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had tent the Ships that were taken and sunk by Lord Howl, to block up Port:mum:b. At Brest, the Fleet is stated by the Alonittur s to be the finest they hove had these twelve years, and that h is quite ready for sea; and at the Texel and Boulogne they acknowledge that their preparations ate complete. After these declarations, it will Inlizle French invention to find out an excuse for delaying the invasion any longer, and even French vanity will be ashamed to boast of the Formidable Flotilla. Sunday evening THE'IR IMA, evrt es and the PAINCEsSES took an airing through Kingston. Yesterday► morning the 12.0 . vAt. FAMILY walked in Kew. Gardens. Yesterday morning the Hanoverian Minister had• IUI audience of Hts MAJESTY at Kew. Yesterday morning Count WottoNzow, the Rua. Ilan Ambassador, received Dispatches from his Court. L . The Duit t of C UMBERLAND, we understa"' i s lippointed Commander of the Horne Distria,• in the Innin of General Fox, who sets out shortly for Gibraltar, of which place he is now Lieutenant. Governor. . The Modes& of GORDON; accompanied by her Grandson Lord FRANCIS MONTAGUE ; -son of the Duke of MANCHESTE R , arzived at Aberdeen last. week from the North. Yesterday the Lotto MAYOR, accompanied by I parry of Ladies, went down the River in the City Barge, and went on shore at the Ship Tavern, at Greenwich, where his Lordship anti company dined. Ike was saluted by %jollies fi red by the Sea Fencibles, Ind the Bend of the West London Militia played on the Quay till the Company re.ensbarked. On Thursday morning - a Court Martial was sum. maned at the Royal Hotel-, Liverpool, by order of Pis Royal Highness the C644MANDER in Cully, fel. the trial of Captain CARMICHAEL ; Militant of the Li verpool ruzileers, far' ncglet of Oleders, and contemptuous treatment ot his sisperi-r"Officers. The' Court consists of the Field Ofii(Ler6 of all the Voluntee r Corps, and some of the Copulas, assisted 13y Mr. RA INCocK, Deputy Judge ATv6ate. Col. tot.Tost i, the president. Tlie trial is apeded to List several days. The Instrument, purporting to be the Prottest of Louts XVIAI. against the assumftiort ,or the Li . perial Dignity by BONAPARTE; which we lately Copied from 'the..ll/onitezer, is consider,•d, by those • who have the hest means "of infmrnation upon the subjqt, to he entirely a fabrication, It is confidently said, that whet; BONAPAILTI re. eelYed the Note' from the RussrawlCtoisrer, respect ing the Murder of the Doke &Email' EW, in a tury of reseiumttor, he wrote. a Letter 11411Seit.; addressed to the Etgr Lao& of Ros6t e t, and di pitched it on. I tetliately. The cool arid crafty TA.LLEYRANI.),, however, alter a long conference, made him sensitoe of th e - rashness of his conduct, and another Messen. ger was dispatched to recall the arrived at P eters b ur first. Th ey b ot h gh nearly at the s ame time, but the furious Manifesto was delivered. The style of the Upstart' s , w as so arrogantly irascible, and so disrespediful to the character of an lade. feedtnt Sovereign, that the EMPERO R of Rusatit kopies of it sent to every Court in Eur op e. The e charafter of the Usurper, who is intoxicated fby his u nexampled successes, and who seems to ancy th at h e i s the Darling of Fortune, renders this tory very probable, , after his foolish, insolent, and impetuous language addressed to Lord WHIT. WORTH. We are glad to End that the Party have some sense of shame left, for they do nut persevere in ttheir assettion that Ministry have resolved that no acille overtures o f any kind shall be received from tP O,NA PARTE. They now attempt to put a change "a the P u bli c , i n saying they repeat the riser_ tlons when they alledge that no Peace cars be ex. i eded from 44 a Weak. and tottering. Administra. realityt on tl)e principle of Excluson." This in it 'shifting their ground, fior they positively declaredpacific that Ministers had resolved to enter into no then Negotiation with BONAPARTE. But they t h e . ° direct their abuse still higher, for they they ear apprehensi on t ha t there is no disposition to. wa rd`d eri Peace " i n t h e quarter from which Mr. Pt ri. . Y ea his support." Thus the Enemies of Mini. acti,_"B 'vindicate Ministers themselves from their own ''' lr ges btu at alit expence of truth and loyalty. Sir Fat . B . 'jun p r i ..... ~ S UR 11 ETT is called, in the Opposi. Prints, the Popular Cand;a'ate. This title m ere r ' na n y i he a as Abe M o b C andidate, and in that sense should stip ci , some f oundation for the title ; but we if they ze r ai s n e , t h e* even th e l owest of the rabble,, Wu-Lad Withdra w a t i hCir favour from him, were they delivered' at th e ne uPan the sentiments which he "Y• At ti le , Cr own and Anchor, and at Hack.. c , latt er P l ace) indeed, amidst the was SO his attempt at teensive, that he left the Town Ithses'and groans of the populace. The Hon, B. B .. Ist o .xrv i , the H on . S. PERCIVAL; and ensuin d L("11 A L H" T Pt are app o i nte d S tewards for in e m b e r. r. NI S —tirtharopton Races, whi c h ta k e pl ace 'M 3oh j. j. 4 Ball was last bight again represented at the 431 market Theatre, before a crowned JRANN Isre „ a audience. 3.6 7, 6 ,,, 1 g ve great eilld 'to the charaCter of ~,0 , ,..._ . do . _err)! ; Noa Le mole a good Dennis Bra lot 787783. MATHRWS did all that could be done Nerable ''man Rotbdah. ; Shu s eleton found a very • C tses "presentative in Da .CAtor ; and Mrs. k ar . wag ; as usual, excellent in the charader of %ix ) : The other Performers exerted themselves „, 1 " efied, and the Piece went off with great all' moi st , 11 0 1) . ie dt‘oh Tuesday the 3d inst. at Mickel Tarrel, es..shire, Mrs. 1.41 T.IAS MACKIitiZ , IE. . At alit L C "4ediatei Fite . arn ertun Meeting, Scotland, on. i n „, _ O. efore Wednesday's race, the stairs lead. 1 4 . ,r _ the grand' stand, being unusually crowded, 4, 4l " L t np` gave Way , whereby several persons above ,tputiotv received considerable injury. Several i n ,"elrlen were much bruised ; ° "n• and • some had their ribs rit tt i e, w 4 Mr. DA.V IS ; said to Felon; to NCW. 'lli i k rtd 0 4 f : 1 0 se6-usly hurt, that his life is de.. NAVAL IV E WS. PLYMOUTH, JULY 15.—Arrived His MAjetty's • ~ Armed Cutter Mary, Lieutenant Mt t.tr, from off Brest, where she has been so much damaged by the Enemy's Batteries, that she has been ordered in here to tel air. She was in Chace of a Vessel going into Brest Harbour, and succeeded in taking her, under a heavy fire from the, Enemy's Batteries. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 16.---AttiVed L'Entretre. want Cutter, from a cruize. FALMOVTH, JULY 30.--ArtiVed • the „Princtir Elizabeth, Foititts ' Mt t ; .a, from New Providence, laden with cotton, in seven weeks passage: and the Spedwill, STErHE NS, from London, bound to Gibraltar and Malta. ••••••••••..11 SilltrltNlSS, JULY 16.—Arriyed 'to be paid six months' wages, and to refit, the Text/ Illockship, Capt. BYNG. The Seine Frigate, Capt. ATKINS, was this day taken into Dock. YARMOUTH, JULY 16.-Itesterday arrived here, and landed the Mails, the King George Packet, SAUNDELS, from Goitenburgh. Sailed the Mentor, WELL', for the Baltic, into the Roads, to wait fur Convoy ; and jaroN, Hook, to Drontheitn. DEAL, JULY r6.--Arrived His Majesty's Sloop Scourgr, from Portsmouth ; and DiQatch Navy Transport, under Inr Convoy. Sailed the Hermes Sloop, on a Cruize off Bow. love. Much firing has been this day heard at this place, from the South East direElion off Boulogne, supposed to be an Eng,igement between some of our cruizing Squadron and the Enemy's Flotilla. EXTRACT OF A LETTER RECEIVED ON THURSDAY FROM AN OFFICER OF COMMODORE HOOD'S SQUA. DItON, AT BARBADOES. The Sarah Tender and Advice• Brig, Lieu. tenant SALTia, are both lost ; btu the ereyos are say. Lieu enants Fun Batt and N'lwnet, Mr..l-11t4, Midshipman, and sixteen men, have been wounded, three missing, and three killed, by attempting to cut out a lirge. Schooner which was chained to the shore at St. Pletre4. A Court-Martial has been held on Lieut. J. E. She'll -ft, of the Creaser, for killing a man at Triniaad, in the aft of impressing. The Court ' l " , re ofovinion that he aged in self-defence, and acc , itilingly Acquitted him. Capt. BROWN., Presi. dent ; Jm aes HARVEY, Eq. Judge Advocate.— Capt. GRAVES has again joined the Blenheim; and FERRig the Drake. Died, Lieutenant TROUNSELL ) of the Blenheim Man of War." Dispatches were yesterday received at the Ad. miraliy from Lord •NILSON, which .ate stated to give an account - of the recent affair before Toulon, and of course one very different from -that of the French Admiral. `The Underwriters in London have presented Cap. taro Ariri.irck, of the Lord Fcrlrs, of Greenock, with an elegant and valuable Bowl, with the fol. lowing inscription " The ship Juno, of Liverpool, commanded by Capt. Lot wig Affleck, tit is guns, 64ounders, anti 44 men, being cap tured otrthe Coastal -North Amern.a, ,911 the 14th August, 1803, by the French Frigate l'ursuivant, 21 s. 1 -pounders, 9-pottriders, and 330 imn, after a well=tf►u'ght battle, the Underwriters Of London present Captain Affleck with this token at their estimation of his skill and bravery, in main taining a long anti gallant Aaiun with a;Ship of. such su perior force. " The Lords of the Admiralty have Signified their entire approbation of the courage and condua mani. felted by I,ieut. GaAs?, of the Hawke Cutter, who was lately Captured in the Weser, after a des. ptgate codliet, and whom his Commanding Officer path represented, as having nobly upheld the British charaler. It will no doubt be as much the province of the Patriotic Fund to reward and sooth unsOccess. ful brasery, as to adorn and distinguish Fortune's better favourites. Two very large Vessels were brought into Yar. mouth Roads on the 13th inst. by Lieut. WIL. LIAM, First-Lieutenant of His , Majesty's Ship Lynx. These Ships are loaded with masts and yards fit for Firsr.rates ; they sailed under Prussian Colours from Riga, ostensibly bound to Embde n ; there is little doubt, however, but ',icy were really destined for a French Port, and will probably prove most valuable Prizes. A Court Martial was held on board the Salvador del Almada, of 3 I 2 guns, in Hamoaxe, on Thursday last, on a Seaman of the Pickle Armed Ship, who was tried for mutinous and disorderly condua Elrest, while she was on that station with the look out in-shora squadron, a few weeks since. After a Icing trial, he was convidled, and sentenced to re. ceive soo lashes. The principal evidence against him, a Seaman of the Pickle, prevaricating in his evidence,• was sentenced to solitary imprisonment in the Marshalsea, London. As the time of the departure of the homeward_ bound China Ships has occasioned so much anxiety, it may be ititeresting to our Readers to know the time at which these Ships arrived there; we there. fore subjoin the fallowing list ; and should they form two fleets, the former eight will probably compose the first, viz. ' Otran, Henri Addington, Exeter, and Earl of Abergaiveatty, arrived at China, 3d and 4.th of Sep. tember ; CatoberlaNd, 22d August ; Warr," Nast. lugs, 2,th August ; Earl Camdess And Bombay Castle, end of September; Royal George, Wexford, Dorset. shire, Hope, Ganges, and Alfred, end of September ; Coasts, beginning of November, and !Parley, isth .uf November, having received conside ra bl e d amage in a tyfroon, but had been repaired, and were far advanced in their loading on th'e 9th of Jai,u,ity ; Woodford, 23d January, 1804. MIDDIESPX . ,ELECTIOIV. A numerous and respetiable Meeting of the Free. holders ct Middlesex, in the 'interest of GEORGE ROULTON MAI NWARING, E.g. son of WILLIAM MAINWARING, Esq. was yesterday held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, to con. sider of the best ineans of exempting him from all expense, and of securing his Election. At two o'clock a' number of the most wealthy Freeholders were colletled together, when Sir WI IA tam GI n- DUNS, Batt, was called to the Chair, 'the wor thy Baronet first read the IVlinutes . Of the Meeting of the t 3th, and then shortly addressed the Freeholders. The purpose of this meeting, he said, required no explanation; the feelings of every Freeholder present would suggest to hitp, that it was to rescue the con stitnt ional Rights of the Country, and prevent them from again falling into the hands, or being placed at the disposal of a man, who had obtained a colourable majority at the last Election by the most disgraceful means ; and who had fr>r two years mil-represented them in Parliament, and who wished to carry every thing by the length of his purse. • To effeti so de sirable an objet - t,, and as a debt of gratitude and justice due to their late worthy Representative, it was proposed that a Subscription should be entered into, to defray all the legal expences attendant on a canvass and subsequent elettion of his Son, GEORGE BOULTON MA INWAR ING. Esq. and without further remark, he should submit the list of Subscriptions already made, and request the aid and assistance of further signatures. A Freeholder observed, that an opinion had gone forth, that a Member of Parliament could not sub. scribe without endangering the interests of the Can. didate, and in consequence, an application bad been made to the. ATTORNEY ENZRAL • as to the pro. piety of such opinion : he had the pleasure to add, that Mr. PERCIVAL had answered in a way the most argumentative and convincing, as he had di. retied a hundred pounds to be paid into the house of THORNTON and Co. in his own name, to be used for all the ICgal purposes of Mr. G. B. MAI NWAR. Ixo's Eleftion. Sir WILLIAM CURTIS said, he mould follow the example set him by the Learned Gentleman, and would put his name down for tool. towards the ex pences of the Eleaion, also Sol. for his son, and tool. more in case a petition should afterwards be presented. He had also a letter from a friend, de. siring his name might be put down for so!. but he would add 501. more to it, and make it tool. He Would not trouble the Freeholders with many noire words ; he came there to at?, and not to speak.' Mr. Bow L es, after a short address to the Free. holders, in which he noticed the irregularities of the last Eleaion, and animadverted with much severity on the condua of the SherifTh, moved a string of Re. solutions, which were unanimously carried, after some , verbal alterations hnd been made. • Mr. H,LIIRY MADDOX complimented, in very neat terms, the meritorious exertions and indefatigable zeal of Mr. MAIN'WARING, both as a Member of Parliament and as Chairman of the quarter Sessions, to support the interests and the welfare of the County at large, and of the Constitution, as by law established ; and concluded, by observing, that it was a debt' of gratitude the County owed the Father to support the Sou ; and to aid his endea. yours in rescuing the County from so calamitous a representation as they were threatened with. The lists were then put round, and in •a few► mi. notes the Chairman reported that a sum of 5,52 . 51• had been subscribed for the purposes of carrying on the elution, and for an ulterior fund, in Case a peti. ti ,- 1 should ultimately be presented. Mr. MAINWARING, jun. was then introduced, 4nd on being informed of the amount of the Subscrip tion, he expressed his gratitude for what the Free. holders h a d dune, and the honour they intended him, b ut sa id he was compelled to advert to his first proposition, namely, that unless the Subscription amounted to Ten Thousand Pounds, for . the ptirposes of the Eleaion, he must decline the contest.- • -He f e l t the duty he owed to the County, but there were ties that honour and prudence suggested, which were paramount to that dory. He could not proceed unless the whole expences uf the Eleaion were pa rimmed, Several Freeholders urged the certainty of in. creasing the subscription to 10,0001. and pressed Mr. M A INWAR !NG' fo authorize them to commence the canvass in his name, enforcing the necessity of immediate Canvass. M r . Attu/WARING wished the meeting to be adjourned till the next day, when he said the state of the Subscription would enable him to decide spe. cifically. 1 . 110104T0N, who had arrived after the busi ness commenced, observed, that .the Subscriptions were beyond his expeaation. His sense of public duty must take the lead of private friendship-the • County of Middlesex must be rescued—its rights, its independence supported ; and if Mr; MAIN wAtt t No declined, there were others of worth and principle to be found; he would propose Colonel Gfanosos, the son of the worthy Chairman. Sir WM. Gist noNs interrupted the Speaker, and ' said, that from the military 'occupation of his Sot o it was impossible be could then come forward.— Besides, the Freeholders should recollta thesub. scription was entered into for the purpose •of de. fraying the cleetioneering expences ofMr. MAIN. WARING, jun. and, as many of thrSubscribers had left the room, the money could not be diverted from the purpose tor 'which it was intended. A variety of opinions were then advanced, and t h e meetiog was adjoilmed • till tbil day at one o'clock. The friends of Mr. IMAINWARIDiG pledg. rd themselves to use their best influence in the mean time. The following hand.bill was circulated " Eleaors of Mi:ldlesex, in the. Interest of their King and Country, are requested to meet at on the 33(1 of this month, at rone o'clock, and procerd, after break fast, to Brenttord, where rheti w:ll . ...rt their own, and the r ights of every Freeholdo of the Empire, 00 , ,,,05ing the am. clams of I).;pard, tha Enaniiti at God and Mao " Afar, wili.ree, ye t :) , t 5, ts)4." If Mr. MAIN IV AR tric's Friends resolutely exert themselves, it is pro! stole that Sir fltANcts VETT will not be nv) e su vessful in his canvass for a ralliamemary Stitt in ivliddlescx, than his Friend Mr. BoNNEV was in his attempt to be Coronet Ca that CQuilty. YLEJTUI?I!`,..F. 1? Ch It 7„ • , „ --- " -- "'""" --- 77 I • t Tilts yestertlai, before the, pil, ing commenced, in.,tonsequence of Mr.' M t Gitf.NVILL t he contet. ~tne of c ourse, stood as ,- it Saturday, .Hon.CAVE ND lAi 68 ahead. When the business via• over, Mr. CAV END I Sit was chaired; the ssnul acc afterwards tout{ the horses from 1.mr,..! geottot CAVENDISH'S carriage, in which was Lidy CAVE NAlin, and drew her ; Lalyship rouod t!.e Market Place, shouting, " Thf CAvFxorsti terest for ever." A grand dinner was give,' at principal inn, and the day coneodeil with ringiii2 of bells, and other demonstrations of joy. Cr RK, JULY General Sir EYRR Coors has taken, for tilt bathing season, "[colon Place, near the Bh,ck R Lord and Lady CORK ACC still here, and Icy t , c affability and pleasing manners, endear. therryieives to all descriptions of the inhabitants. Our Gartiion is very strong : it consists of the Istli Regitrieni, under command of Col. BARRY ; 96! h, u icier Coll CONRON ; the Tipperary, under Major WlitTe ; and the Queen's County M►litia, under '.VI ij CUMMINS. On Monday CHARM' EVANSON, Esq. an emi. nent Woollen.draper here, was eietteti Mayor ; PETIM BISNARD and GIORGI KNAPP ) Esqrs. t eleeted Sheriffs. The successor to the Dean of Cloyne Is not as yet announced. The total amount of the Stamp Dees for the year ending the sib of January last, was 3,316,6 an l. According to the Schedule now before the House of Commons, the transfer of Stock in any Company, Society, or Corporation whatever, not being Bede or South Sea Stock, or Stock in Government Fund., when the amount to be transferred shall not exceed tool. is to be chargeable with a stamp duty of 11. tos. ; tool. and not 2001.—..:21. ; 2001. and net 3001.-21. los.; 3001. and not 4001.-31.; 400'. anti not sool.-31. sos.; soot. and not zoool.—se ; motel. and not 20001.-71. 101. 20 . 001. and not 30001.-101. ; 30001. and not 40001.—tel. 104, ; +OOO4 and not 500°1.-151. ; soool. and not too:eol.-171. tos. ; and if it exceeds 10,0001. --- 201. Lord CHARLES FItZROY having won 6o guineas at the races last week at Ipswich, ordered them to be divided atnongst the .wives of the soldiers of his Brigade, the 'North Yuri: and West Suffolk Regi. ments of Militia. Yesterday a desperate battle was fought at Wills. den Green, about faur miles on the Edgwatc Road, between ,Pitteeto the Jew, and Wood the hackney. coachman. The combatants set to about a quarter before eleven o'clock, a ring having been previous_ ly formed. After fighting 36 rounds, with vatiout . advantage, rittoav f ll ,from the strength of his own hits.—Weed, in, she last round, fell oil a l toget h er ; he could not even see hit adversary ; anti, by advice of his friends, admitted that the Jew was the better man.--The beetle lasted lifty.te o minutes. The contest was for fifty guineas. Only (nee danger ous blow was struck during ,the conte st o—a t ea " ie the 22d round, whenw. Pitaeay struck the coachman in,the stomach; the blow saes su violent that the Amateurs eOnsideted the battle as nearly decided. al ' Thursday weak, there fell, on Old Malmo Moor, the most extraordinary shower of hail ever remembered in that part of the country, attended with heavy rolls of thunder, and &stie s o f lightning extremely vivid.. The hail-stones were as large :is marbles, acid the impetuosity so &eat, that in lest than two minutes the ground was covered upwar A ls of four inches thick, and every fiald of corn within its sweep almost destroyed; and some fields of wheat so completely, that the proprietters have determined on ploughing them out, to avail themselves of die season for turnips. The injury done on the Moor is to an extensive calculation. MBLANCHOLY EVENT.—•-•A young woman was y ester day evening crossing the road, with a child in her arms, near the Small=pox Hospital, at Somet's Town, and was thrown dowel by a Gentletnen'e carriage that was driving along with great fury. The child died almost immediately, end atie yenlog woman was not exeetAed to live many hours. The Co a chman drove on without the least concern, and the owner of the carriage is not known, it i s a melancholy truth, that the drivers of Gentlemen's :carriages are gauerally much more careless and in. hutueo, on theaeeeccasions, than even hackney coach. men,, who are provethiel for brutality. The child belonged to a,tespetiable family in ohe neighbour. hood, and the young woman was its nurse. On Saturday night, es a watelimin way going his touhtis in Love.lane, Aldermanbure, he per. ceived a . woman lying on the footpath, apeareely in a state Of intoxication. • On lifting her up, found her immersed in blood, and went immediately to the watch house for assistance. She was re. :loved, to thchotpital, when the Surgeon, upon ex., atnination, concluded, that she fell against the scraper 'of a dour, which cut the back pan of Is. heed in a shocking manner. She was able to Jea that her name was Mary Burgess, a pauper in ilia Parish of Saint Zachary, neat Woott.stieet. Het recovery is yet) , doubtful. At the Quarter Seasions for Northempion, 7oirtir Haynes, the driver of the No tt i ng h am coact', eves indicted for an assault upon Mrs. Ruff, wife of Mr. Ruff, baker, of Gayton, by whipping her !terse, a. sloe wets passing the above coach, in tire Q tar. ter in that town, on her return home from. mar ker, whereby sae , was thrown off, and one of fne lied wheels passed over and brake both her le a ... Atter a heating, the Court sentenced him to pa ; a fine of 4.05. and to be imprisoned for three caltoeler months. Sawolay a journeyman blacksmith, of* th e n ame of Settle, a noted gormandizer, undertook, for it trifling wager, to eat a shoulder at mutton of sit pound s weight, I,t , 1401)011100:iie qaantity of te ge tables, anti a tht ce.pentey boat, and to drill quart of ale, at a public hoto,e in the eeighbourhetei h o „,. ; b ut he comp le te d i t i n so m i nutes, arid aa. at Golden-lane. H e Iva! , to pet f orm the tihk ie 1 tually bespoke a atipier of beans acid bacon,