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I can form no opinion upon that, but fora their ry:ng they were sent. Was there such, an Account 'as the Boatswain's Stated Acce,:„' ?----Yes there was, ;nlls. Could that have been made up but by the assist ance of such documents as are not now forthcoming ? Certainly not. The Boatswain's Stated Account is his regular expence j it is , made up from a variety of Alieuttents , ; that was made up -in Chatham Yard. You have said, that there are Papers which are mot . forthcoming, •which, td you'r knowledge, have b'en in yor desk ; will you particularize those Papers ?—No, f did not say any Papers which to my knowledge were in my desk. Where was the Boatswain's Account made up ittChatharn Yard. It was made up from the original documents there ?----Yes. You cannot be positive whether the original do cuments were transmitted with the Stated Account or not 2---M) fiather than I believe Tit from what the Chatham Officers say. You have no recolleetion of having seen them th6re ?—No. , Have you any cause of knowledge, from your own inspe&tion, that those Papers ever were in your es';. ?—Some of,the Papers Iknow were there. . Some of the Papers that were lost ?-1 1 e§. Some of OW Papers supposed to be lost were in p .ir desk ?—I was dwelling upon aPaper very par ticularly necessary when I spoke before ; - there are -:-once Papers not immediately necessary in stating the 13oatsy. , ain's Account, which I saw there, but they are not the Papers now lost. There are some essential Taper's now lost which von know to have been in your desk ?—No ; that I do not know to have been there. Will you state any Papers of those; that are lost which you know to have been in your desk ?----The Boatswain's Voluntary Account of Stores supplied - ;ind returned, I know to have bein there, and not to be there now. Who was the particular person in Chathain Yard whcise duty it was to transmit the' Papers which should accompany that Account I—The Clerk of the • (. . ey. What was his name ?—Mr. Burton. There.were two persons who you say had access to your drawer, namely, Mr. Rule and ..lllr Tucker; were 'there any other persons who had access, to that drawer ?--Mr. • Tucker and Mr: Moss were therisomethnes, and Mr. Bickerton; I do not think Mr: Rule ever went to the drawer,, but he might hare gone there. , (n be co/lan:raj • MAILS. 4311(11/1 1 11m;-1 Dab ; Watertbrd. Dut —4 Ilarnburgh, 3 Gottenburgh, t Dtibhn , r Wateribra. • PRICE OI• STOCKS XHIS DAY AT TWEXNE O'CLOCK, Consarp 58 i I Red. Ann. 591 I Omnium - T S U N. fOLN4 Quls rntspNl U1344T ? LONDOX, TRIn A Y AUGUST 2, 11305. As our Reacleesenust of course be deeply interest' ed in every thing which relates to the late Engage ment, we are happy to have it in our power to lay - bcfbre them some further particulars, the correctness of which may be relied upon, es they were cominu , DiCatcd,l3y Lieut : INICHoLSON: When the two Fleets hove hesight of each other on the 22d tilt. the Enemy; notwithstanding their . superior numbers, made every effort to avoid an engagement ; but when they fbued'themselves com pelled by the skilful manoeuvres of the British Fleet to risk. 4 battle, they displayed considerable spirit. The thick fog, however, which breveiled during the whole battle, was very favourable to the Enemy, and rendered the aaion notch more panial than it would otherwise have been. Some surprize has been expressed that the Anion should have been discontinued so soon ; but Lieu tenant NlenoLsON states, that it Was absolutely eteceseary for Atyniral Ceebee t 9 bring the Fleet to, in order to secure the two Spanish Ships which had struck, because they Were dropping List to leeward, and the Enemy might have re gained possession of them ; but it is probable that if the British Admiral'had not been convinced that' it was in his power to renew the a(tion whenever ple4e, that lie would not have discontinued it, (nen for the purpose of securing the captured Ships. Sir RtUttilT CALDER, Bs we have already steted, wee between the Eilemy and the land ; and the wind being North-east, it was impossible fur the Cembined Squadrons to get into Ferrel without again encountering the British Fleet. It was in the morning after thee Battle that Sir RoaeaT Ceteart wrote his Dispatehes,, intending that they s h ou ld be sent home by the Windsor Pasta:— The wind, however, continuing north-cast, whilst it the same time, the fog continued with little i n t er mission, the Windsor Casile and the Prizes wield not be sent off; and these circumstances also account for the Bettie not lie rig renewed at that '• period. On the evening of the 25th Sir ROBERT CALDER determined not to wait any longer for a fair wind to enable the Windsor castle to bring home the Dispat6hes, and therefore ordered the Frisk Cut ter to sail, with Lieut. NICHOLSON, with duplicates of the Dispatches to Admiral Colierw4LeS off Vsha Thp Pride vial obliged to turn to windward for the first thirty-six hours. Before .Lieut. Nicnoz.- “:"lefi the ./:"tire of Wales, the fog Lad cleared away , a little,, and the repeating Frigates reported the..Euemy to be about five leagues off. Sir Ito -14:rer `was still Convinced that he could bring the . Enemy again to aaion, whenever he thoUght it ex pedient, as his fast-sailing Ships - could soon oVer -take the heavy-sailing vessels of the Enemy, when the latter must ciaier utterly abandon them, or-fight to proteel them. The last words addressed by Sir ROBERT to Lieutenant Nicilinsorr, on the de livering him the Dispatches, were these :—" I have written to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that I shall bring the Enemy to aelion again, but you may assure theni afresh, that I have it-in in& power to do so, and that lam determined upon it; this you May also say to Admiral CORNWALLIS." The wind having changed,' and allowed the Windsor Castle and the Prizes to come away, the Enemy would probably endeavour to make for Ferrol, as an attempt to make for Cadiz or the Streights would expose them to much greater hazard than the former course. They could not, however, it appears, elle& a passage to Ferrol without coming again to an aEtion, which might, perhaps, be fought on the f36th or 27th ult. , We are, therefbre, in hourly expeetation of receiving further and more importantintelligence. The fifflowing is a List of the Ships of War now with Admiral CALDER, viz. Gups. Guns. Prince of Wales . 913 Defiance 74 Glory . 98 Repulse . 74 Barlieur - 98 Dragon - 74 M a l ta 8o Warrior . - 74 Ajax. So Thunderer . 74 Hero . 74 Agamemnon 64 Triumph 74 Raisonablc , • 6 4 The following is also a List of the Ships now composing the Combined Squadrons : FRENCH.. Le Neptune . - - 98 Intrepid . .• - 74 Formidable . . 98 Swiftsurc 7•i Pluto • B3 Inclbmptable - 74 m on tblaue - So Scorpism 74 Buccataiie - So Aguila Atal.mta - - 74 Aquilles - 74 BCf WiCk 74 Algueras - 74 • SPANISH. Argonaute . - S 4 Espana - - 64 Tcrnble - - - - 74 Aor-ri;a Besides six Frigatei and two Brigs of War. The Atlas, SAND ; the Briton, POWELL ; the Trusty, WHITE ; and the Concord, WlLLsorr, from Barbadoes, ore arrived at Bristol; they sailed on the 19th of June, under convoy , of the Heron, Sloop of War, in company with eighteen 64 for Great Bri.. twin, and several vessels for Newfoundland, Que bec; Itc. and parted froin the London Ships on the 27th ult. off Cape Clear. The Leicester Packet, from Falmouth to the Lee ward Islands, and the Spy Privateer, of London, Capt. DWYER, arc captured and carried into' Gua daloupe, . . Wednesdaymorning the Portuguese Ambassador transaCled buSiness at Lord Mulgrave's Office. On Monday last Mr. PITT, accompanied by Lords CARRINGTON, MAHON, ESSEX', FITZHARRIS, Messrs. Rosi and STURGES BOURNE, together with a large party of friends, visited the Military College ‘ at Gieat Marlow, They were received by Colonel Lu MAR CHANT (the LieUtenant-Governor) and the Staff of the College, by whom they were conducted thro gh. the different classes of the Jdnior Department du ing the time of instru&ion. They afterwards .inspe ed the , plans and drawings of the &ni9r Department. Generld J ARRY, and the Officers who reside at Wy comb, attended on the occasion. After the hours of study, the Cadets paraded under arms, and per formed several mamtuvres with a promptitude and precision that did them the highest credit 'for their steadiness and discipline. Mr. PITT, and the other visitors, expressed themselves highly pleased with the whole of the arrangements of this most useful Institution. .. The PRINCE of WALES at the soli c it a ti on o f Lb r d MOfRA, has not only condescended to become the Patron of the Edinburgh Magdalen Asylum, but has also subscribed too guineas towards the erection of ale new building. Lord MoxitA, and his amiable Countess, emulating the same beneficent spirit, have subscribed 401. The EMPEROR of RUSSIA fully shews his senti ments of the Imperial Upstart ,of Prance, in the Paper presented by Baron NOVOSILTZOFF to the Prus sian Minister, by having omitted all the usurped de signations of the Corsican, and mentioning him mere ly by the name of BONAPARTE. This very circum stance, boArever, is an additional proof of the Rus sian Monarch's sincerity ; for notwithstanding the detestation in which he must hold the man, and strongly as he must resent the injuries and indigni ties which he has received from the ambitious Up start, he nobly stilled every personal feeling, 'in or der to co-operate with Great Britain in an attempt to reileve the world from the miserie3 of a war pro traded by the enormous aggressions of France. A Letter having been written to the Lords of the Admiralty, complaining of the depredations 'com mitted on , the British Commerce by th e E nem y' s Privateers crttizing off the Coast of America, the fol lowing Answer was returned to the Merchanis by the Secretary of the Admiralty " Having laid befr:re my. Lords Commissioners of'the Ad miralty your Letter of the z2.d inst. rezipeding the danger to which the Prit;sli Conuncrceis exposed on the Coasts of South Carolina :old'Gdorgia,from the great number of French and Spanish Privateers cruizing there, 1 am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint yote, that they have setwa Copy of your Letter to ViceuAdiiiiral Sir A. A t'rem'or., and di: reded him to take the necessary measures ter , the Protettion of the 'Trade on-that part o f rh e Coast.. " I am, Gentlemen. Your very humble Servant, WM. .11 ARSDTN," rt mt,;(1,,,0 Hl7, NAVfIL NEIV S. PLYMOUTH, JULY 3 1.--41 e -two Spanish Ships, 'l• Firma and : San Raphael,, came up the Har bour last evening, and were safely moored in Ha , amaze, amidst the loud plaudits and cheers of a vast concourse of spectators, who assembled on the shores of the Hoc, Mount Wise, and the Stone house Hills, to witness -this pleasing - - scene ; the weather was extremely fine, which enhanced the beauty of the sight. Another Ship of the Line (supposed to be the Pluto, of 80 guns) struck to the Windsor Castle and Malta, but was immediately afterwards towed off by a Frigate, and escaped. The Wine or Castle remains in Cawsand Bay, and the Sirius Frigate in the Sound, performing quarantine. The Egyptienne Frigate sailed this af ternoon for Portsmouth; the mizen top-mait of the .latter was carried away by a shot from one of the Enemy's Line-of-Battle Ships which she engaged. The Ships mentioned in my last to have been seen froth the Heights near Loe, have been in sight from Maker Tower the whole of this day, and are supposed to be homeward-bound East India Ships. Sailed the Lady Warren Armed Ship, with a Flee t of Victuallers under Convay, for the Channel . Fleet. No further accounts have been received here respeaing Admiral's CALDER'S Fleet, or that of the Enemy ; it is hoped, however, that a few hours will bring us some intelligence. PORTSMOUTH, AVG. I.—Arrived His Majesty's Sloops of War, Pluto, Captain JAL4VERIN, and the Favourite, Capt. DAVIE, each from a Cruize ; also the Alexander, Voss, from the Downs, bound to America. Sailed the Nautilus, DAVIE, for Sunderland. YARMOUTH, AUG. I.—Admiral RUSSELL arrived 'this morning in the Roads from a Cruize off the Texel, with four Sail of the Line and a Frigate. The Lubeck PaOket is arrived in the Roads with pas sengers from Tonningen. The Ann Gun-brig has sent in here a Smuggling Vessel, with about 200 half-ankers of spirits, which she fell in with off the Scau. The outward-bound Baltic Fleet passed here yes-: terday, and were joined here by the Boreas, HOWE'S', Lion, BLYTH, and Search, BI.OMYIELD. FOLKSTON; JULY 31.—1 n the Ness Road, Leo pard,' Rear-Admiral DOUGLAS, with the Vulture, Hermes, &plosion, Firm Brig, Volunteer, Wrangler, and Bruizer. Auo. I.—Rernains as above,,with the Lord Keith Cutter. Cruizers are sent from Ness Road every day to look into Boulogne Road. SifEERNESS, AUG. I.—Came down from the River to the Nore, the Woolwich Tender, Lieut. Cox, with several impressed men abd volunteers fur the Fleet, and sailed again. Sailed L' Unite, for The Downs, after having been paid bounty, and two months advance. The Winchelsca continues the .signal for convoy to Tonningen, until such time as a Ship be appointed far that service, Ships at this ,Port —the Zealand, Boadicea, Winchelsea, Ceres, Magnaiiinic, Chatnpion,Trumpetise. La I'leehe. Com batant, Valorous, Dauntless; Ranger Armed' Ship ; Red breast, Exertion, and Protedor Gun-brigs, and sereri - Boinb Tenders. A Grand Ball will be given this evening at N3v‘r South End, Essex, by Lady ,11 - Amit.ToN, to the Of ficers of the Navy generally, being in honour of the day when the glorious Battle of the Nile was won by the noble and gallant NELSON. , DEAL, JULY 31.—Sailed the Arab Sloop of War for 'Portsmouth ; also the Boulogne and Calais. Squadrons for their respeEtive stations. 'Sailed through the Downs the Alexander, VESE, for New York; and the Holland, NEWTOkI, for Jamaica. Arrived L'Amiable Frigate from the Northward. Caine down from the River the Northumberland, Capt. RAINCOCK, for the East Indies, and remains, in the Downs with the rest of the Ships as per last. Auo. 1,--Sailed the Zealous, Defence, and Goliath, Line-of-battle Ships, to join the Channel Fleet; Ari adne Frigate, Bonetta and Speedy , Sloops of War,' Lucifer Bomb, Bruixer, Tigress, and Gallant Gun brigs, and many other Ships bf War, to the French Coast ; and L'Ainiuble Frigate to Portsmouth. Remain in the Downs a large Fleet of Ships of War and outward-bound, with the Olive Branch FORD, for Jamaica, put back.' Came down from the River the Britannia East Indianian, and Swift East India Pilot Vessel. Arrived aiid sailed for.the River, the Pitt, NE*- cow , from New Providence, 33 days passage. PogLE, AUG. .—Admiral the Hon. GEORGE BERKELEY inhere inspeaing the Impress Service and Sea Fencibles; which is to be totally new-modelled : both services are to be consolidate& which will lessen' the expellee to the Nation greatly. The gal lant Admiral goes' to-day from hente to, San 3 Souci,, the seat of our Member, JOHN JEVFERY, Esq. where be dines and sleeps ; to-morrov,- he cont cues his route to Lulworth, Weymouth, !c., lexTrAct or A LET TER PI O:4 AN WIC E a CAP 8N tOtID S ONE OF Tla FIttGATE IN SIR ROtAl)*l' FLEET. Fleet e N. \V ., n,4 " On the end of July, about i 1 A. et, the mie. one of the look-out ships, made i signal for 1 . di reelly to windward of or Fleet; shortly after F i the signal was made for their being the Enemy't eet, and that they consisted of Ships of the Line and Frigates, to the number of 30. At this tine; we Were to windward of the Defiance, aad h oot or fire leagues to witide;ard of our Fleet. About half pt from R 5 to 30 sail, apparently laying -to, twelve_ P. M. we could plainly count Iron our decl: ct!rce getting nearly within gun-shot, returned to our Fleet, who were then forming, in Lute of Battle. -4 About two we were considerably v,ithin guieshotoi the Enemy's advanced Squadron, which then tag ' and stood to windward of their Fleet, then formed The D', in line. We bore, up to leeward of their atlvancei line, -and passed within half-gun-shotof their whole which was formed .tine a inesterlyle, consisted s of iv sail of the L, and sty°flak _hips to windward, for the prates of theirre ar ' They•had likewise seven large Frigate, two Brip, and a very valuable Galleon, which one of their ri gates had hi tow ; the Frivates w ere MOO , windward (with the three Ships of the Line) of ti'T t sternmost ship. Our Fleet was at this time ,about miles to leeward, on the starboard tack; under a pry of sail, the Enemy at the same time under ego') a thick fog intervening, prevented the twe Fleets fro, ll . seeing each other. Seeing the GIRO in Wirihl", Frigate, arid observing they were the sterninll!i of the Enemy's Line, we tacked with the illL e ' it e attempting to cut her off. This sadden tnnu;,tie threw the Enemy's Frigate into some alarm has immediately commenced firing sigoal PO in succession, which caused the three Line 01 Ships, stationed to cover their rear, to erV 7 0 , for her proteaion. Our attempt being tio" or 'crated, we were Compelled to edge d°wn to Met. The fog at this time cleared a little, R,11,0, perceived that our Fleet bad ticked fig th ° 7' 1 1 1;4' and the Admiral had giveo the, sig-nal to attsc the Galleon likewise, centre. As we were edging away, w e 01)0'10 1 , , van of the Enemy had wore for the pretetlioa, 0 e e , tag ship three quarters past four) , we re ifisoish critical situation. Oa passing they 11 01° ' ,' l joi colours, a nd we received the mole fire of then ac, .leading ships, upwards of 120 pixes of lito tillery, discharged in one aionient on ot r v :lt b lio t ,i and when Ns'e observed tlieiral;), Mr-bile we•could only return 20. Tho the t el,ell commenced : our leading ship, the 11er0,7., 3,4 immediately the Enemy opened their tire (-)!' urestiire commenced a heavy cannonading on them t ore Ships disabled; although It continued wth unremitting Eery fcg ti' l l:,b e fas, and a_ half, 'lien we saw (on the clew olL d t o at i n tervals) the French Line coulddward , t ';':_ 0 distinguish whether they belonged to theciF,oo 1'); us. At half-Past eight the ring co,se, . 0 , light)) sides ; the Admiral hoisted ]ti; distingul4llAle as did the rest of the Squadroo, when we c°, e u _` c r oo si , ly observe our Fleet to be in tolerable orilero ,0 dering. the extreme fogginess of the wll. E , 10 661 1 5 11 we not at ;l ii ' had apparently suffered but little, althougVe log on both sides was eictreniely 110. ~,re 004 Just to leeward of the Admiral, ° 2 into the rear to .take possession attending on which duty has beeo our t i e loie ployment ever since. About nine, tit,o3o 0' Made the signal to bring to on the sta.r line. l e which was complied with by the % 49ie v d 101 0 , two Spanish Ships that have surrender goo ot men killed • and wounded ; their I°‘'etodered t; away by the board, so that they were r ose 0 . 00 12 i !allyunmanageable, am) gave us 411° , ~,,n 60' i in towing them. }lad .the Weather .7113i,e5,‘",., have no hesitation in saying, they w°"`,, ver tei °': completely defeated ---but the fog .gri'll, diicefr,, On the ,24th the wind shitted ,Ships. getting near enough (they NI Ur ~' be ing' of O; ,07:0,1 tri'le; ole, but at intervals), arid the rt. 1 , ( 1,er to 01 , witidward, were too wise to colne nee foto7 which brought our Fleet to windw"r ° lr ci Ivit li At this time we were so fir to le° 00,1,110 prizes, that we could not see the Deaf c , ea io . . Fleet could. Sir itODEIVr CA .art ell ' t 19 Cilci of the Line, with 14 only---0110 bet* 5 11 thd i ll! in the morning, et d -did not retail LI ceased." ....---- to d t i f the,EiesPil we had or A LET• TV:t FLoM AN orrlCO°srf THE lAIND3ort cAsTIS, I'l,ooo, JOS' .0 gollt°,4' 1 %Theminutes of the aaion I 1131 ',5-o.;i rest as well as I Can descx-ibe it. ; 3 , I v \ very hot -w...)rk for three 1,001.40;" Ve received the fire of seven Ships befor4% cio,4 ut. ‘pvvsitpilanoisrhosphpiopnseonftj ttillTnLeiiiiiegiii4oe.li.ltr%,c.‘:oo, tifil:ooooitli half, besides a Frigate and a Bricr. Oe hee . o•Frenchmen out of their line. Ore of t c" , P lards dropped astern, the other strack.ifieiltitl to a us, and was taken possehiloll Of b Y 'tern. We being the weathermost.Shilhh,o 14 very Moth in our rieging and' 1604 i We'vt.i, ''',a selves very fortunate in bavins only 1 1 P il 1 ; wounded, having so many ships upon I° , l more French Line of Battle Ships ,Vlll7ei4;°, our quarter to rake us, the Prince of iri_iglitheA many on re Sail up, engagind Ovo (l'iited, took_ the fire of them from us, aria ig'.velpfelibe:f from raking. us. The con Sequence \cowl aid Otherwise very serious. ,We eitilrf • a`c),,optil3 t been- sank, or most of us killed. 111,e .01,00'... the Egg ptienne had his boat liaweic(l 00' i, rape, ready to tow,ui farther froni theitia,p, 011 five more Line of Battle Ships coluin„ (1 , t),.e i,n(ll,c. I::easure do I feel ill telling'vou, that "i°,1.5 600" v braver Ship's Comply it) Ais Sit.l?'"f:,,stiva,lv I will only give you one instance of 3 '-''anj 00,14 was woundedi his riglit thigh shot etr,,, be3 rd r ,' 1 : 1 fear, will to the other. As soon A 3 reo sujferl7/ the Spaniard had of to it s, he W 3 . 1 ," , a ve amputation, he took off his hat and 62;:d., 1,17,. cheers, and exclaime " I shall die 1,aP11.7„,,,i toi happy to say the brave fellow is yet lisl_,''ls); 4ro, some hope that; his remaining 14:51„te in c li w i l have the pleasure .to say Or P r ''' ,d, ll'eeved. pany. We are the only Ship disol)l‘ oisli ri.r are gale in pursuit of the F r each god P of do lid " W C mast have killed 3 great no"Y o f the 4 . oae r 4 1 j my, if j may judge by du; sow °% opl gi ie j v that struck to us. She had 1.51' , e iioe '4o' wounded ; of the latter, nine hoe ,/, ot" SY their wounds, glop tbe St. hod / -41