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ZAST INDIES, tittiM THE BOMBAY GAZET'T'E, fitTbliEttlit Eleilliezci- Sir trilwAib PILLtW i /Ink. RearsAd:fatal eif the Red, and Commander in Chirfy ice. &cl Ste. Hit Majesty's ship Psychs, at sea, off Java, Septemlief 3, 18 b7. Sitsx.l.batt the honour to acquaint you, that pro eeding in tfe execution of your orders f the 18th June last, his Majesty's ships Psyche and Caroline, on the 29th of August, reconnoitred the port of Sou raybaya, and by a ship from Batavia captured the following day. aseeftained • she situatica of the enemy'sline-of-battle ships, which are still inactive there, Ahd fOtesenttd as being in too bad a stite.to adrellt of repair. As otir shccess in 6 great Measure depended on the intelligznce the enemy might receive of our appear ance on the coast, not a mothent was lest in proceed ing to Samarang, off which part the PsYdbe wat' enabled tb anther :tt rhidnight, the Caroline having previously parted company in chase by signal. At day•liz,ht I weighed and stood into the roads, whett the boats were dispatched under the direction of Lien , tenant KERSTEMAN, assisted by Mr: CHARLES SULU v to attack and bring out the enemy's vessels there. This service Was cohipletely effected in a manner highly creditable to the Officers and Men employetl on it, the boats having taken possession of, and towed out from under a heavy Ate from the batteries, a large schooner of eight guns, and a large merchant ' brig. the early part of the morning had discovered to us two ships and a brig at anchor outside,. and from one of them having the appeatancb of a ship of War, not a doubt was to be enteftained of their being enemies. to be ready to take advantage of the first setting in of the sea-breeze, the captured vessels were destroyed • and before noon, his Majesty's ship Was clear of die harbour in chace of the enemy - ; Whese vessel had weighed And stood to sea. I soon had the satisfaction of finding that the good sailing of his Majesty's ships afforded me a fair pros pect of closing with the ship of war, and at three finding us fast coming up with them, they all bore up and ran on shore, about nine miles to the westward DS Smarmy, opening at the same time a well-directed fire on us, which, on our anchoring in three fathoms Water, was very smartly returned, though apparently without much success, the shoal water preventing my closing as near as I wished. In a few minutes the armed ship struck, and at 30 minutes past four P.N. as I was preparing to hoist the boats out, with an in tention to attempt taking possession by boarding, the ship of war surrendered, the brig shortly afterwards fired a brodside, and hauled down her colours — on being boarded,, they proved to he the Resolttic armed merchant ship of 700 tons, with a valuable cargo, having on board the colours and Staff of the '2'3d Eu ropean Battalion in the Dutch service ; and the Ce res, a remarkably fine brig in the Dutch Company's service, of 12 guns and 70 men, a month from Ba tavia, under the convoy of the Scipio corvette, of 24 guns and 150 men ; the brig has stistained very con siderable daMage, many shot having passed through her hull, her rigging Much cut, and her Commander, M. CARREGA, mortally wounded. I am happy to add that they were all got afloat the same night without injury, by the persevering activity of my officers and men. On the Ist, the Caroline not having joined, and the ship's company considerably reduced by the absence of three officers and fifty men in the prizes, I was in duced to accede to a proposal made by the tovernor of Samarang for allowing the prisoners to go on shore, the officers signing their parole, and proper receipts being given for the soldiers and seamen. I cannot too • highly praise the zeal and acti vity displayed by the officers and men I have the hot nour to command, on the whole of this service, and I regret that the force of the enemy did not afford a fuller scope to their exertions. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) FLEETWOOD B. R. FIILLEW% (AtrueCopy) E. H. LOCKER, Sec. to his Excellency. PRIZE COURT, BOMBAY. Minerva, Frederick Hussey, Master.---,On Friday, the 11th ult. Sir JANIES MACKINTOSH gave judgment in this case. This was a case of an American ship, taken on the 3d of December, 1808, going from Manilla to Batavia. The ship had left Providence in August, I WS, had touched at the Isle of France, from which place she, sailed to Bataria, thence she went to Tegall and Manilla, and on her voyage from this last place back again to Batavia, she was detained. Her cargo consisted chiefly of indigo and dollars. It appeared that she was under the direction of a supercargo on hoard, as to her employment in trade, both in respect of the cargo and the intermediate ports to which she was to trade, previously to her return to Providence, or some other port in America, where her voyage was to end. For the Captors, it was ccnitended, that she was trading between enemies' colonies, and therefore act ing.in direct violation of the letter and spirit of his Majesty's instructions of June 1803, which command the commanders of ships of war and privateers, to seize any neutral vessel which should be carrying on trade directly between the colonies of the enemy and the nentral country to Whkth the vessel belongs. For the Claimants, it was insisted, that neither Manilla or Batavia, nor the Isle of France, were enemies' colonies of such a nature as to render the t tiling thereto by a neutral in time of war illegal, in a ;much as the trade to those places was open to fo reigners in the time of peace. The Court, on a f urmer day, had directed tommis., sior.s to be sent to Bengal and Madras, to ascertain whether the ports of Batavia and Manilla were, dur ing the last peace, open to all or any foreigners from the ports of India, Europe, and America ; and if open, whether under any and what restrictions; and also to inquire into the state of those ports in the se re spects before the War which broke out between Great Britain and Spain in 1796. These commissions be.' ing in part returned, and it appearing that there Rot", were open to all foreigners during thelast . peacc, without any restrictions, except as to opium and spe-' t e, a' the port of Batavia ; S;r Macaixtosit pronounced a I eat of res. tirltion. The captors, he said, were fu ly justified in d':taining this vessel,beesitise in so doing they . were acting in obedience :ea the letter of ir.stractions of June 1803. Batavia mut Iht.milla awe veetainly co- levies ot the enemy, and this vessel ads cefrainitinet trading directly between Atneries and such eolonsigr Brit though the officers in his *jetty's lervite woe bound to obey thew instinctioni, he did not Conceive himself, sitting as Judge of prise hi 3 Court Whose decisitnis were to be regulated by the late of nations, as bound and concluded by them. He ktsetwol, indeed, that he Was the first and on& Judge Wtho kaeltehthretl to prcnounee such a dotrine. in every prise court, in Arty rountry, by all writers oh the tubjett, and all earniiiistra tors of the law, the instructions of the Sovereign *ere re. gaided at a law to MI Judges BUT nz CONSITARRD TRH LAW OF NATIONS AS PARAMOUNT TO Slk/i IN sTxuctioxs ; and the ging' as havirif indeed a right to trultente with such law, but not a right to extend itri= As fu-, therefore, as any of his Majesty's instrualoos were a relaxatioon of the law of nations in favour of neutrals, lie should considef himself bound by them i but if he saw in such instructions any attempt to ex tend the law to the prejudice of neutrals, he should not obey them, but regulate his decision according to the known and recognized law of nations. In the I present case, after great deliberation and minute in quiry, lie felt himself bound to say, that neither Ba. tavia nor Manilla were Such colonies as to tender any ' trading thereto, by neutral nations ih time of war , illegal. ft Is not theif being called colonies that will tender sucTt a trading unlawful, notwithstanding the iletter of the instructions of 1803 ; something farther is necessary, and that is, that the trade to and with I these colonies was prohibited to such neattals In tithe rof peace. FORT WILUAM, OCTOBEIIt 17. Tbt Honourable Company's yacht, the Chatibtie, ! ittived from Sangor, early this morning, having on board his Excellency. Lieutenant General Hewitt, ap pointed Commander in Chief of his Majesty's and of all the Hon: Company's Forces in India, and a Meth. ber of the Supreme Couticil of tort William in Ben gal. At six o'clock Lieutenant General Hewitt lan ded, and was receiVed with the uSttal honours. At half past seven o'clock, his Excellency Liettre nant General Hewit took the oath and his seat as one of the Counsellors of the Presidency of Fort William, tinder a salute of seventeen guns. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, FROM TIIF. DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. The King of Prussia has been stripped of another portion of the territory reserved to him by the Treat♦ of Tilsit, as appears by the following Edict, which was published at Breslow, on the 15th March— " We, Fred• rick William, by the Grace of Gun, King of Prussia, make known: that whereas, by a Contention With the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, We hake ceded the Province of New Silesia, to be added to the Du: by of Warsaw; we deem etirselves obliged, by virtue of thit cession; to dismiss all our servants in the province from their duties towards us, se as not to prevent their contracting neW obligations to eontinut r. w employments; we shall also feel, in (Mitre, a lively consi deration for the fate of those who have been our faithful servants ti" now, and will always keep them in remembrance. • 61 Given at KoltiLgsberg, lan. rt. " FitTDERICIC WILLIAM. " BARON VOX STZeINth WESTPHALIA: THE KING OP WF.STPIIALIA'S DECRF:F. TO 11Tjalq SOME BRITISH GOODS FOUND AT MARSURN!!. " We, Jerome Napoleon, &c. &C. at the report of our Mints:. ter of Justice, and for the Home Department, have ordered, and do order as follows: " Art. 1. I he English gdods that have been seized at Mar burgh, on theist instant by order of the Perfect of the Depart ment of the Warre, and which have been discovered to be Eng lish manufacture, by the mere Pants and assessors of the Deputa tion of Commerce, charged with examining them, and being also deigned as such on the books the house of Wondecker and. Co. at Wetsiar, shall be immediately burnt on the public placLs of Marburgh. " Art. 2. Our Minister of Justice, and for the Home Depart ment, is charged With the execution of the pr"esent Deerev, which shall be inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws. " Done in our Royal Palace, at Cassel, Feb. 5, 1808, In the second year of our reign." HAMBURGH, MARCH S. - - Another portion of the Electorate of Hanover has been given to King Jerome. It lies between the ‘Veser and the Emtner, and comprises the bailiwick of Pelle, the town of Bodenwerder, and parts of the bailiwicks of Gooliside and Opsen. It is said that Etruria, the Mark of Ancona, and Civita Vecchia, are to be united with the kingdom of! Italy. Colonels Harnelianges and . Stackset, Aides-de= tamp to Prince Polite COrvO, have returned to this i city from Copenhagen ; whither they went on ser vice connected with the projected invasion of Scania. It is reported that the King of Denmark has sug gested some difficulties to the entrance of a French army into Zealand. Colonel Harnamges was Im mediately dispatched to Paris. Although the march of the French troops into Hol stein has been suspended, depots of provisions conti nue to be formed for their accomniodatien at Elmen• horst and it Apenrade, at which latter place a considerable number of small vessels have been col lected to transport them across the Belt. A convention has been signed between Denmark and France, by which 12,009 Danish - troops are to act with the French army destined against Sweden, under the command of the French Getteral—another body of Danish troops, under the command of a Da nish Officer, is to be ettiployed in the Swedish expe dition, and is now assembling ii Zealand. This con. vention, it is further stated, stipulates that ao French or Spanish troops are to be quartered in Holstein, BANKS OF THt MAINE, MARCH 26. Sinyrna is again blockaded by the English, and Constantinople suffers greatly from a scarotty,pf pro visions ; the greatest vigilance is exerted on the part of the Government to restrain the starving populace from acts of outrage. VIENNA, MARCH li. Prince StaktentbeT has given directiots for bt+.lld ing a not Palace in dth city, and thereby two families occupying his old hotel on the river, have been re moved, in order to its bring pulled down. CADIZ, MARCH IG. Accounts fmm Spanish America state. that im mense quantities of gold and silver were accumulated there, waiting conveyance to torope. The greatest want prevailed there of cloth, hardware, and other art►cies. STRASBURC.PI, MACH 23. 'Within at short time, five sail of the line have been built, manned, and fitted f z sea At Toulon% were 4abtaitted from Genoa, Veaite, .i 4' *tilt PA kg A 4 NOM& A 1 104 et MOO T OF O It DAIWi DIALMATION WAR. llsettholass tut March, The Curt bt Denthark had Made an alliance with France, int=ed to receive French troops in this toufitryi ItuatispOrt Vest& in its port, fitted out all its ships in toad of Copenhagen, to cover a Presets *spottiness -against Sweden, and then issued a declaration of war. Denmark accused Sweden of being the cause of this rupture, because she did abs Make het iomplinients of condolence on she loss of her fleet, betanse she ivoiild not co-operate to avenge that humiliation, and especially because she sought aid from Etigland against such an aggression. The relations of the sing with his neighbouring power Were those of a simple peace. There was nei ther alliance, nor any - convention whatever which traced out for the two Courts any common course lot , their political conduct ; therefore whest Sweden, Rut sia and Prussia, fought la conjunctiert against raace, IDe hark, under the shade of her neutrality, appeared I the friend of all. The King, witnessing this system, and convinced by sortie explanations; demanded, in the course of the year 1806, of the impossibility of obtaining a change favourable to Sweden, could not entertain a hope that the Naval Force of Denmark could ever be useful to him—on the contrary, after I the peace of Tilsit, he had every reason to fear that, by the suggestions of fl ussia and France, it might be one day turned against him. His Majesty therefore, thought it proper to observe a profound silence relative to the events which passed In his vicinity last Autumn, leaving to England and futurity to justify them. It is due to truth, however, ; to declare, that the Court of London did not invite Sweden to take part in this expedition, nor confided it to her till the moment of its being carried into ex- 1 ectttion. Therefore, not the least Motement was made in Sweden on this occasion. The English fleet arrived and departed without en tering into any port of Sweden, and the auxiliary troops embarked in Pomerania, were restored in virtue of a separate article in the convention concluded at Lon don, relative to this object, on the 17th of June 1807, when certainly there was as yet no reference to this expedition. The following is the article : " It is falls , understood, that in case that unfore seen circumstantes thuuld render impracticable the object of this convention,. or that his Britannic Ma jesty should find it necessary to withdravrhis said troops, (the German Legion) from Swedish Potne. rania, the stipulation of this convention shall in no manner prevent his Britannic Majesty from giving such orders as he may judge proper tvith respect to the ulterior disposition of these troops which ate now placed under the orders of his Swedish Majesty." The Court of London has since fully justified this cnterprize, and the experience of every day justifies it. Numerous French armies remained in Lower Saxony and overawed the North. There were still nations to subjugate, ports to shut, and forces to direct against England. They were to penetrate at any rate--they would have acted in any case, and under any pre tence that might have offered. At present it is the expedition against the Danish fleet which is pie rally. ing word of the whole league. What is remarkable is, that the Danish Covens. ment, already beset by French troops, overpowered. impelled, and even paid by France, issues a declars thsn of War against Sweden, with out daring even to name the Power which forces it to act. It seeks with ertilkitrastthent grievances and reasons to appear to have had in thit determination a swill of its own. It cites the remonstrances of Sweden against the arrest of the Swedish mails as vexatious, while in its seve rity against English correspondence, it would not stiffer it to pass according to treaty, and declares that it is imperiesuly obliged to take these measures. It pre tends to know the thoughts of the King, and imagines them hostile, though for some months it had ini certed an aggression upon Sweden. It pretends to reason on the interests of the country though k has abandoned its own interests, and even its existence, to a foreign influence. In fine, it re proaches Sweden with having provided for her de fence by a subsidiary treaty, though itself is paid for an aggression—and then it pronounces. though in. deed with a kind of timidity, the Word " tbeteenary't which the Government that pays it had probably dic tated to it. It is proposed here to render to his Britannic Mas jesty the most authentic solemn testimony. that Irian leis transactions with Sweden, he never demanded of measures ; nor required any thing that was not perfectly compatible with its tranquillity and in dependence. The most convincing proof of this is the promptitude with which his Ministry acceded to the proposition of the King for the pacification of the Baltic, by a formal promise not to send thither any ships of war, but on conditions useful and honourable to all the North. Let the Danish Government read in this proposition the complete refutation of the com plaints of which the Manifesto against Sweden is composed ; and in the moments when it shall return itself, let it cothpare the state of things which the King has desired, with that which Ftunce and Russia wish. Let all the allies of France read in this consent of England the difference between the connections which unite the two Courts and those which enchain them, and let them pronounce on which side is to be' found a due regard for particular interests, and a just moderation for the general good. Denmark herself has been during a long time the object of this moderation, and did not cease to be so fill she became absolutely dangerous. When the North was outraged by the devastation of Lower Saxony, the oppression of the Hanseatic towns, what did she to avenl.,• them Sweden, England, and Russia, made war for this object ; but no one thought of forcing Denmark to take part in it. She was the Ally of Russia then, as well as at present • why did she not embrace her cause What could the then allege for her tranquillity that Sweden cannot now allege ? All this is explained by the single fact which she endeavours to conceal, that she is at present tin der the influence of the French Government. Had , England followed the. principles of this enemy, she w 01 414 DM have *Arai the moment of her surrender to sicteruilfer, she woulirtssere invaded her several yearshafete ; ''!he would have guarded her ; and all this ivith soriew to the good orthe North. '..` Her ancient alliance with Russia is made a pretext .for-thi4taggre.ssion, though all the world knows that it is merely'arfenslve,ana that it remained suspended dtiting the late vats with Russia, evian o gr ar tim p ow er mighthave claimed k. The Court kiin order to justify its proceedings, hesitates not to make all kinds of assertions I dares to defend the injustice of Russia, and betrays a premeditated plot ; and all this It does to ccacetl the chief, nay, only reason, which is. that-Denmark is she ally of France. ittjtuttice and falsehood Lind their end ; honour and truth Will ttiumph in their turn. His Majesty, telying es the jdatlee of his cause, hopes, with con. scions pride; of reigning over a brave and loyal reople, so often tried by dangers, and held up by the As /0001Y, that the some PROVIDLNICI win vouchsafe to bless bisSittfty; and restore to his subjrns a safe and honourable peace, to the confuston of his enemies, OOTTESEIVRO, MARCH 2S. A conscription of all the young unmarried mese without respect to rank, between the ages of 16 a n d 25 yeti's, throughout Sweden, - hat been ohleted to nag place ifnmediately : this It is thought will raise 150,000 mend A great number of tegitnents are thatching to the frontiers of Norway, which it is said are not to act merely on the defensive. MARCH 29,—8y the last accounts from Finland, we _find that the Swedes were retreating to Tootes. The Russian grew had been greatly augmented, some re. ports say, t4/0,000. It is said, that every additiiinat regiment that has been marched from Se. Petersburgh 10 island; "has been first mustered before the deer of Baron Stedinck, the Swedish Minieter there, in the most insulting mrnntr. MARCH 90.—This morning artived here his tri tannic Majesty's ships the Stately avid Nassau, of 64 guns each, commanded by Captains Patker and CaMpbell, having on board 500 Danish prisolie r e taken out of the Prince Christian man of war, of 7s guns, which struck to these ships on the evening of t he seed, off Zealand; she maintained a running fight of more than two hours before she struck, and after wards went on shore, *hen it becalhe necessary to set fire to and destroy her. The Stately bad 5 men killed and 47 wounded in the action, the Nastau I killed and 16 wounded. The Dane h:id 50 killed (among whom, three Lieutenants) and en. wounded. Thus is the navy of Denmark reduced to one ship of the lit e , which is said to he at Copenhagen. By advises ficfn Helsinglirgh, received to dne, we learn that as late as the `'46th instant, the French had not crossed the Belts. Amin. 4.—A privateer fi tted nut at matstrand i . sent into thisiC•porte .the day before yesterday, four* Danish iciiels, which she captuned in their passage from Norway to Jutland. The master of cne . of them has made oath before the Commandant at Merstnetd, that eight ships of the line and 24,000 troops were expected to arrive at Drentheim from the Texel. The Forward gun-brig arrived here this moreirg from Yarmouth. It is rumoured here ;hat Barott Nicolay, who was on his Journey from London to St. Petersburgh, has been arrested at Gtilslahaven, and brought back to Stockholm, where he is placed under a strong military guard • a great number of letters and the dispatches of the Russian Minister Alopeus, were, it is said, foists& upon him. Ann. 6.—lntelligence hat been received from Marstrand, that the Swedish sloop Busta, commanded by Ensign Westbeck, has taken and carried into Marstrand hethour six Danish and Norwegian vessels, Wen with iron, timber, oats, wheat, malt, and flour. Arm B.•u-The day before yesterday arrived here his Britannic Majesty's ship Dictator, of 64 guns, together with the Tartarus bomb, Salcette frigate, Daphne, &take, and Charger gurebtigs, bcc. These ships have brought a great quantity of arms and am• munition for the Swedish Government, iind a large sum of money. Last night also arrived Admiral Sir Simuel Hood, in the Centaur, with several other ships, whose names I cannot yet learn; many more lam told are gone to the Sound- These arrivals have diffused a general satisfaction here, as we now think ourselves secure froth invasion of the French and Danes. STOCKHOLM, MARCH 18. The French General of division, Grandjcan, on died, that the Swedish packets should not be mce lested on their arrival at Crosser: Ziejten, in the Isle of Rugen, but be allowed to enter that port until the nzehange of French and Swedish prisoners should have been .completed._ In spite of their solemn assu rance, two Swedish packets, which on the strength thereof Were dispatched from Istadt to Rugen, have teen detained there by the French commending (th eme and declared good and lawful prizes. On board of one of them was his Majesty's Aid-de-Camp, Ma jor Darmielt, who was sent with a flag of truce to Rugen • and, contrary to all usages of war, detain ed m itralsund under a military guard ; and, on beard the other was Major Schantz, of the artillery, who was likewise declared a prisoner of war. This conduct on the part of the French is by no means un precedented, but it ought to be recorded as an addi tional proof of the well known fact, that no reliance can be placed cn the most seiemn and most sacred promise of that peoples Majtcu 26.—Lieutenant General Baron Carpalan has made a report, dated the 19th instant, stating) that the English squadron which was frozen in near Gottenburgh, and consists of three sail of theline, two frigates, and three brigs of war, got afloat the said day, and is ready to set sail with the first fair wind and weather. APRIL 4.—His Royal Majesty has been informed by a report from Vice-Admiral Puke, Commanding Admiral in Cariscrona, of the 50th of last month, that the first division of the Swedish fleet, consisting of five sail of the line, two frigates, and four brigs of war, set sail from that port the 90th March, early In the morning, under the orders of Rear Admiral Baron Cederstrom, and on the departure of the above report, had already cleared the bar of Cerise:one. GRIPSHOLM CASTLE, MARCH 30. DULLITINi • " His Royal Majesty received yesterday two re• ports from Count Klingsper, Commander in Chief of the army in Finland, beanngdateheadoeuarters Long fen- and Nerper, not far from Fail, March the Mond 218 d. The artily continues in good order its leldieh to Uleaborg, in order to form a junction with toe eolumn of Count Cron stet, Chief of brigade. The iron. was almost daily engaged with the enemy's light troops ; but a mare considerable affair tock pate tt • der the orders of Count Sowentjclm, Adjutant eiene ral, and of Colottel Gripenbcrg, Chief of Brigade, in which bis Majesty's troops, with the utmost gal/ont7 withstood the attack of the enemy, far supeeip :a PRICE OF STO Svck itast pat 3 per Cot. Red. Amu fir,4l 3iper Cat. Cont. 410 Cee t • 1121 831 Accounts from Bari were received in town SAO had returned tc been received there a giving assurances differences betweenof I the causes which ha tetuperate discussion said to be that of thi avowed a firm date Union in the event 0.1 and throw themselves The Statira frigate I vessel was dispatcher formation of Mr. R e:ng engaged h. th Since our last, fiv from which we hav ceding columns. The First Divisi liooo is arrived in of which the . Dictat and smaller ships tivation ; and thos and other men of constitute a fermi which has diffuses Swedes, who noN threatened invasi( The remaining relates principall3 enemies, and on our gallaat ally Russian army h and the Swedes Bat this appears the mind of the force of his don eludes all men c t 5 years of age that 150,000 In is marching tol sumo are to be forcements hay land to Norwa The Reply Declaration, observed by t words. Dispatches rety from RA on board his Bras Roads, that he was hundred trot Java, with i squadron, tl stye[. Tht which is on the port of ( PELLEW wa try and exi be left undo the gallant diately aft( ip, reserve the enterpr speculation appears a Dispatc rniralty fi the morn French sc' close in s lery. TI ble,and el siderable ITnfortun tide, and total des Dispai miralty, station, ( 'em of s; Gary. Gore • that the are prvi twelve anent, ;casus'n - * c 1 i covered the ret consfea'sway all them CoatCronsted, Chic Is s late, Alipitka an Mar 16th, and 18thc ccettinand, he Is co rn olitiegood order purse ursu engagemDerr , ot b, sear Lippawirta, ai vrluch, on both sic • soise time , without vie ble notwithstanclin souber, to make any s ec tigotiottomopvy they were, c TIIF, "EVE; Lo MONDA *Oita MeNeAT.—Hotids