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LONDON, MARCH 19, 18:4. queen': flortre, March 18, 1804. " HIS MAJESTY continues to recuver. (Signed) "L. PEPYS. "F. M fL.MA "H. It. REYNOLDS " IV. HEBERDEN." " Queen's 1 ku.e, March 19, ISo4. " FITs MA.JES TY is materially better, and is far advanced in recovery:. (Signed) " 1.. PEPYS. " F. MiLm " 1-1. R: REYNOLDS. 6 ' W. HEEERDEN." HIS MAJR,I-T-Y walked for some time in the Gar dens of the-Queen's Palace on Saturday, and it was said that His Royal Highness the DUKE of You had an audience afterwards ; but this circumstance seems to admit of some doubt. Yesterday, however, at two o'clock, • the LORD CHANCELLOR had an audience f His MAJESTY. The badness of the day yesterday prevented the KING from walking, No accounts have yet been received, of the cause or the effects of the repeated heavy cannonadings heard for several days past in the. quarter of Boulogne. One heard on Friday was supposed to proceed from borne' of our vessels being becalmed under the range of the French Batteries, or that the attempt was making to sink the Stone-ships that sailed a day or two before from the Downs. We cannot but ex press both our surpriie. and uneasiness at having heard nothing certain of late respesting the opera. Lions of our Squadron. YESTERDAY five Hambargb Mails arrived, It is stated in a Letter from Florence, that the French Government had made a demand upon the IC;ltiG of NAPLES, that he should deliver up to the French three of his . Fortresses, and a certain number of Ships of War ; to which demand His Neapoli tan Majesty has given an unequivocal refusal. — If the circumstances mentioned - in this Letter are true, it is a strong confirmation of the report which has been some time in circulation, viz. that a Ne kotiationwas on foot, if not actually concluded, be,. tween Naples and Russia, for an Alliance offensive and defensive; because, without the prospeet of some very powerful assistance, it is not probable that Naples would .have, given so decid e d a re fusal. Wii,ther the French, in this new aa of aggressiOn,. are influenced by the. desire of plunder, or whether their objet is to exclude the English entirely from the Ports of Naples, we have great reason to fear that their purposes will be accomplished. before any aid can be derived from Russia. The report of the sailing of the Toulon Fleet is mentioned in Letters from -diErent parts of Italy, but there does .not appear to be any foundation for i(. The Porte still appears to entertain strong appre. pensions of the design of Franc upon the —Aforea, and has equipped a Fleet of twelve Sail for its pro. tedion. Letters from the Hague state, that on the 19th ult. a large division of ;he Flotilla at Flu3hing, con 'sisiing of 25 Gun-boats and 75 -Flat-bottomed Boats, having on board a considerable number of ii'rencli Troops, saik.l for Boulogne, but were soon obliged to return to Port, on account; as it was stated, t,f contrary wirais, bur, as it was generally believed, fr,:rn having fallen in with some English Cruiz-rs. Ab2ut twelve o'clock,, on Saturday, HER MA JESTY, and the Pi“ NC ESSES ELI Z AB inland MARY, at :cnikd by the C)uhtess of AYl.E.siitylty and Lady CRAIMEY i took an airing in neighbourhood of the Greenwich i uid, aod returned to the Queen's al;juCt!ire , :., V v r e are sorry rn say that the N.: P.!;Es'AT.,3- GUSTA and AMELIA are Sit4iidy . The DUKES of CUMBERLAND, KENT, and CAM. BRIDGE, dined, on Saturday, with HER MAJESTY and the Panic EssEs. The PRINCE of WALEs, the DUKES of CUMBER LAND and CAZ,II3XIDGE, dined yesterday with the DUKE ofKENT, at Kensington Palace. Viscount SYDNEY and Sir PHILIP HAt.Es attend ed at St. James's yesterday as- Lord and Groom in Waiting. Satuiday _the Russian Ambassador had an audi. ence of Lord HAWICEsBURY, at . his Office, in Down ing-street. The Bishop of SALlssußy preached before the Nobility yesterday, at the Chapel Royal. Yesterday the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs went in state from the Mansion-House, accompanied by several Aldermen, to the Parish Church of St. Peter-le-Poor, Broad-street, and heard divine service, and an excellent sermon preach ed by the Lord Bishop of Chichester, for the benefit of the Charity Children of Broad-street Ward, after which they returned to the Mansion-House and were entertained by his Lordship. SAMURL HORROCKS, Esq. (brother to the late Member) having offered himself as a Candidate to represent the Borough of Preston in Parliament, Sir THOMAS-DALRYMPLC Htsicsm, Bart. has declined offering himself for that honour. Saturday: the Pursers.of the Mar7uis of Exeter, Marquis Wellesby, Princess Charlotte, Lady Jane Dundai, Lord ,Nelson, Marquis Ely, Canton, and Brunswick East Indiainen, attended at the East India House, and received their final dispatches. A letter from Guernsey, received on Saturday, brought to Southampton by the Vigilant, states, that most of the gun-vessels at St. Malo, Granville, &c. had sailed from thence towards Boulogne, and . that the apprehensions' at the island, of attack, hati . been greatly lessened in consequence. On Thursday last the Royal Lanarkshire Militia were reviewed by General LEIGIVON, at Sunder land, sa hen they received the General's highest ap. probation. An Encampment of twelve thousand men is to be formed on the new lines at Chatham about the mid dle of the next month. The second seaion of the floating bridge across the Medway, from the Dock yard at, Chatham to near Upnor Castle, was launched on Thursday : there are to be ten seaions, each 90 feet long and 25 broad. A great number of work men are employed in this service. On Friday morning the DUKE of GLOUCESTER'S Royal Volunteers had a Field-day; at KilburnWells, for the porpose of shooting at a Target, when Ser geant Dowson put four shots out of five into the Target, and •the other into the 'Mill's Eye. He tried a second 'dine, and shot eight times, a'nd- every time hit the Target, and shot twice into the Bull's Eye. Three Troops of the City Light Ilcirse Volunteers assembled yesterday in St. George's Fields, prepara tory to their going into quarters for - two nights at Croydon and the environs. The privates have the care or their own horses, which, considering the badness of the weather, will be no pleasant part—of duty. Brigadier. General Dut:Lor, and about 500 of the loth regiment, arrived at Antigua early in the present year, and are to be stationed there. Brigadier-Gen.eral PREVOST,. who succeeded, to the command pro tezzpore at Barbadoes, on the death of General GRINFIEL.D, has returned to his govern. ment of Doniinka. A packet of Antigua Papers to the beginning of February, came to hand On Saturday.—We learn by them, that the Government of Guatlaloupe was in apprehension of an invasion 'from our forces in that quarter. The Commander in Chief, ERNOUF, had in consequence-issued a Proclamation, subjed ing every free man - on the island to immediate mili tary execution, if on .heing ordered to - march, he refused to du so—he is likewise - to carry with him four of his- best slaves to t,e place: of rendezvous, where they are to be armed. ERNOUF has further decreed, that any person disseminating alarm or terror, or who shall know any matter relating to the designs of the English, without making cnm. munication. of it to the Government, shall be ar rested, and delivered over to a Council of War. A Gentleman, who arrived in town from !totter. dam, on Saturday, which place he' left on Monday last, reports, that another movement has taken place amongst the Dutch Troops in North Holland, draw. ing nearer to the Helder, for the purpose of embark. ation. Gen. MARWINT, the new French Com. mander in Chief in the Batavian Republic, had, ar, rived at the Hague. BONAPARTE is said to have declared his intention to place himself at the head of the expedition against this Country ; the recent arrests, in Paris, having, it is supposed, removed all cause for alarm, during his absence from - the Capital, The three millions of rations of biscuits, which have been three months making at Brussels, are now ready, and have been packed in boxes for con. veyance with the invading Army. A copper_foundery has been ereeted in the Dock yard at Portsmluth ; they have already 'cast some' blocks of copper, and it is supposed They will be able to manufaaure the sheets for sheathing vessels, of better quality than what has hitherto been used. A subterranean store of considerable extent is nearly finished in the Dock-yard at Portsmouth it is built on arches, under which the drainage water from the Docks passes, and is pumped up by the block.making steam-engine. The roof is likewise arched ; it at present extends ,under some store houses, and the whole of its surface is to •be built upon. We hear that Mr. BOLTON'S excellent plan is at length ahuut to be carried .into cffel. A recorn. mendatien of - Council has been sent to the Bank upon the subJect, and the Dollars are immediate!) , to .be . re-stamped, with some alteration in the original de. sign. The King's Head is to he, on one side; but instead of. the Royal Arms, as was at first there will be on the reverse the Bank At ms, 0-)me suitable device, with the words "B4Nr, DO L ToK Vtilt SH I L • "VrT c Ere s',Hry to 'hear that . an Army Agent's of the higlicsi revettabi li:y, riym(l-.1, NAVAL NEW S. from the LONDON GAZETTE, March 17, 1804. Admire,lo-o . ffice, March 17, 1804.. Copy of a Letter from Commodore Hocd, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the Leeward Islands, to William Marsden, Esq. dated at Martinique, the 27th January, 1 804. SIR, I send you herewith, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Copies of two Letters from Captain Nourse, of His Kajesty's Sloop Cyane, giving an account of the bapture of a Privateer of eight guns and eighty-four men, and re.capture of a valuable Guineaman. I have the honour to be, &c. SAM. HOOD. His Majesty's Sloop Cyane, Jan. 2, 1804. SIR, I heg leave to inform you of my having recap tured the ship Westmoreland, from the Coast of Guinea, taken by the General Ernouf privateer, who was in sight at, the time, hut escaped, I have the honour to be, &c. JOSEPH NOURSE. To Commodore Hood, &c. &C. &c. His Majesty's Sloop Cyane, Jan. 20, 1804. SIR, I beg leave to acquaint you of His Majesty's Sloop under my command having, in the latitude of Barbadoes, fallen in with, and, after a chace of five. hours, captured La Bellone French privateer of eight guns, and eighty-four men, last from Suri nam ; out seven days, and had taken nothing. Hcr guns thrown overboard during the cline. I am, &c. JOSEPH NOURSE. To Commodore Hood, &c. &c. TO THE EDITOR OF 7. 11 E SUN. TeigNmouth, March 17. SIR, PAVING this day read in your Paper an ac count of a Fatal Duel, said to have taken place at rise ;.ing's -Arms lon,, in this town, of which I am L7indlyrd, and which I,presurro you extrafled from alarliri Newspaper, I have to request the favour of you (for the sake of the connexions of the parties, residing at a distance, and whose feelings must of course be generally excited on reading it.) to con trAid the sam-. immediately, as the whole of the story, from beginning to end, is an impudent false hood. I am induced to add, that the parties said to have been Principals in the above affitir, never had any quarrel whatever, and that the circumstance which is stated to have occasioned the above pute, newer could have happened, there being no Corps of Teignmouth Cavalty in existence. I am, Sir, _ _ _ Your humble Servant, JOHN HUBBARD. DUI. MAILS. Hamburgh z . - - THE SUN. ARA IV ED. - 5 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols SOLENI 21.11 S DICER% FALSUM AUDILAT ? Admiralty Ofce, March 17, 180+. Copy of a Letter from the Right Hon. Lord Keith, K. B. Admiral of the Blue, &c. to William Marsden, Es'. dated of Ramsgate, the k3th instant. SIR, Be, pleased to acquaint their Lordships, that Cap tain Heywood, of His Majesty's Sloop the Harpy, yesterday captured and sent into the Downs, the Penriche French Gun-boat of two, guns and two small transports, part of a convoy proceeding under her protection from Calais to Boulogne. I have the honour to be, &c. KEITH. PLYMOUTH, MARCH i7.—Arrived the Swedish Brig Zacherman, P. C. KRACKLIN master, laden with tar, iron, &c. from StockholM, bound to Rochelle, detained on the ioth instant by the Boa. dicey Frigate. , Sailed the Sfa,oll Sloop of War on a Cruize. - Poßrsmo-trrpri MARCH` 18.—This day His Ma. jesty's Ship Carysfor't went out of the Harbour c9mpletely refitted, and will sail in a day 'or two for Cork, and take the Merchant Ships bound West. Ward under her Convoy. Arrived this day from the Downs, the Lady Jane Dundas, Lady Burs-es, and Chinai outward-bound East Indian3en ; and. their Pursers this afternoon ar rived here by land with their Dispatches. They are expo led to , sail next Tuesday, under Convoy of His Majesty's Ship Leviathan. The lVa/ j sc/e homeward-bound East India Ship, which sailed on Thursday under Convoy of the Spider Armed Brig, yesterday put back owing to contrary winds. Arrived yesterday from the Downs under Corf. voy, the following outward-hound West India Ships, viz. Hind, Darby, Cora, George, Emerald, Cook, William, Sinclair,. Willing Mind, Humble, and Resolution Sims. Arrived the Charlotte Schooner, Lieut. ALT, from a Cruize ; and Acheron Bomb, from the East ward. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Alcmene, Capt. STILES, for her station off Gutrnsey, with the Carteret Cut. r ; and the Cyclops, of z 8 guns, to be Guard-ship off,Lymington, it► the room of the Experiment, re moved to Spithead. , SHEERNESS, MARCH I B.—Arrived from a Cruize, His Majesry's Ship Ethalion, Capt. STUART, to refit ; the Virginie Frigate, Capt. BE R ESFOR D, is going to Portsmouth, to be docked, from whence' she pro ceeds to the Mediterranean. It was the Boatswain and Carpenter of the Disco. very Bomb, and hot of the Explosion, who were broke by the sentence of a.Court Martial. DEAL, IVIARdn 18. - -The 7ackall Gun-brig came in from a Cruize off Ostend ; the Aggressor sailed on a Cruize off Boulogne. Sailed the Lady lane Dunclas and Lady, : .l3urges East India Ships for POrtsmOurh, .and the China American East India Ship. • ' Sailed the Fury Bomb. to. the Westvitrd. The Neptune '&lSt IndiA Sfiip . came down from theitiver.'aud...aed for Portsmouth.' In the Downg - --Monarch, Utrecht, Illustrious, Trusty Meteor, Jackidl and Archer. DOVER; MARCH 16.—Notwithstanding that a cnr:iderable firing has been heard in the ditecti,n 01 Boulogne for sore' days past, yet, it being calm and 'thick we:alter,, we arr without any news of Ike result. The Lord Nelson tired cutter arrived in the R,ads this morning; . yesterday week her Petvenant (WILMOT) larded on the Hook of Holand,. and some of the.boat's crew went with hits ro'a farm house, where, after getting tome reircihment, ne desired the men to go down to the boat, 511(1 w2it his coming, which would be very soon; the men, however, waited some hours, and not finding hu° returning to the boar, went to seek him, and being unsuccessful, returned to the boat, and continued rowing at a short distance from the shore, to" six o'clock the next morning, when a pArty of 'W I horse came down. and_fired volley—ituo— ie—b° l4 l' which luckily did no damage; the men then, off to (he Lord Nelson, but cannot tell what fi cli q of their Officer. They left Sir SIDNE'r-SC:0111 v,fell a few days ago y. ng.- Rem.'" in I. A L Roads the M7l6rook schooner, Licut; SroPc'' s cutter went frum hence yesterday to hear some ne uf of our squadron off Ru u logn e , b u t:has Tnot:Yer tie turned. At lam finishing my-letter, the king . I renewed, and is very - heavy ; it is supp . o 94 d ' t° g g the Enemy throwing shells. from theirJrattstics a our snip, becalmed near the shore. • ''' r to NAVAL , APrOINTNIENTS.--.Capt. the Muter;, at Portsmouth ; Capt. • Moklijsc" to the Princes; Floating Battery, ,at Liverra al ' Viet, COLQU:TT, who was unfortunately fec° ll- e! c .. the Ge n tlem a n lately killed in a dUerat tlfat P lat `' Capt. CLAY, to the Sea Feocibles in Ireland ; Car . • Br , sEL., tohe a Post Captain. • Dispatches were yesterday rceived from A 40 .1'. , ral COR.NWALLIS, off BBr et,s t, dated the i 214 in eQ at which time no particular ni.)yemeni..had . P w s 'fic pinCe among the Enemy's Ship s i n that 'port. Officers and Crews of the Ships . under the galls Admiral's orders were all well. . A Prussian Brig, arrived Pt Hull frott . tinl' —fl' g h was boarded on the rztli inst. betseen Heal and the Srurn„ by a Brig.Cut‘fei Fri va r e . belonging to Dunkirk,. mountipg a 6 lel; pounders, and carrying 134 men. The (..:IC.w. the boat that boarded her were Irislirne.n. Lieut. LYNNE, Of Deal - I'loo[Al, is ap1 , 010. 1 ( ei l of of the Lieutenants of GreenWiell, in :The wou l te , Lieut. KERR, deceased, who was the Senior id° nant on the list of N.ival Officers. • o' g Captain BOYS is appointed to command the /Id lus, of 44 guns, fitting out at Chatham. ep a rea The Devastation .l3ttmh-vessel is to be pr . for service direaly at Deptford. r y e s. The Eintaargo was on Saturday , taken or It sell bound to_Ducch_forts._ It had previousiY.-b ceht removed only from vessels,. bound to Countri es,in amity with His Majesty.. Olt The Ship Hampton, IsAAes muter, was I th a into Portsmouth on TueSday last, by the Syeekoco. Brig, Lieut. ROl3 ERTSON, detained con:A:Ve r . ; a of accounts received at LLyd'i, of her being la" e 0 with cargoei of - West I.ldiamen, which . 11:,ve-b' e a captured by French Privateers, and carried irl, t° .„ • Spanish Port (Teneriffe), where they were r e -0 ; ped on board_ this . American, without being- 5 demned, and, as a co:our to, their perlitlyvl be 0 cleared out for a'Neut ta l Po rt (Emlideo), b ut 4 intended for Amsterdam. Several of our Cruizetle on information, chased her c o ming uo C"" nel, which she outsailed ; fortunaitly the Spred,well r o t alongside-of her itr the grey of the inotn iog, eleven leagues.off the -tile • , 1 4 The Bf trey South Seaman, Captain WATsP44' ;#.s` .had an engagement. with a Dutch privatecrzf e ttri % minutes, off the Cape,of:Good Hope, w i l e vateer was sunk with all the crew.' • sgYgi A Letter, ".dated Yarmouth, March I° 4 ' a " A soi.disanr Russian l a d en with 0 ' 5 4. spars, &c. gut land-locked., as it.—i-s—c-al ed g o. Fresh-water Bay, Isle of Wight, Awb -r diP. u rgs Some Naval Officers went on board•Of 303 bound to Nantes. •Her paper Were . equivoC al during last night she cut her cables,, ende,aVaroyi to get off,' but was pursued by two-Cutteror, brought back here. She will prove a very 0101 prize to the captors, who are few in number:l.', . re o f It was stated yesterday,. an the autlioritr Accounts received from on board Sir S. St4l,liie, Squairori,.dated on Wednesday last, that t he Gr my's Flotilla at Flushing was, it; every re s cio. ready for sea, and that the Cavalry h'ad a aualli 7 barked. vet The London Dock Company, on Friday, re, 5 ,7 to raise a mongst themselves, by way of adi":" ° r e.: Loan, the sum of 36 0 0 4 , 00,. addition.to p s e n t t i ng a I theDoofckl \ o r o a o re t i .f ) o us r es th and : w t h o ic r i i , ;o i s i c iis ° . , o l , l, , d in e' g fe: stood, will be ready for the reeeption'of &c. in the course of the summer: s i I Died at Fairfield, Ayrshire, on Sunday ' be 1111 ' inst. Mrs. FULLARTON, Dowager o f FUL L ' #, 3 ' 4e. TON, mother of Colonel FULLARTON. die Lord CAMELFORD has minutely descrio! o' spot in the Canton of Berne where he jstle 4 buried ; it is between three trees, and heTha s . wool. for the purchase of the g r ound. A Dor L.—E trly on Wednesday moining 1 ,19 '„ meeting took place, near Hadar Hospital,.Vr ! lk eti ;a a Lieutenant of The Royal Marines; and the Se . : 0e Mate of an Indianan, in consequence Of words that passed at the Theatre the 'P re. evening; after they had fired twice each, O . ' . t o .the Lieutepant received a slight wound ,° 0 • iltie shoulder, the affair was amicably Aettled"bY interference of the Seconds. - , . The following are the - subjeets for "t he e p rf fo? given by the Representatives in f'a' Cambridge University for the present year SENIOR BATCHELORS.• „, i i iito: Quidcommodi, aut incernmodi, e repub!ica homino”: oupc' rum sive, coloraiorum, inter ocod:a itat es insula ) , Lon,titlita, de.rivari qucat ? MIDDLE BATCHELORS. Quibusmodis, et gradi'ouS, civitates jam fiorentes, P 2ll-1 260 labare, inclinare et occidere soleiAnt ? , . r o, Considerable orders continue to arrive frog for rica for British manufactures, which; a re r „ e . in gold and silver eagles, 'et . t h e A i/l aic in c'-' l ,-. 13 1 1° 0 ,. Seveiji American ships have also arrived t ' 2 rts gow with vast quantities Qt sFecie for them erc.,,inti tiere. The exchange in Atner.ca is five r r e- ', ~ in ta%our of Britain. ' master' Messrs. Marsh, Johnson,. and Tummoll..,; , o-. of . vessels trading on the river ain, h a veltle ell - ,, ° ,1; vl#ed by the Magistrates of I: , herhat\for "3. irng with in vel,st.:ls on the it..0.-..1"3 dai•