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Ihnll. Estea.t /roes The Madras Comment Gazette. hmsuy 22, 1807. The ship James Dresivemat. Captain Johnstrup and brig Jyiia. Captain kfienhars. ha►e arri►ed at Tranquebar frost the Isle of France, after a very es. pedits.m, passage. By this conveyance the follow. ins intelligence has been received: Thv asiminvere frigate was in port; the Sessi!lastte, and Patimeatese, with two privateers, remained at Sea, hit the prizes they had made, to the number thirteen, had evaded the vigilance of the British ;raisers, and had got into Port. T.ie Ja.les I)rerx mood was sold for 11.000 dollars. Fhe coasting tradz of the French !shads ht.' been seriowly interrupted by the Brit;sh Cru;s:rs, and the distress of the inhabitants in the article of rice proportion ttely great. but eery large supplies of beef and A , ur had h-ei !rte! by Am-rican ships, siatytbree of which, outward bound, bad ar. rived At the Mauritius within , hirt7• days. Tie markets of the Ida of France for Indian goods want very unfavourable for all articles but ID. dips, which was in considersbk demand. BALTIC hIPBDITIO.Y. • We have received several letters from Officers in Admiral Gambier's fleet. The f . 's:lowing is dated Copenhagen /toads. August 20, 1807 s-- " An opportunity offering to send letters to fog land, I cannot omit acquainting you how we are going on_here, as I suppose you are all anxious to bear the rerult of the Expe.'irion, which has for some time past occasioned so many conjeaures s we ar rived here wit* our fl..et on the 14:h inst. and next morning land ,e 1 the army, consis , ing of about 15,000 mien. about acs miles from ( 7 . penhagen. without ',- position. the Danish army baring retired into the town. They are supposed to consist of 7or 800 u regulars, and about 1e.,000 militia, but there are va eimasreporteon the sohjea, and in short on every other circumstance conneaed with it. 1 believe, it livery certain, that they are determined to resist us to the utmost of their power, and as the town is said to be strongly fortified, if they continue in the same Innd, ft it probable our objea will be attended with some diakulty, and it will take a length of time to reduce openhagen. From the sea, it has ail the appear enCe Of great strength, particularly the Crown Bat teries. which are situated upon small islands, about theleefoorths of a mile from the town; and appear to he eroded fee the purpose of defending the en trance of the h abase, where the men of war are laid up, which are plainly to be seen from the ship, with only their lower masts in. There are also se• werel large hulks anchored a: different parts round the town, and the whole shore seems, from the firing we Irequendy me, covered will small batteries, fitted up with very heavy artillery, as are likewise the hulks. They have also a great number of gun-boat;, which frequently come out and amuse us with * little cannonading, but they have yet done us no injury. The Getman Legion, from Rogen, landed its Kioge Bay, and are at preseut with our army. They are about 7000 strong. " We arc busily employed in getting on shore horses, artillery, and other stores, which I hope will be all on shore in a very slur t time. The army had advanced very near the town, and are prepar ing to besiege it ; there has been some skirmishing, but with little Ins. on our side, and not very great nn theirs. We observed a heavy firing early this to :r I:hg on shore, and a report has jut leached ti,ar the Danes made a sortie with 4000 men, but were driven bask into the town with consider able Jon, and with hide on clues. " The Crown Primes came from Holst:7n just be fore we landed, and took the King with Lim there. The Princesses are also gone there. The head (planers of General BurrarJ are at present in one of the King's palates, called Frcierick.berg, a'sout three or tour lades from Copenhagen." Aii•lther letter states, else Lrulk, mentioned in the above officer', letter, to be the tirpiamier, l'ensare, theisoisa Carolina, and Morin block chips, and the Sr. Tnsur trigate. There are higa.:c in the ha:. Lour of Copenhagen the Ife,er, Sthv , 4t:ler, L,y,der ream, iteromp, and three other bombs ; and :::•fteen goo-vessels. Oa Tueiday morning arrived at Lei h, the "feeler, Wilson, from St. Peter.hurgh. The Cytai.i r •;.efts, that he left Ei:ineur on the morniug, et in.: t. hof August, at eleven o'clock, wit% au out 13.; s,il of 1:11p4 (or London, Hull, Liverpool, and : - 'ciniand. ut,dar convoy of the e Willis a; parted tile night after they sailed; thinks they have g in' ; otten irgh, :Ind it stay be sin; days !Mort they arrive. The Danish D-vernment were presli:l7 ev-ry able to carry arms in the Island•et Z •A!,111,i ; %.c:c nmuntins cannon in all puts, and t'.ry wet e detro mined to defend Cher Wendt aver a bridge and was drowned ; and it was said that Gen. Benaigsen had gone to EttgLutd. The Captain further states, that on tbo 20th oft. .when off the Mae of Norway, he was spoken to by a British line-of-battle ship, that boarded a schooner belongi ng t o Berwick, in company with the Aaiste; and the Captain of the schooner informed C..prain Wilson he had been told by the Officers of the man of war, that they were to proceed into Christi4nsand neat morning, to cut out a Danish 74 lying there. mita., scerastara 5. A letter from a N.m-commissioned Officer of the 7th or English Fusileers, which lately embarked at this port, to his wife at this place, dated Aug. 21st, sacs : " Afser having been three days at anchor be calmed, about eight or nine rules from Elsineur, we got a breeze this cam cling, and passed the Castle be tween nine and ten o'cl ick. They never fired a shot at us; we ran close under the Swedish land, about halt a mile from shore. We are making the best of our way to Copenhagen, from which we are dinant ten or twelve miles, and have the grand fleet in view. Fourteen thousand of our troops have landed on the right of Copenhagen, and 14,000 on the left. The fleet is lying abreast of Copenhagen, ready (or a breeze to take them in. It is expthed they will blow Copenhagen up, if the inhabitants do not surrender to the British army and navy. Ten thousand French troops have landed in Sweden, and the Swedes have , slain 3000, and taken 2000 prisoners." The Ruing Star. Smith, arrived here this morn ing from Longiound, in Norway, which place he left on the 19th ult. On the 17th, his vessel was detained by the Officers of the Customs, but set at liberty on the evening of the 18th. Capt. Smith was advised by his merchant at Longsound not on any account to put into a pert of Norway in his passage. A letter received here this morning from an Officer of His Majesty's ship Franeki,e, dated on the *Oth instant, off Nyberg. in the Island of Funen, states, that the rear squadron of the fleet, under the command of Commodore Keats, was then stationed in the Great Belt, to prevent the Danes from send ing reinforcements to the Island of Zealand. The soh abitants had fortified the coast. au d lined it with troops; and would infer no communication with the shore. Boats trots the British ships rowed guard every night from nine "clock until the same hour in the morning. Twn or three Danish vessels have been stepped at this port. A letter received this Jay by a respectable mer cantile house in this town states, is that a quantity of Delilah manufactured goods, recently landed at Ton ningen by a neutral vessel, had been seized there by order of the Danish Government." A sloop cutter arrived in Bridlington Bay on Monday, to Water, having landed dispatches for Go vernment at Scarborough on the preceding day. The master of this vessel had been employed in laying down buoys in the inner road of Copenhagen, for the guidance of our fleet in making an attack upon that place. He states that our troops were landed on the 16th ult. between Elsineur end Copenhagen ; on the same day he sailed for England, and was fired at by the castle of Elsineur in passing. In the course of that evening and the next day, be beard a very heavy firing in the direelion of Copenhagen, to which place our fleet had all gone from Elsineur roads. The Danish boats had taken and burned an English transport. On her passage the sloop had captured two Danish vessels, one from Bourdeaux with wine, and the other from the West Indies." THE .BRITISH PRESS. LO N DON, TUESDAY, Serramsait 8. The wind has been for some days unfavourable for arrivals from the Baltic, yet the town abounded yesterday with reports of the receipt of private Let ters and Pa peas, with intelligence from that (ratter. It was confidently stated, that Dutch Papers to the 2dth last had been received, containing an account of the surrender of Copenhagen, with twenty-two sail of the line, on the 24th s and it was added, that letters were received from Gluckstadt, of so late a date as Friday last, to the same eWe& G!uck stadt is a sea-port town in Holstein, and. from its situation on the Elbe, about twenty-eight miles northwest of Hamburgh, as likely a place as any from which to receive the earliest intelligence open this subject. Other private accounts were said to state the surrender of Copenhagen on the 25th, and others on the 26th. The letters from Hamburgh to the 28th. howe►er, do not notice it. These accounts were strongly canvassed in the city ; and the principal circumstance which they communicated, was cre• diced by some, and discredited' by others, with va -if confidence. Government give no reports of the sui render of Copenhagen. eived no intelligence upon the suhjeet \Jeer se state of the wind. some J4lll named to deters,' thems: ves to the l es t. M ...cm es) some, . t . % four rious degrees of weeks agn seas at S:. Peet •' , urgh , s tL.At credit to thetepi two days before he left tilt tlan, a Russi4n General, ('hey have receis that I.aJ been bribed by an:. tp4rze, bad darn% 4s(l, from the a, • may elapse without farther dispatches from Mani. ral Carona. In this absence of new and offi.ial intelligence, we have copied some *rate letters re. mired from officers in the Expedition, which, thougt not of a later date than the accounts in Tee Goa e.te of Saturday, contain some interesting !.eels. It i said, indeed, that a letter has been reseived, dare.; the 24th, which is one day later than any that we have seen, which states, that on that day every thing remained quiet ; but that they were appre. bemire the Danes were by no mein' idle in their preparations for a defence. which there was reason to tear would be strenuous and bloody, owing to the Iling time that had been allowed to elapse be. fore the attack. It thus appears, that another day had passed wiThout producing any occurrence of moment. We mentioned, in a former paper, that Govern ment had ordered a supply of ordnance stores equal to that seat with the force to the Baltic. A great number of transports are also fitting out at the sea ports for an expedition, said to be in the contempla tion of Government. Three fine vessels of this de. scription sailed on Saturday from Plymouth for Put mouth. The Savnge sloop of war. with the fleet for the West India, sailed from Cork on the 30th ult. Orders have been issued to fit out the Namur, of 74 gOO% at Cha.liam, with all possible dispatch, to relieve the Za l / 2 06", at the Nor.; the latter, it is supposeJ, will be immediately fitted out for a prison ship. the Earl of CUATH•III left town. on Sunday night, for Colchester, to take the command of the troops stationed in that place, and within the sur rounding dish id. Yesterday the packets by the as India fleet were opened at the East India House, by which we have received the following shipping intelligence: The U'eioe, Captain MACIN SUM. and the Ma tilda, country ship, arrived at Madras the 11th March. The following ships, outwar 1-bound. had arrived, on the 22d March, in lat. 16 N. long. ti 7 W. Qat* Eden, Captain Calomel . ; Cumberland, Ferret; TV le Briton, Mike; Scaleby Castle, Loch; Nottingham. CAM* bell; 'animal], Is, eh; Ile ~y Addington, Kirkpatrick emus, We!beilit ; and Admiral Gaidner, Easttild. The Lord Dwiraa, BE ADVORIS ; Ca, If Leads, YATES; Metcalfe, Isacza ; and Bering. CASIGIGIE, outward-bound, were spoke with the 21st May, off the Cape of Good Hope—all well. The Plarthwalieflaad, Raiscoca, arrived at the Cape of Gond Hope the I.t of June, and was to sail for St. Helena the 10th. When the last accounts came away from the Caps of Good Hope. the garrison was in perleft health. Lord Mimeo had arrived there on his way to India. Lord Letts is arrived in town from India. The East-India Fleet have brought home the crew of the Honourable Company's fate ship Gmezes. which Lately foundered at sea on her passage to ku. rope. A letter from C or k, d ated August 31. " Two Danish and one Russian ship have arrived in this harbour from the Baltic. They report. that strong preparations for determined resistance were making at Copenhagen. and that the Russian Fleet, at Cronstadt. were equipping with the utmost expe dition. Orders have been issued by Admiral Wet mato to stop all Danish vessels ; the above ships have been seized its consequence of this order." • The General ltleblenjfle, imitation, from St. Croix, for Copenhagen, is put into Bermuda leaky, having been on shore. The Ohl, Breach, Stocks, from New Provi deoce, for St. Domingo, is captured and carried into Bartaeoa. A letter from Greenock says, " On the 2d inst. the ship Ha•a►sne, Captain Ssi iris. (late Art Lace). arrived in this port from the South Seas, last from Rio de Janeiro, which port she left the 30th of June last. This ship belongs to Messrs. W*LTaa RIT. cam and Sons, of this town, whose enterprise is highly commendable, as we believe she is the first ship that went from Szotland on this distant voyage; and it is remarkable, though her crew con sisted of above eighty, and that she was ont nearly two years, she did not lose any of them by sickness. While the Harmony lay at Rio de Janeiro. His MA. J esr v's ship Beale, Captain Houston, arrived there for refreshments, on her way from New South Wales to England. Glvernor SI No and suite were on board the firsti:de, which would sail fur England in a month alter the Harmony." Mjor.General the Marquis of HUNT r.EY goes out to Sicily in the bapc , ieferc frigate, C , ptain Lord Conn a *He, under orders for the Mediterranean. General WILLIAM ItOWI ty, Colonel ot a batta lion of the tiOth ReOment, and youngest soli of the Ire Sir WILLIAM ItOWLev, died lately at his house, On Saturday the Right Hon. Earl Firzwr t %JAM arrived at Hull to join his regiment, the First W.,. York Militia, of which his Lordship is Colonel. On Monday 11;s Lordship inspeeted the regimen t , in French's Gardens; and afterwards addressed Oem in a short speech, in %shish he alluded to the recent Ad of Parliament for allowing the Mlli‘ia to v,,iun tear into the line. He complimented them as being one of the first corps of that species of Circe in the kingdom, a:id expressed the regret lie should feel at parting with any man among them ; but that in case any of them wished to volunteer, he should be sorry to throw any impediment in their way, or to interfere with the operations of an at of the Legir latule. After his Lordship had concluslad, he or. dered the men sixpence each to drink. It is selsd,m th..t a subjea of novelty ever excites so great an attention, or becomes so rapidly a theme of general conversation, as that of the recently. announced New Lottery Plan. What is more to its credit, it will richly bear to be talked of s pre seining a double interest, from two Schemes, for one And the same Adeenture, is undoubtedly an im provement of a very attraaive and striking deserip ticru. , •.' • '• r C . * ' 4• ••iipd_aw, s _ . i dIP •••111 %, ~......, 3C iRBOROUGN• acre. 4. __....._._,.... . ins place is literally overflowing ; eye '.I • ATI , of Tweedale. Calonel Beaurnont. an.l ~ v„,i families of dicinetion, have bren ()bilged .or..rlr.*! for want of l o d g i ngs. The Duchess of P i slit ik, continues to lead th e f as hi on. and give lite tirete, place of am usement. The Ball of the Masters: i. Ceremonies, unJor her Grace's patrooags, was ri,: terday evening very we ll attended. A chan ge conspany is expedted next week, but the teams pro 'nisei to contin ue very excellent. The last arri ve: are: The 1 1 14 , r Noble Cie Malois of Harlington, Mr rhv... kw k slit ficituaralile Lod 11...idalhatie, Si, Mcb,.. Lady Cnelmet e y, M r. sod Mi., liarri., n . H i . Nt,,c ~ lest, Geis. StAvaley, M r . ari d Mrs. Mald`e•an, Mi.. , 4 . Mr. 'ad Mrs. Saila,'" Mr. a" hi"' T r' "ii and la . ~ \ • Mrs. aid Mi . .s Bell, Colonel and Mrr. (.% ar .41. ..1r..V.1t , eel, Mini Whitwell, Miss Richards, M r . y. ;i4.r...,. ~.. hilly, Mr G T. Richardson, Mrs. C 4110.4 and :: , ..M.... . woods, Mr. T K....1t5. Mrs. C. Atka:sort, Mi. 1\ :,.. Adra Hardostle, Mr. and Mr.. W. Ilut:on, the NI, , !1 . , .... Mr. John Hutson, Mr and Mrs. peony kfutt..n, ‘.:,. L. : ‘: ' ..--... Hutton, Mr. Ilawkiiii, Mr. Duncomhe, L..,,. ;,;1,, ~.., Dunco.i.be and family, Lady Poulit, Miss S.iciwe,. Mi.. Spencer, Mr. and Mn, Cuolslr. Mr. Dar. M , a - ... 1 M.,, v v. . k 14,1011, Mn. Nl4elrbUrri, Miss Bicker, Mr. P . •.2r . Mr. S. lc , ,s, Mr. W.lrley, Mr Massey, M... ri,....4! , m !' Airliner., Mr. Mr.. - and Mini Gutts, Mrs Ah!),ir, M. %I ton, Mr. T. Atkinson, Mr. Hamiiston. Mr. l'riare, Mr. 'Sep. per, Mr. and Mrs. Knappe, Sir Welowv, m t . 1it, ; ,. ; Mr. Stover, Mr. Roper, jim. Mr. Airs. and Mir. Ak.lr !:„, Dr. Preece, M r . and Mrs Ren.arl, Mr. Mizzleisr...r. , %!. Hill, Mr. and Mr.. 110.44, Mr. Tagar, Mr. Gime?, M• 5., 2 . lord, Mr. Ktry, Mr. Walton, Mr. urn ;.. .,, Mr yef e ,, r m. Dawson, mr. N.giningare, Mr. Slic:,lierd, M. 1i,.. 4 and Mi .. Duolop, Mn. gel Mr.. Barrier, Mr. F.3., , ,e, \!, and MA. Snowden, hter COIMCk, Mr sad 'ors. Th , ..n: , ,i And family, Mr. Mrs. and Mi. Strafford, Capesa 4.. d %i .. Gardiner, Mr. Lti:er, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. a.nl M r . M„„,. ley. M. Rlal,, Mr a nd Sirs. C.ckshut, M r . M. ..n. td ...i.ober„ Mrl.. Gni.de, Mr. a..dermau and Mrs S.,rb 5 , ., and Mrs. Li.t.s, Mr .14.. Barber, Mr. Web..., Mr p, . r , . Mr. Mrs. and Miss D.c4in.on, Mrs. Steven., M r , ch en ..,., , Ms. Neville, Mr. 11... l ile,ion, &c. Itc. &c. Their MAJCSTIRS and the Pa isensts did honour Windsor Teri ice with their compar.7 Sunday evening, to the disappointment of a t: - merous assemblage of Fashionables. The CM : I their not walking is supposed to be on account the coldness of the evening; and it is doubtful if they will walk again this season. The Bands of t. e Staffordshire Regiment and Oxford Blues rem.ii:lea playing as usual. For the benefit of Mr. CR•TTRR Lay. last ntet, MU. Moots was to play Mrs.' Haller. and %me, in Tektls, arts Mr. CNA rTSRLIT Tao Nialer, .L Windsor 'Theatre. His Royal Highness the Duke of CI. Alltllet went, on Sunday, to Marlow, to see his eldest son, ' Master Fi Tie AAAAA CV. Mr. Et.cisrom plsys Ilk:ander tit Greet and trivestet Daggeroood. at the Liverpool Theatre, for his own benefit, to-naorrow night.—Mrs. Gcnirrs played on M 'nday Deratatma ; to-morrow is an nounced for Reputes Thursday, Led, /*homer Ir we,; and, on Friday, Lay Rodelpha Lasaierrord, to Mr. GR A P I T ' S Sir Prnisar Abareep4a9r, for the be. of Mr. BARRY stoic. A more opposite cast of parts. we believe, has seldom been filled by any lady. _ _ _ Lord Mimosas's will give a grand dinner on the 23th instant, to a large party of rank and fashion, including his Royal Highness the Duke of Yolk. The Earl and Countess of DA RNLI's , arrived yes terday at their house in Berkeley—nuare, fr om .Cobham, and will go to Eton this day tur their two sons and return to Cobham. Mr. POPS 'S Rendt rook place at Cork on Monday sennight. The rerformances were Levee: rem, very appropri itely followed by Mat , iirsoisy. On Friday Mrs. Powato and Mr. fors were to take leave in Adeigitha, and Mr..l. JOHNSTON', in SOON of his favourite planzrys. Adrsai and Orrila. and Tekeli, were to be per formed at Swansea Theatre, for Mr. Caesar's be n( fit, hut nisht. Colorael TIMOINTON has now in town three coup!• of most beautiful hounds, intended as a present re. the King of HOLLAND. Preparations are twain for their departure, whick will take place in about a fortnight. Fhey are to be accompanied by a GeNtlemao, who is to present them to His hi AJILST Mrs. MOUNTAIN has announced her intention of being at Leeds. on Friday next, to give her enter tainment of To Tea:rata or, ihe Ueesperta Mertimg._ On Wednesday, Earl Fr tswi AM gave a din ner at the Neptune Inn, I lull, to Major-General Ismasrom ; the Of f icers of the West York Miliiit ; a few other of the Offi:ers stationed at Hull ; ar.l three or lour gentlemen of the town and neighbour hood. A very elegant d:ssert succeeded ; and sr. the course of the day many loyal and Colll:itUtit.• si toasts were drank. On Thursday morning Isis ship set out for Doncaster, where, we vmlersta! - ../.. he was to give a dinner to the Corporation of town and th- nei6hbouring gentlemen. Blair Adam, in Scotland, the SW of WILLI M ADAM, M. P. was last week s:i festivity. Their Graces tie Ds 'tit' and I.lu:'lt • Bsorwto. ford John ar.d a sele:l f` • of the friends i 4 AoA:t no ••• and diJ net pars until the .y• i..li.;tvor.. There WAS a ball every night. by the Ditches of BaDYMID Mr. At. her Grace was always passionate;; I r..,1 in which accomplishment she ex:els. Toe mu, : (which was under the diredlion of Mr. Goal o s excellent. On Wednesday last. Sir IA arts C•entesa gavl a sumptuous diiiner to a large party ct friends, at bit venerable mansion of Roche Court, near FAIL.. ham, Haws. where the unbounded hospitali , s, strongly reminded us of former times. cc mist hawk,- prevailed at the festive baud; and in the evening Sir J•usa's ties:tut and acco.T.- phshed bride presided at a ball and elegant sup; et. where the must refined taste was eminently played. The tenants snd work people of the w , -- city Baronet were at the same vine regaled in t' s great hall. Among many loyal and approrri :s toasts. we particularly noticed the vine " that R. C.outt might never want a Canonize." T~