The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1805-07-27 00:00:00

r -- THE BRITISH PRESS. .ON DON, SATURDAY. Jut LORD NELSON end to, CoMBINLD FLEET. The AueVend Pgeket, with a mail from Lisbon, from which place she sailed on the 12th, arrived on Tuesday at Fa!mouth. The illastt,:gtaln packet also arrived on the same day, although she did not leave Lisbon until the 14th. The mails were de tained at Falmouth until they should have under gone the usual preventive process against ittfeetious disease, but they are expelled in town this day. Im. rueliately after the arrival of the Auckland, a mes. aenger was sent offexpress, with dispatches, contain in+,• a letter to Government fiom the BRITISH CON svi at Lisbon. Shortly after his arrival in town yesterday, the following interesting bulletin was sent from the Admiralty to the other Public Offi ces, and to LLOYD'S Coffee House : " Admiralty, July 26. " His ltLitesty's ship Decade arrived in the Tagus on the !oth instant with letters from Lord N:lsgri, dated at sea the v.ith June. His Lordship, with the squadron under his cont. mend, rinalnding the Soaniate), was on the 19th in Lat. 27, N. Um( 60 We , t. " The enemy's fleet had unfortunately fallen in with, end captured seve-al shins of a convoy from Antigua, the day after tt sailed, which was on the 7th of June, of which Lurd Nelson was appr,,ed. " The number captured is supposed to be thirteen er fourteen sail, under convoy of Hit Majesty's ships Nutley and Barba does ^ We understand our Cot:sues letter, which is dated the 12th, farther states, that Lord NELSON, after landing at Antigua the 2,000 troops, which .he took on board at Barbadoes, sailed from Anti gua on the 13th of Jane, at noon, in pursuit of the Combined Fleet, which he conceived to be steering dirett to the Streights of Gibraltar, in hopes of be te_ ing able to effeEt their retreat to Cadiz or Toulon. ' Us Lordship accordingly dispatched the Decade, of 35 gni*. Captain Rutstetivotto, to Lisbon, as a . 41 . convenient point from which the intelligence might i be expeditiously communicated to our blockading 4 11 fleets, as well north as south of Lisbon. His Lord ship also dispatched on the same day, the Martin sloop of war, of IS guns. Captain SAVAGE, to Gib ' taltar. to apprise Sir RIEMAN° Bickerton of the probable return of the Combined Fleet into the Mediterranean, and of his progress in pursuit of them. On the arrival of the Decade at Lisbon, our Cossve hired a lugger, and sent her off on the '13.11 with the news to Admiral COTTON off Ferrol. The Wind was W. S. West, fair and strong, and therefore the lugger probably reached her destina tion in good time. We understand, that to make assurance double sure, he also sent off a vessel with the intelligence to Ceuie and Gibraltar. Captain ReTNERTORD, of the Decade, farther stated, that prior to his departure from Lord NLLSON, one of the frigates belonging to the Reet fell in with an American vessel on the 17th of June, which gave his Lordship intelligence of the enemy. The Decudr having executed her mission to Lisbon, sailed again on the 12th in the direelion of Cape St. Vincent, in expeetation of rejoining the fleet. The reader will observe, that the above official notice form the Admiralty only brings dOwn the account from Lord NILSON to the 15th of June, whereas the Dreads , did not part from his Lordship until the 19th. This is not extraordinary ; the na tural inference being, that his Lordship met with nothing to communicate in the interval of any im portance. 'there is little Joule, however, hut that his intelligence to Government comes down to the very' day of the departine of the Decade. In fad. we have heard, that there is a letter from his Lord• ship, of the date the I Sth, in which he says, he shall soon return to England, in case the Combined Fleet shall succeed in effenieg their escape. This is indeed only what we might expea. His Lordship has had a long and severe cruise. After such a ei.eitieetcd exertion, su,:h a stretch of unwinking vigilance and anxio!:c stispener, a more vigorous constitution would require some recreation and re pose. Such is the information brought to Europe by the Decade. We consider it, upon the whole, big'dy favourable, and well calculated to encourage the sanguine expeaation so generally entertained, that Lord NEI SON has been able to overtake the enemy. '1 he Carif re left his Lordship on the 1 2th of June at Antigua, proposing to land the Batbadoes troops there, and resume the pursuit of the enemy, and by following his Lordship's dire lions, she afterwards passed the enemy nn tie 2Oth in lat. 32. I L. long. sd. It appears now from the report of the Decade, that his Lordship was not delayed by any accident at Antigua I that he left it the very next day. the lath, ad pursued tie enemy in the right track, having '~. e winds, the liability to be Misled by false reportss and that a king fleet leaves no trace of it in the war-rs to dired the pursuer, it is a most satisfadory circumstance that the expe&stion held out by the Curios: has been adually accomplished. Of the adual distance of Lord NELSON from the enemy on the 19th, it is impossible, upon the date which we have, to form an estimate that can he relied upon as corred, or nearly approaching the truth. It appears from the pies ious statement, that Lord NELsos was left by the Lhc, , de, on the I .Ith, two degrees to the west, and six degrees to the south of the point in which the Combined Fleet were recut , - noitred by the Curieux on the 20th. His Lordship steered due north from tile time he left Antigua, and it is probable he did not materially vary his course the next day. He could not, therefore, be considered as much less than six degrees or 150 leagues distant from the Combined Fleet on the I morning of the 20th. Now Lord NELSON'S place on the 19th is more than two-thirds of the whole distance from Antigua to the point in which the Combined Fleet were seen on the 20th. and the latter pas' d Antigua on the Bth, while Lord N EL son did nut leave it until the 13th. Supposing then each fleet to have sailed with an uniform velocity re spedively, it will be found, that his Lordship passed over as great a space in six days as the enemy ac complished in nine. If then we allow his Lordship to have been between two and three days sail of the place in which the enemy were seen on the 4 20th, and supposing the enemy to hold on their course at the same rate ; Lord NELSON, gaining upon them by one day in every three, could not by any possibility have overtaken them until the 25th or 26th of June. This is indeed a very rough calcula tion, but it may serve to restrain the impatience of those who, not considering the very quick passage of the Curieur, and the great distance of Lord NelsoN behind the enemy on the 12th of June, indulge in fears and apprehensions, and anti cipate the escape of the enemy, because we have not long since received an official aCCOUTt of their defeat. Such expedations are extravagant and childish. They are, however, very pardonable ; for, what is there so difficult and glorious to atchieve, that we have not been taught to expect from a British fleet, commanded by Lord Nat.- son? It is far from our wish to encourage the too sannuine hopes of those wh• relied so muds upon the slow sailing of the enemy in their speculations upon the chance of their being speedily overtaken. Exclusive, however, of the rapid rate in which Lord NeLsors appears to have been nearing them, and of the sound ness of the intelligence upon which he has grounded his opinion of their being upon their return to Europe, the circumstance of his Lordship holding a more westerly course than the enemy is at once worthy of his judgment, and peculiarly fa vourable to his fortune. Either the enemy are upon their return to Europe, every accessible port of which, unless indeed an English port, is blockaded against them, or they proposed to seek shelter in an American harbour, or to double back upon the West Indies, and return to Martinique, where, if such was their intention, considering their sickly state and their cowardice, might be truly said of them : . 4 Aid, u an hart whom hounds and !tomb pursue, .' Pants to the place front whence at first she Clew, " I still had hopes, my long vexations past, " Here to return—and die at none at Latt.**-- Whichever of these may have been the objea of the enemy, Lord NSASON'S course was chosen to meet and defeat them all. If they were returning to Eu rope he was in the right track, and gaining upon them at the rate of twelve hours in every thirty-►ix. If they were bound for the Chesapeak, or meant to double back upon the West Indies, he was on the very line in which they would be most liable to fall in with our fleet. We shall nut dwell longer upon this subjea, than merely to observe, that the Com teas, which left the Combined Fleet on the 20th, in long. 58. arrived at Falmouth on the 7th July ; and that ' the Decade, what parted Lord Nri.sote, in long. Go. About two degrees more remote, on the I;yth, arrived at Lisbon, on the 10th. The distance to Lisbou is much shorter than the voyage of the Canter to Falmouth ; and, therefore, if we suppose Lord Nat.. sots not to have overtaken the enemy until the '2sth or 2 , ith, it will be found, supposing his account of the result to come with the same rapidity as the Decade, we had no tight to expect its arrival in London until about the present time. A Telegraphic dispatch yesterday announced the arrival of the homeward bound East India fleet off the hie of Wight. The Champion, of 20 guns, Captain liaout LT. arrive) on Thursday, in the Downs, much damaged in -air anion which, in company with the Gi..l,r she %p , ! i i 1 1 i , i t 4 li 1 . ! ,a, p .., i , . , r„, , , 1 : ) I • reaelled, on the 19th, lat. 27, long. 60. It may be And Grader gun-brigs, and Franrss cutter, she sus- said that the intelligence brought by the Cat ieur t.inzJ, a tew days since, between Dieppe and Doti- gAve us a tiert to eapeZt this ; but, when we cern- I , igne, with foul teen or fifteen of the enemy's large tide' the rails of the sea, the uncertainty of the s praAms and gun-wessets, that were %working their • I ~~. way, close in shore, towards the latter harbour. The engagement was a very warm one, as our cruisers, to attack the enemy's craft with any effJ, are of necessity drawn within the range of the nu merous batteries that line the coast, and are exposed to a dreadful fire. The flotilla was driven back with considerable loss, but not without some on our part. The Chapiefriair had two men killed and :e -1 veral wounded. The Imo has captured the Throw/rite, French privateer, of It; guns and 90 men, and carried her into Cork. She took her in lat. 48. long. 14 west. The Hiroo&Pe had taken in her last cruise the Queen Charlotte packet, after an Attion of an hour and 20 minutes. We have received New York Papers to the tBth last. They state that the French fleet sailed from Martinique to Guadaloupe, and remained there a few days before it put to sea again, and proceeded, as was supposed, for Antigua. Apprehensions arc entertained that the Arabelta packet, which carried out the Leeward Island Mails, has been taken by the French and carried into Mar► ... The Prince of Wales packet, with a Mail from Falmouth, arrived at Lisbon the 21st of June. The Auckland packet, arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon, on the 19th inst. in bit. .50 deg. lung. 35. saw a large fleet of ships of war, and spoke the Ajax man of war, and was informed, that they consisted of 15 sail of the line, two frigates, one lugger, and a cutter; they were standing to the S.W. N.B.—Supposed to be the Channel Fleet. The American ship Clerics, —, from Amster dam, for Boston, is d.tained and sent into Dover. Positive information bad been received at Lisbon, that the Carthagena Fleet, which had made two or three short cruises, had finally sailed on the 25th of June, and that Sir R. BICKIR TON, who had re ceived an account of their sailing, had passed the Streights in hopes of meeting them. Letters have been received by the Naiad frigate from Sir ROBERT CALDEI. whom she left with I 1 sail of the line off Ferrol. all well. A letter from Penzance, dated July 23. says— i4 You may soon expeetto receive important intelli gence ; but I am not able to state what. . The people belonging to a boat which arrived yesterday at a fishing-town near this, from Scilly, state, that they spoke a ship of war (size not men tioned) off the Land's End, which was under a heavy press of sail ; the officers on board declared to the men, that they had great and good newt for Great Britain, but he would not state the particu lars." The West India Convoy now at Spithead is to wait the arrival of 23 vessels from the River. This fleet, as the request of the Merchants, is to call at Madeira. We have authority to state that Colonel D. G Baown, has not resigned his command in the S. Mayo regiment. as stated in the Duliin Gezette; some mistake seems to have originated in the laser tion.—(Ceek ihraing Ch►onicle.J It is with satisfaCtion we have to notice the ap pointment of Brigade Major M•Nlanort, to the si tuation of Assistant Adjutant General to this Dis trill, vacant since the removal of Lieutenant Cul. BeeKWITHO—(Ib.) Monday, the last division of the Queen's German regiment marched out of Cork on their route to Newcastle. The Mansion on the south side of the Treasury Garden, in St. James's Park, which was splendidly fitted up at the expence of the East India Com pany, as a residence for Lord Msnyts.ne, a short time before he quitted the Board of Control, but declined by his Lordship, seems to be still unoccupied. Perhaps were the offer made to the present Indian Minister, Lord CASTLEREAGH, it would not be refused, especially, as the entrance from Downing-street is within a door or two of his new of :ice of Secretary for the War Department! The improvements in Old Palace Yard. under the late AO, are already begun. On the East side, one end of the Coffee-house, on the left of the principal entrance to the House of Lords, and which not long since had been neatly fitted up, is taken down; and the workmen are ptoceedilig to demolish those very ancient and unsightly buildings. of which the old noted chop-house, the Ship, forms a part. It is proposed to creel a uni form range of buildings, parallel with the Court of Requests (the present House of Lords), which are to contain suitable apartments for the Loan Csi AA. CELLOR, an office for the CNA lalal AN of the Co H. MITTICS. and other accommodations: improve menu greatly wanted. and which proceed chiefly from the laudable attentions of Lord Ave CLAN D. In consequence of the distressed state of the funds of the Devon and Exeter Hospital. the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Privates of the Exeter Regiment of Volunteers, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel WRIOHT and of the Tiverton Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonri Sir JO/1N Duni es, Bart. have generously subtcribed one day's pay towards the support of that most ex cellent charity. We hear that Dr. J . . is engaged in coiled ing reports from the different States of Elusive, and from many of the other quarters of the globe, re. speCtiug the effects of Vaccine Inoculation on the rnortaisty occasioned hr the Small Pox. In several of the far gest cities on the Continent, we are inform ed that lie has already received the pleasing intelli gence of the Small Pox being either nearly or totally subdued. Among them is Vienna. But how me lancholy it the terse Lion, that while the great And populous city of Vienna, which for tone immemo rial hail been subjefted to the incessant savages of the Small Pox, exhibited two deaths only by that disease in the year 1804, the city of London should even at this moment have to depinre the untimely fate of near fifty persona weekly trey this horrid pes tilence; a pestilence which. it is rosy:Qtrs. front this and other similar examples, might not only he speedily banished front the metropolis, but from every part of the British Empire. wirtimmu ROTA!. F I ',tr. WEYMOUTH, JDI V el. Last night the ROYAL FAMILY honoured Theatre with their presence to see the Com e d y The Rival*. The performers exerted themselee t , and every part was extremely well supp.ated ; hu t MAJESTY appeared highly amused v ith the per. formance of Mrs. N Y LOA, in Met. .11a4,prep. The entertainment was The Lock and Key. God me the King was sung nn the entrance, and at the departure, of the ROYAL FAMILY, with good effedl, and encored. The House was crowded in every part. This morning, the Duke of CAMSAIDGE bathed, after which His Royal Highness and the Duke el Cum la L Atlo rode to the Camps, where the tolo a , were brigaded, and waiting the arrival of Their Royal Highnesses, they went through their different manciuvres which they are to perform at the - proaching grand review. This morning, soon after breakint, His MAJESTI conversed with the Earl of C r and Lod Rot. 1. a, who arrived yesterday. After Their M Ai err t es, and the Pa trie ess ss,with their attendants, with the addition of Lady NCALF, went on ha,, r j th' Royal Yacht. The weather is very favourable, there is every appearance of the FA At tilt having pleasant cruise. All the Royal Yachts sailed wits, them, and the two frigates stationed here ; Roof Sot, reign,on which Their MAJESTIES se, re nn hoar? kept a-head of the rest ; the others followed • line, after taking a tack as far as Portland, an:. terwards tacked ;spin. The Royal Stand trd on board the Royal Sererogga was hoi.uid. an d all the colours belonging to the other vessels flying made most beautii•ol sight. We have had several experiments tried within thete few days with a new life-boat, invented by a man in Somersetshite. It has been crammed by Sir lIA itY f3LRaAco NLA LE, and a itunther of seafaring men, who speak of it with great praise, an I think it likely to answer the purpose. The inventor is an old seaman. Arrivals at the Royal Hotel— Marquis of Plertfofd, Farl Cottaitra, to r t Rote, Mr. DAT Coventry, Mr mid Mia Lsgon, Col. Hui Mr. Couiu h. Arrivals at Luce's Hotel— - ----- ---- - Mr. Naytar, Mr. Leigh, Mr,. Baker and Family, Ka. vannall. A Grand Masquerade is announced at Kinsale, on the Bth of August next. The company to cone in charaller, and wavkrd It is reported in the Fashionable World, that Lori MARSHAPA, son of the Earl of ROMNEY, will very shortly lead a daughter of Lord Kez ries to the 1-17- meneal Altar. General HARRIS'S family has kft Belmont, in Kent, for Brampton I louse, in Thanet. BETTY, the late Prodigy, we are told, performed a few nights ago at Birmingham, to efil.--tt lie rose like a ?corker, and fell like the stick pool Chronicle). A Mr. Del. &CROIX has opined a grand Vauxbill at New York, in imitation ut our beautiful place of the same name. A reconciliation has taken place between Jeneste Bois •r ART! and his hm her N s poi ikon The beau tiful wife of the former, and her lovely child, are still at Camberwell. Among the warders discnvered by the renewal of the Mount at Whiteellapel, is sail to he a t otilrintf, which was mantifa&ered a co ottitr) before the deli cAte habit of saal-laking was introduced in this country. All ebtaclet to the re-engagement n' the Yocno Ru cies at Covent Gard .:n 1 heatre are removed; and he is to pert ten twenty-Else nighu at teat House, in the ensuing season. Two marriages will take place in the A asset:me Family in September next, named, La.!) , CAT'S*. RINI HAMILTON to the Earl of tkeritni t.a, and Lady MARIA HAMILTON to Lord HENRY Perry. Mrs. WiGNELL, Ci•Sieeoei Mrs. '" Alatr to Mr. Baua ton, of the Brighton Toe*. commence an engagement for six r.:y New York 1 heatre, on Monday, Roth the part of Cdiste. Mr. COOTER • The public days at Knnwsley, the t of Dealt sr, commenced on Thursday tinttes every Thursday until the end Mr. COOKE and Mr. MLINDES ham. Mr. COOKE is announced tar Pi-minas M'Si.icopoiant, and Richard Nipper kilo, and Jimmy jairept. On Monday last commenced in Ground one of the grandest matches that ever was pliyed, betaken twelve la-bonne Chub, and twenty-tttree England, which, after much exertion was decided yesterday morning is 'l'wenty-three by a majority of 102 being 241 against 140. The l'ublic curiosity will prebahl) the courtte of the ensuing Autumn, n•aua's projected ascension; Sir having, with llis MAJESTY'S Vet mis-1 the use t f the Gardens of Chelsea purpose. Tbis celebrated Aeron out ployed in making experimerts„witt inflammable air, is construOing ent sizes and materials, which he every week, at the Pantheon, for the carious; and the price of Adt Shilling. The Fourth n Aye: or, Moro Bt) Cfocus, is a prodo:lion of the first which will, no doubt, be greatly he it is known, that the gallant breato self will, we understand, this ev.r it. represcntatioin. This is account. nut harle4uinide of a here' T. the :t.irmr , ible hytbetnauship tat Mo suing, we learn, is the last week c toormances ; and All entirety hew Comic which his been a long time in prer p isitively be produced in a law days entirely new Baolet Dance,coom imbed ' Apo n say, called Looe wed I.autrhli ; with a new Ovettut will be perf - Irmed for the first arociet, August 6. the SERCOItO , La.!) , CATIIA. A IliApt ErE, and IENIIT Pat Ty. ILAILY, Sigerto 111•11 , 1 e, w to I nights at the l4th of June, is was to pl.:l' Le e seat of the hat AY last, and c. d of S,:pte are At Birmin for 84 . '44, S rd; MUNOIS Lord's Crick tches at Cris :lye of the Mary chosen (rain sl ;no on both site (A/WV' In u 0 2 ; t he nu.ni hly he gr.:tined mn, by Mr. ssio Dusts g.Atittal , Co:lege, to: t. 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