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!!_ir 4 1 • LON ): SATURDAY, AVGWIT 24. THE BRITISH PRESS. THE COMBINED FLEET s AT SE.I. The offizial notice, received from the Admiralty. was yesterday posted at Lloyd's : " Asteerseyanfic:, Aare 58, 1805 " Dispitdeell Porn Admiral t... , rnstralltri, slated the 19t,i inst reeetivA this inenntag. int, ,m a revel from Ctinaio His Pitliosie• Ono kk, et his having, oa Ike 13th, to the eve:veg. teen t'i • Co. torte I F eet of the sillefily u•it.i4r of Fevr - I ha•Mni,vemsislettig of oreetv.reits Raul of Om one'', Astv 1- . ..?r5, alai three brigs—steering abnut W.N W: atf bta , l:.e t wotesined. Captain acme se,yese4, from the coos fin.en trey neat in, th.t they must hive mist mita she bow Lour that evening. " To the &WWI of Lloyd's o'o°o.'4 The dispatches communicating this intelligence, were brnnght to England by the Rcroiut:,nn3irs iris gate, of 33 guns, Capt. HOTII•bt, which arrived on Tuesday, at Plymouth, from the Channel Fleet, after a very quirk passage. Fortunately, the fria, was to windwar.i of the Combined Fleet when she fell in with them. liaa she not possessed that advantage, she mug have been captured. The fad of the combined fleet being at sea on the 13th being established, an important question arises out of it. It is of great moment to know whether the enemy were then endeavouring to get into Ferrol or to get est of it. Upon reference to Admiral VI LI.LISSUVea letter, and the Notes in the Moutteur upon the battle of the 2.2 d of July, no passage can be fund which miens, in dire and positive terms, that the Com bined Fleet had entered Ferrol. They say, indeed, that the objtall of Admiral Vit.criseuve was to el le& a junelion with the squadron in that harbour, and that he had accomplished his purpose. Th • obvious inference from this statement is, tl.at th had got into Ferrol ; but it dos not neces• sarily follow, for the Ferrol squadron might have come out to them ; and yet the accounts in the French papers be trite. There is another cir cumstance in favour of those who think that the enemy kod mot then got into Fermi. Sir ROBERT C•LOIR did not lase sight of them until the night of the s!Sth of July, and with the utmost possible expedition, they could not have got into Ferrol until the C'th The prevailing opi7.lon was, that they did not enter it until the 7th or Bth inst. and now we find that they were seen at sea an the 13th. This ssauld leave only fiftean days at the utmost; but, probably, a mud) less space of time, for their stay in that port ; an interval much too short for the necessary repairs and refreshments atter a voyage from the West Indies, and the severe anion which they sustained on the 2t:d. The repairs made during the three or tour days they remained in sight of our fleet, were executed in a harry, and only temporary. They would, of course, go fur nothing, and we cannot conceive, that the enemy, once safe moored in Ferrol, would leave it until they had rec,:ived a thorough repair, and were in complete order. In addition to these arguments, we are assured, that it has not been ascertained that the Combined Fleet ever were in Ferrol, and that a paragraph to that elle& was added to the bulletin sent to LcoYn's yes.' terday, for the information of the confidential and particular friends of the MINISTER. This supple snent is perfealy consistent with ail the former aid notices of Government. The bulletin of the Itith inst. merely said, " The Combined Squadrons are stated to have arrived at Ferrul." The phrase 4 ' are stated,"—clearly implied, that Government had doubts upon the sithjea ; yet the party prints adverse to the Musts/. ea, instead of giving hits credit for his truth and caution, assumed the escape of the enemy into Ferrol as a matter of faa, and cen sured the Admiralty for noticing it in terms of doubt and uncertainty. These are the principal arguments in support of the opinion, that the Combined Fleet, when seen by the frit on the 13th, were then, for the first time, endeavouring to enter Ferrol. On the other side of the question are the letters alleged to have been received from the Here, stating, that the 1 enemy passed Sir Rosser Caamta is the night, and entered Ferrol—the report of a neutral that looked into Ferrol on the Bth, and counted in it a great number of large ships not seen there before, and the presumption arising from the return of Lord Watson to England. We have also the opinien of Captain Ba•ce, who concluded, from the apprrar ince of the enemy, that they had just got wit of Petrel. The impression made upon the mind of that officer, and his opinion upon the subjs& are of great weight in determining a case of this kin!. Besides the enemy were steering W. N W. at the time of his observation ; a course more likely to be palsied by a fleet leasing Ferrol, than . endeavouring en work into it. Captain E turt further states, that they were outside Ferrol ; the obvious meaiiii.g of which is, that they were close *IF it—.and. it is said, that they were seen nest day, in its sane aituaticos, by the AeArisl—lout not been able to find any good authoilty for this litter report. It results, then, from this view of the CAS*, (ha we have no data from whence. to deduce a positive conclusion ; and that,whether the torobinedit•et were going in, or cons our of Pen, cm the 13th, is a question of the 'fierce or less probability. It is a question, however; as we have already observed, of great moment. Sir Rotate CA I. uta sailed from off Brest, on the 17th instant, with ten sail of the line—lnd was shortly after followed by a reinforcement of 1d sail of the line, making an aggregate of 28, to resume the blockade of Fe/ rob 11 the Combined Fleet were going into Ferrol, and only just outside of it, on the evening of the 13th, it must be presumed, th it he could not arrive in time to in:ercept them, and that they must have effeEled their retreat into th It harbour before he could have reached it. On the other hand, if the enemy weievutiiiig to sea again on the 13th, upon same new enterprise, we may entertain a reasonable expe&ation that Sir Runctte CALDER will be once more favoured with a sight of them. In that event we may look with confidefice to a brilliant vinory. The enemy vionlJ have no nu merical sup riority as in the attioa of the 2 2J July, and Sir ROBERT CA LDLR would reckon in his fleit of twenty-eiglic sal of the line, seven of Lord NELSON'S ten ships that chased the foe to the West Indies, and back to Europe. He would also have an opportunity of silencing the clamour and ca lumny of the factious, the base, mod the venal, who would rob him of his lair fame, while absent, unde fended, and unheard. The gallant Lord Nei son attended yesterday at the Admiral . y. where he had a lung conference with Lord BARHAM. A great Contourse of people crowded a►out the place, anxious to see him. From thence his Lordship proceeded to Craven street. the crowd following him all the way. At Craven -street. he took a coach and visited Messrs. \la asn and Cam), Navy Agents, Norfolk -street, in the Strand. His Lordship then drove to Down ing•street, where he paid a visit to Mr. Pix r. We are happy to learn. that the French brig La Freaue, of 16 guns and 28 men; one of the squadron that engaged the filaarhe, was capture.l by His MA. J&ST Y'S ship Goliath, in company with the Comi.7e, on the 13th inst. in lat. 45. 18. long. 7. 31i. La Emilie has been brought into Portsmouth by the Camilla. T%%enty-three of the brave crew of the Blanche were on board La Ferias. We yesterday announced the arrival of an over. land dispatch from India, with sdvices from Madras, to the 2d April, and from Bombay to the 18th.— In addition to the particular; of their contents, which we communicated yesterd ty, we find from a ,•Nate _ priv.t letter, dated Madras, 13th February, that Sir E. Pcccew had received orders fmin C-c Admiralty, to purchase several India-built ships, capable of mnunt'ng from 40 to 50 guns, for If;s ... NI AJEATY 9 S service in India. He had accordingly added to our naval strength the Charon and Kaiiassisooo, two India ships, which were converting, with all possible expedition, into 44 on frigates, ltiopomders, to be called the Lord ILrove, and Doman. It was also in agitation to con v-rt the Coserreaoh into a frigate, to carry the same number of guns. The Trrorrndosto and Grampus were under orders to proceed immediately to the isle of France, for the purpme of blockading it. It was intended that the blockade should Ix hencefor ward constantly maintained, by affording reliefs at proper periods. The Cimeord and Ifugizet we:e left cruising off Point de Calle r and the Ruud! And DeJaigatuse off Acheen. The Crunters of Sutherland, which was captured on her voyage to China, and carried into the Mauritius, is cut down and converted into a heaving down hulk. A private letter from Madras, dated 17th Janu ary, says—a Intelligence from the Isle of France states, that the French squadron, in the engagement with His MAJESTY'S ship Geelinen, had fourteen men killed, and nineteen wounded, which made them dread another engagement with any of our men of war. On the arrival of Lisots at the Mauritius, finding, by signal, that our cruisers were in port North West, he ran into the South East Port, where the Afarrngo got a-ground, lost her rud der, and suffered much oth - c - r damage. All the pumps were at work, and it was only by the greatest exertions she again floated. The Marengo was afterwards stripped and harile I tr.) the side of the Countes, cf Sutherland, to be hove down, and it was supposed she would not be ready again for sea in less than four months. The frigates, it was reported, would IA about the latter end of lomat), for the purpose. it WAS supposed, of endeavotring to intercept our home ward•bound trade. IluNarArtra's elevation had been publicly announced at the Island." The report respeCting the restoration of pence in only the anticipation of an event confidently expeel eJ, as the Fort of Bhurtpore could not withstand thg Assault meditated against it, and Hoigas's force was entirely broken. We understand that a private letter has been re tlei4d by the overland dispatch from India, which states, that the loss sustained by our army amou , sts to upwards of 1000 men, Officers included. We must presume that this estimate compri s es the los, in the fifth assault upon Bhurtpore, which is not stated in the accounts already published, though referred to in them. According to the same letter, an opinion universally pre/a , led, that very little objection would be made by General Lord Lac to . the toms proposed isy the RAJAH of BHURTPORL, provided the latter should cou ient to withd:aw his support frOm HOLKAR. All the other letters which we have seen, state, on the contrary, that it was the determination of General Lord LAKE, to make a sixth assault upon Bhurtpore, and that re inforcements, in troops and artillery, were expeCted from Cawnpore for that purpose. In consequence of the death of Viscount A ens- MORE, Chief Baron of the Court of Ere,cquer in Iceland, mentioned in another part of this Paper, the following new• arrangements, we understand, wi I take place in the Law dep mment : Toe Right lion. Standish O'Gia,ly, the pir, e , it Attorney. General, to be Chief Baron. Mr Minket, the pref,•nt Solicitor-General, to be Attorney. General. And Mr. Serjeeot Bathe to be Solicitor General, in elm room of Mt Minket. The place of Attorney-Cenrr2l, our Dab Cor tesponde..t assures us, was V: Bred to Mr. GLonca PONIONDY, and refused by that Gent:eman. The Princess Amelia packet is arrive) at na mowh, with a mail from Halifax, which place she Lit on the 29th July. The Print, Adolphus packet, from New York, arrived at Halifax on the 12th July. It was reported yesterday, that a difference ha; taken place between Lord Muzersv E and Mi. Pt rt. and that new overtures have been made by the MINISTER to Mr. Fox. We give this merely as a report. Among the rumours of yesterday, it was slid that Sir CHARLES COTTON has been appointed to the fleet blockading Ferrol, in the room of Sir Ito- BERT CALDER. Yesterday morning, at two o'clock, Mr. as woit T if, one of His M ajEsT V's Messengers, arrived at Lord Metortaves Office, in Downing -street, with Dispatches from St. Petersburgh. The Weymouth Mail did not leave town yester day until four o'clock in•the afternoon. It waited for the bulletin issued b; - the Admiralty, announcing that the Combined Fleet was again at sea. Earl SPENCER attended yesterday at the Admi ralsy, hut not in company with Lord NXLSON, as stated in a paper of last evening. A French brig, prize to His Majesty's ship Lan cat...r, arrived at Peibt de Galle, the latter end of December. The brig Cobr , jar, stated to have been captured by the ff,rri,t privateer, foundered off Point Caly. mere. The crew were saved by His Majesty's ship Sherry/err. The Portdgnese ship, Laconia, has arrived at Bengal, last from Malacca, with four liundrES thousand dollars for that settlement. La Fatten( French privateer, prize to 1 lis Ma jesty's ship Concorde, is arrived at Bombay, and purchased for His Majesty's service. She wa s t o b e manned and equipped with all expedition. The ship Gallus*. fiores Bombay, arrived in the River Ganges, on the ltith January, having been captured by La Psyche frigate, on the &h, aad afterwards released. The Thetes, Captain Ricm Al MON, from the Va labar coast, was also captured by the same ship ; but having a cargo, and some horses on board, she was deemed or sufficient ♦alue to send to the Mauritius. It is said that the Pigeon, captured by La Psych'', had been manned and armed Its a corvette, and cruised with La Psyche. Passengers on board the Gilre Captain Watery late of the F.liiet • Capta.ti W Richardson, late of theTheti. ; Cnveniale, Chief Officer of ditto; Mr. C. MichanCen, aerend dittn; Mr. Hampton , third dine ; Mr. Johnson, fourth ditto; Mr. F.aton. Puuer; and M , . Hoak, late second UtEcer of the Pigeon. The ship Eliza, Captain W•l' ERS, was captured by La Psyche. Captain WATERS was put en board a small vessel under Pegue colours, bound to Sa dras. It is the general opinion, itt the North of Ger many, that the fleet in the Baltic is to cover the de barkation of a Russian army, either in Swedish Po merania, or the Duchy of Mecklenburgh. If a measure of that decided char:idler were resorted to, we should soon be able to discover what part 4he Court of Berlin would be likely to take in the ap proaching war. Extradt of a letter from Savannah, dated July 12, :—" Since writing you on the !V), we have received intelligence from the ship Morgalet, of Liverpool, arrived heir• from New Providence, that about the edge of the Gulph, she engaged and beat off two of the three privateers that have been on this coast lately ; the ship had two men killed and ten men wounded. And this forenoon, intel ligence has been received from St. Mary's, that the Cambrian frigate, after twenty-six hours duce, cap tured a large schooner privateer, supposed to he the itlathilde, of IS guns; and afterwards, with her boats, in the St. Mary's River. on the Spanish side, within three miles of the town, under a heavy fire from the vessels and troops on shore, boarded and took possession of the ship Golden Grare, and a brig, bound to EnAland, laden with naval stores, captured and sent in there by a Spanish privateer. The coast is now pretty clear. The (7,4,04 with • prizes, still remaiut." ug ag. uuunu I ~ ...„...,.., uccu puunciy announced At the Island." , . i elpt ie u v re A l t a i n l d n of is—. And, ais said, that they were seen nest day, The report respeeting the ri storation of peace in in the tame situAtioti, by the Adias/---tout we have India, which prevailed yesterdly, is, we believe, her prizes, sti -.....— a.r. IA!? r:/, AL;34r „, The Roy At F‘MILY uid n r%n4r n :n sh ,,; six o'clock last evenierg. seven L i" n e the Theatre to !ere Mr Sr. P raN K butti ,Lihit Ea:stiff, in limy, TICS and tilt ROYAL. FA NI:L in general r ee ',• trieir ay.votittion of his actio:;. Th e 4, 4 uncommonly crowd e d At seven o'clock tbis Misitt7y, several at•ePdant.s, r :ids. th: D it - chest:: 114 1 and inspelted the trona., who Were drawn cu t for marching into the field for a grand s arri.6 The Corps , ;f" Shari , slimters are to assist at 1.. fight is to be in the neighbinsrhond of M L . Castle, near D.irchesriir ; the whole und er t h mand of Royal HiBhnesses the Duk.s arc ; SERLANO and Kerr. On His MaJesr Os return to Weyov in d, , h e an au hence to Sir '' ILLtalltiCuar l S, wiio here early this. niriri;:ng. His M lEgiY VI!) in corer snort a considerable time with the au Knight. About eleven the ROYAL FAXTLY, RIO : a merrtut party. tint on board the Royal Yaei, t . On l'uesday two more Dutch pri.s-s, tom , privateers, were !sr:night into Weymouth. The whole of the regiments bete have b ee , f or some time pan., in preparation fora gr.ti review before His Mai cs-ry ; but in consp i ne szt , the corn in this cotiniry being r:ady for numb:r of farmers waited upon the Duke of C.l egettau to allow a certain number of die s to ASSIStj to which application His lv . iyal WAS pleased to cri..l int. We have every appe ar , ; of an abundant harvest. .„.. ,Arrivals at the Itov.ll I lotel : F»I and (.7.unte.. f Mg- Sir Johe 3w W.l.u.n Curio. and C0..0t • sof Rid or. His 'loyal Highness the Duke of Ctorer.-- we are concerned to state, ATUS not biter ; General Moots, whnie Brigade is e aboat a mile from Folkstii:.e. went to on huiini•s. of i.nporarce ti. His ILI 4.1111 r. expeEted to mu, n on this J4f, with H s Relit Hie ness the Duke of Volta Sir Er as Co3rt is to be mar.i...l Wore 1:t i!. rarture f tile IVest to Mies Beawr , t, . the county of dippel a: y. his hi; pany him to Jainalca ',id. nt COW SC, the 11... f, moon will be spent in th. voyazie. Earl Gansyst.os, the. Countess. sad Lai bare artived at BlackpoiA, Yiaksinre. Mrs. Poweit..nt Drtuy Lane Theatre, rep at Derby Theatre for three nights. She pLy Alicew on Thursday, Elvis last Eight, and ILia she will perform Seto siert. A Morning raper says, a /a /mann meats laity* of .a place. We ate much sucaid Jot ti in question wiil nxv : •r find out ths lane tads. LAURIAT'S Thence, in the %stall t, Waif crow hat 'sight ; the who!? pertr;:i.i.ince went iitf wi:l3 • greatest etial. 'I Lc dancing would du hoauur the Opera Flimsy. The Limerick Anises ended laet week; t Countess of Gtaseco•DaL, Mr. FEN Di..GAST Suit Colonel VLlttiCtit. Mr. and Mrs. k;uvrine Las. and Mr. and Mrs. Chivas, have left thatcity and retired to Belmont. Mr. Hot. el IN, and the 'Dubl:n Theatrical Cces pany, with the addition of Mr. FAKCCiT, are per forming at Limerick. The Countess of C• 114 A ft !TON is still OA ins t•• at Brighton. Mr. M`Casaav, as usual, has presented the ceipts of a night, at the Theatre, to the fun.l the General thispital, near Birmingham. Tii , ndc was the night fixed upon, and it produced tht of 2011. 10s. The Assizes of T.imrrick, proving a maiden me Judge Piratic A NC W4*. presented with an elegau. t o: of white glovts, richly fringed with gold Warwick race+ commence the 4th ut S. reflier much sport is espeded the Stewas di a.s Sr 1 1111tOCK MO it TUN, Barr. J. rut.LLitros, Fel A grand review took place yesterday, at Matt Hill, near Brighton, by G-iieral Dos. Miss Durscas's engagement at the Birmingham Theatre clued Lot nigut with her benefit, when she played Lady Rolelph• Lumderrourt to MI. Coo“'t .thy Mr. leic Lump+ does not regale his Liverpool friends at the Country Club with sweet IllowItcn; sh . is gone to Lurk, atter a most success:ul visit t. Dublin. Sunday last, the East Kent Regiment of Valnn leers, commanded by Colonel Has row Wer e 1 / 1 . straw is E i.twell Park, by Lietuena :t-ColAteel Wcra, whea the regiment 114c1 a very elegant p.ir of colours, presented them by Lady kbi malty( HATTON ; they aftetwatds attended Divine Servi.e at Eastweil church, where the colours war 0 " crated. Batween 6 and 7 o'clock on Thursday morning, ele r whole of the Brigade of the D trier Dusuid marct4 from their barracks upon the Heights, and irons L.).• verCastle. thro' that town, to be reviewed by Map Gen. Lord Founts, Gelieral of the Disiria•P"' paratory to the review by His Royal Higlines! 01 ' Duke ut lions, on this day. They consisted of a de:acliment of t!).: Al Artillery, with four pieces of ordnance, Aral t .ur Regiments of !data', namely, the Northampton, the Sorry, the Herefr'J, and the East York. They took post. upon tie heights, on an extensive plaia, of sixty aCieS• three miles west of this town, laetwaen Shakespear Cliir and Folkstone, called Hopham Court Drat , from whence there was An extensive view of the French coast. almost !thin Dunkirk to Boulogne. Preparatory to an inspeiltion by His Royal klig ness the peke of Yogic. this day , the whose of the I Ith Light Dragoons, who are quartered Hythe, Romney, Dover, Yolkstone, and Ryer be ing attached to the b r ig a d e under the compaiid ct aj..Gen. Moon e, were eeriew-d on Thursdays I 'F their Commanding Officer, Col. Tworitatir uPn g plain Ilh'lmt a stole to the east of the town, near t r , Signal House at i n lk stone TO rn pike. They cons.sizta of five troops of 1.03 men each, mud made a tees: beautiful appals rar cc. ~ ... `w.. '`f ti 4111 , % 4 : ..; i• . . _,.- . 7.7,2, ' . . i ityr,s• • • .. . . ~~ the con:ia i i tCa:s2 This ri fashionahl genus sons ti.otq himself d( 'ye h.tl for orne s p a ptr C C.lrclelje on his tl an I, wilt ascertw in HIGIINEC p:tition b the pat TY VI! s.tre•boat by Mrs. took an minor, Puke of his amp' bet bow Lslnert eight, fa of Lady Bliad & Haw'. Mr. C ,or. TO. last nigh POTTS, this rou Mrs. Si arrived round r! At a Royal 1 the Pay accorrip. r..,raeru in ever 1 ) NAL %.1.4 CC The pr Lail% si sh.neg ar Fore ri paid a ofTaic diantf. Mr at.i who dii Sterm and int' ac ' L'nirm like; tAmil 1101 ti cste with gairt; Of Cntsi toart the f; dinne A pair.; Dowi