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r F T".•.- • •.. . . ADMIRALTY-OFFICE. JULY ag. Co •T of a Letter from the Rlgtht llonmtrahle Lord Keith, K. B. Admiral of the White, Fee. Ste. to William Matiden, El+ dated on board the Edgar, off Ratirgate, July sT. Sir—l have the farisfeetion of ernifniirtiag. fee their Lord/hips' information, • copy of • letter which I have remitted from. Captain Lavie, of his Makfty's ihip the Blanche. acquainting me with the capture in the latitude of the Ferree Mends, of the Freneh frigate Is Goerrirre, one of the eoemy's fquadren that has been harden, our aim empl. yed no the Greenland Fiffierles. Their Lordfhips will have gnat pkafure in nhfrrvmg, from the lift amend en Cap tain Lanie's report. that in mettle...tee of his good &midst& , this large frigate hasheen carded with Vert link alias our pert. and did he (peaks in terms of bleb commaidatios el Limt. DOOM end the reR of the blanches Akers and Ws emepany. I been the homer to be, &e. (Signed) ICIIITII;Adnaltal. Hi. Ma)efty's Skip blanche, Yarmouth Roads, July 16. • Mr Loan—l have the honour to acquaint you of my return to Yarmouth Rords, having in company Ia Guerriere French frigate, commanded by Mon fieur Host ST, (of the Legion of Honour) whom I captured on the ,9th in fl ant, in latitude 62 deg. N. off the Ferule Mantis. after a (harp - conceit of 45 minutes. La Guerriere is of the largeft elate of fri gates, mounting fifty guns, with a complement of three hundred and feventeen men, but there were loon fadly reduced by our della-Olive fire, and the Chiphas . alto Colleted very leetrely, while the damages of the BF act's are confined to the topmafts, rigging, and tails. It now becomes a pleating duty to beg you to recOmmend Lieutenant Hussy Toomas Davies to their Lordatipe notice, and to (peak latter= of re (pea of his general good condua,as alto of Lieutenant* BASTIN and Attar ; of Mr. ROSIRTSON the Mailer, and Lieutenant Pow Caiirastt., of the marines.— The Warrant Officers, Mitifhipmen, and dip's cum. pany are hkewife entitled to my Imola praife.— Underneath you will obferve the lift of killed and wounded. I have. &c. (Signed) THOMAS LAN'S. Itlanc.bn—None Med. Wcaroded—Licutinaat Bain, not slanged:Judy; Thomas Mi lani" James Wilkins. marina, not danicroutly; George Mor ley, soarkse,daimeroufly. La Goerriessu•s•Twanty Idled; thirty mounded, tea dangereully. ( 31 11F•d) T. LAM. The felarMni Letter from Rear Admiral ittr Within Sidney Sark addreffevi to Viol Admiral-Lord CeMarrood. has hem i detmlnided to the Admiralty in his Ler4Dires Lwow of the ad ' litame. Pompee, at Amboy ea Sal* May 14. ittoo. t. My Lord—l arrived at Palermo in the Poore' on I the sift of fail month. and took on me the command of the fqoadron, 'your Lordfbip bas done me the ilasagr to place under my orders. I found things in 'lute that may be well imagined on the Govern kl Mat being cliff:heed from its capital, with the lots of one of the two kingdoms. and the• difperfion of the army aferobled in Calabria. The judicious ar rangement made by Captain So-ilium( of the (hips . . s miler his orders, and the polition of the Britifh army ' - ender Sir JOHN STUART, at Meffina, had however prevented further milchief. I had the fatisfation of learning that Gaeta (till held out, although a's yet without fuccour, from a raillakcn idea. much too .i prevalent, that the progrers of the French armies is irrefiftible. it was ray firft care to fee that the ne 11P,..- teeffary fupplies &mild be fairly conveyed to the Go. emetic. I had the inexpreffible fatistatlion of con veying the molt effential articles to Gaeta, and of communicating 'obis Serene Highnefs the Governor (on the Breach battery. which he never quit.), the affuraiwe of further fupport to any extent within my oawer,for the maintenance of that important fourth hitherto fo long preferved by his intrepidity and ex ample. Things wore a new afpeft immediately on the arrival of the ammunition, the redoubled fire of the enemy with ted hot (hot into the Mole (being an. fwered with redoubled vigour) did not potent the landing of every thing we had bt ought. together with four of the Excst.i.sere's loom- deck gunk, to anfwer this galling fire, which bore dlreftly un the landing place. A fecond convoy, with the tweet- Pin, placed the Gat tifon beyond the immediate want of any thing effential, and the enemy from advanc ing his neareft approaches within two hundred and fifty yards, was reduced to the defenfive in a degree, dreading one of thole forties which the Prince of Hesse had already (hewn him his Garrifon was equal to. and which was become a much Infer operation, now, that the flanking fire of ei,thr Neapolitan guar home, I had brought with me in addition to four his Highnefs had already ufed fuccelsfolly, would cover it, even to the rear of the enemy's trenches. Ar. eangements were put in train fur this purpofe, and. according to a wife fuggellion of his Serene High- . nett. meafures were taken for the embarkation of a (mall party from the earrifon to land in the rear of the enemy's batteries to the Northward. I confided the execution of the naval part of this arrangement to Captain Rtemeaoson, of his Majefiy's (hip Joao, potting the Neapolitan frigate ;sod gun boats under his orders. His Serene Highnefs poffeffing the ex perience of European wet fare, and a molt firm mind, having no occafion for further aid on the fpnt, I felt I could quit the Garrifon without apprchentiop for its lately in filch hands. with the prefent means of, &fem, and that I could bell co-operate with him by drawing fume of the attacking force off for the defence of Naples. I accordingly proceeded thither with the Poor's, Exe LLLLLL , Avoseisn, and Is. TR E rip. The enemy's apprehenlion of attack occa finned them to convey (ome of the trimming train from the trenches before Gaeta to Naples. The city was illuminated on account of Piste,' B proclaiming himfell King of the Two Sicilies I The jut:llion of the EaGLe made us five fail of the line, and it would have been miry for their fire to have in terrupted this ceremony and thew of feftivity, hut I confidered that the unfortunate inhabitants had evil enough nn them; that the relloration of the capital to its lawful Sovereign and its fugitive inhabitants, would be no ;pacification if it tbould be found a heap of ruins, tithes, and bone*, and that as I had an fotet to land and keep order, in cafe of the French ottry reusing to the Orwell - es, I Ibould leave an opulent city a prey to the licentious part of the com munity. who Would not fail in profit by the confu ono t h e flames wank' ocearom ; not a gnu was fired; art no Inch ecnfideteki tttt oper.t!,tl on my mind to merent me dillodgirg die !trench tarril;in from the ;11 rt d 1,1 Capri, which, from /IS 61 uAtion. firdied• ing4 et aging C‘Slanlua.L.iti..:l firsiti,u,,,d, was a --~ • • FROM THE LONDON oAzurra. JULY 39" 11 CONTIVUATION FROM THI Fti CtDljlo PAOt. ( • e i ; . , . •. • ' gnat °bled fin. the enemy to keep, and by fa much one for . ens: to wren from him. I accordingly rum. -mimed the .French Cernmandant to lurrinder ; on his non-acquietemice (fee the annexed Correlpon &nee), I directed Captain ROWLSY, in his Majellys Ibip Eaiii.:l 6 to cover the landing of Marines and boat's crew., and eaufed an attack to be made linder his ordert. That brareOlficer placed bisfhip .jedieinußy, nor did he open his . fire till the was fecur ed, and his diftance marled by the effect of mulque. try on his quarter-deck, where the Firlt Lieutenant, Jaw.. CsawLev, fell wounded, and a &amen was killed ; although Captain RowLer regretted much the ferrite of that meritorious Officer in fah a criti cal moment, he has fince recovered. An hour's fire from both decks of the EAelps, (between nine and ten o'clock) with that of two 'Neapolitan mortar boats under an alive Officer. Lieutenant ROMA, drove the enemy from the Vineyards wi , lain their walls, the Marines were landed, and gallantly led by Captain Bowes, the.feamen in the like manner, under Lieutenant MoalreLL, of the EAOLS, and Lieutenant Rermuso, of the POMPIE, mounted the Reps ; for fah was their road. headed by the Offi cers, neateft to the narrow pals by which alone they could afcend. Lieutenant Cameos. had thus an op portunity of particularly diltinguifhing himleif.— Captain STAN SI vs commanding the Athenien's Ma tinee gallantly preffing forward. gained the heights,. and the French Commandant fell by his hand : this event being known, the enemy•beat a parley, a let ter from the fecund in command, claimed the terms offered, but being dated on the t nth after midnight, tome difficulty occurred, my limitation as to time being precife; but on the affurance that the drum beat before twelve, the capitulation annexed was figned, and the Garrifon allowed to march out and pals over to Naples with every honour of war, after the interment of their former brave Commander, with due refpedt. We thus became mailers of this important poll. The enemy not baying been allowed time to bting two pieces of heavy cannon, with their ammunition. to Capri, the boat containing them, together with a boat loaded with timber, for the co:titration of gun boats at Caftilarnare, took refuge at Mafia, on the main land °pp:Ate the Mend, where ' the guard had hauled the whole upon the beach ; I detached the two mortar boats, and a Gaeta priva teer, under the orders of Lieutenants FaLiteetel and Rivaaa, to bring them off, fending only Mr. WILLIAM., Midfhipman of the Po,ti.es, from the fquadron, on purpofe to let the Neapolitans have the credit cf the ation, which they fairly übtaiued ;:for, after diflodging the enemy from a firong tower, they not only brought off the boats and two thirty-five pounders, but the powder (twenty barrels) from the magazintof the Tower, before the enemy ;trembled in force. The projeded forties took place on the I jth and Iph in the morning, in a manner to renal the itsgbell credit on the part of the garrifon and naval force employed. The covering fire from a fleet was Vdicioufly dirrded by Captains RICHARDSON and icuna, whole condo& on this whole ferric. merits eny %vermeil approbation. I inelofe Capt. RieNaaD soN's two letters as heft detailing thefe affair% and a lift of the killed and wounded on the lath. On the 'nth ult. the boats of the PUMPIII. tinder Lieutenant BeAocaorr, brought out a merchant veld from Scalvitra, near Salerno, although proteded by a heav y fire of mufketry. That officer and Mr. STSILLING dittinguifhed themfelves much. The enemy are en deavouring to eftabliffi a land carriage there to Naples. On the 134 obtaining intelligence that the enemy had two 36 pounders in a (mall edict on the. beach at Smite, I fent the Pomess's boats in for them. Brat the French troops were too well polled in the }lnuits of the town for them to fumed without the cover of the (hip. I aecotdingly flood in with the POMPII ; fent a mefiage to the inhabitants to withdraw ; which being done, a few of the Noires's lower deck guns cleated the town and neighbouring hills, while the launch) commanded by Lieutenant MOUltlllf LIAM, with Lieutenant OATS, of the marines, and Mr. WILLIRNS, drove the French, with their armed adhet cots, from the gone, and took polfeffion of the cattle, and of them. Finding. on my landing, that the town was tenable a,gainft any force the 'enc. my could bring againit me from the neareß gartifon, in a given time, I took poll with the marines I—and, under cover of their pofition, by the extreme exer tions of Lieutenant CtILROL, Mr. Ivss, Mailer, and the petty officers and boats' crews, the guns were con veyed to the Posers, with 21 barrels of powder. I have the honour to be, dc. (Signed) W. SIDNEY SMITH. On board his MaJefty's Ship la Pompw, May Sir—Before ( make a regular attack, which mutt neeelLuily re duce an Militated and irregular Coned, without work., I have thought roper,accordiog to the cottons of war,to funs/non you to maculate the pelt which you occupy. It you Wore, I Inform you, that you will be (weed to yield upon terms more or lets famine: able, according to the degree of force and time which you may oblige me to employ to reduce you to this tyranny thus, Sir, you fee that the terms of the forthwith of the pail depend upon yourfelf to-day ; In the hope titan anfwa which wilt (pare blood on both fides, I have the honour to he, Ste. (Signed) W .MIT.. To the Commandant of the Freech troops at Cintet • Capri, May at, TAO. The Commandant of Capri to Rear Admin.' Sidney Smith. I received, Sir, your knee dated this day, and for enlace 1 have to obferve to you, that a true (oldie,- does not forralder till he ha, tried Ms fon.c with that which attacks him, You are, Sir, too good and brave at:tidier to blame me if I J., slot accept your polite invitation. I have the honour to be, dcc. (Stilted) Catalyser, Capt.:Wl Reg. Bland of Capri, May ts, tIo6. Captain L'Etang, consmarAing tk, F-ench fro ms, to Sir Sidney Smith, Rear Admiral of thc i.roVA l'quadtuo. Oood fortune having tavuored you,togother with the advantage pis had In landing, oblige me to make you the following prnpofals t To give op to you the town Of Capri and all the i !land, Waving fewiryfelf for my honour, and that of the troops I command, the It WM of returning to Naples, with arms and hanage, at the time which It mall pkalayou to grant me. I coped this generality from your bands to avoid bloodfhed oo both Wes ; In default of whkh I Cud' be obliged to continue tiU eatinaloo. I have the honour to be, &c. CITA NO. (Signed) CAPITULATION. Capri. at Midnight. the -tath lone, iLvS. In enefeetnenee of the 'nod coquina of the alit crs and t rungs of the garnfon of Capri, the high& Cornmanders has granted the following articles, viz. Art I. The Officers, Subsiternv. and Soldiers 11,11 embark a► loon aapclble, with Ow moment! lmiggaie bclorgles to them. • A • Aar If. They null be teaseled he Nem& AST. iii. The finglifti Deters engage to caufr the Preach woep to be rdpefted as much as goat& ditaing.the elms they ihall be in their power. ART. IV. The French 'Olken Wake the fame engagement to. weed' the troupe and rads which Stall trautpoet them to their prefent Treaty wee concluded at Midnight of the t t-sack of May, sso6, between Captain Charles Rowley. Captain of the Chip, and M. L'Etarig, Captain of the sad Ragbags* of Light lofentry, commanding tk Wands , of CaprL To which have Sped 1:1t1 ANO. CMAa Lae POWLIT. N. B. The Cogruesandant (into gabbing to difembark with his troops at Meia, leritee the Inglift Admiral to grant it him. w. MN?, SMITH. Lilt of the 'Killed and Wounded la taking Capri, May s. and. Eagle—Lieutenant James Crowley, Fir& I lcutcnant, Sightly wounded; gas Seaman sad cos Marine killed ; foot Seamen and Si Mariam wounded. Lift of the Nthed and Wounded in the Sortie of Cada, May is. Weer* of the boats detached from the JunciFour Seamen killed and ilk Sewage warded: (Sieved) w. IAON•V lila Middies Ship Juno, Cotta, May Ls Sir—Tfie enemy having vetted a battery of four guns on the point of La Madan* della Cbtterra, his Serene Higlinefa the Prince of Heffe ordered fizty men from the garrifon to be embarked in four flitting boats; and, on the night of the tath, I proceeded with the justo's boats, armed, accompanied by thofe of his Sicilian Majefty's frigate Minerva, commanded by Captain Visuove, and landed the troops, undif covered, in a (mall bay in the rear of the enemy's works. Lieutenant PARIS°. who commanded the party, having advanced, the enemy abandoned the poll, after firing to alarm their camp ; but before they could arrive with 2 reinforcement, the guns were (piked, the gun carriages datoyed, and the troops re-embarked without any Infs. 1 have the ho nour to be, la. (Signed) x. uicHatnitl. His Majefty's Ship Juno, at Gaeta, MAT t 6; *8044. Sir—His Serene Highnefs the Prince of Hesse PHILIPSTUAL, basing fignified to me on the tath inilant, his intention of making a fortie early on the foltnwing day, to attack the French lines, and di reeling me to have the neceffary arrangements made that the boats might co-operate with and fupport the troops from the garrifon, I canted the gun boats he divided into three divifions, (four in each) and delivered copies of the enclofed order to Captain . Viettotta of hit Sicilian Majefly's frigate Minerva, • and Lieutenants Le Chevalier Bacsamo and VAL GUASA.III. The fortis took place precifely at half paft eight o'clock yefies day Morning, and was atten ded with fuccef. t the Neapolitan troops having driven the-enemy out of their trenches, and taken the Serape battery, (the guns of which they fpiked) re turned into the wirriko with little lots, bringing in with them Captain of Engineers and come others, their prifoners, the numher I have not yet They were fupported in the attack and ;cheat, on their left along the fliore of Serapo by the boats of. this !hip, armed under the dire Lion of Lieutenant Waccs of the Navy, and Lieutenant Maas of the , Millar/I t and the firfi divifion of gun boats, which I took the command of ; and an their tight by the-ad divifion, under the orders of Lieutenant Va ca,ittai a t ;the third divifion (having embarked fifty men from the garrifon) were ordered with the Minerva frigate, to make a diverfion on the other fide of the Bay ; but, owing to a calm, the Minerva could not reach her (lotion, though the boats fucceeded in landing the troops, and brought off tome cattle ; the fire from this divifion, having kept in check and prevented from advancing a conliderable body of the enemy's cavalry, which were fent to attack the party landed. The lofs of the garrifon I have not yet underftood ; that of the boats are, firit divifinn, two killed ; fecond divifion, two killed, and five wounded. The enemy Inuit have fuffered confiderably, as more than one hundred mulkets have been brought in. I think it my duty to recommend to your notice ' on account of their good condut9 and courag e , the Lieutenants of his Sicilian hlajetty's Navy, Le Chevalier BEL. sawn, Vacoutama, and PUGH csa. I have the flour to be, Esc. (Signed) SI. RICMARD93M. Copy of a Letter from Vice Admiral Lord Collingwood, Com mander in Cbkf of his Maicfty's Ships and Verfala in the Me diterranean, to William ?divide, Efq. dated on board the Ocean, of Cadis, the tft July, iBo6. Sir—l inclore tote laid before the Lords Cornmiflioners of the Admiralty, a copy of a letter tranfmitted tome by Resr Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, from Captain Fellows, of the Apollo, Rohm the capture of a French brig, laden with brat, ordnance, Intended for the enemy's batteries which they hive mired oppo• Aft the Pharosot Wrist& I smoke. (Signed) faini.iNOVICOD Apollo, June so, Melsna. Sir—l arrived .here this evening with a French brig laden with fix 14 pounders, brat's, their (tot and carriages, taken on the night of the sth infant, near 'he Agie Finucana, in the GAO of T,.:ento, where Ilse had run aground, her crew having Rove her, and landed to defend her, affißed by the armed Force in' the neighbourhood. The almoß continual fite during the night, of their mufketry, aided by a large field piece, could not prevent the officers and crews of the boats I difpatched on this fervice from having her off towards the morning. 1 have more fatisfac lion in having performed this fervice, as I conceive, from the cootie file was fleeting when I firfl law her, that thofe guns were intended for the new batteries oppofite the Pharos. One fearnan only was wounded on our part. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) 5. sassowas. Copy of a Letter from the Honourable Rear Admiral Sir Aka. ander Cochrane, K. B Commander in Chief of his biajefty's Ships and %Weis at the Leeward Bland., to WlRim Marfden Big dated on board the Northumberland, at Sea June a 6. Sir —Hla Majefly's fehooner Morne Fortune, having captured . a French fclitioner privateer, I inclofe. for the information of the Lords Commidlone a of the Acinilratty, a copy of Lieutenant Brown's letter to me, giving an account thereof. I have the ho. Rout to Deane. tilgual) • ALM COC &&&&& • Morrie Vortunee,at Sea. June op. Sir—l have the honour of acquaintii.g you, on the rlith instant, I obfervcd a fufpicinus Cilia to lee. wand. I bore up, and made all fail ir. chace t at thirty minutes after liven, A. M. after a chace o(' two h,iurh came up with and equated the French privateer fchooner Hope, from Si. Pierre's, IsLirti nigne I Out feven days upon a cruise (taken nothing) mounting four cartiage guns, and InAn;:cd with 44 m e n ; previous to ode capturing her, die, in !Coal!, carried away her mainland and foretop gait. 1 h.ive no intelligence of any other privateer h ing on ihe eon& I am, Ste. (Signed) Jones atowm. War INDIES. BARBADOS'S. JUNE 1 + His Msjeßes (hips Cygnet and Lark arrived here this morning from theaset a n) althoughi Ithe Northumberland whereco confined hr o not arirb i n iU t an h N e e e bd i l e o i c ha t t iC e as o g o °llag t f ca : h iltpc : A)nu r r. had ll6 fo 111:11 1 ellifetlltOodfri nn p e rk Yttc a h a t f r i t t eu9 d: l , l:lls : n o b e te r heih e s ; f y .t a v r o d u . r a e n d d in m e a in enemy tgatop in l I a ik n o n i a n fl g , h t n a t s o unfortunately , where four of his line of battle (hips and a frigate have now taken up their anchorage under the pro cation of the batteries. The fame evening the Northumberland was diives by the fquall from off Fort Royal, one 4 the ene. my's (hips of the line got in, as did another os the following. night. On the zoth. the Admiral being again ready for fea,in Gros Met Bey, where be coald • watch the movements of the enemy towards Fort. Royal, was informed by Ggnal from the Lark, of the appearance of another of the enemy's /hips of the . line and a frigate. 'running down for the land, when he immediately weighed, and, with the Etbalion and Galatea, gave chace, and, had not the enemy been toe well to windward, inevitably would have cot of his fhip of the line, while the frigate could have been attacked by the L ark, which was near up with her; hut, from their too near approach to the land, both of them efcaped. Juni 28.—Nitie fail of WeR India traders, which bad miffed the ormioy of the Elephant off Falmouth, and, proceeding down Channel. fell in with Admiral Sreeatio in the Bay of Bifcay, arrived here on Thurfday lall, under convoy of the Santa Wary. ritta, dripatched by the Admiral for their prole Lion. There were two other (hips under convoy of this fri gate, which parted. one fur Lillian, and the other for Berbice, - The above convoy left Sir RICHARD STILACMan i with 62 fail of the line and two frigates, off Madeira on the 28th of May ; and on the night of the :ads inflect. they fell in, about is° miles to windward of this ;Rand, with three enemy's WO, two fuppofed 4 the line; and although they were fo near that the leading (hip (the Draz Hall) fired upon one of them, they made do attempt to eat off any of the convoy, but evidently hauled off to avoid them. It is in ionic meafore TO be feared thntthe enemy 'a fquadron of frigates which efcaped from Cadi; on the 27th of February la, and had fuhrequently made their appearance at Cayenne, from whence they touched at Porto Rico, where the Canada and f .me frigates were difpatched its quell of them, but had failed again, and were fiUCC heard of, cruizing off Bermuda, and may fucceed in doing irate injury to our commerce. notwithOoding the diligence -with which they have been roiliest from place to place by out crtiizers. Thi' fquadron, it now appears, con fills of the Rhin, Hernsoine, Thamais, Hortenfe, tj 44 guns each t and oft the 29th ult. fellin with our homeward-bound trade, "which left Tortola on the tzth of May—but fortunately the Amelia, P.rince(s Charlotte, and Unicorn frigates, - remaining. with the Pheafant floop of war, which was ko convey 'them home. the enemy were 'not (MIT prevented frown coals mining any depredation, but were chafed fur three hours by our litigates, which, kid they Into able to come up with them. would have put a flop to their further career. Taking advantage- of-tbeiz Irmetioe friliok% qtey Rill dogged the fleet, and were again in fight of them on the pa, but without making any attempt upcg the convoy, it having been resolved at a Council held onboard the Finch Commodore, not to rilk a battle with our frigates. The enemy'a (quadrats captured on the 27th May, in latitude 30. longitude 63. the fchooner Hope, Os= BOUt.III, oh St. Kitt's, bound to New York, which they burnt, taking the Captain and crew on board the Herrooine. On the fR inR. in latitude 31. 10n. gittlde 6s. they fell in with the American brig Thre4 Friends, on board of which they put Capt. Osaoo am a, who arrived here on Thurfday lilt ; and to the above particulars adds, that when they left Porto Rico thei took in three months water and provifions, and the one of the frigates had a large quantity of fpecie—lhe was a very dull faller, and he thinks that in a long chafe the fquadron might be brought tp attlion as they would not abandon her. • The fquadron had not made any capture befidel his veifel, and were purfuing their voyage to Franca when he left them.' The Three Friends. on the ayl inn. was.bronght to, 150 miles to windward of this lasnd, by a Froth ptivateer fchooncr of 16 guns. To our inexpreffible di(appointment the enemy had at length, from the recurrence of bad weather to out fquadron, concentrated Lis force in Fort Royal Bay, and thus eluded that vigilance which fought to com bat him with inferior numbers, even on the coal of his own country, where he now takes refuge under the rotation of his batteries, left the undaunted proweli of our navy flsould affail him, as they are Often wont, at his very anchorage. Sir ALM COCHRAN!, in the Northumbiriaod. with the Canada. Elephant, and Agamemnon,-of the line ; and the Ethalion frigate and Dart (loop of war, arrived this morning in Carlifle Bay, from off Martinique; where from the recent iojury moll of the fquadron has fußain e d, an d t h e g oo d fortniie of the enemy in having united his force in F•trt Royal) it bas been rendered unadvifeable for them to remain. The enemy's force now at Martinique cor.fills of fix fail ee l c f the ncei dfao yt l i nt n t D e cod e r n n o th r ee morning frigatesjuniors wwith the la n ; t ho others w e t t so o or f l a y i l oft' ; but from the circtinillance of the Santa Margaretta having ken three fail, two firp pded of the line, on Tnefday night, there is 'ironic cupieEture that the enemy's force in thefe fess is greater than was at &it imagined, as it is not pro , bable that thefe three lail veffels being ken Iso miles to windy/aid of this illand on Tuefday night, could have reached Fort Royal on Wednesday morning, at which time the re were fix fail lying there. that it would teem his force conlilts of eight tad of the line befides frigates. This we beliewe to be the opinion abut chief Naval Meets ; fo that the Welt Indies appear again, for a Cane, fobjeCt to the incursions of the enemy's tsuotas neering lyltem ; t.,r we do not believe that, with all p his ftiperiority, any frAnourable entetprife will be-at tempted by them, even under the aufpices of Prince Jittom t. who might be ambitious of difirefling the linaller iflands to leeward, but would itudioutly avoid ; a rencuunter with any of our tutu of war.. -.7 7 •