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t I HOUSE OF PEERS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6. FURTHER PROROGATION. THE SUET. IMPERIAL PARLIA3IEIVT. AT three o'clock the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl Of CHATHAM, and the Earl of ST. VINCENT, came down to the House; and being seated in their Robes of State, on the Bench, in front of the Throne, the attendance of the Commons was ordered, who, (being represented on this occasion by the Clerks and Principal Officers of the House) forthwith ap peared at the Bar Majesty's Commission authorizing the above Peers to- declare the Royal Will and Pleasure for the further Prorogation of Parliament until Thursday, the 15th day of Septem ber, was.then read, . after which, the LORD CHAN CELLnR, in the usual form, notified to both Houses, that the Parliament stood prorogued to the said day accordingly. SOLEM QUIS DICERZ 74LSUM AUDIAT ? LONDON, AUGUST 7, 18 w. SOUR Deal Letter contains some particulars of the successful operations of Lord NELSON against the Enemy's Gun-boats at Boulogne. To that we refer for the details, as nothing official has yet been pub- lished on the subjea. His Lordship anchored in • Margate Roads yesterday afternoon ; but a renewal of the Attack will, it is expected, soon take place in another quarter. Via this morning received farther Paris Papers, which come down to the sth instant ; but bring us nothing of importance. In our subsequent Co lumns are to be found the remainder of the nu merous official reports made to the French Govern ment respesting the two naval engagements, which in so short a period have covered with glory, not the French, but the Squadron of Sir J. ‘SAUMA RE Z. In the first of these the French acknowledge a loss of 180 killed and 300 wounded. Admiral LI NOI s expresses great regret at the loss of two of his Captains, LALONDE and MoNcoussu, who were killed. On the subjeCl of the second engage.. went, we find no less than four official accounts in the French Papets, not one of which acknowledges the loss of the St. Antoine, respeaing which the Minister of Marine contents himself with stating, that they had yet no certain intelligence. The. French Ship, the Formidable, which had also sepa rated from the Squadron, afterwards entered Cadiz. The account of Admiral LINOIS gives us hopes that the Hannibal is not among the number of Ships which have escaped. " The Frigate, L'lndienne," says the French Admiral, " towed the Hannibal, which 'we were cony to perceive made little quay." After again expressing his regret at this circum stance, he observes that they determined to send the Hannibal back to Algesiras. The condua of the Captain and the Crew of the Formidable is extolled to the skies in the French accounts, although the whole of their exploits consisted merely in escaping the pursuit of our Fleet. But what is most curious is, that this very Captain, Citiien TROUDE, after having, in the account which he gives of his en. gagement, asserted that he had during the-night sus tained the fire of five English Ships which fired red hot shot at him, concludes, by acknowledging that two of them were the Real Carlos and San Herme. negilde, so that it appears that the Spaniards and the French did one another, mutually, considerable injury on this occasion, a proof how little order and taaics are considered in the conduet of the com bined Squadron. The Minister of French Marine gives it, however, as his opinion, that Admiral MoRENo bad calculated every thing. Citizens TROUDE and TOUFF ET, who succeeded in the two engagements to the command of the inihnipt...SL and the Formidable, have been promoted from their former rank of Captains of Frigates to that of Cap tains of Ships, a rank equal to that of Post-Captain in our own Navy. Admiral LINOIS has received a Sabre of Honour. The two children of the two French Captains have been admitted into the Pry lane:ern of the Republic, and the widow of one of them has received a pension. By the allurements of such rewards, and by the excessive commenda_ tion bestowed by BONAPARTE on every seaman and every crew which has had the smallest nega tive success, the Chief Consul endeavours to dire& the attention, the efforts, and the inclination of the French People to naval affairs. We conceive, how ever, that the news of the battle of the i ash of July, and that of the bombardment in Boulogne Roads, will cool his hopes, and destroy his labours on this head. This being the Birth-day of Her Royal Highness PRINCESS AMELIA, Their Majesties' youngeSt Daughter, who completes the 18th year of her age, the Royal Family would receive the Compliments of :Nobility at Gloucester Lodge. 1 V- -z7 - - r" - Vivr, 7 a lc - (1 . 5 __: . • s.r . * # :•''--_, N'.",, , -, -- ;r< 1,-, NAVAL 07 - 't`i - A „I' s . NEWS. ;4:eXCW f ,'-ri -: 4 >..: : •:.`•=. f./.l<-+ . Mn 1111 imperium pelagi, savxmlne tridentem, Sed mibi s'rte datum. DEAL, Auc. 6. ONE of the hired Armed Cutters arrived in the Downs this morning from Lord NELSON'S Fleet off Boulogne ; and by this vessel a Letter has been re. ceived from an Officer on board one of the Sloops of War, who was an eye-witness of the Bombardment on the 4th ; particulars of which he states as fol lows : " You will no doubt have heard of our operations here before this reaches you, but as the particulars of the Aetion may not have transpired, you will re ceive it herein, which I am happy to forward, as it clearly shews, how perfeCtly secure from a French Invasion happy Britons are, when defended by their Invincible Navy, under the dircetion of a brave and gallant NE so N. " Our Admiral deemed it proper on Tuesday last at four o'clock in the morning, to send for the five Bombs which were under his command, to attack the Enemy's Gun-vessels then lying in Boulogne Roads, which consisted of five Brigs, two Schooners, and nineteen Lugsail Boats, manned with thirty men, and three guns in each Vessel. The Attack began with a warm fire on both sides, and at eight A. M. I had the pleasure to see two of the Enemy's Gun-boats sink, from the fire of our Bombs, and a Brig obliged to cut from her cables, and run for the shore,which she had some difficulty to reach, being completely wa ter-logged. We could perceive several men landed from this vessel, and put under a sail on the beach, supposed to be killed. I can assure you that ten of the French Gun-vessels were destroyed, and the slaughter of the Enemy must have been great, as we did not cease bombarding until nine this evening, when the whole of the French force was completely silenced. " Our Bombs have considerably, damaged the Pier-head; they far exceeded the Admiral's expec tation : and I am happy to add, that only one Shell from the shore had eire6l, which fell on board a 'Bomb-vessel, and damaged her rigging. A Shell from one of our own vessels burst in the mortar, and thereby killed a man, wounded another dan gerously, and three slightly. During the whole of the Alion, the Hills near Boulogne were' crowded with spectators, and they are now throwing up a strong Battery to the Eastward of the Town. " Admiral NELSON leaves this to-day for Mar; gate Road, and is expe&ed to return very soon with Sixteen Flat-bottomed. Boats, from which it is likely we shall again renew the Attack. " There are now lying in the Road Twenty five Sail of the Enemy's Vessels, and those sunk have the presumption to keep their Colours flying just above the surface of the water." His Majesty's Ship Nemesis sailed last night to the Northward, and the Flamer Gun-brig to the Westward. The Hecla, Sulphur, Discovery, Zebra, and Vol cano Bombs, Nimble Cutter, and Express Advice boat, arrived this morning from the Coast of France ; and His Majesty's Ship York sailed thither this afternoon. A Frigate, with a Flag at her fore-top gallant mast, passed at the back of the Goodwin Sands this morning, and which is supposed to be the Medusa, Lord NsLsorr, for Margate Roads. DOVER, Auc. 6. RETWEEN gilt and seven o'clock last night the weather cleating up, Lord NELSON'S Fleet was ob served standing off from the Enemy's Coast, and this morning several of the Ships have been seen turning into the Downs. The whole Fleet, how ever, has not yet quitted the French Coast, a Divi sion being left off Boulogne, and another off Calais Harbour. From the best information we can ob tain, about ten of the Gun-boats have been destroy ed, in doing which, great numbers of the Enemy were killed and wounded. MARGATE, AUG. 6. LORD NELSON with part of his Fleet, several Cutters, &c. are just come to anchor in our Roads. PORTSMOUTH, Aua. 6. ARRIVED the Brig Santa Catberina, from Oporto, a Spanish Ship, in ballast, taken by His Majesty's Ship Inconstant; the Schooner Anna. Dorothea, MATTHEWSON, a Dane, detained, and sent in here by His Majesty's Ship La Loire, Capt. NEWMAN; ship - Frederick, GRAHAM master, an American, a:re Frigate. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Trent, on a Cruize PLYMOUTH, Avc. S. ARRIVED the Brig jenny, of Cork, JAMES NI‘CARTN EY master, laden with provisions, from Cork bound to Lisbon, captured by the Enema•, and re-taken by the Amelia Frigate. The following Extra& of a Letter from Dover, contains some farther particulars of the late Attack upon the Enemy at Boulogne. "On Saturday Lord NELSON sailed from Deal, and the same evening took the Command of the Squa dron of small Ships of War cruizing off Boulogne, under the command of Capt. SOME RV I LLE, of the Eugenie. His Lordship ordered all Ships of War to join, and several did on Sunday, till at last they amounted to 37 sail, including Gunboats, Brigs, &c. His Lordship brought them all up before Bou logne, and made signal for them to divide into two Squadrons ; one Squadron to be to windward. "On Monday Lord NE Lsox stood close into Bou logne with some of the Bomb-vessels, and threw several Bombs, to try how they would reach the Enemy. Finding they reached the shore, he made signal of recall, and they anchored about four miles from the land. " The shore at Boulogne stretches nearly East and West. Towards the East a point of land runs out forming a bay. The mouth of the Harbour is in the middle of this, and looks out to the North. The Enemy's vessels, consisting of six Brigs, two Schooners, and about zo or 3o Gun-boats, were arranged in a line along the Beach, not half a mile from shore, one half East, but the largest half West of the Harbour's mouth, in front of which - was the largest Brig. On the beach . West of the Harbour was a strong Battery, which kept up a very heavy fire. The Battery on the pier -head, East of the Harbour, did not fire much, but tried a shell now and then. " On Monday night, Lord NELSON went under cover of the dark, in a four-oared gig, a long swift boat, and reconnoitred the Enemy's position, and found it as above described. He then issued orders to begin the attack at break of day next morning. At four o'clock, he himself stationed the Bombs, five in number, in an oblique line, stretching from the west end of the Enemy's line. They came to anchor, and began • throwing bombs about five o'clock ; the other Ships of War being stationed under weigh, in another line, behind the Bombs, ready to render .assistance. His Lordship's own Flag was placed in front of the Harbour, having our two lines, one of. Bombs, another of small Ships of. War, stretching from his right; behind these lines was the Leyden, of 6+ guns. His Lordship's intention was to attack the Enemy's Vessels with Bombs only, as they reach much farther than shot, and would prove effedual, while the Enemy's shot could not reach us. At six o'clock, however, it being then high water, - Lord NELSON, desirous of convincing the Enemy what a heavy fire he could play upon them, and at the same time, to induce them to disclose their strongest points, it being difficuit to discover their Batteries, the cliffs being of a brown clay, sent our Ships of War very close to the shore in face of the 'Batteries, where they first fired one broadside, and tacking round, fired the other, then sailing away, loaded for. another such attack. " This produced a most tremendous fire on both sides. When the water fell it was necessarily given over ; but it had the desired effeel, of convincing Lord NELSON that he had gues3ed the nature of the Enemy's strength, and that he had indiciously placed the Gun-boats. While the Ships were firing their broadsides as above mentioned, at seven in the morning, his Lordship was in his Barge, moving about, making observations and minutes, which may be useful in a future attack. He visited the Bombs separately, and rowed along the whole Line, amidst a shower of shot and shells from the Enemy, attended by the King and Queen Cutters. The French Batteries on each side the Harbour could only fire straight out, or nearly so, while our Bombs .were stationed so much to their left that the Batteries could not bear upon them. Add to this, that the Bombs being placed to the westward, ob liquely from the Enemy's line of Vessels, every bomb thrown had the advantage of raking the whole line, as it were. " The French soon discovered the inutility of their Batteries, and found that Lord NELSON had not attacked them in the manner they expeded.— They, therefore, set a number of men to throw up Works and Batteries on the. Hill in the eastern turn of the Bay, which flanks the whole line of Coast. 'This covered the mouth of the Harbour tolerably well ; but it could not reach our Bombs, which were at the extremity of the Westward, and the Enemy threw only a few shells from it. The Ene my's fire continued very heavy till about one o'clock, when it wholly ceased from the Hills and Batteries, seeing, no doubt, that it ,was utterly ineffectual ; but our fire of bombs continued with unabated vi gour.—One Vessel threw two hundred bombs. At this time three of the Enemy's Vessels had been sunk and bilged. In .the course of the afternoon two others shared the same fate, 'and five others were rendered useless, but weredrawaby ropes on the shore. The fire of the English also slackened during the afternoon. The Enemy sometime's fired a shot, or threw a shell. Towaids dusk - •the fire. was re newed with a little warmth.' -It 'was Lord Nu. ; sox's intention, in the dark, to have attacked the Enemy in a way that could not fail of annihilating them ; but the wind shifting, the 'Attack be . came impradicable without the utmost .danger.;' and our whole Fleet was obliged to haul off without making the attempt. The various Ships have this-daybeen dispersed, providing themselves with ammunition, &c. Some Flat-bottomed Boats have sailed from the Downs. Part of our Fleet is now near Boulogne, and it is probable, the attack. may be renewed this n;glit. The Squadron at . Boulogne, i s aga i n un d er command of Captain SOMERVILLE, of the Eugenie. Lord NE LSON is making the necessary preparations, "Our foss vas on board the [Our, one - Eliginet wounded, and one Seaman lost an arm. Some of the s;- - nding rigging was also cut. This was all our loss. A considerable number of Frenchmen went to the bottom in the first three ships that sunk. " As the Gun-boats raked the shore, little or no damage was done to the Town of Boulogne. It Was proposed to bombard it ; but Lord NELSON said, he would not make War on Women and Chil dren. One or two bombs struck the pierhead and split the stones, making them fly. This did some damage, and frightened the Inhabitants, as, trunks and furniture were seen removing.. —Most of the Inhabitants could be seen on the Heights . eastward of the Town, haYing left their houses,:--- It is said that a steeple was a little damaged; but not knocked down ; neither was the Town on fire. There are about fifty tents on the Heights west of the Town in view ; but it is confidently said, there is a large Encampment behind the Hills on the Ease side. Numbers of Troops have. been sent into Boulogne since the attack. Mr.STo w E, of the Custom-House, Mr.FE c TOR, and others, in a boat, went out during the Aftion, and sent a line to Lord NELSON, with the Ga zette Extraordinary, of Sir JAM ES SAUMAR E z's tri umph. His Lordship was delighted, and invited the Gentlemen, though strangers, on board his ship to dinner. They dined as comfortably as if it had been a pleasure party. An excellent dinner was served up, and a very splendid dessert. The Gentlemen were complimenting Lord NELSON, when he said, "'Oh! this is hut a shabby affair ; but it is necessary to convince the Enemy they shall not threaten invasion with impunity." Capt. OSWALD is appointed to the Command of His Majesty's ship Surprize. The Ambuscade Frigate, which sunk off the Nom ; is again fitting for sea with every possible dispatch. The accident was occasioned by the hole of the haw,. ser being Made so low in the Ship, which is Dutch built, that after being English_ rigged, she took in the water every time she pitched, and by that means she suddenly filled before the nature of the accident was discovered. Her planks arc found to be quite whole. The Company's ship the Lady Borges, lately ar rived from Bengal, has brought home upwards of seven thousand bales of various descriptions of goods. The Company's ship Britann;a has lately .been docked at Bombay ; and although this ship has been employed more than thirty years, her bottom ap• peared perfeCily sound, and not a plank injured in the least. This ship was built at Bombay, and shews the durability of East India timber. We understand that the next Fleet from India 19 expected to arrive in about a month. Several additional Yeomanry Cavalry, and Com; panies of Volunteer Infantry, are now raising by the'Country Gentlemen round Plymouth. Lord HOBART's Circular Letter respeaing the threatened Invasion, having been read to the Stock. port Volunteer Infantry, on Sunday evening last, by Major WATSON, their Commanding Officer, - the Corps unanimously declared their readiness to march to'any part of the Kingdom, where HIS MAJESTY might deem their services most necessary, accompa. flying this Loyal determination with three hearty Cheers, We understand this Corps are in a high state of discipline, and supplied with knapsacks and every other necessary for a march. The reports of the intended revival of the Barony of Feversham in the person of Mrs. GEORGE Rose, are the antiquated fabrication of an Opposition Newspaper, which it lately renewed in a dearth of news. The Barony, and all claims to it, have long been extinct. The story of Citizen DAURE, in the French Papers, respecting Egypt, is not even consistent in itself. If it be true that General BELL LARD, who commanded at Cairo, had defeated the GRAND VIZIER, and driven him back to Salahich, how happens it that the GRAND VIZIER should be at Belheis, a fart admitted by Citizen DA U R E himself ? The Count de Llc }ITEMS ERG, Major-General in His Imperial Majesty's Service, was assassinated on the r zth of last month, in his house at Dobiing, in Austria. Letters from Walt, speak of an alarming mutiny which took place in the Garrison of Turin, on the 9th of July, in consequence of a dispute about the payment of arrears of pay due to the Troops. Se veral Companies refused to march from the place till these arrears were discharged ; the consequence,of which was, that a violent tumult ensued, some lives were lost, and among the rest the Commandant of the Citadel was killed. General Cow was ap pointed to the provisional command, but when these accounts were sent off; it does not appear that tran. quillity was completely restored. Among the loss of men occasioned _by the War on the Continent, the following two instances arc very remarkable :—Out of ri,ooo recruit's sent to the EMPEROR of GERMANY'S own Regiment of Dragoons, 3800 men only have been left; and the Regiment of COLLOREDO was at one time reduced to 160 men. The latter having been comple , its numbers, had, after two months service in itas ; -; but zB6 men remaining; and there are only two soldiers left of the whole number who served in 1791. . The difference in the National charafter of the Spaniards and English was strikingly exemplified in the late glorious AClion when Capt. KVATS, the gallant COmmander of the ,Superb, -perceived that the Spanish Ship with which he was engaged was On fire, he ceased to molest her, and wentin par' suit of foes better able to contend. with him. On the contrary, one of the Spanish Ships, when . it saW the other •on fire, which it considered as an Eng lish Vessel, did all it could to aggravatt the cala mity and deprive it of all hopes of succour in such a dreadful moment. - The consequence was such 2 5 such unnatural cruelty deserved,. it shared the fate which it so barbarously augmented,. while the French insensible of honour and humanity, meanly crowded all the sail they could to sl,eak into a For. of the Ally whom they had deserted. K