cale of prizes in his Majefly's dominions. Not having exacted others, it is pc t fatly clear, that the Britifh Minillry engaged hfell thereby to refped the neutrality, as (non as the King, my Mr. ter, ihnold acquit:lce in theft conditions. Majeay, 'Rh,' kid relolved to make every fa crifice compatible with the welfare of his people, in order to fecure to thcni the benefits of a fol d peace, determined to forbid the tale of prizes in his Ling doms; which prohibition VA: place on the 23d March lafl : And with regald to the arm itmaits, he renewed the a!furances, which the Britifh Govern ment had already received on this head: all•trances, the fincerity of which v. , as well guaranteed by the lively intereft which his Majefty has connan:ly at• wheel to the maintenance of peace, flue rulaure between France and England. This eagernefs of the King to fulfil all the vifhcs of the Britifh Cabinet, and the painfol facrifice which his Majefly has jun made of the advantages at the tale of prizes in the ports of Spain held out to Spanith commerce, ought to have completed the con fidence of England, and to have eradicated front the t+inion of its Government every atcm of doubt on the pacific fentiments of my Court accordingly, tlo Englith Mini!ler feemed to have felt ail the va• lye tu:h faei dices, fence he brought forward no more complaint., and that the moil perfect harmony every day to unite more and more the two Governments. ota:b were the relations fubflaing between the two nations, when, i:t the month of September loft, Come eiliontent having broken out in Bifcay, his oi.'ctett the embarkation of a part of the troops which sieve in garrifon at Ferrol, in order to being - ronfporteci without delay to the place v •It -e the diforda had occurred. Then it was, that the comics of Spain, fourniing the alarm, under the lt- 1 -4: that conliderable armaments were c.:rrying cr, urn be' puns, fouAt r. communicate their feigned tin, dine; ; to the Britifh . Governmenr, by piacitoz, be floe then. in the mon hottile cnlcu:s, a mature as I I "leign Su the itaeitns of England. as it was indif- I pentatle to the tlifinll in their birth movements, %Line!' had rnanitelted themfelves in a province of I brain. Then it was, that the Britifh Charge Can es , Lutried :,t1 by reports which malevolence had in , eratvel, and without examining either the na lutes Cg.Z:, 0: the well known objea of thefe StthOoling eTen that his Majefty's en,Tagnacnts with France,. wiih rcfpea to the niLndies, thonid (till remain a myttery to the Ilritifh Government, it would not be lets true, that they no lcoger the right to dem Ind a dittinft explanati.)n . on this foh;ea, at lea 4, as 3 conditico•cffc.n ial to the m.tintenance of peace. lithe 13ritith Govi•rnment a:t idled fo much impoi lance to this communication. that th e y t ho lg t,• it right to .nuke it a condition, without t . :cy would not engage to refp-,.t the neat: ality of Spair., they ought to have exprefsly declare I fo at the epoch, when, yielding to the folicitations rny they fixed the batis of a permanent and folic' neutral.. v. Nit having, their ancd manner, they had no long: r right to do fo ; for otherwife, that ail, whereby the conditions tfli:ntial to neutrality were t...t.led, a,:d the ohjea of which was tvidei•iy to rcmo7e the unc:K• tautly of thole relations which WW 1:10d Is‘tweett titer two Omit., would be entirely illufory, Come it w. uld (till leave to England a facility of continually adding freffi conditions to thole ;Arcady agreed on. Hercc it follows, that the Britith Government could no longer exad a &Una explanation on the lubjea of the fubfidies, as the price f their refpea for the nett traiity of Spain, fo li;n t r, as the two conditions rela tine to the armaments, and to the fail of prizes, flub be firialy tulfilled. . . _ . Notwithtlanding all ilia,: motives, according to which the King might have d:fpenfed with anfwering &tally to this demand, his Majelly, putting himfelf above all thefe conli:ferations naturally excited by the irregular conduit of Mr. Frere, has even condeicend• ed to make an explicit and fatisfadory anfwer, in re newing to him a limilar athirance to that which I bad already given by his order to the Britilh Go vernment ; namely, that the fubtidies flipulated by the Convention are but an equivalent for the fuc cours in troops and (hips which he was obliged by the Treaty of 1796 to fnrnith to France, and that, in that Convention, there is no article prejudicial to Eng land, or contrpry to the laws of neutrality. This moderate, franl:, and fatisfaaory arf.ver rifmy Court ferved bat to produce frefi complaints on the part of the.Bri.dh Charge d'Affaires, ssho did not heitate at the fame • ime to dema , ni his paffports. His Majefly, conPantly faithful to his prolciples of moderation, endeavnured to prevent, by eve' y means cornio.tible with his dignity, the coiVeo aznces of fo extraordinary a demand. and did rot ma . :e any difficulty in reitera ting to him again the moll arm: able and moat frank entrance, as well on the fulindies, as on thc arma ments ; l.nt all his efforts have been ureters. At lergth, perceiving that he was obflinate in wilhity; to leave Madrid, lince in the fpace of !even days he had f .ur times demanded his paffports, and that, at the fall folicitation, he had even threatened to remain there as a private individual, or elfe to depart without paff ports, the King found himfelf under the neceffity of granting them to him, however unplealil,o for hi. Majelty might be the confequeoce which won'd aril from fo precipitate a Rep. At the fame time that this unexpefted flroke de. prived his Majetly of nearly all the hopes he had till then entertained, his heart was penetrated with the deepeft atnielion on learning the dreadful event of the sth of 061ober, and the difallrous circumstances by which it had been accompanied. Although the details, which he received from all quarters, and the uniformity tif all the accounts, gave to this intelli gence all the force of an indubitable fail, his Majeßy, under the influence of the invariable reititude of his fentiments, and not having as yet received official information on this head, flattered himfelf by calling in queßion the reality of a similar outrage—at leaf, he could not perfuade himfelf that it had been caufed by an order Med by the Eritifh Government. His Majefly has confequently ordered me to demand of them categorical explanations on the detention of his frigates, on the inftrations which may have been fent to the Englifh Commanders, and on the motives which may have induced the 13ritifh Charge d'A ffaires to break off all communication with the Spanith Mi nlfry. Notwithflanding the coincidence of filch alarming intelligence, with the irregular conduit of Mr. Frere the King could not refolve to take any meafure which had the ha appearance of hollility. So much had he at heart the continuance of peace ! It was not till after having learnt, in an authentic manner, the aCt of violence carcifed on the above-mentioned fi igates, by virtue of an exprefs order of the Britifh Govern ment, that hi; Majefl found himfelf tinder the neceflity,in order to confult the interef of his people, to order an embargo to be laid, by way of reprifals, on all Englith property throughout his dominions. In this Rate of things, if the King can no latNer flatter himfelf with the hope of an accommodation, if the &Rem manifeiled for Tome time pall by Eng land kerns to render inevitable a rupture between two nations, of which the reciprocal interef ought to lead them to live always in good undcrhanding with each other, his Majefly has not at leaf abandoned the dente to linen to pacific overtures, and is fill difpofcd to avail himfelf of all the means of concilia tion which may be compatible with the dignity of his crown, and the fafety of hi. kingdoms. But if, notwithstanding this conciliatory and paci fic declaration, which I have the honour, conform ahly to the wifhcs of the King, my meter, to make to your Excellency, the 13ritilli Government should decide on taking the refolution to declat e open sear againfl him, his hfajefly, in that cafe, confiding in the fidelity of his fuhjeets, and in the.purity of his conference, will have recourse to thofe forces ash'. h PROVID&SCI has entriifted to him for the defence of • his P e ople, and will commit to the fortune of v. ar the tenth of a eolith& which he has in no degree provok ed, and with the confequences of which he will ac cordingly not have to reproach himfelf. I avail mycelia this °Km tunity, &c. (Signed) THE CHEM. D'AmovAGs. To his Excrikocy Lord llarrowby, Principal Secretary of State for FOreign No. 21—Copy of a Letter from George Ilammood. Efq. to J. H. Fret, Efq dated Downing ftreet, Dee. 24, t 8 4. Sit —I herewith inclofe to you the extraft of a Note from the Chevalier d'Anduaga, dated the 22d of this month, in which you. will obferve an affertion of that Miniffer, that the Naval armament carried on in the ports of Spain was confined to the limits pre feribed by an agreement concluded on the 19th Oc tober, 1803, between the Britifb and Spina Govern ments. No traces of any fetch agreement having been fonnd in the correfpondence of this offi c, I am direfied to reque& that you will Rate to me, for the information of his Majeßy's Govenment, whether you ever wend into auy agreement, expelled or ir. plied, witil ;tic Spanifii c , n ii degree warrant the afi4tic , n of I e Oa: 'cr duaga to which I have advertr.d? J. H. Frcr-, Fri. I am, C. tleclofuei rcf..rre:! • Eztraa ^!a :7 :!ze from the (.hL v ,Illr ,;'.1!1•14 'Tar rowil dat.4ll` , c,:nl:cr 22, : 4. Although Cod; rep:. achts, in reetire...r theprteers strict! the King had given .dl.i eager-net to firengthen the bends of ft ierelihip He'r uneed him to the Br stir; Government, se.:re at: store to excite in him the greatcit ftirin:le, hi s Maje.ie, nevetthelef,, directed ante:ere to the irr•en.--e-ete ee - refentattons of Mt. Frere, to be made that mnd .reti-na which is the moil !hiking point in the liiitery rf his politi cal cor.dad ; a model-wit ‘e. the from this citcuinft.:rec. that the alt , c• in. n:l.•nezi armament, which ev:ited 1 . 0 much le•:t . ettr n, t• e , . eer:iited within the iimits prcfcribed !'y a alteti nttnt. which was coneladed oe the 1 9 th rf C;et• her, see, hetween ti;e two Governments, liece it v. is the fame nurnher of reliefs which Ive! - e ;: need helo-o this epoch ; and what nto‘e dearly the pacific views of the Kist', 11 that the !tr . :lament :n queflion had been fufrcrtried he his 's orders I.rne days before the N Chartre d'AlTeires had brought forward his corn v i.,;nr on I Dl.P.a,3.—Letter. from J. It. Urcr..:, in r; -c u,,rnmond, Er g . dated London, Sir—l have jolt received your. leiter. The expref lion in the Chevallier D'Anduaga's nt , te is quite un intelligible to me. It appears to afrett the exille.nee of Comething of the nature of a written Treaty, upon the fubjed of the Span:lir at-mane:at., led it eifiens the rgth of Odober, I 'jol, as the date of this Cups poled agreement. It i.cer Lain, mcretlielefs, that no convention or agreement, either wiinen or verletl„ ever palled between Mr. Cevallos an.i rue, either then or at any other time. A declaration indeed was made in the notes addreffed to Mr. Cevalit.s on the 24211 of January and the tflth of Febitiare, ft eing, that his Majelty's Government was dirnofnl, in hopes of bet ter times, to exercise for rite prefent a diferetional forbearance ; yet that this for-in:trance teould ceafe the moment that Spain eh - Tatted from her Stahl: pa with relped to atrmiStntnt.. trlr. Cevallos in his anfwer derclirted this dectla. ration as the balls of a neutrality nit.ci.rg upon Great Britain. Afterwards, in hi ce,rcfpondeace with my brother, whole firlt object was to bt tog S lel; the Spa nilh armaments to the date in which tit r hail been left in concealer:cc of th 7 s dcclarwion. Cevallus goes a Ilep fort! er, and rails it a c( :!•• 71 of r e u. trality propofed by Great Britain : This if. in his note of tine 29tla of Odober, have no al. lotion, but to the de,:larati.m hf the 2 4 '0 of Jaz:nary and the 18th of Fcbruory. Again, in a :10W of the 34 of November, he retlrs to a e"r.:•ththin or treaty of neutrality of the t9:llo..odober, tBc3 ; meaning, I firppofe,the treaty of foltfidy with France, the dipu latinns of which, though th-y have ncvcr been corn mur,icated, he refers to a: kinun ; and in a manner implying that tl-ey were rnotel:y bint;o7 upon Great Britain and Spain. I car.u.'t in'igh , e that Mr. D'Anduaga mull have been m;fitei ny there two cir cumliances, and that feting it alferted in Mr. Ceval loi" note of the nth of 051oher, th.tt there citified a treaty of neutrality, which had h o rn prept-ed by Great Britain ; and avain, in the note f the 341 November, that the fate of the arn:aments was to be regulated by a convention of the loth of Odobcr ; he may have concluded that they wet e roc and the tame, and confequently may have affixed to this imaginary treaty the date of the one concludes! with France.-- My conjedure may be wrong, hot Mr. D'Anduaga's affertion appears to me inexplicatla le. any other way. I am, &c. (Signed) 1. H. FREIE. G. Hammond, Efq. No. 24.—EzaraR of a Letter from Gcn. Nugent to the Right Hun. Lord Hot :rt, tFrcci i ;tni,:ma.ry 18 04. 1 hive _HI receive:l the eech•f.:.! etrad of a let ter from St. Jago de Cobs of th.: gilt lel. and as the intelligence is fully credited by the Gentleman who forwarded it to me, I have advired the A da:iral of its. contents. The French tronps allnthni to ar: parts of the garriCone of Port au Prince, under General La Valctte ; Cape Nichols !.lo7e, under Genctal Noail les ; and Jeremie ; which efcaptd frc,ra our cruisers; together with a confiderable nninbcr of lick and con. valefeents, whom it was cnnfilerei as unlitle to bring away, or to retain in Jamaica. I furry that the rcdadien in our num'otes erne will not permit me to reinforce Providence ; but I am cereident in the effi. cecy of our naval force for the protedion of that ifland and its dependencies. (hall lock with a very jcalans eye te..vards Cu ba, in which ifland the Prem.!) troops have been, con. nary to the pretended r cut rain ; of t'ne s . tar : lll, G o . vernmenr, molt glaringly permitted ttt reit:ant e..;bo. died, and rtistatters to be li , •ed not, nott-..it.ully the • property eland manned !.s Ft enchniett. No.l .—ExtraSt of a Lett-r G.,vcrri:!iar:ct t tnthr r Hon. Lord Hobart ,dattd 13:0tan:as, •!. ; "*-1. I have the honour to ird.ont y..,:! 1.. 1.!114, :het f. 7 information juit teceived intc It. rt il, rs:.t the coaft of Cuba, thete ea:lll , A. I t.!;.,!:, b any• doubt but that an expedition i, againli this place by a body of I . !! -ic!' tit:p ! ).. Iliat have been landed tinder Gene , :i ::1!.:. in ;11a: iflAnd frt , tu St. I)nmitip. I am fo confident e.f.thr alither.! 7 . -r -matinn, an.: of tirir , that I (hall immediately ty4.,: , ,•. i • Nugent and Admir r:, j. - 7. c77...rd al tn to Sir Andrew Mitchel 1...!:; t ,, vco,oeft fome additional prntzai..•:l, it et - dc!ay. rrauff4tion incF lu.re j A French Agent a , i n•ed lic:c v is laid to have great au:h.:rtty. T as yet recognize him, vdi,J , r Ir. howeve, prevented his le:-.vit: t a o.ei .!.':at 7. I I .ls tart, I , Jr the . . _ purpole of acljudging p; General Nnailles has to ;ether with his army (which confiils !I am r ,, s vats men) on their way to Poi to Pritleipe, whttc he is to orga nize and augmert it. Snrn,, perfoTis hare been rent by him to that town, is ordet to rectirit them fe cretly. It is affirmed, that he has an intention 1 f making himfell mailer of la Providsnce. but I hope that he will be (topped in hi; way thith• r. ivateers are in greater number than ever ; every body is fit ting them out. - - N0.1.6..--Ettratt of a Letter frotn Governor Ha%facet to the Right Hou. Lord Hobart, tlataa Bghamas, 3d Vtbruary tboa.— Re. ttived 9th of April following. Since I had the honour of writing to your Lord (hip on the 26th ultimo, Admiral Duckworth bas , At! I • 1; 1 • !,• 1 1 11 1 • . . L • j t 4 • •