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STATE PAPERS. pROCLAMATION BY HIS SWEDISH MAMSTX. T rAVOS ADOLPHUS, BY THE GRACE OP eimis r ,igneo trts OF THE SWEDES, &C. &C. &C. Elate known that we, under the present errcum ots, deem it expedient to forbid the exportation c f a li Goods to Norway, of whatever name or des criation they may be. Hitherto we have considered t r on dysable to order such a prohibition, in respect ;macee advantages our subjects enjoysod by the with Norway, and on accounmf the e- cities of the Inhabitants of Norway for" many of S w edish products ; but as, according to advice: not only had all commerce with Sweden aliegly prohibited in Norway, but also as the assem bling of our forces, which unexpected events toe t endered nece ssar y for the safety of the State, ro utes us to prevent every thing which might di minish s upplies which in the present situation may bordi ted withinithe State for our own use, we are m ol e to delay longer a measure which consideration a nd ? Tilden° for the present require. Ia cce f or mity hereto, all ow faithful subjects are likew i s e aborted nut to undertake journies to Nor ,* „ idio t the most weighty reasons, our Gracious vat big — nit ao person, be he Wise he may, shall be permitted to p s of our Kingdom over the Norwegian borders, who is m 7 r ,i4pd with our or our First Secevtary of States pass, or W , ' resented himself befve our Commander, whose dis. n its nub the frontiers, and 4btaiued his pass or signature to the (cilia' $ That our Commanders do not grant passports to Norway, os eptthe person demanding such passport proves that some bu- Qom, outtnally affecting him, makes the journey necessary, and g lich ipust be mentioned in the passport. it Mat ear commanders of thi: frontier districts constrain all p or io ssem; and those who have the inspection of travellers, to irs obtrith serious responsibility that all that depends on them Ft "y Ask with respect to what is ordered in the Ist arti ek, be duly failed. For fartber certainty we have signed this with our own Hand, 4 4 c opied the same with our Royal Seal. (signed) GU:ITAVUS ADOLPHUS. (Countersigned) FRED. GYLLEN BERG. clispbolo Palace, March 3, 1808. foram ADOLPHUS, ET THE GRACE OF GOD, XING OP SW CD0...4 &C. &C. &C. a Whereas the eantern frontiers of the kingdom have - i sei dy been invaded by a Russian. force ; and whereas the western, southern, and northern frontiers are in d a nger . of invasion ; we are compelled by all the mans in our power to defend our kingdom, and at the tame time to avail ourselves, for its security, of et sacred duty imposed upon the Kin g of Sweden, oven by the ancient fundamental laws a the coun ty, as by the present form of government. That we my be the better able to oppose our enemies, we irk command all unmarried and able young men, Mown the ages of IS and 23 years, of what rank ever they may be, r4cepting such as have hereto n served as soldiers or seamen, to he ready, when- Ref they may ho called upon, to defend their coun ty. In the mean time we order our Commanders imediatoly to enrol all young men of the above des *ion, In every parish throughout the kingdom, ai transmit to us a statement thereof as speedily as Ole, that we way, according to the information Oen of the number in each district, issue orders for Ira organization as regular troops. All those whom that may concern are hereby enjoined to observance. 'Given at our Palace at Stockholm, this 14th day 140,1808, (L.S.) Signed, GuerAtt Anot;ett." [l4 another Proclamation, the King of Sweden prohibits, under penalty of death, all communication whatever between his dominions and those of the Emperor of Russia.] DICIARATION OF DENMARK AGAINST SWEDEN. 4 , The Danish Government has with just imps, nice waited to see the effect of the efforts employed v the Court of St. Petcrsburgh, for the purpose of lolling Sweden, by the most friendly means, to mie interests which are common to her with all the !sneers of the North, and to those principles which ae the first bond of her connection with Russia and Denmark. These efforts having finally proved miser - - kW, the Danish Government finds itself placed in sedition towards Sweden, which will no longer al. km its relations with that kingdom to remain uncer tain. What these relations had become, it is indeed impossible to dissemble, after a perfidious aggression had suddenly forced Denmark from the path she had fon . owed during a long series of years without the slightest deviation. All Europe has resounded with one cry of indignation at the crime committed by Great Britain against a neutral and peaceful State ; and from all quarters has the Danish Government received testimonies of the most lively interest in its cause. Tice Court of Stockholm alone, notwithstan ding the particular ties which united it with that of Copenhagen, observed a total silence, which it at hen th broke only to prefer complaints the most un founded, and reproaches the most unjust, with respect to the inconventencies that had indirectly resulted to h from the events of the war, as well as from the rigo rous measures which the situation to which the Da nish Government has been most unexpectedly redb; red, has imperiously required it to adopt, and which the chicane and endless vexations of Sweden have *little calculated to induce it to abandon. The D anish Cabinet would have been extremely embar rassed to interpret this conduct on the part of a So "reign, whose interest, principles, and sentiments, it - rd regarded as being equally wounded by. an act of 41141 7 i which has suddenly lighted the flames of P a in the NGrth, if it had oot quickly seen cause to v •Cisnse, that the resalutiou taken by the King of Steden under these circumstances was not merely &at of indifference. The extraordinary facility with' which that Monarch, several weeks betore the reds*, im of Stralsund, had consented to the departure of 'Se major part of th e English forces in Pomerania, !neither, as it should seem, they came with no other view than to await the opportunity of bei conveyed ta Zealand) and the pains his Swedish Majesty took inform his people that this ro.embarkation wok P l 'a by virtue of a separate article of his convention "'kit Great Britain, gave the first indications of a se '.ret understanding at the expence of Denmark. These Miens were yery soon increased. The Danish Government is not acquainted with the extent of the aaistance which its enemy received in the ports of S weden ; but it has felt the consequences of that as sistance in a manner the most lamentable to itself. i t i 3 easy to conceive the impression which has been • produced upon the Danish nation by the relations of ever y kind, andtheuninterruptedcOmtnnnicationswhicb the English found nodifficulty in maintaining with Swe den. No one . could fad to rem ar k h ow muc h D enmar k was insulted bythepleasure whi c h the bingofSwedenap peared to take in repairing to the coast opposite to the sound, and beholdingPenanallyalltheinjusticeandout. rage committed against aneighbouring country; by the caresses and numberless marks of distinction lavished upon the leaders of the English forces ;,by the honours which they, on their part, affected to render to the ally of their Sovereign ; and by the demonstrations of respect towards his Swedish Majesty, to which the ships of war, violently seized from the port of Copen hagen, were n n bound, on their passage along the Sound, under the cannon even of that fortress to which their salute was owing. However unfaVourable an aspect the concurrence of these circumstances necessa rily casts upon the dispositions of the King of Sweden towards the Government of Denmark, that Govern ment cannot reproach itself with having gratuitously exaggerated those appearances, which the Court of Stockholm, far from attempting to remove, wished to produce, nourish, and strengthen, as far as it was in its power. But these simple appearances were soon succeeded by facts. The Government of England was the first to develope to Denmark the openly his stile disposition of his Swedish Majesty. Europe al ready knows the explanations occasioned between Denmark and Sweden by this denunciation. The King of Sweden, when called upon in the most frank and friendly manner to declare himself on this sub . ject, was seen to endeavour eluding the necessity of such a declaration • and, when he was at length closely pressed, his Majesty gave an answer oblique, equivocal, and insulting. Nevertheless, as this an swer appeared in some measure to give the lie to the Government of England, the Government of Den mark was contented with it for the moment, and thought it becoming to dissimulate its just resentments against Sweden, in the hope that, enlightened con ' cerning her true interests, and reflecting on the con sequences of her resolutions, she would at last end by yielding to the representations which the Court of St. Petersburgh had made, with as much tenderness as patience, in order to engage her to renounce her al liance with Great Britain, evidently become incom patible with the tranquility of the North, and espe cially with the security of Denmark. The Danish Government is but imperfectly acquainted with the nature and extent of the engagements which Sweden., has entered into with England ; whatever may be the object of them, and whatever their tendency, no one can better conceive or appreciate than itself, the repunance which his Swedish Majesty would feel in failing in any of the obligations he had contracted.— But the Cabinet pf Copenhagen is not uninformed that the Swedish Government itself has admitted, that the term of its engagements recently espiced ; and after the Cabinet of St. James's had unmasked itself in the face of all Europe, it would have been insulting the Court of Stockholm to suppose that it would dare to concur in an attack upon the first bases of the security, prosperity, and dignity of the powers of the North. Thee considerations could not be ba lanced by the trifling advantage of subsidies, with which the Cabinet of London shews itself ready at all times to purchase its allies, and whom it pretends to have then the right of treating.as mercenaries. " The resolutions of the King of Sweden having, however, frustrated the last hopes of his neighbours, the Government of Denmark could no longer hesitate on its part, to take those measures which its security, the general interest of the North, its attachment to Russia, and the nature of its engagements with that Power, imperiously prescribe to it. At a moment when Zealand is threatened anew by the forces of England, to which the ports of Sweden serve as a point of re-union ; when the enemy of the North has just assured himself of the dependance of the Court of 'Stockholm upon him for fresh pecuniary assistance -; when the public declarations of the English Ministry sufficiently unfold the nature of the engagements still subsisting or renewed between the two allies, the Da nish Government deems it right to prefer a state of open hostility to precarious and equivocal relations, towards an enemy whose disposition is become more and more suspicious, and who, during a long period, could be considered only as a disguised enemy. His Majesty the King of Denmark declares consequently that he actors altogether the resolutions of Russia in respect to Sweden, and that he will not separate his cause from that of the Eniperor Alexander, his august and faithful ally. " Given at Copenhagen, the 49th of February, 1408." Sir C. GREEN, commanding at Malta, has received sonic communication from the Beys in Egypt, con taining, it is said, an invitation to send & body of Bri tish troops to Alein:ndria, and promising in that event efficient co-operation. The Turks have tailed in some of their engagements with the Beys ? and the overtures in question are represented as the consequence. Our letters from Lord Cotti;cowoon's fleet, by the late mails, inform us that the Turks, under the'appre r •hensitm of a renewed attempt on the part of the Eng lish to enter the Bosphorus, had drawn immense chains across the Dardanelles, and stationed a considerable number of gun-boats behind them, constructing, at the same time, some new batteries for throwing red hot shpt. These works are said to be capable of pre venting the passage of any vessel of ivar; without the G o-operation of a land-force. The following is stated to.be the•extract of a letter from Petersburgh, dated the 12th February, as the substance of the propositions made by M, Cituits- COURT to the Emperor ALF.X.C;IDER j " Russia to receivu part of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Besserabia. " Austria to receive Servia, Bosnia, part of Wallachia, and Up per Bulgaria. " France to receive Albani;i, and the whole . fif Greece, egtep ding from the Adriatic to the Gulph of Shlonica, together with Cardin and Cirrus ; and toreceive from Austria, in consideration of the above r,essioas tq that power, the 'wander of Trieste and h er other possessions iq the Adriatic." according to the German journals, to wards the close of the List year, sent a mission to China overland, announcing to the Emperor the recent events in Europe, his intended operas:tons in India, and el:halting him to btrait aU commercial Inter. comae with England, The house of G. NORTON, rs q . at Wiley, Hem p was destroyed by fire on Friday morning, which was occ asioned by a fire that was made to air a room, being imprudently made up, when the servants went to bed. A valuable library was destroyed amongst the furniture, and a maid-servant was dangerously unit. FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.' ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, MARCH 46, Ma. Capita of ',otters from Vice-Admiral Dacres, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Skips and Vessels at Jamaica, to the Hon. W. W. Pole. dated oa hoard his Majesty's Ship Veteran, Port Royal, January 1, 18(18. Sin—The inclosod copy of s Utter I request you will be pleased to lay before my Lords Commits:onen of the Admiralty. • report• tag the capture of the French schooner privateer Experiment by ge peer, after a chace of ten hour.. I am, &c. - - (Signed) . J. R. DACRYS. His Majesty's Sloop Rein Deer, off Tiberon, December gl , 1807. Sir—l have the honour to inform you, that after a chace of ten hours, I came up with and captured the French schooner privateer Experiment, Antoine Corroco Captain, with two guns and forty men, and twenty-one days from . Baracao, and had made no captures. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) P. nouct.As. Veteran, Port Royal, Jan. to, ISOB. Sir—The two tenders to my flag, which had sailed from hence to see, each of them, a valuable hcenced trader, hound to Vera Cruz, as far as Cape Antonio, fortunately fell in at the SAIIIC time on their return with a heavy Spanish privateer schooner, which they captured without loss. The inclosed copy of a letter from Lieutenant Boyd details the particulars. I am, &c. (Signed) J. A. TACRES. His Majesty's Schooner Gracieuse, off Cape Antonio, Dec. 37, 1807. Sir—l beg leave to acquaint you that this fore noon, his Majesty's schooner Gypsey in company, we fell in with and captured the Spanish privateer schooner Juliana, mounting Otur twelve-pound carronades, and one long brass eighteen-pounder amidships, v'itlt a complement of eighty-three men, out tt'ree months from Trinidad in Cuba, has not captured .Lay thing. —I have sent his Majesty's schooner Gypsey in with ' her, as she was the closest during, the Chace, and suffered the most in her rigging. 'lll"ugh she was not of sufficient force to give us a long actun, I must request permission to say every person gave me the utmost satisfaction. It is with great pleasure I have to add, that though the emmny suffered materially, having eight killed and sir wounded, only one man of ours was wounded. I have the honour to be, Scc. (Signed) D. Bonn, Lieut. Corn. Veteran, Port Royal, Jar, la, 14CS. Sir—l have the honour to Inclose you, fur the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the copy of a letter I have rsceived from Captain Cogldaii, of the Elk, acquainting me with the capture of a Spanish packet. I am, &c. (Signed) J. a. DACIIIjS. His Majesty's Brig Eik, Nassau, New Providence, November 7, leo:. Sir—l have the hononr to inform you, that his Ma jesty's brig I command captured, on the 19th ult. after a long chace, which led me to the Catouche Bank, the Spanish schooner Posta de Caracca', bearing a letter of Mat q ne, from Campeachy to the Havannah, with 4 cargo Of leather, bass rope, and 2-1 thousand dollars, which she had in freight. Her mail, with one gun she had mounted, were thrown overboard in the chace. I have the honour to be, 8:c. (Signed) JEN. cot: MAN. Shark, Port Royal, Feb. 4. Sir—l have much pleasure in transmitting to you, for the in- 1 Asrmation of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the co- 1 pies of two letter:A have received from Capt a in Douglas of the' Rein Deer, reporting the capture of two enemy's privateers. Their Lordships will agree with me that Captain Douglas has 'hewn a great deal of activity, and is entitled to great conimendation ; four privateers having been capturetlby the Rein Deer in the space of four months. I am, &c. (*fled). j. R. Racers. His Majesty's Sloop Rein Deer, of Point Picolet, St. Domingo, January Sir—l have the honour to inform you, that in his Majesty's sloop under my command; I fell in with and captured, after a chace of five hours, the French schooner privateer Lyonaise, Jean Tessier, Captain, pierced for twelve guns, but had only five on hoard at tile time of capture, with a compliment of 8.5 men, out eight days frem Baraeao, and had not made any captures. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) • p. J i DOUGLAS. His Majesty's Ship Rein Deer, Port Royal, Jan. $ll. Sir—Having received information that the priva teers had a rendezvous under Fortudas, I bore up and went between the island and the Main, and have the satisfaction to acquaint you, that I succeeded in running one of them ashore, and being deserted by hes people, I brought her off with little or no damage. She has three guns on board, and from the number of men seen to land, there could not be less than 50. Having thirty men away in prizes, and ninety priso ners on board, I thought it would not be side to keep the sea, and hope my return to this anchorage will meet your approbation. I havg the honour to be, 4c. (Signed) v. . 4. DOUGLAS. • Copy of a fainter from Admiral the Right Honourable I.prd Gard ner, Coennander in Chief of his MTijesty's Ships and Vessels in the Channel, Soundicys, &c. to the jinn. W. W. Pole, dated Lupton House the , 2flth instant. Slr —I desire you wall be pleased to lay before the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty the inclosed copy of a letter w h ich I received this day, from di Fez rol, from Captain Maitland, of his Majesty's ship Emerald, reciting an attempt he had made to cut out of Wirer° harbour, on the sveninii pf the 13th instant, a large French schooner ; an exploit Welch I trust their Lordships will conceive with me to di great crs‘lit to :11 com..:rned, for their on. dawned spirit and perseverance the number of men, however., hilted and wounded on the occasion, (of which a list is Inclosed herewith) is much to he lintented. I have the honour to be, Ike (51, 5 -fled) * . 901 1 0 1 4. • His Majesty's ship Emerald, off Viociso,Whieh 14, 111011. ' •MY Lotto—l beg to state that, hawing fulfilled the first part of yonr Lordship's order, bearing - date the Isth ult. I was proceeding t 9 with the Commanding Officer oft Ferrol, when, in running along shore about five o'clock yesterday afternoon, a very large schooner was discovered at anchor in Vi verb harbour, with a French ensign and pendant fly. ing. Though I had never beep in that port, from its appearance, and the place laid down in' Fossino's chart, it seemed to me not a very difficult matter ei. titer to bring her out or destroy her. It was late in the day for such an undertaking, but as we had a fill; moon, and alarm guns -were firing from the forts and schooner, 4,. without hesitation, decided on putting it instantly into execution, as they would Idonbtless have been better prepared for our reception had it !wen deferred till morning, At about half an hour after hy; M. the ,first fort .on the right going in, consisting of eight twenty four pounders, opened on the ship, as did the other (containing Ave of the same calibre) on the left, as won as she was within range. As I saw it was.i4ripossible to place the ship in a situ, etion to act upon the batteries at the same time, I sent the First Lieutenant Mr. Bertram, accompanied by Lieutenants Meek and Husband, of the Mariner, and Mbssrs, Mildridge and Saurin, Mhsties Mates, to storm the outer fort, and proceeded with the ship as near the other (which was about a mile f ar th er i n ) as the depth of . water would allow, where she was placed, the sails furled, &c. J silt ISIT. Wm. Smith, ?'tie ill a Lieuienant, with anoth?.i p Ir-.rn n• • • ' ionr to o ike the guns of the fort, then engaged e' 74 . the Emerald, Mr. Bertram having happily succeeded in driving the Spaniards out of the battery he had been edit to attack, and spiked the guns. Lieute nant Smith, almost iminediately on landing, was op posed by a party of soldiers, most of whom fell, and their officer among the number ; but before they were completely subdued, they had led him a considerable distance into the country, being by that time quite dark, and from the nature of the ground, having• been obliged to land nearly a mile from the fort, he was under the necessity of returning without finding it, as it had been silenced a considerable time by our fire—it opened again, however, about ten o'clock, and continued engageo with the ship till near two hours, when she was outof range. While these occurrences were taking place, Mr. Bertram, with his party, had walked on over land, and joined Mr. Baird, the Midshipman, who had been sent to take possession of the schooner, which had ran on shore on the rocks. As soon as they made out our determination of entering the port on the road, he was met by a party of the schooner's crew, consis ting of about sixty men ; they gave and received a discharge of musketry from our people ; but on their advancing with the pike and bayonet, took to flight, leaving several dead on the road. Mr. Bertram's anxiety to save the schooner induced him to perse vere, for several hours, in attempting to get her off, (which was rendered impracticable from her having gone on shore at high water,;) during which time a large body of infantry had been collected, and galled our men so excessively with musketry, that it became absolutely necessary to set her on fire, which was ac cordingly done about one A. M. when she soon blew up, and at day light there was not a vestige of her to be se.ei. From the papers I have in my possession, the schooner appears to have been a French corvette called l'Apropos, commanded by Mons. Larry, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, which had arrived with di's, patches from the Isle of France on the 24th of Decem ber, mounted eight • twelve-pounder carronades, but . pierced for sixteen guns, with upwards of seventy men. She had yesterday put to sea, but returned to an anchor on the signal being made for an enemy. She appeared to me the largest schooner I ever saw—our Oifitae.s informed me she must have been upwards of two hundred and fiCzy tons burthen, copper bottomed, and in all respects a mesteegtplete vessel. I must beg leave, my Lord, to request you se q.? state Lieut. Ber tram's meritorious conduct to the Lords Commission ers of the Admiralty in the strongest point of view j when I hope their Lordships will be induced, in consi deration of his very gallant behaviour, and a most se vere wound he has received, to consider him worthy of that reward which in our service has ever been looked up to as the certain consequence of distinguished bravery. Mr. Mildridge, Master's mate, a young man who has served the whole of his time with me, and whose gallantry has been represented to me by Lieutenants Bertram and William Smith, as highly exemplary, I hope your Lordship will be induced to 'mention also as deserving of promotion. The cone duct of Lieutenant Bertram and his party as well as that of Lieutenant William Smith renders it unneces sary for me to say any thing farther on the subject.— I shall therefore only add, that Mr. John Smith, the Second Lieutenant, who I kept on board tq assist sue, as well as Mr. Brokensherohe Master, and the whole of the officers and ship's company that remained in the ship, have my warmest thanks fpt their cool and steady conduct during an action that lasted, with int tervals, for snore than six hours. The ship's do? ma i ges are trifling to what might have been expected, which I account for by the enemy not tieing able tp distinguish where the shot fell, and having taken a bad elevation, most of them passed over her. When the boats had returned after firing the schooner, we weighed, and had the good fortune to obtain a light air of wind, that sent us just out of the shot of the batteries,. when we were obliged again tp anchor, otherwise our situation this mornipg would have been by no means pleasant, es the Spaniards must, by that time, have unspiked the guns tn'the outer fort, and, at ay light, six gun boats were sego pulling from the westward. About eight A. M. a light breeze springing up, we weighed, and made sail towards them ; when within about two gun shots of the emir my, it fell again perfectly calm, and they had the te merity still to raw for us ; finding the ship's broad sjdes he.kept towards theft by the boats, I ordered the anchor to be let go with a spring, and when within gPod reach of grape, opened a fire, which they received, and returnedwitk tolerable spi rit for about half an hour, when they made the best of theist way into Vem,s Bay; and, as SPY.eral shots were seen to strike them, I have no doubt considerably da, maged them. The total want of wind prevented me from following and destroying thee(} . - I c.innot conclude this letter, rgy Lord, without once more expressil how highly lappreciatithe he hayioor of every o der and matt 4441 ship I have the honour T.a command, during a Riiii4t arduous, and fatiguing service, that lasted For eighteen hpurs, the whole of' which time they were either . et their gips or expecting every instent 'to be Failed to them, .bur loss, I am extremely sorry tq lay, is very gre,J in killed and wounded, and most of them the pest men le the ship. Whet the enemy's may be, from the n tore of' the servige it is impossible to ascartaie, though we know it to he very. considerable. / inclose a list of killed and wounded-belonging the Emerald. I have the honour to he, isc l (Signed) F. 1 MAITi f AN D. 4 List of Rilled and Wounded an board his Majesty's Ship Emct raid, in Yiyero Harbour, on the 1 3th of March 1808. Killed—Nan Lyons, Boats :vain'. MiteF e ' t il .a l l iam Johnson, r Yeoman of the Sheet} ; John babis (8,) Cap tain's Coxswain; Isaac Hurst, Ship's Corporal ; Frederick Weat , and Thomag Brown, Seamen ; George Yowel, Serjeant of Marines; Jos. paws son, and John Gligg Porter, private pt ditto. " Wounded—Lieutenant Charles ;Sertram; yrrely Liente : rants Giles Meek, and 448 Husband ? of the Marines, slightlYl Mr. Mathew Mildridge, Mister's Mate, slightly ; MiOnal (Are : son, Quarter - Master, dangerously; William Riley, Seaman, ditto ; George M'Allister, and William Moore, Spawn, se: verely ; John West, Captain's Steward, and John Lloyd., private of Marines, ditto; John Baylis, and James Connor, 'Seamen, slightly; Richard Caulfield , James Dale, and William • Mariner private of Marines, ditto; and John Fettiper, boy, ditto, 1•otal.-111 killed and 16 wounded. (Signed) V. L. MAITIANII. c ool( o f p Letter from Vice- A dmiral Sir Ch;:rles Cotton y ran : oro mpairr fp Chief of his Majesty's Ships and Ye is 4 Ole Tagus, tp the Hon . We W. Foie, ilared on Iper4. the Hi g benaia, Feb, 17, 1808. Si;—! request you will lay before the Lords commissioner' ? rite Admiralty the inclosed copy at a letter 1 !ape rrceived r•au Captain yro, of hisW-airsty's ship th i s penSaact, r 4 very gallant trot& p s atorpied in two toatsd eikunittistild ~ .- - ,