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ciefly stated the circumstances of this achieve 7gient to the Noble Lord (item., hear l) The Chesapeake came out front harbour ltdly manned and prepared for - the conflict, 'aid ranged up along side of the Shannon. Hew crew consisted of 440 men, that of the Shannon amounted to 310 ; sbi ; wks of 150 tons greater hurdle'', and . carried 49 guns; tie S',annon e . .o.rying only 44'. No other ship' was in sifrlit at the time of the action. Of .this inferior force, the British frigate engaged the enemy, and in 15 minutes si t e was ber prize. —The fight columenced wilt.'" the vessels were very .near to each , mther, and the fire from the .Shannon,, frinn . its tremendous' precision, was irresistible. She poured.in her broadsides with dreadful accuracy and etfeet, and the ships having got . entangled„ . Capi.•Broke ran forward to make his observations—he folind that the enemy flinched from theirgunsHthe hoarders were instantly called tip—the word was. boarded the enemy from everydeck,,and in three titillates from this time t were driven from every quarter, and the ship in possession of the conquerors, Nay, .of these heartless sailors the verymen on the tops boarded' from the slipperY hold of the yard,' and cut down their opponenti in ;he very rigging of their vessel. Captain Broke himself, who from the beginning of the war had nobly 'destroyed his prizes, and sunk the dross with which they were laden to the bottom of the sea, rather than weaken his crew for enterprizes of glory. Captain Broke himself bad had the honour of being sabred down on the deck of the Chesapeake, while storming the fore castle at the bead of his men. (Cheering,),ln this gallant affair not a sail or a rope was cut, and the too vessels (as was . . , described in ,the dispatch) sailed away together as; if they had Only been fir log a feu de statement' was received with frequent and loud cheering, and was deli vered with much animation by the Honourable Secretary, who 'then proceeded to say, that the Noble Lord*was still more unwarranted in otter aspersions he had cast; I-Ic mentioned this action not as triumph,' but to enable hint to refute the ,Noble Lord's.aspersions, as coining thus oppor tunely. If the Noble Lord came down every month', he should be enabled to furnish an answer equally satisfactory, front the acknowledged cha racter of the Navy of Britain. .After a,number of very cutting reflections, he concluded by oppo sing the motion, as of a nikchieYous tendency. Lord CdenttAtqc reiterated his statements re specting the hardships of harbour duty imposed on old seamen, and ex pl a i ne d hi s assertions with 'regard to Ford, 'Milton,' and Farley. He con tended that he hail confirmed all the material facts he had formerly urged. He brongLt for ward a new case of hardship, in a person he did 'did tint name, andcharged w the Adiniraliy with a variety of matters. with which he was dissatisfied. Hr would, prove all his chiu:ges, 'and that the con duct of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty operated its a drawback on exertion. He also ad yerted to the case .of Lieutenant Johnston ? and said he was placed at the bottom of the list, made at that time out of spite to him. Other promo- - tions, he alleged, had taken place of .otlicers guilty , of gross and wilful perjury, with the connivance of the Court on the Courts Mar- JAM relative to the affair of Basque Roads. This he Avonld.also undertake to prove He ,again re peated many of his former assertions as materially veneer, and said that ilr. C.roker was entirely ig iootant of the affairs of the Navy, except as to an awcring ,official letters.' He' then contrasted the rwenagement of this branch of the service with the military. In the army' all was zeal and energy— .not so in the navy, where borough influence con trouled Fot»otion, and exertions in that House procured advancement more than servite. Caoltrit denied the " material facts" of the Noble Lord. The cases, as he produced them, be took doWn in his oWri words, and had posi tively contradicted them. With respect to Lieut. thy Johnston, he was., the .junior Lieutenant • promoted, and as the la* teas: suspended in his. favour, he was of course the lowest on the list. .The insinuation of the NohlLord, he was stir- . prised, could, come from 'Alberni mind. It was ungenerous rand unworthy, and he left it to the contempt it deserved. LordCocirlitAKE explained. _ Mr. Aidertrom ATKINS felt it his duty.to press his indignation at the conduct of the Noble Lord. Adverting to some expressions issued by the Noble Lord, when speaking of the duties 'ia.hieh seamen were sometimes obliged to per form, be co•iii:•'eived that, the intention of the Noble, Lord nas to make it iippear that the .Bri tish seamen were di'S'satisin“.l at being employed to clean the ships. A 1 4611 S k Lord"Coctru_KE appeaet wbe ther his expressions could be so interpreted. vlie SPEAKER said, that the inference •to be draont from what had been :said by the Noble LOrd,:was such as had been stated by the lion. Gentleman, although his .language did not di nctly imply it. _ _ Sii P. 11.1111iETT obser'ved, that the statements made by . die Noble Lord hint been grossly misre presented by those who professed to refute them. The Noble Lord bad brought forward a state w-htit heeoneeived to be ahuses.in the N,,vy, and wished the Llouse to take steps to r:utedy those abases. If the motion of the Noble Lord haa . be n e coMplied With; the Naval S erv ic e , so, far from being dissatisfactory to seamen, would have been ..the very reverse. 'Fhe,conduct of the Noble Lord had :ken highly honourable, as he had done that tvbicil he - conceived to be art ha- periotis duty: The Hon. Baronet then brie - fly re plied to some of the arguments which had been urged against his, motion, and expressed his de term;nation to take the sense of the House on the qttostion. • Tile house aecortliogilivitted, when we nn derstoott the nuniLers to be. Against it ---51 Major ity...... vtr. Titmxtvr nioveil that the Adjourned De b Ate can the Minancial Resolutions should be put ofr till that day fortnight, with a view to post poniug It till the next SeNsion. • EAST INDIA PILL. „ • Mr.; ROBERT Timms/TON, in the name of the Company, be2ged the Noble Lord not to hurry Hotv,e into the report of the 1 . 4'41,5t India BM CO that night, as the Court of topneturs bad not an opport►inity of CanAderin: the Bill since ft had gone through t,►e Comulittee. flu therefore hop ed, that the Noble. Lord would be persuaded to postpone the report till to-morrow. Lord- CASTI.LREACII hail ito objection, iirovid ed the Report shouhl be gone into to-ntorrow, before the House proceeded 'to any Other busi ness. Mr. TienNev wished ,the Noble Lord to post pone the third reading of the Bill till Tuesday. Lord CASTLEREAG H replied, that he could not. Mr.'l'itoatsoN hoped that the Noble Lord would not agree to any unnecessarYdelay,.and therefore trusted that the. Report would not be delayed be yond to-morrow. The report of the Stipendiary Curates Bill was taken into, further consideration. Mr. WESTERN opposed the 13111, on:the ground that it would operate against a class of the Clergy whose interests ought not to be neglected Mr. THOMSON spoke in favour of the He observed, that although the object of the Bill was to give respectability to Citrates, yet,it would not deprive any man of wh a t he then pos sessed, 'as it was prospective in its Operation. N o t only would he supp or t th a t Bill, but he n+leil ttint SOME stronger measure should be introduced for the, purpose of preventing the non residence of Clergy, and also for facilitating the building oichurehes, for it was well known that in - many towns in England the whole number of churches was not sufficient to contain more than one half of the in habitants. Mr. CourtrENAY opposed the. Bill, and Mr. Ser jeant ONSL OW SUp pOtteti Mr. PoLL CAREW wished the Bill to be with drawn, for the ptirpose of making way for some measure which would be, more etic,ctual in its ; operation. _ _ 111 r. TnallNT•row said, that he himself, as Well as the others who supported the Bill, did not wish it to be looked on as a perfect measure ; but mere ly as a step sowards perfection. WEiIIERALL oppo;ed the Pill. Wif.e ERFORCE said, that the strongest ar gument he bad heard against the Bill was, that it would not he complete. Ckntlenten objected to the means, without proposing . any other more adequate. It was of the essence of the Church at England, that there should be -a resident Clergyman in each parish. lie was convinced that the Bill would be of great advantage - to the country. • Air. JOHN SMITH doubted whether the end pro .. .. posed'coulti in'any material deg r a be prOdUced by the Bill. There was no provision in the Bill, to secure the residence even of Curates, lie objected to the Bill, as too sweeping an alteration of the Church. Mr. ABERCROMBY supported the Bill. The House then divided on the fuither consi deration— For it Agnirist it Majority The Bill, after some verbal amendments, was ordered tco he readia third time to-morrow. The Admiralty Registrar Bill was read a third time. On the gnestion that it do now pass, Mr. IL MArtTIN Opposed the passing of the Bill, as tending to recognise the legality of the use hi therto made of the suitors-money— Lord CASTLEREAGLI supported it. The office was one granted in freehold, -and the emolomenes. arising from the suitors money always attended the office. If the suitors thought the security in sufficient they had their remedy. They in his opi nion would do their duty by making the: bill merely prospective. Sir S. 1 - 1 - purta.v opposed the bill so far as it went to continue to th e p t esent h o ld er of the office the emoluments arising from suitors money. Mr. STEPHEN contended there was no reason for postponing the passing of the Bill till next Session, the clause having been amply discussed in a full House. There, was nothing illegal in the Registrar's applying the interest of the money in his bands to his own use, lie begged 'the House to .remeaiber that after, all, the question - was merely whether the Rank of Finglansi should take the interest on this money, or the officer by _whom it had hitherto been received. Mr. CoultrENav, though he had originally been in' favour of th e Bill, yet on account'of the'ob noxious clause which had been introduced, lie should vote against it. Sir JOHN IfICHOLG spoke in favour of the Bill. Mr. ABEIWILOMBIE could See no reason for re garding Lord Arden as having any right to the interest of the money committed to his care. 'fhe House divided, when the numbers were-- For the Bill' Against it . 9 Majority. The Bill was then passed.—Atijourned at 12 o'clock. • MAII • AititiVED-1 Lisbon, I Halifax, 1 Dublin. Du Cadiz, 2 Heligoland, 1 Guernsey, 1 .ler-icy, 1 Waterford. - PRICE OF STer:KS TUIS, OAS' AT TWELVY Cons - ols .48 (),..witim TtlE 8 UN. not,em Quzsmicote 3ALIUn Atio4AT? LONDON . , 17117).4Y, JULY 9, ISI3, We this day- present our Readers with a mass of most interesting intelligence contained in Ameri can Papers to June 12, which we have just received by the Halifax Mail. Under our Ship News will be found a minute account of the brilliant action between the Shannon auff Chesapeake, which, not withstanding the . admirable description of th.it event from Mr. CROICER, in his plhei iu 1/ m li,, ment last night, ,(very faintly done justice to in newspaper reports), will be perused with feelings of satisfaction, greater, perhaps, than the cause altogether warrants. We Ituow that 1 the, result of this contest is pre:-I•ely what we do: and ought to - expect Iron-) the valour' of firiiith seamen—that we have no reason to.ex.- ult in it—but 'still it is a high degree sueable to reeelV6 this practical denninstration of the truth of what we have ever affirned.. that With any thing like equal means, the spirit and skill of our navy is if resistible. It is also verY t'a tklactory to have lowered the tone of American gaienuading by a con% incing proof of ourzaval superiority, and it is even 'some advantage to halie put mtrzzlesbn the babbling mouths of Lord COCirRANE te.,(l his fellows, who date to, state that our gallant tars are a " heartless and disheartened" body of men. All these things we owe to the brave Captain Baote and his crew, worthy of their Commander as they have slam') themselves to be. Capt. BitoKE," says another American Jour ' nal, " having directed the Tenedos, his late-con sort, to leave Boston Bay, with a view of itiduc= mg the Chesapeake to; venture out, on Tuesday, the Ist, inst. that ship, commanded by Captain LAWRENCE, lately promoted Item the United States slonp Hornet, left * the Howls and put to sea, manned with piacd seamen, and completely fitted, in ,eyery point for action. The Shannon dropped, under • easy sail, a 'few milei from. the "hind ; and, at half-past five R. M. the Chesa peake came up on her weather quarter, and was instantly saluted with a sweeping and most destructive fire. The action commenced at little rotas: than half-pistol -shot ; and, in a few minutes, the terror-struck enetni fell alorg-side of the Si/att/ion—and was boarded 'by the gallant Capt. IltioKE, his firSt Lieutenant, a few other Officers, seaalcn; and Marines, with -an impetuosity that bore down all resistance. Though the,reSu4 such a meeting might have been very fairly anti- eipitted ; yet, the lightning-like rapidity of the hetinn (not exceeding 10 or 11 minutes) seems unparidlelcd, even in the annals of the lid- tibh Navy." Such arethe.particulars of an exploit,,s4ffici ently splendid 'in itself to reflect honour , :rin the conquerors, but . which is doubly Valuable from the !nutrient of its achiiement, and the mor'ia .44},ct. it is calculated to produce' in :America. it is reported that one of our frigates had been seen in sight of the Esse.rfrigate. Her capture nuty therefore be the next naval triumph we shall have to announce. Db.-atm:3°l%l's message to Congress, on the 25th nay; will . he found in our last may hereafter offor niure extended remarks upon pitiful prodUction :—sufliec it, for the present, to state, that it. advances those principles which we have often Shewn to be inconsistent with the law of nations ; fundamentally irrceon et:Th.: of ht veryihe Reenrity Of Britain ; lestmr:- tlae foundation of our great na tional I.»dwark, and titterly impossible ever to he recogniied or acceded to . by this coun try.' w lamentable 'a thin,; t ltinLr descent," iit- aei is,toseeth l e . A n t p u e a o t t o le n, witlf:(C, from free i orni of thei r 13o v( rnment, and their nest interests as - a nation, ought to be closely allied with Britain,' in„ the common cause, misled and misgoverned by the vile tools of BOONAPARTE,. and. cursed with, a destruCtive war for the accomplishment of his i n n _ bitiOns deigns; instead of enjoying, as they might enjoy, "from a wise' and upright policy, all the blessings of peace in the reward of comincrcial dustup and the fruits:of an truinterrupted„inter course with all the countries in the world. The affair of the Chesapeake will furnish the people.with a new 'argument against thOSe'under are. unhappily pl ace d ; a n d as whose misrule they we learn from Bermuda . (ste our Falatouth letter) that Sir ,JOp: WARREN has sailed with a consi derable force against Baltimore; and also know that the most , active and decisive measures have b r eentaketr in Canada for disputing the enetuy's• assnmed superiority on the Lakes or elsewhere,' [,,we confidently trast that.,a few other themes-will he spcedilyfurnished,to render the war too un popular for the iselADzsmi !my to dare its coati nuance. • . In our subsequent columns is given the prin cipal contents of a Mitha wail, from winch we la men t to observe, that the hopes entertained of the plague haling been stopped, are disappoitited. That horrible malady it will be seen is spreading, though' we still trust, with the excessive precati . turns whic:ll bare been resorted, to, that ij ; . jj ill be confined to a limited extent. A report of the fall of Tarragona is not among the least agreeable of those brought by this eon veyance.—W e do most vehmently desire thatthis answer ;my he truly given to the Perpignan story of the victory of ..111vinati. The Prochitnation by the King of PRUSSIA IS an animating and cheering production.* The peop:e who merit such au address are invincible. Accounts, we tinderstand, n•ere received, t: , day, at the .kiliniraity, stating; the capture of ti.e American brig Nom Sea:sti, by the frigate, Captain Etatn.7.l.r The two Kingi of Brentford (no, of Westni:nster , hail a„ proud triumph last -night, when . appointe,l 'relicts in the Commons House without a man tc t•:ii. We shall ray our respects to them torincT them, for 'one . day, to the en„ . "';'„ meat of their own delightful feelings! !! Letters. were received in town on MontiA)! the Duke of CtiMERRLAND, dated the 18 00 ' June, at Strelitz, st a tin g hi s R o y a l Higlia r '" be good health, and that he was waiting tilt' dr ''' . yal liorses'toproceo to the IleSd- riirte" Of the Allies. PriiNcit llror s-r a letter yestYr j '! bya dtagoun from Bushy, with the pleasing I ntel ligence of the D u ke of CLARENCE being bett l' • Her MAJES TY an d the PRINCESSES arriveil .f Castlehar-hill, the scut of the Duke of , 11 ' 5r ,; about three o'cl oc k on Wednelday. T he 4 proving remarkably tine, her MUESTY rode inL i " little garden chaise, round the p l easu re-grol lo ' The PRINCESSES a n d t h e rest of the compl walked through the grounds and gardens, w:? c . which they appeared extremely delighted. 9 QuEcN and PRINCESSES arrived at Windstir e at halt pastnine. Yesterday the Earl of iJIVIIRPOOL, ViS CWII t SuPtotpra, and Colint, Mu NsTkAt, had audiencis the PRINCE RECENT. Lord WALPOLE, it is saidleBVCS toWII on his way to the Continent, for the head-0,81'r.: ter; of th e Russian army. Lorca CASTLEREAGH entertains the Parscr GENT, Lord YARMOUTH, and several of the 4,' nisters, to-morrow, at his house" in tit. JaIDO square. intelligence has reached ns, by the Daph ne '. fry- - - ,•oin uenos Ayres to the* Sth of April. " sequence of the successes of BEI,GRANO, a many shipments were making for Lower Pe ru ' The, following ex t rac t :o f "a letter' from Boc"%- Ayres, of the same d a t e , re l at i ve to the Mit 4 f s : frigate Essex, whi c h h as b een f ur some f,ffic ing, is deserving of 'notice : slat, "The American frigate Essex is in Valpariso, tvliCtas '.s arrived the 18th of March last, after a passage- of &tont he island nfSehastian's, near Rio Janeiro. the n ed with 45 guns arid diO picked men, and in other re 6 r4, She is exceedingly found. It is cert a in PoPt r ",,' the AratTlean Consul there, wrot e t o hi s Goverrialcot:f°,L, vessel of this description. There were illuminations and ". on acconat of her arrival. I r eques t y o u w ill c a use tili'l'; c formation to be insetted in seine Of the pulic rperit 16-1 " .heactit of all who trade in the Pacific. ) r hop pt e L.:tort:m it° will send some and -- force to look after he r , al go to extrian nate a swarm of pirates out of Lima, who plunder and 40 114 every vessel they meet with." They write from Sweden, that, in contenq)l3' tion of the failure of negocintious fbr peace, the CROWN PRINCE had submitted to the Macs, gested plan for the renewal of the campaign tiro at very extensive scale. The same letters asses , that Martinique has been 'offered to the t'anperor of Auslrata, in the event of his co-operation at an Ally in the war 3 and that this is only part of a grand plan at present in agitation, to give the friendly Continental-Powersa colonial intere z; as the-best means of uniting them more stroli with Great Britain, and separating them fr( , ..a France. • Strong detachments of the 48th, 77th, S3ll giments passed through London yesterday woo' ing, 'on their way to PoStsmouth, to join tkir gallant.comrades in the Peninsula. - - ----- Fifty horses, and twenty men, from the 1 " regiments of Life. Guards, kit town yesterda9 for Portsmouth, in order to embark for spai"•,, . Slajor-Gimeral Morrroom Ent4 h as assu poi tj e command of the Glas gow di s t r i ct, w i th t he sr 3i Stair that was a tt ac h e d to .Lieutenant -('9" " 1 PCTE t.• The Clare Regiment of Militia embarked' , • .terday at Portimouth for Ireland. f On Wednesday sennight the' ArC 1 shire * • litia arrived i n C or k from Galwa', and the Ct`r gan Militia from Athl one ; f or the purpose of e' v barking.for England. - 1:1:::stie)st air rrival at i t .: l l; l ll e ttye.ii ?M a c e don ian tuifi iethls A sta th w er d t z t e n ste p t , t , ct a l u s n . ounc e s he capture O th f scve" . . held at 'Bermuda, on bo A an C I fra e g: .ship,, for the trial of Captain CAaDEN, for th e i t 1; 0 : of the ..,illucedunion ; but in consequence of d great courage, resolution, and bravery di by the Captain, Officers, and men, they were ` Bl ' most fully acquitted. The Speedy cutter, 'in which Capt. CARDs: { MU:. to England, h a d a narrow escape Of eaP tti e * on her p assage to Falmouth, and only avoidea .t by putting on a bold trice in the presence of ;3 ' , 1 enemy o coniderable force. Marshal JwJanAtv, who commanded the kre p f: It Army in the bite battle, was one of the most tinguished and - successful Generals in the cant . part of the French Revolution, fic, is put_ 'second on the list of French Marbasis ; 310 0 ',4 oft. , (Thike of COLINEGLIAN.O) being the only one 1 1%,,b . him. 'lie is the only one without a title; ' i s ' ; ',.‘ l ,; ti . is attributed to his being an 'untamed republic''{;' has been for a considerable time Governer Of i Madrid. Sir HENRY BROWN HAYES, Knt. who was 10c ly saved from th e wrec k i n Yilkland Islands/is the Gentleman who some years since was sente tl ‘ ced to transportation for forcibly carrying Lo l l Aliss M..kay PIKE. 011 Tueiday an artilleryman at Woolwich 10 ,4 ' his' right arm s h o t o ff*, w hil e triring a n expert meat iu loading a gun upon a new principle. CORN ,EXCHANGE, ..tuLY 9, There was Fcarce/y any arrivals of Wheat or Oats this Diet ing, and own to the very favourable ftate of the sveathe, but very few stlereffected, and those only to needy haYer4 nor can we nore:uny alteration in the price of any article, to prices remaining nominally at our last quotations. 1. - This d a indti of Cl:ittNiel3;ll'N-eluttlLandaLna SMITHFIELD MARKET, JU►.i 9. flad Bed and Povlt are cheaper, and the trade, for the roost 9 31. 'tk , Lamb, ff a e ri P S Veal nts , l' s l' o l l Y d ' :x f t It e t 7r ir—,l was somewhat Hat. Te ales in the Haymarket''e' ~n . c , no lively; Hay and Clover fetched last prices; Straw has S. . in }+ rice.