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FROM SATU RD. Y I GHT'S GAZETTE. ADMIRALTY OFFICE MARCH 5. • • Copy of a Letter from Admiral Lord Keith, K. B. to JohnWU: son Croke re Esq. dated on hoard his bsiaj arty's Strip Yurk, in Cawsand Bay, the 2dinattnt. have the honour to inclose, for the infornia frill of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a copy of a letteefrom Captain Phillimore, reporting the capture of lt Clorinde French frigate, after a most severe conflict, on the evening of the 25th ult. between her and the Eurotas sin actien which re fletes the highest honour upon the bravery and eye fessionel skill of Captain Phiilimore and his offi::ers, and t4ibt'fili velour and good conduct of his crew. Captaiii Philliniore has been severely wounded on the occasion, but I entertain a 'flattering hope that his Majesty's service, And the country at large, will not long be deprived of the services of so wilorable an officer. I have the honour to he, &c. (Signed) Keten, Admiral. • Ills Majesty's r hip Eurotls, Plymouth Sound, March •1. My Lono—l have the honour to inform your Lordship, that his Majesty's ship under my elm mend, parted company from the Rippon on Monday night, the 21st tilt. in chace of a vessel which proved to be a Swedish merchant ship, and on Friday the 25th, in endeavouring to rejoin the Rippon, being then in lat. 41t,". 40. N. and long. 9. 39. W. we perceived sail upon the lee beam, to which we gave chace. We soon discovered her to be an enemy's frigate, and that she was elide:avowing to out mancrovle us in bringing•her to ectioe ; but having much the advan tage in sailing, (although the wind had unfortunately died away) we were enabled at about five o'clock to pass under her stern, hail her, and commence close action. When receiving her broadside and passing to her bow, our mizen mast was shot away. I then or dered the helm to be put doivn to lay her aboard, but the wreck of our mizen mast lying on our quarter, prevented this desirable object from being accom plished. Thsenerny just passed clear of us, and both officers and men of the Eitrotas renewed the action with the most determined bravery and resolution, while the enemy returned our fire in a warm and gallant man ner. We succeeded in raking her again, and then lay broadside to broadside ; at 6. 20. our main ma's fell by the board, the enemy's mizen mast falling at the same time; at 6. .50. our foremast fell, and the ene my's main mast altnost immediately al terwerds. At ten minutes after seven she slackened her tire, but having her foremast standing, she succeeded with her foresail in - getting nut of range. During the whole of the action we kept up a heavy and well-directed fire ; nor .do I know which most to admire, the sea men at the great guns or the marines with their small arms, they,vying with each other who should must annoy the enemy. I WAS at this time so much exhausted by the loss of blood, from wounds I. had received in the early part of the action from a grape shot, that I found it impos bible for me to remain any longer upon deck. I was therefore under the painful necessity of desiring Lieu tenant Smith ( First Lieutenant) to take the command of the quarter deck, and to clear the wreck of the fore mast and mainmast, which then lay nearly fore and aft the deck, and to make sail after the eoemy ; but, at the same time I lied the satisfaction of reflecting that I had left thy command in the hands of a most active and zealous efficer. We kept sight of the enemy during the night by means of boat sails and a jigger on the ensign staff ; and before teelve o'clock the next day, Lieutenant Smith reported to me that, by the great exertions of every officer and man, jury courses, topsails. stay sails, and spanker, were set in chace of the enemy, wlio had not even cleared away his wreck, and that we were conaing up with her very fast, going at the rate of six and a half knots ; that the decks were per fectly clear; and that the officers and mea were as eager to renew the action as they were to v,mrnence it; but to the great 'mortification of every one on board, we perceived two sail on the lee bow, which proved to he the Dryad and Achates, and they hav ing crossed the enemy (we only tour or five miles dis tant) before we could get up to her, deprived us of the gratification of having her colours hauled down to us. TI e enemy's frigate proved to be the Clorinde, Captain Dennis Legard, mounting forty-flair guns, with four brass swivels in each top, and a complement of 360 picked men. It is with sincere regret I have to state that our loss is considerable, having twenty killed and forty wound ed; and I most sincerely lament the loss of three fine young midthiprnen, two of whom had served the whole of their time•with me, and who all promised to be ornaments to the service. Among the wounded is Lieureaant Foord, of the Royal Marines, who receiv ed a grape shot in his thigh, while gallantly heading his party. I learn front Monsieur Gerrard, one of the French officers, diet thercelcidate Oieir.loss on hoard the 'Clorinde at one hundred and twenty men. It is there tart unatengesar y for rare to particularise the exertions ref every tudividual on tureid of this ship, of the - pr , : mptrugss with which every order was put into .cxecutien by so young a ship's company ; hut I.rnust beg leave to mention the able assistance which I re ceived frier) Lieutenants Smith, Graves, Randolph, and tec-kliarn, Mr. Beednell,ehe Master, and Lieu tenants Fuord and Connell, lit the Royal Marines ; the vtry great skill and attention shewn by Mr. Tho mas' Ceokeelooes, Surgeon, in the discharge of his im portant ditties ; the active services of Mr. J. Bryan, the lieu sere and the whole of the warrant officers, with all the Mates, and Midshipmen, whom I beg leave, 17,30i1 strongly to recommend to your Lordship's notice. 1 suave:. a list of the killed and wounded, stud have the honour to be &c. (Signed) J. Putotasione, Captain. 41 ,List of Killed and Wounded on board his Ma/esty's Eu 194AS..;wen action with the French frigate Cluriude, uu the 2.5111 Nv.,resary, 1514. Spurtting, Mldsliipman ; Mr. Charles Crerstway, tfitto; Mr. J. Vauban, Volunteer first class; W. Logan, Quarter roaster; RudulphJAnsenbtis, able seaman ; Aint 14161140 11 (1) Wittman ; Joint ordinary sratwut ; Hobert truven, dn.° ; kW. 111.adows, ditto; John Neil, able seaman ; g"'hett Cr.wturd , o r ,hualf seaman; John Hawse, Umlaut) ; Clecs'as Fut. able John Grabble, landman ; Hob. Barber, "n a isuattos, Serjeaut marines; .Carle Rayne, tartvate! unariiir• ki, ad 6 4 ., , ,,un e5r5. ditto; !tabard Artie, 'dabs! ; Clown:nue wineseers.—] 1,1,1,17 buy second claw. at, mid hip Esq. Captain, severely; J . R. Brig- Hatcbbisoo,. Quarter-master.", . 4 ~ ~ f. severely; Andrew White, captain of the fore-top, ditto; atone Ansell, ordinary seaman, ditto; Martin Vanduplans, able seaman, .ditto ; Robert Cobley, captain of the ttaain.top, slightly ; John ' Hughes (2), severely ; Frs. Foley, able swatrian,dlrto; John Skit tcin, able seaman, slightly; Jeremiah Lee, ordinary seaman, se verely ; Edward Owens, Landman, slightly ; William Bromley, ordinary seaman, severely; William Evans; able imman, slightly; Petnie, ordinary seaman, severely; Chisnefl, able seaman, slightly; Leonard .Smith, abbe seaman, ditto; John Forster, ordinary StAIIIAM, severely; George Wright, able sea man, slightly; Win. Johnston (2), ordinary seaman, severely ; John Ilackhense, ordinary seaman, ditto; 'Thomas, ordi nary seaman, ditto; Thomas Johnston, ordinary seaman, ditro ; John Eian, ordinary seaman, ditto; Morgan Hayse, landman, ditto; George Dysor , , landman, ditto; J. Fremingliam, ordinary seaman, ditto; -- Sutherland, captain of the forecastle, ditto; John Glynn, ordinary seaman, ditto; James Shaw, able seaaaan, sightly; Jahn Fowler, ordinary seaman, severely; Wm. IVl'lqa ttiar.i, ordinary seaman, slightly. I%IA KLNL S.—Lieu:arum fourd, severely ; Js. White, corporal, ditto ; 13. Frayer, drummer, slightly ; Ss Grandy, Strjeatat, se verely ; Phil. Prosser, private, a shtly ; J. Hitehen, private, so veray ; J. Cray, private, ditto. (-tiled) THOS. Couxa Jonas, Surgeon. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, MARCH 5. Copy of Letter from Captain Byron, of his Majesty's ship Bel addressed to Admiral Sir John Warren,and transmitted by the Admiral to lihn Wilson Croker, Esq. His Majesty's ship Belvidera, klermuda, Jan. 3. Sta—l beg leave to acquaint you, his Majesty's ship under my command, on Christmas-day, captured the United States schooner Vixen, endeavouring to make her passage froni Wilmington, North Carolina, to Newcastle, Delaware.—l lyre the honour to be, &c. (Signed) R. BYRON, Captain. ADMtRAI:IY•OFFICE, MARCH 5. AdmirA Sir John Warren has also transmitted to John Wilson Cooker, Esq. a letter from Lieutenant Pechell, acting Commander of his Majesty's sloop Recruit, giving an account of his having (Yu the '2.1 of November last, in company with the Doterel sloop, run a,ground on Cape Roman Shoal the Inca Ame rican letter of mai roe schooner, of six guns and thirty. five men. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, MARCH 5. The undeltmentioned letters have been transmitted by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pellev►, to John Wilson Croker, Esq. viz. nom Captain Napier, of his Majesy's ship Eurya- Ins, dated oft the Bay ot Calvi, 23d December 1813, giving an account ot his having run on shore in the bay, where she bilgLLl on the rocks, the naleine, French store ship, of twenty-two guns and•l2o men, bound from Toulon to Ajaccio: From Captain Coghlan, of his Ntjesty's ship Alc mene, dated at sea, the 23d December 1813, stating the capture, between Corsica and Cape De,le Nlolle, of the French national schooner La Fleche, carrying twelve guns and ninety-nine men, with twenty-four soldiers, from Toulon, bound to Corsica : From Captain Dilkes, of his Majesty's ship Cas tor, dated o ff Barcelona, the 15th of January last, stating that her cutler, commanded by Lieutenant Loveless, had boarded and captured the Ileurens, French privateer, carrying one 12-pounder and 23 men, close under Monjui. Lieutenant Loveless and one 'eirman were severely wounded. Another from Captain Dilkes, dated off Barcelona-, 23d of January, stating that her boats, under Lieute nant Stanhope, had captured anoi her privateer, called la Mintrir, carrying one gun and salad arms :—her 'crew escaped on shore. LFor Military Proa.etions, Bankrupts, &c. see the lag page.] FR4NCII PAPERS. MARSEILLES, FEBRUARY 17. A division of three sail of the line and three fri gates sailed from Toulon on the 12th instant, under the. command of Admiral Cosmao, to meet a ship of the line that was expected from Genoa. They fell in with the English fleet to the southward of Cape Sicie, but continued their course for Toulon in dctiance of all the imarcet,vres of the enemy, who pursued them under a cloud of cao vas. The headmost vessels pas sed without being much molested, but the Romulus and the Adrienne frigate, which brought up the rear, were hard pressed by all the ships cf the line of the enemy's van. The Romulus had to sustain xn action with two three-deckers, and defer.ded het self valiantly, keeping up a running light as she stood before the wind. After air action of three quarters of an hour, the whole squa dron came to anchor in the Roads. The Romulus had only 70 men put hors de combat, and the Adriesne eleven. The enemy's loss must have been consider able. The ship expected from Genoa left it on the 13th, and entered Toulon on the 14:th in the morning. The French squadron was, on the sane day, under sail, and the enemy's squadron was in sight. NISMES, FEBRUARY 19. The 13th regiment of cuirassiers halted here on the 6th instant. Several columns of troops, ,o travel. ling post, forming a corps of 10,000 inhntry, passed through the department in the course of the week.— Two regiments of fusileers followed, and proceeded to Lyons. PERPIGNAN, FEBRUARY 21. The nine iOrtresses in this department are now completely banished with provisions, and in the hest state of defence. MILAN,.PtiIittJARY 111. .. A - - 1 The Prince Viceroy having directed the Royal Guard upon Salo, to which place the enemy had I pushed a column of 2000 men, took possession of that! city on the 16th, in defiance of all resistance. The young , cbasseurs of the guard, with the brave Colonel Pe.l raldi at their head, carried, at the point of the bayonet, ! the outer gate of the city, which the enemy had en trenched- This exploit secures the left of the Rimy, i which the enemy was endeavoui ing to disttoh on the' s ide of the mountains. The•enerny Heel towards Tos., colano in the greatest disorder, and was pursued sword in hand : we took from there one officer, and eighty sub officers and soldieis. We have had 39 wounticd and l'2 killed: among the latter we have to regret three officers. The flotilla on the lake of Guarda, commanded by Captain Tempier, contributed to our success, by cannonading the enemy's columns on the wads skirting the lake, which forced from .1 to 600 men to disperse themselves in the mountains, atter throwing away their arms. General Theodore Lech' •has commu nicated to the ltigar Guards the Prince Vicermy's satisfaction with the conduct of the troops employed in thitaCtion. FEURUAI4V 21.—The accounts we receive from the Millen) state, that Field Marshal Ilellegarde has fixed his head-quarters at Verona. . Lieutenant-General Qom Neuperg has assumed, wiship . sisme two days, . 1.,..1“.. - ~.., .. • ..116 the command of the Austria 4 troops in the first line. The deserters agree, that the enemy suffers greatly for want of forage. One could not find at this time twenty trusses of hay and a sack of oats between the- Adige and the Mincio. Since the battle of the Bth, the enemy has been re inforced by the regiment of cavalry of Hohenzollern, and a regiment of cuirassiers, said to be that of Som mariva. The enemy have lately - required at Verona a thou*tnd waggons, mostly to transport the soldiers wounded in the last battle. PARIS, FEBRUARY 2S. We ha' received news from a Chateau beyond Troyes. The enemy have exercised all manner of devastation' there. • The country has become a de sert, all the inhabitants have fled ; for miles around not a head of cattle is to be found. There prevails a girt animosity between the Russian and Austrian Officers. They refuse to lodge or eat together.— Many bloody quarrels have taken place between them in the court-yard of the Chateau. The Russians treat the Austrians with the most insulting contempt.— The inhabitants of the invaded countries make a great difference between the soldiers of the two nation! : the Austrians are, indeed, very exorbitant in their demands, but they are not cruel ; whereas the Rus sians have an instinctive ferocity which nothing can soften. One seeks in vain to distinguish the vassal from the met who is supposed to have received some education. The latter has, indeed, some external appearance of urbanity, which excites some hopes, but one is soon undeceived, and the natural disposi , %ion resumes its trnpire. MILAN, FF.IMUARY 14. The Senate having deliberated on the Proclamation of the Prince Viceroy to the People of It-dy, 114 s re solved to present his Imperial Highness the following Addres: : " Purmar.—You have spoken to the Italian people, and at your voice all those among us have rallied, who are faithful to their sovereign, to their country, and to the'r honour. During peace, yon provided with paternal solicitude, and wise foresight, for all the wants of the kingdom, and opened to it all the sources of public prosperity. Nos the din of a new war calls you again to arms for our defence. Ircu have found means, during three months, to oppose to the enemy sach,a resistance, that the gre tit:sr part of our territory, protected by your powerful ar to, has remained undistUrbed amidst the cor-diagration %%hid) rages in the rust of Europe. This tranquillity %%Told certainly not have' been interrupted a moment, hut for an event that has no parallel in the history cf na tions. But you will triumph t.vt.r all intrigues and all machinations. Provalenc,: abhors ingratitude, and avenges violated hospitality. The star of Napo leon still shines with great lustre; and if you, Prince, remain at our head, who can fear that victory will abandon us ? " Prince !—The fate of this fine kingdom is in your hands; the whole people will be docile and will he eager to answer to your call. Your voice, pene trating the enemy's lines, will inflame with new con. rage all the Italians who are surrounded by the foe, and whom he seeks to seduce by senseless promises. We all swear to unite with you: we devote to you our sentiments, our means, and our persons, old our oath is sacred. Ah ! who would not he proud it following a guide whose invincible valour the enemy themselves praise ?—a Prince whose virtues would 'suffice to make our age honoured by posterity, a hero who has chosen the only sublime, the only immortal motto—honour and fidelity. " Milan, in the Palace of the Senate, Feb. 10, 1814." The Municipality of the City of Paris assembled on the 26th in the Town Hill to . receice the D.Trities of the towns of Montereau, Sezanne, Nogent. Sur- Seine, Provins, and Chateau Thierry, sent to com municate the details of what they have suffered the enemy. These details, which are given at length, with the signatures of Al the deputies, in the Mon/tear and other papers, are too.lung and too revoking to be given entire. They present a series cf pictures, which may serve as companions to those of the atro cities of the French themselves in those unhappy countries which have witnessed the retreat of tneir discomfited armies. 1 he desolated environs of Leipsic and Hamburgh, if we are to believe these accounts, find their connter part on the banks of the Seine and the Marne ; and the scenes of Wnerden have been renewed and re venged on French ground. The following pa..:age, which is nearly repeated in all the accounts, strews a: least the impression a hich it is wished to give the ci tizens of Paris concerning the views of the Allies: To annihilate us was their principal and infa mous desire : we are resolved, said they, toextermi nate you, and to t.ike from you, for fifty years to come, the means of fighting and defending yourselves. We have not be .4 tin to plunder tilt we got to Chau mont, because we me.in to tix your frontier there ; but if, contrary to all expectation, our immense army should experience reverses, the thunder will not be more terrible than our vengeance. "In the intoxication their ephemeral successes, the Russians publicly announced their near entrance into Paris .; and their design to carry off all the pre ions monuments, the immortal trophies of our vic oteries to give up Paris to pillage, to carry off the women to people their horrible deserts, to blow up the Thuilleries, and, in short, to turn the teat of the flue AILS mu) a heap of ruins." In another parr, the Prince of Witrtemberg and the Young Prince of Prussia are accused of appro. priatimg to their own use whatever articles pleased thorn. Rack; EFX.—There is only Oat day to draw, arsdi all thee great Paizes, including two of i"20,009, are• yet in the Wheel. Monday next the Lottery ends, until which time Tickets and Shares may be had, warranted undrawn, at SWIFT and Co.'s Fortanatej Offices, No. 11, Poultry, I`2, Charing-cross, and 31,1 Aldgate High-street. • Lady DOUGLASeIt rug &gam: appears to have faund its way all over the kingdom. This unparalleled , circulation, however, is not surprising, when it is re-1 collected how long the tide of prejudice had run against Ilex. SC/Mething wits wanting in justice to her feelings : but it is much to be regretted 'bat she should have made so many person 4 exposures.— There is a report that this volume is ne longer 'o tae procured ; but whether in consequence of ,any threat ened prosecuttoe, twin what other motive, is nut known. GERMAN AND DUTCff PAPERS. HAGUE, MARCH 4. Monday, the 28th ultimo, being the birth-day of his Highness William Frederick Charles, youngest son of our Sovereign, was celebrated here. On the same day this young Prince was with the advance of General Bulow, at Laon o six leagues to the Nord, of Soissons. FLORENCE, FL•BRCARY 4. Qa the 31st of Itauary the Neapolitan troops under General Minutolo, eatered this c;ty. The Princes: Eliza set out next day fur Lucca. The Neapolitan troops are already on their march for Leghorn, which the French troops and authorities were preparing to leave. COLOGNE, FEBRUARY 'Q. Pnrsnant to the orders of the Crown Prince of Swe den, two flying bridges, and a bridge 'of hails, a re to be thrown over 'the Rhine, before our cif'', for the crossing of from 1G to 20,0(X) Swedish troops, who are expected here on the 23c1 and 24th. To-day entered five squadrors of Swedish eavalrr, of very tine appearance. The Staff of the Crow:: Prince, whiCh consists of three hundred officers, ha; arrived at Millikeim, and is expected here to.mg , rrow. It is supposed that the Crown Prince will reach Ail. la-Chapelle by the 93d. GHEN l', FEBRUARY et We learn from Courtray, that the Allied troops, which took possession of that town, had advance.' towards Ypres. The latter town, as well is Niew. port and Ostend, had been summoned to surrender. The Allied troops are in possession of Panetingen„ Belle, and the stittre , nriding pl.cec. A spy had Leen taken At Courtray, who was cn his way to Antwerp with dispatches. FEBRUARY 21..—We le'rn from the vicin'ty of Os. tend that the enerm's ratrison in that town is Pie() strong. They had made several dvstroctive collecting grain. and levying contributions. List week WO of them made :t sally as far as Sl3cker Sas, to pierce the dyke, by winch the whole environs of (.tend would have been la;d under water. Fortu nately they were prevented from cfrerting their Gb ject by the pe.tsants, who collected to the number of between 3 and 40)0, with weapons of all kinds, ard drove them brick with some loss. L'TRLCIIT, FEBRUARY 44. The prisonirs of war from the garrison of Garcons are daily arriving here, on.. their way to Prussia., - They are to march by Nykick and Viluive, toward; Germany. The third column is composed almost entirely of .Belgiane, who had been forced' into the service of the French, and who have now been set at liberty, and permitted to return to their I amllies,-- Some of these prisoners have offered to enter the ser vice of .tfse King of England; and have been taken tinder the protection of the British troops in this town. A shill greater number has vilunteered to serve of r Sovereign, the -Prince of Orange. Thew list have been maintiined by the Burghers, during five days, while arrangements were making for their appropria, tion in the different corps. Within these few days, above 80 Spanish Officers have arrived from different parts of the country, deli. vered from their bon jape by the events of war. They are on their way to their native find. Besides sever.il hundred English troops that are now here, we ale expecting other detachments with their train, baggAge and sick...they are principally infantry. The cavaluy will be quartered in the rd. lages, but they will remain only two days, and will then proceed to join the army of Brabant. FIFTEENTH SULLEIIN OF THE FILE lAN AUIV. PATTLE OF BaIk:NNE. a At the moment when orders were going to be delivered for the march, the enemy advanced in strong columns upon $ irnnr. It was three o'clock in the afternoon. The Field-Marshal resolved to ac cept the battle. Brienne le Chateau is a place quite open, without walls, with houses of wood, at the scot of an emi nence, on which is situated the castle, And winch es. tends as far as Lesmont. From Brienne to Mon Tier oender, and on the other side as tarts Tranoes, thew Ale large " Lieutenant-General Count Pablen had in the morning covered with two thousand horse, ttie marc h of the corps of Sackan tr Lesmont upon Brienne. :And had observed the deployment of the enemy's forces. 1' the town of Brienne was occupied by the coTps of Olittsciff. The corps cf SAcken was behind in co. limns, on the road from 13rientie to 1,4 Itothiere. The enemy thawed a considerable mlis of r valry against General Pahltn, who, to avoid a ct;•:i• bat w:th the enerdy's cavalry, which was superior in numbers, retired upon Brienne. The enemy, to out flank hien, extended his cavalry to the heights, and General Pahlen, according to his instructions, retired through the town upon Sacken's corps. 'rhe enemy had formed his columns of attack, both infantry and artillery, agi.. it Brienne, and made them advance from the right wing, where the cavalry remained motionless. Oat his lett w:ag he had little cavalry ; but masses of infantry and two hatter;es, which, with two others on ihe right wing, 'tired on the town, and had already set it on fire 12 several places. The enemy could not make use ul . his cavalry upon his right wing ; he had been obligeu draw it hick upon his left wing, otter tie departure of Count Pahlen. The Field Marshal prunt,d by h s lank. He otdered the cavAlry of G,nerhl Sacktn, which had been added to that of Count Pahlen, to throw iisell ptontpin j un the left wing of the ea. my. ins took place at the close of the dad ; the two bat teries of the enemy were taken, and his lett wing overthrown. " In the mean time, General Olon%ietf had repul sed the attack against the town ; but the enemy ewe towed his attacks on the right with fresh trot psf they were repulsed like the preceding ; hut oh the side of the c.rstle the enemy round means, diving the night, to penetrate thither by a passage t% inch tt„i nut occupied, and to make himself m istur ui ihe castle and a Nit of the town. he curt , s of Saclteit advanced at theta: de charge, and at cloven in the evening the battle ended, tshtn all tare tannitied in our possessinu, and sortie tiraiikuts the enemy occupied the c..stic All the prison , '" wire of the guard, and said the Emperor conint.in.i.si them in person. The Field Marshal deferred till tfe next d concenualing his corps, an lett Bricatit le Chat: to uccusiked by cavalrJ.:' I