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v NEW: •• Litthurit Juici 16.—Last night, after post, sailed with dispatches for Lord .GARDNERi and Sir R. ettLiJER, the Frisk Cutter, Lieut. 3. McoLsoii. A Letter is received; here from an Officer of the Pißory, of 110 guns, Vice-Admiral Lord tirtz.sOk, which came through Ireland, (pott mark, T ra l ee ) , dated the 14 thof May, at sea This Letter states, that during the whole cruize up and down the Streights the Squadron newer Made a single Prize ; that his Lordship was, on the itith of May, off Cadiz, and left Admiral Cor,LttiowooD there to cruize further into the Western Ocean, that he Might, if ossible, p get s ome inte lligence of the Cadiz and ToUlon Squa , d r° ll l, when he would, as this letter States, push on af ter then; t o the East or West Lord- Shi p had With , him Eleven sail of the Line, in high o rder and By Letters received here.,izard , dated from Off the , last thursday, from one of the Mn*e of . War in Lord GARDNER'S Squadron, is learnt, that Lizard/1 1s I mrdship stood. across .from off . B rest to t h e , in line orbattle, manceu V r i ng the Fleet at different Periods, and on Friday last resumed his station on the French Coast. . .. ~.............. . . PORT B MOUIIi, JUNE 17.-4.-Arrived tl6 City of 1 ouhn: Transport from -and t Alderney,he Concord, aRXE f rom . Cadiz. C orte into Harbour the Lord Duncan Transport ► assed by for London the American Ship Alex "II, f rorn New -Y ark. , PALkaUru, Jutqt 15 . — Arrived the Prussian D Ship ankbarkeit, JottAtq BRIMMER, from .Wilming- I" ' 4° days passage, with tobacco; at Helford, the Privateer Jolly Tar, of Guernsey, J. DAVY, from . a enli ze off Me Canary Islands : on the 14th May, at half past three o'clock, A. M. fell in with a Fleet 4 lar g e . hPs, in let. 28 . 'l'6. N. 30. 16. W. steer jeg about s . S. W. with the wind N..E. blowin y - lig g frt 'h; at it counted 18 Sail, apparently of the Line. 11th Sailed With ,th e A . a U Ckland P acket, Tll . o ' B La Scutrvtalt;for Lisbon, .%irl l' of the inst. ; 'and the Brig Betsey,. t, fox. Swansea. .............. .2Ar,, Jutiz 17.—His Majes' Ship' Mai ff ek eallh: clown f ront' the ty s Nore, and remains. tan,The: "'bait/v. ?nal% and Canziant Gun-brig, *.--e4ll from a.Cruize off Dunkirk, and are sailed or the Noe, , . . , .. ~ • ' f r , Artiv ed lhe ...dbundance • and Camel Store-ships Th i e l o the l ‘ l ,c l . itarra . nean, last from Portsmouth.--. the Nore. Sailed t'-ii the .14i0POTZ I te ar - Adrniral:Douo L As, and: at G • ' ,rh dun -br ig, for Dungeness. .. . ,p , ,,, i e PIY, Orestes, 'lila dne, Devastation, and Calais, °s(Gun-hriks) r Caine in , from their Stations off Sailed th e C.o,t ttit)urgh. IP , arsaw Swedish East 'lncliaman for i in the 4ok,li.ti °,vils—TVlonarctilitreeht, Majestic, thtes ~tible, I)dircnce Speedy, Argus, Calypso,..er a 1 ' kiv, VurY. tlebe' Zobira Volcano, Ilecla,Trusty._Aanitee tilt,, ' i evastatitil aril D ' ' tv • nine Gun , rigs ; , b Ir4s6l.4Szttelhil); 'Pli.cspiioscru°sve Wre-btig •• Gun-bras er l ,. \r un e .: and' Harmony 'Bl4 414ESs 'J 1 4 Came int o " H ar b our .t h e / • ' PA.2 Anted U NE 7*-- .Shi . S ailed A • -1, P. th 3nt v e tßitina Armed . Ship, with several IVier-.. Ile NOR under Convoy for the Baltic. to Lr)rd tldon continues the Signal for Convoy the Elb e. Shi ~ 4(1'e.81,'1ta,tr,11,41.,,P..._°!t •,-.7.2ealand, L'lmmortalitfii ly,inlaegeear: i.:ll.(irtt g),,,,!.int-, valnrciu, Dauntless; AttelPli,,.". ~11i_ '4l a lid . , •"), Armed Ships ; Foarless Cun-b•clis I 'I; Metal Fire -vessels and lionth. tenders. ,JUG . • _____ i __ ______ ~,,, of t 12.-.--The Efizci,, Captain ,LI s H MA N i this Ilar:tsile ""The Vessels that sailed from !ilk . 1 '4lll. the Bth Ult. **as taken . eight days after t ' 'ft it, b . s . 1 , 0 , rit for ~ 1 aS pan ish Privateer, of 16 guns, and : /ond p r • 'Pain ; but was re-taken by the W . * tmor- The bv4tetr, a Liyerpoot• and sent for said Port.' i sseligers Were landed near Youghal the Bth -4%tarit, • ............ ' Tile z oc di . • f l 4 mins and 114 rri ,, a paste Privateer, . 0 ,_ the--Reiena lii % , 1!) ~,was captured on the sth int.oY 114:i S c w ar, and is arrived at Cork.. ._ I'o4 Aoilrbj°r°ugh) SCOTT, from Lor? , don, is.lost off . rZve Ataßiciena.lPie:.Prigate, with the • Fleet . undet . I , L 3 t ! for Portsmouth, are ar r i ve d at Jamaica! Newfound ' 1 , . P as .Gik S p fro: Bristol ' for e lit i d , 1 ..VANs,n 28thi ~,.„‘fcaPtu..red. by a Spanish Privateer on the ,st ... pia y. 1/, firtrir4;;Perseverance, MIST, and the F0r,....572• a, littiort?llltn for the South ',Seas, Avere 11 well t litui.'iOus August last. •4 G f or F a on Chetriatte Packet, frOm Rall—l - - • 1 krk t . Y 4 • b,... a s-anis i Pti,„,,,' was captured in the Soul-0Mo" ) I' :":er and , ' ti lt /14_ earned into Passage. h gout') Seas, is trt_ii,edolf;;_qt .Parttroid, from the South on the Vth At,„l-: dr,!1(,..),th ; she left . , ._ . thence for '4111144 "L tive "‘Vha/erti sailed from on the 15th. Ti lt 1 . --------- • t of 'llarcia t a.,t wing. of the Coldstream Regim e. n d ill) kit t,'lled•yesterday to Chathams and thlS . day \'''ll'S Allig roarthed. The battalions• march by t nei ii ‘h ' t that ii would be ilt.tita: il r tit i or is so grea . Nate r 41 'lnd p r ole -uartew for thorn. in nonlbers. "i LI ISLZ OF M.4:if: the Duke of A' - rip; t's Claim to Comnentation •fer tue Sovereign Rights• and Reventies of ,which the Parliarnen:= tart' Heirs of Entail of mates VII. Earl of Mita Y i were, kinder coercive measures, deprived, hi the year r763,f0r the ppurpose of proteding and increasingq he RevemitS of t re:tt Britain and I reland, being •at. this time Matter of general Consideratibn, the following 'Letter from the Agents of thh Land-Owners, MetchantS, and Principal Inhabitants of the Island, svill not prove unacceptable to such 33 have attended to the publiediscussion of the matter in Parlia ment. • LETTER knon MESSRS. BRIDSOisr AND TO MESSRS.. EDWARD mopßt, EDWARD FORBES,• AND WILLIAM OATES, Or DOUGLAS, IN THE ISLE Or MAN. London, May 21, 180.5. GENTLEMEN, • Considering you, jointly with ourselves, as. re presenting a large and respe&able body of the In habitants of the Isla, of Man, we, think it our duty to state to you, for their information, what has fallen under our notice since we left the Island, re lative to the obje&'of our Mission. .Upon tur arrival here we - took steps to present our Petition to Parliament against the Proceedings of the Keys : but as the question in dependence, is between. the - Crown and the Duke of ATHOLL, our own opinion, that neither the. Keys nor the People have any right to interfere, was, confirmed ; and therefore 'it is at present our intention, merely to watch the Bill, with the view of deriving from it, for our Constituents, some of the advantages that may be suggested. But if the Agents of the Keys should put for ward the Memorial which they announced in the Island by their hand-bills, we shall think it our duty to, lay before Parliament a Petition; with the Re- • monstrances of the respeaable body who have con fided to us the care of their interests, which are inseparable from those of the Island at large. Little or no progress ,has been yet made in the Bill ; but we have reason to hope-that our journey will' produce some good to the Island, whatever may be' the result of the contention into which the Keys have chosen. to involve themselves. We are, at least, satisfied that we shall have cordial aid from that quarter where: the general good of 'the Inha bitants ha.ialways appeared to be at heart. We believe, however, that that objeta.would be accomplished with more facility and dispatch if the Duke of kritou, were not harassed with a" worse than uselesS opposition, from . a body who, in duty to their Countrymen, if they could not support, ought certainly not to oppose, his fair Claims, deeply connected :as they are with the• ad vancement of the prosperity of the Island. • Though the Keys did. not receive the represen tations Which our Committee offered to them from our Constituents, it is impossible they could be ignorant of the sentiments of disapprobation ex pressed in these remonstrances We did, hope, therefore, that the united voice of the great body of the most rezpeaable classes of the People, for whom we a6t-whom they area to represent 7 -and who pay by far the puler part' Vail the Duties, would have had some weight with the Keys. , On the contrary, hOwever, we are concerned to' find, - that, in continuation of the embroilment . in which certain of ,these persons haVe kept the Island for many years, a Pamphlet has since been . pub lished, signed by. their Agents, in which they :la ther a preceding .anonymous production, not mere ly adverse 'to the Claiths of his Grace of ATHOLL,- . but in their tendency, injurious in the extrenae; to, the interests of the Island. This consideration obliges is to take notice, of. some parts of these Publications. We shall . do so with possible brevity. . After every consideration of the subjea . , we are unable to account,. on any ostensible , grounds, for the condigt of the Keys and their Agents. We know not any right they have to interfere :,-- certainly none to use the name .of the. People; a very great majority of whom, if it depended on their voices,, we are confident, would 'give them against the Keys; as such,. to whom they owe nothing, and for the , Duke, l to such, , they owe much. We peremptorily deny, that his Grace has ever been hostile to the inhabitants. On tlie contrary, we assert, that he has _been, on all occasiOns, the warm—the active--and the only powerful friend of the Island. • • - We know the inhabitants , at large are grateful to him. The Keys,. being self-eleaed, can only speak for themselves, not)* the' People. We conceive _they. ought rather to have joined in endeavouring to 'point out any additional advantages that might reasonaOly be eipeeted for the Island, than to attempt to throw a stumbling block in the 'way of the'oxl,Y tki,tx Who has either the means, or who^hers manifested tl;e_kzelin4tio . n, to serve it. We think It extraordinary, that the Duke's power to levy fresh. duties prior to the revestment .should be denied or doubted. The, British Parliament does it, withopt 6.:nsulting the:Keys ; yet the Parliament has up..power that did not flow from the Duke's fa mily," in coniequence of what is called the Sale. It *was well known in the Island, and every where else, that the Sale was against the grain., Did' not Regiments of Dragoons.being sent to take possession, give it rather the aspen of conquest, than of a placid agreement ? . The Insular Revelpes, under a proper system, would have grad=lry improved front the beginning, as well before the revestment as since. This is as certain, as that the .'atize canes produce the same eireßs. The value of Royalties, and of Sovereign Power, is beyond the sphere of our conceptions. Some of the Germain Princes, perhaps, or of our highest order of Peers, would have been the most suitible Jury. But as Men of business, we should consider 70,0001. to be totally inadequate to the purchase of tin improveable estate of 60001. which has since risen to a. gross rental 0f,12.,0001. a year. The Agents of the 'Keys complain, in e&a, of the benefits the island has derived from the Conso lidated Revenues of the Empire, through the repre sentation of the Duke of ATROLL, and the wisdom of Parliament, in Public Buildings, Military De fence, &c. _ _ _ It is dangerous to the interests of our Island, to hold out the erroneous idea, that.expences incurred for the benefit of Empire at Jorge should be pay able by the Isle of Man: liti:merly the Inhablt,-. its we're I:.:*thle t, Military Service—to be c3lledoltt by the Captains of Parishes, and to arm thernseivei chietly at their ()Wit espence. This law has not been repealed, and might still be enforced. The Militia la now paid by the Nation aL large. Be it, that this is a cause of complaint against the Duke—We have no Warne of the kind to impute to the Keys. We are under no very great obligations to them, for any favours done to the Island. Unless we make our bow:i` for their haVing at= tempted to saddle the inhabitants with a yearly tax of about 40001. including 800 guineas for 400 fish ing boats !! ! • The Inhabitants have not found the way of being angry with the bake; for having shielded them from this dangerous measure. HE HAS THEIR BLESSINGS FOR IT. Complaint is made of the decay of rUblit Build ings. _ The Duke indeed has reason to complain, that his Castles or Houses were irregularly taken possession' of, and have been delapidated. The possession of these was not necessary to pre vent smuggling. . Do -the. Keys forget; that the Inhabitants were obliged to perform certain labour,' . at the pleasure of the Lord, and bqund in carriage services for the repairs, of his Castles, and ,other Buildings ? There is no abrogAtion of that Law: the King may put it in force. Do th e y w i s h t o lay upon their Countrymen again those burdens ? • We cannot tilat regard, as mischievous towards the Island, charities or suoastions that bear such a tendency to the general introdu&ion of British Taxa tion amongst us as the writings of these Agents of the Keys do. We have not lost sight of the impropriety of some of the• Keys a&ing as Attornies and Pleaders, and sitting as Keys, ,or Jurymen, in the same 'causes. The people here did not know that the Keys are at least as much a Judicial asa Legislative Body, nor how they stand connefted. • We cannot give up the hope, that the tine is not far distant, when, agreeably to the general wish oc, the Inhabitants expressed to the Commissioners of Inquiry in 179 f, the Keys will cease to be self ele6ted, and cease to sit for life. They will then begin to represent the. People. But we are not sure that we can at present urge these, and other mate r i a l improvements, essential to the weal of the Island, as it would more time to digest the necessary alterations. We are indebted to the Key-Agents for, the sin gular idea, not very respeat'ully put, that though the Duke does not hold the Sovereignty of the Isle of Man, he holds a much ,better shuittion, by being Governor. In other words—it is better to be a servant than a king. • Any comment applicable to these expressions would only soften down the aspeEt of their impro priety. We deny that the Inhabitants of the Isle of Man carried on Wept trade against this Country previous to the Tevestrnent in 1765. Do the people . of this Country call themselves smugglers, when, in time of peace, they pour arti cles into Spanish America ? • • The Grant of the "Isle, of Man laid no restraint-- we were as free, to trade at large as the French or Dutch, or :lily other foreigners. Mare just to our predecessors than the Key- Agents, we-. do therefore give back to whosoever coined them, the opprobrious epithets of Smugglers, &c. as far as regarded their•commerce ith this and other Countries then foreigb to oors.. Great pains are taken, an%; with amazing success, to prove that the purchase of the Isle of Man , WZI'S a losing bargain to the Public. Let us look at the fa 6.4 According to the Report of its own Revenue Officers, C reat lirtri,3n gains by the . R.:- I/MUM: the yekly sum of • . X3soosou Ireland, according to pod information, gains at least, per annum - 100,103 Take this for nineteen y ears , i t g i ves • 450,0°q- 4.B,sso,con .Government. was out of pocket, according to the itatentent of the AsentE for the Keys, on the refit • .of Udober, 1784 - • - *169,560 - kg,39?,440 So that Government had then only gained nearly Bight Millions and a Half, and up to this time no more than Eighteen Millions ' exciwp w. and exclusive of the L or d' s Revenue. Thus are we ruined—and if Parliament does not see it, the angel of its perception is obtuse. But there is a gleam of consolation to a few left behind. The Duke has lost the. Royalties of his Ancestors for nothing—and was allowed a very inadequate hum for a large and increasing Revenue, that might with ease have been derived from the Island iu the last forty years. You know as well ague di), that when we can* away, scarcely a man in the Island had indicated the least idea of objeating, or of a right to objekt, to the Duke of Atholl's being allowed such additional compensation as Parliament might see proper; , ex-, ceptmg the. Keys, wh o , we b e li eve , are by no means unanituou,s., though the majority carry with them the signAttirea (lithe rest. The licy-Agents have on e . or two shrewd advisershere. As the inhabitants had not shewn, any symptoms °Non taneons inclinut ion to counterad their Benefaaor, who has brouglo.pro• perty into the Island, a P e titi on WAS preparaAiret, in duplicate or triplicate; after our, arrival, and sent by evrea.for the signatnres of such of th4ople as could be prevailed upon to affix their names. You are better acquainted than we can be, at this dist ance, with the means used to procure signatures. If they were told that the Duke wanted to take from them all their lands and property, we cannot be surprised that ignorant mid illiterate persons should be misled. They will be sorry 'when uncle beived, Is it possible, that sheets of parchment, without any Petitions eixed, were sent in circula tion for signature ?—that influence was used with the Volunteers ?---arm that persons who were asked to - sign, and who desked leave to read, were _an swered in this manner,, " sign first and read after. wards l>" . . . , These questions are put trorn mere cnriosity.—The signatures are of * no importance.—We kne thy, with the . exception alrt-ady rnacle„ scarcely w any pel•-, * Tha principle ors which this sum As stated is inadmis,a inalmuch as cape:ices for Imperi4l purposes are tint charecable to thy I sl.tod, 41tri Ihr verument is credited for the 70 owil. though it has the I z,hin , t. £v,u the Petitioll,oi the heys, ~ v4r are assutid, wade up bore, atatif mat to them. , t Soli of *coin : e s- it:mice Wc;uld Unienante air/ Petition ; and upon inspeaing it;, we v• - ,:r4.:. able . to disc aver few or no names known-to its; e)-..cepting that of some of the Keys; which went to swell the general nuraber, though they had Signed A separate p'aper as a particular body. We also remarked, that Very many tiarriei written by.very few hands, and were not the real - signatures of the persons nariaed. As this , Petition; such as it is, has been delivered in * since we-begarr tills Letter, we thought it our duty to give in our own; which, as coming on the part of th6prineipd Merchants, and otherrespeqabie inhabitance, could not tad to outweigh the other if attention were to be Paid to either: Though Pe never hatiliberty to witness the l~rp" ceedings of the Keys, we had cal access to the Committee of the House Of Commons, tO the ,Duke' of Atholl's Petition was referred. Mr: Ctirwen's Speech was very liberd; he admitted.that the Sale was compulsory-=',and that the quer of England," that is, the Treasury'of. the Em pire, could not have paid him, Mr. Curwen, for the Royalties!, This induced its,, for a Moment ta gine that he 'would' have proposed some very Feat cOmpensationbut no---:the urines, of Peru could not - compensate himself—yet' he thought too anUcli had already been given to etc Duke! We c ou ld give.you a particular ahceunt - of what passed on this subject whilst we were present: but it' is on,ly 41.ecei'sAly to . say, that; atler investigating the sub-' jed three days, the Committee, altno,t unanimouslyit agreed to make a Report to the House of Commons in favour.. of 'the Duke of. Atholl's CUM Co some share of the Surplus Insular Revenue.. 27th Illay.—This Report has been Ordered to. be taken into consideration Wedoesday sellnight: ' You know that there are some Gentlemen among the Keys for Nyhom we have the greatest respe6t anti afte6tion, and you will, therefiire clearly nnderstz:mt that in speaking of that Body generally; we' are far from nneaning.offeneo to a:ty individu4l, - and eer. 'tainly not to, our 4 1 / 4 1n. particular friends. When ansfilthing farther occurs, you shall hear from us. um)r , to rrtnke this commuttication public,, because we h:tve been informed that the Agents of thn Keys have. been hitherto considered hue as the Agents of the People of Man; and we think it .is extremely necessary to unrobe these Gentlen= of that character; Which by no means belongs to them. It is also high time the Public should be explicitly informed, that, as far , as we . know,,Mr. Curwen, who has interfered so many years In isle of Man affairs, has done so principally as a volunteer. We are certain he never had any general commission, or authority of interference, from the People at large, the bulk, and the most respeaable classes of whom, would thank him if he worth/ jive peace to th e I s l an d by ceasing to concern himself so particularly about it: We are, with great regard; Gentlemen, Your sincere Friends, • PAUL BRIDWg, WILL. STOWELL * 2 . 3 d May. tf/DEURIV SHEEP-SHEARING. ON Sunday the company began to assemble Woburn Abbey, and in the town and nei hbourtio,,tl of. Woburn, to' be present at his Grace the Duke of 131:n1oRD'S grand Agricultural Fete, which was to begin yesterday, and is to last four day 4 as usual,. His Grace, on Sunday, gave a grand dinner, to which the following were expected, viz. His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. Hi,; (inlet:2lkt Duke of 114anclicAer. Earls —Talbot, Darnley, and l::.,reniont. Lord: Sheffield, Soinervtlie,, William Rtisscil, Vii icrs, Ludlow, and CaWdor... Sh . s.—Harry Featberstone, .Iola: B, Joint Wrottcsicy, Win. Rowley, Gt:o. Piggote, and It. rynlp lc and Beatitn t: Afetirr..—Coke, Edward Coke, A nfou, Lee Antonio, N Culling Si/nth, Curren, Marshall, Couyert4 • Idurgoyw, noBely, rtioitent, Y4'eicent I.arntitr, Rob:rt 14144 ‘V.itit, Senernove ; cut •the Rey. 1 1 1 . ,' 'Jodie). DUnL TINT, JUNE 1 4.---'The offelluer wbb reel! so Ion; in Kilmaiiiliam gaol, called Captaitipu.-r fer ,. Of the mountains, has fefused to go to Botialy He requires to be, sent to Aineric4, he and three Zif Ills Myrmidons, with their fiimilies, ancithe expeno-'; of such voydge to be. defrevel f'±- •,;‘ riaTe 3e followers. t u l f; . r : e ''.. t.O r'' Cn " t u il:'Ci v , er i7rte ll e v ;. ! ;4 l4 6t i s lo , t . ;T . :P .4 17i fo :;;t wers. Four Others of his gang, have con-; Vented to go to Botanyßay, rather than stand a trial. —Fr. J. • A few evenings ,ago, a Gentleman and his :ion ; returning to their country residence beyond 'Donny broolt rather late, were riding on at a gmart rate, until they ,observed a Lady and Gentleman very d kantly dreswd, - walking before the when curio sity Winced .them to p}lll up, their horrs, and to hold. converse with the " benighted pair." They Lad nut, however, sojourned many yards together until the Gentleman seized one of the *bridles i and'the Lady with equal agility proceedM to pounce ott the other. She however received a stroke of a whip, which tumbled her over and over ; and her companion letting go the bridle he held, to thaw Ji a o s tr io s t and haa ebseceapnedfirNeAltll afterotlt ,pistols which he had concealed; the Gentlemen set s w P i til thlt t a ° n l tilhenigrinjur y, td..te not- UNTRACI' 01? A LETTER ICITOK GtBRALTAII, RECEII7.' mi l s As of l a p l: r i c ie ei o v p e le by df th E e ng p l t A c i i e h l:r v i e nt ix s, t t n ha l t th Ti) BY THE CAthEL. att. y agitated, by the promulgation of a report, thatthe malignant pestilential fever had re visited the Rock, I can, With 11111 Ch confidence M!% from my ofiicial connexion 1 , the Board of • h.fr, and local knOwledp L • •port is pc., - fitaik , ,„, tb r ,, since the con alescv end'of I.k cember lasts ii (*her twilady prevailed soldicri and inhabit:lms (4i. joy a condition of nealt h, almost ant,Kailipktd Jil.tl e medical history of the Garrist., *O4. a ,took pbtr.:e about thret: milos from t. - ",;.)tic, on r 1, . f, betAvecti Liento.orAnt 311(1 - 1 q . )t) of tip-. South 513,v0 Regitnent of SGVeit3ly wotti)dt.c.t in the :irn 1 I jou4:ll,..'.vitietz tailor; ar..; cominlited , ,f labour iC,r a 1110111.3, for an .:1 4- .. 4 ..r.nipt to ).., wages - at i3;loilt , jll . , :)7