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r• Fur the Law Intillt;renee, and ionic other interesting Matter, We the lest Page. THEBRITIgH PRESS LONDON, THURSDAY, MARcu 14. An overland dispatch was yesterday received at the India House. Private letters received by this convey. auce bring the particulars of a desperate engagement between the detachment from the grand army, under Col. Mossos, and the forces of Hoc K Att. It was (aught upon the 24th Aug. and we are concerned to state that the detachment, overpowered by numbers, was defeated with great loss. Various skirmishes ap ocar to have previously taken place from the begin ning,of J tit y. The detachment also, after its defeat on tar of Atwust, appears to have been severely h massed in its entreat by HOLCAN, and to have surlerzd considerably. Various accounts of the ~axle have been, we understand, received in toga through private channels. Some of them girt At most horrid accounts of the barbarity exercised by Ho cx. a upon the prisoners who fell ii:to hi. hands. He is said to have cut off the heads of all the officers among them, the morning after his v . :tory, and to have sent them to the English camp. tVe have made diligent enquiry at the India House, a:..1 find, that no public official details have been received of this unf irtunate affair. The follow.. ing extra A from the India Gazette appears to be the only official account that has been transmitted. The melancholy list annexed to it of British Officers who fell on the 24th, and in the skirmishes th.:t preceded and followed, chews but too plainly the great extent of our loss. It is all we can give upon authority; and, in a case involving so much private feeling, we d 3 not think we should Lc justifiable in stating circumstances which may rssibly prove to be unfounded or exaggerated. We venture to assert again, that no account has been received at the India House except the following : CALCUTTA GAZETTE, OCT 0111111:, 1404. A dispatch from Lieutenant-Colonel GERARD, Adjutant-General, of which the following is a copy, has keen received this day : To Capt. 1.. Hook, Secretary to Government in the Military De!mrtnielit. SIR—I am dircCl. , tl by the C vmmander in Chief to forward, frc th , • inPinnation of Ilia Excellency the Most Noble the CldTumor Cencral in Council, a Lids of casualtiaa which ot run•xl with the Detachment under the command of the Von. Co,. Sion son Head %tarter% (S , gned) 3. Grik Mtn, Camp Se.e.indra,3l/lh Sept. 1881. Adi. Gen. 2d 2. - ittalion, 2d Regiment—Valor James Sinclair, killed, August 24, teo4. Chit. Thomas Parr, ditto, ditto. Lieut . Fulton, ditto, ditto. 1.1-ut William Owen, miming. Lieut. W. W. Walker, killed, August 24, 1804. Lieut. M. P. Stacey, ditto, ditto, Lien, Thomas Sneider, ditto, ditto. 2d Battalion, Btlli Regiment—Lieut. Williams, killed, Au gust 24, 1804. 24 Butslion, 9th Regiment—C..pt. limes Cmhatt. August, 24, 1804. Lieut. A. R. Nt•ol du•n, ditto. ht Battalion, nth Regiment 'fowl Lloyd, killed, July 10, 1201. Lieut. ■ord, wnunded, August 22, 1404 I.seut. H. M • Roes, ditto, August 24, 1104. bout. P Knur ls*, ditto, August 27, 1104. Lieut. Dalton, drowned in aossiug Churribola, July 16, 1104. Battaluen, 12th Regiment —Lieut. Randall, wounded, August 23. Lieut. R. Davidsna, tuts trig, July R. lit Rettallun, 14th Reginsent—Lieutt.nant H. 11. Harris, lulled, Aug. 30 , 1104. Mr. Krugh, Surgeon, Aug. 30,1164. 21Batta 214 t Repise•q—Li-utenent W. T. Nixon. Arg. 84. 1804. Lieutenant Arden, wounded, Aug 27, 1804. Aniltery—Captain Winbalt, ilrowneil in emaing &ulnas, Aug 21,1804. Wa have been for some time in possession of circumstances respelling the Secret Expadi. tines which is now fitting nut. Had it nor been :Indeed in a paper of yesterday, we should, however, have thought it our duty not to violate the cautious silence which we have hitherto observed. It is to be commanded by Sir JAMES Casio, who will hive two Majors General under him, and will b• of considerable magnitude. It will positively id in. the course of a fortnight from Portsmouth, the necessary preparations hare been long ,U.ce made, and not in the c3u: se o: next month, as ha ; been stated. Mr. H. Tmoasvoo last night presented in the Ilulust of Commons a petition from G. B. M 4 lo w/42,M0, Esq. Sir W. CURTIS, and other Eledors of is liddlesex, against the return of Sir FRANCIS Butt Orr?, as a Representative in Parliament for Got County, upon the ground of bribery. corrup tion and illegal votes. The Petition was ordered to Ise taken into consideration upon the 9th of April. • Phe eleven liamburgh Mails due, arrived yes te: day. Their contents, so far u they relate to the S nth of Europe, are nearly anticipated by the P 114 Papers received in the course of this week— ed the news which they give from the North is or important. Private accounts, however, fate, t hit a body of French troops had appeared before the City of Lubec, and demanded of the Citizens two millions and a half of marks, with a threat, that if this demand was not complied with, they would take possession of the city. It is added, that the Emperor of Russia, alarmed at this new aggression of Bon A ars, and apprehending some new encroachments, has ordered an army of 60,000 men to march into Swedish Pomerania ; where, in conjunction with the Native Forces, it will form a strong cordon for the protection of the North. The former part of this account is confirmed by an article in the Ifambergh Correlondenten, dated Altona, 3d March, which states, that the French troops had. for some days past, taken possession of the villages in the neighbourhood of Lubec, and held it in a state of blockade. Letters, from va rious parts of Italy, re-echo the report of the return of the Toulon Fleet. It appears to have steered a Southern diredion, and to have advanced as far as Minorca in its course. The Rochfort squadron had 5000 troops on board, and is said to be destined for the East Indies. A Court of Direttors was yesterday held at the East India House, when the following important • appointments were male, for the new Government of Prince of Wales's Island, viz. John Hope Oliphant, Esq. Ist in Council and Warehouse keeper. Henry Shepherd Pearson, Esq. Secretary to the Government. Thomas Esq. Assistant Sec. to the Government. James Philip Hobson, Esq l Accountant. - . . Robinson, Esq. Assistant. Quentin Dick Thompson, Esq. Sub-Warehouse-keeper and Paymaster. W.l Phillips, Esq . Crilleetor of Customs and Land Revenue. John Erskine, Esq. Assistant to the Superintenclant and toreinsepar The Rev. Attwell Lake, Chaplain. The undermentioned Commanders took their final leave of the Court. viz. Captain Colnett, Ca.tle Fden, for Bengal and Rencoolen ; Captain saltwell, Admiral Gardner, for St Helana and Madras; Captain Landon, City of Lonlois, for Bombay; Capt. Rogers, General Stuart, for Madras and Banal ; Captain J. Monng, Comet, for Madras. The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till to-morrow. The Bombay Fly. Cruller, Nancy, and Cre .le, country ships, have been capture I in the Gulph of Persia, by the La Fortune French privateer. The Shaer, BY eAmcota E, from Bengal, that was captured by Lirrois's squadron, has been given up, and is arrived at Bengal. The Marquis of Welisiles, from Bengal, was at Madras. on the ltith of Ottober last. The following whalers had arrived at St. Helena, previous to the 3d January last : Albroo, Bunker; Duchess of P..rtland, Cleveland ; Cottle; Juno. Richardson; and Fanny, Ilitchman. A letter from Madras, of the Roth of 06tober, states, that the following seven English prisoners made their escape from the French at the Mauritius in the end of August, and got on board His Ma jest) 's squadron cruising of that Island. E.lwaid Duncan, Mager of the inn, of Liverpool. These Jenkins, Chief Mate of the Admiral Thomas Ro:lasul, Chief M.tte of the Eliza Ann, taken at Res coolesi by the Frer,ch ei•ra iron on the 11th Dec IS0:3 Robert 1-laymart, Chief Mite of the Alfred, taken off the B l2th of March last. John Sampson Tarlievell, taken by the Psyche on the brig Ari- . . . _ _ ve , ltum, where he was a pawilgur. Andrew . Black. Fourth 114..te of the Althea. Edward Cherington, Boatswain of the Intestiutor. They informed the Senior Officer, that the Psyche was the only ship of war in Port Louis ; that Ad miral Ltoots had only three months peovisions on hoard. There were no military stores embarked on beard the French squadron, or soldiers, but about 160 Volunteers. The duty on horses, which was negatived in the House of Commons on Tuesday, was estimated at 320,0001. Of course a substitute must be found to that amount. Another German Legion is to be formed imme diately, to consist of 5000 men, under the command of the Duke of Sussex. The Bank began to issue receipts for the Omnium yesterday, and will continue the same this day AA to-morrow. 'rhe dispatches received from the Courts of Peters burgh and Stockholm have been the subjek of a Ministerial conference, to which the Russ' AM AM BASSADOR was invited. The terms of the Treaty which has been so long upon the tapis, a:: under stand, have at length been agreed to by the Mi nisters of the respehive Powers, and their ratifica tion by the High Contrasting Parties will very shortly take place. The Bombay Insurance Company have subscribed 5,0001. to be presented to Sir N•THANIZI, DA , CE, as a token of their high admiration of his spirited condud when opposed to Liriots. The amount of the Bank Notes of 51. each, and upoards, including Bank Post Bills, payable seven days after sight, in circulation on the 15th of last month, was 13,781,4801. The amount of the '2l. and 11. Notes. in circulation at the same time, was 4,729,4501. Mr. Cox, and Sir WILLIAM RAWLINS, were yes.. terday visited at their apartments in Newgate, by a great number of friends. The period of their im prisonment is likely to last as long as the present Session of Parliament; as it is reported, that they are determined not to throw themselves upon the clemency of the House, or solicit any remission of their punishment. 'rbe Rev. WALTZ!! BROWN, A. M. Chaplain to the Duke of MAIILZOROUOM, and Redor of Wood stock, was last week installed a Prebendary of Can terbury Cathedral, to which he has been presented by the King, on the demise of Dr. VTNZR. The Assizes have commenced in Ireland ; and it is with pleasure we hear, that the country is become so tranquil, that the Judges, who were the marked vidims of the misled populace, subsequent to the insurredion of the 23d of July, are now reverenced by the people, and a military escort is no longer ne cessary w proted them in passing from one county to another ; neither is the administration of justice any longer supported at the point of the bayonet. There has also been a considerable decrease of of fences, and the Calendars exhibit the names of but few persons charged with capital ORIGINAL POETRY. HOME. Look round the world; view hlgh, view I ,w, The Peer, the Peacant—all, we know, floweer raiolad abroad that' room, As thought recurs, still sigh for fir .me A If wme, where, through the'clrcling year, Dear Quiet dwallo wah Loy-. vineete ; A Home, where every eoitthrt steak The weaned mind from whit it fee:6 ; Where days of toil are erown'A with ease, And home'. sweet partner smi:ei to please. The Peer may revel, not, range, Possesi'd of wealth, may hourly change ; But still within his troubled breast Will lurk the sigh he Howe and rest. A Home, Ike. The Peasant may forsake his cot To gossip with some ale-house sot ; But still, whisneer he tkinls, hell own 'Twits wiser to have staid with Joan, At Hume, *c. Then wander Mill through Fully's sum, Ye giddy throng, ten thousand ways; I envy not your diequiseil lot, Canteen with woe true Vista spot. Domestic life's the life for cue, Where Horne, though homeiy, home shall be; A Home, where every comfort steals The wearied mind from what it feels; While days of toil are crown'd wilt ease, And Hume's sweet partner smiles to please!. ANTLENT MUSIC. The sixth performance took place last night, and was honoured with the presence of Their Malas• nit and the Piiiscissas. The performance was under the ~ iireetion of Earl Foarascut, for Vis count Ft rzwit.t.rAu. The Noble Earl, as Direetor of the evening, met Their MAJESTIES, and lighted them to the Royal box. His MAJESTY continued in particular conversation with Earl FORTESCUE, from hii entrance at the door, to the Royal box, and did not leave off till a great part of the Overture had been played. His MA:ESTY then entered into con versation with the Earl of DARTMOUTH. The fol lowing apology was made by the Direaors for the absence of Mrs. BILLINGTON: " In consequence of the indisposition of Mrs. Billington, Miss Tennant has obligingly undertaken her part for this evening, and hopes for the kind itsdnirnce of the Sub-criber, " Miss Tammany acquitted herself with very great ' credit in the songs allotted to her, as well as all Mrs. BiLussovores ; particularly in the 'elation trcm DavaxtesOde. The heat of the root vras so great, that at the end of the First AEI the Earl of DAtt rMOUTH gave direftions for windows to be opened, and all the air possible to be let into the Royal Box. Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, His MA. 1 1 !Err Y visited the Princess of WALLS, at Blaclilheath, arid spent the day, atm!' dined with Her fiord Highness. About half past three o'clock His MAJESTY set off for the QueenYtiouse in his travelling carriage. In the evening Their M -AJESTIISS and the PRIM. Cessts honoured the Concert of Ancient Music with their pre.ence. The Counts., of CARDIGAN leaves town to morrow for Windsor. Lady Boy avow, and Lady HOLLAND, have ar rived in town to join the fashionable circle. His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES is on a visit to the Earl of Mor RA, At Dnnnington Park. Earl FITZWILLIAM is gone to his seat at Milton, near Peterborough. The Duchess of Bor.vor will give a grand Ball on Monday next. Roarer Jasnea, Esq. arrived, onTuesday even ing, at his house in Montague-street, kussell-square, from Chislehurst, Kent. The Archbishop of YORK visited Lord CASTLE. REACH, and several others of the Nobility, on Tuesday. Admiral PHILLIPS left Islitacit's Hotel, on Tues day, for Bath. Mrs. HORSLRT, Lady of the Bishop of ST. Ass Ps, has been dangerously indisposed at Brigh ton; but we are happy to announce that she is so much recovered as to be expeSed at her house in York-place, in two or three days. The Earl of ROSZBERRY is on his way to Lon don from Scotland. The Farce of Oat of Pilfer very appropriately fol lowed Mr. K zzzzz 's ujviitesosts pauses in the Comedy of To Marry, or Not to Marry, on Tuesday night. Sir Wu. Asu &URN HA le left town yesterday for his seat in Sussex. J. P. DAVI' A an, Esq. M.P. arrived yesterday at his house in Portland-place, from Devonshire. The Oratorio last night was very full. Mrs Aims was indisposed with a cold. Mrs. &asp and Miss MONDAY kindly sung her songs. We are extremely sorry to learn that Mr. Asa I. v, ass. the Manager of Covent-Garden Oratorios. was so mach indisposed, he was not expeCted to survive last night. Died lately, at his seat in the county of An trim, Ireland, C WORTHY SILLIFINO TON. Earl Of MASSAIIILNE, ViSCollnt MAMA RCENS, and Baron of Louosasauu. This Nobleman was many years confined in the Bastile prison in France, and effeaed his escape, in the year 1789, by marrying Mademoiselle NIA ft v-Ais m BARRIER, daughter of the Governor, who, with her sister and her husband, became the partners of his flight, and accompanied him to Ireland. His Lord ship possessed many eccentricities : from his long residence in the Bastile, he contrafted a habit of sleeping on a mattrass on the floor. and after hi. return to Ireland continued it, her Lady ship resting on a down bed in the same apartment ; but this was not the only circtimstancie they dis agreed in, and at last a separation took place. His Lordship was in his sixty-third year. and is suc ceeded in his titles and estates by the Hon. Col. Satrsisoros, his Lordship's brother, who is gone to Ireland to take possession. FOREIGN rfTELLIGENCE. HAMB S URGII MAILS. FARIS, rsit. €2B: The la.t summons addressed to the Conscript, for the year 13, is posted 0.1 all the walls of Paris, by order of the Pro&ft of the Seine. Admiral Built, commander of the Imperial flo. tilla at Boulogne, has been here for some weeks past ; he is declared to be consumptive ° and the physicians are hopeless 9f his recovery. The com mand, ad issteria, has heel/ given to Rear-Admiral Lacrosse. an it is thought the command is re served for Admiral Villaret Joyeuse, who, report says, is to be recalled from Martinique f r that purpose. The fleet which sailed from Rochefort, six weeks ago, is commanded by Rear Admiral Missiessi, Who is an old officer of =rims skilful and experi . enced. He was a Rear-Admiral at the commence ment of the Revolution, but was obliged to con ceal himself, to save his Lead. The fleet has 5,000 land troops ors board ; th.,tr destinauon is as yet a secret, bet it is believed that they are bound to the Isle of France, to annoy the trade of the l‘nglish in the eastern seas, and to relieve Rear-Admiral Linois. It is universally concluded that the Colony of St. Domingo is last to the French for ever, at ►east, it prdl not b.." speedily re-conquered. The obvious season is, that DessAlines, hAvipt distributed the estates amongst the negroes, the population must necessarily become awre formidable. 110101411 OP TtlE visrutt, Irtt• The Countess De Lille will tet oat from Verso vie, the Sith February r and the Duchess d'Angou leme, the Id of March, for BlekincrlA near Mittau. All the family_will set out from thence, in the month of J uly, for riow. scrams, wsecti We learn here, that the French troops have, far some days pa-t. been placed in the village: around Lubeck. and permit nothing to leave it. • Lutmics, rsa. i t An amicable convention has been coecluacd b e tween Austria and France, that no mere troops shall, on either side, be sent to 1t.2:). N•fl4%, YES. 6. A Danish skip which arrived here on the 2111. of January reports, that she met in the Straits of Gibraltar a Russian einadron ; and that she had seen a Russian ship of the bee not far distant /ism Messina. • -te MESSINA. SAM. 30, Yesterday morning, an English brig artivrd here with intelligence that the French Toulon fleet had put to sea in the absence of Admiral Nelsan, and steered its course to the South. In the at:el-ramp an express arrived from the Commandant of the flirt of the Faro, with adrices that a nu-nerousfleet hikd appeared off the Lipari islands, the entours of which could not be distinguished. A great cornurotioe was excited among the populace, as the ;vise-A was spread, that it was the Toulon fleet,which wa., to lani1„19 4 000 men in Sicily. An English corvette that lay lieae.lits mediately sailed to reconnoitre. and the Engliet trap sports, No. 39, 40, *l, and some Maltese ves,s4 e gut ready to sail with an expedition to avoid, ihoul4,lle report be confirmed, falling into the hands ortbe enemy. In the evening, tirebrig likets-iee to sea, but returned early in the morning with certain advice, that Admiral Nelson, with tvnlve shies of the line and five frigates, had arrived off the Lipari islands, in the hope of finding the Toulon fleet- To day, at noon, he endeavoured to pass the Strait, but a strong south wind prevented, and he now lie s a t anchor at the entrance of the Faro. Of the Toulon fleet we have not the least intelligence, and it is now believed that it is a mere report that it has sailed for Egypt. manor% Ice. S. It is now said that a considerable body of our troops will advance to the frontiers of Portugal. We have now no longer any fears for .Majorca and Minorca, as the garrisons have been gradn , i:y reinforced, and placed in A respelable state of de fence. There is now no doubt that about the end • of January a plan had been formed against Gibr d tar, the execution of which was to have been fa voured by a secret understanding in *the town, and the attack was to be made partly from the camps of St. Hoch. and partly from the gun-boats of Al gesiras. The principal object of the expedition was to recover the ships taken from the Spaniards, among which were several King's frigates in Gi braltar. It is, however, believed, that the care and increased vigilance of the English have prevented their attack from being carried ante effeCt. It is doubtful whether Portugal will be able to preserve her neutrality in the present was. FERROL, JIAN. There are now thirty gun-boat;. two ships of the line, and one frigate, in this load. Three ships or the line will soon join them ; and three others a e fitting out with the utmost activity. This place is now in a respeftable state of defence. rtoacsce, res. 5. On the Ith inst. the French frig** Co;leedia sailed again from Genoa to join the fleet.' A ship of the line, two other frigate*, and a small vessel, have likewise been separated. These, accotuing to some accounts, have sailed for Corsica': according to others, they have gone with succours to hiinorm. An Lnglish cutter was taken off Mahon be the Toulon fleet, before it returned to roulon ; the crew was taken out, and the cutter burned. The King of Naples, it is said, will now dish And the Provincial Militia, as he has received satisfie? ,, ry assurances with respea to his neutrality. Business goes on as before at Leghorn The The atre was opened again on the 99th of Januar). Mr. GLAD', who sof thirty-sir. years *Pts a re speaable housekeeper and payrnbmker in Oxford street, worn down by misfortunes, and the neces sary espences attendant on a large Lundy, died some time since: his widow Mort disposing of the remaining stock, embarked in se I.:e shop in the neighbourhood , :o endeavnor rox.support her family; but her constitution was unegc.l to rci b ut ssi AT : . a nushi fth r e t h 4, t hand 4citon rip r tf . her exertions, and, at this moment, this worthy wo man lies dead, her bed sturtrunded by env" orphito bethancchhdgil:lrtechile:ozio.minMaythordicwbel.aty t c reet. t oc aonw it y. , " :h l t e rPt un : Po riC arrs t sana, the and aaim agents for this wretched fisnin % '1