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1:. . lougffaile S. 45. East. saw a schooner in the Sootlet West, under easy sail. standing towards us, and; . soon afterwards perceived her to be ao enemy ; tag ' she appeared to take the Caltope for a merchant brig. lyiiff mist prudent not to Maki any sail until she foetid out her mistake, which was at the distant* of about three miles. when she bore up and made all sail ; at 'half-past eight made all sail in awe; at half-past ten has within reach of shot, Snag the bow gnus occasionally ; at eleven within reach of musket.ahot, but keeping upon my lee bow. Could not get the greet guns to bear (the whale ufthe Marines and smsll-arm men kept up a constant and well-directed ire, which was rituru ii with great spirit) ;at half-put eleven got the great guns to bear with round sad grape. and most of tbe time within pistol-shot ; and us there was se little difference in sailing, my great object was to disable her in her sails cud rigging as soon as parable, and which appeared to be his grand object likewise. At twelve his main-rout was overboard, and the test of his sails and rigging living all cut to pieces, be hailed. and told me he had struck. She proved to be La Coaitesse d'Harnhonre. of 14 guns. eight of which are it-pounders, and six iliotiorlers, and 51 tarn, from Duukirk ; out eight days. but had taken nothing. Mr. Blake. the First Lieutenant. a pliant and most excellent Officer, behaved greatly to my eatialaction. Mr. Borough, Second Lieutenant, and Mr. Roberts, Master, dud their duty creditably to themselves, and highly sa tisfactorily to me ; as well did all the Warrant, Petty Officers. seamen and marines; and had the weather beano° fine as to make it practicable to board her. lam well conviuced she would have beets carried in a few minutes. 1 am well assured that the capture of this vessel will be of the utmost cooseguence to the trade to lilleligeland and the Baltic. she being a net:vessel, and her first cruise, and sails remarkably well, with a most determined cftw. lam extremely hapuy our loss has beets but small. liavitigenly three wounded. The Serjeant of Ma. noes I beg leave particularly to mention u a highly deserving and brave men. and was severely 'mood ed, by receiving two musket shots through his bo dy. and one through his tight arm. before be quits. ted his poet on the forecastle with the stnall-arm men ; the other two. one slightly wounded. I here judged it prudent to return to Yarmouth with the prisoners sod prize. our sails and rigging iii many places bring cut and shot away, and two of the carroudes beiug dioshled. by the halts of the chock being broke. l conceive my proceedings will meet your approbation. and shill not lose a mo meat's time in following former orders. ($1 1,14 ) I h;ve, &c. JoNN fitKEatic. lORZION INTALLIGANCIL. GOTT&NBVROR MAIL ■BLetSIRORO, OCT. 16. The Crewe Prime is expected hers the day after te.esserew. preparations having been tasking here for seen day(• fee the seeoniesodstien of himself sad seite : sewn the latter are said to be two or sir three French Gesserals. PIITIRIIIIIRGH. OCT.'2. It is eoalldently asserted. that instructions have been seat out to Ksmeusky to renew the propo- sals made some time ago to the Grand Signor, and that full powers have been given to couctdv the point on *tech the last negotiations were broken off. should it be necessary. Sams battalions which were tinder orders fo► the the army in Turkey, have received counter.ordets, sad will wow proceed to Courland, sod the Polish provinces. A rumour has reached ns from Berlin. that Dfayshal Berthier is to be created King of Poland. onrrassuaos. OCT. 17. Travellers susa•e us that liustavus Adolphe, (Coast Gotiori) has arrived at St. Petershorgh, where be has hews well recsived...-actors he left Riga, he Is Pill to have addressed a st►ong letter to the Kiug awl Diet. on the subject of the lute Election. ORURO. OtT. 9. Yesterday being His Royal 51.Jesty*; birth-day, s numerous deputation of the States. headed by the Lard Hid Marshal, waittd on His nijesty. to offer their !nye' and humble congratulation, on the bay, event, and were most graciously recCiatd. COITNIIAGIV.M. OCT. 5. By a circular letter of the Royal Chancery, un- , bee has been given, that, u the lately elected Crown Prince of Sweden intends soon to proceed hither, by the way of Schleswig and Holstein, it is Ilia Majesty's will, that he shalt be every where re ceived with the honours due to a Crown Prince.— For the rest s His Majesty has ordered Count Mollie, Lord Chamberlain, ■nd Baron Lunden, Adjutant of Division, to attend the Prince on his journey through Zeeland to Cnrsoer. where Baron Lindholm, Adjutant-General. is to receive his Royal Highness, and to conduct him across the FRENCH PAPERS. 1.41111, oct. 20. General Dronet, eninmanaing the 9th corp., of the Army of Spain, communicate, under the date of the in.,. the arrival of a pewits in whom he can phiee confidence. at Valladolid, from whom he received the following intelligence 01 the 3lth the Prince of I.:riling artive , l at Coimbra. *or of the priticitil towns of Porttipt, sonata 11411 . ...... y I...tweeti Almeida and Lisbon. — The Fer 3 4 4• troy kzol otreviy marcher} forty lenient.. 'nom it bloke. up frtno Al•tiei , !a. The advanced ltd awl gini..ot..; part' .1 had sever.ll enutigetnents with the Port:l_,ue.e regiments and the toilttia ; it bad taken upward., of prt.onrr., suit rto..irin. edl several Petro : lit- I r..,;..ne0t.. lio the 4;th sit 'if . • *opt'stOrie .fetri e Eugl6ll ittriy. s f the •wriml ibusitaoo. within a tit, 's mo 4 Coimbres iihich it conceived impregnable. The English were atbaeked, turned, and closely pursued ; they abandoned some of their sick and magazines. The result of the affair on the 27th was 7 00 prisonerP• of whom 400 were Engli-h, and two pieces of Bug lish caution. But what was of more iinportuuce. theltriny became masters by this affair of the sit , peib iloittions of the Niutid.go and the town of 1 1 Coimbra, which affords great resources. The utb- Cer beating the despatches, containing the details of the events subsequent to the 27th Jr September. was proceeding with the guard that esetitted the prisoners. The person from whom this intaligence was received left them at Visen. _ The army was in excellent health, and abun dantly supplied v. it', provibiour. The wounded had been sent to Wan', they were principally those who offered in the atfair on the 17th ; they scarcely amounted to 500 men, including the sick. General Drouet was proceeding to Almeida, to keep up the communication with that part of Por tugal in the rear of the army. Letters received from the Isle of France, by the Eugene, state, that the English have taken the Isle of Bonaparte, formerly the Isle of Bourbon. Co lonel Sainte Susanne, the Governor of this colony. was attacked en the 7th of July by tiooo men, who lauded at two different points. Cut off from all communication with the Isle of France, he defend ed the island as long as the enormous disproportion of the respective forces would allow him. He made an honourable capitulation. The Captain-Gentral De Caen has put the Isle of Framer in an excellent state of defence. The Natioual Guards and the crews of the raids have taken up arms. Should the enemy make an attack upon it, he will be vigorously repulsed. (Fur UN resialatier of the Paris Papers see the last pagel 7 - HE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, peronsa 31. ILLNESS Of HIS 31AIES17. We yesterday Stated, that life MAJESTY WaS se riously indissioied. and that his complaint was fe verish. Our contemporaries* hdivever, made light of the matter. If to indulge in ignorance. or to iinpose upon our readers, could alter the real state of the ease, we would be as luantious in our igno rance. and asi great impostors, as the most loyal of all our contemporaries.—But, unit r t (mutely , misre presentation can work no such cnre.--Our state ment yesterday was as direct as delicacy would per mit, in the absence of official intelligence. That deficiency has. however, beau supplied by the fol. lowing Bulletins. which it has been conceived ad• visible to publish : eetober tp, le le. . 4 The Kiwi Iwo been isdispeard fur • few Jays past—Hit Maiesty has bed laser, esti his uizlrts hare Lees restless ; but be has Lod several boors' sleep Hsi' tworsinjr. H. RAIFORD. " W. HLUERDEN. " M. BAILLIE." " °clutter 30, tato. " Tea o'clock a. at. " The %leg baa pasted a restless Dieu ; sad His Majesty is ouch the saute twday as yesterday. "HENRY RAIFORD. •• N. 8A11.1.1 L. 4 . W. II EBERDEN." We lately noticed, that the Princess AMLLIA, had made a present of • ring to her father, and put on his finger. It was m• ant as a token of rement. loaner, a farewell present from a favourite child, to whom he had been always most tenderly attached. In the course of her long, painful, and desperate illness, lie had repeatedly taken leave of her, and borne the sad hour of parting with all that charac teristic fortitude which • life well spent, and a strong sense of religion, are so well calculated to inspire. The scene of the ring, however, w a s e l ) . served to affect him most deeply, nod lie has ever since been greatly distressed in his ohm!. What. ever turn Ilia MAJESTY'S illness may take, the in terest must lie not a little increased by the idea that it has originated in parental affection. We slawd yesterday, that he had changed. on Friday, to the tamales Apartments, which are on the opposite side of the Castle. Ilia MAJESTY has since returned to his own Apartineuts, which over look the 'Terrace, in consequence of which sun pecans. wa• alhiere.l to walk there on Monday or ye.derslay—the .eatinels at the two entrances having strict orders m.t to admit any person.—His M 61• J car r walked MI the Terraces short time nn Mon day afternoon, between three and four o'clock, but he was not out yesterday. An express was seat off from %Vindor on Satin day night, at ten lock, for Ur. Ihiglipan to at tend the Kum, sad he arrived there at tire o'clock on Sunda) mor ni ng,—Every thing is kept remarkably quirt iii Wiuilsor Castle; not the least noise 1111 soft red. The Loan CilanceLt.os and Mr. Pearmear, after .teetog the Mau ou Nluioday, were joined by the Duke of Ct.:sweat AN.. llis Royal Highness i was in waiting for them. W. hart: reLtived Bostou Papers to the 28th lest. Tire French Nititister Cu °trews v's Letter to tie veril ARM% 18.0 N ti, respecting the intended TCVOCa. lion of the Berlin and Milan Decrees from the Ist of November,. had just reached America. It had produced a considerable sensation, but the people in general were inclined to view the conduct of BONAPARTE with jealousy and suspicion. The sent:inetits of the Auiericati Goweriu,rit it the dispatch of Ildr. ARNSTRONO had not trans- A Gottenhurgh Mail arrived yesterday, with Letters and Papers to the IBth instant. It is stated in anarticle, dated St. Petersburgh, October a, that instructions have been sent to Basteusue to renew the proposal* lately made to the GRAND StGrioa, and that full powers have been given to him to coo cede the point on which the last negotiation broke MT, should it be necessary. The point alluded to was a demand of the cession of the provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia ; which was then refused. By the removal of this obstacle, the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh relied so fully on the return of peace with Turkey, that some battalions destined to re inforce the army on the Datitthe, had received counter-orders, arid were to proceed to Courland, and the Polish provinces.—This account, if cor rect, furnishes a new proof of the growing jea loql between ALLEANDEB. tiod BONAPARiF, and that the former is at length become alive to his true interests. NAPOLEON must hate contem plated with sltage delight the progress of a contest betweeli two Powers, against which he meditates a find blow, the result of which must be to wear them down, and leave them unable to resist the necompli.hment of his ambitious views. We trust, however, that they hare both seetitheir errors, and that it is not yet too lute to repair it. Russia cannot ton carefully hosband her means, for all she possesses will, we fear, be insufficient to enable her to meet the battle which she must fight in the North, if slit is not to sink a resistless victim to the crafty ambition of BONAPARTE, and voluntarily receive the law from his hands. She has heard of of the plan for uniting Denmark, Plarwty, and Sweden. into one kingdom. Scarcely. had she achieved the tonquest of Fiolstid, and by coma. laming it with her Empire, given security to her capital, hitherto exposed on the frontier of her vast dominions, when a hint is thrown out that she will be re. t oired to restore it ; and it is now intimated, that she must disgorge out only the plunder of Sweden, but also the plunder of Poland, which let ter kingdom is to be rewired, with BEIVIIIIEN for its King.—lii King Betertuta and King BERNA• POTTS, /stoical:tea, we fear, will find very Iron bleeorne neighbours. The letter has probably reached his new kingdom; before this time. He was to pass through Sehleswig, Holstein, and Zealand, and across the 13-Its The King of Denmark had given order , ' that he should be received with all due honours on his jouraey. A aeries of The Muni:cur to the.34th instant has • been receiver!. They contain a brief . repurt of the battle of aux too, sod an account of twain, military operations in Spain, distinguish' d under the several heads of the provinces in which they took place.-.. The report of the battle of Buzeco is a brief sketch by General DeOIJET, Commander of the 9th corp. or the army, at Valladolid ; from which he was pro ceeding to Almeida, to keep op. n the communica tion between that place and the army of hlnssens• It differs, as 'night he especterl, in many material poling from the account in The London Gasette.-.- The prisoners are increased from 39 to 700; and it further asserts, that part of our sick and magazines were aliatirintied, and that the French army is in excellent health, and abundantly supplied with pro. vivicros. We do not believe that any of our sick was left behind ; and as General DIM! ET does not pretend that liiii information is derived from an official source, we will be the more readily ex cused fur giving credit to LIM WstAt Notion, on the raker points, in which the two accounts are at varisuce.—We find, from the same article, that the Com ier who was charged with MAIIYENiIt, dispatches. was very glad to avid I • elf of the pro tection of the guard which was escorting the wounded in the battle of Maar.° to Viatin. It may be theuce inferred, that French Couriers travel very slowly, and, if a about a guard, very unsafrly through the Spanish Priiinstila..---Massexa's re port of the battle of limiter), we mn7 therefore pre euine, had not reached Pens on the 2.1.1.—The n r. could of the military operations in the Spanish Provinces, while it uniformly represents the result in favour of the enemy, contains a variety of ad : 1 missions, which inspire the most sanguine hopes of 1 the success of the Spanish cause. Defeat canton dishearten the Spiniard, nor priratiow exhaust his L s pe tr n et e ig ti t . h b a u nd ta p m at o re va n e c n e t . is T m l i ie fte P i ii: n r t iot to ba r n e i . l: l 7 i r i t e i i!:: scattered fragments; and the French soldier, ha fussed and wearied, finds he has only purchased by his wounds, his dangers, and fatigues. a barren and unproductive victory.—Like Switzerland of old, Spain now presents, ID its inhabitants, nothing but " 51se sod steel, she outlier sod his mesa 4" and BONAPAKTS, like CADMILM, baring sown the land with serpents' teeth. may behold them ►ising every where around him in hosts of armed tutu. Extract of • leiter, dated Figueiro, October 1, I$10.—" Yrlttertley, about 400 of the Guard*. wit) two engupaAies of the 95th, teen: lauded here [lola autl Eo4laud.' 'N 4 TILE ROYAL FAMILY. Yesterday morning the Princ•-qser • Sorata rode on horseback in eccouipanird by Lady ELY, in an op nage. The . Gentlemen *er e H wiry party, consisting of his Royol Hii;hness of CAMBRIDGE, Earl Wit Tow, (C;OwnyiiNt N,.a M E Un nd iTlcß•AxGreaneier.ati Cl.i Generals ri s 1 , A T NH:I y % Moat of them were in the undress Windsor They rode from eleven o'clock till one, , Princess SOPHIA went to Augusta Lodge, her rrnicted Sister. The Duke of CAMORIIDGE rode to Fro juin the company of the QUEEN and Nucl.. z Aussii, who had gone there in their Syr an uiring ; they returned a little before t awl their went to Augusta Lodge to virit mu; A51111.1A. The Prince of Wm.es left ‘Vindior morning, on lior.eligek, for London. The Duke of CLARENCE returned to yesterday morning, from Bushy Park. PRIACEsS AMEL!A. The report of the stets of the Princess yesterday was, that her Myst Highne•s ' two boors' sleep io the night, and *soros little better. She has lately takeu shout Champaigoe is a day. Dr. Ihnripart left Wierloor yetterde, for London, but wen expected to return' tug to attend the KING. O n Monday night, as the Lotto CH, and Mr. PIMA:VAL were returning hem to Mr. PERCIVA L% house at Etiling, thou was overturned (owing to the darkness of tot Hounslow Heath. They did not ~ . material injure. and were able to promo journey in a short time. The building adjoining St. Geste' Windser. called Cardinal Wolsey's Chapel, lame time since tilled with lumber, by orflo,' Wt ATT. the Architect, although it had ' detstood that His MAJ EAT V intruct!ti to' male there. for the interment of the reac • family: however, within these few days ha, been taken out of it, and windows put complish which, end to dig no archway passage where His M Attune and the Rol mut enter to go to St. George's Chapel, any interreptinn of His 'Mar env pis; as well as for the convenience, at the general, that the coffee may Ito coorryt being taken out of St. George's Chapel pass through the archway directly into ti On Ftblay, when the men were diggioe, covered a coffin ; the wooded one was dere! the leaden coffin was in a very veil state r ration. The inscription on it could wit out. On er,renjng it. the cnn!rots prove, woman, wrapped ms in sued curse, of stud a child, in a very high state of presets! • spirits. It was supposed to he the Queen WARD the IV th. and one of her eitildrec kept open tall Monday, when it WAS obli soldered up. Lord Sostaamkt arrived yeaterdi house in Berkeley-equate, land. A young Officer in company, complai size of his new liolgiog at the Barracks, but a mere ossit,dhell.-• 01 That ought hio next neighbour, ig tether a consolai have thereby already attained the rank , The last arrivals at Aberystwith are— Lieatesant-Csionet Price ; twa Misses Adore Mrs. Wailliouter; Mr. sod me Mime Maine,/ LAS Caroline Price ; Mr. sad Kiwi Price tau ; Mr. A. M. Thoopeeme, ic. • We have the pleasure to state, thal ▪ if recovering from a long and viol sition, and hopershortly to have the hoi [rearing again before the public. We understand, that Mr. Waesna , in cositemplatime to present (bioceitr weeks lheatricols brfore Christmas. Mrs. PARKE& is engaged at C Theatre, awl will maks her debut on in the part of Limbo the Savage. so a. lornied by the late Mrs. Mtr.r.a, o n *1 sentarian of La Peroaee. some years Mr. Munn u's play of The Ilan will prove highly interesting at the when the nil tuition of Sorriest tors. public attention. It has been ufr: most admired pro,:uctitmo of this eleg sisal anther. Mr. Yousr; will, on Friday, &saw Ai/et/bin t he Comedy of Every Man so ably till. it by Mr. Conar..--M. se,ses so .ll discrimination and g have no doubt he will male it a fun tabus. Titcwlay last, the 23d currem Rotes-shirr, &c. Regiment or Alit command of the Earl ol CAITIINI:Sq. on Leith Link% by Maktr-General Regiment eent through their ismoce , ings rats ely to the General's sati.fai the honour to receive his must any lost ion of their whole p e rformunce --, highly gratifying to both officers am recent return to their native emir years absence in England. The t ekgatit entertainment on the ocelot , Assentlily Rooms, to the General awl several other Officers and Ott ticetion ; among whom ace policed ti Lord BEIMILDALE; the Right that", Bart. ; 'ur (lunatic Marla Part.; Colonel STIRLING, 41.1 Reg . ! wstratri arid Nlmisters of South GRKGrililf, Ike. &v. Many I. ri toasts were wvesi, and tlie festivity two late hour. 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