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N A E W S. From the LONDON GAZETTE, 3 ,71 .. Y z B , 004.. • Adm;ro/(y-Oste, ju)• 28, 1804. Co f iy of a Letter fr o m Captain Robert i)udley 01i. ever, Commander of His Majesty's Ship the Met tom , n , , to William Marsden, Ed?. dated of Havre, the 24th instant. , I beg leave to enclose yon, for the. 'information C! my Lords C , lnrnis:iioners of the Admiralty, a Cupy of my Letter to Lord Keith, of this date. I am, &c. R. D. OLIVER. Melpomene, of Havre, LORD, Jy 24, 1804. • Since my Letter to your Lordship, of the i 7111 r3tant, we had very light and variable winds tor three days, •wlich were succeeded by a gale from the Northward, when the liJmlis bad some difficulty to.k ee p c l ear o f t h e s h, r e. Yesterday the wind havin g got to the S, I stood in with the Squa. .aeon, and at eleven m +de the signal for the Bombs to try their range : they placed themselves with the uttrrst precistoo immediately offthe Pier Heads, 4nd at a quarter past eleven began a most tremen. hats fire of shells and carcasses, which was conti. puedwitlinut intermission fit an hour and a half ; Very.fe w minutes the Town on fire, was observed tube and a s the Pier was very full of Vessels,, it " impossibl e hut they must have suffered consider. The Vessel s which had been outside the Pier, dinin g the B:imbardment of the 16thi were so • much annoy ed as to retire, some into the Pier, and some up th e River ; one o f them was towed on shore under the Batteries, and has been since taken to pieces. Thv 's Mortar Batteries have been very Considerably increased since the Attack of the i6th, and alth-ugh the tire ft um them on the 13,:mht was no great ii. I will , vetiture to say was ever expe ri"v"l' they being considerably within the range, . yet it is with the Most inexpressible pleasure I pc. quaint your Lordship, t h at not a man h as I.):.en 'hurt. A shell passed through the mizen stay.saif of the Z,-.bra, another 'Carried away the spare top. satl " rd "I the Merlin, and two chain.plates, and • .igrtiz.d her side; and a forty.two pound shot cut the s pare t , Tmist and some other spats., and lcdged in the booms of the flecla ; this is all th e damage . t h "'e• • It is impossibl e for me to find wiirds to ress my atlintrat ion of the conduCt of The Captains ..gykes, lathes, Paul, and Beauchamp, and the other ‘o theets aid Crews of the Bombs, for the able man. ,tler in which they placed and managed that Ves. eels ; an,l AN° to the ()lacers and Men of the Royal ...Artillery embarked on board of them, for the Judi. cious ,manner in which they fired the shells. S ime Loggers came out of the Pier during, the flombardment and fired their guns, but they were Made to keep at b respeCtful distance by the vici. Pity of the .Merlin, Pluto, Locust, arid Cutters, :whieh were always re a dy to g i ve a,sistacce where Wanted, as were the other Ships ill the Squadron in the situations assigned to them. I have the Honour to be, &c. , ROB. DUDLEY •R . t Hooortra . ble lord Keith, K. B. OLIVER, , 4dmiralcy.O.Xce, In& 28, 184. 'Cob , of a Letter from rice. Admiral Sir John no. mar Dutkavortb, K. B. Commander in Chief of Ms Majesty's Ships and Vessels at 7amaica, to Wit. • :ham Ps?. dqted at earl Rayal,'Jamaica, a.ht loth of June, 180+. SIR, Accompanyi ng this you 'will D ece ive, for tile in. Totmation of the Lords Commissioners of the Adtni_ laity, a Return of Vessel; captured and destroyed by His Majesty's Ships under my . command. I am, &c. J. T. DUCKWORTH. Jtrturn of V eit & eaptured and deltro , ed 61 the S quadron under Re. l, -4‘bnital Sir f. 7'. D.uckworth, K. B. Commander in CGirf,gri :y.tmaic.r. Schooner Olive Branch: Re-captured by the Bellerophon, ' Captain Loring.--B IVaterhouse and Co. Agents. Privateer Cutter La 'Ferrety: Captured by the La Pique, ' • Captain Ross.—Same Agents. I'ationi.l Armed Schooner . Captured by the Stork, Captain Le Geyt.—Sanie Agents. ' Armed Transport Argo: Captured by the Racoon, Captain Qori , ri.— Same Agents. Sehonner Elizabeth: Re-captured by Ditto.— Sarde Agents. illiglit ► rill : Captured by the Pique, Captain Ross.—Same Agetit:;. 'Privateer Felucca Mars : Captured by the Fortunee, Cap. lain V ansittarr.--Same Agenti • tritisli Ship Wadstray : Re-captured by the Blanche, Cap. • • • .„ t in; • to , udge.—S ame Agents. rr'vateer t•elucca Adventuria: Captured by the Racoon, (faptairt Conlon.—Saine Agents. Schooner Vulture : .Re. captured by the Franchise, Captain _t.N.l'lturray.-7Saine Agents. t)(Hier Polly tr . Re-captured by ditto. =Same Agents. ri:lVitteer-Sphouner Pauline : Destroyed by tlitto. I°l Shy Stranger • Re ea nured by the Mermaid, Cap s 'l i t, Hui Stranger: gents.' j ...4 !a i ry Aim: Re-captured by the Echo, Captain Boger. Sehni: " A gems' vv , l : ) , t ej leitst and Esey : Detained by the Desiree, Captain Br_t • u Y• Axenls tat. Armed Shi C mudre p : Re-captured by the inanche. iil):::;4l(tt:tr.._ll:tc-ca—F—cliclitie6.'—‘gaSetnasiliae.,Anogeunntes. board' jrypuijulr,e:ndFotrndseamply by the Schooner S a me ~ • ' • ' Nl ud4e.- 3ame 44ents. ge g t e a n ir t i s eCi by the Blanche, C apta i n 1. T. DUCKWORTH. 118 a.w1C11, 29.:—The Lark I')ost.Office Packet, Captain IIAmtI.TON, sailed yesterday after noon with a fair wind, immediately on the arrival a 11 4 e Mails from London, for Hustim. Remain the Prgasui Frigate, the Addrr and Mon. Gun.vessel, the Argiii Cutter, and the Diana Packet, waiting for orders. F . 4l "l4°uTH ) JULY 27,—Arrived the American Ship Cambridge, f rom Norfolk, with to. haceo, for orders ; also the - American Brig Capt. Ntotiot,Ll, in 30 days from Norfolk, with Mttln, coffee, tobacco, and sugar, for orders ; she wa s yesteplay chafed by a French. Privateer of 20 guns, and' which was in the aft of bringing her to when , an English Frigate hove' in sight, on which she sitt.eted or. The Frigate give chase to her ; the 11 ; 4 4 was then about 30 leagues west of Scilly. Put back this dry, by contrary the Ana:. d P, ;KUTLER, w rerday, in consequence of the arrival of a Messenger from London : she will now take the Mail of the t 4 th instant. Sailed the Lady Warren Armed Ship, with Con. voy for the Downs ; His Majesty's Ship Ilumber, Capt. HILL, for Dartmouth, to get repaired. _ . The Towusbend Packer, arrived at Falmouth the 24th inst. from Lisbon, left lying in the Tagus, the homeward.bound Fleet, which was to sail the fol lowing day : also were lying there His Majtsty's Ship Revehaionaire t of 4 guns, Capt. lloniAm, La Paulette, of 20 guns, Capt. DUNBAR, and Busy Sloop of War, of 16 guns. In the former His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX intended taking his passage for England. The Wahingbara Packet was also safe arrived out. The Arabella Packet arrived from the Leeward Island on the zsrh inst. by which we have a con firmation of the Capture cf the Duk,. of Marlborough and Duke of Kent Packets,: the latter is about to be purchased for Captain DENN is ; the former is fitted out from Guadaloupe as a Privateer, and mounts zo guns.—The Convoy for England, about 30 . 0 left Tortola on the 26. h June, under Convoy of His Majesty's Ships Romney, Ulysses, Amsterdam, Hippomenes, and Drake Sloop of War. In cause. quence of this Fleet being known to sail,- 28 Priva teers left Guadaloupe one day,• in hopes of making some rich Captures. The Eliza Packet, was arrived At Barbadoes, after having beet off a French ;rive .teer of 18 guns, and full of men ; in which atetion the Eliza had one artn killed.—The Arabella spoke, the t Bth inst. the Brig EMblem, of Greenock, bound to Quebec, then in lat. 48. 3. long 27. +7. a ll well. PLYMOUTIT, JULY 28.—Arrived the Princess Royal, tf 98 guns, from the Channel Fleet ; also the Neutral, Capt. ELLiscrt, from Drain ; the Cron Prins Frederick, Capt. Jacoa,oN, from Fre_ derickstadt ; and the Vriendschap, Capt. EcK, from Dantzic. Arrived the Santa Itlargarilla Frigate, from a Cruize to the Westward. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 29. -Hit Majtstyl; Ship Orpheus, Capt. lit4L, has made signal for Convoy to Newfoundland. Majesty's Ship l'Epemier, Capt. WATsotc, has made signal for Convoy to the West Indies. A A Sloop of War has made signal, at St. Helens, for Convoy to Ireland. The N !MC . y Cutter, having a Transport with Troops under Convoy, sails this evening for Guernsey. Arrived the Prospero Bomb, Capt. Jom, from a e Cruize off Cherbourg. Sailed His Majesty's Cutter Hind for Dover to rcfir. The Ambuscade Frigate, Pretyante, and Dili. gent Store Ships, with 5+ sail tinder Convoy, which sailed from; this Port on the loth of June, were joined off Falmouth by the Wasp, with 16 Lisbon and Oporto Ships, and . a Ship bound to the Bay of Honduras ; on the 25th they sn.:de Cape Finisterre, tt hen the ship bound to the Bay of Honduras parted company for her destination ; and on the 28th the Wasp, Hon. Capt. AYMER, with the Oporto and Lisbon Ships, parted off Oporto. The Ambuscade pursued her course with the Ships bound to the Me. diterranean. DEAL, JULY 29. —Yesterday arrived the Spitfire Sloop from Portsmouth, and sailed for Sheerness ; the Fitly Bomb from Dungeness, and rennin.. Arrived the Traverse, Captain SAN D F 10. East India Ship, from the 'River, and sailtd for Ports. .mouth. This day His Majesty's Ship nrginie, Captain BERISFORD, sailed fur the Nore. Arrived the India, Captain WILLDON, East In. dia Ship, frnm the River, and remains. • - • In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Inflexible, Immorta.. lit 6, Castor,, Taitarus, Fury, Scourge;. ConfliCt, Bold, 'imam- Princess Ruyal Toansport; Armed Det..nce Ships as before :Matilda Cartel, and Indus East India Ship. We have received account; from our Fleet off' Brest, dated last Tuesday. It consisted of eighteen Sail of the Line and three Frigates. On Sunday evening Admiral Sir T. GRAVES, in OM of the Frigates, went close into the outer harbour of Brest, and reconnoitered the Enemy's Fleet. THE Or is R A.—There was nothirrg to distinguish, the perfortnance of // Ratio di Proserpina, on Satin. day evening, from any of the preceding nights, ex. cept an evident decrease in the number of visitors. Gansttxr, by her remarkable langour during the First Aft, appeared to be indisposed, but made amen& in the Second. BILLINGTON was uniformly excellent throughout, and the first Air in the Second Aft received thundering applause. The encores wage, as usual, led by Lord ,GALLOWAY withfhis. tomed zeal, and amounted to six. PARI4OT, the Little Miranda from' the Haymarket 'Theatre, and the two DE9 HAYE.r, gate renewed interest and beauty to The judgment of Paris. On Saturday the young Gentlemen of Eton Col lege, according to annual custom, took their aqua tic excursion from Windsor Bridge to Surly Hall, where they were entertained with syllabubs, rfocu, The` Staffordshire Militia 44nd attended them. Sir ,ELI JAR Impay has, within the fcw dais arrived from France.' 14. THE Emperor.went yesterday to s the Opera. Ile arrived at the beginning of the third ad, of which he appeared to like the music very much. After the an he sent for M. LE SUEUIi, to whom he ex. pressed the greatest - satisfaCtion. The Empress was present this evening at the re. presentation of Iphigenie en Aulide, give►► gratis by the French Comedians for the entertainment of the people., JULY 15. His Imperial Majesty, anxious that the Italian Troops now in France should partake of that indul. gen.ct by • which be wishet to distinguish his ad. vancement to the Empire, has given orders that the dispositions of title V. of the Imperial Decree of the I 3th Prairial last, relative to the amnesty granted to such Subalterns and Soldiers of the land tutees as may have deserted to the interior, be extended also to the Italian Troops that are now in Franse.— (Moviteur.) They write from Toulouse of the Bth of July, that the crop of forage this year has been. productive to a degree unheard of, in consequence of which all prr,visioniot that sort have experienced a very rapid and extraordinary fall; from is francs oats are said to have instantly fallen as low as 8. They write from the Hagoe, of the 7th July, that the Legislative Body having terminated their or. dinary Session the preceding day, had nominated VA:ri‘HAERsALTE, President for the next Session. CELEBRATION OF TilE FOURTEENTH iut.y. (Front the Illonifror of 7,4 ij.) _PLY i6.—=-Ye•tertlay being Sunday, the Anni. versary ut thy• 14.1) of July, Ai the Members oldie Leg ion of Hon or, who were in Paris, srdenuny took the Omit prescribed in the presence of the Em. peror.. At six in the morning t Ceremony Wits announced by a discharge of artillery. The troops composing the garrison of Paris hay. ing repaired at ten o'oh , ck to the Place du Carrousel, .filed off'hef to H s I‘l4.‘cy, and formed a line from his Palace to the Invalids. Before noon her M ijesty the Empress set out from the Palace, and crossed theg , i,ien of the Thuil. letter between the lines of troops. Fier retinue consisted of four carrirrs—one with eight horses anti t; t. , e with six. The Empress was accompanied iii Ater C.: f act' by the hircesses, the sisters, and sin• ters.M.Taw of hi, Maj , ,sty the Emperor. The other carriages were Riled by the Ladies of the Palace, the First Chainheri..in, and the First Ecnyer. The tr •ops presented arms and . heat 'to atms. The Governor of . the Invalids, and the Grand • Master 'Ol the Ceremonies met her Majesty at the grand ji rtico. anti concluded her to the &let:mated trihune, which had been prepared for her In form of the Imperial Throne. At noon his Majesty the Emperor, under the dis. charge of a salvo of artillery, set Out On horseback limn the Palace, preceded by Marshals of the Em. Dire, and followed by the Colonels, General of his Guard, and the great Officers of the Crown, his Aide.de.Camp, and the Staff of the Palace. The procession was opened by the Chasseurs and closed by the Horse Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard. _ _ _ Numerous discharges of cannon of the Divahas ann,uncerl the arrival of his Majesty. The Governor of the Invalids came without the gale to receive his Majesty and, present him with the keys of the hotel. The Grand Dignitaries, the Minister , and great Officers of the Empire who did not come on horse. hack, as also the Members of the Grand Council, the Grand Chancethiries, the Grand Treasurer of the Legion of Honour, met at the same place, and took their stations in the ptocession. The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, with his Clergy, received his Majesty at the door of the church, and presented to him incense and holy Watet ; the Clergy, in procession, conduaed his Majesty under a canopy to the Imperial Throne, to the music of a mai toy inatch, and amid the loudest accla►►►at ions. Majesty was placed on the Throne, having be. hind him theeolonels,General of the Guard, the Go.' vernor of the Invalids, and the great Officers of the Crown. On the two sides, and on the second step of the Throne, were placed the Grand Dignitaries ; lower, and to the tight, the Ministers; to the !eft, the Marshals •of the Empire ; at the foot of the iteps of the Throne, the Grand Master and the Master of the Ceremonies ; in front of the Grand Master, the Grand Chancellor and the Grand Treaiuter of the Legion of, Honour. The Aides.tle.Camp of the 'Emperor were standing ioa line•on the steps of the Throne; on the right of the altar the Cardinal Le. gate was placed under a canopy, in an arm chair which had been prepared lor him. To the left of the altar was the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris With his Clergy. Behind the altar, in an immense, amphi. theatre, were ranged your Invalids, ;114 100 young Pupils of the Polytechnic School. All the nave was occupied by the great Officers, Commanders, Officers and Members of the Legion of Honour: . The Grand Mauer of the Ceremonies having re. ceived „the command of His Majesty, invited. the Cardinal Legate to officiate, and his eminence began the celebration of the Masi. .After the Gospel, the Grand Master of the Cue. -monies having again received the orders of His .Ma. jesty, conducted to the • steps of the Throne the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour. The Grand Chancellor. pronounced an eloquent discoutse upon the byenta of. this day, on the mi. series of political troubles, and On the gratitude due to the hero who, while he preserved the principles in which the Revolution had commenced, had been able, to terminate the calamities which followed it. The Orator pointed out, in a striking manner, the duties 'which the Institution. of the Legi*n of Honour imposed on all its Members, and torcibly displayed the numerous advantages which must re. suit from this union of themost illustrious supporters of the Government, and of the Country. After this discourse, the great Officers of the Le. gion being called successively by the Grand Chan. cellar, approached the Throne, and individually took thee prescribed oath.. The gre a t (Acerb having taken the oath, the 111p_101 CL) VCI (:!1 11/;,Cp tnincleti,,c.nicers, ar:A Leki 1, tries' 'onowinced in 3 strong and anion:ed . ; !hese. , " Corrunander - i, thirc.er's, Lt•gion.aries, Citizens, and Soldiers—Y.lU swear by - your honour to &vote y9ur lives to the service of the 1 7 . 4 7upire, to: the pre. serva lion of its territory in 'its integrity, to the de., fence : of the Emperor, the litvs of .tiie Rrpubl le, an& the property which they have consecrated ; to coin. Eat by all tlit means which just ice, r:.as,)n, and the latvi, authorise, every enterprize which shall tend to restore the feadal regime—in fine, you swear to concur with all your power to the tn...littPnance of liberty and equality—the first hasty uf our Con. stituEion." IT Att'l tbe Mem'oers t - eg'inrt onn - o - t-, stan i. ing with their hands raised, repnted . at once, " I swear it." The shouts of /rive, l'Efripleatr, Were then renewed on all bidet. _ These last words, pronounced with the accent of profound energy, impressed tire minds of all present with a lively etivition, with which they Jung con. ticued to be pettetritei. ,, It is difficult to d:.,cribe rl:e serration which this moment produced. The monuments of French glory suspended in the vaults of the nave, in wh'e't were assembled the bra , ,e,t warriors, the nuintr us rai of aged and wounded Soldiers, and the y.‘u'h re. • .4 . presenting the glut) and of their Coon , : ; lastly , the. religious solemnity of the altars, c,,ncur. red most powerfully io exalt the imaginati , )n, anti give presage it.) the most glob us doratioh to an in. stitution formed under such asnpices. Mass being ended, the decorations of the Le_ giori were deposited at the font of the Throne in old basons. M. De Sept-, the Grand Master of the Cererno. pies, then the two decorations of the Order and gave them to Talleyrand f the Grand Chamber- The latter presented them to His Impeti it Highness, M.inseigneur Prince Louis, who attached them to the habit of Its M,i,•Sty. • New shouts of Pliur . l'Empereur ! were then heard several times repeated. The Grand Chancellor of the Legion invited the .Grea; Officers toapproach the Throne to receive, suc.. cessively, from the hands of his Majesty, the deco. rations which the Grand Master of the Ceremonies presented to him in a golden plate. The Grand Chancellor then calla the Com. mandril, afterwards the Oilieers, and lastfy the Le. gionarics, who all came to the foot of tire Throne to receive, individually, the decorations from t'fc Lands of the Emperor. His Majesty particularly fixed his atte:ttion on those brave veterans whose glorious services were attested by mutilations. lie interrogated many of them relative to the places arid ;Ottons in which they had received those honourable wounds. This assemblage of the most distinguished ci. tizens, of all classes, and ail ages, presented a spec. tacle equally noble and affeding., The soldier, the general, the pontiff, the magistrate, the administ f a. tor, the man of letters, the celebrated artist, receiv ing each the reward'oc his talents and his laboUrs i seemed only to compose one family, which pressenl. around the Throne of a hero to adorn and support it. A lively and prof mind emotion was Visible in every countenance, and this august and brilliant Ceremony impressed the minds of all present with a reverence at once religious and marti . al. The Fere was tertninaied by a Te as well as the miss, was tlvs composition of M. Le Surer, the Director of the linperial Chapel. At three o'clock his Imperial 'Majesty, under the discharge of a salvo or artillery, left the church with the saute retinue, and in the same order in which he had arrived. The return of her impe rial ;Vlajesty; the Empress, was likewise made in the same order which had been observed in het way thither. Their Majesties, in all the places through which they passed, were saluted with the; itnani►auus ac clama►ions of an immense concourse of spectators. A salvo of artillery announced their re-entrance of the Palace of the Thuil'cries. In the evening the palace and gardens were illuminated, as were also the principal edifices of Paris. At nine o'clock there was a . cot-iceman the ter. race of the Imperial Palace, ana at ten a fire work WAS displayed on the Pont Neuf. CORN. EXCHANGE, JULY 30. Wk have to.day good supplies of Wheat, an l the buyeis rather numerous, higher prices were: asked, early in the day', than we quote; Barley sointwhat better sale; Malt at increased prices ; Tick Beans are lower ; the?e are not many fresh arrivals of Oats, and the prime samples are rather dearer ; terms of Flour as last week. Wheat 46s a sts,a 66s od Tick Beans • - 3re a 375 - ort fine ditto - 67s a 691 ad Oats . 145 a 241 a 255 od, " Barley ails, a 325 6.1 Poland ditto' 275 a 265 ad !`fait - • 691 a 745 oil Rape Seed . 3M a 401. Rve . . 2ils a sos oill . Nine Flour - 50 . , a 55 5 White Pease . 445 a sos ad Seconds - 455 a sos ad Beans - - 3115 a 435 od Aetztt BALL—The famous A-ronaut, BLAN. CHARD, is now at Marseilles, where, in,a 11,1Iuon Of a new composition, he has, with success, mAt.. his fifty.sixth ascension. BLANCHARD'S present loon is of that extent, that it can, without ritnger, ascend with nine persons not heavier than ; which was proved on the inst. when four young Ladies anti four young Gentlemen ascended wine him, and danced a quadrille in the.air, igoo feet froni the cattle; an event. which never bet-re his taken place. The dance, continued fora quarter of an it when two of , the• Ladies anti one of the Gentlemen Were - taken ill, which- obliged him . to descend. They were, however, all well enough to appear at the Theatre in the evening, where they were received with repeated applause. It.. ie said, that 'upwards simy candidates have presented' th .tnsel yes for .altnlier ball irt the air.--(journal de Paris. J , • . • A pats of the Hunt i ngdon Militia have marched into Winchester to take the Garrison duty 'in the room of the Somerset. Saturday, at the F.leaion for. the. Vicarship of numbers were, for M - . C Fo le s t r iCe it i" O26— vellP4 f r o i : h AraNDort246-11tajority iut Mr, FOSTER; 80.