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NAVAL v~{~ ATE rfr s. Not iNster Iva peldgi, sevurreiset Std Nib; sorts dstatios. Porn tbe LONDON GAZETTE, April zt, •itot. 4.2 7, ;thYtity-Oirce, April 21, SRO I . Extrafi of a Letter front Admiral ,Sir Hyde Parker, Coinsnander in Chilf of His Majesty's Ships and Yesseh emploted on a preticalar Service, to Evan Nepean, Esq. Secretary of the Admiralty, dated on hard :His Majesty's Ship Loudon, irt,Copenhasen- Road, the 9th fiprii, iBo 1 . • - sT The Honourable Lieutenant,Colonel Stewart hav ing volunteered his services by being- the bearer of these dispatches, I have accepted thereof, on a be. lief that it will be more expeditious than by sea, - I have the pleasure to transmit an Armistice con cluded between the Court of Denmark and myself. I mead, as soon as the disabled Ships are refitted, and the worst of the wounded moved into the'Hol_ stein Danish-Ship of Line, which I have com missioned 35 an Hospital Ship, to .pt:oceed over the Grounds into the Baltic to put into execution the remaiking . part of my instruaions. The Isis and Monarch being found in:so bad a state from the late Aktion, as. to render it necessary to send them to England to have their damages re. paired, I shall send them home for that purpose with the holstein Hospital Ship, which has the wounded and sick on bbard. Conditionssof rtnistice. were given in our Paper of yesterday.] . . aftwommil.• P . • • • Adm;ralt . y.Op e , dpeil 2r, rSo 1. Ex/, acrl of a Letter from ihybihati Admiral of the. Blue, to Evan .\'e can, Ell. dated at Yarmouth, the zoth . • Be pleased to acquaint my Lards Commissioners of the Adirriralty, of the arrival of His Majesty's Sloop Favourite from her Cruize off the Spurn, i having brought n with her L'Antichrist, French Lugger Privateer of fourtcen guns and sixty men. Savo rite, Plymouth, W; S. iv tight Leagues, April 17, 1801. SIR I beg leave to acquaint you, time I this evening captured, after a e h ace of four hours, L'Antichrist trench Lugger Privateer, of fourteen guns, nine and two pounders, manned with sixty men, cum n'anded by Henry Alexandre Seorssiery ; out fifteen day' from Dunkirk, had captured the Ship .Bro therly Love, of South Shields, bound to London, which I also re-captured. I am, Sir, &c. JOS. WESTBEEdr. t0k4.01 Esq. Admiral of lb,. Blue, and See gild in Command of ills Majesty's and Vessels, lie, Vt. &.Yarmalitk. • , . VA.ltitforttg, APait zi. TH is morning sailed the Wowing Ships tinder the Command of Adm. •TorrYi for the Baltic, viz. Zettlus, Powerful, and Vengeance, of 74 guns each, /6j, of 64, Alkmaar, armed-en-flute, La Pomone Frigate, Wrangler, Ready, Safeguard,. Pincher, Eclipep : Plansper, Adder, Cracker, La resaive, - and Griper Gun-vessels, arid the Drake Cutter. Arriied in the Roads, the Li Ann. 13rig j and George Cutter, from a Cruize. The .George Cutter brought iii a large Smuggling Lugger ; with Sco caskt of spirits, and about 1 z civt: of tobaccoo , drIZIJII.44L. , • uoitirr of Aldermen wat hel d vz!sterdaY, ae Guidhall, at which the Loiui MAre R, ilitc;:n Alder men, and the two Sheriffs; were o•esent; The Master and Wardens of the Baker's' Coin Piny attending, it appeaied; on examining. the Meal_ weighers' Returns, that a reduaiiiii had taken plate in the average Pricet of Wheat and Flour.; the Court ordered the price or Bread to be lowered one assize, or two.pence in the Peck Loaf, to take place on- Thursday next : t h e p r i ce of the Quartern Loaf will then be ts. B}d. • The weekly consumption OfFlOur in the MetiO rolis; according 'to an average of the twclvc weeks preceding, was 13,142 sacks. .• The sum of 8,8001. Orphans Stock was ordered to be paid off, and annihilated. The Court voted their Thanks to the Lord Bishop of Oxvoßrr, and the Rev. Dr. RENNEI.I., for their Sermons preached before the Court and the Governors of the Royal Hospital, at Christ Church, on Monday and Tuesday in Easter week. An Account of the Value of all Exports from Great Britain for Three Years, ended the sth of April 18w ; distinguishing each Quarter, and the value .of British Produce and Manufattures from the value of Foreign Articles Exported ..., British Al a r m . Year faccirsres. ended --- Foreign Aril— ties. I Tool. . ---- s. d. .s. d. s. d. 5, 1799 1 9,672 1 503 . o 9 1 3,9 1 9, 2 74 1 3 11 33,59 1 ,777 1 4 8 100 2.},0 4,213 oi6 X 1,90 7 1116 .3 11 35,994329 4 9 iSot 24,411, 0 6 7 12 8 17 , 1 66, 145 11 3 :445 7 '7, 21 3 311 Inspeelor General's Office, Cu3L•rn-ifinise,, ' • London, .441 is, 'Sol. • Note.-4 The Books.of the. inslieelor_C;eneral's or_ fice, being made up from the sth - of January, to the sth . of January of each succeeding year; this Ac count cannot 'therefore be stated in the periods re quired by the above Order. WI LI. lAM• IRV I NO, InspeElor-G,:neral of the Ini port s and E xports of Great l§ritain. . „ . A Ccfuncil of the Cabinet. Ministeri- was yester day held at Lord Hawkesbury's Office. A. Privy Council was likewise held. at the Duke of PORTLAND' Office; when twenty-one persons, taken into custody for assembling at a public-house in.Fore-sireet, Cripplegate, for . editious purposes, were examined—The most of them were committed to Tothill•fields Bridewell. It is reported that the present'Session of Parlia ment will be a very short one. It will probably terminate before' the King's Bit or soon af ter that period. Lord HARDWICKE; tt is expected, will very speedily set off f6r Ireland. Tlie .Dorset Yacht to carry him over, was to be at Holyhead on Monday last. The Hon. Col. STEWART was expe&ed to leave Town this day on his return to Copenhagen. • The only difference between the Copy 'of the Armistice which we gave in our Paper of yesterday, and that in the Gazette, is, that the Nome's 'of - the Witish Commissioners, Lord IST . t.soN,- and 'the lion. Colonel SfE w T, should have siciod -first in the order of Signature, and the Treaty is ror t ified by Prince Fit torttO/COf Denmark, as well as by Sir HYDE PARkEit. The account in the Articl: from Copenhagen, of the > nit inst. brought by The Hambur :; ll Mail, of Sir , likuE PAIMER !laving lust n Son in the Action of the 2d, we conclude to he untrue. The,Danes did 'not probably know that our gallant Admiral was very, recently married. Lord ,CASTLEREACH, who has . bcen extremely ill; we are happy to learn is didar'ed to be out of danger: His count!) , ow es . so much to his talents and. integrity, that the Public c ann9t , fail to be deeply interested in every thing thatrimaerns so ex, celleut a young Nobleman: .. • .. •, General St MC 0 E has- been mentioned aslikely to go - to Ireland as COmmander in Chief., We know not, from the acknowledged inftrity 'ind ability of this Officer, where a better choice could be made. ' Count WC:4,ONi° W; we understandl was not to leave SouthaMpton for Towil till this dap' The dec l ara tions of Mr. ADDI NGTON, and the known reditude and ingenuousness of his charader, arc sufficient pledges to the Public that he .will omit. no favourable opportunity for terminating the severe contest f in which we have been algaged—he will - haiire the 'heart-felt wishes and prayers of every honest man for .his. success.--Whatever .may be the result of his honest endeavours, • his conduet in placing-himself at the 'hail) of Government at the moment when. he accepted his office; entitles him to the.contidence 'of the Nation in gimeial—it is a proof of that firiiniess of mind, and that manliness of charader, tq we are persuaded the People may safely trust for extricating us with honour from the present War, and for plac ing us in that rank among the Nations of Europe .whiCh is so justly due to us from the firmness and spirit with which we have opposed the storm of the French. Revolu tion, and from the vigour, energy, and success, with which we have maintained a contest in which .10e were involved by Ow • malevolence, the injustice, and the extravagant ambition of our Enemies, Lady Nr Lsot is at Bath attending the venerable Father of the Conqueror of Aboukir and Copen. feelings of the Father and .the Wife .upon hearing of the additional laurels gained by . the. objeft of their afilion, may be coneeisveVbut certainly 'cannot be described: , . • . • -The PR INC P. Of Hesse, according total! report, coraluded . himself with such a want of dignity and "gORd manners to the Deputation from the Senate of ,iletmbargh, that we arc glad to hear, he , has learned a lesson of Moderation 'and nagnaniniity j .from a "British Tar at Copembagem. . An,Atnliassador Extraordinary has been appointed': at Petersburgh to . repair 'to Vienna, to notify the accession-of ALE ViND Eit the Isetarr to the Throne of Russia. Count pA . NI:Si is tc.alipointecl 'Vice-. Chancellors . . - , /IV iti.flti.4 , "•• t - i.1...A....' . 4,V . .1. 0 ° 1* UI ' ...,.. 11.4„, / ..... -• ~, • •'-",...,',:', P....,.‹. "..--......7 ~...... PLYMOUTH, APRIL 20. ,ARalv ED tl4 Mart, of 74 Rear. Admiral THORNBROUGH3 from the Channel Fleet, to- re fir, having carried away her bowsprit, foremast) main ; topmast, and head, by funning foul of- the Centaur, of 74 guns, during the night. Arrived the Canada, of 74 gins, from the Channel Fleet. Sailed the Urania Frigate ) on a Cruizc. PORTSMOUTH, Ar ßry. 21. SA I L nthe G ood Design Arrned Ship,w it h T roops , 1:4 Guernsey and Jersey. DOVER, ArRIL 21. NAILED the Three Sisters, of Embdcn, Captain CoNttninY, f)r Calais, with Passengers. Arrived a French Boat, from Calais, with a :\lesserger. SHEEMPSS, Ariz a 2.1. ....11•0.• •SA t.ro this day, His Majesty's Sloop inipeaor, 91.18 guns, Capt. BatiNtLE`y,fot Yarmouth. • Arrived last even4;g, His IVlajeyiy's Sloop Sbark, of r 8 guns, Capr CAW! fir Arrived this..day, the Pbanix . hircd Cotter, and ;ailed again on a Cruize. • . Captain . Wm.. BLIGH, commanded the. Vlatton in the late bligagementpflCopenhagen,:ha been appointed to the ComfiThnd of the Monarch; he is coming home in her, and, upon his arrival, takes the Command of the Irreristi4le, now fitting At Chatham. D UIS'L /A r o ApaiL 18. THE Darisi'.Vacht Is ordered to be at. titilyilead on Monday; to bring over His EZeelleney Earl ilAitriivicKt; our new' Lord Lieutenant. Ori Wednesday night last, about .eleven o'clock, the Mail CoAth from Limerick to Ddblin was at tacked iihout two . Miles ;liefond by a rumber of_ arrnedtnen; who fired upon the . 'escort from behind hedges; killed three of - . the - 'horses, murdered apatsenger (a Gentleman named: 13t.r)Z,)0, of Gardiner-street, in this City), and rifled the coach of all the Mails of, the towns between - Kildare and Litherick. The roblicrs are Stippused to . exc4eded . fort. in tnimber. Tile following article h extraaett from a Paris Paper of the 16th inst: It is curious;, not °U g ly on account oldie view which it giVO of the Clutrafier of the late EMPERok of Rtiss tit, but also from the place whence we cxtrad it. " Petersbure i 21th Afatvh. _ _ • It' is impossible, at. present, to get any precise idea respeding the death.of . Ntrt. I. It is said in the Palace, that it was a bloga-Vessel which carried him off thus suddenly.. nature constitution, and, his mode of life, appeared•to preserve him from this sort of fate ,he was of a spare habit, lived soberly,' led a hard life, and took a . g r e at d ea l , o f exercise. On the ot h er hand, he fatigued himself with excessrve labour, entered passionately into Politics; his soul was constantly agitated with mis trust and fear, and his love of women led, him to great excesses. These causes- combined may serve to account for his . premature death. ; _Time only. can clear up the mystery. “ Whatever may have been 'the cause, hiSodei,th does not appear to have excited any regret. . severity had alienated the minds of all classes : it vexatious and annoying Police had Made an abode in the capital very melancholy. No ten persons dared to meet in one house, .from, the fear of alarm ing. the suspicions of the Czar ; no one was sure of preseiving his employment, xvhether riiilitary or. civil : all fortunes were held by an uncertain teoure : the rupture with ,4 ' nglattel f complete& unpopular, s hecauk the I?ire4r t es 127 e .bigh4 iu Rassiit, their mannef Cashless, and the money which tbcf e,t - i,eiq, fire ftvouPahle to in. •dttstg and cultivation. A; tlie : same tim e a genera l prejudice in favour of . the grand Doke`A xn,N f k began to prevail among the People, the 'Nobility, and the . Army, Add to this, the natural taste which all people have for, change, and yott will con ceive, the universal satisfaaion with which this young Prince has ascended the Th,roilL" • • .• The Pat i,s,Papers also mention the following cir_ ctinistances,, concerning the death of.PAul. eleven p:oloek,2n,tl - 9-. inf)rning preceding his .death, . being do the appeared all. on a sudden to be struck wi-th ;ilea : he called for pen and ink, and wrotc-upon I hat a letter to the First CurisUl. fie'first gave orders thatit shouki be instantly -sent. oft by an extraordinary courier. Afterwards; upon recollction, he .said it would be sufficient to en:.. trust it to the Co ur i e r w h o w a s to b e sent on the. foflawing day to M. de K 11:. He IN. At nine o'clock at .night he entered his apartment ; .at ten a Turkish •setvant,' who Constantly attended him, retired ; at eleven o'clock, 'the death of Phtft. was •made public. The _Eur it ass_ Mather .tool:- the Oath to AL E X ANDP. At, t O'CIOCIC. •in the morning, 'the people.totik the Oath in all diechurches . ...---Fot the last three months, P. -;WAS :subjed tn. an' h6morrhOial flux, . O n Mont y evening Mrs.DAvirtnNi,dsr. Jaqics's Square, had a grand Kant, which •was most-fashion ably attended. The Berkshire Militia, unler the comm . nd of Colonel VANsrrriitut, yesterday marched into Southampton, on their route to Lymingtim, where they are to be quarteed. military appear ance of this Corps rOleds the highest credit on its Officers. The first division 'oPtiiiik n'Y' al Lincolnshire Mi litia marched into SoilettaYripton' on Saturday morn ing from Bristol, and marched again on Monday for Farnham, which is to be their I - lead-quarters. The other Division is to be quartered 'at Portchcster Cas tle, oyez the French Prisoners. The Royal Tower Invalids march into the, Tower on Saturday next the 25th instant : they Are to revive their new tloathing,,which is to be the same as the Guards.' We are concerned to learn, that far tVvo t or three evenings past, a disposition to.riot has been mani_ fested at Southampton, Some disaffeded persons `instigated the Mob to threaten the Bakers, if they did not lower the price of bread ; in consequence they have all given up their business, The D.fa-. goons patrole the streets of, that town every evening. Many pentlernen of distinguished judgment and rtspedability;liaving strongly urged the propriety of giving more publicity to the Colle6ion of An.. cknt Drawings; Cabinet' Pinnies; Antique gems, &c. of 'Mr. Da Focal, which . hai been -announced. 'for safe this day at' Phillips'a RoOnts, in order that PersOns of Taste And Purchasers of Vir tu , may have , full opportunity of ekamining attentively • its ex_ cellence and value, Mr. DE Ponot therefore re_ sfrafully trusts, that he shall be excused for at. tending to inch a reasonable request, that a Col leetion so admirable in itself, and which has been made at sb great . an expence s Should undergo the • stnaest strtniny of the . Connoisseur and a liberal 4 Public: These Piaures and Drawings will cause,' quently remain open for general inspedion till Wed. nesday the igth inst. when the sale will positively. 'commence, and continue for the three following :days One bf the last 'PaiiiPapers received, rtienritins a most extraordinary 'monster, which two several times came Out of' the sea, and made its 'appearance near Ostend. It is said to bear tt4- Shape of an .hntsei eight feet five inches high with a long tail, sharp fangs, and a skin impenetrable to a' musket_ ball, It was killed, hawtver, by iiforturiat' e shot,. which entered its headlehind the ear.' • The Li'ccellesi from Snrinara,to L on d on ,. sprung a leak' and bore up . ,fot Man), being in eight 01 that plate.; et.tiE OPPOSIVION: I.;' locos generally ',mil supposed to he of tim advantages of. a SMall Tarty , * that it aft ed cordially together, that it pursUed one hied Objeb, and at leaSt teat it 'was free from the dissentions and' jarring interests which o fte n •:46tta6t larger *,Pott ies formed for political pa; poses'. The'pre,ent'Oppu, ,si,tion, however, are itn 'excertion to this general rule small as they are in' numbers,, never perhaps were there "men more f.!i , ;!itlettin opinion. Th e y have not yet been a ble to d eter mine who shall he. their Leader.' Mr.- GR Say lie will dot under Mr. Fox---to this Mr. T 1 r ItNtv.objets, and says he will att under IVIr,,G V he will as , Atine the rank of Leader of the Part, , I,n;r thttt he eatmot-en. list . : under a man who 10v,..s .retirement and Sr., : Anne',s Hill better' than l'olities and the House of connnons.-But 41r.. Sit E R i.iAN does not chase. U) I.IF left out of the consideriaion, of this important point: He' is riot, it issaid r on the most tri;ndly. terms with Mr. - 1:i rtiN E and he .n 1 under Mi. Fox, but no; un44 Mr. GR Roi:. So far has this •formidable , Party : Itilvance,i totrards the :ap.. poititment of a Leader, and of (talon. As to Mr. Rossos . and. Mr. or_Mr. jotrcs and Mr. RortsoN, for . we do not 1. - now how to class them, we .think we may eomiler thorn as out of the queition: , The boys who blOw the hori; for the Corr;er lta‘'etibeli r edth e y u'alld hot put them selves un'tker their gOidartee, having- observed that their Paper 'never sells whoti ,a speeeli.of either of these Gentlernen has beefs. sent to it-.-They may blow.thar horns, "they say, , from . one end of the Town to, the other, ct 4 alt in Viilll'; many a six pence!have they seen suspended between the finger and ,the .thumb, while the etr:ious eye tun over the dteary i cohunns, but scarcely aid it glance upon the name of 11. , ousut , or of JoNrts, liefore the siypence. was returned quietly to the i:klace from whence it came, and Ever, nicely folded up, *was ag a in carefully' deposited it thci case. . It would.lie cruel, and we know it would be mor tifying; to leave this Chapier (short as it is) with.: Out one word addressed to. 'Vim-lA:EL AzioBLo TAB 1.0 'Esq. ,There is only one person sic The weitld who ever thought him f iit ,for Leader of a: Party, anti, he thou:gilt him fit for Sivaier, cthar, and. c' el,se, ' Who, this friend it we need not .say—he has .stuck close by Mrc HAT I. Ai.(3I,ELO as long al:we have remembered him, and if we hope and belieVe it will. not be the. case), he should lihe all his other Friends, he may depend tipon the good opinton; and admiration of the little Gentleman, to whom we'have alluded, as long as he lives. age , . , .% upon tins preliminary pint; -tmvaras, any thing . like , effeautti optioliiri'on, they 'hive increased in, rage and in violence • , -hu t thcy have' with it` either - renutieled stationary; or hare ditninislted Sin num:. herd. - They coinplain that the tinimi has not an. .expeaation, - aria' that they have not their 1 r oroPortitin'tif the then ,the pre sure of - Avta ,Ser.inns; 'nor Coci . nia;lness of the t4:atnesior P . lr ar, t() havL; n4.lv;iticed their ••WC Sl2all not strri7ca to see Mr: . F(ix again . to weeded to his plea.lr•s at St. A.one'i. that no . entreaty c'an &ay.) and' Mr. (Ili in. - , Mr !-!:!;• .anci Mr..Elist.ty4;.give'up c9nt:.':•t as I>QinLis, N:11 • lea die' field of . battle of 0.1,: House Coin 'non s, tn,the more perstverlilfj . spirit though 'we dO not c•:,pet. the . ‘, 'have alt . tented their bitterness - An'brNi.:.‘-roN, for presttn to think, when Nifr, Pm r'r had , . re tired, 'that any 'A s tilninitration cQuld thtnieti without their . . 4 , ititclligence:of the eleviition_a LH EOLDON to the inyortant office of Lord High Chancellor of Great Brtiaini re.cave:l iiig fellov_towns.a, men in Newcastle the mostdistinguished. x myks of rdspca and giiitulation. The bells cOntinned ringing from th 6 :Irrival' of the Mail till Lzte itt the _ 7, Since the capture of the Conipan-'i NMI) Kent, Captain RIVI NI TONi by Sul:on:Tr, all Ship iiroeoding India this I,e.ison have becn p ut i n a better stat nt . defence: The ComOny's Pilot SloOlis_ in the East Indies, have bee n put upon Well ai establishment as to en. sure their future safety in the Bay of Bengal and the Sand Heads, froth the s Erierty '3 rc,va tec rs. Several heavy, boxes of Letters, t 2 .-e. were yester day recci-.ed at the Indi:l House; from the shirs . lately • arrived from St. Helena a they contain advices from Madras, Bengal, Bombay and China; The letters have been sent to the Post Office. - Sevefal pieces Of a curious woollen msnufafture have been sent to Grins this year, by the way of experiment ; it piossesses a double colour, being dyed scarlet ouvide, and blue inside, or any other colour, and is .an excellent substitae for lining, siithout the ineumbrance: A new ?gm,lo l i erfbrmer came forward on Mon. day last at Drug. Len Theatre, in the Faree.of The Son ;a Law. ,She is a Pdpil The Charaefer F. he performed in-this whimsical Farce was Cerldia, in which she acquitted herself very ably as a Singer,' and with promising merit as an ikeircss. She made her debit for the benefit of Broatts.rht, but, according to general opinion, sh 6 will hzreafter periotm f the benefit of , the Theatre. . Mr; K Elite tethaVed with his Campkly of Comedians Iron Newcatie to Durham, wlleTe the Races take place. this week., Whether we attribute , the , wonderful Audiences that both on Monday 'aud yesterday evening. over., flowed the Royal Amphitheatre, Westminker- Bridge, to be attraaed :by the arand SpeClacle the lion Tower, the excellent dance of the Cour,- ,try Wake; the splendid Pantotnim; of Harlequin ,Vigor, or the nautical displa'y British,Bravery, ciL as it recently utred a'tC.openh.v.zen c , or to the su perior splendour and beauty in which the House ap. }tars 6?ti , every other ) we are n t a logs: to say ; btit certain it is ; that. this Theatre, for genuil:e 'amusement, stands unrivalled. • The Ocean, 13114,, from Liverpool to 1).:n1);:ir, lost on tht Coast of tf:‘,:s Liana of