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INDIA. CALCIiTTA. GAztrir: EXTn AORDINAItY. wLDNestii v, •te. 15. 1801. A dispatch was yesterday received by His Excel lency the Most Noble the Governor General in Council, from the Commissionet at Fort Marlbo rough, dated the 28th December, 1803, a French squadron of one line of battle-ship, and three fri gates, appeared -off that Residency. On the following morning, two of the enemy's frigates proceeded to Poolo Bay, where they de stroyed the ship Ewer, Capt. Richie, and captured die Elise km, Captain Stephenson. The Note led the Marlboreazh, commanded by Captains pandas and Slater, and lying in Palle Bay, were burned by their crews to prevent their falling into the bands of the enemy. The house of the Resident at Poolo Bay. and the Hon. Company's pepper godowns, were afterwards burned by the enemy, and about 400 tons of pepper were destroyed. On Monday, the dlth December, the enemy sailed to the Southward, without making any attempt against the ort. TI e most active exertions were made by the Com missioner, Mr. Ewer, for the defence of the princi pal settlement, and the Commissioner was zealously and ah r assisted by all the inhabitants. and by the Cri-- ,,, na lees and clew, of the chips in Poolo Bay. Tn:• ship Countess of Sutherland, Captain Eggles ton, was captured by the enemy, a few days before their arrival off Fort Marlborough. Pa:ilklied by Command of His Excellency, the Most Noble the Governor-General in Council, J. Lemmas, Chief Secretary to Government. )lIIT UILLIAtaI, TEL 15, 18n4. Dispatches have been this day received by the Chief Secretnry to the Government, frcm Captain Page, of His Majesty's ship Caroller. dated the 6th January. and the 14th of February, 1804, of which the following extrafts are published for general in formation. EXTRACTS /AGM A 'ATTER. rams CAPTAIN PAGE, DATI.II 151 E SEII JAN. 1804. I request you will inform the most Noble the Governo...General in Council, that I had the good for.uae to capture the French privateer brig, b.. Freres Unit, of 140 tons, pierced for 16 nine and six pounders, but with only eight on board, and having 131 , mcn on board, fifteen of whom were Officers. and forty soldiers, from Bourdeaux, in July, and from Mauritius the 11th November, going to cruise off the Sand Heads, and had not made a ca dture. • t itacrs TEONI A I.ETTER i!011 CAPTAIN PAGE, DATED THE [4IH its. 1804. I request you will inform his Excellency the most Noble Marquis Wellesley, Governor-General in Council, that I am arrived at Kedgeree, in His Majesty's ship, under my comma•ud, with her prize the French ship, General dr Cato. of 26 guns, and £OO men, which I captured between the Cocos And AdAman Isles, on the inst. and before she had mad, a capture. This ship was built fora vessel of war, equal to our twenty gun ships, and carries IS nine-pounders on her gun-deck. besides those on her quarter-deck and forecastle, v.likh arc heavy carronades. FuMislied by Command of his Excellency the Most Noble the Governor General in Council, .1 I,vmsnEN, Chief Secretary to Government IZTRACT Of ILFTTICR FROM AN 0/IricElit ON *GARD NI! IMAJVITT'S SHIP CAIOLINI, DATLO ILLDOE- Pitt. ►es. 14, Islo4. As you may wish to know the particulars of our little captures, I beg leave to inform you. that having convoyed the East India ships into lat. It. 30. Moth, and long. 111, SO. East. we parted with them all well, e. m. 4th January, and stood to the Eastward. Next mornin,-;, at two a. m. we saw, chased, and in less than four hours, captured Lev F -e re• rw's. French privateer brig. of Iti guns, and 134 men. She made every attempt to get sway, and gave us her eight guns as we hailed her, which cut our boats, 3cc, but hurt only our geese, three of 'which they killed, and wounded two ; odr mus quetry wounded one man hadiv. but the rest laid too 41.tt &Iwo to he hurt. Though they meant to board as, and were well prepared to do so, the dawning day and our marines deterred them. She had 13 pfficers and 40 soldiers, and snffered much in her masts and rigging, or we might not have caught her. lVe got into Penang with her on the VArth January, where she was sold as she stood, for a cruiser, in the Cornpaly's service, for 5,300 Spanish dollars, on the 31st. Our prisoners being equally distributed b'c'seen the Garrison and tlis Majesty's ships Cos ta/4, Vich,r, and Corolla( ' we sailed r.n the 23d to look for more of these gentry, sone of which are said, by our prisoners, to have sailed with L•s Frerrr Unit. The Viver left the Br'a'e all w-11 on the bth January, and got to Penang on the 22d. On the ,11 February, at eight a. m. we got sight This Dsy—As.s. SA 1T1Ti.41011.14 at the Public Offices. - - BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, THURSDAY. Noveussit 1. Yesterday we received the Monitnsr, and several other Paris Papers to the 2 uh instant, the following article, dated Petersburgh, 7th Ottober, is the only part their contents that deserves notice— “ The Emperor of Russia, having been informed that the Count Dr. Lit Ls had quitted Warsaw, and was going to Russia, where he was to have the con ferences announced before hand with persons ex peited from England, would not suffer those con ferences to take place in his States. He has made known to the Count De Litt e, that having had re lations with the French Government, having signed with it several treaties, and that Government having been recognised in Russia since the treaty of 1801, he would not suffer any thing to take place, which might induce it to be thought that the Court of Russia had changed its system and opinion upon the suhjeti." . We do not hesitate to ptossoonce this pretended letter fn m St. Petersburgh, an impudent fabrica tion from the Paris manufattory. Can any man, who sees the present relations between France and Russia, be weak enough to believe, that the gene. serous A t rx snot!, who mourns and laments the fate of the Duke D'ENGHIEN, is eager to insult the Box:aeons, to gratify the fool and midnight murderer of that virtuous Prince ? We can besides state from authority, that the Emperor of Rcsst♦ offered His Most CHRISTIAN MsJESTY Vilna, Grodno, or Mittan, for his future residence ; but that Colmar, in Sweden, had been previously fixed upon by the Musts ions exile. A private letter from Paris of the 18th •It. states, that it was not from any other cause but the non arrival of the POPE, that the coronation of the Corsican adventurer. as an Emperor of the French, was postponed from the 9th to the 22J inst. The unfortunate Pontiff has, during these last eight months, been exposed to all possible threats, humiliations, and plots of BONAP ART CS military satellites and political intriguers. Our cor. respindent informs us, that since last March, Pies VII. has been informed, that he weer go to France to perform the sacrilegious ceremony of crowning an assassin and Atheist, c r resign the Tiara to (:ardinal FM, and pass the remainder of his days in a convent. Suspended between his duty as a Christian Pontiff, and his obligations as a temporal sovereign, tormented by the pangs of his own con science, and dreading the consequences fur his sub jesqs, should he listen to its dinates, he has nego tiated, offered pecuniary sacrifices and full power to Cardinal Fesn, to sit on this occasion in his name and oa Lis part. Nothing, however, would satisfy the outrageous ambition, and atrocious po licy of the barbarous N A rot sou, than to ascend a throne, seated on the ruins of religion, as well as of l o yalty. From the camp of Bottlogr.e, Last Au gust. Bo r., therefore, informed the Pock, that an immediate assent was required from him, or before he, Bo a, was crowned an Emperor, Pius VII. should be reduced to a Bishop of Rome, and the sub**. of the King of SARDINIA, to whom the Ecclesiastical States should be given in indemnity. The melsbers of the sacred college were then convoked, and it was determined, 64 that the Chief of the Roman Church should submit, with Christian humility, to the degrading circumstances of the times." Know ing. however, llostarsa rc's desire to be clowned on the anniversary of his usurpation, by feigning illness the Poi. s hoped that this period would pass Over, and some one else perform the ceremony. Of this Busara ere did not become the dupe, but or• dered his Aid-de-Camp, General CArIAII:LLI, to set out immediately for Rome, and not lose sight of ths; Port, until h.. had passed the frontiers of France; informing this videfreadeffit Sovereign at the same time, that. 4 , was his journey postponed until next summer, from natural or artificial causes, the corms:aunt ceremony should be also postponed. as Bos•rAarr: was determined tbat none but the Port should place the imperial crown on his bead." We are, however, *assured, by our Paris cone spondent, that the health of ries VII. is much paired, and that on this account he Las voluntarily offered to return to the monastery of the Char troese, at Rome, there to await his death, resign ing his triple crown to any one chosen by the con clave. This, again, has been refused, at ios e, by the merciless Corsican ; and, when the last letter s left Rome, preparations were made for His Hotl y ess's j itirney to France, though his infirmities, his grid, the season, and, more than all this, the unconscious barbarity of his oppressor, will probably soon relieve him from the torment of inhabiting the same world that criminals, regicides, and rebels tyrannise over. This unheard of event, which, in better times, would have armed all true Christians and loyal subjeas, like many others, has ceased to area the volatile sensibility of Europe. In coun tries smitten by the revolution, every man thinks only of supporting his misfortunes, or anticipating new ones ; elsewhere, pleasures thrive as in the most fortunate times. This epocha is a carnival to all that have hitherto escaped France ; here is weeping, there dancing, but all sympathy for the sufferings of others is worn out. The degradation of religion, the humiliation of a Sovereign, the plunder of subjefts, and the destru.llion of states, does not interrupt the balls, the routs, the festivals, or frivolity of their neighbours. European selfish. ness has long since thrown off the load of pity. There would have been less inhumanity in deliver. ing the grey hairs of Pius VII. to the hands of the executioner, than in Box AAAAA cool and systema tic atrocity of studiously profaning the holiness of his character, loading him wilfully with disgrace and sorrow., dragging him from his altars into the sacri legious temples in France, so lately prostituted to the adoration of a Goddess of Reason, and in preaching the tenets of fatality, of atheism. But the abominable fanaticism of revolutionary akilosophy has, no doubt, suggested as an addition to the number of martyrs. trampled upon or immolated at its shrine, the head of a religion, whose annihilation it has, ever since 1789, been bent upon ! ! ! Metter from our correspondent at Vienna, of the 12th ult. states, " that most foreign powers and people have mistaken the motives which determined the Cabinet of Vienna to advise its Sover.'ign to as sume the title of au hereditary Emperor of Au ►tria. Every one must acknowledge," continua he, " that Box AAAAA &has reason to be proud of the success of his political machinations and hatigues ; that be makes a traffic of every passion of the human heart, finds out the wants and weaknesses of every court and of every potentate, and, by playing upon the common failings of them all, renders every power, even in its degradation and fall, subservient to his own gigantic views of ambition and aggran disement. Bin this cannot be applied to the re cent assumption of the new hereditary dignity by Estancia 11. ; nor is this measure to be regarded as a studied imitation of the condud of the upstart, self-eieded Tyrant of France, or as a sant9ion of his usurpation. Surely there is a substantive and obvious difference between the mere change, of a title from King to Emperor, by a lawful hereditary Monarch, without the advancement of any new pretensions, without the exercise of any additional power $ and the assumption of a tide by an Usurper. nut only more dignified and elevated than that which he previously enjoyed, but of a na ture totally different, and accompanied with the usurpation of a despotic and absolute power, eq tally destructive of that limited authority with which the people had entrusted hint, and of that constitution which he was appointed to prated, and which he had sworn to maintain. In the foe-suer, therefore, is neither imitation, nor sanction of the latter. It i s the iteerest of Bona arra to have it considered in this point of view; but it is to be hoped, that his miserable suphistry will not succeed nr v, as it has done in so many other instances, in the ;udgment of 'mankind, and in silencing the voice of common sense. Our Sovereign's motive for the assumption of this new title is to he looked for in the known and selfish intentions of His Penns' n MAJ Lilt V to dispossess the Imperial Family bore of their present dignity, as Chiefs of the German Empire ; and in the insidious promises of the Cor sican to tran , fer this dignity to the &IX denhar,g4. El:a:gins 11. is looking forwards to the time when the growing influence o: France, in pusillanimous Councils of the Empire, will he successfully exerted in proem ing for a Prince, mean enough to be indebted to her interference for the aggrandisement of his name and the extension of his power, the title of KINO of the Romans. and his consequent elevation to the head of the Empire ; and, unwilling to have an interior raised above his superior ; a Monarchy of yesterday placed higher on the regal scale than a Prince descended from a long line of Royal and illustru...a ancestors, who had ruled as Emperors for centuries, was willing to avert the affront of such degradation, by leaving to his heir, at least, an enlist tide to that which he enjoys himself. This was a natural and a laudable desire, and not the offspring of ridiculous pride or puerile api',ition. Neither Tai land, nor Sweden, have yet ackr 11. as an hereditary Emperor the official communication on th as near as pussible,all2 related to pm, which, instead ment, are evident signs of nn of the plans and plots of the 11 from having gained any deci was never more justly detested watched by our Cabinet. During still enjoy, our army continues blishment ; our arsenals are fil building, and the old ones repair sia positively and frankly dui; sires war or race, we must rem and on the defensive, having as Prussia as from France," The accounts of the injury at Bencoulen, being various ant official report of it, which is gi of India, will be found interesti It has blown very hard for sei our eastern and southern coast. squadron was to have sailed yel mouth, but the v.ind was unfav The Price William, armed sht convoy from Elsinore, ate arrive The Spred;:et, FOOT, of South:, was lost on the 28th instant, near and part of the cargo saved. Yesterday the bidding took Lottery, to be drawn the 28th following ate the prices that were ranicontb, atm Cop • And Nesbitt H P bher,h and Le. The Lottery %to consist of 25,, p.tyments to be As under , and Cu Nov. 6, D,v,xit Doc. 29, Jan. 23, The Purser of the Lady egrat India House, yesterday afteroc is a corset list of the passenger Bengal : M. s. Lient..oll Ksd, Chi Adapt 114.4in , 5e.., Licut.,ai.t. Villau Mr. J. Miasz. F!;aa %men A Duncan Stun. g. H. Stan ley. and H. Wine; Mica F. Uwe! Francis. Yestet day, a Court of Dire& East India House, when the ur were taken up for the ensuing ' N. S. ROO TOW, buittling by cvn•itned for Coao and Ray. Wal, clo p •20 Tams (early), ditto. N S. SOO Tuna, building by Messrs. tu launch in Nr.aub•+, Coast And Eiso- A llairal Garthhi', 8 a Ca,.l lay. N S. PonTims buiMing by Me s, Pr•Nt.m, VI Tons Ca:ttniat #1 St Cen lou t 111 S TOII4, CWO4 +..1 Bg7. FAH Howe r 871Tot , ‘, M. &as N. S. SOO tuns, bui.theg in the reel' St. Helena and cierigal. I.ady 1:.”. , 1ef0,gh, 820 Te:te, St. Cliar.ton, it 1K Ton., Madc.s. F.. 1, 1 11-, ISM Win 'Kiln, c .? N. S. S(H) Toot, b•oitchug l.y Mr. C- Cagtle Met', M D Tgtsi., Eat' 804.4.1 Cum!aer•and, 1,200 T.mi, Warl.7, I,ti 0 TOW. Odin. Gant-s, 1,200 Twill, China Dormi.shire, 1.200 T , Omits, 1,400 . row, China. E:eter 1,200 Ton* China live, 1,200 Torts, China. N. S. 800 Toys, bnilßii by M-. T 1 Cot of Loudon, WO T.ll. Bomb: C c 81:1T...‘ , . St. iiciena an, LOW I is 4 H 830 con:, St. Heh The Court adjourned at 6 o'cl The . following is a list of t 1 that sailed Irom the Mauritius, Of December last : La Ftntilt e, La Clatisse tivortal Lk:caen, 11...v04 Tr"i 4 Fra-re. um, _ . Or the above vessels, four h; cruisers when the last Accounts The P•yehe, that captured the continued her depredations. three shires; one of which is Owner, another by the Colony a third by the crew and Cap% eltitled to twelve shares of all t A letter from Dover, of Tf the armed vessels from Dunk' .veek attacked by the Immort Owtx, in their passage for lioi sion of the Gallo-llatavian fle• ginning of the present mnnt!i, where they have Seen blocks. May. Our cruisers have lat• 1 , hours of Calais, Dunkirk, and mei, there are but a sew st.i;,l but at Dunkirk, upwards of and, at Ostend, nearly the sat between tw and three itundn descriptions, in the Canal of harbour of Ostend ; all, no th•• general place of r•rndezvoi Of the four prsons lately of Carlow, and brought up Castle, the names of three ar Imschelr. 'file first a very we zier second, an err..ent 1 a y man of respelltbili C 4: iI,W. •I'h other is an i Paper .4ys, they are lIT' 1.i.. 4' . . timatcly connected wit!, an or French a 4i.tmcc ; and, tem of assassiguttion of rersui the State. of a ship nearly between the Cocos and Preparis Islands, and at eight the next day captuted Le Ge n•rat de Caen, French ship. privateer. 360 tons, 26 guns. and 200 men, c 2 of whom were officers and soldiers, from the Isle of France, stored and victu alled for five months, and had taken nothing. The Cgrobve caught this sLip by superior sailing. both ships having all possible sails set. Our chace guns at last hulled her, and she struck; thank God, without hurt to a man. She is on her way to Cal cutta, and we shall follow her in the Pilo, schooner. next tide. 'urkey, Russia , .• 1 Att. knowledged Far,sr:s r of Austria, thou ~t, his subject, explained, in the manner I hare of being a compii. Liarust and suspicion Jsurper ; wlur , so far cisive influence her; d by our Court and og the armed truce we s on the full war esta. filling, new fortress - 3 Liting ; but until Ras. tares whether she de. main drawl, :Is we ay., as much to fear fi, :a y done by the French rid contradidory, given under the t:::a.1 ieveral days past upon t. Sir Jona Orme': - esterday from Ports- teourable. see= hip, with a fl, , et under red in the Humber. thamptcm, from Cork, near Plymouth ; crew k place for the New , of January next, the 'ere offered nd °Buds 1..15 16 11 . 15 7 11 LS 4 9 . 15 4 6 ,000 Tickets, and the . L.l 13 0. . 3 Id 0 - lb 0 0 . • 10 0 aerate attired at !he loon. The foil .Mg ;ors by th..t ship tom hief r at lto. , sal; nd and F.., Mr T 41 Alla art, Ouael.nr, iVtilllll, C. Rsali;.s, and C. eeors was held at th ite undermentioned Ship • Season, 1804-5, viz.. Gs an. C h ristie and Caa,r raa aa ears. Betradaile, exrect. Al lay. .44111 Bradford, Coast 2.. irs Burradaile, Madras. 111 Ca.... 4 ...id o.y. • um of the Princess Anael'o 11. lie:eua and Madras 1 Ma fres. C •vlnti acid Madr !.d It. chaw. • Thomas, BuiWasy. day. ad Bengal. • tl !len.' and Madras. clock till tamonoic the French Privates . st h previous to the •2 4 .1 • I: Argonne, I.' divide, Le- Gruel:an, and I:Espiega. bad been taken by a left India. the 441414 t She is divided is held by a y of the Kittritois,• , ! , twain : the 1.4.t0 be! 1 captures. Tu-slay, states, th ikirk, which were 11 rtaiite frigate, Cap. loulogne, w ere legit, which. ' Itnui 0 -- n- • 3,1 up ever since 1.. le 1 , ,, ,1ted into the 1m d Osund. In the ha .s of the grain' land: , t tcute were coon: , ante numher ; red v.:ctcla of dillrrer of Bilges, joining th a doubt, intended IJ uus, liouloune. • arrests i I.: the cow" ( wi-3 an inwilard is sons of cohiequa::ce