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rit 9 ,ll: THE.,1 ? y,41q4 P'/JETS. KoiosToN, JUNE • t3.--:-ArriiTed the Mary Ann . & • iroin, London: Of! the E 'End , she was chased six hours by a French Privateer Schooner, when, on . the Enemy's receiving a bniadside from ber r , she immediately bore away. A few hours after she was boarded by Le Goelan .Brig, of I 6 guns, Capt. Ci.nmerr,.who mentioned that he had chased the smile Privateer fbr several hours, but that she had . escapedtinsonsequence of•her superior sailing. A r bilsteaptaielsEmornaia was at St. Kitts, ac counts were received from Santa Cruz, stating the arrival there of a Vessel from Denmark in a short passage, which brought intelligenCe of the French' . Army having. retreated out of Poland; and that hey m/Fre vigorously followed up by the Russian Fciles.' The day before the it.t.ai,iirTn sailed, sot ejlegrce of Consterrnation was excited at St. .Christopher's . by the arrival of a 'Sohoonerlrotu Antigua' with. , in.--. folm4ion that a Briti t th. .Frigate bad a few days . pro vibus, to windward of the IslanA, discovered five Ves'sels of War, three of them of the line, which ... . • could not answer signals, and'were evidently -French, stet:ringto the Northward. Most of the. Vessels, in. conkequengeof this intelligence, bent their sails, and • u'ere preparing to seek proteEtion under the batteries of Brimstone Frill. . . l'hielittertied Schooner- Maria, rIIA I NdISCO, froth Carthagena bound 'to ibis Port, with t',0,000 dollars, was captured on, Wednesday morning, 'Within .g4tif shin. of Rot k-Fort, by French Privateer' SclT?eUer,". La Sans, Pareille, of three guns and . ' lob 'tiien;'ihiN plundered h er o f 48,000 dollars, and then permute her to proaecute her _voyage. into. port, where sWd' arrived on the following ,day. The Captain and Ciew of the Privateer appeared very intelligent,. and zrientioued the narnpi,ol several Vessels shortly ex." Paled to iiiiive here; _they also produCed the:.la, , erica Courant Newspaper of - the Bth inst. 'Tfitt ,- Settooner I,'ail), Orptherss- Bo iID, which sailed o .ns. this Poit , in Noveniber last 'ter the Indian at. Wig on the ,28th . February tiketi postioSiotv i 4, of i,,,, tour of her crew, `via. two Spaniards, a -,slarty niunea John Qutzriser i .. belonging to 'Mt.SAeirti4i t ' is:l CLARK, of Port Royal, and a free roan of.cologr,,of,, the ainnepl.see, named Thomas Brian. The Th: 1 leiener • had just cntnpleted her cargo of tor toise-shell; 4,girtn.. l et:fill...;.aiid speeie, andAerrew were ashore at a place called Mosquito-Itey, fur the purpose of Woodingiand . 15ar4 7 1 . 4 , ; he n the person' above mentioned got ~...,,, , , • li 1 - • • as 'claistie,stiiiely, and inade for the Schotinerin a sm ; 4l . opat,•.and.ara,;:'ied the•Miiin' to go on shoie, __. se the , Captain' wished to Speak With Itini, which he_ comptiiB Viiih, and they - immediately afttr c ut her 'cablo4o-440Mexted to sea. ibis circumatatice was perceiveii. from . t4o . — land, ana seiina canoeu wi th'i kn: ni Ind' Iti heti people went is pawn it, but teenry ende t ayppr 'tis, come ,up with her proved inef-,; . . . fefitiat, apd'tliey we re fortunate - en ou' g 4 to cayryber . , safe. int6-Porto,-.Dello. 'f 1 BA t t nAli 6 tSJ 774 , 04 g.— hear -Mrnical Sir:Arlf.- ;7. :: . 1 At eta CociittANE, in the Nortiumber4did, * . tiied,,, in CatibleirilaYitiattl'horsday evening, from off Mar-:. t o lique, Where the other Line-of.battle Ships.ol thp_, Squad ots . ,reinain. crai%ing„ and will,' We : understand . , - II" again joiad in a few days lay the Admiral. . The *irip, Sloop of War, Lieut. Dia.§ (aging),., -with 4v.o.Schooners from Oronneo,...one a Spaniard; va4ll. **lilol4;. and the other a Dane, with 4§,. suPpott bcip4l 9 iNlartkitique, arrived on Tlitnsdayi . a nd yesterday .ntorning also arrived, a small French , S nhooner, sent, in the SaFtle :Schounir.• • MAY 1: - ..--:A. ~reii:g)illant anion has beets, recent- . l Y f o Pglit OW G,elidalo - iipe, by bis Majesty's S,ehminerr AT,ozinfibigue,- With . the; F rench Privateet Rng Gene , :i .-, ,.. 'NI &poll', in w hich ; the, enemy lost nearly 40 inen' in killed and Wenndea,' and was so cut up as to be cOmpelleti to sheernff. anti take refuge in pi rti,on the ISt itt4'..: The Alountfrique lost only two rnen,._but was still -unequal to the capturing of the enemy, w nich.Xv.ta sup Orly equipped, having ito men to . "1 5 s Ind mounting 1 4 gunk to 1 0 . ' # 13 Pwards of Wo ol wich , boats have been sell t Depiford, , Woolwich, and Chathatn, to . Sheer '', 44 5. - Several of them were on Friday put - on hoard,, ie raliant, liercuie, and Nassau,, under orders for 4 Baltic, prev i ous: to the sailing of the latter. • • SMITHFIELD MARKEr,,fr.v le. • . u", This day' s market was amply soppnea wan : 3 Sta , and the. show of Cattle in g enera l w: plenti- . 1111 ; Beef, Mutton, Veal, add Lamb are clearer than our last report'; Pork is somewhat cheaper, atul . the trad e was tolerabley good.—The Sales the Hay larket were pretty lively ; Hay and 'Clover fetched. better prices than Friday's market; Straw cottitinues the same as per last. • CORN EXCHANGE, JULY 20.—,-To-day 0e Market. is rather scantily stiPPL'.A with. Wheat, and the general sales of good : , amples at an advance of about 33 • Per quarter 3 13,44 7 in short supply, 'and fully Supports last price ; Malt Anil in sales; from the- Ir a, dews . Of the crop of Wh ite y ease. i n t h e neigh t:uoiring.counties. very tew are come, and those at ; . arther advance s• Grey are higher; Beans of Phck kind likewise; Of OAS there are several' arrivals,, 411 ,d this trade supports the prices quoted f Flour 41 60 - 1:„I $ -it-• .. 6as a Sot ad !leans (014' Os a 5,45' 6 ,1 , I , •:: um° - liii a ilis od Tick ditto Om) 031 4 7 $ .c " ' LI , , us , . " 44S a 47s act Oats - 243 2 10 wps od !,..; 4 ' i - -36 s a 4ts ad Poland dim) 333 aMI * l ., ‘., , i „. „ - 448 A 72.144 Itape-Need -- - 14 i a R7i c re `'ts,! ittPciue —6 a 1 ios o d Fine fluor - 64.1 .155 ay • $5 3 4hof ix! sccon 4 t4 . . s is .9 0 1 oo 1 NAVAL EV S. Firm the L9NDON Ls, 1,567. /kiwi/Pity-0 ice, Jul?! Ex ira6"l pf a Letter rain Vice-Adniirel Lord Cul linvuoad, Commander in Chid' ShOs,and - VesSels in ihe diierrancan,.o Marsden, ; dated on board the Ocean, tly Cadiz, 9.4 eh qay, 1807 - • • I inclose the 'Copy of a Letier: from ;Capt Raitt,. Commander of his Majesty's Sloop the Scout, giving-' an `account of the Poets of that .sloop and the .I.lor giana having'boarded and captured, after a smart re sistance, ; one of the Enemy's Gun. vessels, in the Streights, on the 21st, it,st, 1: cannot suiriciently praise the a4tivity of the Commanders'of the three Prigs .(the-Sccdt, Morgiana, and 'Redwins) which have been employedin scouring the Gut of the Enet within this fortnight past they haVe taken and' dqvi ff ed 1 . 8 of the Enemy's Vessels; among which are,two of the,Gun.veSseli. v 4 ' , ..it.,-,:-... - . : • His Majesty's Sloop Seoul, at Sea, . 1 / MY Loan, ~/Ihry fa; 1807. :Yesterday 'evening perceiving some Vessels coal!. lug round. Cape Trafalgar, with an intention, as I sitp.. .o(iged, to pass undercover of the night, Ideterininednn sending the boats in shore to encleAvehr to cut them 01 I therefore ordered the Morgiana, which joiaiid me a little before, to send her boats, in conjuntition with the Cutter and Jolly-boat of the Scout.. The boats being manned with Volunteer's from the 8ri0i.... the two Boats of the Morgiana, Under the direti'tioti ' of Lieutenant Sutherland, and those of the Scout, '. under the diredion of Lieutenant Bat•tershY, .with•. orders' to keep together as much As NSSible, lot , l'ott7 tll+4 Support,. .1 have the pleasure to acquaint : your Lordship, cliat-a'boot ten o'cloe4 they caw up.with I' and'amied; Lind& a heavy fire, the Sim Fvanoisco k S . ertiiiii,::,tilias 'La: Determ ; inada, Spanish Pikvateer,- ', i ea riyilie t.!tie long .1 8-pounder in the b(41 , , t wo , - , G0r ..• ~riageititis; with swivels and small arms, .manned witect.l4nty-nitre Men, from Cadiz that ,day, bohnd t Algezkrai i she: is a large vessel, about kb ree iiNiii - 4 . oo7:`and,..',in, my: opinion, well calehlated fur. tile., .gnu-goat service af,Gibrallar. 1.. have to lament, in. perforniing this service:, the loss of one won kill 04 '. and. ohe Sligkilly Ofetinded, belonging to ti i tie Scod i - • , : 21though the this.: is . gieat, yet t hen 1 consider the . geeitt advrttage'the eneitv had over the Boats, froM . rh#. very Oearrress'of the nig t., , it appearh smarl.-:—:, The cendtiet of 114-ie!:tenanri iStitherlAnd and 8attt..5 7 ,..1 ~by, the • inferldr officerc and seamen, deserves' tpy.- ~svarm fit: thanks for their . ;-.(eady and dr7terMin§k. „bravezy;: to pass eueoiniumi; on particulitr indivi-,,, :dealvwould be doingiujestice io the whole. ~ 1)::. . 4 hav6 the honour to'be, &c. , ...: ~ ; fc..r,.)• , (Si g ned ') ~; \S'. liAll:T. To Urelkight Hon, Lord Coll.ingwood. • -'',. James .NAM:'foi.d, Captaia fore-top„ killed. , ..:. k Wfillam,roctn, Ab. wounded; „. ~. .• ~ IkonTSI►I)I>TIT, JULY 9:-.- , The ZW7it Ros..; pio . ). from ,Nprtolk, .in Anteries., to'Cltrialaita, with: . cotreti. &F. was yesterday cleiained and sent ;MO h Port by the I(edbreuit dunrbrig,. but was released a few hunks after , her linirtli.; the .Pappenbargh Vessel,s, De .Jonge jrzu,. _flyltende Zo4, K.ltioiw, and .4nri ra, - VEEN...from Tromblatio tu - Tonningen, with 4illt; been detained by one of His Majesty's Cutters; •p•nd tent into this Port, bat were. a;so rcleaied irn-* %rnedilqpl3: qn.their arrival. • , Time fri4ent, holmd from Plymouth Woulitoies.terddy at this Port,. h:witl g lb%e;n: cttptpred oft the Outer's Light. by .p VI - ouch 114ger Privateer, , and redaptnred Oti'Dieppe by .the" 'be4adefriggte. The nister Of the l'ilident Was' taken put,by.the Lugger., , i• , • liesterdaY'strivecl the Strenuous Gun -brig from a cruize ; Harmo,iy,WAt'SW:; rii:KnOliorto.; Brothers, DagwlTT, frern Cork ; and Silesiq, fr . r.) . rtt Sihiat.l - 1,5w.1 ; and iNventure,, frotii Plymouth : and. to-day the :Bea - te Simy of War, NTE . w:co \d , rroll) 1 l'irc Ife iffer j ranelo, with kaii)Ut OQ Sail. tinder her caniuy, C 2 of which are Transports; they were :ell, ii i intnedlately on their arrivll ordered to she Mo , • ttierhank to pttrfortn ri.,:arantine ; the Recruit, of 1 8.: tFom, the Downs ; and the . Borough, '501; from Newpostle. . • 6ailed yesterday Urn Titest!/4; . 74i Calit, nEass-' I , catti, 'for the Chanel Fleet; the .Cainus Frigate and Thchinarul Gat-brig; with .a Convoy -for the DOwn:;; the indignant Gun-brig;; for West wiird ,Greyh.nund, _BOY Fl for Guernsey:, and tO..dity. the S:ibille . Frigate, Capt. UP.roN, forihe Downs Narthunaberbiorl4 lloitissorr,.and 'GOOD , , for • SUM ' VALMV:riI,• ' Prancers ixelia 11 YiN k arrived yeiterd:ty, in ;.“.: days . from Jamiti ro. .1171A;:it. [orig. 13...57. SpUke, the . .ini;i:t'Frigitte,. with seven Tran;; orti froui Qn.hoartl the .9.btlirl4 , irochi. for Engl . :lnd.—. •• •• • • 'rEie ep, ant, 7 4., was to sad tro:ti Jatitatca on 'the Jane, with convoy; for England. .Also arrived thk day, under coal - fly of the Ben,sle Brig,, IlaQ x Do , .c GALL, frem bt4ity; Henry', ito nEwrsost, from i ilt.l ; dud American Ship very, AtiAM§, rr(4:11 SiCily. A iso..arrivt . tht - Bcig•SficClator, ,the f rom Ali ca t, te , w i t h wines, ancl arc put under - quarantine. The °Brig CLA aK, with Irish I.ittrtis, &c. front Bristol. . his Majesty's Ship Sipa l / 6 tv, is guns, and gam ! . Aralcd S!ep, Onit cruize.' Pt.vnouxtt, Ju P.—Arrived the Norwity Brig l'eto-h, (row Sardinia, burind 11) Pram, „laden with .sidt the Lace Bitrqui: Pratt .I:oEqit Llti nth., 134 . .1133, laden ‘vtfr fro.at St: tibes, b ot to4 to t;i.rnertr,.. and - the $114‘., Lio• ,Priol, .I(ititol4,laatiii•with . 10112Ctii, frotll berackl' Tonningen,, a 1) cletzt:lle : .l by th e I tlasy PliVateCr s . • P'• lin the. 0 - Nl5 CV a./ L TL, Jidg 4, I se;. . July 17 , 1,§07. I)iaptitc:?l.23, of wi)icit the ronowin g are Copies and Extric:Li, a:ldresic(l to {lit Wln. Wind -11:nn, have beeli receivtl;cl t triSConn t Castlereagh, 0:le of His itlaieoy . s Principal Secrewries of State; Nlajor-Qeneral Alexander IVl'Kedzie Fraer, commanding His Niajelity'4 Troops in Egypt ; and troin Brig3dier Sir S. A.dchmtify, coincnanditig in . .}.3widi America.- • ELtraa of a LetterfrO m illrKen .zie Fraser, to. Air.,,Siu:reicery elated • dkrandria, .1110 . 9 t ElO7. • SIR, -I have now the. honotir to inclose pit bereWith, two dispatches front Brigadier-General Stewart, Commanding the !mops bet re Rosetta ; and as he has,bem so Very - circuinvantial, I scarcely. need say any thing further, Map: that 1 . . feel assured, however unsuccessful we have been, no blame can possibly itiaigh , to the brave Officers and'.Men ; eniployed on thi - s service., 11riodiet-General Stewart, : though wounded the very .day of his arrival .before the place, never quit ted his post, but continued in the ,command last moment, with his usual activity and per Severance. feek , it lint justice also to add My fullest testi mony to the .aCtive .zeal::and ',co-oper;ition of Rear- Admiral Sir Thogias Loniq, and the Officers, Sea-. men; and Marines of the Stplatknit, Under his com mand, 'without. Vitiose inuetatigabie twist:arduous part of the belt vice cot - 11%1,110t have been .01 - tied . ^ . _ . C3plain who accompanied this ex he'cild /.)rinev 000, J. cannot :intli ci,4o.l.7 expi4'i rtly outigJtioils. Whatete.r : we have had ,sinee. our eihyrations, coalmenc,4l . io this couOtry, has hven . toattl'ipllyowine, to hi's !peal inf o rm j tinn and aettve zeal ; and I am well cow; vin c ed, - thatio our lith.lrc*:v.rsei, our Insies.and fortunes were wateriully galltint and zettloq co-dpetation. Sul, Rp.s.t:tftz bines, April 18. I have'thehonour of scliting, that on the 3d. M:4. I coi l tdied'with' the Divison of Itilatit , :v tinder Inv eornumottfrOtn 'the Eastern 14eighis:' of Alexandria to the:Welisiof Abbukir-• the cavalry, Artiiier'• , and . .7 A a nd. j StOres ha.t been previmAy'lerWarded to the Caravittetera: The Post bac - Meet] retained with Mneli spirit, lir - a aetachinent of the*.Marinds after- the re -mot of the Army under Lieutenant-Colette' Brice, Atid A.:A of iedsential value wpm...present operations: The greatest part or the 4th instant was employed. n passing the 'hilantry and camels to the Caravanseta, in lauding guns andaturnuotion, and in substituting the latter and intrunching 4)014 tar camp equipage: A body of two-hundred befallen, under Lieutenant 4obinsen,' were added to the - army.. Captain t1a11,0 7 well kindiy offered to .accompany me ; tie. has•sinee continued-with the Atli)) , ~ and I cannot sufficiently eipre.'..s•how ir.tihitely ohhged every department' his .been by his active co-operation. The village or Kik.) wai understood to be favour able to us. A more certahi supply Qf • water, and a '.less precarious cernmunieation with our Fleet, offer ed themselvei. by the Lake tb ti} the. Northern shore. to advance Upon I:osettit„, by the route of 'Elko, wa... preferred to that of Alarabaut. Lieut.. Ceilohe.) M,Leodi..to whom 1 entrusted .the advance of the army,-consiSting of the Light Infantry Bat talion, three companies of. the 78th. Regiment, two 6-pounders, and a detaehment of Dragoons,- moved forwatds towards Edko on the evening of the 4th ; ' he took a strong pw;ition behind . that .village early: next morning. On the sth the army advainced to - the same poSitiot ; Capt. Nit:o6lls, of the Marines \via left in cynnnand at the ChritvApsera, with a de tachreent of torte rank s and tite. . . In conseeuence Ot inforination of the Enemy be-, htgestablished in' force at thel:illage pf Kuno, it Was advisable to occupy that post on our advance to .Ab outuatido4 our rear would, by this measure he i scenred during - operations - against Rosetta, and an uninferrnpted . communication. be established with the depot on the Lake Edku. Lieutenant-Colonel '‘l'Lead accordingly. advaneed.upon Hamel on the fitiv in halt ; lie met , AVith..sonie of ..the•.;Enemy's cavalry about a league from than village, whom he caused to •retire 4fter .a slight skirmish ; being .reinferced by . the grcood;era. of, the 3:4th Regiment 'and lie Rune's, lie pushed forward, and occupied the -OA withoi:3 opinniition. , The - enemy retired aCros - s'the bill, with the loss of Wie or two horse men ; the.main ariuv facreil . , and halted for the night in the plain, the -,- ?tit Regiment thrtnieg the pdvanevil - knit:, Early on the 7th, Lieut.-comic) ,il/1f Lloil'.s div;sinn wait 'relieved in the -. post et El 1-lalii-f by a detoehnient of two litatOred and seventy six rank and file. of De Ilollis'Re ,, imenr, limier th:: comma oda Maj orVo 4 elsan g,-, it. t rico Marched acrosi the plain, : to the hOght of Anouniandour ; pv;A:isii)ll was illken . ut this:juiptirlant pot without opposition. 'The , main army iii rived at the sand hills which emir icle Ro.:etta, atyout mind-day; •a`il lost no time . ic in• veitiog the plaCe. Tin: eorpsadvanced in succession from , Abouniandour, and dz'ove the enemy every :where him the town in an animated manlier. , Our ,lipe. todged itszlf behind the sand - hills, within half musket shot of the walls. . i From the grot extent of the town, it was fotnul impossible; that ,our small'Artny could, invest mere than one half; an attack which the En emy ina,de on us in the afternoon chewed the inadequacy of otir trivans to attack a large proportion. 'A line was accordingly taken up from the Nile to the front of the Aleiptit. Arian gate, thence retiring - towards the plain where our Dragoons were potted: A mortar and stung guns were brought into play early in the afternpon : these were answered by shouts, troth the 41hanians their walls, and by incessant discharges of musketry through the loop-holes and crevices, which are inPU. nterable. In conformity with your instruilions,Captainail loWell and (tent, on the 9th instant, a Odd 'favourahle terms to the Civil and to the Military Ciro'. .vernor. accompanied by an Address to, the inhabi, ,tants, We were requeited by the former, in their tinswer, t() await their recelv)tig ittayuttions from Cairo, for which pißose, a. teMporary.suspension of hostilities lA* proposed. It not . being.expdicut . accede to this, we continued to batter the kiwn, and by , the ioth had two tnottars, two twvivo-Ountkers, a howitier, . and sit-pounder in pitiy ; on the .2th, a work for five six-pounders and thirty-two poutia caronades was tompte;i% imtuediately 'Op . the Atexandriangate, on our were, its ate Meantime,fre tavent. (1e cayaley having rooru there to Et. On bt.Qt 1 a 1110 re gelltlrSl dettinstiettion wtt twkle, t'it . h the 'object 91(11:Awing u 4 width' the Lice Jr:.in their Walls i otl 131 s. oeeasion the 4ilath)iti and the eth regintent 'reintlsed them With uIU 4 sprit on the while a ptpict the ligpt ial try on the'ridht again cortipelted . thein to retire \vitttin the town.. The su i nrnons was repeated to the Albanian Chiefs 'on the 12th; with the ottitire of th. it an, )ou are a - cgOtintetl 'out nag of Trace vas thrice lirud at ;.,and it was only by means of a great rev.aro a cinunion Arab 'could be induced 'to be the bearri ofinty etnnniunication with, Such enetnie. inglieen intorAted by yob of the co 7 ;ipetation A iht.ll to'exist between us anti the Alanle'Joe Boys, I availed 'myself of this 4 in our tale s.ige to (Le Enemy. He seemed, however, to be ininiferent to it. ''Of either Letter or MeS.ifigi• I have heArct no nuge,alid reason to'apprehend that the uutor tutt4te. 'Arab been beheaded. Symptoms of attack appearing against El Hathet; I detached another gun to that partolud reau the detachment there to 300 tuc t. From the 14th to the 18th'not hind ex traorainary ► occurred. Relying ou the appto. of rite Mame hakes, every ;exertion was ct,iitinuect in getting up , stores', il!p ' IPOIlitiO:1, proViSIOLVS fl OM the depot on, the ,Lake.. This service was attended with con siderable fittigue, the route being to a s.p.ice . of near, • ly 'seven tni`ies over deep sand's; .t In the ev.:otion of the service on the Lake, I cannot sotheittly exp.tess the merit of l;:eW. of the 'tigre, ss no had charge of this dept . irtinent ; he was indefatigable, and without !li.i uncuilitnoti exertions on the muddy sLove of a 1..: . .1;a; it would have thrpcs- Y,i!) . :o fur oily ! , rinv to hava so liefore 1 4 o•t t. tin the n the ene.y • ziiveour right flank consi- - lere.ble'!finiv)yaipt..., by two, separate batteries, on ;;,:e.,..ipics.tebanL'olthe riv:,r. 01 these it w.;13 , , ne- . ee.s....sliryte : dispesses them.. 1210. ,r kliDuttll,l, 78th r►' : ;itiicnt ,W :i:#fi:t iclied across the riser, in tiont of Abouniantioori\lt..sql,u-, .hetore day-light n the itith;, wifli two litithlred and iitty inon Lieut'en,inf sort, .of the Tigic; occomp:lnied the 111.,j0r sttlt 4u se.nuen, ,whose, scrt ices wet e particuldily valuable: r lie !oak,.t a c . n . c0t0,1 , , it It •ed . in tit,: rear ' t ; he capturl &tic% corni.l , „:tely destroyed them, awl fired coUtitts , tijv toWti fi•out their Mitts ; he then sent . the• gcns, with 1 , ;,• , c11;-ecanietin and number of tents, across the river. The Enein; retr.7i, ipg re. inthrcement% , . the - 11.1..j0r retired, alto el'ected this • service in . good' style; althoti4h under tire from the Etiern . y, he iv •einbark,.l , cl the whole- oi the detachment •in- , :the beat .ord, r, and had oniy four m e n wolytded,....l have pal tit'ular':) , to state`, that much of 1110 good toritute ar4eo.ted this c . ti- tcrprize'► i i b 'attributed (dl Capt. ; by his' exertions a sullicieney ut small ether which v , ere discovered under water wet e raisect, and, curing the (lark of t h e night of the 15th, were go %yen pit:Tired, that nearly the whole ot;thecletaehittent was conveyed from shore to shore at one . turn. • • . . . Twenty-tive armed Fe who formed part of a large body:detached US (rum Cairo, were 4 , yesterday' captured 'ne.:ir itimet. They heir Own Chief, and ,welt; %vandering near our post, more with a view to plunder than of h 05.... tility. Nothing of moment : hai this day occurred. The Acriaal report of the approach of the M . ameltikes, Wal l which I have beet! favoured by you, and whic4 I find coutitine4 by the enoo::rici that I writ' out, (some' of xv,•horrt'ittaie that thuy are at ,J,!rrana, and others that they are at Algatn) In use to perse , were in my 'present spteiu of-. at We have done great,darnae to town, and have not thrown lest than thre6 handred'shells from Mortars The indiffeienCe, however„of the Eitemy to the miseries rs hjeh arcs unavoidably caused to the in-, habitants is :fflanift,t. Although his. fctree be not said to exceed three hundred cavalry, eight , hundred , and'oue thousand :ntned inhabitanti, yet, froth the extent, and - from the peculiar nature of his lines oldetence, to attempt. „to assault is decidedly not,an meac4ure; our success will depend on the arrival of the Mac...* ;in conjunaion iumlediately th r o wn on .; the doing this fit pre-, sent is 111111f),S11:):(%. 1 Our I:,.).;•tny is strong in i caralry . ,' • we hate ► . ; and 1 1 .1 e Deill is .pecntiarly • caku lated fur tit4foc, Li • inearf tini.! the post of [Linnet be'corues of greater out I . lends are expected ttraPproada every;eifort.slialOke wade to retain it. 'I have the to 'a liat ...f 'the killed, wo:mded, and ro' this day, inelusi‘,e ; -and I have the itis -I':tction to rid‘,l, that the greater nutniter of altos , : who are woupdrl ate only sllrtlit cases,-1 havt: thcl . lsononr to he „ Ott,STEWART,. Brig. can. To G.',Aer . td Fimr, &v. Return of Kill,-t, %Vomitled, and M.;,:;ing tifllte Army cry 4404 ag.titw ltusrtia , front the 6th to the ititn of April, M. ctilAve, taw: Stitt--t Oripaiev..Qcnetal.; t 4tig,atle- Major, wounded. Light I Awry Batt.-2 tank and file killed; t . Lieutenant 2 Serjearts, ; tank and tile, wounded. 1 , • , , 3sth Rex. ; rank and. rue, .Ilietl Captain, 3 Serjeants, 26 rank and hie, wounded. 78iti lteg. ; r,ink awl tile, killed.; r 7 rank and tile, Wounded. Rale' Reg. a Serjeant, r rank and tile; !titled ; t Set- • jeant, 4 rank and tile, woUntled. 2et4 Ontl$0 8, 4" , •; rank and-tile, $ horses,. wounded. Sergeant, 5 rtnk '4ltat hie, kaki; s prigadi6,. en;r4, IStigatic,Nlajor, t Captain, ; 'Lieutenant, ti Setjeithts, 6O : rank awl tile, 5 hursei, wounded. '4' •.' Nscric4 of Officers ‘Vounded. niiittOler.Genoral tut Stewart,- commanding. Cieutenant cult, et' the ist Mattel an 3itb anent, trigade.Majoe. Captain iud;irrtl , of Inc villat talion, 35th Regiment, siviLe dead. Lie ‘i tco z a l t m um . w 0411,, of the gist Light letAi tr ) , . • (Signed) j A 1 4E7, ST I,IV ART :111(i tilapr of iitig,tde. Camp:, Eastern bveigias, dlexandria, Sze,4/Tritti„ t do 7. It have the bon* of reporting tO you, that I yes terday returned to this position With 11.0 reniairidet of the Army ,lately cinder iuy comisti4 The eveno, which have attMkti the fier4 ice 00 W 120) tl%nt Army has be engaged ri,ive, been, of a pdculiar nattirr, and the result peculiarly entottumite, f e el it, therefore, to be incumbent ui,on tnt), in jui , titication Of my own contind, - .and in•jititie4 to .t h c ,„, brave :nett wh - 2 have beets my cocupat iutta In firm .to 4,011 .y our ataqliiinl . a nivre than kotiiniqry de 4ii Ut Aul yrowetttings. I ho th e ) 101) ,,ui of stating in my that thy e? pi ,the . jimaiim . (1 tic; M inclueeffpie to persevere it) the u: # •